10.Jun.2022
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MorphOS: Bounty amount for new graphics card drivers reached
After MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen offered a bounty project for better OpenGL support as well as additional graphics card drivers, the funding goal has now been reached thanks to a particularly large individual donation from Wiktor 'Pampers' Głowacki. (snx)
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10.Jun.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future "Amiga 37" edition planned
In October the "Amiga 37" will take place in Mönchengladbach, Germany. For this occasion, a special edition of the print magazine Amiga Future is planned, which will be distributed free of charge at the entrance and will contain, among other things, the hall plan, the event schedule, background reports on Amiga 37 and interviews with the organisers. (snx)
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10.Jun.2022
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 5 of 'WhatIFF?' published
'WhatIFF?' is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is mainly intended for users who want to be creative with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported).
Now issue 5 has been published with the following content:
Reviews:
- Anno Calendar
- SCART to HDMI Scan Doubler
- Framemeister X-RGB
- Clover Icons
- Replacement Power Supply
Tutorials:
- Lightwave 101 - texturing
- Brilliance 101 - tweening
- MsMadLemon ProTracker/Tracking Tutorial
- Retrobrite the easy way
- Wireless Printing From Your Amiga
Interviews:
(dr)
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10.Jun.2022
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Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.8 / FloppyBridge 1.2
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin FloppyBridge, WinUAE is also officially supported since version 4.9.0.
DrawBridge has been updated to version 2.8.8 providing the following changes:
- Added support for reading and writing track 82 and 83 (firmware update needed too, not all drives support this anyway)
- Fixed a mistake in diagnostics suggesting pin A0 was write protect, it's A1!
- Now hides any CH340 com ports from the list as they're incompatible anyway
- Fixed compiling under Linux
Changes of the latest version 1.2 of FloppyBridge:
- Added no-click disk check when it has to be done manually
- Added support for tracks 82 and 83 if supported by the drive (firmware update needed for DrawBridge)
- Updated Greaseweazle driver to also support Shugart interfaces
- Some cosmetic fixes
Prior installation of the new DrawBridge firmware 1.9.25 is required. (dr)
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10.Jun.2022
mithrendal (Mail)
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Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.1 beta2
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga. After its release of the second beta version of version 2.1, the developer 'mithrendal' has not only integrated this latest vAmigaCore2.1b2 into his application, but also some other changes:
- CPU overclocking up to 100Mhz (great for legendary titles like frontier/elite2 or fa-18 interceptor)
- PAL/NTSC hot switching (pixel ratio and 50/60 Hz chipset system speed)
- floppy drive and hard drive sounds and track display in the HUD
- completely reworked display sizes for overscan games like "the settlers"
- various bugfixes e.g. memory leaks, pixel precision and more
(dr)
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09.Jun.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1b2
By releasing version 2.0 (amiga-news.de reported), developer Dirk Hoffmann has started the beta phase of version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS and has just released the second beta version. Changes:
Enhancements:
- Added NTSC support
- Kickstart 3.2.1 (Hyperion) is a recognised Rom now
Bug fixes:
- No more graphics glitches in DPaint IV overscan modes
- Null modem cable is no longer broken
- No more graphics glitches in Seven seas by Andromeda
- ShowConfig utility (Hyperion) does no longer crash with Kickstart 3.2
- Fixed an error in the Hunk parser
Refactoring:
- Now the line drawing code is invoked at the beginning of the HBLANK area
The minimum system requirement is macOS 10.15. (dr)
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09.Jun.2022
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RTG driver: P96 V3.3.1 released
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has released version 3.3.1 of his RTG driver P96, which can be bought or downloaded from the order history at iComp. This is again a minor service release providing the following features:
- The Cirrus5434.chip driver was broken (Piccollo64, Matze's graphics card) and did not switch back from direct color modes to chunky modes.
- One release of UAE had an issue by indicating that it would support mode mixing, but forgot to provide the necessary call-backs in some configurations. P96 provides now default call-backs avoiding the crash.
- Bitmap handling was simplified and streamlined.
- The Visiona driver supports now panning and interlace.
- The installer places now the P96 version into ENVARC:Picasso96/Version so you know what you have on the system.
- The installer no longer provides wrong default selections for the available boards in case the list of installed boards requires more than one page.
- The installer makes a very tiny consistency check on the unpacked files as some people unpacked on the PC, and then protection bits were incorrect.
(dr)
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09.Jun.2022
Kevin Saunders
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Contest: Amiga Art Contest 2022
The "Amiga Art Contest 2022" (video) is organized by the Youtuber channel 10 Minute Amiga Retrocast and the graphics artist Kevin Saunders. Participants can submit their works in the categories of "Hand-drawn Artwork", "Digital Photography", "3D/Ray Tracing", "MOD/Music" and "Animation" (submissions of the previous years 2019, 2020 and 2021).
Only works created or (in the case of digital photographs) edited on an Amiga (real or emulated) are eligible. Deadline for entries is October 11, winners will be announced in an episode of the Youtube show "10 Minute Amiga Retrocast". (dr)
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08.Jun.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Spreadsheet ignition 1.20, update of OpenDocument plugins
Achim Pankalla has released version 1.20 of the spreadsheet ignition which at least requires AmigaOS 4.1 update 6. Many bugs and problems have been solved and some minor new functions added. For example:
- Zoomen with ctrl and mousewheel
- Old column/row title will be displayed if they are not standard
- 22 new functions
- correct/update some functions
- correct some error
- turbocalc add-on extend and corrected
- some changes in the manual
The ods-addon was reworked as well. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others.
Changes in ign-ods-addon 0.35:
- add new functions og ignition
- correct the problem, which appears after save a ods-file
Achim Pankalla thanks all testers, bug reporters, translators and supporters. He welcomes any feedback via email, and also refers to the official ignition support forum at os4welt.de for further information and discussion. (dr)
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07.Jun.2022
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Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer with 'Mission Pack' support
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first part of the realtime strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga and named it "Vanilla Conquer" (amiga-news.de reported).
Today the developer has added support for mission packs and by that 15 new missions and seven new music tracks. The game is intended for Amigas equipped with Apollo/Vampire V4 or PiStorm/Emu-68 expansions.
