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29.Dec.2023



AmigaOS 4: Editor Lite XL 2.1.2r1
George 'walkero' Sokianos has just released version 2.1.2r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). He wrote:

"Today, Lite XL 2.1.2 was released for every system by the official development team, as they usually do after Christmas. So, it is the perfect time to release a new version for AmigaOS 4 as well.

During December, I was working to synchronise the code from the official repository with my personal one, making it compile and work on my system. I was also experimenting with a way to convert ISO text to Unicode, as a way to load correctly files that include characters with umlauts or from other languages, like Greek.

I was based on another plugin and the codesets library to do this conversion, which seems to work quite well. To enable it, the user needs to enable the codesets plugin, like any other plugin. After that, and when lite-xl is running, two new menu options are available to open and save a file with a specific encoding. By default, this new plugin reads the system encoding and uses that to open the files. Based on my tests, this is enough, but as it is an experimental plugin, I am curious to see how it works for others.

Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the typing in other encodings issue. I tracked it down to a specific SDL2 function that seems not to work when the keymap is changed. So, some specific event is not triggered, which is necessary for the print of the characters. It might be a limitation of the SDL2 itself. I will keep on looking into that.

The codesets plugin is only available for AmigaOS 4 for now. I am working on the MorphOS version. That's why I didn't release a new version of Lite XL for the MorphOS, which is in development.

The new release of Lite XL 2.1.2 got numerous performance improvements and fixes from the official team, which can be read on GitHub.

The AmigaOS4 version can be downloaded from my Git repository and soon from OS4Depot."

You can support the developer on ko-fi. (dr)

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29.Dec.2023



Analogue Pocket: Amiga core V0.1.2
The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. Version 0.1.2 has now been published of the Amiga Core which adapts the mouse setting to the new firmware 2.0. (dr)

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29.Dec.2023



Christmas game: Santa's Workout 3 - Silent Night
After "Vector5 Games" released the first two parts only for the C64, the third part is now also available for the Amiga: in "Santa's Workout 3 - Silent Night" (YouTube video) the special feature is that the player, as Santa Claus, has to act extremely quietly so as not to wake the sleeping children. (dr)

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29.Dec.2023



Platform game: "Super Delivery Boy - The Holiday Shift" 2023.1
The mini game "Super Delivery Boy - The Holiday Shift" (YouTube video) was updated again (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
  • Rewritten and simplified most of the code
  • Improved performance on low end machines
  • More precise collision detection when delivering presents
  • Some graphical improvements
  • Bug fixes
(dr)

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28.Dec.2023



AmigaOS 4: Web browser NetSurf 3.11
After around three and a half years various test builds an update of the NetSurf browser to version 3.11 was published today, together with a version for AmigaOS 4, provided by Chris Young under the title link. NetSurf 3.11 features improved page layout with CSS flex support. It also features many other optimisations and enhancements. Changes of the Amiga port:
  • Added page theme option.
  • Improved bitmap handling.
  • Improved and optimised Unicode handling.
  • Stability improvements.
After initial tests on our part, the support for encrypted pages that had been lost in test builds is working again. Unfortunately, access to downloads from GitHub pages ("Assets") still does not work.

Officially, no conversion for AmigaOS 3 has (yet) been published, but the last test build from 28 December 2023, NetSurf-gcc-6637.lha (4,3 MB), should basically correspond to version 3.11. (dr)

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28.Dec.2023



Java program: ham_convert 1.9.3
Sebastian Sieczko's java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats to the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.9.3. Changes:
  • dded Oric mode (experimental). Oric was a British 8-bit computer powered by the 6502 cpu with 8-color graphics with no v-sync.
  • Dynamic Hires: cancel option to abort conversion.
  • rgbg_pal cli parameter can be used to select fixed rgbg ham pattern mode in ham6.
  • Code cleanup.
(dr)

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27.Dec.2023
Gaming on AmigaOS 4 (ANF)


Interview with Steffen Häuser (Heretic II port)
In addition to his monthly summaries of AmigaOS 4 news, 'Puni' has now also conducted an interview with Steffen 'TheMagicSN' Häuser, who is working on AmigaOS 4 ports of the games Heretic II and Sin, at the title link. (snx)

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27.Dec.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


AROS: Review of December 2023
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS news for the month of December at the title link. (snx)

