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Archive 06/2023

`11.Jun.2023` German Amiga Community (ANF)	WinUAE: Update of German localization WinUAE users BlackByte and Bernardi independently from each other created a German translation of the text strings in the Amiga emulator WinUAE 5.0. (snx) [News message: 11. Jun. 2023, 18:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2023`	Video: Amiga Laptop with LEGO case Ravi Abbott and Howard from Dubious Engineering started a tinkering project four years ago to build an Amiga 600 laptop as cheaply as possible (YouTube playlist). With the video published yesterday, the project comes to an end and has received a LEGO case "as the icing on the cake". (dr) [News message: 11. Jun. 2023, 14:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2023` Remix64 (Webseite)	Music album: Encore500 With a running time of almost two hours, "Encore500" offers 21 remixes by artists such as Jogeir Liljedahl, Romeo Knight, Firefox, and Barry Leitch and combines a wide variety of musical styles such as epic orchestral music, synthwave and heavy metal. You can listen to it either on Spotify or YouTube Music. (dr) [News message: 11. Jun. 2023, 13:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2023`	Desktop widget: RNOWidgets 1.5 for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 RNOWidgets combines several utilities (widgets) in a single application and is now available for the first time for AmigaOS 4 in addition to MorphOS. RNOWidgets contains widgets for calendar (ISO), analog clock, digital clock, notes, pictures (local and net), RSS feeds, sticker, and weather. If you want to support the author 'jPV^RNO' in the further development of his "RNO" programs, you can do so under the title link. Changes in version 1.5: Fixed compositing support detection (for hardware accelerated transparency) Uses openssl3.library instead of AmiSSL for HTTPS URLs on MorphOS, and AmiSSL v5 on OS4 Linked required plugins in the executable (works better in WBStartup, etc..) Updated RSS presets Other small changes A recent YouTube video shows the RNOWidgets in action. The tool is available on Aminet. (dr) [News message: 11. Jun. 2023, 08:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2023`	Aminet uploads until 10.06.2023 The following files have been added until 10.06.2023 to Aminet: RNOXfer.lha comm/tcp 3.6M MOS Graphical FTP/FTPS/SFTP client RNOXfer_68k.lha comm/tcp 2.8M 68k Graphical FTP/FTPS/SFTP client RNOXfer_OS4.lha comm/tcp 3.9M OS4 Graphical FTP/FTPS/SFTP client ChunkyFunctions.lha dev/asm 30K 68k Clipped Chunky Line & Circlef... REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 3.3M 68k Game Creator with AGA support MCE.lha game/edit 3.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.2M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor 2D_ATcad_RTG.lha gfx/misc 673K 68k 2D-CAD-Programm Crockettstheme2023.lha mods/misc 115K 4ch Crockett's Theme 2023 Edi... Gibson16bit.zip mods/smpl 14M Gibson 16bit uncompressed RIF... Gibson32bit.zip mods/smpl 11M Gibson 32bit uncompressed RIF... Gibson8bit.lha mods/smpl 4.4M Gibson 8bit IFF-8SVX Uncompre... Image2PDF.lha util/conv 10M MOS convert images to PDF gicountdown.lha util/time 215K 68k GI CountDown (snx) [News message: 11. Jun. 2023, 07:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2023`	OS4Depot uploads until 10.06.2023 The following files have been added until 10.06.2023 to OS4Depot: mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor bzip2_lib.lha lib/mis 155kb 4.0 Library for bz2 rnoxfer.lha net/ftp 4Mb 4.1 Graphical FTP/FTPS/SFTP client lhx.lha uti/arc 80kb 4.1 Pack & unpack using XZ/LZMA ... diskspeed.lha uti/ben 101kb 4.0 Old speed testing programs porte... showfiles.lha uti/she 50kb 4.1 sorted & text-formatted file... image2pdf.lha uti/tex 10Mb 4.0 Convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF rnowidgets.lha uti/wor 4Mb 4.1 Desktop widgets application (snx) [News message: 11. Jun. 2023, 07:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2023`	AROS Archives uploads until 10.06.2023 The following files have been added until 10.06.2023 to AROS Archives: gibson.zip aud/mis 30Mb Collection of Riff 8/16/32 Bit image2pdf.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 10Mb convert images file to PDF icaros-2.3-fix.zip uti/mis 87Mb Little fix for icaros v2.3 (snx) [News message: 11. Jun. 2023, 07:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2023`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 10.06.2023 The following files have been added until 10.06.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: Nanosaur2_2.1.0.lha Games/Action Pangea Software's Nanos... Bugdom_1.3.3.lha Games/Action Pangea Software's Bugdo... MightyMike_3.0.2.lha Games/Action Pangea Software's Might... OttoMatic_4.0.1.lha Games/Action OttoMatic for modern sy... Nanosaur_1.4.4.lha Games/Action This is Pangea Software... BillyFrontier_1.1.0.lha Games/Action Billy Frontier is an ar... MCE_14.14.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed... CroMagRally_3.0.0.lha Games/Race The wildest racing game... Image2PDF_2.2.lha Graphics/Convert Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG... RNOXfer_1.4.lha Network/FTP A graphical FTP client ... Easy2Install_1.0b14.