05.Apr.2022
pikewerfer (forum)
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MorphOS: Free fonts package (also for AmigaOS)
Monotype employee 'pikewerfer', with permission from his superiors, has put together a free font pack that can be "bought" for 0 Euros under the title link. The "MorphOS Value Pack" contains ten different types, including their variants (italic, bold, etc.) there are 27 fonts.
The license of these OpenType fonts also includes AmigaOS, as far as their use is technically possible there. The creator would be pleased about feedback. (snx)
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05.Apr.2022
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Introduction video: Checkmate displays 1089s and 1087s
Following his two Kickstarter campaigns to fund the Checkmate A1500 Plus- and Checkmate 1500 Mini cases, Stephen Jones is now planning a third campaign to fund monitors for retro computers.
In a video, he introduces his project showing prototypes. Key data:
- Size: default is 19", if second stretch goal is reached then there will be a 17"
- Ratio 5:4 (1280x1024 panel)
- Ports:
- Input: HDMI, VGA, composite video, interlace component input, AV1 and AV2
- Output: speaker, composite (streaming)
- Front panel: Front USB only if you add a front panel and wire them up, default will be a blank user panel waiting for customisation
- 3D printed prototypes, later injection molded version (reason for Kickstarter campaign)
- side speakers
- Using the Gbscontrol firmware for the 'GBS-8200' video converter as optional add on, not standard.
(dr)
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04.Apr.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.
Today a new preview video for the game was released which is in development. It can already be pre-ordered as a boxed edition. A demo version of the first stage is also available on itch.io.
(dr)
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04.Apr.2022
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MorphOS: Symmetrix Blanker V1.0
Yesterday the #amigazeux team has released the Symmetrix screenblanker for MorphOS. It draws shapes like circles, stars and ribbons across symmetry-axes all over the screen producing (most times) multicoloured art. MorphOS 2.0 or higher and TinyGL required.
Download: Symmetrix.lha (71 kB) (dr)
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04.Apr.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 29 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now episode 29 was published. (dr)
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04.Apr.2022
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AmiGameJam 2022: The winners
Last night, during a live show at AmigaBill, the winners of this year's AmiGameJam contest were chosen:
- 1. 1st place: the amiga port of Konami's vertically scrolling shooter Knightmare written by 'Hoffman' and Toni Gálvez.
- 2nd place: Jean-François Fabre's Pacman clone MsPacman 500.
- 3rd place: 'Dante's' conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name, Green Beret.
Congratulations! (dr)
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03.Apr.2022
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Pre-order: New Amiga mechanical USB keyboard
Simulant Systems Ltd is a computer hardware, software and online IT support service provider based in York, United Kingdom. Today it was announced that production of Amiga USB mechanical keyboards will be started.
Amiga Corporation's first officially licensed mechanical USB PC keyboard features Brown Cherry MX keyswitches, Amiga-style sublimation printed keycap characters, green LED status indicators and injection-molded case. With limited availability, the keyboard can be pre-ordered for around 120 Euros plus 38 Euros for the corresponding international keycaps. (dr)
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03.Apr.2022
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Video: All about MiSTer FPGA
The YouTube channel 'My Life in Gaming' has published a video that goes into detail about the MiSTer FPGA board: what is needed, how to set it up, which consoles, computers, handhelds or arcade cores are supported. Supposedly worth watching even for long-time users. (dr)
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03.Apr.2022
OSnews
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Overview: The world of non-C operating systems
As an online portal, The Register provides news and analysis from the world of technology companies. In a recent article, the authors explore the question of what current commercial operating systems exist that were written before C was invented or that do not use the C programming language at any level or layer.
They explain that the Basic Combined Programming Language (BCPL), a compiled, system-oriented programming language developed by Martin Richards in 1966 and first implemented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the spring of 1967 (cf. Wikipedia entry) , was by no means just an insignificant transitional step, since it was used in two famous operating systems: so also in the TRIPOS operating system, which was later used as the original basis of AmigaOS.
Furthermore, an overview of programming languages and OSes based on them is given, for example Lisp with the OS Mezzano, Interim or ChrysaLisp. (dr)
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03.Apr.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.1
A week ago, version 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz was released. Now version 3.9.1 fixes some bugs:
- fixed crash when no source was loaded by default
- fixed crash when trying to open a second instance of AB3 with "clone wb"-option
- fixed Enforcer hits when inserting a new source line
- fixed crash on MorphOS when loading a source
- fixed misworking FPU-detection on 68060 systems
(dr)
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03.Apr.2022
Patrick Nevian (Mail)
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Chris Hülsbeck songs: Album "Piano Collection II" released
Patrick Nevian is a hobby programmer responsible for games like Ambermoon Arcade or the 'Tales of Gorluth' series. He first combined his hobby and his profession as a music producer and pianist in 2008, when he interpreted songs from various Amiga games on the piano and released them as a free album.
The musician Chris Hülsbeck, well-known for his soundtracks for the Amiga games Apidya, Turrican or Rainbows, among others, became aware of this and released the album 'The Piano Collection' with the pianist in 2015 after a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Following a survey conducted in 2020 as to which Huelsbeck titles should be included on another album, Patrick Nevian has now released Chris Huelsbeck The Piano Collection - Volume II: The Players Choice, which can be ordered as a CD for ¤29.00 free shipping. Title List:
- Apidya: War at Meadow's Edge
- The Great Giana Sisters: Ingame music
- X-Out: Main theme
- Z-Out: Main theme
- Jim Power: Main theme
- Gem'Z: Credits
- The Apprentice: Main theme
- Turrican: Victory
- Turrican II: Freedom
- Grand Monster Slam: Main theme
- Tunnel B1: opening music
- Rock N Roll: Music from level 1
- Turrican I bis III: Medley of main themes
- Turrican II: The Wall
- Turrican III: Medley from level 1 and 2
- Madness: Main theme
- The Adventures of Quik & Silva: Ingame medley
- Two bonus tracks
(dr)
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03.Apr.2022
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Aminet uploads until 02.04.2022
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to Aminet:
Artstate-Loopback.zip demo/sound 24K 68k 32Kb executable music for GER...
vbcc_PosixLib.lha dev/c 366K POSIX compatibility library f...
zlib_S1212.lha dev/c 1.0M WOS ZLib 1.2.12 StormGCC link lib...
BeebAsm.lha dev/cross 733K MOS Assembler with BBC Micro styl...
atto.lha dev/gg 302K MOS Atto Emacs is inspired by Mic...
MuManual.lha docs/misc 945K 68k mmu.lib: examples, includes, ...
