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Archive 08/2022

`07.Aug.2022` Alinea Computer (ANF)	Two new OmniPort multiport adapters for Amiga 1200 Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to offer two new versions of the OmniPort multiport adapter for the Amiga 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). On the one hand, it is a version for the Vampire 2 accelerator and on the other hand, one for the ScanPlus Scandoubler or for the BVision graphics card. The multiport adapters route all available interfaces of the mentioned hardware cleanly out via the expansion port of the Amiga 1200. Vampire 2 Version With this version, the HDMI and the network port of the Vampire 2 to the outside. The required network module is already installed on the OmniPort available. In addition, two USB ports can be connected to the outside if a USB card is available. ScanPlus/BVision Version With this version, the VGA port of the ScanPlus/BVision is connected to the outside In addition, two USB ports can be led to the outside if a USB card is present. Matching cables are partly standard and partly optional present. (dr) [News message: 07. Aug. 2022, 21:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Aug.2022`	AmigaOS 4.1: Update of ignition-OpenDocument plugin The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. In version 0.36 the handling of text attributes was bug fixed. (dr) [News message: 07. Aug. 2022, 17:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Aug.2022`	AmigaOS 4.1: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.84 "Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. In version 1.84, UTF characters are now converted to Amiga characters, for example umlauts. And CSV entries can also be categorized without purpose. (dr) [News message: 07. Aug. 2022, 17:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Aug.2022`	Evoke demo party: Demo "Talking Heads" by Spreadpoint This weekend the demo party 'Evoke' is taking place in Cologne (amiga-news.de reported). The demo group 'Spreadpoint' has now published their 'Talking Heads' 64kB intro contest entry for 'Alternative Platforms' on YouTube. (dr) [News message: 07. Aug. 2022, 06:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Aug.2022`	Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: Introduction of two entries At the beginning of June, indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen had started the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, which will run until September 1, 2022 (amiga-news.de reported). We would like to introduce two contributions of 'pixelplop': "Deathmine" and "Capacitor's Revenge". Both were written with Blitz Basic 2.10 installed under WinUAE. The developer had learned Blitz Basic on the Amiga in the early 90's and after a 25 year break now found his way back to it. "Deathmine" (YouTube video) is basically a platform game, with an original idea: the player must escape from the mine as quickly as possible before his oil lamp runs out. Each time you die, you leave a light source in the place where you died, and you return to the last checkpoint. You have an infinite number of lives, but each death costs the player time. As the player, you can only see as far as the lamp in your hand or the stationary ones attached to the walls illuminate the environment. The development is in a relatively early stage. More complete is "Capacitor's Revenge" (YouTube video). It's a remake of Transistor's Revenge, a shoot'em-up game that came out in 1983 for the BBC Micro Computer. A conversion of this game had been planned by him for a long time: here the player takes on the role of a microchip, in his conversion that of the 68000 processor of an Amiga 500+, which is attacked by electrical components such as resistors and capacitors. One defends oneself by sending electrical impulses along the conductive paths on which the enemies approach. When an enemy reaches the chip, it is destroyed and a life is lost. (dr) [News message: 07. Aug. 2022, 06:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2022` Prince (Mail)	Video tutorial: Episode 30 of assembler coding course 'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 30 was published. (dr) [News message: 06. Aug. 2022, 21:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2022`	Farming simulation: Fourth beta version of Farmiga released (update) The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). A few moments ago, the fourth beta version (06.08.2022) was released. Changes: A farmer has been added to the game who needs to be provided with food and drink. His age and state of contentment are shown in the picture. The aim of the game is for the farmer to survive four ages (young, middle-aged, old and grandfather). Then he retires. If the farmer's health declines, his sad face is shown on the photo, and if his health declines completely, the game is lost. Additional cultivation of coffee and tea, which can be sold or drunk by the farmer. Coffee or tea with sugar quenches much of the peasants' thirst. New mill and cooking sounds. Full game time of 8 tax periods. Hardware requirements: 1,5MB ChipRAM bzw. 1MB Chip + 0,5MB FastRAM. Update: (12:04, 08.08.22, dr) The developer uploaded a new adf file today, which now actually contains the sounds of the mill and the cooker. (dr) [News message: 06. Aug. 2022, 10:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2022` MorphZone	MorphOS: TinyGL update V2202-08-05 MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen has offered a Bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link which has been successfully financed (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released a first update of TinyGL which provides the following changes: Support for OpenGL "ARB" programs. Support for cube maps (R200 only for now. R300/R400/R500 will have cube map support added in the next update). Work has been done towards making TinyGL OpenGL 2.1 compliant. A much improved SDK, making it easier for developers to create and port OpenGL applications on MorphOS. Many bugs in both TinyGL and the drivers have been fixed. You can find a more detailed description of the changes in the Readme file of the archive. (dr) [News message: 06. Aug. 2022, 08:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2022`	Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2000, part 2 At the end of July, Epsilon reported in his blog 'Epsilon's World' on the restoration of his Amiga 2000. Today he has published part two, describing the installation of the 'Picasso IV' graphics card, a real-time clock and of Picasso 96. (dr) [News message: 05. Aug. 2022, 18:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2022` Amiga Future (Webseite)	AmigaOS 4: M.A.C.E. Tower Defense Entwickler X have released another game of this genre with "M.A.C.E. Tower Defense". Your mission this time is to defend your home planet against alien invaders as the "Military Alliance of Common Earth". According to the archive name, Warp3D Nova is required, further details about the system requirements under AmigaOS 4 are not given. For Windows, a 2 GHz processor and 2 GB of RAM are mentioned. (snx) [News message: 05. Aug. 2022, 07:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2022` Sven Scheele (ANF)	Event: Interface XXXI in Kiel (Germany) on 20.08.2022 On Saturday, August 20, 2022, retro-computing event "Interface" will take place again in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany, organized by Vintage Computer Club, Amiga-Club Schleswig-Holstein and Computer-Club Klausdorf. Registration by e-mail is recommended. Details can be found in our german news-item. (snx) [News message: 05. Aug. 2022, 07:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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