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17.Feb.2024

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.7
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. Changes in version 5.6.7:

Bugfixes

Use path-type config file line save method.
SX32Pro can support 128M RAM, fix memory mapping.
"Warp mode reset" on the fly change wasn't recognized
Fixed GUI->Chipset->Chipset Extra dropdown not being updated correctly
Revert Vsync option effect: only affect internal emulation state
Wnsure keyboard keys are released when pressing Alt-Tab
Ignore Alt-Tab if used to release focus

Improvements

History list paths now follow relative/absolute path mode.
Merge updates from Preview branch
Improve auto-crop accuracy

(dr)

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17.Feb.2024
heckmeck!

Demoparty: The nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards
This weekend, the demo party "MountainBytes 2024" will take place in Switzerland (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday evening, the nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards were determined, which will then be presented during Revision 2024, which takes place from 29 March to 1 April in Saarbrücken. Among the candidates are also some Amiga entries in three categories:

Best Midschool Production

The Loop by Ghostown and Haujobb
D-Funk by Desire

Best Soundtrack

Neocolora by Darkage and Lemon

Outstanding Technical Achievement

HAMazing by Desire
Worms VBI by AttentionWhore
Cycle-Op by Oxygene

(dr)

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17.Feb.2024 Emulation: BBoot bootloader V0.6 for QEMU
BBoot is a simple, minimal bootloader for loading AmigaOS on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, written by Amiga QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan (amiga-news.de reported). It replaces amigaboot.of on Pegasos2 and slb_v2 on AmigaOne and simplifies the booting of AmigaOS 4 under QEMU. A firmware ROM is no longer required. The current version 0.6 solves problems when booting the AmigaOne machine with the latest QEMU 9 version.

As Balaton Zoltan kindly explains to us, this new version is currently only required for those users who compile QEMU themselves from the current Git master repository, from which version 9.0 will later emerge.
The developer has also provided a tutorial Booting AmigaOS 4.1 on QEMU with BBoot.

However, as Alinea, for example, has informed us, the AmigaOne version of AmigaOS 4 has not been available for some time despite ordering from Hyperion Entertainment. The company could not be reached for comment. (dr)

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17.Feb.2024

AROS: Music program ProTrekkr v2.6.6 (update)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can (mainly) be used to create electronic music (like psytrance, trance goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) targeting small sized intros, demos or games. Now version 2.6.5 was released for AROS (and FreeBSD, macOS and Windows). Changes:

Added handling for 512 midi patches via bank selection.
Fixed a couple of bugs in the standalone replay.
Added effects 3F & 40 to set the scale of the two 303 units.
The file keyboards.txt was missing from the repository.
Added effects 29, 2A & 2B to turn tracks compressor on/off, set compression threshold & ratio respectively.
Fixed the audio bug on Intel Macs.

Download: ptk_v2.6.6_aros.zip (23 MB)

Update (21.02.2024, 06:05):

Version 2.6.6 is available and the download link above was adapted. Changes:

Doesn't actualize UI from audio thread anymore (which fixed a few issues).
Fixed the 303 units note off bug.
Added a function to swap two instruments in the patterns.
Refactored a lot of the code

(dr)

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16.Feb.2024

Platformer: Jump'n Bump (beta version)
Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of his port of the game Jump'n Bump using his Scorpion Engine, which essentially contains the core functions of the original game, but has not yet been extensively tested, so there may still be a few bugs here and there. New features:

Title screen (eg, player select)
Players at same height repel each other
Butterflies
Score screen, including breakdown of each player's kills vs other players

Still to come:

Title screen text loop
Performance mode build for smooth gameplay on A500
Mega Drive conversion
Maybe additional levels derived from the original game's map packs?
AI and/or some form of single player mode

Download: jump_n_bump_LATEST.adf (dr)

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16.Feb.2024

Tool: EmptyADF 1.0
After several beta versions, Darren 'dmcoles' Cole released the first stable version of "ReBuild" about a week ago, which should make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (amiga-news.de reported). Krzysztof Donat (bitplan) has now used ReBuild to create the EmptyADF tool, which can be used to generate empty ADF files. Main features:

creating DD (880 KB) or HD (1.76 MB) disk images
creating OFS or FFS disk images
creating images with or without system bootblock
creating disk images with your own label
completing system disk dates:
- last root alteration date
- last disk alteration date
- filesystem creation date