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27.Dec.2023
Nicola Morocutti (ANF)


Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 17
The seventeenth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available with 50 color pages both as a booklet and digitally, deals with the following topics:
  • Games Reviews: Crimbo, STAR WARS: Dark Forces, L’Abbaye des Morts, Death Rally, Emerald Caves, Rally Cross, Project Quest, Super Bagman, Hop to the top: Bunny’s Revenge
  • Reviews: IBrowse 3.0, zTools
  • Interview: A man called CLOANTO
  • Hardware: Greaseweazle and Waffle
  • Amiga GCC – Not only Amiga…
  • Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Demo Scene, Back Chat
(snx)

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27.Dec.2023
Seiya (ANF)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 153 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.

Amiga-related, the current issue is about 1000cc Turbo and Frogger500. (snx)

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27.Dec.2023



8/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2023-12-26
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. Changes:
  • improves support for Apple II NIB images;
  • thanks to @ryandesign corrects Apple II/II+/IIe floating bus issues;
  • resolves a potential crash-at-startup for the Enterprise;
  • resolves potential stuck-on drive motors on the Amiga;
  • resolves some disk writing issues specific to the Enhanced Apple IIe;
  • thanks again to @ryandesign also corrects an internal optimisation around Disk II write protection sensing, and an error to do with data bus loading
  • adds emulation of the most basic form of IBM PC — an 8086 compatible with MDA or CGA graphics and a floppy drive.
(dr)

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27.Dec.2023



Christmas game: Santa and the Goblin
Havsoft' has also contributed a Christmas game: based on the Atari game Dragonfire and written in Blitz Basic 2, you have to help Father Christmas get his presents back by storming the castle and then collecting them (YouTube video) (dr)

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27.Dec.2023



Christmas game: Deck the Drones
'Amiga Cammy' decided on 23 December to write a Christmas game for my Amiga in the hope of finishing it by Christmas Day. It didn't quite work out, but she would like to share the first playable level with everyone and thus contribute to a successful Christmas. In this platform game (YouTube video), the player must retrieve the stolen Christmas presents from mysteriously reprogrammed delivery drones. (dr)

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26.Dec.2023



AmigaOS 4: Videoplayer MPLayer 1.5RC2
A team of several developers has published a second release candidate of version 1.5 of the video player MPlayer for AmigaOS 4. This version is based on the official MPlayer 1.5 source code, merging code from LiveForIt-MPlayer, MickJT-MPlayer and Andrea Palmatè's MPlayer ports, with several additional changes and improvements. (dr)

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26.Dec.2023



AmigaOS 4: Music tracker Protrekkr 2.6.3r1
Protrekkr (formerly marketed as "NoiseTrekker") is an SDL-based music programme that combines a software synthesiser with a traditional sample-based tracker. Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has now published a first release candidate for version 2.6.3, which is based on the official Protrekkr 2.6.3 source code and on the previous port (version 2.5.5) by Fredrik Wikström. (dr)

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25.Dec.2023
Balaton


Emulator: QEMU 8.2.0 released
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualiser. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software. It is therefore also possible to emulate Amiga operating systems such as AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who has set up a dedicated website with lots of tips and information. As already reported at the beginning of December, the now released QEMU version 8.2.0 also supports AmigaOne emulation via its BBoot bootloader. In addition, the Pegasos 2 emulation now supports the audiodev property (PowerPC changes). For Windows 64 Bit a compiled binary was made available on Christmas Eve. (dr)

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25.Dec.2023



Trevor's Blog: Christmas Present
Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology has published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" for Christmas. In it he reports on the Amiga trade fairs he attended, AmigaKit's A600GS project and also mentions once again the "AAA Technology" alliance formed by ACube Systems, A-EON Technology and Amedia Computer, which is to deliver the long-awaited A1222 Plus.

The A1222 Plus comes with updated ExecSG and uBoot firmware from Steven Solie. Also included in the A1222 Plus package is a new version of DvPlayer (v54.11) that supports A-EON's video acceleration library, enabling smooth playback with clear DMA power audio. (dr)

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25.Dec.2023



Demo: "Castlevania AGA" with stages 16-18
Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). This adds stages 16 to 18, which now include the fight against Dracula, the final boss, in the clock tower. (dr)

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25.Dec.2023



Christmas game: Merry Xmas (beta version 0.2)
Scorpion Engine developer Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of a fast-paced puzzle platformer game that he created almost entirely in a 16-hour period on Christmas Eve 2023. The graphics are from the Holiday Expansion Set. (dr)

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25.Dec.2023



Preview video: Hyperborea Resurrected
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of continuing a project that was started four years ago and interrupted in the meantime (YouTube videos): back then, he began developing a new shoot 'em up called "Hyperborea" with graphic designer Torben Bakager Larsen, who was also responsible for Battle Squadron, among other things.

