19.Jun.2020
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New keyboard membranes for A500, A1200 and A600
The Polish user Marcin Weglewski has created new keyboard membranes for the Amiga keyboard computers which replace a defective membrane or a membrane with defective foil connector. Both versions - one for A500 and A1200, the other for the A600 - e.g. are available on sordan.ie or Retro Ready. A little review on the membrane for the A1200 you can find in the last issue of "10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast" on Youtube.
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19.Jun.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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AmiWest 2020: 25. and 25. October in Sacramento (California)
According to the organizers, the "local conditions here have stabilized" and the hotel which has been used by the AmiWest event every year also is open again. Therefore it was decided to organize an AmiWest this year. Due to the restrictions in tourism, only local speakers and sponsors will be invited.
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18.Jun.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Multiplayer via Internet: AmigaLive 0.983 (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
AmigaLive is a "Netplay" client which uses the network support of the Amiga emulator FS-UAE providing multiplayer games via the Internet. Both players contact the AmigaLive server and then can play an Amiga game together or against each other as if they were sitting in front of the same computer. AmigaLive also offers simple chat functions.
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18.Jun.2020
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.7.4
The latest version of the programming language AmiBlitz only contains changes in the integrated development environment which is included in AmiBlitz:
- added new tooltype "CURSORSTYLE" with styles "block", "line" and "underline"
- added new tooltype / configuration setting "ASKBEFOREQUIT": before closing the ide, the ide asks before closing
- added new doubleclick-feature: whenn doubleclick on a source word, all occurencies will be shown in label list window
- added new search feature : when opening search-window, the current word is added to the search string gadget automatically
- added new keyshortcut behaviour: ALT+UpArrow/DownArrow: move current line up/down
- added new keyshortcut behaviou: CTRL+LeftArrow/RightArrow moved cursor to start/end of word
- added package "NIB.include" from AmiNet for displaying icons
- changed settings: set minimum screen resolution to 640x480 for screenrequester in ide-settings
- changed eventhandling code of source window (partly converted from asm to ab3)
- changed boundlines from 6 to 2 (cursor distance to top/bottom the source window starts to scroll up/down from)
- fixed scolling issue when marking blocks with mouse while scrolling (was way to fast)
- fixed calculation of viewable columns to use full window width of source window
- fixed non-tokenization issue #7 at source files with uppercase fileextensions (*.AB3)
- fixed display problem with more than 1GB available chip/fast memory
- package fix: REDDebugger-file has now executable bit set (thanks to mdbergmann)
- minor localization fixes
Direct download: AmiBlitz3-3.7.4.zip (10 MB)
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17.Jun.2020
ALB42 Blog (ANF)
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Source codes of MUIMapparium and Leu released, development abandoned
Marcus "ALB42" Sackrow has released the source code of some of his Amiga applications on Github, among others his spreadsheet Leu as well as the OpenStreetMap viewer MUIMapparium. In an entry in his blog Sackrow explained that he discontiniued developing the software:
"As you might know I did not want to have my programs on the highly illegal distribution Coffin OS. You cannot detect Coffin, but it’s a distribution especially made for Vampire, therefore if I block Vampire they will not include my software anymore. Besides the Vampire users could push the Vampire team to condemn this distribution and stop to promote it. All of that did not happen, they still added my stuff, even with the Vampire block and the people became mad about me, not about the Vampire team (or the coffin team). I’m not good at being the bad guy."
Upon request of amiga-news.de Sackrow confirmed that currently he is not motivated to do anything for the Amiga. But the disputes concerning Coffin is only one of the several reasons for his decision. For the moment the server required for MUIMapparium he is going to continue maintaining.
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16.Jun.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Playable preview: Tactical shooter "Project Horizon"
Project Horizon (video) is a "top-view tactical action game that obviously takes place on the dark side of the moon". It requires 2 MB Chip-RAM and a harddrive. The game is supposed to distributed for free including source code and level editor.
Now a playable preview was released which is available as ADF version (download site) without music and as HDF image with music (download site).
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16.Jun.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 145 - preview and excerpts
A preview and extracts from issue 145 (July/August 2020) of Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features a review of "Fred's Journey", the sixth part of the AmigaOS 3.1.4 special and an interview with Andre Zeps (Tiny Little Slug). (cg)
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15.Jun.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Arcade racer: Developer diary on "Super Sprint"
The British developer Graeme Cowie is working on a port of Atari's racing video game Super Sprint to the Amiga. In short "development updates" on Youtube he gives insights into the latest state of the project.