SAGADriver.lha driver/oth 289K 68k SAGA Driver Package
spacecadetpinball-aos... game/actio 5.1M OS4 SpaceCadetPinball
spikedislike.lha game/actio 41K 68k Endless disliking of spikes
Exult_RTG.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (Exult)
PrBoom.lha game/shoot 848K 68k Amiga port of PrBoom (DOOM)
webptools122_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.4M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools122_aros.lha gfx/conv 3.6M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.3M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
MuEVD.lha misc/emu 150K 68k MuLib driven ShapeShifter vid...
ptplayer.lha mus/play 31K 68k ProTracker player w/ support ...
JFIFdt44.lha util/dtype 674K 68k fast JFIF (JPEG) picture data...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.1M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
MMULib.lha util/libs 747K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
exutil_68k.lha util/wb 1.3M 68k Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_AROS.lha util/wb 1.5M x86 Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_MOS.lha util/wb 1.5M MOS Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_OS4.lha util/wb 1.8M OS4 Batch renames picture files b...
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03.Apr.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.04.2022
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to OS4Depot:
vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 237kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 231kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmppc_std.lha dev/cro 197kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vbcc.lha dev/cro 3Mb 4.0 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PPC/A...
vbcc_libs.lha dev/cro 188kb 4.0 Compiler target AmigaOS 4.x PowerPC
vbcc_posixlib.lha dev/lib 366kb 4.0 POSIX compatibility library for ...
spacecadetpinball.lha gam/act 5Mb 4.1 SpaceCadetPinball ported to Amig...
nmtm.lzx gam/adv 26Mb 4.0 Point and click adventure game
devinfosng.lha uti/mis 1Mb 4.1 Nearly all about the aos4.1 hard...
exutil.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 An exif based batch renamer
jasspa-memacs.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 JASSPA MicroEmacs under AmiCygni...
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03.Apr.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.04.2022
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to AROS Archives:
breaker.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 548kb Arkanoid clone
exutil_aros.lha gra/mis 2Mb An exif based batch renamer pict...
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03.Apr.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.04.2022
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
vbcc_PosixLib_3.0.lha Development/C POSIX compatibility lib...
BeebAsm_1.09.lha Development/Cross Assembler with BBC Micr...
Atto_1.22.lha Development/GeekGadgets Atto Emacs is inspired ...
AmiArcadia_28.4.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
GrafX2_2.8.lha Graphics/Draw GrafX2 version 2.8, SDL...
Exutil_1.1.2.lha Graphics/Tools A small MUI based utili...
FFmpeg_4.4.1.lha Multimedia FFmpeg is a collection ...
MouseEyes_1.4.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Displays Mouse Eyes in ...
Uptime_1.5.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Display Uptime in scree...
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03.Apr.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.04.2022
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 02.04.2022:
- 2022-04-01 updated: Second Samurai (Psygnosis/Vivid Image) patch redone, annoying control bug in main menu fixed, 24-bit problems fixed, lots of trainer options added, CD32 joypad support, highscore load/save, source code included (Info)
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02.Apr.2022
Twitter
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.10
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 1.10 was released providing the following improvements and new features compared to version 1.9:
- Adds support for the ZZ9000AX audio expansion with native 48000Hz, Stereo s16i playback and capture. Capture is not yet supported by driver/tools.
- Adds AHI driver for ZZ9000AX. Please note that only very fast Amigas can mix 48kHz audio through AHI. If you have a 020 or 030, it's best to use 24kHz for AHI.
- Adds MP3 decoding support on an ARM core of ZZ9000 powered by minimp3.
- The tool axmp3 in the drivers package demonstrates direct MP3 playback at 48kHz, with very low Amiga CPU usage (not using AHI). The tool is Open Source.
- C code refactor splits out many modules from ZZ9000OS main.c for better maintainability
According to the developer "the plan is to ship out the bulk of ZZ9000AX batch 1 orders next week, which is supported by this firmware." (dr)
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02.Apr.2022
Discord
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.0
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.
Yesterday, version 5.0 was released, which, among other numerous bug fixes and improvements, improves the auto-crop function. The most important changes:
- Updated Display panel help, with info about Auto-Crop
- Updated version date
- Auto-Crop: Only change Height in DMX approach, to avoid possible problems with width
- Updated version date
- Auto-Crop: improved minimum width calculation, for both LowRes and HighRes modes
- Remove floppydrivebridge library from pipelines, as it's now part of Amiberry
- Updated version date
- Fixed Auto-Crop assigned to custom control
- Fixed #923: when auto-crop is enabled, auto-fix options that cause trouble
- Fixed incorrect Aspect Ratio when using Auto Crop
(dr)
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01.Apr.2022
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MorphOS: Screenbar-Plugin MouseEyes 1.4
The #amigazeux team has updated the screenbar plugin 'MouseEyes', that displays eyes in the screen title looking at and following the mouse pointer, to version 1.4 for MorphOS. Changes:
- The pupils of the eyes are now only shown on the active screen. On all other screens running an instance of Mouseeyes, the pupils are hidden. This also has the side effect that one can easily spot the active screen based on existing pupils in case of a multi-monitor setup.
- Now comes with a real Installer script courtesy of InstallerGen by Rob Cranley.
(dr)
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31.Mar.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: A500KB - a mechanical keyboard for the Amiga 500
Henryk Richter's project A500KB is a mechanical keyboard for the Amiga 500 which can be mounted with either the original keys of the Amiga 2000/3000/4000, the A1200.net replicas or keys from Mitsumi, Cherry and KailH, respectively.
For Power, Drive and Caps-Lock LEDs he uses RGB LEDs, with their colour being configurable by an AmigaOS programm. (snx)
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31.Mar.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: MicroSD interface for the Parallel Port
Based on the design concept by Niklas Ekström, 'RetroNynjah' has published his "Retroninja Amiga Parallel SD" project at the title link. It allows to use microSD cards via the Amiga's Parallel Port. Since the latter does not include a power source, this has to be supplied using a USB connector. (snx)
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31.Mar.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Emulator: vAmigaWeb 2.0 Beta 1 Update 3
The Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb is based on vAmiga for Mac OS and runs in the web-browser and as a Progressive Web App (PWA) on mobile devices, respectively (amiga-news.de reported).
Despite the rather small update suggested by its version number, its current release now also supports Amiga harddrive files (.hdf), which also works when they are compressed in a ZIP file. Besides this, bugs in ActionButtons have been fixed. (snx)
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31.Mar.2022
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Chip-Ram expansion for Amiga 500, 2000, Commodore CDTV: RAMesses
Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about his latest development 'RAMesses': this board upgrades an Amiga 500, 2000 or the Commodore CDTV to 2MB chip RAM without soldering or cutting the motherboard. It is based on the board developed by Matt Harlum, which converts an 8375 Agnus to work in a normal Amiga 500, adding 2MB of chip RAM. However, this required craftsmanship and soldering experience.