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do... RNOWidgets_1.5.lha System/Ambient/Commodi... Desktop widgets applica... (snx) [News message: 11. Jun. 2023, 07:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2023`	WHDLoad: New installers until 10.06.2023 Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 10.06.2023: 2023-06-09 improved: Racter (Inrac) slave supports multiple main game dirnames, install script updated (Info) 2023-06-07 improved: Sensible World of Soccer (Sensible Software) fixed save operations, workaround for random access fault (Info) 2023-06-06 improved: Starflight (Electronic Arts) protection properly removed (Info) 2023-06-05 updated: Chambers of Shaolin (Thalion) pazch rewritten, CD32 version is supported now, problem with endlessly repeating Thalion intro fixed, SMC fixed (Info) 2023-06-04 fixed: Pool Of Radiance (SSI) accesses fault fixed (Info) (snx) [News message: 11. Jun. 2023, 07:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2023` Amiga Future (website)	AmigaRemix: Further files added AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Hard (Harder Edit) Global Trash 3 (Hardwired) Tyros Edition Led Metal Storm - Led Storm Lvl One (snx) [News message: 11. Jun. 2023, 07:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2023`	ACube Systems: Delivery of all pre-ordered Sam460LE boards Press release: Dear valued Customers, we are pleased to announce that all preordered Sam460LE boards have been shipped after extensive testing and preparation. We sincerely hope that our customers will enjoy using this latest Sam460 board, and we would like to express our gratitude to all of our preorder customers for making this board possible. Your continued support is truly appreciated. Furthermore, we would like to take this opportunity to inform you that the Sam460LE of this production run is now running at 1.14 Ghz instead of 1.10 Ghz. Although this may not be noticeable from a certain standpoint, we believe it is still interesting information to share. For those who placed orders after the preorder period ended, we have also shipped your orders. We hope this will make more Sam460 Amigans happy. If you have not yet ordered your Sam460LE, don't miss the chance to own one with the names of the whole team on the board itself. Get yours now. Thank you for choosing our products. (dr) [News message: 11. Jun. 2023, 07:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2023`	Analogue Pocket: Amiga core V0.1.1 The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. Version 0.1.1 has now been published of the Amiga Core. Changes: Created a Settings file for the Pocket so new installs over old configurations will get replaced Updated readme Hard Drive support for the Pocket Proper 640x400/200 video outputs work! Write to floppy images More memory for the fast memory locations and tested working correctly. Larger memory footprint for the MPU to hold all this awesomeness!!! 128KBYTE OF POWER! A OSD Keyboard on the pocket when you are playing on pocket mode. Null modem support using a Gameboy serial cable between two pockets! This could also open up Midi support. Also a emulated mouse on a analogue joystick in docked mode (This is the left thumb stick and the left and right triggers for the mouse clicks) (dr) [News message: 10. Jun. 2023, 15:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2023`	Music tips for the weekend If you want to start the weekend with relaxed house music, Jonas Faupel's Jungle Cut, which he created on an Amiga 500, is recommended. If you need some "driving" music for vacuuming, for example, you can throw in the latest remixx by 'D4XX', who this time has taken on Marusha's "Raveland". (dr) [News message: 10. Jun. 2023, 07:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2023`	Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.0.0 for Windows NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.0.0 includes the following changes: Updated to .NET 7. Updated SharpCompress to version 0.33.0. The different players return a list of frequencies for each note. This is used by the Piano visual to show which note is playing. Each player support different number of octaves, and before, they was centered in the middle of the piano. This has been changed, so the same note (same frequency) is shown on the same key for every players. Added tool tip in the Module Information window for Module format and active player. The tool tips show the description of the format/player. Fixed a bug, which made some MED modules that contains multiple octave samples fail to load. Improved the AHX player to use channel mode instead of its own mixer. This makes the Piano and Spinning Square visualizers to work with these modules. Made a big change on how the song position is shown and navigated. Before, the position reflects the players position list and which position in this list is currently being played. This may cause some confusion, specially with players which has position loops like SoundMon and DigiBooster. This has now been changed, so the position reflects the time into the song. Each position is a 3 seconds step. This means, when moving the slider or pushing the rewind/forward buttons, you move in time and not the position list. To not remove the old information, it has been moved into the module information window. This has also been expanded with currently playing pattern/tracks. Written my own control to handle the module list in main window. This make all the operations on the list a lot faster than before, special with big lists. Now there won't be created an extra process for every file you double click on in File Explorer to add them into the module list. This fix also speed up the processing of the files, so they are added faster. When adding a lot of files to the module list at once, e.g. the whole modland archive, it did take a loooooong time to process. This has been speeded up a lot, so all the in-deep scanning is done in a background thread if enabled in the settings. Added new option to remove files from the module list which cannot be recognized. Ported mpg123 to C# to get rid of the CPU dependencies. In the process, I also added support for the Free Format (rarely used, find examples on my webpage). Fixed a bug that may cause the program to hang when closing down