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`13.May.2023` GitHub	WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.0 iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.0 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. As the author explained in his latest blog entry on ko-fi, he is introducing "igame.data" with this version: a media file that stores information about the title, the year of release and the number of players for the respective game, among other things. This should make it possible to automatically categorise one's own collection of WHDLoad games. The MUI classes NList and NListviews are required. The changes in the overview: Added Added back the saving of the list after a scan of the repositories, which was removed in the previous releases Introduced the new igame.data files iGame uses NList now with extra columns that are sortable Added "Prefer igame.data" checkbox in preferences that let the user to set if the title is going to retrieved from the igame.data files or from the slave file or the folder name, like it used to work. This doesn't have any effect on non-WHDLoad items. Fixed Fixed the status messages which was stack with saving list message and didn't show the number of games again. Changed Now the MUI changes are loaded from envarc. With MUI v5 balance size and list columns are saved there and restored the next time iGame is started Direct Download: iGame-v2.4.0-20230513.lha (427 Kb) (dr) [News message: 13. May. 2023, 21:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2023` MorphZone (Forum)	MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.14 Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.14 of his email programme Iris for MorphOS. The changes include the new "Autosave Emails" feature which will save messages as you write them and restore them in case Iris or another app have crashed. The new Iris version is already included in MorphOS 3.18, which was released today. Download: iris.lha (21 MB) (dr) [News message: 13. May. 2023, 20:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2023`	Operating system: MorphOS 3.18 released Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.18! This new release includes several new applications such as Hex - a scriptable file/RAM/disk hex editor, ArchiveIt - a ZIP archiver/unarchiver application and Thermals - an app displaying thermal and fan information and graphs. In addition, MorphOS 3.18 supports Samba 2 and 3 network share browsing and mounting in the Ambient desktop. Radeon drivers have been updated to better support dual monitors, more graphics card models and 3D, including updated TinyGL library and drivers. We have also improved Realtek 8168 ethernet drivers with support for more card variants and enhanced networking stability on PCI express systems like PowerMac G5 11,2. USB input device connectivity issues on supported CyrusPlus 5040 systems have been corrected. Many other system components and libraries have also been bugfixed and improved, including MUI, Netstack, Filesysbox. For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.18, please read our Release Notes: Release 3.18 boot.img Changes Quark Fixed detection of some MacOF Bios R500/X19xx PCIe cards on PMac11, G5 machines Battery Workarounds to battery sensor never setting any values and not updating AC state with badly broken batteries Dos Avoid dereferencing a random pointer when unmounting file systems I2C I2CLockBus: Only set mode after locking the semaphore Intuition OpenScreen: only enable layer manager on composited screens WindowToFront: fixed to deiconify hidden windows Fixed a zero page read in menu code Mount Allocate more memory for SCSI Read Disc Information command data, since it appears that some buggy drive firmwares poke memory beyond the provided area P50x0_eth Memory alignment fixes Symbios Fixed buffer underruns when sending some SCSI commands Don't attempt to send a read capacity (16) command to SCSI 2 devices or older USB EHCI register handling fixes Poseidon Worked around bugs in the USB controller in P50x0 CPUs which in return fixes some usability issues for keyboard/mouse devices on Cyrus P5040 with Poseidon's HID/HUB classes Powerbook PowerMac12,1 support (iMac) including fans, DFS and LCD brightness Rewritten the PowerBook/iBook fan controller PowerBook/iBook fan RPM is now exposed via sensors RamDisk Fixed ACTION_RENAME_OBJECT bug where renaming "directory" to "directory/" would result in the object being renamed to a random name rather than refusing the rename with ERROR_OBJECT_IN_USE SMU Fixed a race condition that could lead to incorrect communications Temperature ADT7467: read the extended temperature register and all 3 temperature registers in a row, with some additional validation. Compute sensor states with higher accuracy that the extended register provides USB PTP Fixed to initialize object comment even if there are no poi_Keywords Release 3.18 Disk Changes Ambient