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Archive 06/2023

`24.Jun.2023` Twitter	Game announcement: Twin-Stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero" After Nivrig Games had already published some preview videos (amiga-news.de reported), the official game announcement now followed with the opening of the itch.io project site: the twin-stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero" (latest YouTube video) will be released this summer and can be played at the Kickstart taking place next weekend in England. The plot: "The wizards have been at it again, and this time they've accidentally opened Hellgates under the castle! Now it's up to you, brave brave Sir Declan, to search each procedurally generated castle dungeon and find enough magical shards to access and close its gate. Armed with a magical Caster Sword, potions you find, and perhaps the occasional legendary charm, Sir Declan must fight demons that escaped from the gate, avoid traps, and collect treasures to trade for battle enhancements, before finally facing the Hellgates themselves." Features: 50fps 2D hell-blasting action Billions of procedurally generated dungeons Multiple control schemes, including new Abstraction Games twin-stick controller Online high score table Many enemies and traps to defeat Upgrades to unlock as you progress Legendary artefacts to recover Hapless villagers to save An Amiga 500 with 512 KB Chip RAM and 512 KB other RAM are required. (dr) [News message: 24. Jun. 2023, 14:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2023`	Text comparison tool: ADiffView 2.4 ADiffView compares two ASCII text files and displays the differences graphically. The diff engine uses Eugene Myers' diff algorithm. After Uwe Rosner had already published version 2.4 for MorphOS in May, this version is now also available for AmigaOS 3 (direct download, 134 KB). Changes: Behavior: When ADiffView opens its own screen it is now a public screen named ADIFFVIEW.1. This number is incremented for each instance. The name of the screen where ADiffView is actually running is displayed in the About requester. Behavior: On AmigaOS 3.1.4 and newer when ADiffView opens its own screen the new off-screen dragging mode is enabled. This allows windows to be dragged beyond the screen borders. Behavior: Added (ToolType / CLI) argument EDITORONPUBSCREEN. When this is set and the editor (see EDITOR argument) supports a PUBSCREEN argument it will be opened on the ADiffView screen. The default editor C:Ed doest't support it, but OS3.1.4+ Tools/TextEdit does. Behavior: The editor is now started asynchronously. Fixed user interface and selection glitches that occurred when different screen or window title bar heights were set in OS3.1.4.+ Prefs/IControl. Built with the OS3.2 NDK. (dr) [News message: 24. Jun. 2023, 07:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jun.2023`	MorphOS: Platform game REminiscence 0.5.1 REminiscence is a rewrite of the engine used in the game Flashback from Delphine Software. This program is designed as a cross-platform replacement for the original executable. The MorphOS version requires SDL-Library 2.28.0. Changes: added looping for DOS .prf music changed audio mixer to stereo updated timings for cutscenes (dr) [News message: 23. Jun. 2023, 21:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jun.2023` Christian Zigotzky (Mail)	Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.2.1 'wicknix' has released version 32.2.1 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for LinuxPPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. Among other things, the preferences dialogue has been changed, a new logo and some new extensions and themes have been added. Download: sealion-32.2.1-linux-powerpc-gtk2.tar.bz2 (54 MB) (dr) [News message: 23. Jun. 2023, 21:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jun.2023`	AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.28.0 Release Candidate 1 Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.28.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1. The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Changes: Add USB Gamepad mapping. Disable SDL_FRAMEBUFFER_ACCELERATION only if user hasn't overridden it. Download: SDL2.lha (6,8 MB) (dr) [News message: 23. Jun. 2023, 20:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jun.2023` Amiga.org (forum)	PED81C: Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas (Update) The Amiga's bitplane-based graphics, in which the color information for each pixel on a screen is captured as two-dimensional layers and, for scrolling, each layer (bitplane) is changed by the exact same value so that each pixel also gets the same color again, is memory-efficient but slow for individual changes and, with the advent of 3D graphics and fast memory on graphics cards, has fallen behind the chunky display of PCs and Macs. With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach described in detail in the documentation in the archive at the title link to work on AGA Amigas with pseudo-native chunky screens without performing the known chunky-to-planar conversions when displaying 3D graphics or any other slowing down additional calculations by CPU or custom chips (Copper, Blitter) at all. Videos at the title link demonstrate the effects made possible by the fact that chunky-like each dot on the screen is defined by its own byte in Chip RAM. Among the examples included there is also one showing how to use a PED81C display in AMOS programs. Update: (09:22, 25.06.23, snx) Mistake corrected regarding bitplane scrolling. (snx) [News message: 23. Jun. 2023, 10:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2023` Twitter	Book project: "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" can be pre-ordered In March 2023, the book project "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" was successfully crowdfunded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the book can be pre-ordered at a currently reduced price of 40 euros (instead of 44.90 euros) plus shipping. (dr) [News message: 22. Jun. 2023, 21:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2023` Amiga Future (website)	amigafan.de: Interviews with Retro Games and BitbeamCannon On his site amigafan.de David Schlak has published two interviews recently. One was with Retro Games Ltd. (THEA500 Mini) - according to which a maxi version is still intended, even if the sales figures of the miniature edition of an Amiga seem to have fallen short of expectations -, the other one with BitbeamCannon about the game "Metro Siege", which has been announced for four years now and for which still no completion date is foreseeable due to limited spare time. (snx) [News message: 22. Jun. 2023, 15:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2023`	Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.58 Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.58. Changes: Fixes: Starting with command line "HiP " or with a "Startup" playlist and with random play mode always played the first entry, not a random entry, fixed this. Fix search view sometimes not showing the last two list items. Increased the maximum width of the window, so it can be resized wider than before. Loading with "XFDmaster library" was fixed already in the previous version but I forgot to mention it in the last changelist. PlaySid on kickstart 1.3: playing PSIDs on kick 1.3 could crash previously. There is now a fixed kick 1.3 specific playsid.library included, which is the latest official original version with some kick 1.3 specific fixes. Use the other included library for newer kickstarts. AHI: Improved SBLive compatibility when stopping playback. New features: A new prefs option "Prefs/Play-1/Position slider" enables a slider in the main window which can be used to select the playing position. This works for the most common module types supporting pattern skipping. It also enables seeking locally played MP3 files. Updated 8bitbubsy's xmaplay060 from version v0.41 to v0.46. (dr) [News message: 22. Jun. 2023, 09:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2023`	Icon-Library 46.4.577 In March 2021 we introduced Peter Keunecke's icon.library in detail, which he continues to maintain and improve. In the version now published, he has added, among other things, a script "ConvertToPngIcons" in the bonus folder, which can convert Amiga icons into PNG format and optionally scale them with the help of ImageConverter. (dr) [News message: 22. Jun. 2023, 08:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2023`	Video: RTG screen mode with Amiga 1200 and Indivision AGA MK3 In its latest video, the YouTube channel "Hold and Modify" shows how to achieve a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels with an Amiga 1200 without a graphics card but equipped with an Indivision AGA MK3. (dr) [News message: 22. Jun. 2023, 06:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jun.2023`	Videos: Building a ReAmiga 1200 About three years ago, revision 1.5 of John 'Chucky' Hertell's Amiga1200 clone ReAmiga 1200 was released. In a two-part video (part 1, part 2), the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Manshed" creates this clone. (dr) [News message: 22. Jun. 2023, 05:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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