and a double-buffering module has been loaded. Restricted the module length for 15-samples mod files to prevent false positives. Unfortunally, this change make a couple of modules on modland undetectable because they have a lot of extra data at the end. I have fixed those modules on my webpage, so if you find such modules, try to see if you can find the fixed version there. Added support for ARM processors. Updated libsidplayfp to version 2.5.0. Renamed the MED format to MED 2.10 (MMD0). Added these new module formats: DigiBooster Pro 2.x (with support of echo), DigiBooster 3.x, DigiBooster 1.x (with support of "robot" effect), MED 1.12, MED 2.00, MED 2.10 (MED4), David Whittaker. An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store. (dr) [News message: 10. Jun. 2023, 06:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2023` poly.play (Twitter)	Text adventure: Preorder of boxed edition of "Tristam Island" At the end of 2020, the commercial text adventure "Tristam Island" was released (amiga-news.de reported). At poly.play, the game can now be pre-ordered as a boxed edition for 35 euros. Content: 3.5" floppy disk Cardboard box with slipcase (23 x 18.5 x 2.5 cm) Rock sample MicroSD card including disk images and more Manual (DIN A5, English) Hintbook Postcard Quick guide "How to Play Interactive Fiction" Stickers Poster (Din A3) Shrink-wrapped The box will be available from 01 August 2023. (dr) [News message: 09. Jun. 2023, 08:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2023` Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky (Mail)	Linux: ATi Radeon updates for Bugdom and Nanosaur 1 The previous versions of Bugdom and Nanosaur 1 had some graphical issues if an ATi Radeon X19XX graphics cards was used. This issues have been solved and Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has provided new packages for Linux PPC. Downloads: Nanosaur_1.4.4-2-linux-powerpc.tar.gz Bugdom_1.3.3-2-linux-powerpc.tar.gz (dr) [News message: 09. Jun. 2023, 06:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2023`	Videoplayer: Amos Anim Player V2023.06.08 The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported). To reduce the amount of data to be processed, and because the animation could crash if the decoded animframe exceeded 40Kb, an Amos programme was included that creates a new image sequence from a given source, reducing the movement between consecutive frames in a scaleable way, as the visual needs of the animation. This can save a lot of data with a relatively small loss of quality. The sample animations can be found under the name ".Reduced". As the developer continues, Ham6 is neither easy to handle nor designed for this kind of manipulation, which is why one must expect visual errors. The visual result would remind on DIVX videos from the past. (dr) [News message: 09. Jun. 2023, 06:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2023`	SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.06.03 ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2023.06.03: Fix regression in CD-ROM READ(6) command Add platform support for CD-ROM eject buttons CD-ROM image listing from directories CD-ROM: Fix START STOP UNIT preventing drive use CD-ROM: Revert removing audio stop during START/STOP UNIT for CDs. CD-ROM: volume control and mode changes CDROM: Add support for enabling/disabling channels within the audio ports. (dr) [News message: 09. Jun. 2023, 05:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2023`	Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.13 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. Version 1.13 of the Greaseweazle Tools provide the following changes: Generate a x64 Windows build in addition to x32 New disk formats: Generic IBM track scanner: ibm.scan General Music: gem.1600 TRS CoCo OS-9, MM/1 OS-9: coco.os9., mm1.os9. Commodore 1571 (C64) GCR: commodore.1571 New image formats: D71: C64 CBMDOS GCR 1571 double-sided disk TD0: IBM sector format (Read only) EDSK: Support writing new EDSK images (gw read --format=ibm.scan my.edsk) gw read/write: New option --dd to set interface pin 2 for 5.25" drives C64: New low-pass filter PLL stage to clean up noisy flux images Can also be used more generally via a new sub-option to "--pll" (dr) [News message: 09. Jun. 2023, 05:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2023`	MUI-based SFTP/FTP(S) client: RNOXFER 1.4 for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS Dveloper 'jPV^RNO' has updated his FTP client "RNOXFER" to version 1.4. On his website, a tutorial and a video explain the function of the program which is available on Aminet. Changes: Added editing fields in the server list window Added the comment column on the server list Added the default local path setting Added the private keyfile setting for SFTP connections Added a check for server list changes at exit Added UTF-8 support to be RFC 2640 compliant Massive speedup in directory handling More verbose file size comparison when a file exists Added an option to save selected files/dirs as a text file Fixed advanced.conf handling Fixed issues with the settings file format Adjusted window sleep modes Disconnects from the previous server when double-clicking a new server from the server list Uses hURL 2.0 (requires MorphOS 3.16 or AmiSSL 5 on AmigaOS) (dr) [News message: 09. Jun. 2023, 05:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2023`	Print-/PDF magazine: "ZZAP! AMIGA" #10 Patreon supporters could already read the May/June issue of "ZZAP! Amiga" in May as PDF. Now the magazine can be ordered for about 6 Euro (plus shipping) which is A5-sized and offers 60 pages with full colour. (dr) [News message: 09. Jun. 2023, 04:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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