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Archive 08/2022

`25.Aug.2022`	Motorola68k emulation: WiFi development for Emu68 paused Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon website. At the beginning of May the developer had announced to start writing a WiFi driver. In a blog entry from two days ago, he now reports that the development had to be stopped for the time being. Read his explanations: "I got stuck. Literally. The progresss on Wi-Fi driver was slowing down during last weeks until a full stop where I have no idea how to proceed. Let me write a bit about it. The raspberry pi is using several different chipsets from cypress in order to provide Wi-Fi and (eventually) Bluetooth experience. These chips consist of a tiny ARM core connected with radio interface on one side and with communication interface with host, realized as few functions of SDIO interface. Subsequently, the Wi-Fi module has also few additional signals used as a clock source or Wi-Fi/Bluetooth enable/disable switches. So far so good, so where is the problem? As always, the problem lies in lack of documentation. The cypress module is hardly documented, at least within freely available docs. Because of that I do not actually know how to drive it properly. Furthermore, I do not know if there are any differences on software side between different cypress modules used on pi3, pi zero 2 and so on. Sure, I can lurk into sources of e.g. Linux, where there is a fully functional code for Wi-Fi on raspberry. But digging through others source code is not always that useful, not to mention licensing differences. There are some open source projects like e.g. zerowi, which provide quite a lot of working code with very liberal licensing, but this very project is focusing on raspi zero and I am not entire,y sure if this one is good for me, because of, you guessed, lack of documentation. So how far I got it? Basic initialization of SDIO is working flawlessly. I can initialize basic SDIO functions used to talk with Wi-Fi chip. I have successfully uploaded firmware for ARM cup and successfully resettled the arm core. Actually I went that far that’s the very next step should be the arm boot followed by full communication with Wi-Fi. Almost. For some reason the clock of arm is not starting up, at least that much I understood from undocumented registers. Without cpu clock running the arm of Wi-Fi will not start. I am not giving up on this one, far from it! But for now I will do. Short break from Wi-Fi and will do something else. Otherwise I will sit fully blocked in front of the screen without any sable code written. I will come back to Wi-Fi as soon as I will reset my mind :) By the way, if any of you has ideas how to get to the necessary documentation please let me know. If necessary, I can sign any NDA needed, provided it will allow me to develop open source Wi-Fi driver (with obfuscated register names if requested). Any help is appreciated." (dr) [News message: 25. Aug. 2022, 06:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Aug.2022`	Puzzle game: PuzzleTronAmiga PuzzleTronAmiga is a simple puzzle sliding game (YouTube video) released by Ecalius Software. It is written in AMOS Professional 2.0 and runs on any standard Amiga 500. The game is available on itch.io for 2 Euro or more. (dr) [News message: 25. Aug. 2022, 06:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2022`	Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.5 At the end of March the new major version 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz was released. Today a fifth update with bug fixes and minor enhancements has been released. Changes: fixed: some Requesters where shown on WB instead of IDEs own screen fixed: library "ab3pft.library" was tried to open before dynamic assignment was done fixed: deleting a line could crash PED fixed: minor display bug when updating line numbers fixed a cursordisplay bug when jumping to top or bottom of source improved: handling of double-click mouse event improved: requester showing compile errors changed: display color of line numbers fixed display problem on AmigaOS1.3: Error text of debugger was not readable as the text was drawn as white text on white backgroud added to repository: disassembled rundebuglib, inputoutputlib, runerrlib (dr) [News message: 24. Aug. 2022, 21:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2022`	Article: Self-made Amiga cases In the forum of Amiga Love, 'SimonGK' has written a detailed article about several, self-made cases for his Amiga computers. (dr) [News message: 24. Aug. 2022, 06:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Aug.2022`	Turn-based space strategy: Imperium Terranum 2.820 The source code of the turn-based space strategy game Imperium Terranum 2 was ported from Pascal to C. 