Integrated Networks FS Unmount is now working for the same types of devices that Eject.sbar can unmount Blacklisted TCP: in devices list to avoid accessing it by listers Applications/FlowStudio Compiler settings for GCC11 & 12 Fixed file compare mode Applications/Hex [NEW] Hex editor with large file, disk and memory viewing and editing support. Supports annotations and lua scripting including several examples. Applications/Iris Updated to 1.14, see https://iris-morphos.com for more information Applications/Jukebox Fixed an infinite loop on last playlist track Applications/MagicBeacon Updated to support smb2fs, netfs and various devices Added bubble skin icon support Applications/RDesktop Fixed bootdevice path Applications/RegTool Bugfixes Applications/ShowCase Updated to work with new TinyGL Applications/Synergy Added bounds checks to clipboard code Save settings on connect request Applications/VPDF Updated to libpoppler 23.05.0 Implemented Postscript booklet printing Use PDF document's title in postscript output title if available Added active page button in printer window to select active page from the view Fixed a bogus memset call Applications/Wayfarer Updated to 5.1, see https://wayfarer.icu for more information C/Getramdebuglog Improved memory management Increased polling frequency and improved output latency in poll mode C/Info Added SMB2FS DosType Classes/Blankers Updated to work with new TinyGL Classes/Frameworks/MUI Unicode handling fixes Boopsi object wrapper fixed to handle MCCs and to use objc_lookupClass instead of getClass to avoid calling abort() on unknown classes MUIFloattext: inherit from Area directly since Floattext isn't meant to be used as a list Directory selection: use fr_File if fr_Directory is empty Listtree issues workarounds and fixes Added Listtree multiselection support Switched to UCS2 internally to avoid issues with UTF16 surrogates Classes/Frameworks/OB Made it possible to run objc code on Slave.mui owned threads objc_lookupClass() fixed to call the right library function Fixed a memtrash in [OBString -hasPrefix] Fixed creation of relative URLs to retain base URLs port in OBURL Minor fixes in file:// handling in OBURL Added OBArexxServer Path string functions deal better with empty strings now Fixed edge cases in [OBString -absolutePath] Added support for many of clang's ObjC2.0 literals Switched to UCS2 internally to avoid issues with UTF16 surrogates Fixed OBArexxPort constructor to handle delegate correctly Classes/MUI/Calendar Reworked the entire look and feel of the calendar Added calendar preferences class Added timeline support, images and colour markings Now fully supports locales calendar type Added calendar.library support to deal with event storage Many internal fixes and changes Classes/MUI/Chart Fixed Chart_ReplaceInGroup to replace the correct amount of data Fixed to display 0 as 0 Classes/MUI/Hex [NEW] Hex editor class with support for large files, memory and virtual data viewing and editing Classes/MUI/Keyframe [NEW] User interface for keyframe.library Classes/MUI/Piano Disabled unconditional debug Classes/MUI/Powerterm MUIA_PowerTerm_Scroller now isg Classes/MUI/Scintilla Font handling fixes Classes/Reggae/Http.stream Fixed MMA_Http_PostData_Charset handling Fixed not to send POST data in clear for HTTPS connections Classes/Screenbar/Eject smb2fs and netfs handling Classes/Screenbar/Grabber Fixed a lockup when using cursor keys to scroll a full screen grab Audio sample is now configurable Classes/Screenbar/Thermal Clicking on sbar opens up Thermals application on supported systems Classes/Usb/CamdUSBMidi Implemented reception of System Exclusive messages Fixed System Exclusive transmission Support for multiport MIDI interface up to 16 MIDI ports Devs/Monitors/Radeon Fixed a texture format setup issue for R200 cards Fixed R(V)5xx dual head setup issues Fixed fan control for some of the MacOF X19xx cards Fixed graphics refresh issues after disabling output on the second head Added a digital link mirror mode for some dualhead R3xx/R4xx/R5x setups, enabled via new tooltype MIRRORMODE=(YES\|NO) Auto detect AverMediaHD/CP513 capture cards to automatically enable mirror mode on the connected output Fixed dualhead/multimonitor setup for MacBIOS X19xx/R5xx cards which don't use AtomBIOS Fixed missing memory & engine clock info for MacBIOS X19xx/R5xx cards Use separate LUTs for dualhead R5xx setups to avoid problems with mixed palette/truecolour display Improved adjustment of hardware cursor to limited horizontal autoscroll capabilities of R5xx cards Added more FireMV cards from the supported Radeon family pool, namely FireMV 2200 (devid 0x5b65), FireMV 2250 (0x719b) and FireMV 2260 (0x95cf), also added another X1600 Pro card (0x71c3) Fixed a few Radeon device names based on latest pci.ids list Devs/Monitors/Voodoo Disabled unconditional debug Devs/Networks/Rtl8168 Fixed lockup issues with TP-Link 3468 Improved Renkforce RTL 8168 support