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15.Jun.2020
LemonAmiga (Webseite)
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Arcade games: Bad Ninjas, Blain Home, Lord Vader, Super Capacitor
José A. 'Jojo073' Gonzáles (e.g. Retro Wars, Mini Zorro, Mini Swat) is a very active graphic artist who in co-operation with different developers and using different Game Construction Kits like Backbone or GRAC creates little games distributing them half-commercially. During the last one and a half year obviously we missed some of his releases:
The platform game Bad Ninjas was created with Redpill and is available also as "boxed edition" from the authors. All other games are Backbone productions: Blain Home and Super Capacitor also are platform games while Lord Vader is a beat'em up.
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14.Jun.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.06.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 13th, 2020:
luettjebookholler.lha biz/misc 1.7M OS4 Little Personal Finance program
Roadie.lha comm/net 49K 68k Commodity/GUI App for Roadsho...
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 19K IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs
SteMarRegAMOSSources.lha dev/amos 118K 68k 3 AMOS sources+exes by Stefan...
AMCommand.lha game/shoot 100K 68k Arcade Missile Command
AmiQuake.lha game/shoot 6.3M 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
AGAConv.lha gfx/conv 723K MOS Commodore Amiga CDXL Video Co...
WastedNinja2020.lha mods/8voic 207K 5ch Wasted Ninja 2020 Alterna...
AmiModRadio.lha mus/play 2.7M 68k Play modules from Internet so...
led-20200202.tar.gz text/edit 14K A simple line-oriented text e...
MCAmiga.lha util/dir 1.5M MOS MyCommander for all Amiga sys...
WarpDTPrefsSP.lha util/dtype 12K WarpDTPrefs 45.11 spanish cat...
AmiSSL-4.6.lha util/libs 5.9M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiUpdateSP.lha util/wb 11K AmiUpdate 2.47/53.13 spanish ...
tdcc.lha util/wb 1.3M MOS Timer for shutdown and displa...
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14.Jun.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.06.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 13th, 2020:
chimaera.lha gam/adv 128kb 4.0 rethinking the Colossal Cave adv...
rftg.zip gam/pla 119Mb 4.1 Run, Shoot & Jump
amilines_rus.lha gam/puz 23kb 4.0 Russian catalog file for AmiLine...
gemrb.lha gam/str 6Mb 4.0 Portable Bioware's Infinity...
homeworld.lha gam/str 18Mb 4.0 Real-time strategy video game
netpanzer_afxgroup.lha gam/str 18Mb 4.0 Multiplayer online RTS game with...
wesnoth_afxgroup.lha gam/str 297Mb 4.0 Battle for Wesnoth (afxgroup ver...
iodbc.lha off/dat 2Mb 4.0 Indipendent Open Database
iodbc_sdk.lha off/dat 662kb 4.0 Indipendent Open Database SDK
luettjebookholler.lha off/mis 2Mb 4.1 Little Personal Finance program
deark.lha uti/arc 3Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
omanko.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.0 Get MD5 and CRC32 checksums
bbquote.lha uti/tex 57kb 4.0 Wrap clipboard text in BB quote ...
gnash.lha vid/med 8Mb 4.0 The GNU Flash player
gnash-src.lha vid/med 8Mb 4.0 The GNU Flash player
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14.Jun.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 13.06.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until June 13th, 2020:
AGAConv_0.9.5.lha Commodore Amiga CDXL Video Converter
AmiSSL_4.6_68k.lha OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library.
Ancient.lha Decompress ancient formats
FireAttack_1.0.lha LCD game conversion
Imp_1.0.lha Play modules from internet, chat...
IntyBASIC_1.4.1.lha BASIC compiler for Intellivision
Omanko!_1.0.lha A tiny web tool made to get the MD5 and CRC32 ch...
tdcc_0.2.lha Timer for shutdown and display/blanker control
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14.Jun.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 13.06.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until June 13th, 2020:
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13.Jun.2020
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C source codes for unreleased Amiga games: "Magic Miner" and "Sea Trade"
Magic Miner and Sea Trade are two Amiga games written in C, which the author Joona Palaste started developing around the turn of the millennium but never finished. Palaste describes the status of the games which were compiled using DICE as "almost completed". He has released the source codes under the GNU GPL on Github.
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13.Jun.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Text adventure: "The Queen's Footsteps", collector's edition
"The Queen's Footsteps" is a text adventure available for a lot of platforms. The "collector's edition" which can be purchased on poly.play includes the game as disk image on a microSD card, a printed manual, a DINA3 poster as well as a pocket mirror in linen bag. As bonus the adventure "Two days to the Race" featuring the same actor is also included.