If you want to support the author, you can do so on his Patreon site. (dr)
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07.Jun.2022
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.4
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
A few moments ago he has relesaed version 2022.4 with the following changes:
- New sample: AlarCity title screen
- New sample: Vertical Parallax AGA
- New sample: Render modes and palettes
- Rendermodes for making actors blink, flash etc
- "NoClear" option for effects requiring that BOBs aren't cleared after being blitted
- Vastly improved real time palette manipulation
- "Parallax locked" movement type for creating objects that are tied to the parallax background
- Ability to link sounds to levels (so they're loaded and unloaded with those specific levels)
- Rewrite of the codeblocks virtual machine for improved performance
- Lots of bug fixes and other minor improvements
You can support the developer on his Patreon website. (dr)
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06.Jun.2022
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.8
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.8 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS which, additional to a bug fix, introduces basic drag & drop of web elements of a website.
Changes:
- Implemented basic drag & drop of web elements within a page
- Fixed scrollbar positions after switching between tabs
Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB) (dr)
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06.Jun.2022
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MorphOS: MouseSpotter 1.0
The #amigazeux team has released the Commodity MouseSpotter, which helps to find the mouse pointer again by simply pressing a hotkey if you have lost sight of it.
MouseSpotter offers a number of options for customisation, such as adjustable colour, duration, different interpolators for the animation and more. (dr)
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06.Jun.2022
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Farming simulation: Farmiga
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, which he has named 'Farmiga':
Various vegetables and cereals have to be grown, sold at the market and cows or chickens bought with the money earned. The last update on 4 June added a new graphic design, an intro and a selection screen for saving and loading, as well as German and English menu navigation. Music is still missing.
The author has tested his game on an Amiga equippd with Kickstart 3.1.4, 512kB Chip RAM and 2MB Fast RAM. (dr)
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06.Jun.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood addon: Remedios 1.2 released
Airsoft Softwair has released version 1.2 of Remedios. Remedios allows Hollywood scripts to be compiled as standalone apps for iOS and iPadOS. Remedios 1.2 is a minor update that now adds support for Hollywood 9.1 and Xcode 13. The update is available now for all customers for free in the protected download area. (dr)
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06.Jun.2022
trackerhero (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.10
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM.
The new version 0.9.10 offers besides numerous improvements and fixes now support for AGA fetch modes, which allow the Amiga chips to work in bigger chunks, making graphics operations faster:
- EXPERIMENTAL: Fetch mode can be set in the Screen menu for AGA games: Normal,
Double and Quadruple fetch modes are supported.
- Increased Fetch modes can improve game speed, specially in machines without
fastram.
- With higher fetch modes, funny effects could happen when using sprites or
changing the screen width of the screen.
- Resize of the map dimensions now can automatic replace the tiles to the new
dimensions.
- Multiple WHDload slaves added:
- Workbench31_1.Slave 1 MB Chip 1 MB Fast
- Workbench31_4.Slave 2 MB Chip 4 MB Fast
- Workbench31_32.Slave 2 MB Chip 32 MB Fast
- Object drawing has been reimplemented for safer (but also slower) rendering.
- Embedded Help for trigger conditions is now more complete.
- If the Sprite layer was attached to an Object Set Sprite Pos detaches it.
- Set Sprite Pos will ignore parameters with coordinates less than -1000. This way you can set up just x or y coodinate.
- Action Set NTSC moved to General category.
- In Level Objects screen you can select snap to tile to move objects only in tile exact coordinates.
- In Level screen you can import and export maps in CVS format.
- General optimization.
- When an object is attached to mouse movement now it takes into account the scrolling area.
- Fix in camara not reaching end of the level with reduced screen widths.
- Fix in brush width and height when using the tile shortcuts.
(dr)
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05.Jun.2022
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.06.2022
The following files have been added until 04.06.2022 to the Aminet:
httphandler.lha comm/www 88K OS4 HTTP: device for accessing we...
PyPlayer.zip dev/src 1.1M 68k Audio Player for Python 1.4.0...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 44K 68k Massive release 1.22
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 9K 2022 Carset for F1GP
BiedronkaZuzia.lha game/misc 1.3M MOS GAME WITHOUT VIOLENCE for sma...
labyrinth64.lha game/misc 135K 68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L...
ScummVM_RTG.lha game/misc 6.6M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM 1.7.0
WBTicTacToe.lha game/wb 100K 68k Tic-Tac-Toe for WB, up to 4 d...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.3M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
Viaduct-1.5.lha misc/emu 93K 68k RTG-aware PCWindow clone for ...
MasterOfPuppets.lha mods/pro 123K Protracker module by Omen
IntsyPX.lha text/bfont 4K A complete 8pt font.
avalanche.lha util/arc 74K OS4 ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
LHArchiver.lha util/arc 4.6M create lha archives intuitively
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 159K PNG image datatype V45.25
MMULib.lha util/libs 750K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 69K 68k Minimal MuLib archive for red...
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 101K 68k External Virus Scanner Librar...
ScreamBar.lha util/wb 41K MOS Screenbar plug-in for AmiNetR...
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05.Jun.2022
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.06.2022
The following files have been added until 04.06.2022 to the OS4Depot:
warpjpegdt.lha dat/ima 331kb 4.0 JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.16
warppngdt.lha dat/ima 159kb 4.0 PNG image datatype V45.25
warppsddt.lha dat/ima 71kb 4.0 Adobe Photoshop datatype V45.7
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
avalanche.lha uti/arc 74kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
avalanche_es.lha uti/arc 3kb 4.0 Spanish translation for Avalanche
avalanche_ita.lha uti/arc 5kb 4.0 Italian translation for Avalanche
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 5Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
igame.lha uti/mis 318kb 4.0 Frontend for WHDLoad games and d...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 04.06.2022
The following file has been added until 04.06.2022 to the AROS-Archives:
zunepaint.i386-aros.zip gra/edi 530kb Bitmap paint with additional eff...
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 04.06.2022
The following files have been added until 04.06.2022 to the MorphOS-Storage:
LHArchiver_1.2.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
Wayfarer_3.7.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
ScreamBar_1.2.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Screenbar module plug-i...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.06.2022
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 04.06.2022:
- 2022-05-30 improved: Lotus 2 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) another Lotus Trilogy (CD) version supported, new install script (Info)
- 2022-05-29 updated: Carnage (Zeppelin Games/Warped Minds) patch redone, all OS stuff patched, OSEmu no longer needed, access faults fixed, blitter waits added, 68000 quitkey support, new install script (Info)
- 2022-05-29 updated: Sharkeys Moll (Zeppelin Games) patch redone, keyboard problems fixed, CPU dependent delays fixed, more trainer options, new install script (Info, Image)
- 2022-05-29 improved: 2 Unlimited (Scoopex) stack problem that occured on some machines fixed (Info, Image)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2022
Mark Olsen (ANF)
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MorphOS: Bounty for improved OpenGL support and new graphics card driver
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen offers a Bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link. Support for the R600, R700, Evergreen and Northern Island chips would open up many commonly available PCI Express graphics cards, such as those that would be usable in the Sam460, X5000 and PowerMac G5.