So Hutchings decided to design a board that solved this problem. The RAMesses board uses a PLCC connector that plugs into the Amiga's Agnus socket, and an 8375 Agnus that plugs into the bottom of the board. Additionally, there is an adapter that fits under the Gary chip and provides some additional signals. The Gary chip overwrites all motherboard and expansion RAM, so it is easy to install regardless of the motherboard and configuration. This means that no modifications need to be made to the Amiga's motherboard.
Additionally, there is a jumper on the top of the RAMesses board. As the developer writes, some games state that they need 1 MB, but actually mean 512 KB chip and 512 KB Slow RAM. This jumper reconfigures the board to provide Slow RAM. From 2MB Chip RAM this will change to 1MB Chip and 512KB Slow RAM.
It should be noted that the board requires an 8375 2MB Agnus chip. In the first batches there was still the possibility to get the RAMesses together with an 8375, but this is now unlikely. Thus, the chip has to be purchased separately. Likewise, he recommends a PLCC extractor tool for removing the Amiga's Agnus before installing this board, specifically Piergiacomi's PLCC-84 extractor tool .
RAMesses is available in his new 'Retro Supplies' store for about 90 Euros. (dr)
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31.Mar.2022
Twitter
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Shoot'em up: Sixth demo version of Jackal
NeesoGames has released the sixth demo version (YouTube video) of its game Jackal, created with the Scorpion Engine. Changes:
- Level 1 boss has an indicator to show where the tanks will spawn
- New enemy in Level 2 (Jeep throwing 'nades)
- Level 3 preview (fully navigable but no boss fight yet)
- New explosion graphics
- Animated exploded turrets
- Fixed foreground issues with fort walls and pillars
- Enemies have been rebalanced
- Memory optimizations, bugfixes and more!
According to the developers, this version might be a bit unstable because of a lot of things have been refactored. A complete third level including the boss fight has been announced for the seventh update. (dr)
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31.Mar.2022
Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail)
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Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.1
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 has now written 'G-Copy', a corresponding application for the Greaseweazle.
This is currently available in version 0.1 and is intended for testing. Unlike A-Copy, which was written using Microsoft's free and open source software platform '.NET', G-Copy, as the author writes to us, was completely new and written in Python. Basically, the two applications are to be merged as time permits, though there would be many more Arduino-based controllers, all with their own configurations and command parameters. In addition, there would be many requests for implementation of other systems and formats (Atari, Apple, TI99).
Features of version 0.1:
- Doscopy: ADF file -> disk and Disk -> ADF file
- Nibblecopy: SCP file -> disk and disk -> SCP file (incl. copy protection)
- DMS2Disk: HD-DMS file -> disk
- DMS2ADF: HD-DMS file -> HD-ADF file
- IPF2Disk: HD-IPF file -> disk
- Delete, format, QFormat
Tasks still to be done:
- Bamcopy
- Copy start-end from the hard disk to the correct place of the file
- Copying the correct part of the file to the floppy disk
- Writing to several destinations
- better troubleshooting
Download: gcopy.zip (30 MB) (dr)
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30.Mar.2022
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Connector board for FPGA Amiga clone: MiSTress ITX
Recently we reported about an expansion for mounting the FPGA Amiga clone MiSTer into an Amiga 1200 case, called MiSTress 1200. Now there is also a conversion kit, MiSTress ITX, for mounting the MiSTer FPGA into an ITX/Micro ITX PC case. The MiSTress ITX board offers all connectors that the official MiSTer Analog I/O 6.1 board has, plus an integrated USB hub with six available ports and a selectable I2S Audio DAC output.
The board implements also a dual function front button header to plug the front button of your case: short press access MiSTer OSD, long press calls USER button function (core dependant). Further information under the title link. (dr)
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30.Mar.2022
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MorphOS: Screenbar plugin Uptime 1.5a
The #amigazeux team has updated the Screenbar plugin 'Uptime' for displaying uptime - the time the computer system is running and functional - for MorphOS to version 1.5. Changes:
- Added a savety requester when trying to reset the uptime record.
- Uptime records can be reported via MagicBeacon now with configurable frequency.
- Now comes with a real Installer script courtesy of InstallerGen by Rob Cranley.
- Text can now be rendered off-center by specifying a pixel offset.
- It's now possible to have the gauge frame drawn around or over (default from previous versions) the gauge itself at the edges (see settings).
- Cycle gadget for adjusting the frame type now shows a small preview image.
Update: (04.04.2022, 17:48, dr)
Thanks to a hint from Guido Mersmann a bug in the installer has been fixed with version 1.5a released yesterday, which now copies the MagicBeacon images correctly to SYS:Prefs/Applications/MagicBeacon instead of MOSSYS:Data/MagicBeacon. (dr)
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29.Mar.2022
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History: Commodore's 'ChessMate'
In its latest blog entry, the 'Commodore International Historical Society' has reported on the history of Commodore's 'ChessMate'. (dr)
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29.Mar.2022
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Sound module: First batch of ZZ9000AX is delivered
The ZZ9000AX is the sound module for the multifunctional Amiga expansion card ZZ9000 (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday it was announced that the first batch is shipping now, which was originally planned for January already. Interested users who order now will be part of the second batch, which is expected to be shipped in June 2022. (dr)
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29.Mar.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: Introduction on Artificial Intelligence
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows the basics of artificial intelligence (AI) using neural networks. He elaborates on how to develop them using genetic algorithms and confronts them with various problems to see if they can solve them (see also MIT's introductory lecture on this topic). (dr)
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29.Mar.2022
Martina Hřebcová (Mail)
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Analysis: PPC architecture evolution in Amiga world (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her detailed reviews and analyses of Amiga hardware, for example about the use of graphics cards under the Sam440ep-flex or the Pegasos I. Now she takes Amiga users on a discourse about the PPC architecture used in AmigaNG systems: Czech original text, machine translation. (dr)
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28.Mar.2022
Apollo Team (ANF)
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Apollo-Team: Maggie 3D Chip - preview video
The Apollo team shows a preview of the Apollo Maggie 3D chip, which is already included in all V4 models, in a short YouTube video. This Maggie chip is also intended to make the Amiga 3D capable. This first early preview video demonstrates basic 3D modeling as dungeon demo. (dr)
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28.Mar.2022
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Blog: Installation of AmiKit on Windows/macOS and Raspberry Pi
The blog Epsilon's World shows in its latest entry how to install the recently released AmiKit XE 11.6.1 on Windows 11 and macOS Monterey. In a previous article the author already described how to install AmiKit XE 11.5 on a Raspberry Pi 4 and Pi 400. (dr)
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27.Mar.2022
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Aminet uploads until 26.03.2022
The following files have been added until 26.03.2022 to Aminet:
nfs3.lha comm/net 10K 68k Mount NFS3 shares using bsdso...
less-mos.lha dev/gg 661K MOS Viewer program similar to "more"
MuManual.lha docs/misc 944K 68k mmu.lib: examples, includes, ...
keymap_espanol.lha driver/inp 2K Keymap for Spanish PC keyboards
StarDriveSCSI.lha driver/med 56K 68k Microbotics StarDrive SCSI dr...
cybergraphx_espanol.lha driver/vid 1K CyberGraphX spanish catalog (...
