17.May.2022
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Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' update
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign for the re-release of the wireless Commodore Maus 1352 (amiga-news.de reported).
In a short status update, the developer writes that he is in the process of updating the mouse firmware and finding the best solution for the USB-DB9 adapter regarding the chip shortage. Next up, he says, is the production of the injection molds. In the recent poll on which color shade to use, most votes fell on RAL 9002, which was also used for the campaign photos. However, the developer is looking into the possibility of using a second color shade: RAL 1013 (overview of RAL color shades). (dr)
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17.May.2022
Amiga Love (Forum)
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Video tutorial: Bars & Pipes Professional
As the user 'Ricebug' reports in the Amiga Love forum, he has been using Bars & Pipes Professional for many years (see also our article about BarsnPipes 1.0 for Amiga OS4.1 FE). He would like to share his experiences with it and has started a corresponding YouTube channel. Currently there are four videos showing the installation, giving an overview of the program, demonstrating the setup of the workplace as well as the MIDI export. More videos are to follow. (dr)
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16.May.2022
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Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V1.0 released
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).
According to his developer log, today he has released version 1.0 providing the following changes:
- Fixed radar map display
- Fixed few enforcer hits
- Fixed Ion Cannon recharge time (was 0)
- Added ability to show FPS under F5
- Added ability to enable/disable framelimiter under F4
- Replaced Riva with FroggerNG
- Changed riva.txt to player.ini
- Added an alternate icon by P.Cotter
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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16.May.2022
Nivrig
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Aracade game: 'Green Beret' May update
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine and won third place at AmiGameJam.
In the May update, the "timeout jet" was also added to the Amiga port, which now no longer allows the player to delay the gameplay for longer, e.g. when stopping on the first truck in level 1. Also, blue soldiers now only fire one shot, making the game's difficulty more manageable. Finally, some pixel artifacts in the background of the title screen have been cleaned up. Besides an ADF file, a special WHDLoad version for the 'THEA500 Mini' is also available. (dr)
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16.May.2022
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Video review: LAZARUSTORM for PiStorm
In his latest video, Jan Beta has tested the LAZARUSTORM adapter for PiStorm: By the help of this adapter it is possible to externally use a PiStorm accelerator board without having to remove the internal CPU of the Amiga 500. (dr)
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16.May.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood Designer 6.0 released
Press release: To celebrate Hollywood's 20th anniversary this year, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with another massive release: This time we are proud to present the brand-new version 6.0 of our famous Hollywood Designer.
Hollywood Designer 6.0 is a full-blown multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia-based applications, for example presentations, slide shows, games, and applications. Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. This is a feature that is totally unique in the Amiga world!
Hollywood Designer 6.0 is a massive update and boasts lots of new features and improvements over the previous version. We do not want to bore you, so here are just some of them:
- Ready for Hollywood 9.1!
- Vector animations are now supported
- Bullet lists and enumerations with an unlimited number of levels are now supported
- Support for custom list bullets and enumerations
- Fully asynchronous thumbnail window including live refresh and live regrouping
- New presentation mode specifically designed for USB presenters
- Forward/backward stepping through projects on a per-object basis
- Over 10 new action events
- Many action events can handle variables now
- Global shortcuts for pages can be defined
- Support for high-DPI displays and custom display orientations
- Multiple monitors are now supported
- Custom linespacing support
- Full z-order support for buttons
- Soft-hyphen and zero-width space support for advanced layouts
- UID manager for convenient administration of UIDs
- Plugin loader priorities can be customized
- Several new example projects are included
- Full support for Hollywood 9.1's plugin interface
- Lots of other new features, optimizations and bug fixes
Having been in development for almost 20 years, Hollywood Designer 6.0 is a very stable and mature multimedia authoring system. We would like to emphasize that it is not only suited for personal use, but also for professional commercial customers. Ferrule Media, for instance, have created an info channel containing over 2000 (!) unique slides in a single project with Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer was designed to handle these huge projects efficiently so that they can run 24 hours a day and 7 days a week without any visible memory fragmentation! Ferrule Media's info channel, created with Hollywood Designer, is running in dental clinics all over Norway.
Note that Hollywood Designer is no longer limited to "just" being an authoring software, it can now also be used as a flexible graphics editor because it supports many features of modern graphics editors like multiple layers with over 30 filter effects, vector graphics, image import, and text.
Hollywood Designer 6.0 is available as a CD and a download version. There are native versions of the program for AmigaOS3 (m68k), WarpOS (hybrid m68k/ppc), MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS4 (ppc), and AROS (x86). If you already own a previous version of Hollywood Designer, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. People who bought Hollywood Designer 5.0 in 2022 can request a free upgrade. Please note that Hollywood Designer 6.0 runs on top of the Multimedia Application Layer Hollywood 9.1. Thus, Hollywood 9.1 is strictly required for Hollywood Designer 6.0. Both programs are available in a special bundle which is the ultimate package for every power Amiga user who wants to see what his system can do with Hollywood 9.1 & Hollywood Designer 6.0.
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15.May.2022
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000
The developer Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings (among other things RGBtoHDMI adapter and ChipRam extension RAMesses) describes in a new blog series how he reconditioned a recently acquired Amiga 1000: while in the first article he puts the device into operation, describes the state of preservation and the special features of the Amiga 1000, he takes a closer look at floppy drive in the second article. (dr)
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15.May.2022
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Aminet uploads until 14.05.2022
The following files have been added until 14.05.2022 to Aminet:
StormWizard2_3.lha dev/c 966K 68k StormWIZARD: Outstanding GUI ...
CubicIDE_HW91.lha dev/hwood 813K 68k Hollywood add-on for Cubic IDE
Hollywood_SDK.lha dev/hwood 2.9M Plugin development kit for Ho...
HollywoodPlayer.lha dev/hwood 10M Player for Hollywood applets
libbz2_os4.lha dev/lib 523K OS4 Bzip2 file (de)compressor
libmikmod.lha dev/lib 1.7M OS4 Portable sound library (music...
libmodplug.lha dev/lib 1.7M OS4 Render mod music files as raw...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.3M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
anaiis.lha driver/oth 182K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.22
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 8K 2022 Carset for F1GP
AbuSimbelProfanTFA_es... game/misc 716K 68k Abu Simbel Profanation - TFA ...