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13.Jun.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.15
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Changes in version 0.7.15:
- Extra HalfBrite (EHB) support added. Now you can have 64 colors in ECS games.
- Tile animations are now possible. Anim speed can be changed but for the time being all animations have the same speed.
- FIX:When no sprites are used, the tile palette is used for the game.
- FIX:issue in Change Tile trigger when used tilesets with borders.
- FIX: issue in Dialogs not showing properly. This only happened in the exported game.
- FIX: in bar HUD elements.
- Some other minor changes and fixes.
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12.Jun.2020
Gregory Donner (E-Mail)
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Graphics card: Firmware and driver update for ZZ9000
For his graphics card ZZ9000 (amiga-news.de reported) Lukas F. Hartmann has released updates of the firmware and the driver. Version 1.6.2 among others offers improved stability and performance.
Changes:
- Higher stability, esp. with 68060/CyberStorm. Better output signal. 1.5.1 for Zorro 3 had faulty FPGA timing. We finally figured out this was a Xilinx Vivado bug
- Improved raw read/write speed
- Improved speed on some P96 drawing functions, especially RectFill() Pattern
- Fixes to network driver incl. the possibility to switch to INT2 instead of INT6 in the case you have hardware conflicts. To do this, set the interrupt jumper on ZZ9000 to INT2 and create an empty file ENVARC:ZZ9K_INT2
- Unified scandoubler (“videocap”) code for Denise and Videoslot sampling with slightly better centering
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12.Jun.2020
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Full version for download: Nicky 2
After the platform game Nicky Boom, now the successor released in 1993, "Nicky 2", can be downloaded for free from the website of the Amiga Future. An ADF disk image as well as WHDLoad installer are available.
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12.Jun.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Crowdfunding: A book from David Pleasance and Trevor Dickinson
After Commodore - The Inside Story, the former "managing director" of Commodore UK, David Pleasance, is working on a second book, this time in co-operation with Trevor Dickinson from A-EON. The book with the subtitle "From Vultures to Vampires" will tell the Amiga history "starting from the day when Escom were the highest bidder at Commodore's liquidator’s auction in New York (I was there), how their attempts to relaunch the Amiga spectacularly failed, then the troublesome years when our beloved computer bounced around from company to company, Viscorp, Quickpack, Gateway 2000, etc. and beyond."
For 15 Euro supporters will get an e-book (epub, mobi and PDF), for 30 Euro a printed book. Both variants are supposed to be available in February 2021.
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12.Jun.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Arcade classic: Missile Command
Kevin Gallagher's "Missile Command" (video) is a remake of Ataris' arcade classic having the same name. The game runs on each Amiga having at least 512 KB RAM. The developer is already working on another arcade remake, the shooter Phoenix.
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11.Jun.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video: Hans de Ruiter about his stagnant laptop project
For a long time there has not been any news about Hans de Ruiter's plans of creating a laptop case for the Tabor board (amiga-news.de reported). In a video now the developer, well-known for his RadeonHD graphics card drivers, spoke about this project: According to him it has not been cancelled but is only stagnating.
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11.Jun.2020
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Self-made project: USB joystick adapter with support for three fire buttons
With Volker Oth's "C64 Joystick Adapter" you can connect Atari and Commodore compatible joysticks to modern computers having an USB port. The adapter supports up to three fire buttons, the mode for additional fire buttons (Amiga or C64) is set by a click on the button and displayed with a status LED.
Up to four additional buttons can be connected to the adapter itself, required for navigating in the menus of the C64 replicas THEC64 and THEC64 Mini. On Bitbucket all required documents of the adapter Oth has published under the Creative-Commons licence CC-BY-SA.
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10.Jun.2020
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Web browser: IBrowse 2.5.3
Press release: IBrowse 2.5.3 has been released and can now be downloaded to update your existing IBrowse 2.5 installation (OS4 users can also upgrade using AmiUpdate). This is a free update for registered owners of IBrowse 2.5. IBrowse 2.4 and 1.x users can upgrade to IBrowse 2.5.3 via our store at discounted rates. We hope you are all well in these strange times - stay safe!
The main target for this new version was to improve performance on HTTPS connections, given that SSL is relatively slow on 68k processors. Despite the performance enhancements that came in AmiSSL 4.4 (4.6 is available now, by the way), there is not much more that can be done in AmiSSL unless someone is able to write 68k assembly optimised versions of some of the modules (as is the case for PowerPC). Therefore, some other options have been exploited to enhance performance, which have been in beta testing over the past 3 months, due to the major changes required to the HTTP engine...