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 7K 2022 Carset for F1GP
AttackPETSCIIRobots.lha game/demo 6.6M 68k Attack of the PETSCII Robots ...
AttackPETSCIIRobots_i... game/demo 880K 68k Attack of the PETSCII Robots ...
Exult_RTG.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (Exult)
jfduke3d.lha game/shoot 1.3M 68k JFDuke3D Amiga Port
ZDOOM_AGA.lha game/shoot 21M 68k Amiga port of ZDOOM (DOOM)
ZDOOM_RTG.lha game/shoot 21M 68k Amiga port of ZDOOM (DOOM)
perfectpaint_espanol.lha gfx/edit 8K Perfect Paint spanish catalog...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
W4R_HM2B.lha mods/anaki 42K 68k Hit Mouse 2 Beta 2008 MED Mul...
W4R_HM2B_SideB.lha mods/anaki 121K 68k Hit Mouse 2 Beta Side B MED M...
ancient.lha util/arc 668K MOS Decompression routines for an...
avalanche.lha util/arc 64K OS4 ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
MMULib.lha util/libs 746K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
DevInfosNG.lha util/misc 1.2M OS4 All about the aos4.1 hardware
TestProgram.zip util/misc 665K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
kingcon_espanol.lha util/shell 1K KingCON spanish catalog (1.8)
ScreenTime.lha util/time 63K 68k Screen clock, configurable wi...
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27.Mar.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 26.03.2022
The following files have been added until 26.03.2022 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
igame.lha emu/uti 318kb 4.0 Frontend for launching WHDLoad g...
d3gnop.lha gam/mis 193kb 4.0 THE Pong clone in MiniGL
sopoblock.lha gam/puz 83kb 4.0 Cute tiny MiniGL puzzler
avalanche.lha uti/arc 64kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
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27.Mar.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.03.2022
The following files have been added until 26.03.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
EMagicBeaconModules_0.... Development/E MorphOS MagicBeacon mod...
EReggaeModules_0.1.lha Development/E MorphOS Reggae modules ...
EMUIModules_0.4.lha Development/E MorphOS MUI modules for...
Less_590.lha Development/GeekGadgets A paginator similar to ...
Ancient_2.0.0.lha Files/Archive Decompress ancient formats
ScummVM_2.6.0GIT.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
MUIwake_0.4.lha Network/TCP Wake On Lan with MUI gui.
Wayfarer_3.2.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
Collection-JeuxVideo_1... Office/Database Collection-Jeux video e...
ModernArt_3.3.lha System/Ambient/Blankers Screen Blanker by Matth...
MouseCoords_1.4.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Display Mouse coordinat...
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27.Mar.2022
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: Web-browser Wayfarer 3.2
By version 3.2 of Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web-browser Wayfarer, support of WOFF/WOFF2 fonts has been implemented and, besides fixes of a few minor quirks, the support of ligatures has been improved. Wayfarer requires MorphOS 3.16 and at least 1 GB of RAM. A CPU with 1.5 GHz or more with Altivec is recommended.
Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB) (snx)
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27.Mar.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 28 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now episode 28 was published. (dr)
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27.Mar.2022
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ReAction-GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.5
In the course of reporting on updates of various tools from Unsatisfactory Software, we had also mentioned Avalanche for the first time, a graphical user interface created with ReAction for the unarchiving tool XAD. Now Chris Young has released version 1.5. Changes:
- Add option to use xvs.library to scan the extracted files for viruses
- Fallback to xfdmaster.library if file not recognised
- Support encrypted archive entries
- Installer no longer overwrites existing icon on update
- Add Archive Info menu option - currently shows the filetype only
(dr)
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26.Mar.2022
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Amiga Addict available from newsagents in England, Irland, USA, Australia soon
Print magazine Amiga Addict is anouncing on Twitter that the English publication will soon be available from more than 300 newsagents in the United Kingdom as well as in selected stores in the USA, Irland, and Australia.
The current 11th issue features a review of THEA500 Mini plus the following topics:
- Interview with Amiga magazine legend Nick Veitch
- A personal look back at Amiga Power
- Talking about Buffee with Renee Cousins
- The legendary Scorched Tanks with its creator Michael P Welch
- h0ffman's new game Knightmare reviewed
- The second part of our walk through the Cinemaware back catalogue
- AA's Top 100 Best Amiga Games Ever!
(cg)
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26.Mar.2022
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THEA500 Mini: 'Citadel' and user manual available
Starting April 08, interested users can purchase the THEA500 Mini (in North America only on May 31).
If you want to shorten the time until then, you can already study the user manual. Furthermore, the first game of the Bonus USB Games Pack has been released with Citadel, which we reported about a year ago, and can already be downloaded. According to Saberman's YouTube video, this is version 1.3, in which some bugs have been fixed, gameplay and player controls have been improved, and the game's graphics and level design have been updated. The game is basically intended for the THEA500 Mini, but was here tested on an A1200 with 8MB FAST-Ram. (dr)
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25.Mar.2022
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A-EON confirms lack of an AmigaOS 4 license
A few days ago, Alinea announced that the X5000 was back in stock. Their listing of a complete system includes a digital copy of AmigaOS 4, but according to a former Hyperion manager, A-EON no longer has a valid AmigaOS 4 license - which brings up the question where Alinea is purchasing X5000 motherboards bundled with an AmigaOS 4 license. Approached by amiga-news.de, Matthew Leaman from A-EON and Amigakit confirms that "there are no active OEM agreements for A-EON hardware". According to him each reseller makes "his own arrangements for any third party software they resell".
Since Alina claims (German) to be purchasing hardware and software from the same source, that means there has to be another layer in the distribution channel - somebody who has access to valid OS4 licenses, bundles them with motherboards purchased from A-EON and then sells them to Alinea and maybe other dealers.
Neither Matthew Leaman nor Simon Neumann from Alinea wanted to discuss details of the current distribution model with amiga-news.de. Leaman only confirmed that the boards currently on sale are not new production runs, they are supplied from existing stocks. We asked both Ben Hermans (Hyperion) and an entrepreneur who is rumoured to be the middleman described above for a statement, but have not heard back from either party so far.