ScummVM_RTG.lha game/misc 10M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM 1.7.0
Exult_RTG.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (Exult)
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 4.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 931K 68k Amiga port of DOSBox
TestProgram.zip util/misc 619K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
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15.May.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 14.05.2022
The following files have been added until 14.05.2022 to OS4Depot:
seq.lha aud/mis 424kb 4.0 MIDI sequencer
oo.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
cubicide.lha dev/mis 813kb 4.0 Cubic IDE add-on for Hollywood 9.1
hollywood_sdk.zip dev/mis 3Mb 4.0 SDK for Hollywood 9.1
hwplayer.lha dev/mis 10Mb 4.0 Run applets created by Hollywood
ultraedit.zip dev/mis 14kb 4.0 UltraEdit wordfile for Hollywood...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
sdl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
grimoriumpdf.lha uti/tex 4Mb 4.0 PDF viewer written in Hollywood
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15.May.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 14.05.2022
The following files have been added until 14.05.2022 to AROS Archives:
dt42.lha aud/edi 814kb DT-42 DrumToy
pxdrum.i386-aros.lha aud/edi 10Mb Drum machine
tb-303.i386-aros.lha aud/edi 504kb Generates TB-303 like sounds
amicast_player.i386-aros.lha aud/pla 6Mb Player for AMIcast podcast
bp-manual-dutch.tgz doc/man 202kb Dutch traduction of B&P'...
bp-manual-french.tgz doc/man 193kb French traduction of B&P...
bp-manual-ita.tgz doc/man 188kb Italian traduction of B&P�...
bp-manual-norw.tgz doc/man 174kb Norwegian traduction of B&P&...
bp-manual-spa.tgz doc/man 186kb Spanish traduction of B&P�...
dosbox_manual.pdf doc/man 183kb dosbox emulator manual pdf
midi_guide_duch.pdf doc/man 179kb introduction of the midi language
midi_guide_eng.pdf doc/man 177kb introduction of the midi language
midi_guide_french.pdf doc/man 177kb introduction of the midi language
midi_guide_ita.pdf doc/man 203kb introduction of the midi language
protrekkr_guide.pdf doc/man 17kb Guide in pdf file for protrekkr
schismtracker_manual.pdf doc/man 1Mb Pdf Guide of impulse traker 2 Clone
the_trackers_handbook_v05... doc/man 103kb guide for tracker programs
povray_tutorial.tar doc/tut 7Mb povray tutorial in many language
phlipple.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 3Mb OpenGL game. Flip all tiles to r...
xpdftools_400.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 6Mb Tools to manipulate pdf documents
hollywoodplayer.lha uti/mis 10Mb Player for Hollywood applets
grimoriumpdf.lha uti/tex 3Mb PDF viewer written in Hollywood
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15.May.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 14.05.2022
The following files have been added until 14.05.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
HollywoodPlayer_9.1.lha Development/Hollywood Hollywood Player is a p...
Hollywood_SDK_9.1.lha Development/Hollywood Plugin development kit ...
SDL_2.0.22_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.2...
GrimoriumPDF_2.30.lha Office/Show A program made with Hol...
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15.May.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 14.05.2022
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 14.05.2022:
- 2022-05-09 fixed: Air Support (Psygnosis) stackframe issue on 68000 fixed, quitkey added for 68000, install script updated (Info)
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15.May.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- DNA Dream (Vanilla Roachclip Remix)
- NightHawk F-117A Stealth Fighter
- Hero Quest Ingame (Live performance)
- Shadow of the Beast II Level 2 (Dark side of Karamoon)
- Feel Real Megashort (What Time Is Love?)
- Happier Sundays
- Gods (Ins Wunderbare)
- Stardust Memories
- Dreaming 29h a Day Remix
- Seven Gates of Jambala - Title Song (Live Performance)
- Ghouls and Ghosts (Not of this world)
- Great Giana Sisters / Turrican / Hybris Mashup
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14.May.2022
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ACube Systems: Fifteen years of Sam440ep
Press release: Dear customers,
It was the year 2007 when we introduced our first “baby”, the Sam440ep. Fifteen years ago. We designed and produced the Sam440ep, a lovely mini-itx motherboard that many enjoyed running AmigaOS 4, AROS and Linux.
At that time, we, a bunch of mad amigans, resolved to do our best to bring this hardware to life for all the Amiga Community because it was in dire need of a new computer platform to run AmigaOS.
Without the Sam440ep, the future of AmigaOS would have been very difficult.
After all these years, just as the latest batch of Sam460ex LE is being produced, we choose to release the electrical schematics of the Sam440ep (PDF file) to the community.
We hope many of you will be happy to see one of the first image of our first project. (dr)
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14.May.2022
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Amiga 500 HDD LED Adapter
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has designed a simple HDD-LED adapter for the Amiga 500, which visually displays the activity of a hard disk on accesses (e.g. on a Warp 560, Vampire 500 and many other expansion cards) via the original LED board (DISK LED). The new revision C adds LED indicators for Power, Reset and Use. A YouTube video shows the adapter in action. (dr)
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14.May.2022
Anton Preinsack (E-Mail)
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Subscription: German edition of Commodore - The Inside Story
At the title link former Managing Director of Commodore UK David Pleasance offers subscription at a reduced price of a German edition of his book "Commodore: The Inside Story" (amiga-news.de reported).
Further details can also be found in the German version of this news-item. (snx)
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14.May.2022
McGeezer
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Preview video: Kung Fu action 'Devil's Temple'
Devil's Temple features 10 stages of intense arcade kung fu action based on the classic Irem games Kung Fu Master and Vigilante. Over 300 frames of animation were packed into the game and every cycle of performance was used on the Amiga A500. The game will adapt to upgrades, so additional chip ram will result in better music, AGA will provide additional colors and a greater variety of enemies in the game.
Yesterday, a new preview video was released for the game in development, showing levels one through six. However, the developer points out that there are still "many annoying bugs to be fixed." The game is already available for pre-order as a boxed edition. Likewise, a demo version of the first stage is available on itch.io.
(dr)
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13.May.2022
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Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.0
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga. After the release of its final version 2.0, the developer 'mithrendal' has incorporated the current vAmigaCore2.0 into his application. He has also fixed user-reported problems in this version. Among other things, the web app now runs flawlessly on a Samsung Z3 fold (GitHub post). (dr)
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13.May.2022
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Background: Trailing dots on host names in URLs
Daniel Stenberg, initiator and main developer of cURL, regularly reports in his blog about background and developments of the World Wide Web. In his latest entry he sheds light on how a dot at the end of the host name is handled in the URL. (dr)
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13.May.2022
Discord
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THEA500 Mini: Firmware 1.1.1 released (update)
Retro Games Ltd. has released new firmware 1.1.0 for 'THEA500 Mini', its replica of an Amiga 500, which among other things now supports adf files. The changes:
- Adds ADF (floppy) file support
- Adds Playlist support
- Adds Hot-Crop
- Adds Keyboard control of the user interface
- Allows the Virtual Keyboard to be accessed at all times
- Allows controllers to be physically swapped during play
- Swaps THEJoystick (THEC64 Joystick) fire buttons
- Fixes the Virtual Keyboard Cursor-Right button
Update: (14.05.2022, 06:20, dr)
Meanwhile firmware 1.1.1 is available which fixes some bugs introduced with the previous version:
- Configures Competition Pro SL-6603-TWT joystick fire buttons
- Fixes v1.1.0 Saved Game issues (missing saves and UI freezing)
- Fixes v1.1.0 Emulator gui access
- Fixes v1.1.0 speed reduction in some circumstances
(dr)
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13.May.2022
t3n Magazin (Webseite)
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Soundbar: Sonos Ray
After we had reported about 'SonosController', the Hollywood program written by Michael Rupp for controlling Sonos speakers, one or the other finger of our readers was possibly already on the order button of such a product, but aborted the process abruptly because of the proud price: so a Sonos Beam costs 499 Euros, a Sonos Arc even 999 Euros.