Fixes in Netstack callback handling Disabled unconditional debug Disabled padding of packets L/Inet Implemented a separate handler process. Allows TCP: to respond to packets while waiting for network calls to complete L/NetworksFS [NEW] Samba browser with the ability to auto-mount shares on system start and an Ambient integration L/Smb2FS [NEW] SMB2/SMB3 capable filesystem based on filesysbox and libsmb2 L/TrashFS Fixed broken paths Libs/Amigaguide OpenAmigaGuideAsyncA: fixed attrs to be read from D0 register Libs/Bugreport Send bugreports over HTTPS POST Libs/Calendar [NEW] Library to provide common date related features as well as support for entire calendar databases, which can be visualised by the updated Calendar.mcc. Libs/Expat Cherrypicked fixes for CVE-2022-40674 and other bugs Libs/Filesysbox Fixed to report the correct dostype Cap id_NumBlocks and id_NumBlocksUsed values to avoid returning wrapped values for applications using the old info/diskinfo API Limit remote statfs calls to once per 5 minutes to reduce latency Reworked the path charset conversion routines to go through an intermediate UTF16 conversion step. All characters that are non-printable in the system charset are converted into the \xHEXA form where HEXA is the 2 UTF16 bytes represented in hex Libs/Fontconfig Added a fallback requester when a scan is performed by 3rd party app that doesn't display scanning information on its own Fixes in font scanning callback handler Libs/Freeglut [NEW] The OpenGL Utility Toolkit library. Libs/Freetype Updated to FreeType 2.12.1 Fixed uninitialised variables Libs/Ixemul fstat(): Fixed incorrect local time to UTC conversion Uses ptr ^ 0xdbdbdbdb as stack usage cookie wait()/waitpid(): Fixed a zero page reads if child process has already terminated readdir(): Improved to return d_type of DT_LNK for softlinks Libs/Keyframe [NEW] Keyframe.mcc support library. Keyframe interpolator. Libs/Locale Updated the timezone database to 2023c Fixed rounding issues in string formatting functions Fixed buffer underrun when converting between codesets in OpenCatalog Disabled %j in UTF4_FormatClockDate Libs/OpenSSL3 Updated to OpenSSL 3.1.0 Added workaround to avoid crashing applications that fail to process Ambient startup message properly Libs/Pixman Updated to libpixman 0.42.2 Libs/PowerPC Fixed cache flushing Libs/PPD Fixed epsmpGetTime and buffer overflows Libs/Spellchecker Upgraded hunspell to 1.7.2 Libs/Sqlite Fixed to not leak Forbid() if out of memory Fixed CVE-2022-35737 Libs/TinyGL Updated to use latest improvements based on the TinyGL bounty, check https://tinygl.molsen.co.za for details Libs/VGraphics Fixed a crash if CTRL-C signal was received while executing the library code Libs/Xadmaster Added minimal support for newer ZIP headers with some fields being 64-bit Libs/Z Fixed CVE-2022-37434 Libs/Zip [NEW] Allows creating and extracting ZIP archives in modern formats, including large file sizes and encryption MUI Fixed MUIA_Pendisplay_ARGB to work with a penspec using pen numbers MUIC_Window: Don't process menu hotkeys when MUIA_Window_NoMenus is set for a window Unicode text fit fixes Use flags msg field of MUIM_Menustrp_Popup to specify selection of an active item in the related popup menu Popasl: fixed to handle UTF-8 if the popstring is Unicode Ignore TCP: in ASL requesters' device list Window resize fixes Active item visibility fixes for very large popup menus Improved debug output when failing MUI_NewObject Added MUIM_Open/CloseCustomFont Added MUIA_String_Editable, MUIA_String_Multiline Net Updated SSL root certificates Network/Netstack Increased the minimum preallocated amount of IORequests to avoid SanaII interface running out of packets during intense network I/O using TCP_NODELAY Prefs/iMac [NEW] Temperature controls for the iMac Prefs/Laptop Reworked temperature settings Prefs/USB Improved the force binding contextual menu behaviour on interfaces Fixed an out of bounds memory access when device window is opened and main window is closed UI and localization improvements Prefs/Printers UI improvements Prefs/Time Fixed a read from address 0 Utilities/Commodities/Expose Fixed a race that caused the wrong window to be set active when switching to an application on another screen Fixed a use-after-free resulting in Expose sometimes showing an empty window Fixed not to open a window at all if no apps to display were found Fixed a bogus read/crash if an iconified MUI app had no diskobject Tweaked default settings Don't allow iconifying Expose Tools/HDConfig Changed default system partition type for Sam460/CyrusPlus to SFS Tools/IWizard Changed default system partition type for Sam460/CyrusPlus to SFS Utilities/ArchiveIt [NEW] Archive creator and extractor application currently supporting ZIP archives. Utilities/MidiLogger Added support for SysEx message handling Utilities/Thermals [NEW] Thermals and fans monitoring utility for Apple PowerBook, iBook and iMac