'fook42' continues to update and improve this port. After a longer break (amiga-news.de reported), now version 2.820 is available. Changes: Multiple changes for code-reduction and stability replaced some artificial datatypes reduced usage of global variables for "find objects" preparation for "resizeable" playfield (allows screens bigger than 640x512) A detailed guide for installing the game you can find on the GitHub page of the project. (dr) [News message: 24. Aug. 2022, 05:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2022`	Aiostreams V1.7.5: Scripts for Streaming Twitch.tv and Mixer.com videos George 'walkero' Sokianos has created Python scripts and bundled them in aiostreams ("All In One Streams") for viewers of the Amiga and other retro streams on Twitch.tv and Mixer.com, so that they can also watch the videos under AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and AROS instead of on the PC. Today version 1.7.5 has been released. Changes: Added Added -sc argument to the youtube script which can be used to search for YouTube channels based on the given description. This returns a list of channels titles and their feed URLs Added support for https://yewtu.be invidious server in YouTube script Fixed Fixed dlive script Fixed peertube script Fixed lbrytv script to support odysee.com videos as well Fixed vimeo script The author has only tested it under AmigaOS 4, but according to him, it should also run under the other Amiga systems. A detailed (English language) description of the changes is given by the author in his latest Ko-Fi blog article. Download: aiostreams-v1.7.5.lha (263 KB) (dr) [News message: 23. Aug. 2022, 15:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2022`	8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2022-08-22 Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now. Today version V2022-08-22 has been released. Changes: partially enables a properly-serialised blitter for the Amiga, mostly replacing the tentative instant blitter of previous releases adds 1mb and 4mb RAM size options for the Atari ST improves support for .ST disk images of non-default geometry resolves a crash on macOS when the app needs to request user provision of ROMs gives a version number to macOS builds (dr) [News message: 23. Aug. 2022, 05:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2022` Passione Amiga (ANF)	Italian Print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 9 The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available as digital (3 Euro) or printed (7,50 Euro, via Amazon) edition. Its current issue consists of 48 color pages and includes among others the following topics: Video games: Duckstroma, Junior's Great Adventure, Game Over Moscow!, Rcross, BattleShip Sea Hawk, Operacion Falida, Mision La Luna, Hunting Frogs CDTV special Install AmiSSL on Amiga Commodore Day 2 reportage Blender course, part 1 Hardware: THEGAMEPAD Interviews with: Mario Savoia and Yoz Montana Plus: Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini News, Demo scene, New Talents, MailBox (dr) [News message: 23. Aug. 2022, 05:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2022`	Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: Introduction of shoot 'em up "ACE" The Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam (amiga-news.de reported) runs until November 1, 2022. In a small series we present game projects that are currently being developed for this competition. So in the first article we presented the games "Deathmine" and "Capacitor's Revenge" by 'PixelPlop', the second article described in detail 'TheoTheoderich's' turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World". The third past of our series today is about the shoot 'em up "ACE" and its programmer 'DarkGiver'. In his game, optimized for standard OCS/ECS Amigas, you try to shoot your way through the enemy ranks with an airplane. The gameplay is reminiscent of predecessors like Banshee. As the developer tells us, the game is still in the early stages and the first project for the Amiga: "I like to experiment and understand things and the better way to understand an amiga is probably progamming it." When he was 10, his parents would have bought an Amiga 500 and he played around a bit with Amiga Basic. He started learning programming seriously in 1990 when Frenchman François Lionet published the AMOS programming language. Later, around 1993, he got an Amiga 1200 and started programming again with Blitz Basic a few years ago. When he got himself some Amiga hardware again a few years ago, he started using it again. Time permitting, he would like to write easy to understand examples in Blitz Basic covering many aspects of Amiga programming. To motivate people to start programming and enjoy a more creative way to use the Amiga. (dr) [News message: 23. Aug. 2022, 05:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Aug.2022`	Programming language: Amiga Blitz Basic 2 Visual Studio Code Ext. 0.6.0 Youen Chéné - one of the organizers of a programming community in Normandy called Codeurs en Seine - is in the process of writing a Visual Studio Code Extension that adds support for Amiga Blitz Basic 2 (and Amiblitz). The extension is in alpha stage, so syntax highlighting is still limited. Features: Syntax highlighting. Snippets for most Blitz Basic 2 functions and methods. Outline shows macros, labels, functions and statements. Integrated help. This version of Youen Chéné is a fork of the vscode-amiga-blitzbasic project by 'MickGyver' and aims to provide a complete, native javascript extension that works without external tools if possible (except UAE) and runs not only on Windows but many platforms (macOS, Linux, Windows). He hopes that eventually both extensions will be merged. (dr) [News message: 23. Aug. 2022, 05:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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