According to the German t3n Magazine, the Sonos Ray is now available at a lower price of 299 Euros. Instead of Dolby Atmos and HDMI, the soundbar offers Dolby Digital 5.1 and an optical connection in contrast to the higher-priced alternatives.
When asked, Michael Rupp confirmed to us that his SonosController software should work with all Sonos products (and compatible ones) without any problems and without the need for adjustments. (dr)
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12.May.2022
Twitter
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.8.0 for Raspberry Pi 4/400
The update to version 11.8.0 (changelog) of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the Raspberry Pi 4/400 single board computer contains updated Amiga programs as well as the recently released version 5.1 (amiga-news.de reported) of the emulator AmiBerry which AmiKit is based on. Likewise there is now the possibility to update AmiKit with AmigaOS 3.2.1. (dr)
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11.May.2022
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Web emulator: vAmiga Online 0.9
At the end of November we reported about Christian Corti's web conversion of the Mac emulator vAmiga. He has now updated his project called 'vAmiga Online' to the latest version of the Mac emulator and furthermore preconfigured some demos and games which can be selected via the 'Rocket' button (second picture). According to our small test, the web emulator currently works fine with an original 1.3 ROM as well as 3.1 ROM (A600) provided by AmigaForever. Attempts with the AROS replacement ROMs or 3.1 ROMs od A1200 failed under Windows and using Firefox or Edge.
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11.May.2022
Dirk Hoffmann
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.0
After several beta versions (amiga-news.de reported) the developer Dirk Hoffmann released the final version 2.0 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS yesterday. (dr)
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11.May.2022
Twitter (ANF)
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Vampire V4+ Standalone: Mini-ITX I/O Board
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has designed a simple, modular and cost-effective I/O Board im Mini-ITX Format for the FPGA-based motherboard Vampire V4+ Standalone, which facilitates installation in standard desktop or tower cases.
Those who want to rebuild the hardware can order the boards in Münch's customer accounts at PCBWay. The use for private users is free. Commercial use is prohibited. (dr)
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11.May.2022
PPA-Forum
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Arcade game 'Jump!': demo version 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 demo version of his arcade game, so that everyone can get an impression for themselves. You need an Amiga 1200 with 14MHz and 4MB Fast RAM. The demo version offers three 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 (2,5 MB) (dr)
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10.May.2022
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Animations tool: VectorAnim Player
The group 'ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP', known among other things for the fantasy shooter Project Quest, which is currently in development, released a few days ago a simple animation playback and creation program, VectorAnim Player.
As one of the developers writes, he had been playing with the idea of creating animations as simple and small as possible on the Amiga for a long time. As a result this player was born. Compared to other similar players it uses vector data for the display as shown for example in The Black Lotus demo.
The program was written in AMOS, the source code is included in the archive. (dr)
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10.May.2022
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Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.3
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz's "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as well as Linux (amiga-news.de berichtete). Examples videos show the AROS desktop Wanderer (MP4) and gmPlayer (MP4) under Linux.
One user reported that he got AxRuntime to work also under Windows 10/11, whereupon the developer made some more adjustments and finally released version 41.3. The use under Windows succeeds with the use of the 'Windows Subsystem für Linux' (WSL). This feature enables the execution of Linux GUI applications:
- Launch Linux apps from the Windows Start menu
- Pin Linux apps to the Windows task bar
- Use alt-tab to switch between Linux and Windows apps
- Cut + Paste across Windows and Linux apps
Since AxRuntime binaries are Linux binaries, they can also use this feature to give impression of running nativelly under Windows.
(dr)
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09.May.2022
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m68k assembly: 'Amiga Assembly' plugin v1.4.0 for Visual Studio Code
We just reported about an updated 'C/C++' extension for Visual Studio Code and also referred to an extension to support assembler for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. This extension, called 'Amiga Assembly' by Paul Raingeard, has been intensively developed recently, made the leap from pre-release versions to version 1.0 at the end of last year and was updated to the current version 1.4.0 yesterday (changelog).
On GitHub the author provides a detailed documentation. (dr)
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09.May.2022
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.9
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 0.9.9 offers several improvements and bug fixes:
- Loading animation is now displayed during game loadings.
- F5-F10 Keys can be used as a shortcut for Play, Spritesheets, Animations, Objects, Tiles and Levels screens.
- Animation screen now shows animation frame shortcuts.
- Sounds are now also packed using Imploder.
- Editor now checks the project version before loading it, prompting for confirmation.
- In Game setup screen the game name and author can be setup, they will be displayed when loading the WHDLoad.
- When building the project all images are processed for safety and maybe even speed increase.
- New condition trigger to check if the game is running in an AGA machine.
- New trigger Instantiate Attached allows to Instantiate an object already attached to the creator.
- New triggers Custom to Var to set up global variables with Object custom variables.
- Additional checks for tileset loading.
- In Animation screen the name of the mirrored animation is now displayed.
- Improved UI in level editor screen.
- Improved UI in triggers screen.
- Projects updated, some improvements in Astro and Gravity games.
- Fixed memory corruption problems in certain situations.
- Fix in tileset shortcuts.
- Fix in Mutate trigger.
- Fix in Input screen.
- Fixes in palette handling.
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09.May.2022
Discord
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension (update)
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 he released the new version 1.3.3 with the following changes:
- fix some 68k cycle timings
- support breakpoints in .s files
- Assembly: show theoretical 68000 cycles as decoration
- Assembly: fix F12 on local labels
- Assembly: Autocomplete for opcodes, labels
- Disassembly: Hover over CPU instructions to view documentation
- Disassembly: fix loop cycle display in some cases
Various plugins for assembler programming support are also available for Visual Studio IDEs and JetBrain (amiga-news.de reported).
Update: (11.05.2022, 09:06, dr)
Yesterday version 1.3.4 was released:
- updated to GCC 12.1.0, binutils, GNU gdb (GDB) 13.0.50.20220509-git
- fixed missing error message during launching a debug session when .elf file was not found
(dr)
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09.May.2022
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Video interview: The Amiberry developer Dimitris Panokostas
In his latest interview, Robert Smith has talked to Dimitris Panokostas who is the developer of the Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems, Amiberry. (dr)
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08.May.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 9.1 add-ons released
Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 9.1. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:
- Hollywood Player 9.1 for all supported platforms (also available for your smartphone/tablet on Google Play)
- Hollywood SDK 9.1 for developing your own plugins (includes examples and over 400 pages of documentation in various formats)
- Hollywood 9.1 add-on for Cubic IDE (kindly provided by Michael Jurisch)
- Hollywood 9.1 wordfile for UltraEdit
- Hollywood 9.1 online reference manual (over 1100 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
- Hollywood SDK 9.1 online reference manual (over 400 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
The release of these add-ons completes the Hollywood 9.1 release. Please visit the official Hollywood portal for download and more information. (dr)
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08.May.2022
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Aminet uploads until 07.05.2022
The following files have been added until 07.05.2022 to Aminet:
ZitaFTPServer.lha comm/tcp 19M OS4 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
AmiBlitz3.lha dev/basic 11M 68k AmiBlitz 3.9 full distribution
iniparser.lha dev/c 113K MOS Parsing of INI files library
PyPlayer.lha dev/src 831K 68k Audio Player for Python 1.4.0...
