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Archive 01/2023

`28.Jan.2023`	3D action adventure: Bugdom for Linux and MorphOS After, among others, "Cro-Mag Rally" and "Otto Matic" and "Billy Frontier", another game originally published by Pangea Software has made it to Amiga platforms: Bugdom is described as "an incredibly diverse 3D action/adventure for the entire family". Three days ago, the developer 'jorio' published version 1.3.3 on GitHub for Windows, Mac and Linux, as well as the corresponding source code. BeWorld' has now compiled this for MorphOS. The current SDL archive as well as the latest TinyGL beta version are required. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the source code for LinuxPPC-32Bit (screenshot), the game runs on the Linux PowerPC distributions Void PPC, MintPPC, Fienix. Download: Bugdom_1.3.3-linux-powerpc.tar.gz (47 MB) (dr) [News message: 28. Jan. 2023, 16:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2023`	Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.9 Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today version 1.6.9 has been released. Changes: FIX: debugger: fixed crash on launch when using encrypted Kickstart #199 FIX: screen: don't overwrite OCS colors with AGA colors from different banks NEW: screen: support AGA colors, show BPLCON3 (TODO: get AGA colors from .profile file) FIX: Builds using MacOS 11 for better compatibility; Includes updated binaries for GCC, binutils and FS-UAE (dr) [News message: 28. Jan. 2023, 16:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2023`	Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.7 (update) Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported) The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. A few moments ago version 1.6 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes: diskdefs: Fix atari.90 and zx.trdos.640 DCP image read support (obscure PC98 image format) Fix discontinuity at index mark when writing perfect flux images Emit a write-splice (WRSP) block when writing SCP images read, convert: Fix off-by-one error when printing summary Update: (30.01.2023, 16:05, dr) Version 1.7 fixes reading IPF images with weak tracks. (dr) [News message: 28. Jan. 2023, 13:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2023` Mixel (Twitter)	Platform game: "Boxx" remake V0.4 The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The latest update to version 0.4 includes the following changes: Upgraded to Scorpion Engine v2022.8. Player now moves more like Mario. Down is faster than up. Some coin and actor positions adjusted to new player movement. Boss phase 3: less damage when overlapping player in easy mode. Boss phase 3: boss has more health. Boss arena: added invisible block to prevent player from entering arena too soon. UI top panel: replaced 5 separate coin bars by 1 universal bar for slightly better performance. Falling coins disappear faster for better performance. Added performance mode for A500 to the 'Controls' screen. This disables the falling coins. So there's no slow down when multiple coins are picked at once. Also event collision check is set lower. Added "loading" text in UI top panel when loading next level. UI top panel keeps visible while loading next level. Levels and music load at the same time for faster loading times. Main menu panel moved up for NTSC stretched. Level 1: a turret now only spawns in hard mode and AGA only for better performance. Level 4: fixed wide teleport pipe graphics at the bottom of the water pit. Minimum requirement is an Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM. (dr) [News message: 28. Jan. 2023, 12:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2023`	PiStorm32-lite: Availability Since one month the building instructions and documentation for the PiStorm32-lite are available (amiga-news.de reported). Amiga-News.de has looked around where you can currently and potentially purchase the Raspberry Pi-based accelerator card for the Amiga A1200 fully assembled. RetroPassion (UK): exclusive Raspberry-Pi: 137 Euros plus shipping - no indication of availability, possibility of notification inclusive Raspberry-Pi 3A+ und 32GB SD-Karte: 182 Euro, plus shipping - next batch at the beginning of March Retro Ready (UK): 133 Euro plus shipping - currently sold out Archi-TECH (Poland): 130 Euro inclusive Raspberry-Pi 3A+ and 32GB SD card, plus shipping - Pre-order, will be shipped within the next 14 days MicroMiga (France): exclusive Raspberry-Pi: 130 Euro plus shipping - next batch third week of February inclusive Raspberry-Pi 3A+ and 32GB SD card: 174 Euro plus shipping - next batch third week of February Ultimate MiSTer (Portugal): currently not yet in stock, but planned Furthermore, it's always worth keeping an eye on the tindie marketplace, especially RetroFletch's store, which has announced the PiStorm32-lite to us in the near future. (dr) [News message: 28. Jan. 2023, 08:11] [Comments: 1 - 28. Jan. 2023, 16:23] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2023`	Blog: Review of "Desert Dream" demo Microzeit is an independent publisher focusing on digital culture and computer history publishes books about the pioneering days of the game industry in the 80s from 8 to 16 bit. In their latest blog entry they take a look back at a classic of the demoscene: Desert Dream by the Danish group Kefrens. On pouët.net, the production is currently ranked 49th on the alltime top list. (dr) [News message: 27. Jan. 2023, 08:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2023` AmigaSource	Overview: Comparison of Operating Systems Eylenburg's Tech Website is a truly amazing project in which a lot of hard work has gone into it: in several overviews and histories 'Eylenburg' offers, for example, Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree, Default Desktop Environments for Linux and Unix or Comparison of Instant Messengers - always presented with large-format tables and graphics. Of particular interest to Amiga users is the Comparison of Operating Systems, where AmigaOS and MorphOS have been listed for some time and now AROS has been added. But it is also worth taking a look at the above-mentioned Family Tree or History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today, in which IBrowse is also listed. As 'Eylenburg' tells us when asked, this pure hobby project started a few years ago: first on Blogspot and later on Github. The first topic was comparing browsers. As he reports, he gets his data from Wikipedia, Github, the websites of developers and forums, etc., but as with the browser comparison, he also determines data himself. He has always had an interest in technology and especially in alternative operating systems and even though he himself did not experience the heyday of the Amiga, for example, he is fascinated that after all these years all three Amiga operating systems (AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS) are still being developed. Suggestions or corrections are always welcome! (dr) [News message: 27. Jan. 2023, 06:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2023`	Website: Search Engine for AmigaOS-NDK3.2 documentation The Amiga developer Aris has set up a website for searching the autodocs of Hyperion Entertainment's AmigaOS 3.2 Native Developer Kit (NDK). He describes his motives for doing so in a recent blog entry. (dr) [News message: 27. Jan. 2023, 03:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2023`	Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported). As the developer told us when asked, he continues to work on the project, focusing mainly on bug fixes and updates to the interpreter at the moment. Since our last message, he has also added the stack tracer and the visual history, which shows the last N changes to the interpreter's state. (dr) [News message: 26. Jan. 2023, 21:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2023`	Event: "Kickstart" in Nottingham (England) On July 1st and 2nd, 2023, the digital culture festival "Kickstart" will be held in Nottingham, England. Currently planned are meetings of British Amiga user groups, presentations of various dealers, live music and talks with developers like Core Designs, DMA, Team 17 and Psygnosis. (dr) [News message: 26. Jan. 2023, 20:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2023`	MorphOS: Using GitHub (Polish) Rafal Zabdyr - Minesweeper clone MegaSaperPL, among others - wrote an article in Polish on ppa.pl at the end of last year describing how to use GitHub as a service for managing repositories under MorphOS and with Wayfarer. (dr) [News message: 26. Jan. 2023, 20:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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