Completion is promised within three months at the latest after full financing. So far, almost one fifth of the required eight thousand euros has been donated. Donations can be made directly by bank transfer or via PayPal in Euros, British Pounds, US and Canadian Dollars. Those who wish to support in another currency can contact Mark Olsen - otherwise please support him by accepting the exchange fees in Euros.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2022
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Shops: Announcement of AmigaOne-X5000 availability with P5040-CPU
The AmigaOne X5000 was designed for two different processors: the PowerPC CPUs P5020 (64 bit, two cores, 2.0 GHz) and P5040 (2.2 GHz). As 'Puni/Void' reports under the title link, his inquiry at various Amiga dealers about the availability of remaining stock of AmigaOS 4.x hardware revealed that the AmigaOne X5000/40 variant is or will be available there. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: AROS One 1.7 (x86)
The distribution "AROS One" based on the AROS binary branch ABI v0 is now available in version 1.7 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image under the title link, where also videos can be found.
Updates:
- System
- HDToolBox Device (fixed ToolType options)
- Update Image WHDMenu
- Update Def_MIDI
- Update Def_CDXL
- Update Def_Icons Lua, AmiLua
- Update DirectoryOpus.CFG
- Update ZuneARC Config
- New Skins for Murks
- New Datatypes BMP, TGA
- New Themes for Wanderer
- New Descriptor (Datatypes)
- 8 New Icons DualPNG Button AmiStart
- DT2GIF
- DTConv
- DTConvertGui
- BMP.datatype
- TGA.datatypes
- ICO.datatypes
- UnDeleteSFS
- UnDeletePFS
- New GRUB background
- Applications
- SidDump 1.08
- AmigaKeyRemaper v1.1
- GarshneBlanker v3.9
- RNOEffects v1.3
- DiskValid GUI v1.0
- GarshneBlanker v39.2
- TCPPrefs v1.0
- RNOPublisher v1.0
- Acuario 2020
- ViewISO v1.1
- ZapHod v1.3
- MCC TextEditor v15.56
- RNOArchive v1.0
- RapaGUI v2.1
- 4KLive v0.7
- RunInDOSBox r1
- RMan v3.2
- RTF2HTML v3.97
- GrafX2 2.7.2978
- GTuner v0.41
- AmiNote v0.1
- ZuneARC v1.6
- ModExplorer v3.81
- ModExplorerCE v3.80
- Bin2ISO
- DTConv
- Daysleeper v0.9
- AIDEa v04/03/21
- Murks vO.6
- GCC v6.3.0
- MUIBase v4.4
- IconClone v1.0.7
- PerCIMan v0.7.4
- InstallerLG v1.0
- Vim v8.2.4370
- Multiview v1.8 by Miker
- VindentiumPicta v2.50
- SilkRAW v1.3
- Aget v0.64
- HollywoodPlayer v9.1
- Crono v2.2
- Games
- Hle Poker Card
- BOH
- BlackjuanPokerCard
- Atomiks
- Breaker
- SYASokoban
- Pipewalker
- SieteYMedia
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: Amiga 500 Mod PCB project (HDMI, DF0/DF1, low-pass filter)
Jeremy Parker's Amiga 500 Mod PCB project provides, among other things, a Raspberry Pi used as an RGB-to-HDMI converter with an HDMI output on the back of the Amiga 500. A small switch allows access to the menu of the single-board computer.
Two further switches are used to integrate a DF0/DF1 switch or to define the low-pass filter. (snx)
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05.Jun.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: PiStorm for Amiga 600
PiStorm is the emulation of an 68k processor by the Raspberry Pi minicomputer under Linux. At the title link, 'LemaruX' presents his PiStorm600 project for replication, which, as the name suggests, now also gives the Amiga 600 a PiStorm solution. (snx)
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05.Jun.2022
Vinnny (ANF)
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Bridgeboard program: Viaduct 1.5
Karoly Balogh's Viaduct is a clone of Commodore's PCWindow for displaying PC-side graphics output on Amiga systems with a bridgecard. His replacement was written for faster Amigas equipped with graphics cards. Version 1.5 now supports ToolTypes and is localized, supported so far are Hungarian, German and English. Also the documentation has been transferred to AmigaGuide format.
Download: Viaduct-1.5.lha (93 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2022
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Amigas in films: Amiga 1000 in fourth season of Stranger Things
The streaming provider Netflix currently offers a series called "Stranger Things", in whose sixth episode of the fourth season, which takes place in 1986, an Amiga 1000 is used: It is used to dial into a server and find out a location with the help of an IP address. You can see the Workbench - but the source code shown there seems to be C#, which was only introduced in 2001. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2022
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast episode #139 - David Pleasance on German version of his book
In the 139th edition of the Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller once again talk to former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance. This time's topic is the German edition of his book "Commodore - The Inside Story". (snx)
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05.Jun.2022
Twitter
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.1
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday George 'walkero' Sokianos (AmigaOS4 editor 'Lite XL' or MediaVault) has released version 2.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, which offers some fixes and minor improvements. (dr)
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04.Jun.2022
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Jump'n Run: Second demo version of 'Duckstroma' released
At the beginning of May a first playable demo of the Jump'n Run 'Duckstroma' was released (amiga-news.de reported). Due to the upcoming release of the full version, a second demo version is now available, which provides small improvements.
In 'Duckstroma', as duck Aura you have the order to deliver eight floppy disks to a customer. To fend off all sorts of hostile enemies, you can jump on weak opponents and lay an egg to reach higher places (YouTube video). The game requires 1MB of RAM. (dr)
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04.Jun.2022
Chris Young
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AmigaOS 4: http-handler 1.11
16 years ago the first version of the http-handler published by Chris Young was released, what amiga-news.de reported about. The day before yesterday the developer released the "jubilee version" 1.11 (Queen Elizabeth II) which now supports AmiSSL 5. His http-handler provides a virtual drive "HTTP:" which can be used to access resources on the Internet. Features of the handler:
- Allows access to web-hosted files via a virtual HTTP: device.
