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Archive 08/2022

`16.Aug.2022`	Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000 The Amiga 1000 is extremely popular right now: After Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports about the restoration, now Richard "Shred" Körber describes in two blog entries (part 1, part 2) his experiences which he made during the refurbishment of the Amiga 1000. (dr) [News message: 16. Aug. 2022, 12:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Aug.2022`	Preview video 28: Souverän Soccer Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported). About his 28th preview video, the developer writes: "This time you can see how the current CPU player plays against himself :) By the way, for the video the CPU player was artificially dumbed down, especially he shoots quite often much too firm. Without this little hack, the video would be a bit too boring, because the CPU player practically never provokes a throw-in or a corner by himself at the moment :P The AI is already sufficient (there is still room for improvement, of course) to take care of the control of the team members that are not being controlled by the player himself in a human vs human match. Most importantly, the AI is also fast enough: we're still at 50 fps even in CPU vs CPU on a bare Amiga 1200. Besides many details (e.g. the ball is now animated quite nicely) and many internal improvements, there is now also a neat free kick and throw-in system, which is based on Goal!: by means of a dotted line you can parameterize the direction, strength, height of the shot / throw..." (dr) [News message: 16. Aug. 2022, 05:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Aug.2022`	Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R62 for Windows 10/11 Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video). Today version 1.2 R62 was released with the following changes: Mask Export option ABQ - Trans Mask &HE0 Save IFF/BBM Amiga brushes - not compressed ILBM decompression bug fixed 256 color ILBM files were not being saved correctly - these are pc pbm format (dr) [News message: 16. Aug. 2022, 04:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Aug.2022`	Programming language: Update on "Amiga C Tutorial" Peter John "pjhutch" Hutchison's English-language "Amiga C Tutorial" is supposed to help C newcomers to program under AmigaOS with the help of many code examples (amiga-news.de reported). Even though it has existed for more than ten years, the author still improves it selectively and corrects errors. As he told us, this is what happened in the Screens chapter: A wrong pointer was used to close screens. (dr) [News message: 15. Aug. 2022, 21:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Aug.2022` Robert Smith	Video: The World of Amiga Tracker Music In his latest video, Robert Smith goes back in time to the 1980s to explore the origins of Amiga Music: the Tracker, and The MOD file. He looks at how these mod files are put together, how a Protracker module works, and why the files are so small even though they contain such long pieces of music. (dr) [News message: 15. Aug. 2022, 05:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2022`	Image processing: RNOEffects 1.4 for all Amiga systems Developer 'jPV^RNO' has updated RNOEffects from his family of RNO applications. RNOEffects is a simple image processing program with a focus on good batch conversion options and alpha channel based effects (YouTube video). It was available in previous versions for MorphOS, OS4 and AROS, and the new version now also supports 68k and WarpOS configurations. The changes: Images can be saved as AmigaOS, NewIcons, GlowIcons, OS4, PNG, and DualPNG icons with configurable properties that include icon type, tooltypes, selected image, default tool, stack, position, drawer properties, etc. Added the "Freehand" drawing mode Added the "Opacity map" effect for creating and inserting B&W opacity map images of alpha channels Added the "ARexx" effect to launch ARexx scripts within the program Added an example ARexx script Better text editing/importing/exporting options for the text drawing effect Draw and crop effects can be positioned with the mouse Re-designed the line effect and added an arrowhead option Added buttons and keys to load next and previous pictures in the directory Added the undo levels setting Added the redo option Removed overlapping keyboard shortcuts for copy/cut/paste operations Fixed pathless file arguments Safer error handling Other changes and fixes Downloads: AmigaOS 4: OS4Depot (7 MB) MorphOS: MorphOS-Storage (6 MB) AmigaOS 3: Aminet (6 MB) AROS: Aminet (3,4 MB) WarpOS: Aminet (6,3 MB) (dr) [News message: 14. Aug. 2022, 13:35] [Comments: 1 - 14. Aug. 2022, 20:16] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2022` Stefan Reinauer	ReA4091: Video and pre-order for the reconstruction of the Fast SCSI2 controller During the Vintage Computer Festival East, which took place from April 22 to 24 at the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall Township in the USA (see also the video talk of former Commodore employees), Stefan Reinauer gave a talk about the project of rebuilding the Fast SCSI2 