Lyra3Tool.lha driver/inp 59K 68k Lyra 3 Keyboard Adapter Utility
Fynn_Thorin_CD32.iso.zip game/2play 179K 68k Fynn and Thorin CD32
ItalyInLockdown075.adf game/demo 880K 68k Italy in lock down
SamplesMaster.lha mus/edit 82K 68k Creates IFF and RAW samples (...
GF4RSIDC.zip pix/misc 86K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
lharchiver.lha util/arc 4.2M MOS create lha archives intuitively
BootPicture.lha util/boot 87K 68k Shows pictures, plays sound d...
lvl.pointers.lha util/mouse 32K Mouse pointer presets for RTG...
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08.May.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 07.05.2022
The following files have been added until 07.05.2022 to OS4Depot:
frozenat.lha dev/deb 5kb 4.0 find out where a program is hang...
libmikmod.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 Portable sound library (music mo...
libmodplug.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 Render mod music files as raw au...
libbz2.lha dev/lib 523kb 4.0 Bzip2 file (de)compressor
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
videntiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Videntium Picta is picture viewer
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 19Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 4Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
videoclipper.lha vid/edi 355kb 4.0 Cut and/or join multiple format ...
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08.May.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 07.05.2022
The following files have been added until 07.05.2022 to AROS Archives:
blackjuan.lha gam/car 4Mb Blackjack clone
videntiumpicta.lha gra/con 2Mb Videntium Picta is picture viewer
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08.May.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.05.2022
The following files have been added until 07.05.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
Chrysalis_3.17r1.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
iniparser_4.1.lha Development/C Parsing of INI files li...
LHArchiver_1.0.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
Aquaria_1.002.lha Games/Adventure This is a new MorphOS p...
OpenTyrian_2.2_SDL2.lha Games/Shoot2D An open-source port of ...
VidentiumPicta_2.50.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
Wayfarer_3.6.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
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07.May.2022
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Video: A Look at every 'Ocean Software' game
YouTuber Kim Justice shows in his latest video all the games ever licensed by former British game software developer Ocean Software. (dr)
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07.May.2022
Protovision (Webseite)
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Amiga compatible joypad 'Protopad': Status update
Protovision, after successful crowd funding, is in the process of building new 'next-generation' joypads specifically designed for the C64, but equally compatible with Amiga: the Protopad.
Now there was a status update regarding this, which we quote here:
- "We have found a case that we could use. We are still exploring the idea of creating a custom case. Making your own case is tricky and very expensive, so we will see if that works out. If not, we will revert to the standard case we found worthy.
- We have come across unexpected technical issues. The pad sometimes gives wrong readings and it appears to happen when a button is pressed only lightly. This is extremely weird and we never heard of a similar issue ever. We believe it is some kind of power fluctuation problem and have created a new prototype that will make it easier for us to track the issue.
- We are shocked about price developments. A CPLD chip that used to cost 6 Euros now costs 40. We did not see that coming and it crushes our financial calculations. We might have to redesign to use different chips than initially planned.
- We are positive we will be able to master all these issues, eventually, but it takes way longer than we expected. Since Covid, not only prices have gone up but turnaround times are much slower. Example: receiving new Prototypes previously was a matter of days or weeks, now we have to wait months before we receive a new board."
(dr)
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07.May.2022
MorphZone
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Sensible World of Soccer: SWOS Total Pack 1.1
The 'SWOS Total Pack' is a graphical user interface written by 'Cool_amigaN' and 'jPV^RNO' for launching the game Sensible World of Soccer in an emulated environment.
As jPV^RNO explains, it includes almost all variations of the game and data about the game that have been officially and unofficially released over the last 30 years. Any combination of this data can be selected through the graphical user interface, from graphics and sound sets from different game versions and platforms to team/player data from different years.
There are countless data disks from the years 1930 to 2022, which are the result of the work of the SWOS community. Tournament lineups can be viewed as well as other documentation. Game tactics can be changed from the original versions and there is an extensive tactics viewer to analyze the new updated tactics/formations. The package also includes special versions of the game, from magazine cover disk releases to versions from other platforms (SNES, GameBoy, Game Gear, Master System).
The package also includes intro animations, music remixes, cracktros for launching the game. The first version was released in the middle of last year. Now an update to version 1.1 has been released, which can be installed either from the application itself or via Grunch. (dr)
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06.May.2022
Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail)
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Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.3
After the release of A-Copy, a program similar to X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows using the ADF drive hardware, Arne Urbaniak now is in the process of writing 'G-Copy', a corresponding application for the Greaseweazle (amiga-news.de reported).
In the now available version 0.3 456 boot block viruses are now also detected and removed if you want. Minor bugs have been removed, the handling of windows in the code has been improved and Bamcopy has been fixed. In addition, the floppy selection (device) is now saved on exit.
In addition, the author has revised his website, which now lists his two programs, A-Copy and G-Copy, and provides a small documentation in English and German.
Download: gcopy.zip (30 MB) (dr)
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06.May.2022
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Event: Passione Amiga Day 2022 in Spoleto (Italy)
The organizers wrote: "Passione Amiga day is the meeting day for Amiga users in Italy organized by Passione Amiga, the printed magazine for Amiga enthusiasts and lovers in Italian language with commercial exhibitors, conferences with Italian and international guests and a flea market.
The location, in the historic center of the city of Spoleto, is the ideal place to spend a weekend in contact with history, culture and food and wine; Spoleto has been able to combine modernity with its past that can still be breathed in the streets, squares and which makes it a unique city in the world. Because of its charm, it was chosen as the location for the RAI fiction 'Don Matteo'.
After the success of the first edition, the 'Passion Amiga Day' 2022 will take place on September 18, 2022 with free admission." (dr)
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06.May.2022
Twitter
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Jump'n Run: Demo of 'Duckstroma' released
At the end of 2020, the first preview video of the jump'n run 'Duckstroma' in development was released (amiga-news.de reported). Now a first playable demo has been released: As duck Aura you have the mission to deliver eight floppy disks to a customer. To fend off all kinds of hostile enemies, you can jump on weak opponents and lay an egg to reach higher places (recent YouTube video). The game requires 1MB of RAM and should be finished soon. (dr)
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05.May.2022
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Mutation Software: First teaser for CyberPunks 2
Already at the end of last year Mutation Software announced the second part of their top-down shooter Cyberpunks (amiga-news.de reported). There is now a first teaser video for the game, which was originally supposed to be released in the third quarter of 2021, but is now announced for the fourth quarter of 2023. (dr)
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04.May.2022
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MorphOS 3.17: openssl3.library hotfix
The MorphOS developer team has announced: "New vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.17. Three discovered issues, namely CVE-2022-1343, CVE-2022-1434 and CVE-2022-1473, were found to potentially affect MorphOS users.