computers. Utilities/VirtualMidiKeyboard Added missing menu shortcuts We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.18 is available for download in our files section. (dr) [News message: 13. May. 2023, 16:17] [Comments: 1 - 13. May. 2023, 17:25] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2023`	Mastodon client: Amidon 1.2 Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.2 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). This version fixes some bugs with anonymous browsing and adds support for the latest AmiSSL version. Failing to connect to some Mastodon servers due to certificate errors should be fixed now. Download: Amidon_v1.2_OS3.zip (1,74 MB) (dr) [News message: 13. May. 2023, 13:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2023`	AROS: Videos on AROS ONE 2.0 At the end of March, version 2.0 of the AROS distribution "AROS One" x86 computers was released (amiga-news.de reported). AROS user James Mattson now presents the new version in two YouTube videos: AROS ONE 2.0 AWESOME NEW LOOK! and AROS ONE 2.0 Touring Some More!. (dr) [News message: 13. May. 2023, 10:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2023` Pierre-Alexandre (Mail)	Lionheart Remake: Version 1.30 of Java port of Lionheart Byron 3D Games Studio Byron 3D Games Studio has released version 1.3.0 of the Java version of the Amiga game Lionheart for Windows, Linux, macOS and Android (amiga-news.de reported). The changes: Added New game menu New game modes (Story, Training, Speedrun, Battle, Coop) Local multiplayer (up to 4 players split screen) Stage progress save and load Alternative player attack gameplay with more trivial feeling Start game without launcher with custom configuration Automatic desktop resolution by default Portuguese language Italian language Language automatically detected Android left analog stick Android Menu navigation with dpad and x button Android UI overlay hidden when controller is connected Android automatic screen ratio Android 5 compatible In game zoom-in zoom-out Water flickering option More cheats and access to all stages set JAR signature Changed Filters performance improved and quality increased Fixed Joystick 2 buttons mode working Music on MacOS Swamp Flower explode effect position incorrect AncientTown executioner wall can be crossed with attack jump AncientTown corrupted Veteran stage 6 Lava FloaterCube hit force too low Airship road invalid on zoom Airship catapult projectile missing respawn Airship wall can be crossed on top of ground Dragonfly monsters hit interrupts movement Dragonfly Dragon fire time invalid Dragonfly bullet destroyed on collide on bomb explode Dragonfly Original stage duplicated Bomb location Dragonfly boss invalid head Tower Rotating length a little bit too short Norka first boss body collision missing on attack Norka second boss wrong collision and bullet hit Stages and Boss not reloaded on respawn Weird gameplay on player Hurt transition RotatingPlatformControlled invalid behavior Monsters falling on killed must be always updated Bullet destroy on ground hit box not large enough Movement clamped to zero when changing direction on jump Android liana cut crash Sfx audio bad rendering and latency on Linux Antivirus detections on "Lionheart Remake.exe" Memory leak on State changes A new teaser video is also available on the game's homepage. (dr) [News message: 13. May. 2023, 05:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.May.2023`	Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.12 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. Today version 1.12 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes: New disk formats: Commodore 1541 (C64) GCR: commodore.1541 IBM: ibm.320 Dragon32, Dragon64: dragon... Tandy CoCo: coco... New image format: D64 (C64 CBMDOS GCR disks) ibm: Improve layout of very full tracks ibm: Warn on oversize tracks (data too large to fit) ibm: Allow gapbyte value to be specified in diskdef d88: Remove duplicate sectors from oversize tracks (dr) [News message: 12. May. 2023, 20:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.May.2023`	A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 3.0 At the beginning of last year, developer 'jasonsbeer' had released revision 2.2 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in the ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX'. After a test phase he has now published the source code of revision 3.0 with the following changes: Various fixes: Fixed the ATX 3.3V connector issue to 3.3V oscillator Added a pullup to _XCLKEN Increased the slot through hole size to 0.8mm Misc BOM and silkscreen updates Changed SRAM to 5V tolerant 3.3V part Removed almost all signal traces from power planes Swapped position of U801 and U899 and brought related components to front of board Updated to KiCAD 7.0 (dr) [News message: 11. May. 2023, 05:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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