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Archive 06/2022

`04.Jun.2022`	Jump'n Run: Second demo version of 'Duckstroma' released At the beginning of May a first playable demo of the Jump'n Run 'Duckstroma' was released (amiga-news.de reported). Due to the upcoming release of the full version, a second demo version is now available, which provides small improvements. In 'Duckstroma', as duck Aura you have the order to deliver eight floppy disks to a customer. To fend off all sorts of hostile enemies, you can jump on weak opponents and lay an egg to reach higher places (YouTube video). The game requires 1MB of RAM. (dr) [News message: 04. Jun. 2022, 10:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jun.2022` Chris Young	AmigaOS 4: http-handler 1.11 16 years ago the first version of the http-handler published by Chris Young was released, what amiga-news.de reported about. The day before yesterday the developer released the "jubilee version" 1.11 (Queen Elizabeth II) which now supports AmiSSL 5. His http-handler provides a virtual drive "HTTP:" which can be used to access resources on the Internet. Features of the handler: Allows access to web-hosted files via a virtual HTTP: device. Also supports secure sites with AmiSSL and a virtual HTTPS: device. Basic authentication supported using an addressing scheme like "http://user:pass()www.domain.com" Supports Open(), Read(), Close() and Seek(). Implements HTTP redirects (301,302,307) as soft-links - even works with redirects that point to local files. Optionally supports gzip content-encoding for faster download times, if z.library is installed. Will work through a proxy server. Can connect to HTTP services running on ports other than the default. 4Shortly after the release of the first version, the developer had conducted a survey on WebDAV support. Based on the positive feedback, he started implementing it, which originally resulted in version 2 - which he initially abandoned at the time - and later 3. However, as he tells us, he lost support for the other protocols in these versions, which is why a WebDAV beta version 6 was released, which is available on Open Amiga. (dr) [News message: 04. Jun. 2022, 06:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2022`	Virus Help Team: xvs.library V33.47 Georg Wittmann has released version 33.47 of the external virus scanner library xvs.library. Since our last news article on version 33.44, several bootblock and other virus were added to be detected (history). (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2022, 06:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2022`	ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.6 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 Chris Young has released version 1.6 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2 (but it has also been tested under AmigaOS 4), because it uses a new window.class, so it might not work with older OS3 versions. Changes Add ability to extract disk archives to images Add ability to extract files from disk images/archives Double-clicking now extracts the clicked file to a temporary location and opens it. NB: This has required the previous "single click to select/deselect" to be disabled, as the functionality was incompatible. Add option to enable/disable the quit confirmation requester Localisaton support Improved progress display - now shows current file progress and total Fix loading/saving of virusscan pref on OS4 Fix unchecking of files in archive (dr) [News message: 01. Jun. 2022, 09:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2022` Amiga Future	Retro gaming: WHDLoad 18.8 Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 18.8 provides the following changes: fix: new created files in sub directories which are cached are now correctly reported via Examine (issue #5536) fix: when new created cached files are deleted WHDLoad no longer tries to delete them on disk chg: the memory of detected freezers is now cachable if MMU is used new: the gadgets in the splash window can be controlled via keyboard and joystick now, up/down selects the gadgets via mouse move and left/right switches the gadgets (dr) [News message: 01. Jun. 2022, 06:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2022` MorphZone	MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.7 Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.7 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. This version focuses almost exclusively on media playback in various modes. Many web pages and streams should work much better with version 3.7 and watching streams should be possible for a long time without running out of RAM. Changes: Rewritten MediaSource player state machines to improve seeking, end-of-stream handling Fixed a bug that caused a/v decoders to keep increasing the read-ahead decoded frame buffers infinitely (causing out-of-memory sooner or later during playback) Fixed a memory leak in a/v de-multiplexer Refactored the HLS player to enable seeking in terminated playlists Reduced the memory footprint of MediaSource playback Fixed video position reporting for MediaStreams w/o an audio track Rewritten the right mouse button handling Improved the media popup, added stream information Fixed input handling in fullscreen mode Updated OpenJPEG Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB) (dr) [News message: 01. Jun. 2022, 06:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2022`	Competition: 'Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam' started Today indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen (Wheel of Fortune implementation 'YAWoFFA') started the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: until September 1st 2022 Amiga developers are invited to write and submit games in AmiBlitz or Blitz Basic (amiga-news.de reported). The idea behind this contest is to increase the number of programmers and the knowledge around the Amiga and the use of Blitz Basic and AmiBlitz to create games. This means that all games submitted must include the source code so that beginners have examples to study and learn from. Only games for 68k Amigas with AmigaOS are admitted, MorphOS, AmigaOS 4 and AROS are excluded. Likewise, submissions requiring Vampire cards, graphics cards or other special hardware will not be accepted. The game of the winner determined by a jury will be published on CD by Bitmap Soft. Public winners will receive a THEA500 Mini, a Deluxe Mini Monster Retro Gaming Joystick Kit, or a Tales of Gortluth III CD-ROM, among other prizes. More details under the title link. (dr) [News message: 01. Jun. 2022, 05:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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