Everything from the original prototype code was discarded, started from scratch and only some auxiliary functions from Souverän Soccer were adopted. Technically, the game is as good as finished and has the following features:
  • 304 x 256 PAL @ 50 fps (almost always ;) )
  • vertical scroller with additional horizontal scrolling (384 pixel wide levels)
  • 1p and 2p simultan mode
  • 100% flicker free bullets and enemies
  • tons of bullets
TTorben Bakager Larsen is back on board, the strict colour restrictions of the old version have been removed. The game is mostly developed in C++ and about 10% in ASM. The video shows the current test level with some enemies and many, many bullets on an A1200 with deactivated turbo card / FastRam. (dr)

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24.Dec.2023



Aminet uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to Aminet:
aamp.lha                 comm/www   149M  OS4 Amiga Apache MySQL and PHP fo...
aamp-src.lha             comm/www   16M       Sources of AAMP server package
Kp2023-HonorYourFathe... demo/slide 3.4M  68k Honor Your Father, Slide Show...
dynamic_circle.lha       dev/amos   1K        circle over three points
ASMPro1.20.lha           dev/asm    110K  68k ASM-Pro v1.20 (update)
ASMPro1.20src.lha        dev/asm    790K      ASM-Pro v1.20 source code
rasm.lha                 dev/cross  939K  MOS Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
SegTracker.lha           dev/debug  17K   68k A global SegList tracking uti...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   5.6M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
MeetBall.lha             game/2play 193K  68k Bat & ball type of game
TerrybleKnightDemo.lha   game/actio 789K  68k Demo of a Ghost`n`Goblins lik...
WhatIFF2.12.lha          mags/misc  2.0M      What IFF? #2.12-December-2023
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   5.2M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AChristmasKiss.lha       mods/8voic 332K      16bit 6ch XMas Club Jazz by H...
dp_pretracker.lha        mus/play   11K   68k PreTracker v1.5 deliplayer
cubic_win_keyboard.lha   text/edit  3K        Cubic IDE: Windows-like keybo...
aiostreams.lha           util/batch 228K      Stream video from major onlin...
FastExec30.lha           util/boot  12K   68k Moves exec.library to fastest...
AmiSSL-5.13-OS3.lha      util/libs  3.7M  68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.13-OS4.lha      util/libs  3.3M  OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.13-SDK.lha      util/libs  2.3M  AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
IconLib_46.4.lha         util/libs  1.8M  68k free icon.library in optimize...
MMULib.lha               util/libs  787K  68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
Quick_1.3.lha            util/wb    1.5M  MOS A software launch manager
(snx)

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24.Dec.2023



OS4Depot uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha           dev/mis 2Mb   4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
snes9x.zip               emu/gam 63Mb  4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e...
woof.lha                 gam/fps 13Mb  4.1 A continuation of Lee Killough&#...
amissl.lha               lib/mis 3Mb   4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
aamp.lha                 net/ser 149Mb 4.1 Amiga Apache MySQL PHP. A develo...
aamp-src.lha             net/ser 16Mb  4.1 Sources of AAMP (Amiga Apache My...
astralgame.lha           uti/mis 5Mb   4.0 A little tool to know zodiac sig...
wb2filer.lha             uti/wor 47kb  4.0 Hack to run Filer when dbl-click...
aiostreams.lha           vid/mis 228kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
(snx)

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24.Dec.2023



AROS Archives uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to AROS Archives:
AROS-One                     doc     6kb   AROS One x86 ABIv0
black_white_drawers.zip      gra/ico 83kb  Set of Black & White Icons w...
drawer_games_unofficial_k... gra/ico 258kb Unofficial Drawer Games Icons Ke...
icondrop_12-18-23.i386-ar... gra/ico 70kb  Icon Make to make PNG Icons from...
astralgame.lha               uti/mis 5Mb   A little tool to know zodiac sig...
(snx)