SSL Session Caching:
IBrowse 2.5.3 now implements a SSL session cache for all HTTPS connections, supporting all the differing session/ticket methods use from TLSv1.0 to TLSv1.3. This allows the slow initial handshaking to be bypassed on subsequent connections to the same host, thus increasing performance noticably on OS3, and even on OS4 too. Most websites support this feature universally.
Persistent Connections:
This is an older HTTP feature that was never implemented in IBrowse until now, partly because IBrowse has always relied on opening multiple connections to websites, which didn't really make this feature worthwhile. However, it can be useful for HTTPS connections as it allows them to be left open and reused, without having spend CPU time renegotiating the SSL connection at all. HTTP(S) persistent connections support is now available in IBrowse 2.5.3 (can be disabled in the settings). Not all websites support persistent connections and, some of those that do, do not keep connections open long enough (e.g. 1 second) to make a difference.
We advise that 68k users pay additional attention to the Max. number of connections and Max. number of secure connections settings in the network preferences. These settings may need retuning because of the two new features described above. Probably, you should not set the number of secure connections to above 4, otherwise multiple connections can battle for CPU time and may well end up timing out. Fewer connections can turn out to be faster, but we suggest that you experiment with these settings to see what feels the best on your particular system.
A number of other improvements and fixes have also been made and are listed in the history log and newly updated changes summary. We would also love to hear your experience of the new features on our mailing list which is still working and hosted by Yahoo! Groups.
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09.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full version for download: Nicky Boom
The full version of the platform game Nicky Boom released in 1992 can be downloaded from the website of the Amiga Future for free. ADF and IPF images as well as WHDLoad installers are available. Additionally a PDF version of the manual can be downloaded as well.
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09.Jun.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #68 - AGABlaster
In issue 68 of the videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton has introduced the programs AGABlaster (amiga-news.de reported) and AGAConv written by Markus Schordan. AGAConv can convert video files into Commodore's CDXL video format and AGABlaster can then play them.
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09.Jun.2020
Github
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 4.6 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 4.6.
Changes:
- Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility to latest OpenSSL 1.1.1g (21.04.2020) version, which brings security and bug fixes.
- Tweaks to allow and force Amithlon to use the 68060 target, due to 64-bit integer math emulation being broken in Amithlon (68080 and MorphOS should continue to use the more optimal 68020-40 target).
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09.Jun.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Tutorial: The game contruction kit "RedPill"
Jens Henschel is working on a German tutorial on the game construction kit RedPill. According to the author text is still in a very early stage but is permanently reworked and completed, also based on the feedback of the RedPill developer Peris who in our portrait asked for such a supoort.
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08.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Warp 560/Warp 1260: Firmware Pack 1.008
CS-Lab has released an update of the firmware for the 68060-based Warp accelerator boards. Changes of 'Warp Firmware Pack 1.008':
- USB/HID keyboard support
- Composite USB devices support i.e. kbd/mouse receiver in a single USB device
- Dynamic SD card mount/unmount on insert/remove event
- Added SD card / USB drive directory reading in WarpTool
- Minor RTC fixes
- FPGA temperature added to fan regulator logic
- Hostname fix in ESP32 WiFi module
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08.Jun.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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sdbox: Open source SD card reader for the parallel port
'sdbox' developed by Jorgen Bilander is a self-construction board which connects a Arduino Nano V3 as well as a common SD card reader to the parallel port of an Amiga and with the helpof an AmigaOS driver allows to access SD cards. The board, the code as well as the template for a 3d printer are available on Github.
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08.Jun.2020
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AmigaOS 4: Financial management "Lüttje Bookholler" 1.80
The author Achim Pankalla wrote: "It is a easy to use personal finance program. "Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant" and that is what you are, when using my little program. The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. LB is email-ware, if you want to use it permanent, please send me an email and you will get some advantages! for examples updates...LB needs at least AOS4.1u6".
Version 1.80 now also supports importing the QIF-format; by adding this extension maybe it is possible to change from a different program to Lüttje Bookholler. Please note that files which were saved with version 1.80, cannot be opened with previous versions of the program.
The author would like to thank all the testers and users. As usual the new version is available on Aminet or OS4Depot. Lüttje Bookholler "probably has not been finished" and is developed further. Actually the author is quite satisfied with his program - therefore it is up to you to call for new features. And of course to report bugs!
Download: luettjebookholler.lha (2 MB)
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07.Jun.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.06.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 6th, 2020:
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 25K 68k 17 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
IntyBASIC.lha dev/cross 605K MOS BASIC compiler for Intellivision
libdsk-mos.lha dev/lib 4.3M MOS Link lib for manipulation of ...