controller A4091, which he and Chris Hooper successfully accomplished. The project, christened "ReA4091", lasted four months and was accomplished with the help of an original copy purchased at an eBay auction. The YouTube video, which has been available since the end of April and was recorded by Robert Bernardo, has been edited again by him and now has a much better sound quality (see title link). As Stefan Reinauer explained to amiga-news.de, they are "still busy building cards and debugging". In parallel, the open source driver is being written, which will replace the original ROM. Currently, 30 cards are being built. On the corresponding project page you can not only find more information, but you can also express your interest in building a card. The price is about 225 Euro (without shipping). (dr) [News message: 14. Aug. 2022, 08:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2022`	Aminet uploads until 13.08.2022 The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to Aminet: DFT_IDFT_DWT_FFT.zip dev/src 147K 68k DFT, IDFT, DWT and FFT for A1... PyPlayer.zip dev/src 1.1M 68k Audio Player for Python 1.4.0... CCOS-disk-utils.lha disk/misc 73K MOS Manipulate GRiD OS floppy images Sensei.lha driver/oth 35K 68k Displays I2C Sensor informati... dynAMIte_v24.lha game/2play 2.0M 68k Internet (only) Bomberman/Dyn... RescueLander.lha game/actio 45K 68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t... MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.6M MOS Multi-game Character Editor StefADV2.lha game/text 65K 68k 2nd little italian text adven... WhatIFF1.06.lha mags/misc 55K What IFF? #1.06-August-2022 AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.5M 68k Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.9M MOS Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul... AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands emutos.lha misc/emu 338K EmuTOS - Amiga version NAFCYI1991S1-B01.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts) NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip text/bfont 2.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts) NAFCYI1991S1-01.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts) NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip text/pfont 1.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts) avalanche_ger.lha util/arc 11K german catalog for Avalanche (snx) [News message: 14. Aug. 2022, 07:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2022`	OS4Depot uploads until 13.08.2022 The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to OS4Depot: kittymusicraft.librar... dev/lib 67kb 4.1 Reimplementation of the MusiCraf... arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator blobwarsattrition.lha gam/act 2Mb 4.1 A 2D mission and and objective-b... amosextension.library... lib/mis 375kb 4.1 AmosExtension.library load AMOS ... (snx) [News message: 14. Aug. 2022, 07:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2022`	AROS Archives uploads until 13.08.2022 The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to AROS Archives: whatiff1.06.lha doc/mis 55kb Magazine on amigaguide format myman.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 3Mb A Pacman style game, done with t... games.tar gra/ico 350kb Collection of Drawer Icons Goril... icone_drawer.tar gra/ico 170kb Collection of Drawer Icons Goril... (snx) [News message: 14. Aug. 2022, 07:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2022`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.08.2022 The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: AmiArcadia_29.04.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... SilverNightsCrusaders_... Games/Action SilverNightsCrusaders_O... SFFGPLNS_OpenBOR.lha Games/Action FINAL FIGHT LNS GOLD SU... GoldenAxeMyth_OpenBOR.lha Games/Action GoldenAxeMyth_OpenBOR.lha ATaleOfVeangeance_Open... Games/Action ATaleOfVeangeance_OpenB... MCE_13.8.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed... (snx) [News message: 14. Aug. 2022, 07:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2022`	WHDLoad: New installers until 13.08.2022 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 13.08.2022: 2022-08-12 new: MoonBase: Lunar Colony Simulator (Wesson) done by Psygore (Info) 2022-08-12 improved: Knightmare (Konami) (Hoffman) buttonwait added for intro screen (Info, Image) 2022-08-09 improved: Ambermoon (Thalion) added support for version 1.16 (Info) (snx) [News message: 14. Aug. 2022, 07:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2022` Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)	Hollywood: Plananarama 2.0 manual available in German Helmut Haake and Dominic Widmer have translated the manual of the Plananarama plugin into German. It is available for download at the title link. Plananarama is a plugin for Hollywood which allows to use Hollywood even on systems without a graphics card (OCS, ECS, AGA). Thanks to Airsoft Softwair's MetaDoc system, the translation is not only available as PDF file, but also in AmigaGuide, HTML and CHM format. (snx) [News message: 14. Aug. 2022, 07:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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