- Also supports secure sites with AmiSSL and a virtual HTTPS: device.
- Basic authentication supported using an addressing scheme like "http://user:pass()www.domain.com"
- Supports Open(), Read(), Close() and Seek().
- Implements HTTP redirects (301,302,307) as soft-links - even works with redirects that point to local files.
- Optionally supports gzip content-encoding for faster download times, if z.library is installed.
- Will work through a proxy server.
- Can connect to HTTP services running on ports other than the default.
4Shortly after the release of the first version, the developer had conducted a survey on WebDAV support. Based on the positive feedback, he started implementing it, which originally resulted in version 2 - which he initially abandoned at the time - and later 3. However, as he tells us, he lost support for the other protocols in these versions, which is why a WebDAV beta version 6 was released, which is available on Open Amiga. (dr)
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02.Jun.2022
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Virus Help Team: xvs.library V33.47
Georg Wittmann has released version 33.47 of the external virus scanner library xvs.library. Since our last news article on version 33.44, several bootblock and other virus were added to be detected (history). (dr)
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01.Jun.2022
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.6 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young has released version 1.6 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2 (but it has also been tested under AmigaOS 4), because it uses a new window.class, so it might not work with older OS3 versions. Changes
- Add ability to extract disk archives to images
- Add ability to extract files from disk images/archives
- Double-clicking now extracts the clicked file to a temporary location and opens it. NB: This has required the previous "single click to select/deselect" to be disabled, as the functionality was incompatible.
- Add option to enable/disable the quit confirmation requester
- Localisaton support
- Improved progress display - now shows current file progress and total
- Fix loading/saving of virusscan pref on OS4
- Fix unchecking of files in archive
(dr)
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01.Jun.2022
Amiga Future
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Retro gaming: WHDLoad 18.8
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 18.8 provides the following changes:
- fix: new created files in sub directories which are cached are now correctly reported via Examine (issue #5536)
- fix: when new created cached files are deleted WHDLoad no longer tries to delete them on disk
- chg: the memory of detected freezers is now cachable if MMU is used
- new: the gadgets in the splash window can be controlled via keyboard and joystick now, up/down selects the gadgets via mouse move and left/right switches the gadgets
(dr)
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01.Jun.2022
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.7
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.7 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. This version focuses almost exclusively on media playback in various modes. Many web pages and streams should work much better with version 3.7 and watching streams should be possible for a long time without running out of RAM.
Changes:
- Rewritten MediaSource player state machines to improve seeking, end-of-stream handling
- Fixed a bug that caused a/v decoders to keep increasing the read-ahead decoded frame buffers infinitely (causing out-of-memory sooner or later during playback)
- Fixed a memory leak in a/v de-multiplexer
- Refactored the HLS player to enable seeking in terminated playlists
- Reduced the memory footprint of MediaSource playback
- Fixed video position reporting for MediaStreams w/o an audio track
- Rewritten the right mouse button handling
- Improved the media popup, added stream information
- Fixed input handling in fullscreen mode
- Updated OpenJPEG
Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB) (dr)
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01.Jun.2022
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Competition: 'Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam' started
Today indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen (Wheel of Fortune implementation 'YAWoFFA') started the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: until September 1st 2022 Amiga developers are invited to write and submit games in AmiBlitz or Blitz Basic (amiga-news.de reported).
The idea behind this contest is to increase the number of programmers and the knowledge around the Amiga and the use of Blitz Basic and AmiBlitz to create games. This means that all games submitted must include the source code so that beginners have examples to study and learn from.
Only games for 68k Amigas with AmigaOS are admitted, MorphOS, AmigaOS 4 and AROS are excluded. Likewise, submissions requiring Vampire cards, graphics cards or other special hardware will not be accepted. The game of the winner determined by a jury will be published on CD by Bitmap Soft. Public winners will receive a THEA500 Mini, a Deluxe Mini Monster Retro Gaming Joystick Kit, or a Tales of Gortluth III CD-ROM, among other prizes. More details under the title link. (dr)
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31.May.2022
Discord
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20180423-1
The AROS developer 'deadwood' has released a new version of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). The main feature is the migration from GCC 4.6.4 to GCC 6.3.0. The detailed changelog is available under the title link. (dr)
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31.May.2022
Reddit
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Unfinished Jump'n Run: Funky Monkey
In his latest blog entry, the artist and graphics designer Glenn Broadway has written about his first game in which he was involved as graphics designer 30 years ago. The unfinished jump'n run 'Funky Monkey' (YouTube video) was developed by DC Software. If anyone should know the name of the developer, Glenn Broadway would be grateful about a mail because he cannot remember it. (dr)
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30.May.2022
Twitter
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Email client: YAM support for AmiSSL 5 in progress
About a month ago we reported that the development of the Amiga email client YAM was discontinued by the previous developer team. Since YAM is an open source project, however, there is the possibility for every interested developer to create an own fork and thus continue the work. According to this Twitter post from yesterday, the IBrowse and AmiSSL5 developer Oliver Roberts has now taken first steps to implement support for AmiSSL 5 (amiga-news.de reported) in YAM. (dr)
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29.May.2022
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AmiTube: Preview video of 'Fancy List'
In today's blog entry, author Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow gives a small preview of a feature of the upcoming version: the 'Fancy List'. The video shows the new list feature in action, where title, description and thumbnail are displayed directly in the list. After switching to this variant, the images are loaded automatically, making it suitable only for faster Amigas/RTG or NG Amigas. (dr)
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29.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit survey on additional platforms
The Workbench distribution 'AmiKit' is currently available for the target systems Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi and Vampire V2 (amiga-news.de reported). In a current poll on Twitter the developer wants to know if more systems should be supported and suggests here THEA500 Mini and the Amiga 1200/030. The poll runs until midnight, but we are happy to pass on opinions via our website. (dr)
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29.May.2022
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Aminet uploads until 28.05.2022
The following files have been added until 28.05.2022 to Aminet:
Crono_AROS.lha biz/misc 3.9M x86 Generator of printable calendars
Crono_MorphOS.lha biz/misc 3.8M MOS Generator of printable calendars
Crono_OS4.lha biz/misc 4.3M OS4 Generator of printable calendars
KONEY_KETAMUSKOLAR.lha demo/sound 236K 68k 40k Hardcore Music intro
7800basic.lha dev/cross 4.1M MOS BASIC-like language for Atari...