A fixed OpenSSL library will be bundled with a future MorphOS release. Meanwhile, you can download (1,6 MB) and install the following replacement openssl3.library that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.17. To install it, copy the file to MOSSYS:Libs and reboot." (dr)
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04.May.2022
Erik Hogan (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.3
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 2022.3 with the following changes:
- Custom splash screens for Patreon backers.
- Improved AGA support, including "GothicVania" triple parallax demo.
- One click export to Win/Mac (FS-UAE), AmiBerry/A500 mini, Workbench.
- Improved code and animation editing.
You can support the developer on his Patreon website. (dr)
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04.May.2022
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Open Source: Talks of 'Open Hardware Summit'
On April 22, 2022, the Open Hardware Summit took place virtually: an annual conference organized by the Open Source Hardware Association about Open Source. The talks were recorded and can now be viewed retrospectively at the title link. (dr)
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04.May.2022
Twitter
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.11
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday the new firmware version 1.11 was released with the following improvements/new features compared to version 1.10:
- Improves/Fixes ZZ9000AX playback on many Amiga models through improved IRQ behavior (also improves Ethernet)
- Fixes spurious missed ARM register writes, improving stability on all platforms
- Fix 128MB mapping of framebuffer area on Z3
- ZZ9000AX: improved resampling (linear interpolation on ARM)
- ZZ9000AX: programmable DSP, automatic Butterworth low pass filter, mixer
- ZZ9000AX: New Audio Mode with Panning Flag (has different volume level)
- ZZ9000AX: Adjusted volume level for digital playback (to prevent clipping)
- ZZTop: Shows if ZZ9000AX is detected
- ZZTop: Slider for ZZ9000AX low pass filter
- ZZTop: More tests in "Bus Test"
- axmp3: Dynamic buffer location
- ZZ9000AX and axmp3: Support for ENV:ZZ9K_INT2 setting to use INT2 instead of INT6 (via jumper J4)
(dr)
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04.May.2022
Harry (ANF)
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The Guardian: How Amiga computers reprogrammed modern music
The British newspaper 'The Guardian' describes in a long article how the Amiga influenced the electronic music scene in the early 90s and continues to do so today. (dr)
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03.May.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.6
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.6 of his MorphOS web browser Wayfarer. Besides bugfixes an Amazon Fire Stick user agent and a check for existing files on download have been added.
Changes:
- Added code to skip redraws of web contents entirely when Wayfarer is on an invisible screen
- Added an Amazon Fire Stick user agent to settings, works well with youtube.com/tv
- Removed 'Skip All Frames' loop filter option
- Fixed a possible crash in the MediaSource player
- Checks if a file exists and asks to overwrite in Download As requester
Download: wayfarer3.6.lha (26 MB) (snx)
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03.May.2022
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Last Minute Creations: Games 'GermZ' and 'Atarenium Falcon' released
Last Minute Creations', a Polish group of amiga game developers, has finally released two of their games that have been available in pre-release versions for quite some time:
In GermZ you have to try as a tiny organism not only to survive, but to infiltrate and take over other organisms (amiga-news.de reported):
Features:
- single player campaign
- multiplayer mode up to 4 players using joy1, joy2, WSAD, arrows controls
- several maps to choose from
- special cells with features expanding your tactics
- in-game editor for creating own maps and campaigns
An Amiga 500 with 1MB CHIP RAM is required. The game can be downloaded as lha or adf file for a recommended price of three Euro. The source code is available on GitHub.
The second release, Atarenium Falcon, reminds at first glance a bit of the classic 'Space Taxi': With a spaceship, the player has to head for the exit already visible at the beginning of the level. However, gravity is not the problem but he has to choose the way in such a way that he collects enough coal (as fuel) and also floating capacitors and the like (amiga-news.de reported):
Again, an Amiga 500 with 1 MB chip-ram is sufficient and is also available for a recommended three Euros (more is possible, of course, but also less) as lha and adf archive. The source code is on GitHub. (dr)
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03.May.2022
RetroRGB
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Video interview: Neil und Richard from RMC
The website RetroRGB is comprehensively dedicated to the world of retro games. An interview with Neil and Richard from RMC, who not only run their own YouTube channel but also an interactive retro computer museum in England (amiga-news.de reported), has now been published there. (dr)
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03.May.2022
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Motorola68k emulation: Bug-fixed FPU implementation of Emu68
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon website.
In today's entry he reports to have finally found the bug in the FPU implementation: a copy&paste error that remained hidden for over a year! To check to what extent this has influence on the FPU implementation, he played all Elude demos available on his hard disk: All demos now run without wobbles, all effects are now shown (YouTube video). Thus, "many FPU demanding things that were broken before are working now". All twelve Elude demos shown were played on his A600 with Emu68 and PiStorm.
In addition, has been able to eliminate another bug: ARM interrupts were passed through to M68k. Now, he reports, he can finally starts developing the WiFi driver. (dr)
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03.May.2022
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AmigaOS 4: FTP server 'ZitaFTP' 1.32
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.32 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:
"ZitaFTP Server v1.32 is finished, and available for download. It's missing the big new feature I had planned because I couldn't get it finished in time, and didn't want to delay the smaller enhancements any further. The improvements are:
- EPSV support - enables full internet accessibility through devices with Network Address Translation (NAT), such as your home router
- IPv6 support - the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IP)
NOTE: This is for Windows only, since AmigaOS currently lacks IPv6 support. Should that change, then IPv6 will be enabled for AmigaOS as well
The next version will have automated SSL certificate generation capability. I'll let you know when it's done, which should hopefully be in a few weeks time..."
A single license of 'ZitaFTP Server' costs around 47 Euros. The program can be tested free of charge for 30 days.
(dr)
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02.May.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Anniversary: APC&TCP has now been active for 30 years
Andreas Magerl writes: "The APC&TCP computer club was founded more than 30 years ago. (Does anybody of you know exactly when?) As one of the largest Amiga clubs worldwide, the question of how to better support all the programmers in the club came up quite quickly. Our members produced some really good programs and games, but they all voiced their opinion that they weren't very happy with the commercial contracts that were offered by major publisher. After long deliberations, APC&TCP sales was founded in May 1992.
The main task of sales was to market the club members' software as effectively as possible. The first software titles released through APC&TCP were Databench and 1990. Other titles such as Kargon, Jaktar, Flyin High, Pinball Brain Damage, and many others, followed on quite quickly by even more. More recently, APC&TCP has released software titles for the Amiga such as Roadshow, CygnusED, Reshoot R, Tiny little Slug, Trap Runner, and there are other products that are already in their 'starting blocks'.
Some time ago a shareware series was released, which comprised of a few dozen shareware titles that were marketed here by club members. Incidentally, APC&TCP blossomed quite quickly into one of the cheapest PD diskette dealers in Germany.