Mattonite.lha game/actio 946K 68k Arkanoid like Pal game almost...
AmiQuake.lha game/shoot 264K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
MinedField.lha game/think 30K 68k Windows alike game for the Amiga
Runaway_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.3M x86 LCD game conversion
Runaway_MOS.lha game/wb 2.2M MOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS3.lha game/wb 4.1M 68k LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS4.lha game/wb 2.6M OS4 LCD game conversion
Runaway_WOS.lha game/wb 2.5M WOS LCD game conversion
IconMaster.lzh misc/antiq 31K 68k Classic icon editor
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
imp.lha mus/play 79K MOS Play modules from internet, c...
ancient.lha util/arc 629K MOS Decompress ancient formats
MCAmiga.lha util/dir 1.5M MOS MyCommander for all Amiga sys...
AnalogClock.lha util/wb 38K 68k Analog transparent clock for ...
IconMaster_de.lha util/wb 1K German catalog for IconMaster
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07.Jun.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.06.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 6th, 2020:
intybasic.lha dev/mis 1005k 4.0 BASIC compiler for Intellivision
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
hle-poker.lha gam/car 1Mb 4.0 Guess the next card to appear in...
rftg.zip gam/pla 66Mb 4.1 Run, Shoot & Jump
mooamplifier.lha gra/the 41kb 4.0 16colored skin for AmigaAMP 3
shaderjoy.lha gra/vie 4Mb 4.1 Display fragment shaders
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07.Jun.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 06.06.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until June 6th, 2020:
Africa_1.55.lha A conversion of 3W board game by James Jacobs.
Augustus_1.4.0.lha An open source re-implementation of Caesar III. ...
CannonBall_sdl2.lha CannonBall - An Enhanced Out Run Engine - Sdl2 P...
Iris_beta0.90.lha New email client supports IMAP, SSL, email autoc...
Julius_1.4.1.lha An open source re-implementation of Caesar III. ...
LibDsk_1.5.12.lha Link lib for manipulation of disk images
MCAmiga_0.8.lha MyCommander for Amiga
OpenSupaplex.lha OpenSupaplex 0.7.1 - reimplementation of Supaple...
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07.Jun.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.06.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until June 6th, 2020:
- 2020-06-06 fixed: Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision) fixed 'SYSTEM ERR -6', added another blitter fix (Info)
- 2020-06-05 improved: Cedric (Neo/Alcatraz) joypad controls added, fixed bug in level 5, keyboard timings fixed, trainer improved (Info)
- 2020-06-05 new: Felix - Don't You Want Me (Project A) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-06-03 new: Starlight (Mystic & TRSI) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2020-06-03 new: Lost Track (Illusion) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-06-03 fixed: Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis) slave compatible with the latest whdload, delay for the DMA logo display added (Info)
- 2020-06-03 fixed: Chessmaster 2000 (The Software Toolworks) slave works on 68000 machine now (Info)
- 2020-06-02 new: Aural Illusions (Genocide) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-06-01 updated: Krest Mass Leftovers (Anarchy) patch redone, line drawing routines fixed, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-31 improved: Toki (Ocean) install script corrected for the Hit Squad version (Info)
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06.Jun.2020
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File manager: MCAmiga 0.8 for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's MCAmiga is a file manager inspired by Norton and Midnight Commander which can be completely used with the keyboard. Changes in version 0.8:
- Bugfix Move from archive
- lynx type movement (left,right cursor to browse)
- Bugfix initial view as drive view (“LEFT=” shows the drive list as start)
- Bugfix overwrite requester when extracting files
- Bugfix crash on double click on file in archive
- Ask to rename the icon together with the file
- Tool entry to select all info files of selected files
- Better support for german umlauts
- automatically create dir icon on request
MCAmiga is available for AmigaOS (m68k, PPC), MorphOS and AROS (x86, x64, ARM). The program at least requires 4 MB RAM, according to the author the AmigaOS-4 version does not run on a X5000.
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05.Jun.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Card game: High-Low-Equal Poker Card 1.10
In the card game "High-Low-Equal Poker Card" written by Juan Carlos Herran Martin using Hollywood you have to guess if the next card is higher or lower, and earn points.
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04.Jun.2020
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Amigakit announced datatype system
Last year the British retailer Amigakit acquired the rights to the AKDatatypes developed by Andreas Kleinert. In a discussion on amiga.org, Matthew Leaman gives insights into the current stage of development. He also explained that Amigakit is not only going to rework the datatypes but also to write a datatypes.library as well as a new AddDatatypes command. For the future it is planned to work "on the datatype system in any meaningful way" which will be the foundation "for many progressive developments".