RevFlex.lha dev/misc 34K Flexible Version Bumper for a...
FixDisk_18.lha disk/salv 40K 68k Disk Recovery Tool (1993)
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 9K 2022 Carset for F1GP
AbuSimbelProfanTFA_es... game/misc 1.4M 68k Abu Simbel Profanation - TFA ...
ScummVM_RTG.lha game/misc 6.1M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM 1.7.0
D1X_Rebirth_RTG.lha game/shoot 2.5M 68k Amiga port of Descent (D1X-Re...
AmiNonogramPackEditor... game/think 76K AmiNonogramPackEditor
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.3M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
MrR_ranthom.lha mods/anaki 510K Ranthom - OctaMED module
MrR_rotterdamn.lha mods/anaki 416K Rotterdamn - ProTracker module
MrR_thehouse.lha mods/anaki 369K The Hardcore House - OctaMED ...
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mus/misc 160K Some samples created by Sampl...
nextvi.lha text/edit 155K MOS Next vi clone
AmiSSL-5.1-OS3.lha util/libs 3.3M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.1-OS4.lha util/libs 3.0M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.1-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 672K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
WHDLoadMenu.lha util/misc 485K 68k A WHDLoad frontend
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29.May.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 28.05.2022
The following files have been added until 28.05.2022 to OS4Depot:
oo.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
revflex.lha dev/mis 34kb 4.0 Flexible Version Bumper for any ...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
sieteymedia.lha gam/car 4Mb 4.0 The Siete y Media card game.
aminonogram.lha gam/puz 121kb 4.0 Open source Workbench Nonogram game
aminonogrampackeditor... gam/puz 76kb 4.0 Pack Editor for AmiNonogram
crono.lha gra/mis 4Mb 4.1 Generator of printable calendars
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
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AROS Archives uploads until 28.05.2022
The following files have been added until 28.05.2022 to AROS Archives:
sieteymedia.lha gam/car 4Mb The Siete y Media card game.
crono_aros.lha gra/mis 4Mb Generator of printable calendars
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29.May.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.05.2022
The following files have been added until 28.05.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
RevFlex_1.0.lha Development/Tools A flexible version bump...
Siete-y-Media_1.0.lha Games/Card Play in this virtual Ca...
Crono_2.2.lha Office/Organizer Generator of printable ...
TopTasks_1.6.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Display Top Tasks in sc...
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29.May.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.05.2022
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 28.05.2022:
- 2022-05-28 improved: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment) full joypad control, running from fast memory (Info)
- 2022-05-27 improved: PGA Tour Golf (Electronic Arts) patch now supports NTSC mode (Info)
- 2022-05-27 improved: Space Quest Enhanced (Sierra) removed copy protection (Info)
- 2022-05-26 updated: 2 Unlimited (Scoopex) patch redone, works with 0.5 MB chip memory, blitter waits added, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info, Image)
- 2022-05-22 improved: Space Crusade (Gremlin) 68000 quitkey, fixed sound replay, added hints (Info)
- 2022-05-22 fixed: Mortal Kombat 2 (Acclaim) access fault removed (Info)
- 2022-05-22 updated: Extemporized (Digital) patch redone, works with 512k chip memory, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info, Image)
(snx)
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29.May.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
(snx)
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29.May.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: APK Compiler 4.1
Airsoft Softwair has released version 4.1 of the Hollywood APK Compiler. It is a minor update that adds support for Hollywood 9.1 and the latest Android Studio version. The update is available for all registered customers at the password-protected download area. (snx)
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27.May.2022
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Version bumper: RevFlex 1.0 for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS
The #amigazeux team has released a utility for developers to automatically update version, revision and build numbers called RevFlex. RevFlex is inspired by FlexRev, written by Daniel Kahlin, and should run from AmigaOS 2.0 on. The AmigaE source code of RevFlex is included. (dr)
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26.May.2022
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 134 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. The game reviews of REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games on different computer systems with each other.
The current edition features the Amiga games 'Advance Destroy Simualtor' and 'Amiga Command & Conquer' as well as the multimedia CD 'EuroCD'. (dr)
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26.May.2022
Martina Hřebcová (Mail)
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Background: MorphOS running on a Mac Mini G4 (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is well-known for her detailed reviews and analyses of Amiga hardware, for example about Graphic cards for Sam440ep-flex, the Pegasos I or the PPC architecture evolution in Amiga world. Recently she got a Mac Mini G4 from a colleague and so in her latest article she reports how she made this Mac usable for MorphOS again which was provided without harddisk, WiFi and Bluetooth and makes several comparisons with a Pegasos II. Finally she reports that with the help of the never finished Moana project AmigaOS 4 can also be started (machine translation). (dr)
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26.May.2022
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Accelerator board project: 'Buffee' supports Big Endian
In her latest blog entry Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the accelerator board 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported) takes up the topic of Endianness and refutes the thesis that the AM335x processor installed on the Buffee did not support Big Endian.
As Renee wrote, "big endian is working. It works for DRAM. It works with the GPMC. The only exception is that the registers need byte swapping if you’re reading/writing in 16- or 32-bit because those remain in little-endian mode. And of course, there’s the matter of making a GCC big-endian C standard library and IO programming, but knowing that this actually works means proceeding."
For testers with an Alpha or Beta board, this means that there will be a 'Buffee Swapper' that will swap the external data bus bytes. This board will be a small shim that sits between Buffee and the motherboard, allowing Buffee to run in proper big-endian mode. The swapper will be shipped free of charge to any alpha and beta tester. Future Buffee boards will not need this shim. (dr)
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26.May.2022
Andrew Vaisey (Mail)
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Puzzle game: Demo version of 'Spheroid' released
About a month ago we were already allowed to test the puzzle game 'Spheroid' written by Andrew Vaisey in Blitz Basic, where you move a metal ball through a maze of tiles to reach the exit within the given time and the maximum allowed number of moves. Different tiles have different properties and affect the ball in different ways (amiga-news.de reported).
After a demo version was already available to the readers of Amiga Addict magazine for a few days, the developer has now released a ten-level demo version for everyone.
Download: SpheroidDemo.zip (342 kB) (dr)
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25.May.2022
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MorphOS: Screenbar-Plugin TopTasks 1.6
TopTasks.sbar is a Screenbar-Plugin for MorphOS that shows the task that is currently eating the most CPU time in the screen title.