Initially there were also a number of third-party products in the range, which were mainly sold to club members. Though quite quickly after that, our range of goods reverted to being only our own products that were offered, apart from a few exceptions. One of those exceptions, by way of example, is the LOAD from VzEkC e.V. Issue 8 will soon be available in the APC&TCP online shop.
For many years, the NoCover floppy disk club magazine was also distributed through APC&TCP. Incidentally APC&TCP has been publishing the print magazine Amiga Future for over 20 years, and what's more, the Amiga Future will be reaching its 25th anniversary in January. Yes, the Amiga Future magazine is still being printed. :)
Over the years, in addition to the many software titles released through APC&TCP, there has also been a whole range of merchandise produced by APC&TCP: such as, posters, mouse pads, mugs, stickers and much, much more. APC&TCP also took over the distribution of the Amiga Joker magazine, issues 17 and 19. Recently the VD Aktuell has also become available through APC&TCP.
Over the years APC&TCP has remained very active, in many areas, though generally that is in the background, without Amiga users really being aware of their involvement. For example, APC&TCP took over the advance ticket sales for the Amiga trade fairs from ICP. So, it was a natural step for APC&TCP to present the Amiga at Gamescom in a show area of approx. 100 square metres. APC&TCP will be there, yet again, at the Amiga 37 in the autumn of 2022 and is also assisting the organisers to make the venture a success, as usual, in the background.
Over the last 30 years, APC&TCP has released over 200 products for the Amiga, and there are also 125 NoCover issues. Additionally approx. 140 German and 80 English Amiga Future magazine issues have been printed during that time. After 30 years, APC&TCP actually seems to be one of the largest software publishers for the Amiga with a current 6-digit annual turnover. From which no-one has become super-wealthy here, it's just that the Amiga is simply great fun to use. :)
Our main goal, currently, is to reach our 50th year anniversary, which would be something to really celebrate. In addition, we are always searching for entertaining games and applications, where the programmer is looking for a fair and reliable publisher. One of the great advantages of APC&TCP is that a programmer can have their say as to any choice of packaging, which is also one of the reasons why APC&TCP does not have any standardised or similar packaging from one product to another. If you are one of those gifted, and interested programmers, then please send an email to Andreas@apc-tcp.de." (snx)
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02.May.2022
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- March/April 2022 news
- Old articles from Joystick 41 to 44:
- News: Psygnosis steps up its game
- Review of Mortal Kombat
- Review of Mad Dog McCree
- Interview with ID Software
- Comparison: Space Hulk vs Hired Guns
- Review of Goblins 3
- Review of Theatre Of Death
- News: Amiga CD32 - Commodore it's already tomorrow
- Interview with Peter Molyneux
- Review of Alfred Chicken
- Review of Uridium 2
- News: Gremlin, the aftermath of Zool
- Review of Realms Of Arkania: Blade Of Destiny
- Review of International Open Golf Championship
- Interview with Robert Hunter (graphic designer of Rambo 3 and Operation Thunderbolt)
- Interview with Metin Seven and Reinier van Vliet (authors of the game Hoi)
- Review of MorphOS 3.16
- File: The history of Novagen
- Hardware: AA+ (update)
- Point of view: The beginnings of the European pirate scene
- Point of view: Should the Amiga be revived?
- Point of view: The development of Rave (part three)
- Tutorial: Copying an entire hard disk as an image file to MorphOS
- Tutorial: Using HDF and ADF on THEA500 Mini.
- Special quiz about ERBE Software
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02.May.2022
Protovision (Webseite)
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Video: Commodore 64 celebrates 40th anniversary
According to Wikipedia, the Commodore 64 was introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and thus celebrates its 40th anniversary. The YouTuber 'BastichB 64K' has dedicated a special video with several guests to it. (dr)
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01.May.2022
U. Beckers (ANF)
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Operating system: MorphOS 3.17 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.17. This release includes numerous important performance, stability and security improvements. X5000 hardware support was improved to handle two Radeon cards and the HDD activity LED. Several text layout and rendering issues have been fixed in MUI.
For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.17, please read our release notes.
We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.17 is available for download in our files section. (dr)
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01.May.2022
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Video review: A1200NET's crystal replacement cases for the Amiga 500
In his latest video, Jan Beta takes a closer look at the new Amiga 500 Crystal Bundle offered by A1200NET, which includes a replacement case for the computer as well as for the mouse. (dr)
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01.May.2022
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Aminet uploads until 30.04.2022
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to Aminet:
femto.lha dev/gg 768K MOS Extended version of Atto Emacs
Fynn_Thorin_Finale.zip game/2play 698K 68k Fynn and Thorin (German and E...
flappadiddle.lha game/actio 88K 68k Flappy's Spike-Filled Adventure
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 7K 2022 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 3.3M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
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AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 621K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
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AmiKick.lha util/misc 44K Check Kickstart images under ...
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.04.2022
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
blackjuan.lha gam/car 4Mb 4.0 Blackjack clone
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
deficons_2021.lha gra/ico 2Mb 4.0 Some new def_icons for exchange
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 32Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.04.2022
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to AROS Archives:
orbithopper.i386-aros.zip gam/act 3Mb OpenG game. Jump across space pl...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.04.2022
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to MorphOS-Storage:
Chrysalis_3.16.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
ld80_0.6.1.lha Development/Cross L80 replacement linker
zmac.lha Development/Cross Z80 Macro Cross Assembler
femto_2.11.lha Development/GeekGadgets Extended version of Att...
fluidsynth_2.2.7_sdk.lha Development/Library fluidsynth_2.2.7_sdk.lha
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BlackjuanPokerCard.lha Games/Card BlackjuanPokerCard.lha
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OpenTyrian_2.2_SDL2.lha Games/Shoot2D An open-source port of ...
Wayfarer_3.5.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.04.2022
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 30.04.2022:
- 2022-04-30 improved: Narco Police (Dinamic) 68000 quitkey support, manual included (Info)
- 2022-04-30 updated: Indianapolis 500 (Papyrus Design Group) patch redone, saves done to separate files, manual protection completely skipped, new install script (Info)
- 2022-04-29 fixed: Mortal Kombat 2 (Acclaim) made working in NTSC (Info)
- 2022-04-27 improved: Syndicate (Bullfrog) select language at startup, fixed random quit, added speed regulation (Info)
- 2022-04-27 improved: Jurassic Park (Ocean) runs with 512K chip, fixed access fault, new imager (Info)
- 2022-04-27 fixed: Chaos In Andromeda: Eyes Of The Eagle (On-line) debug code removed from the cdtv slave (Info)
- 2022-04-24 improved: XP8 (Weathermine Software) fixed crashed in trainer (Info)
- 2022-04-24 improved: Rygar (Seismic Minds) supports another version (Info)
- 2022-04-24 fixed: New Zealand Story (Taito/Ocean) crash in "disable speed regulation" mode (Info)
- 2022-04-24 improved: Mortal Kombat 2 (Acclaim) requires less chiÃp-memory, trainer added, 2-button joystick support added (Info)
- 2022-04-24 improved: Cadaver Demo Level (Bitmap Brothers) added quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2022-04-24 improved: Black Dawn Rebirth (Doublesided Games) added support for alpha-1 flashtro (Info)
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30.Apr.2022
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Chipmusic tracker: PreTracker 1.5
Abyss, an Amiga demo group founded in 1992, hat released version 1.5 of its chipmusic tracker 'PreTracker'. It emulates the Paula soundchip of the Amiga computers. The tracker for creating music for Amiga demos, intros and games runs under Windows. All samples are precalced on startup according to the instruments. While most Amiga trackers only support 3 octaves (Note C-0 to B-2),
PreTracker offers 5 octaves (C-0 to B-4). The group used it for creating the music of some of its games. (dr)
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30.Apr.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Version 2 of editor 'Lite XL' released
At the end of the last year, George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, had released the first version v1.16.12.3 of hisport of the editor 'Lite XL' (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released version 2 and has written on it:
"I was keeping that release back for a long time now, but today I decided to give everyone the opportunity to use the newer version of Lite XL.
