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Archive 02/2023

`22.Feb.2023` Passione Amiga (ANF)	Italian print and PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 12 The twelfth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available as usual with 48 color pages both as a booklet and as a PDF file and this time features an exclusive cover picture by Eric Schwartz, deals with the following topics: Ring around the World, new graphic adventure reviewed in world premiere! Video games reviewed: Turrican II AGA, Abu Simbel, Crimbo, AmiBlock, Agonman, Maria Renard's Revenge, Kulki Reportage Amiga Ireland 2023 Reportage Press Start 2022 Museums with Amiga in Italy Archer MacLean AmigaGCC - introduction Corso di Blender, part 4 Commodore CD32 FMV Interview with Eric Schwartz And also: Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Tricks and Solutions, Demo Scene, New Talents, Mailbox (snx) [News message: 22. Feb. 2023, 12:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Feb.2023` Floppy (forum)	AROS: amisslmaster.library 4.12 Following the release for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4, version 4.12 of the open source encryption library AmiSSL is now also available for AROS/x86. Download: amissl.i386-aros.zip (3 MB) (snx) [News message: 22. Feb. 2023, 12:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Feb.2023` 'S0Y' (Mail)	Temptations port for CD32: Second demo version available The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported), and now has released a second demo version which additional to the CD32 version also is available as adf file for the Amiga 1200 and as WHDLoad (2 MB ChipRAM + 4 MB FastRAM required). (dr) [News message: 22. Feb. 2023, 06:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Feb.2023` Patreon (Webseite)	Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2023.0 The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used. A few moments ago he has relesaed version 2023.0 (YouTube video). Changes: Major performance optimisations make this by far the fastest release of the Scorpion Engine to date. New features like "maskless blit" and draw clipping, and the new "Big Ship" demo shows how these can be used to render massive actors with relatively minimal performance overhead. New "line of sight" demo shows how an enemy can be made to chase the player only if there's no walls between them. Filters in the editor allow you to quickly search through long lists of actors, animation, code and blocks. Powerful new randomizer based on the XORSHIFT* algorithm. Improvement for the "foreach" command, actors can be filtered by more than just the type of actor. Channels can now be reserved specifically for music or SFX. Various other fixes and improvements. You can support the developer on his Patreon website. (dr) [News message: 22. Feb. 2023, 06:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Feb.2023`	Arcade game: C64 port "Kalle Kloakk" in development Kåre Johansen is in the process of porting one of his old C64 games, "Kalle Kloakk", to the Amiga and has already published three developer videos for it (1, 2, 3). (dr) [News message: 21. Feb. 2023, 15:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Feb.2023`	Puzzle game: Follix 1.3 (AGA) Besides his puzzle game ArtPazz, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has also updated his second puzzle game Follix: Fixed endless floppy drive motor spinning. Fixed graphical glitch that could happen in the transition between the game and information screens. Made disappearance of game area when passing to the pause screen happen in a single frame instead of two. Added clearing of CPU caches after the loading of the data file (as that contains also a couple of machine code routines). Changed the conditions of many If, Until and While statements and turned For ... Next loops into Repeat ... Until loops to have the AMOS Professional Compiler produce shorter and faster code. Sharpened the top/bottom sides of the menu buttons. Recompiled against ALS v2.3. Optimized executable with custom tool. Touched up manual. (dr) [News message: 21. Feb. 2023, 14:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Feb.2023`	Puzzle game: ArtPazz 1.4 (AGA) In ArtPazz, the goal is to put the jumbled pieces of each classic painting back in their original place by moving them around (video). The puzzle game was created with AMOS Professional for AGA-Amigas and is free, but the author also allows you to pay a voluntary price. Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has now released version 1.4, which includes the following changes: Fixed endless floppy drive motor spinning Recompiled against ALS v2.3. Optimized executable with custom tool. Touched up manual. Changed the conditions of many If, Until and While statements and turned For ... Next loops into Repeat ... Until loops to have the AMOS Professional Compiler produce shorter and faster code. (dr) [News message: 21. Feb. 2023, 14:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Feb.2023`	Web browser: AWeb APL Lite 3.5.091 The AWeb APL Development Team and Mirek Michalak have compiled the latest version 3.5.09 of the web browser AWeb APL Lite with the latest AmiSSL SDK to give the browser better compatibility regarding encrypted https web pages. (dr) [News message: 21. Feb. 2023, 13:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Feb.2023`	Game soundtrack: "Turrican II - Secret Dungeons" remix In