Some users remarked that the development has not been coordinated with the team of AmigaOS 3.2 and thus maybe some work will be done twice or will result in incompatibilities. Leaman has responded that due to the legal disputes regarding AmigaOS 3.1.4 a co-operation would be risky. Besides, the "professional" (quote from Leaman) developer who is writing the datatype system for Amigakit is paid for his work - but the OS developers would be not.
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03.Jun.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Game: Demo version of VergeWorld - Icarus Rising
VergeWorld: Icarus Rising is "a sci-fi shoot'em up, racer game with exploration elements" which is in development. Now a demo version is available as ADF file in which you control a spaceship through a canyon (video).
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03.Jun.2020
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Print magazine: Issue 118 of Amiga Future readable online
The English issue 118 (January/February 2016) of the print magazin "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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03.Jun.2020
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Crowdfunding: Book "Demomaker - The Amiga Years"
"Demomaker - The Amiga Years" is supposed to become a book series which will introduce the most important Amiga scene demos and groups. The first part covering the years 1984 to 1993 is now being financed via Indiegogo. For 35 Euro you would get a hardcover book with 452 pages. The funding campaign will last until 22. June. So far about 3000 Euro have been donated, 14.000 Euro are required.
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02.Jun.2020
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Backbone game: "Air Mail" - free digital version and Boxed Edition
"Air Mail" (video of a previous alpha version) is another arcade game created with Backbone and by José A. 'Jojo073' Gonzáles (e.g. Mini Zorro, Mini Swat, Brus Li) and Ricardo Vieira. As usual a "boxed edition" will be sold on amigastore.eu which currently can be ordered via e-mail from the developers. If you want to have the free digital version then you also should contact the developers.
Update: 29.06.20, 17:30, cg):
Fixed the name of the second developer: Gonzáles' partner when creating Air Mail was Ricardo Vieira. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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New interpreter for Maniac Mansion and Co.: Parrot
Another "player" for the game data of classic point'n-click adventures is developed called "Parrot". At least the SCUMM based games developed by Lucasfilm are supposed to run. In contrast to existing solutions like ScummVM, Parrot is being developed especially for the Amiga and therefore is optimized for this system and its chipset. For example before the first launch, all data are converted into typical Amiga formats to make them playable also on less powerful copmputers. At least "an ECS Amiga, running Workbench 2" is required.
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01.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Decompressing Amiga archives: Ancient Format Decompressor
The "Ancient Format Decompressor" can decompress Amiga archives which were compressed on 16-Bit home computers using common compression programs. The source code can be compiled on every modern system. The following formats are currently supported:
- CrunchMania by Thomas Schwarz: supports both new (version 2) and old stream formats:
- CrM!: Crunch-Mania standard-mode
- Crm!: Crunch-Mania standard-mode, sampled
- CrM2: Crunch-Mania LZH-mode
- Crm2: Crunch-Mania LZH-mode, sampled
- Disk Masher System a.k.a. DMS
- Supports all different compression methods (NONE,SIMPLE,QUICK,MEDIUM,DEEP,HEAVY1,HEAVY2)
- Supports password bypassing
- File Imploder (and most of its clones), specifically with following headers:
- ATN!
- BDPI
- CHFI
- EDAM
- IMP!
- M.H.
- RDC9
- FLT! (verification missing)
- Dupa (verification missing)
- PARA (verification missing)
- PowerPacker
- PP 1.1 (verification missing)
- PP 2.0
- Rob Northen compressors. supports all 3 known formats:
- RNC1: Both old and formats utilizing the same header. heuristics for detecting the current one
- RNC2: RNC version 2 stream
- Turbo Packer by Wolfgang Mayerle.