This new version is a really exciting one. It has so many new features and fixes against the older v1, that is hard to be listed here. But in general, it is faster in scrolling and file loading, there are multiple cursors that I know some of you were asking for, there is an easy way to have open files side by side, and many other things. And also uses the latest SDL 2.0.20 by Capehill.
What is not there yet is the folder synchronization based on filesystem notification, and the reason for that is that the original development team is changing the way they implement it. They experimented with different libraries and now they brought a new way of doing it. So I wait for them to finalize it in future versions and then I will add my implementation.
New icons were added in this release, kindly created and provided by IconDesigner who has given us so many awesome icons in the past, so to make our Workbench look so nice.
I use this editor with all of my development projects and I am really happy with how it works. I hope you will like it too and be useful for your projects as well."
If you ant to support the author, then the Ko-fi website is the best place. At the end of each month, 50% of the donations are donated back to the community by supporting projects or developers. (dr)
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30.Apr.2022
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.52
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.52. Changes:
New fixes:
- Simplify file loading so that compatibility with FTPMount is better. FTPMount does not seem to support file seeking properly. FTPMount can be used to access Modland with Hippo, for example.
- Fix crash with "Keep list on exit" when restarting in file browser mode and the directory has disappeared.
- Fix the move function losing the moved item if nothing is selected when trying to insert the item back. Now it is inserted to the beginning of the list.
- Kickstart 1.3: Fix the button and box frame graphics so that they look correct in terms of depth illusion.
- MP3 files with ID3v2 tag data did not get recognized and played previously. Now they should work.
- MP3 identification improved so that in addition to filename suffix ".mp3" also the prefix "mp3." is now checked. Additionally any possible ID3v2 tag data is is used to determine if a file is an MP3 file.
- There was a rather severe regression in v2.49 sampleplayer. Scopes didn't work properly and things could crash. Fixed these.
- Move "Button tooltips" Prefs button to the "Display" Prefs subpage, which is the correct placement.
- Sometimes when a module ends and the next one should be played, the next one is skipped and the one following that is played. Fixed!
- The play button icon had an extra pixel at the bottom. This went unnoticed until now, how is that even possible?!
New features:
- "Big buttons" option in "Prefs/Display". This doubles the height of the two button rows in the main window. May be helpful with higher resolution screens. The original icons were designed for the 640x256 resolution.
- Added support for launching HiP via "project icons". These are icons used for data files which specify the default tool which should be used to open the files. This is a very basic use case from the beginning of Workbench, finally supported.
- Patternscope support added to the THX/AHX format. Also shows transposes.
- Patternscope now displays note and sample transpose information for the Future Composer and the BP SoundMon formats as well.
- PreTracker support improvements
- Improved sample scope support
- Added support for the following players: Art Of Noise (4 channels), BP SoundMon (v2.0-v2.2), Future Composer (v1.0-v1.4), Game Music Creator, Hippel-COSO, JamCracker, PreTracker, SoundFX, StarTrekker
- Also added support for the new Eagleplayers.
- Fixed a problem where samples with short repeat lenghts were displayed incorrectly, this means every chip and synth sample in practice. The playback position was calculated wrong and resulted in an unrealistically static waveform display.
- Sidenote: It's quite interesting to see how synth formats look with scopes, as they deform and manipulate the waveforms in real time. For example, FC waveforms looks quite simple whereas JamCracker and Hippel-COSO look more complex. BP SoundMon seems to be in between these two.
- The "Freq. Analyzer" scope was removed. It was some kind of a histogram display of deltas of consecutive sample bytes, usually boring to look at and not that informative.
- A new scope "Spectrum" was added. The X-axis displays frequencies, low ones on the left, high ones on the right. The Y-axis displays loudness in decibels.
- Support for running multiple scopes instead of just one. There are now separate toggles for the five different scopes in "Prefs/Display". I tried to preserve much of the previous scope functionality. For example, the scope toggle with key [Z] and LMB on the left side of the infobox. Scope window positions and open status are preserved when Prefs are saved. However, when a module is played with no scope support the scope windows will no longer be automatically closed as was done previously. Having multiple scopes running required extensive changes, so there may be some new bugs lying around. Scopes are also quite CPU and blitter intensive so having many running on A500 will work but will also not be very smooth.
- New keyboard shortcut [SHIFT+F]: toggle favorite status for the currently selected module. (Plain [F] is find module.)
- Kickstart 1.3: The hippo head is now displayed! It uses the kick2.0 palette color order so it is ugly on kick1.3, and was never shown. Now the graphics is remapped during startup to make it displayable also on kick1.3. Cool :-D
Tips and tricks:
- Enabling "Doubleclick" in Prefs makes starting playback easier if you like using the mouse.
- Activating "Keep list on exit" allows you to conveniently continue here you left off in your module listening adventures when you start Hippo again.
- Hippo is fully keyboard controllable. A way to browse through a large mod collection is to switch to file browser using [SHIFT-M] and then using arrows, enter and backspace.
(dr)
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Demo: THE CURE version 1.4 for AGA Amigas
Some time ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released a demo called 'THE CURE' (YouTube video) which placed first at the 'Solskogen' demo party 2020 in the category Oldskool (amiga-news.de reported).
This demo he keeps on developing and meanwhile has released version 1.4:
- Improved music: improved S/N ratio by eliminating a peak (caused by the "str" of "street" in the spoken part) and re-normalizing the waveform; amplified initial part a little bit; reduced greatly the noise that affected the coda (due to the 8-bit quantization) by amplifying that part of the waveform to the maximum and balancing that with a real-time volume change; increased sampling frequency to 29073 Hz (side effects: channels 2 and 3 can no longer be used, so the output volume is lower; music decoding takes a little longer as there is more data to decode each frame; the CHIP bus time taken by audio DMA is almost halved, which makes the demo less demanding).
- Added switch-off of filter to ensure music sounds as it is supposed to.