addition to complete albums (for example Jaguar XJ220 Remix album), Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann releases single remixes: now happened with an extended remix of Chris Hülsbeck's "Turrican II - Secret Dungeons". (dr) [News message: 21. Feb. 2023, 13:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Feb.2023`	Linux: Kernel 6.2 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Right after the release of the Linux kernel 6.2, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered the kernel for download in the associated discussion topic of the Hyperion forum. (dr) [News message: 21. Feb. 2023, 12:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Feb.2023`	Video: "Tunnel" animation recovered As an user reports on his YouTube channel "Elpis Is Hope", he happened to have in his old CD backups an old "tunnel" animation that he had originally created for the advertising agency "Propaganda". It is a low-resolution HAM8-ANIM8 format recorded directly from his old A4000 onto a VHS tape. He said that the playback in the video was not smooth because he did not have time to properly record and time the 50/60 fps conversion. (dr) [News message: 21. Feb. 2023, 12:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Feb.2023` Hackaday (website)	Do it yourself: Another solution for using an external HDMI upscaler At the title link, 'c0pperdragon' describes ways to achieve pixel-precise HDMI output of Amiga video signals instead of upconverting the final analog output signal. Besides solutions that move the RGBtoHDMI system completely into the computer, internal modifications make it possible to connect the former alternately to several computers. One possibility for this is an adapter board that is placed under the Denise chip (amiga-news.de reported). In the meantime, a second variant was added: With the DB23 hack, eight less used of the 23 pins of the Amiga video connector are re-purposed by re-soldering, to make all 12 color bits directly available without changing anything on the case. Using an adapted cable with the required pinout, the RGBtoHDMI system, that can thus be connected externally, can then upscale the picture with comparatively lower latency. (snx) [News message: 21. Feb. 2023, 08:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Feb.2023` ANF	Report from AmigaWinterTreffen 2023 (Germany) From February 10 to 12, 2023 the "AmigaWinterTreffen" took place in Großensee near Hamburg, Germany. Simon Adolf from the organizing team sent us a report from the event, which can be read in German in our corresponding news-item. Pictures from the meeting can be found on Facebook. (snx) [News message: 20. Feb. 2023, 16:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Feb.2023`	Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R75 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 R75 has been released with the following changes: New 8 bit Palette Mode. With the new palette mode we can import all the available art packs/sprite images without losing quality. This benefits mostly modern languages and libraries. Anything using raylib and RGB/RGBA output options New Palette mode is found in Palette Menu under Palette XGA and Palette XGA 256 Sprite Import Utility also has new Palette Modes as Import options Fix Open Palette menu item. Small typo was causing palette to be loaded incorrectly (dr) [News message: 20. Feb. 2023, 16:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Feb.2023` Amigans (Forum)	AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 8 Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas. The goal is to make it POSIX compliant and also fix any C++ problems that exist with newer compilers (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday he has released the eighth beta version with the following changes: Added internal pthreads library Added new missing math functions Added dprintf Fixed a memory leak when using posix_memalign Some constructors/destructors changes Fixed ncurses/termios problems. Now ncurses can be used without any problem Added stdio_ext functions (except __freadptr) Some test progams makefile changes. Now it is possible to compile tests using GNUMakefile Many other internal changes (dr) [News message: 20. Feb. 2023, 08:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Feb.2023` Marco A. Breddin (Microzeit)	Crowdfunding: Book "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" Microzeit from Germany and Editions64K from France are going to publish "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars", a book that is supposed to illuminate the competition for the number 1 home computer between the Amiga and the Atari ST in the mid and late 1980s, with the following key data: English Hardback Edition ca. 400 colour pages High-quality offset print 170 × 230 mm portrait format Special cover refinement 135 gr/m² silk-matt illustration paper Finest print raster (120) Surface sealing (varnished pages) Made in Germany The book aims to combine a fact- and opinion-based approach by providing a collection of newly written background articles, comparing hypotheses with facts, including eyewitness accounts, and presenting analyses of historical media. The crowdfunding, which still has 21 days to go, has already raised about 7000 Euros of the 22,000 needed. (dr) [News message: 20. Feb. 2023, 07:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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