Note from staff: In his original statement (German) at os4welt.de, Simon Neumann explains that one of the reasons for the new price of a X5000 system - 2400 Euros instead of 2100 Euros - is the substantially higher wholesale price the German dealer has to pay. An additional middleman between A-EON and dealers selling to endusers would explain that, since the middleman obviosly has to generate profit as well. (cg)
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25.Mar.2022
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Blog: 'Tables' and 'Strings' in programming language COBOL
Carl Svensson, author of the ARexx tools RxEnv, deals in his latest blog entry with 'Tables' and 'Strings' in the COBOL programming language in response to a corresponding article on The Craft of Coding.
A (no longer maintained) compiler is also available for AmigaOS, along with syntax parsers for GoldEd 4.7 and GoldEd 5.0. (dr)
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25.Mar.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.0
The latest version 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz contains some major changes and a few optimizations:
Adjustments to libs handling: To be able to reduce the amount of loaded blitzlibraries at startup, I divided the former to biglib-files ACIDLIBS and DEFLIBS into four biglib files that are organized according to their purpose:
- baseLibs: base libraries everyone needs or other libs depend on
- utilLibs: libraries that contains several useful functions
- csLibs: libraries that make use of the custom chips hardware
- osLibs: libraries that are wrapper libs for standard amigaos libraries
So if you don't use oslibrary functions or don't do graphics an sound stuff, you can just disable that file from being loaded.
Major internal changes:
- converted tons of code from asm to basic
Minor adjustments:
- added tooltype DISABLE_HIGHLIGHTING to improve performance on lowend machines
- added tooltype DISABLE_LOCALIZATION to reduce needed of memory on lowend machines
- removed tooltype STANDARDEDITMODE, only the new behaviour is supported now
- removed tooltype OLDSEARCH, only the new behaviour is supported now
- removed tooltype USE_ASLDIMS
- renamed tooltype NO_DISPLAYBEEP to DISABLE_DISPLAYBEEP
- renamed tooltype NO_WELCOME to DISABLE_WELCOME
- renamed tooltype TOKENBOLD to BOLD_TOKENS
- added menu entry "Autolayout" to perform an auto arrangement of all open windows per menu call
- added wrapperlib for gadtools.library to osLibs
- reorganized settings window
- added new iconify gadget for source window (OS3.2+)
- updated GlowIcons for all icons in the AmiBlitz3 drawer
Adjustments to tools:
- AB3LibsManager: implemented the new biglibs handling with 4 biglibfiles
- AB3LibsManager: added new column to commandlist table that shows dependencies to other libs
- AB3LibsManager: added shortcuts for some buttons
(dr)
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24.Mar.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Retream: all games available for free download, new beta version of 'Skillgrid'
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua is currently offering all of his retro games for free download, including the commercial titles Skillgrid und BOH Advanced. He asks players who like the games to
make a donation to any organisation supporting the people of Ukraine. His game Skillgrid actually got updated a few days ago, the many changes are documented in the dem Changelog. (cg)
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24.Mar.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview videos: Robocop (AGA), Metro Siege
Daniel Allsopp is working on a port of Data East's classic Arcade game 'Robocop', he's trying create a better Amiga version than the official port from 1989. Allsopp has released a few preview videos (1, 2) of his AGA game which is developed in 68k assembler.
Metro Siege is a side-scrolling Beat'em Up for up to two simultanous players requiring 1 Megabyte of RAM. The game has been in development for 2.5 years, a recently released video recording demonstrates the current state. (cg)
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24.Mar.2022
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 132 (English/Italian)
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 also features an extensive review of the Amiga Strategical 'Exodus' and presents the ZX SpectrumArcade Adventure 'Terramex'. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Mar.2022
deadwood
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AROS x86_64: Update of ABI-v11 developer branch
The AROS developer 'deadwood' had given his stable branch of AROS for 64-bit Intel and AMD processors the code name 'ABIv11' to distinguish it from the in-progress ABIv1 version in the main AROS repository. It has now updated this to version '20220318-1'. The changes can be seen at the title link. (dr)
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24.Mar.2022
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Accelerator board project: Buffee now Closed Source
According to the developers of the turbo card 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported) in their latest blog entry, the project which started as open source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license will now be continued completely closed source.
Up to about version 0.4 of the Buffee project, both the hardware and the newly developed Buffee-PJIT firmware were completely accessible online. The developers had clearly indicated that under the existing license, the project could be studied and ported to one's own hobby boards, but could not be used commercially under any circumstances. There were obvious violations of this, so the developers decided to stop publishing details. They are aware that this does not prevent cloning, but at least makes it more difficult.
The Buffee hardware would remain closed source until the design was abandoned. The corresponding page on 'Open Source Hardware Lab' is no longer available (dr)
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23.Mar.2022
Frank Wille (ANF)
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Compiler: vbcc V0.9h patch 2
After the release of version 0.9h of the C compiler vbcc and a first patch at the beginning of March (amiga-news.de reported), the second patch has now been released, which fixes three optimizer bugs, as well as an old bug in fopen() and a new one in strncat(). (dr)
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23.Mar.2022
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Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' with wireless DB9 receiver
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had started a Kickstarter campaign with the goal of a wireless re-release of the Commodore mouse 1352 (amiga-news.de reported). Although the campaign is still running for three days, 150% (about 120,000 Euro) of the funding goal has already been reached and thus the condition set for the development and production of a wireless DB9 receiver for the Amiga. This will be included with every 'Tank Mouse'. (dr)
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23.Mar.2022
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MorphOS: Screenbar plugin MouseCoords 1.4
The #amigazeux team has updated the screenbar plugin 'Mousecoords' for displaying the current mouse coordinates for MorphOS to version 1.4. Changes:
- Window titles of the window currently under the mouse pointer weren't shown anymore in the info window. Fixed.
- Also shows information about the screen, the monitor and the skin in the info window. See pull open button at the bottom of info window to access these informations.
- Shows more details for the window under the mouse pointer in the info window like shadows and current pointer type.
- Now only displays and updates coords for the instance running on the screen the mouse pointer is on.
(dr)
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23.Mar.2022
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Blog: Considerations to the AmigaOne X1000
Vincent Perkins dedicates his website AmigaNG to the "next generation and new Amigas computers and operating systems." Over 10 years ago he bought his AmigaOne X1000, which he writes had a lot of promise to take the Amiga platform to the next level: Dual-Core support, 64Bit, CPU and the Xmos custom chip. What happened to this initial euphoria he describes in a new blog entry AmigaONE X1000 10 Year Anniversary Thoughts. (dr)
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22.Mar.2022
Artur Jarosik (Patreon)
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Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.95
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 he has released version 0.95 with the following changes:
- Fixed flying vehicles
- Fixed rockets, turrets and other bullets
- Fixed music playback bug
- Fixed: If we played Commando, after saving, he was a normal soldier
- Disabled debug
The game is primarily intended for Amigas upgraded with an Apollo accelerator board, especially the V4 series. However, as the author explained to us, it could be playable on a 68060 processor with a graphics card with the music and sound effects turned off. However, the version now available should play the sound correctly on Amigas without V4 accelerator cards.