- Fixed audio-to-video synchronization: fixed drifting caused by the difference between the actual video refresh rate (~49.92 Hz) and the theoretical one 50 Hz (which, by the end of the demo, caused an asynchronism of ~0.5); fixed 60 ms asynchronism caused by the fact that the first three frames required for music setup/buffering were ignored; fixed a few timing marks in the script (an off-by-one mark which caused a peak of operations in the specified frame; a mark that caused the following effect to execute 4 frames too late; a few marks that were off by a frame).
- Fixed a bad routine pointer (caused by a wrong letter in the label; it is quite incredible that this bug did not produce disastrous results).
- Added some palette effects.
- Optimized music decoding by unpacking and undeltaing data at the same time (why it was not like this right from the beginning is a mistery).
- Made some other small optimizations.
- Made startup and cleanup code more robust by shielding some critical operations from NMIs and by dealing with audio playback performed with direct hardware access by other programs concurrently.
- Added version string.
- Improved/extended README.
Additional to an AGA Amiga the demo requires a 68030 processor with 50 MHz and about 15 MB FAST-RAM. (dr)
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THEA500 Mini: Video tutorial for fixing too fast WHDLoad games
In his video the YouTuber 'Crazy Burger' explains how to fix the speed of WHDLoad games which apparently run too fast on the 'THEA500 Mini'. (dr)
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29.Apr.2022
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Platformer: Developer for Amiga port of 'Flea' wanted
As John Girvin from Nivrig Games (e.g. Turbo Santa or Turbo Tomato) reports, developer Alastair Low (Lowtek Games) said in a conversation on Twitch that he would be open to a port of his platformer 'Flea' to the Amiga. The game was originally funded and released through a Kickstarter campaign for the Nintendo Entertainment System, but ports are now also available or in development for Dreamcast and Windows. The source code was written using Nesmaker. According to John Girvin, this project "looks very doable". (dr)
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29.Apr.2022
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Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 7
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euro) or printed (7,50 Euro) form. Its current issue consists of 42 color pages and includes the following topics:
- Review of the new THEA500 Mini
- Video games: SkillGrid, Malaga Vice, Scramble500, SpikeDislike, DepthCharge
- AmiGameJam 2021 Special
- Copyright, abandonware, free download and use of historical brands
- Hardware: HC508 MKII for A500
- Interviews with: Simone Bevilacqua (Retream), Marco Salemi (Blizzard Entertainment) and Grazia Pizzuto
- And also: Games news, Tech news, Demo scene, New Talents, MailBox
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29.Apr.2022
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Video: Installation of AmiKit XE on Apollo V4 system
In a short video Willem Drijver has demonstrated how to install the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE on a system equipped with a Apollo-V4. (dr)
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28.Apr.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.2 / 'Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam' announced
At the end of March the new major release 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz was made available. Today with version 3.9.2 a second bug fix release was added. Changes:
- fixed some enforcer hits
- fixed drawing problem with text cursor
- updated several guide files
- added a new blitzlib "crc.obj" by Ray Brooks (@rayui) to the distribution
At the same time, indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen (Wheel of Fortune implementation 'YAWoFFA') has announced the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: From June 1 to September 1, 2022, Amiga developers are invited to write and submit games in AmiBlitz or Blitz Basic. 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 source code so that beginners have examples to study and learn from.
So if you always wanted to deal with a new programming language or apply your knowledge, you now have the opportunity to do so. Only games for 68k Amigas with AmigaOS are allowed: MorphOS, AmigaOS 4 and AROS are excluded. Also, submissions requiring Vampire cards, graphics cards or other special hardware will not be accepted. More details at the link above. (dr)
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28.Apr.2022
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.5 (2nd update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.3 and then as a bugfix version 3.4 of his MorphOS web browser 'Wayfarer'. Changes:
- HTTP HEAD requests to resources would poison the Curl disk cache with 0-byte files, leading to websites failing to load/work correctly
- Minor speed improvements in JavaScriptCore and timing code
- Improved refresh speeds when typing text on websites showing animated contents as you type
- The HLS player will iterate through all streams of the master playlist now if a selected sub playlist fails to play
- Re-worked post-seeking playback restart to avoid auto-start of streams that start playback from non-0 position
- Fixed audio buffer under-run handling
- Invisible video streams fixed not to enable overlay
- Improved invalid certificate error handling UI flows
- Disabled touch events support
- minor fix for HTTP AUTH regression
Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB)
Update: (29.04.2022, 06:48, dr)
According to the developer, some mis-compilation has crept in that negatively impacted stability of recent builds in some situations. Hi has fixed that by releasing verion 3.5.
Update 2: (01.05.2022, 07:38, snx)
The author informs there are additional problems that seem to have been introduced with version 3.3 and recommends to revert back to Wayfarer 3.2 (wayfarer3.2.lha, 26 MB) for now. (dr)
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28.Apr.2022
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 133 (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 'Dune' (Amiga CDTV), 'Green Beret', 'Gunship 2000', 'Scramble' and 'World Championship Speedway'. (dr)
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28.Apr.2022
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Apollo Team: Deluxe remake of Menace in development
Already in August last year Kevin Saunders, graphic designer, artist and game designer (Boss Machine and RESHOOT PROXIMA 3), announced the HD conversion of the Menace game for Vampire Amigas with an animated end boss on his homepage (amiga-news.de reported). As Gunnar von Boehn reports, the Apollo team has now started working on the Amiga shooter and published a first demo video. The features of the remake:
- true smooth 50 FPS scrolling
- High resolution
- truecolor with alpha blending
- dual player cooperate fun
- stereo 16bit music in combination with 16bit game soundFx in CD-quality
The final game is supposed to contain all six original levels and fully animated end bosses. The game requires over 200 MB of FastRAM as well as a 68080 CPU and Super-AGA chipset. The game will be released as a commercial title with box. The source files including all data files of the first level will be published as part of the programming series "Amiga Homeschooling" to demonstrate to interested people how to program games for Amiga and Saga. programmieren kann.
Download of the preview demo: MENACE4.exe (103 MB)
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New, experimental firmware for 'Zorro 3' systems (update)
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with connections beyond that (network, USB, SD cards), which can be pre-ordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported). Now he provides an experimental, new firmware for 'Zorro 3' systems, which fixes fixes spurious register write misses. All those who encountered graphics and audio glitches should test this 'BOOT.bin' and report.
Download: zz9000-fwpack-110-20220502b.zip (1 MB)
Update: (30.04.2022, 22:11, dr)
Meanwhile a new test version of Zorro 3 firmware for ZZ9000/ZZ9000AX is available with improved resampling and DSP lowpass filter. Download link updated. (dr)
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27.Apr.2022
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Event: Ticket sale for Amiga37 started
On October 15 and 16, 2022 in Mönchengladbach (Germany) the Amiga37 will take place (amiga-news.de reported). Now the ticket sales have started. Tickets can be bought on a separate website (title link). (dr)
[News message: 27. Apr. 2022, 06:03] [Comments: 0]
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