When the titlebar object is clicked it opens a window displaying the top tasks (from 5 to 25) currently hogging all your precious CPU time. Furthermore it can display a history of the top tasks of the last configureable number of seconds/minutes/hours. Changes:
- The top tasks window opens now exactly below the screen title bar instead of using its own bottom border for position.
- Text displayed in the screen title can now be rendered off-center vertically by specifiying a pixel offset.
- Number of Top Tasks shown can be configured from 5, 10, 15, 20 to 25 tasks now. Previously it was fixed to 10 tasks.
- Now displays the rank of the tasks in the first column.
- Top Tasks and History Tasks CPU loads can now also be colour coded ranging from green over yellow to red (see settings).
- Comes with a real Installer script courtesy of InstallerGen by Rob Cranley now.
- Now also shows the respective task priorities in history list.
- Global task info group in the TopTask window can now be hidden (see settings).
- The TopTask window can now be made dragable (see settings).
- Width calculation has been updated to be a bit closer to the configured number of characters in settings.
- Number of entries held in History list can now be adjusted from 60 seconds up to 24 hours where 1 entry equals 1 second.
Once an entry was selected in history list it was not possible to deselect it making the list always keep the entry in the visible area scrolling the added top entries out. To deselect the entry now double click any entry in the list.
(dr)
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25.May.2022
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Arcade game 'Jump!': Demo version 1.10 available
At the end of last year we had the opportunity to (test) the alpha version of 'Jump!', a conversion of the game Yoomph, originally written for the Atari. The Polish developer Markus Duda now has released a second demo version (amiga-news.de reported) which has lower chip memory usage and provides some minor bugs fixes.
An Amiga 1200 with 14MHz and 4MB FastRAM is required. The demo version offers three playable levels.
The game can be pre-ordered at the title link as a digital variant for 29 Euros or as a 'boxed version' for 45 Euros plus shipping (depending on the destination).
Download: jump_demo.zip (2,6 MB) (dr)
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25.May.2022
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Linux: Kernel 5.18 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Right after the release of the final Linux kernel 5.18, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered it for download in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum.
Additionally, he has compiled version 3.6.2 of the Commodore emulator VICE for the Linux distribution Void PPC, which is also available for the AmigaOne X1000 and 5000 (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)
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24.May.2022
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Replacement keyboards for A500/A1200: Update on Kipper2k project
After an abundant year, the American dealer 'Amiga On The Lake' has published new information about the status of the Kipper2k replacement keyboards for the Amiga 500 and 2000 (amiga-news.de reported):
All pre-orders would be expected to be fulfilled by the end of June 2022, or mid-July 2022 at the latest. Staffing shortages and delays in receiving components would have further worsened the already tight schedule.
After the pre-orders were all processed, they would get to work building keyboards for stock and selling them as soon as they were available.
All customers would have received an email asking for confirmation of address information. If any pre-orderer has not received this, they should email Jeff with their full name, order number (if available) and shipping address. (dr)
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23.May.2022
Facebook (Amiberry) (ANF)
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.2
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.
Two days ago version 5.2 was released providing the following changes:
New Features:
- Added new CD32 config with 8MB Fast, use that with --autoload option
- Enable RTC automatically if enabled expansions have RTC
- Support for Cycle-Exact mode from XML options
- Ability to set default soundcard
Bugs fixed:
- Hotkey mappings didn't work with controller buttons
- Only check for hotkey buttons if they have been mapped
- When using Auto-crop and virtual mouse driver, the pointer would not reach the edges of the screen
- Launch Amiberry binary directly in macOS app bundle
Improvements:
- Updated bundled AROS ROMs to latest version
- Updated WHDBooter XML and WHDLoad to latest versions
- Picasso96 new features are now optional. DACSWITCH fix
(dr)
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22.May.2022
Amigans (Website)
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Shoot'em Up: SkillGrid 1.3
About three years ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) released his abstract vertical shoot'em up 'SkillGrid' (amiga-news.de reported).
Additional to several improvements, version 1.3 offers a new weapon (YouTube video) and for AmigaCD32 users the possibility to load and save highscores from/in NVRAM. However, since no testers were available, this feature is to be regarded as experimental. He refers to the readme.txt on the CD. (dr)
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22.May.2022
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Internet: IBrowse 2.5.6 / AmiSSL v5.1 released
Oliver Roberts not only continues to develop his web browser 'IBrowse' for AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4, but from now on also maintains the encryption protocol AmiSSL, which now supports OpenSSL 3.0 and now also has its own homepage. Please read the press release:
IBrowse 2.5.6 is now available for download (OS4 users may use AmiUpdate instead), which is the sixth free update for registered owners of IBrowse 2.5. IBrowse 2.1-2.4 and 1.x owners may upgrade to IBrowse 2.5.6 via our store at discounted rates. Please note: IBrowse 2.5.6 requires AmiSSL v5, also released today, so you are advised to download it before updating IBrowse, otherwise you will be left without HTTPS access.
Whilst this releases fixes quite a few different issues, it brings the following improvements too:
- Adapted to fully use OpenSSL 3.0, via AmiSSL v5
- HTTP Brotli compression support
- OpenSearch autodiscovery support
- Gemini client, allowing loading of gemini: URLs
- Improved Gopher support
- JavaScript fixes and improvements
- Google/Gmail account login fixed (became blocked in March)
Changes of AmiSSL 5.1:
- Switched to OpenSSL 3.0 and updated backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.0.3 (3.5.2022) version, which brings new features, such as a built-in HTTP(S) client, along with security and bug fixes.
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html dated 26.4.2022.
- Split AmiSSL release archive into smaller OS specific and SDK archives.
- OpenSSL tool now has a proper $VER string, with the version number matching the AmiSSL release version number.
- Fixed OpenSSL UI function m68k/ppc crosscalls, reinstating code from AmiSSL v3, that was unfortunately removed in AmiSSL v4.
- Added new streamlined OpenAmiSSLTags/TagList() function to amisslmaster.library which simplifies the opening of AmiSSL.
- Added simple httpget example code which shows how applications can use the new built-in HTTP(S) client.
- Added full autodocs for all the Amiga specific interface functions.
- Improved and structured the developer README-SDK file.
- Added OpenSSL stub link libraries for OS3 (GCC) and OS4 (GCC & VBCC).
- AmiSSL and OpenSSL switched to the Apache License, Version 2.0.
- We have a new homepage at https://amissl.org which provides links to all AmiSSL resources, old and new.