If you want to support the author, you can do so on his Patreon page. (dr)
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22.Mar.2022
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8/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2022-03-13
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now.
The update V2022-03-13, released a few days ago, corrects an issue with Copper WAITs that caused a reasonable proportion of PAL Amiga titles to display incorrectly at the bottom of the screen. Furthermore, the update adds support for Amiga fast RAM, and allows user selection of the quantity of chip RAM.
(dr)
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22.Mar.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Kernel 5.17 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
The final Linux kernel 5.17 has been released. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The image can be downloaded in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum. Among other things, the XFS file system and the 9P protocol are now supported. (dr)
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21.Mar.2022
Twitter
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.6.1 for Windows/Mac/Linux
An update to version 11.6.1 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.
With the new version it is now also possible to use AmigaOS 3.2. However, an earlier AmigaOS version or Amiga Forever is still required for the initial installation. The changes in detail:
- NEW: AmigaOS 3.2.1 works with AmiKit now! Use MorpheuZ to install it (at your own risk) on top of your current AmigaOS version used in AmiKit.
- ADDED: AmiKit Dark VisualPrefs theme for AmigaOS 3.2
- UPDATED: AmiKit Morpheuz 11.6.2 by Jan Zahurancik
- UPDATED: AmiKit VisualPrefs themes for FullHD resolution (and AmigaOS 3.2 too)
- UPDATED: AmiKitReset 11.6.1
- UPDATED: VisualPrefs 1.5n by Massimo Tantignone
- UPDATED: WinUAE 4.9.1 German translation by BlackByte
- FIXED: Slow I/O operations of 64-bit WinUAE. A 32-bit executable is used instead.
- FIXED: A possible endless loop of AmiKit AddDown script
- FIXED: A potential WinUAE misconfiguration where mouse wheel movement was interpreted as LeftAlt keypress.
(dr)
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21.Mar.2022
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MorphOS: Screensaver ModernArt Blanker 3.3
ModernArt Blanker is a screensaver that, according to the author, "draws psychedelic shapes like circles, triangles, squares and stars all over the screen producing multicoloured pieces of random modern art". Since our last news about version 3.0, some bugs have been fixed and numerous changes have been made. Among other things, it is now possible to adjust the movement speed, change the palette between monochrome, summer, autumn, winter, spring and night or a random selection of them. Furthermore, there is now a real installation script. (dr)
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21.Mar.2022
goto80
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Diskmag: aSCIIeXPRESS #001
The new ASCII discmag aSCIIeXPRESS by 'Up Rough' and 'Divine Stylers' presents a collection of ASCII art from the last months with a casual soundtrack. It can be downloaded under the title link either as a dms file or watched on YouTube. (dr)
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21.Mar.2022
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Graphic designer Celal Kandemiroglu passed away
GamesWirtschaft (German) has reported that graphic designer and artist Celal Kandemiroglu has passed away in Turkey at the age of 69.
Readers of Amiga Joker, PC Joker and PC Player magazines will be familiar with his cover artwork, which Celâl Kandemiroğlu created in the 1990s. He also worked for the German game companies Ascon / Ascaron, Factor 5, Greenwood Entertainment, Koch Media, Magic Bytes, Rainbow Arts, Reline, Starbyte and Thalion and created the graphics for the game X-Out, for example (see entry at MobyGames). (dr)
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20.Mar.2022
AmigaLove
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Self-made project: MP3 player for parallel port
The "Amiga MAS Player Pro2+" by Marcel Jähne is based on the MAS player developed by Dirk Conrad and is an MP3 player hardware for the parallel port of the Amiga. It plays any kind of MP3 files and MP3 radio streams without loading the processor. The MAS-Player is a small module that does the job of decoding music compressed in MPEG and providing the data as an analog signal. It has an audio output for connection to the stereo system, a DB25 connector for connection to the parallel port and a USB port for 5V power supply. This short video shows the function test on the Amiga 1000. (dr)
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20.Mar.2022
Commodore-News
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Minimig: Revision 1.8 (update)
In 2005 we reported on the start of the Minimig project by Dutch electrical engineer Dennis van Weeren: the reimplementation of the one Amiga 500 in an FPGA. Based on this approach there were other projects like the Mist, which uses its own hardware but for the Amiga core (with AGA support) an adaptation of the Minimig, the MiSTer, an adaptation of MiST to a more powerful FPGA or even the Apollo core.
But the Minimig project itself also continues: After publishing the project's source code and schematics on July 25, 2007, the MiniMig.ca site has been taking care of the project since mid-2021. So with the Revision 1.3 every board got 4 MB RAM by default. Likewise, the SD connector and the 3.5 mm audio jack were replaced and termination resistors for FPGA RAM and FPGA CPU were added.
In mid-February the site released Revision 1.8: The board has 4MB of SRAM divided into 2MB of CHIP, 512KB of ROM and 1.5MB of Slow. In addition, for the first time a real MC68000 CPU (CMOS and NMOS) could be run and PiStorm could deliver over 800MIPS performance to this board.
Update: (22.03.2022, 05:08, dr)
Inspired by the comments of our readers, we have asked the developer Ranko Rodic again:
Since he is still in the process of changing the hardware, he postpones the release of the Gerber files until version 2. Likewise, he gives an outlook on future development:
- At the moment I am working with Renee Cousins (Buffee project) on Minimig FPGA core. At this time Renee successfully integrated stock Gary chip into the core. This will make a significant difference for the bus control. The goal is to make sure Minimig is 100% real Amiga. Soon we will be able to run accelerator cards like TerribleFire 530 with additional RAM and HDD controllers on the board. At the moment only accelerator card that works well is PiStorm.
- Replace outdated Spartan 3 with something modern and cost effective. With the larger FPGA chip we will be able to support AGA and 32-bit architecture.
- Replace old SRAM with DDR. 128MB IC will do
- Make sure the board is mini ITX compliant
- Add floppy disk support and 34pin header. Make sure Minimig can drive real Amiga FDD
- Move from PS/2 to USB
- Add real HDD header to the board
- Add ethernet/wireless
- Before moving forward we will use REV 8 to make sure FPGA core is up to date and 100% compatible with A600 class Amiga. After I will replace old ICs and make sure hardware improvements are in place. As a spinoff I am hoping to move forward with chipset ICs. It would be awesome if we can recreate every custom chip as a FPGA/CPLD. We are making some progress.