- Standard gzip
- Standard bzip2, both normal and randomized
- Zip decompressor backend (decompressor only, no Zip file format reading yet) with following methods
- Shrink
- Reduce
- Implode
- Deflate
- Deflate64
- Bzip2
- Lha/Lzh decompressor backend (decompressor only, no Lha file format reading yet) with following methods
- LH0: Null compressor
- LH1: LZRW-compressor with 4kB window
- LH2: LZRW-compressor with Dynamic Huffman Encoding (experimental)
- LH3: LZRW-compressor (experimental)
- LH4: LZRW-compressor with 4kB window
- LH5: LZRW-compressor with 8kB window
- LH6: LZRW-compressor with 32kB window
- LH7: LZRW-compressor with 64kB window
- LH8: LZRW-compressor with 64kB window (Joe Jared extension)
- LHX: LZRW-compressor with up to 512kB window (UnLHX extension)
- LZ4: Null compressor
- LZ5: LZ-compressor
- LZS: LZ-compressor
- PM0: Null compressor
- PM1: LZ-compressor
- PM2: LZ-compressor
- Supports opening XPK-encapsulated files. XPK decompressors supported are:
- ACCA: Andre's Code Compression Algorithm
- ARTM: Arithmetic encoding compressor
- BLZW: LZW-compressor
- BZP2: Bzip2 backend for XPK
- CBR0: RLE compressor
- CBR1: RLE compressor
- CRM2: CrunchMania backend for XPK
- CRMS: CrunchMania backend for XPK, sampled
- CYB2: xpkCybPrefs container
- DLTA: Delta encoding
- DUKE: NUKE with Delta encoding
- ELZX: LZX-compressor
- FAST: LZ77-compressor
- FBR2: CyberYAFA compressor
- FRHT: LZ77-compressor
- FRLE: RLE compressor
- GZIP: Deflate backend for XPK
- HUFF: Huffman modeling compressor
- HFMN: Huffman modeling compressor
- ILZR: Incremental Lempel-Ziv-Renau compressor
- IMPL: File Imploder backend for XPK
- LHLB: LZRW-compressor
- LIN1: Lino packer
- LIN2: Lino packer
- LIN3: Lino packer
- LIN4: Lino packer
- LZBS: CyberYAFA compressor
- LZCB: LZ-compressor
- LZW2: CyberYAFA compressor
- LZW3: CyberYAFA compressor
- LZW4: CyberYAFA compressor
- LZW5: CyberYAFA compressor
- MASH: LZRW-compressor
- NONE: Null compressor
- NUKE: LZ77-compressor
- PWPK: PowerPacker backend for XPK
- RAKE: LZ77-compressor
- RDCN: Ross Data Compression
- RLEN: RLE compressor
- SASC: LZ-compressor with arithmetic encoding
- SDHC: Sample delta huffman compressor
- SHR3: LZ-compressor with arithmetic encoding
- SHRI: LZ-compressor with arithmetic encoding
- SHSC: Context modeling compressor
- SLZ3: CyberYAFA compressor
- SLZX: LZX-compressor with delta encoding
- SMPL: Huffman compressor with delta encoding
- SQSH: Compressor for sampled sounds
- TDCS: LZ77-compressor
- ZENO: LZW-compressor
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01.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Remote access to Amigas: squirt
"squirt" is a server having only 5 kb which is launched on Amigas and then allows the remote access to the computer via the network. Using special command line programs you then can control the Amiga with the help of any other computer. In a text-based console also file transfers, switching directories and executing (non-active) Amiga commands are possible. Additionally squirt can be used as backup solution: A special command creates incremental backups of directories.
Currently squirt only is available as source code and has to be compiled by yourself. If the commands for the remote access only work under Unix-like systems or also under Windows, we cannot say. The system currently allows only anonymous access - therefore the author strongly recommends: do not use the tool on Amiga systems which are connected to the Internet.
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31.May.2020
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Aminet-Uploads bis 30.05.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 30th, 2020:
netsurf.lha comm/www 6.9M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
netsurf_os3.lha comm/www 2.8M 68k Fast CSS capable web browser
SP96-Fade.lha demo/sp96 3.8M 68k "Fade" by Melting Pot
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 25K 68k 16 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/blitz 24K 68k 16 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
filex-2.6-morphos.lha disk/moni 550K MOS binary file editor (MorphOS v...
Africa.lha game/board 293K 68k Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-AROS.zip game/board 290K x86 Conversion of 3W board game
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 340K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 349K OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
FireAttack_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.9M x86 LCD game conversion
FireAttack_MOS.lha game/wb 2.8M MOS LCD game conversion
FireAttack_OS3.lha game/wb 2.8M 68k LCD game conversion
FireAttack_OS4.lha game/wb 3.1M OS4 LCD game conversion
FireAttack_WOS.lha game/wb 3.1M WOS LCD game conversion
PaletteMaster263.lha gfx/misc 74K 68k Powerful Amiga palette organizer
PoligoniRegolari.lha gfx/show 21K 68k Draws regular poligon with 3-...
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 2.0M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
adt.c.gz misc/unix 23K Aminet Download Tool
opmod520.lha mus/misc 54K 68k Module optimizer (shareware, ...
Morpheus_1.76.lha text/dtp 2.7M MOS Word processor
annotate_pascal_synta... text/edit 397K Annotate Pascal Syntax
MCAmiga.lha util/dir 1.4M MOS MyCommander for all Amiga sys...