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22.May.2022
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Aminet uploads until 21.05.2022
The following files have been added until 21.05.2022 to Aminet:
modifile.lha dev/amos 74K 68k File modifier written by AMOSPro
asm-kurs6.lha dev/asm 473K Assembly course, German
c2plib.lha dev/misc 133K 68k Fast chunky2planar conversion...
DFT_IDFT_DWT_FFT.zip dev/src 128K 68k DFT, IDFT, DWT and FFT for A1...
PyPlayer.lha dev/src 1.1M 68k Audio Player for Python 1.4.0...
StarDriveSCSI.lha driver/med 59K 68k Microbotics StarDrive SCSI dr...
blockmangets.lha game/actio 80K 68k Help Blockman eat.
labyrinth64.lha game/misc 135K 68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L...
AmiNonogram.lha game/think 121K AmiNonogram
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 51K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.5M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.8M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.3M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
AF-Infinity.jpg pix/back 996K raytraced Chrome-WB-Back (100...
proptopaz.lha text/bfont 3K Proportional version of KS1.3...
xpdftools_404_m68k.lha text/misc 5.2M 68k Tools to manipulate pdf docum...
lharchiver.lha util/arc 4.6M create lha archives intuitively
BootPicture.lha util/boot 102K 68k Shows pictures, plays sound d...
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OS4Depot uploads until 21.05.2022
The following files have been added until 21.05.2022 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 5Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
chkslash.lha uti/scr 4kb 4.0 Checks for a path termination.
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AROS Archives uploads until 21.05.2022
The following files have been added until 21.05.2022 to AROS Archives:
barspipes.zip aud/edi 5Mb Port of Amiga 68k Best Midi Sequ...
mod2.zip aud/mis 41Mb modules from 1997
mod3_1.zip aud/mis 84Mb modules from 1997
mp3gain152.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 80kb adjusts mp3s
mp3info-0.8.5a.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 1Mb MP3 info & tag editor
mpega.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 71kb include files for mpega.library
ae-manual-dutch.tgz doc/man 149kb Manual of Audio Evolution in Dutch
ae-manual-french.tgz doc/man 144kb Manual of Audio Evolution in French
ae-manual-ita.tgz doc/man 141kb Manual of Audio Evolution
ae-manual-norw.tgz doc/man 131kb Manual of Audio Evolution in Nor...
ae-manual-spa.tgz doc/man 140kb Manual of Audio Evolution in Spa...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 21.05.2022
The following files have been added until 21.05.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
LHArchiver_1.1.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
Doom3-ProjectUAC_r5.lha Games/Shoot3D Doom3 ProjectUAC
WitchCleaner_2.30.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.05.2022
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 21.05.2022:
- 2022-05-20 improved: Shuttle (Vektor Grafix/Virgin) using fastmemory, self-modifying code removed, sound fixed (Info)
- 2022-05-20 improved: Red Zone (Psygnosis) fixed access fault, added option for cheat keys (Info)
- 2022-05-19 improved: Amazing Tunes (Share and Enjoy) level 3 interrupt problem fixed, keyboard delay fixed (Info, Image)
- 2022-05-18 fixed: Fusion (Bullfrog) address error on 68000 removed, quitkey on 68000 supported (Info)
- 2022-05-18 improved: 1943 - The Battle of Midway (Go!/Probe) some bonus were hidden by the clouds, fixed now (Info)
- 2022-05-15 improved: Test Drive (Accolade) added keyboard controls (Info)
- 2022-05-15 improved: Red Zone (Psygnosis) better framerate, skip introduction, trainer added, chipmem reduced to 512kb (Info)
- 2022-05-15 improved: Conquests of Camelot (Sierra) better protection crack, keyboard selection (Info)
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
- Red Sector Theme (Spacemix)
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21.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5.0 for Vampire V2
Version 11.5.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit specially adapted for Vampire processor cards has just been released (amiga-news.de reported). The AmigaOS files, Kickstart ROMs and the Picasso96 graphics drivers are required. The update includes the following changes:
- ADDED: AmiBrixx 2.1 game by Joerg Renkert (AmiKit:Games)
- ADDED: AmigaAMP/Amplifier pop-up notifications of currently playing tracks or streams
- ADDED: Ask Your Amiga (AYA) 0.6 by ALB42 (AmiKit:Utilities)
- ADDED: Audio streams (m3u) are now recognized and being replayed in AmigaAMP
- ADDED: BackUp 1.91 by Daniel Westerberg from OnyxSoft (AmiKit:Tools)
- ADDED: HollyMan 9.1 - a Workbench Pacman clone by Andreas Falkenhahn
- ADDED: Kill 2.27 by Walter Dorwald (AmiKit:C)
- ADDED: MiniHex 1.1b by Daniel Westerberg (AmiKit:Tools)
- ADDED: NWait 1.0 by Allan Versaevel (AmiKit:C)
- ADDED: SCopy 1.08 by John Hendrikx (AmiKit:C)
- ADDED: twittAmiga 4.4.2 by Oliver Urbann
- ADDED: VirusZ III 1.04 by Georg Hormann and Dirk Stoecker (AmiKit:Utilities/EXPANSION)
- AMIKIT: Additional Downloads script 11.6.1
- AMIKIT: Dracula 11.5.0 with automated installation of AmigaOS 3.2.1 update
- AMIKIT: Live Update 1.9 by Daniel Westerberg from OnyxSoft
- AMIKIT: Updated Startup-LoadModule 11.5.0
- AMIKIT: Updated Startup-Vampire 11.5.0
- VAMPIRE: Super AGA drivers 2.9 for Vampire by Apollo
- VAMPIRE: i2c.library 40.0
- VAMPIRE: SD drivers 0.13
- VAMPIRE: VampireFlash 1.13
- VAMPIRE: VampireMap 1.13
- VAMPIRE: v4net.device 2.202
- VAMPIRE: vampiregfx.card 1.40 for V4 R8
- VAMPIRE: VControl 1.19
- VAMPIRE: On-demand support of the latest stable V4 core R8 (8691). Run Dracula > Vampire > Core Support or boot without the Startup-Sequence and enter "v4coresupport"
- VAMPIRE: AHI driver for ARNE (16-bit audio on V4) by Apollo
- UPDATED: ADiffView 2.2 by Uwe Rosner (with a code from M.Hertel)
- UPDATED: AmigaAMP 3.31 by Thomas Wenzel
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 4.12 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: Another World WHDLoad Slave 2.7 by Harry & JOTD
- UPDATED: Boards Library 3.55 by Torsten Bach, Thomas Barth and Marcus Gerards
- UPDATED: Cloud services (Drobox, GDrive) starting improved
- UPDATED: EvenMore 0.94 by Chris Perver
- UPDATED: guigfx.library 20.1 (FPU) by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: HippoPlayer 2.52 by Kari-Pekka Koljonen
- UPDATED: Hollywood Player 9.1 by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: hURL 1.2 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: iGame 2.1b2 (15-Mar-2021) by Emmanuel Vasilakis and Contributors
- UPDATED: Infinite Module Player (IMP) 3.380 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: JFIFdt44 44.17 by Henryk Richter and Gunther Nikl