(dr)
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20.Mar.2022
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Aminet uploads until 19.03.2022
The following files have been added until 19.03.2022 to Aminet:
ZitaFTPServer.lha comm/tcp 19M OS4 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
just-for-fun.lha demo/misc 4.6M MOS Oldschool Demo in SDL2 by PuR...
void-planetr.lha demo/misc 126K 68k Invitation to Revision 2022
StarDriveSCSI.lha driver/med 51K 68k Microbotics StarDrive SCSI dr...
prism2v2.lha driver/net 404K OS4 Driver for 11Mbps wireless ne...
bsaog.lha game/shoot 810K 68k Blake Stone Aliens of Gold
bsps.lha game/shoot 217K 68k Blake Stone Planet Strike
Chocolate_DOOM.lha game/shoot 2.5M 68k Amiga port of Chocolate DOOM
ODAMEX_RTG.lha game/shoot 19M 68k Amiga port of Odamex (DOOM)
MegaSaperPL.lha game/think 669K 68k Minesweeper game clone
webptools122_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.4M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools122_aros.lha gfx/conv 3.0M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
GF4RSIDB.zip pix/misc 82K Gradient Fonts f. RSI Demo Ma...
TECO-64.lha text/edit 610K MOS TECO (Text Editor and COrrector)
avalanche.lha util/arc 85K OS4 Simple ReAction GUI for xadma...
UnRAR-6.11.lha util/arc 2.5M UnRAR 6.11
GoShell.lha util/shell 20K 68k tool for open Shell in full s...
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20.Mar.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 19.03.2022
The following files have been added until 19.03.2022 to OS4Depot:
analog-cheap-disk.lha dem/mus 685kb 4.1 AmigaOS4.x version of Analog Che...
hieronymus.lha dev/deb 151kb 4.1 Statistical profiler
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
prism2.lha dri/net 404kb 4.0 Driver for 11Mbps wireless netwo...
avalanche.lha uti/arc 85kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
unrar_ml.lha uti/arc 3Mb 4.1 Unpak RAR files
checkas.lha uti/scr 8kb 4.0 Checks for assigns.
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AROS Archives uploads until 19.03.2022
The following files have been added until 19.03.2022 to AROS Archives:
whatiff1.03.lha doc/mis 259kb Magazine in format amigaguide &q...
webptools122_aros.lha lib/mis 3Mb encode/decode images in WebP format
unrar-6.11.lha uti/arc 3Mb UnRAR for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS
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20.Mar.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.03.2022
The following files have been added until 19.03.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
bePlayer_1.3.lha Audio/Players A simple music player u...
GG.module_1.4.lha Communication/KwaKwa A plugin for KwaKwa ins...
Kwakwa_1.9.lha Communication Multiprotocol, plugin b...
just-for-fun.lha Demoscene A small demo to discove...
SDL_2.0.20_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.2...
UnRAR_6.11.lha Files/Archive UnRAR port for MorphOS,...
PrBoom-plus_2.6.2_upda... Games/Shoot3D PrBoom+ is a version of...
freegemas.lha Games/Think Freegemas is an open so...
SuDokuL_1.12.lha Games/Think Sudoku game for Switch/...
MineSweeperGui.lha Games/Think The Minesweeper game wi...
AmiTube_1.0.lha Multimedia The first YouTube Clien...
Wayfarer_3.1.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
Odyssey_1.26-standalon... Network/Web Odyssey Web Browser is ...
TECO-64_200.24.1.lha Text/Edit TECO (Text Editor and C...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 19.03.2022
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 19.03.2022:
- 2022-03-18 updated: Flower Power (Anarchy) patch redone, real files used to avoid OS swaps, line drawing routines fixed, memory requiremens changed to 512k chip and 512k fast, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info, Image)
- 2022-03-13 improved: Airball (Microdeal) trainer options added, demo can be skipped with space or fire, game can be started with space or fire (Info)
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20.Mar.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Emulator: vAmigaWeb 2.0 Beta 1
The Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb for web-browsers is based on vAmiga for Mac OS (amiga-news.de reported). Besides being updated to the current vAmiga core released a couple of days ago, it also contains a new GPU shader renderer. Furthermore there is automatic mapping of used Amiga screen space to host display now. (snx)
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20.Mar.2022
ANF
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PDF magazine: 20th anniversary of kultboy.com (german)
Michael Schmitzer's retro website about game reviews by past german computer magazines, kultboy.com, celebrates its 20th anniversary this weekend. For this reason, a PDF magazine of 42 pages has been created, designed like ASM magazine. It contains interviews with former ASM editors and a retro-podcaster, letters to the editor and, of course, game reviews.
Download: kbm_3_2022.pdf (82 MB) (snx)
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19.Mar.2022
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ACube Systems: Production of Sam460LE boards started
Press release: Dears customers,
we would like to tell you some important news about the production of the Sam460LE boards. Well, to be honest, just one BIG news.
The production has begun!!!
Do not miss the opportunity to be among the first to receive this new board. Join us in this new project by pre-ordering your board.
While waiting for the first batch to be ready, we want to share a preview of the schematics layout of our new board (editor's note: available under the title link). Whenever a new hardware pops up we, as hardcore users, are always interested in this kind of pictures, and we bet that all our customers will be interested as well :-)
Our goal, as always, is to give the AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS communities new hardware to run and enjoy. And let's not forget the large Linux community too! If you want to take part in this adventure, do not hesitate and take your ticket for the trip :-) (dr)
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19.Mar.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 27 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now episode 27 was published, which is about DMAs. (dr)
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18.Mar.2022
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.1 (update)
Just a few days ago, with the release of the new version 3.16 of MorphOS, the Wayfarer web browser not only became the default browser of the operating system, replacing the previous one Odyssey, but the author Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek also contributed an updated version 2.10.
Today he has already released version 3.0, which offers the following features:
- Based on a 2022 WebKitGTK tree, supports most modern websites
- Encryption of passwords via cryptostorage.library
- Support for custom / self-signed server certificates
- Audio playback including HLS
- Video playback including MediaSource support
- Download and Bookmarks managers
- Built-in AdBlock Plus files support
- Written in ObjectiveC and C++
Wayfarer requires MorphOS 3.16 and at least 1GB of RAM. A 1.5GHz or faster CPU with Altivec highly recommended.
Update: (19.03.2022, 19:19, dr)
Meanwhile is version 3.1 is available fixing a crash on exiting fullscreen mode. (dr)
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18.Mar.2022
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History: Commodore's unreleased C64 game machine
In December 1990 Commodore released the Commodore 64 Games System (C64GS), which became a big commercial failure. As the 'Commodore International Historical Society' reports in its latest blog entry, there were obviously concrete ideas in this direction some years before: Andy Finkel provides pictures in this blog entry that show an early prototype. According to the manufacturing date of the chips, this variant is said to date back to at least 1985 and contained a built-in two-button joystick from Sony. (dr)
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17.Mar.2022
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AmigaOne X5000 available from dealers again
As Alinea announces (German) in a posting on os4welt.de, the German dealer currently has A-EON's AmigaOne X5000 in stock. The product photo in the shop is said to be outdated, the machines are now shipped in a different case. According to Alinea, the higher price for the X5000 is caused by inflation and rising component prices, on top of that the computer now ships with a full version of Enhancer 2.1.
