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05.Sep.2022
Ko-Fi AmigaOS 4: The Battle for the Solar System - The Pandoran War
After George 'walkero' Sokianos ported the platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" to AmigaOS 4 the other day (amiga-news.de reported), he has now ported the shoot'em up "The Battle for the Solar System: The Pandoran War" by Stephen J Sweeney and Parallel Realities using SDL.

The required data files have to be downloaded from the page The Battle for the Solar System. After unpacking the file "tbftss-1.5.1.linux-x86_64.tar.gz" twice to a hard disk location of your choice, the data is available. Sokianos' archive is also unpacked there, prompts to overwrite some files must be confirmed. Additional information about the game can be found in the file README-OS4.md.

Those who want to support the author have the opportunity to do so on his Ko-fi website. 50% of the donations are returned to the community by the author at the end of each month by supporting projects or developers. (dr)

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29.Aug.2022
Tim Lenke (ANF)

USB stick/keychains in Amiga-1200 and A500 look
Tim Lenke offers USB sticks in retro design on lavago.de, which can also be used as keychains. Currently available is, among others, a "Mini Amiga 500", at the Amiga 37 (October 15 and 16, Mönchengladbach) an A1200 version will then celebrate its premiere, which will also be available in the web store after the event.

According to Tim Lenke, the disks, officially licensed by Amiga Corporation, will be injection molded, not 3D printed. There will also be a special "Amiga 37" variant of the A1200 stick that will only be available at the event - Lavago is one of the sponosors of the meeting. (cg)

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27.Aug.2022

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.4
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Yesterday version 1.5.4 was released. Changes:

NEW: profiler: improve blitter tooltip for line mode, show simplified formulas of minterms
NEW: profiler: show blitter mode (Blit, Line, Fill, Clear) in blitter timeline
NEW: new commands in the command palette Ctrl+Shift+P:

Open Gradient Master: opens the Deadliner's The Amiga Gradient Master tool to assist you creating color gradients for Copperlists).
Open Image Tool opens the Deadliner's Image Tool to assist you converting images to different Amiga formats.
Open Color Reducer opens the Deadliner's Color Reducer tool to assist you reducing the number of colors in images in a smart manner.
Open BLTCON Cheat Sheet: opens the Deadliner's BLTCON Cheat Sheet tool that helps you designing Blitter operations.
Open Amiga Hardware Reference Manual: opens the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual TOC hosted at amigadev.elowar.com.

NEW: you can set your Kickstart paths in settings Ctrl+, under Extensions > Amiga C/C++ Compile, Debug & Profile > Rom-paths: A500, A1200, A4000
NEW: template project's output now in out/a.elf, out/a.exe. Can be changed in settings amiga.program
NEW: new command Convert EXE to ADF (right-click Amiga EXE files in the explorer)
NEW: assembly registers now also show SR (status register)

Parallel to this original expansion, there is a fork by David Cañadas Mazo that focuses less on stability and more on additional features. Which are:

VASM assembler with debugging support:

GAS keeps the .s extension; VASM uses the .asm extension.
VASM has been modified to provide valid DWARF section names to make the extension debugger to work.
The assembly language provider has been updated to validate assembly sources against either GAS or VASM depending on the source code file extensions.
Syntax highlighting, symbol search and error squiggles support.
VASM official site: http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/.
Modified VASM: https://github.com/davidcanadas/vasm-m68k-mot-win32. Version 1.9.

Support for multiple build targets:

Release: default target. Optimizations enabled, debuggable (when optimizations allow to). DEBUG macro defined for GCC, GAS and VASM.
Debug: Optimizations disabled, slower but fully debuggable. DEBUG macro defined for GCC, GAS and VASM.
Final: Optimizations enabled. Not debuggable. NDEBUG macro defined for GCC, GAS and VASM.
Shrinkled: Final, Shrinkler-compressed. Parameters are configurable using VSCode settings.

Many of its changes flow back into the original extension. Here, too, Version 1.5.4 was released yesterday. (dr)

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