He tested it under AmigaOS 3.2, but it should run on any Amiga with Kickstart 3.0+ and installed ReAction libraries. (dr)

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16.Feb.2024 Twin-Stick-Shooter: Pre-Order of boxed editions of Cecconoid
At the end of 2022, the musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' - for example the Amiga port of Knightmare - began porting the game "Cecconoid", originally published by "Triple Eh?": "an 8-bit inspired, flick-screen, twin-stick-shooter, set in an alternate dimension where the pixels are still chunky, and the bad guys are black and white. Except for their dangly red bits..." (YouTube video).

Now Thalamus Digital, an independent video game developer and publisher, is offering the game for pre-order in various boxed versions, which should be available in April 2024. As the developer explained to us when asked, the game has now been finalised and the digital version should also be available when the physical versions start shipping. (dr)

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15.Feb.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)

TCP/IP stack: Roadshow 1.15 released
Press release: "Slightly delayed by only 18 months (we are getting faster), the free Roadshow TCP/IP stack 1.15 update is now available to all customers.

This update is focused on improving installation and maintenance tasks, as well as making the installation documentation more useful and accessible. The single documentation file, still small in 2014, became increasingly unwieldy and has become a set of shorter files, each focused on one single aspect of Roadshow. By request, new documentation has been added which details all the files which will be installed for Roadshow.

The single installation script, which combined several tasks, became a set of scripts, each with its own task. The new update script will take care of upgrading an older Roadshow installation (versions 1.9-1.14) as well of upgrading a currently installed demo version to the commercial version.

New commands have been added to automatically find and install network device configuration files and fix errors & defects in the many configuration files Roadshow uses. You may no longer need to find and install the network device configuration files to match your network devices all by yourself.

By request, a 'compact' Roadshow installation disk image (1.76 MByte high-density) is available for the first time, containing a 'reduced' version of the full installation archive. The 'compact' installation is restricted to software built for all Amigas (68000 CPU or better) and omits the large reference documentation.

As before, bug fixes and smaller enhancements have been made, which are detailed in the installation documentation. Some of the bugs resisted detection for more than 20 years... Starting with this Roadshow version, all the commands (in particular ftp, wget and tcpdump) consistently work under Kickstart 2.04, assuming that sufficient memory is available.

The new Roadshow software development kit (SDK), version 1.8, is also available for download. It contains much more example source code than before, including source code for all the new Roadshow commands. The vbcc compiler is fully supported for the first time and the existing gcc compiler support has been significantly improved.

Our thanks go to the beta testers and forum members who helped to make this update possible and to spark the ideas which led to the creation of the new Roadshow commands, the 'compact' installation and the reworked installation documentation!

Roadshow ist available in three formats:

as a digital download
on CD-ROM
on USB card (FAT32-formatted medium)

The CD-ROM and USB card versions include a digital download for Roadshow.

If you already bought the digital download, you can upgrade to the CD ROM or the USB card version for 4,90 €, plus shipping, in our online shop.

If you bought the CD-ROM version, you can 'upgrade' to the USB card version for 4,90 €, plus shipping, in our online shop. The same holds true if you bought the USB card version and wish to 'upgrade' to the CD-ROM version.

Careful: In order to order an upgrade, you need to do so with the same online shop account which you previously bought Roadshow with.

Roadshow update: To receive the free update from Roadshow, simply log into your account at snx)

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15.Feb.2024
Kymon Zonias (E-Mail) Event: 10th Alternative Computer Meeting in Wolfsburg (Germany)
The 10th meeting for alternative operating systems and computers in the Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Flechtorf near Wolfsburg, Germany, will take place from June 28 to 30, 2024. All fans of home computers and consoles from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, as well as their clones and successors, are welcome.

According to the organizers, the Alternative Computer Meeting will remain mainly an Amiga event. For years, regular guests have included Entwickler X, Alinea Computer, Frank Mariak and members of A1K.org, and also further developers like Daniel Müßener, Costel Mincea and Martin Schüler have been there already. (snx)

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