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 198K MOS WarpDT preferences program V4...
WarpDTPrefs_deutsch.lha util/dtype 2K German catalog for WarpDTPrefs
WarpWebPdt.lha util/dtype 291K WOS WebP image datatype V45.1
a3640MOD_AIBB.lha util/moni 269K 68k AIBB module of a modded A3640...
tz.lha util/time 348K 68k Timezone Database & Library
tzdata.lha util/time 368K Time Zone Database
tzutils7.lha util/time 175K 68k Date and time utilities
AnalogClock.lha util/wb 38K 68k Analog clock for all the Clas...
DockBot.lha util/wb 380K 68k A program launcher for OS 3.
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31.May.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.05.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 30th, 2020:
warpdtprefs.lha dat/ima 198kb 4.0 WarpDT preferences program
warpwebpdt.lha dat/ima 291kb 4.0 WebP image datatype
africa.lha gam/boa 349kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
rftg.zip gam/pla 52Mb 4.1 Run & Jump
netsurf.lha net/bro 7Mb 4.0 Fast CSS capable browser
evenmore.lha uti/tex 431kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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31.May.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 30.05.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until May 30th, 2020:
ACE_1.21.lha The acidulous CPC/CPC+ emulator by OffseT of Fut...
AmiArcadia_26.44.lha A Signetics-based machines emulator.
EvenMore_0.94.lha A freeware Textviewer Chris Perver.
Hi-Low-Equal Poker Car... Hi-Low-Equal Poker Card
iConecta_3.26.lha A little and easy program to test your Internet ...
Iris_beta0.89.lha New email client supports IMAP, SSL, email autoc...
Kaaris_vs_Booba_1.2.lha Kaaris vs Booba port by Ace of Pur3lam3rs with h...
MCAmiga_0.5.lha MyCommander for Amiga
Morpheus_1.76.lha Word processor with Unicode support
RocksNDiamonds_4.1.4.1... Arcade style game in the tradition of Boulder Da...
SuperMethaneBros_SDL2.lha Super Methane Bros - MorphOS version by BeWorld ...
WitchCleaner_1.10.lha A little and easy program to clean the .recycled...
ZGloom_0.3.0.lha ZGloom, A re-implementation of [Amiga FPS Gloom]...
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31.May.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.05.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until May 30th, 2020:
- 2020-05-30 improved: Populous 2 (EOA/Bullfrog) speed regulation added, newer kickemu (Info)
- 2020-05-30 updated: Gulp! (ICE) fixed install script (Info)
- 2020-05-29 updated: Gulp! (ICE) install script and readme corrected (Info)
- 2020-05-28 improved: Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision) fixed graphical issues, handle disk requester, added more language selection options, reduced chipmem usage to 512k, cleaned up protection part (Info)
- 2020-05-26 improved: Gulp! (ICE) password protection removed, fixed keyboard interrupt, fixed end sequence (Info)
- 2020-05-24 fixed: Tin Toy Adventure (Mutation Software) corrected install script (Info)
- 2020-05-24 improved: Dungeon Master (FTL/Software Heaven) trainer added (Info)
- 2020-05-24 new: Astérix and the Magic Carpet / Astérix Chez Rahà zade / Astérix Im Morgenland (Cockel Vision) done by JOTD (Info)
- 2020-05-24 improved: Astérix: Operation Getafix / Astérix: El Golpe Del Menhir / Astérix: Le Coup Du Menhir / Astérix: Operation Hinkelstein (Coktel Vision) blitterwaits corrected, supports more versions, fixed sound, trainer added, uses fast memory (Info)
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31.May.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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CS-Lab: First Warp accelerator boards shipped to testers / Firmware 1.007
CS-Lab has shipped the first Warp accelerator boards to beta testers. After the Warp 1260 and the Warp 560 - both versions available for 499 Euro without a processor (amiga-news.de reported) - now a Warp 4060 is planned as well. Information on purchasing the boards will be available soon. First CS-Lab is waiting for the the feedback of the testers.
Additional to the release of the new firmware version 1.007, two new videos are available: "Unboxing Warp1260" as well as "Some more testing the Warp1260".
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30.May.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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FPGA clone: Minimig-AGA-Core for Turbo Chameleon 64
For some time emulations of the Amiga-OCS/ECS chipsets from the Minimig project are available as "Core" for the FPGA-based C64 extension Turbo Chameleon 64 sold by Individual Computers which can operate as stand-alone computer - independently of a C64. Now Alastair Robinson has ported the AGA version of Minimig to the system as well.
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