Most of the other shops A-EON lists as authorised resellers claim to have the X5000 in stock as well, although it is unclear how many of them always listed the product as available all the time and simple never bothered to update their shop listings. Amigakit is still not listing the X5000 at all.
Approached by amiga-news.de, Alinea confirms (German) that the digital AmigaOS 4 license that ships with the X5000 is supplied by A-EON as well.That would indicate that A-EON's expired AmigaOS license has been renewed in the meantime.
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AmiTube 1.0: YouTube client for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video).
Yesterday, Version 1.0 has been released, which now includes a download queue to start multiple conversations/download jobs that are processed one after the other. Also, an AREXX interface has been implemented that provides commands to search and start a conversion job and to play a movie. Furthermore, due to the great demand, there is also a version for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. The changes in detail:
- History for search
- AROS64 ABIv11 bit version
- MorphOS Version
- Amiga OS4 Version
- Download more Amiga-like audio only formats: mp3 and 8svx
- dual PNG Icons by AmigaSystem
- Download Queue
- Improved AutoPlay
- AREXX interface
- Dutch Translation
The latest version always is available on the AmiTube website or via update check in the application.
Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link. (dr)
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17.Mar.2022
Dirk Hoffmann
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.0 Beta1
Yesterday Dirk Hoffmann released the first beta version of vAmiga 2.0 of his Amiga emulator for MacOS which is currently under development. As he tells us, he had planned to skip the final version 1.1 for quite some time, because in the meantime much more features have been added than originally planned. The highlight compared to the last beta release is the harddrive support. He wrote:
"I didn't really plan to implement this, but GitHub user mras0 has programmed a great harddrive controller (boot rom) that allowed me to add harddrive support with manageable effort. With the beta version released today, vAmiga 2.0 is feature-complete. So as soon as it proves stable enough, I'll release the official version 2.0." Detailed changes:
- New features:
- Added hard drive support.
- The Sparkle updater is back.
- Added a new video mode that automatically centers the display window.
- Enhancements:
- Copper accuracy has been improved.
- vAmiga is a notarised app now.
- The path to the FFmpeg executable can be customised.
- Bugs:
- The HSYNC area has been shifted to the proper location.
The minimum system requirement is macOS 10.15. (dr)
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17.Mar.2022
Chris Young
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.4
In the course of reporting on updates of various tools from Unsatisfactory Software, we had also mentioned Avalanche for the first time, a graphical user interface created with ReAction for the unarchiving tool XAD. Now Chris Young has released version 1.4, which among other things now includes a native OS4 version. Other changes:
- Allow abort during extraction (button or ESC)
- Now asks whether to overwrite files
- ESC can now be used to quit, and Enter to start extraction
- List of files can now be sorted by clicking on the column header
- Clicking anywhere on the line now toggles the checkbox
- Now confirms quit
- Added option to invert selection to menu
- Striped listbrowser
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17.Mar.2022
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Marketplace for 'Open Hardware': Lectronz
Lectronz is a new marketplace for electronics enthusiasts with a focus on the open hardware and DIY (do it yourself) electronics community. As Alain, one of the operators, tells us, the store was launched in early January with a focus on sellers in the EU. One of the reasons for launching Lectronz, he says, was to "to offer tools that address the needs of EU-based makers and small businesses, notably when comes to calculating VAT/taxes. In March we opened to sellers globally and we provided tools that help non-EU sellers import their products, again taking into account new VAT rules that were introduced in the EU in 2021." The software for the platform was written in-house to have full control over the function and also the possibility of future expansion.
A first Amiga item can already be found in the store: the Open Amiga Sampler. The simple mono 8-bit sound sampler for the Amiga is connected via the parallel port. It is based on the design of "echolevel", whose documentation is available on GitHub.
Currently the product is sold out, but as the vendor tells us when asked, he is in the process of building more samplers that should be available by the weekend. He has changed the placement of the electrolytic capacitors on the original design, and another revision to allow for a simpler construction is in the works if interest in his sampler continues. (dr)
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16.Mar.2022
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Book: Status update and ordering option for 'From Vultures to Vampires', Volume
The first book of the two-volume "From Vultures to Vampires" by former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson on Amiga history was delivered in the middle of last year. The Kickstarter campaign to fund the second volume, which Trevor Dickinson told us about in mid-January, failed. In the last update of the Kickstarter campaign David Pleasance admitted that the goal was a bit too ambitious (7.707 Euro out of 17.853 were reached), but at the same time he assured that "producing Volume 2 is most certainly still going ahead full steam".
Depending on the printer's workload, he estimated in the January 21 post that finished hardcovers would be delivered in bulk by mid-March. Since that time has arrived, we checked with David Pleasance to see what the current status of the project is:
They had unfortunately fallen behind schedule with Volume 2 - the task of researching and communicating with so many people and companies, all of whom are part of the book, had become an enormous project that could not have been foreseen before. All the information would have been enough for 3 volumes.
This delay also meant that the deadline originally booked at a print shop in Turkey could not be met. This was compounded by the heavy snowfall, which prevented the workers from getting to the factory. He therefore asks all readers and interested parties for their understanding. He is now waiting for information from the print shop as to the extent to which printing will be delayed.
An "agreement in principal" had been reached with a company based in Germany, he said, which would take delivery of Volume 2 directly from Turkey and individually pack, address and ship each book. This company would deliver to all countries except the United Kingdom. Since the company is based in Germany and is therefore part of the EU, there would also be no problems with EU customs as there were with Volume 1.
Finally, he told how to pre-order Volume 2 currently:
- If you have been a supporter of the Kickstarter campaign, just send him an email and he will explain how to order.
- All others can pre-order directly on his website.
He asks that orders be placed as soon as possible so that he can place the print order with a better knowledge of the quantities needed. (dr)
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16.Mar.2022
MorphZone
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MorphOS 3.16 openssl3.library hotfix
The MorphOS development team has announced: "A vulnerability has been identified and fixed in the OpenSSL 3.0.1 included in MorphOS 3.16.
The vulnerability (CVE-2022-0778) allows malicious attackers to create TLS certificates that when connected to result in the client application hanging indefinitely.
A fixed openssl3.library (based on OpenSSL 3.0.2) will be released as the part of the future MorphOS 3.17 release. Meanwhile you can install the following replacement openssl3.library (1,6 MB) that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.16." (dr)
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