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`20.May.2026` OS4Welt.de (Forum)	File Manager: TreeExplorer 1.0 Achim Pankalla's TreeExplorer is a simple file manager for AmigaOS 3.2.3 and AmigaOS 4 that is also suitable for low resolutions, as it does not open additional windows but instead executes all actions - including deletions - immediately without prompting. The clipboard is used for copying and moving files, making these operations possible even across multiple instances of the program. Download: TreeExplorer.lha (494 KB) (snx) [News message: 20. May. 2026, 09:59] [Comments: 1 - 21. May. 2026, 12:36] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.May.2026` Metin Seven	Convert Amiga assembler code to C The programmer Reinier van Vliet and the graphic designer Metin Seven, together with another partner, formed the Dutch game development group Team Hoi, which released 16-bit games and music editors from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. The Amiga games were written in assembler (initially using Seka, later Asm-One). When Reinier van Vliet subsequently switched to other platforms, one thing always bothered him: to view or play these Amiga games, you needed Amiga emulators. As he goes on to explain, since assembler code cannot simply be ported to other platforms, a thought kept coming back to him: what if the assembler source code were converted into its C equivalent? This is what led to his project: a small toolchain that converts 68000 assembler code into portable C. The aim is to achieve CPU semantics that are sufficiently faithful to the original (registers, flags, synthetic program counter, emulated address space) to port genuine game logic – not a complete Amiga hardware emulator or decompiler. Reinier van Vliet has already used his converter for the game Hoi and has published the source code as well as executables for Windows and macOS. (dr) [News message: 18. May. 2026, 20:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.May.2026` Jens Pesek (ANF)	Macumba Editor: Visual development environment for retrocomputers Like Hollywood, Macumba Editor aims to provide a development environment and language for creating native programs for various platforms - though here the focus is on retrocomputers: Target systems besides Amiga are Atari ST, Apple Macintosh, MS-DOS and, work in progress, PDP-11. The three components of the Macumba Editor are a visual component editor - here, various elements are dragged onto a workspace and configured via an editable properties window (text, size, position, status) -, AST blocks (Abstract Syntax Tree, formed from visual building blocks) for assembling events and actions without having to program them oneself - this conversion to native Pascal or C is handled later by the code generator - and finally MacumbaScript, a scripting language for those cases where one wants to actually code the old-fashioned way. (snx) [News message: 17. May. 2026, 09:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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