- UPDATED: LoadModule 45.18 by Thomas Richter and Etienne Vogt
- UPDATED: MCC_BetterString 11.36 Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_NList 0.128 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TextEditor 15.56 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TheBar 26.22 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MUI 5.0 (20210831) by Stefan Stuntz, Thore Bockelman and Jens Maus
- UPDATED: MUIbase 4.4 by Steffen Gutmann
- UPDATED: MysticView 1.07 by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: PolybiosPDF 1.3 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: RapaGUI 2.1 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: RiVA MPEG-1 Player 0.56 by Stephen Fellner & Henryk Richter
- UPDATED: RNOPDF 1.4 by jPV^RNO
- UPDATED: SysinfoBoards 3.7 by Holger Hippenstiel
- UPDATED: Sysinfo 4.4 by Tobias 'Geijer' Geijersson and Nic Wilson
- UPDATED: SnoopDos 3.11 by Eddy Carroll, updated by Thomas Richter
- UPDATED: UnRAR 6.11 by Alexander Roshal, Amiga port by Marcin Labensk
- UPDATED: VirusZ Bootblocks (22-Apr-2022) by Virus Help Team
- UPDATED: VisualPrefs 1.5n by Massimo Tantignone
- UPDATED: xvs.library 33.46 by Georg Wittmann
- UPDATED: YAM 2.10dev (26-Jan-2021) with AmiSSL support by YAM Open Source Team
- UPDATED: WHDLoad 18.7 (build 6366, 15-Dec-2021) by Bert Jahn et al.
- FIXED: PAL screens were corrupted in OS3.2
- FIXED: Initialising of YAM theme works now
- FIXED: HippoPlayer uses the default AHI mode now (if enabled)
- REMOVED: Russian locale, catalogs and fonts
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Custom chips: Replacement project of Buffee developers
As Renee Cousins, one of the developers of the turbo card project 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported), explained a few days ago, she has turned back to her original Amiga project dedicated to hard-to-find custom chips and their replacements. The first one is Gary and will be called 'Gary Zander'.
At the moment this board is 100% reliably tested on an Amiga 500 and only needs a bit more time during reboot. The lack of tri-state and open-drain pins on the Xilinx chip would be the reason not to release it now. The board would be produced and tested with these supplemented pins soon.
Following this, the replacement for the Agnus will be tackled, called 'Willoe'. Currently, 3D models of the board are being printed to ensure they fit into the PLCC socket. The rough functional scope of Willoe:
- 100 pin TQFP Lattice MachXO2 core (XO2-2000)
- Near instant-on (CPLD-like) functionality
- 16MB of 133MHz, 8-bit pSRAM for AGA+ bandwidth
- 1MB, 2MB Agnus and 2MB Alice compatibility
- Jumpered NTSC/PAL default modes (will also obey pin and software changes)
- Automatic 8372 and 8375 pin detection (universal socket compatibility)
- Many optional features to come
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.01
After several beta versions the developer Dirk Hoffmann had released the final version 2.0 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS ten days ago (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.01 was made available yesterday fixing two crash causes (DMA debugger, drive export menu).
The minimum system requirement is macOS 10.15.
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19.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.7.0 for Windows/Mac/Linux
An update to version 11.7.0 has been released for the workbench distribution AmiKit, which is intended for emulators. In addition to an emulator, AmigaOS 3.x and the Kickstart ROMs are required.
The changes primarily include updated Amiga programs:
- UPDATED: ADiffView 2.1 by Uwe Rosner (with a code from M.Hertel)
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 4.11 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: guigfx.library 20.1 (FPU) by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: HippoPlayer 2.52 by Kari-Pekka Koljonen
- UPDATED: Infinite Module Player (IMP) 3.379 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: JFIFdt44 44.17 by Henryk Richter and Gunther Nikl
- UPDATED: MCC_BetterString 11.36 Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_NList 0.128 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TextEditor 15.56 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TheBar 26.22 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MysticView 1.07 by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: RapaGUI 2.1 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: RNOPDF 1.4 by jPV^RNO
- UPDATED: SnoopDos 3.11 by Eddy Carroll, Thomas Richter et al.
- UPDATED: UnRAR 6.11 by Alexander Roshal, Amiga port by Marcin Labenski
- FIXED: Initialising of YAM theme works now
- FIXED: HippoPlayer uses the default AHI mode now (if enabled)
- FIXED: LoadModule was not updated last time
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Development environment: Update on 'Grimoire' project
About a month ago we reported about Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier's new project of a software development solution for Amiga computers: Grimoire. In two recent blog entries he reports about the progress on the project:
With the first entry he opens his developer diary and lists all changes he has made to the project starting in January 2020 until today. The second entry reports specifically on his progress with 'screens':
- 'getBestScreenMode' can be returned for Planar and Saga Chunky modi.
- 'OpenScreen' can open bitplanes screens (up to 256 colors).
- working on ’primitive’ copper list support for full screen view with 1 screen. This will later be replaced by a more complex system that can handle more than one screen in view and grid effects.
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18.May.2022
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Accelerator board project: Buffee partly Open Source again
At the end of March we reported that the turbo card project 'Buffee', originally started as Open Source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, is fully Closed Source. In a new blog entry from yesterday, the developers now announce that the source code for PJIT has been reopened and the private repository has been merged and closed. From now on there is only one repository for PJIT.
Closed Source on the other hand remains the firmware, which contains the boot loader, the PRU programs and the CPLD image, and the hardware design files. (dr)
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Video tutorial: Blitz Basic
The Irish Amiga user 'Daedalus2097' has started a tutorial series about Blitz Basic on Twitch. So far there have been two live streams, which you can watch again in retrospect at your leisure: part 1, part 2. AmiBlitz 3 was used as development environment. (dr)
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