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24.Dec.2023



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Quick_1.3.lha             Ambient/Launchbar         A software launch manager
RASM_2.1.lha              Development/Cross         Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
AmiArcadia_30.71.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
HomeWorld.lha             Games/Strategy            Full version of Homewor...
Wayfarer_7.2.lha          MorphOS-update            Wayfarer is the latest ...
Scriba_1.9.9.lha          Office/WordProcessor      Simple word processing ...
(snx)

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24.Dec.2023



WHDLoad: New installers until 23.12.2023
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 23.12.2023: (snx)

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24.Dec.2023
MeMo History (ANF)


Memory game: MeMO 3.20
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has released an update to his memory game MeMO. It is based on the classic memory card game, but in his implementation two players can compete against each other at the same time and compete for the best score.

MeMO requires a 68020 processor and the ECS chipset.

Changes in version 3.20:
  • Replaced Nebulus' card with Ring around the World's
  • Fixed a stray pixel in Bubble Dizzy's card
  • Built against latest custom framework (which ensures that the system MMU setup does not interfere)
  • Touched up manual
(snx)

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24.Dec.2023
Puni (ANF)


Amiga musik database AMP: MP3 mix "December Feelings"
The music database "Amiga Music Preservation" (AMP) has selected 20 tracks to create the right mood for Christmas and compiled them into an MP3 file. (snx)

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24.Dec.2023
Amigatronics (ANF)


Demoscene review: "Tint" by The Black Lotus (video)
The video by Amigatronics at the title link reviews the demo "Tint" by The Black Lotus from 1996. (snx)

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24.Dec.2023



Merry Christmas!
Dear readers, dear Amiga friends,

As Christmas draws to a close, so does the year and we would like to take this opportunity to thank our loyal readers, for whom we have endeavoured over the past twelve months not only to collect news, but also to provide background reports, tutorials, anecdotes and so on. It is fascinating how many private, but also professional projects still exist around the Amiga.

Therefore, on the other hand, thanks should also go to all the people who develop these small and large software and hardware projects and sacrifice time for them: without them there would be nothing for us to report on and nothing for the many Amiga users to be happy about, test, complain about... ;)

For this reason, we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year together with a few randomly selected people who represent all the projects we have reported on over the past year! Stay in touch with the developers, the creatives, support them, also by actively participating in discussions in the corresponding news items here: Feedback is always welcome! A big thank you to the graphic designer 'jojo073', who provided us with the Christmas pixel art.

Merry Christmas!

(dr)

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23.Dec.2023



Developer tools: Amiga SDKs adapted to GCC compilers, Release 1
Cameron 'Nightfox' Armstrong (AmigaGPT) offers SDKs of AmigaOS 3.2 NDK and AmigaOS 4.1 (V54.16) adapted to the GCC compiler based on Stefan 'Bebbo' Franke's Amiga GCC Development Kit (amiga-news.de reported). Changes to the current version:
  • Added json-c
  • Updated AmiSSL to version 5.13
  • Moved AmiSSL libs and includes out of SDK folder
  • Add symlinks for /opt/amiga incase you use a Makefile that allows you to build natively
(dr)

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23.Dec.2023



HxC floppy emulator: Software V2.15.1.2
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).

A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
  • Many fixes and improvements into the flux stream management :
    • One revolution only / 2 indexes support fixed.
    • Fix stream files formats export : No more glitch after the first revolution index. (Fix SCP and KF export).
    • Sectors recovery support - Can be disabled/enabled with the FLUXSTREAM_SECTORS_RECOVERY variable. This feature try to automatically recover/fix bad sectors with copies present in others stream revolutions.
    • Default pulses timing jitter tolerance increased from 10% to 14% (Config file).
  • Kryoflux writer : stream to stream conversion : Don't align output stream to the next index.
  • SCP writer : stream to stream conversion : Don't align output stream to the next index.
  • SCP loader : Fix singled-sided images support (Fix the number of tracks/cylinder).
  • SCP loader : Fix broken support of SCP images with more than 5 revolutions.
  • SCP loader : Fix odd number of tracks + double step mode issue (Last track missing).
  • Logic analyzer capture loader : nameTT.S.logicbin8bits file name convention support. (TT=track S=side)
  • New XML format : MC50/MC300/MC500 formats and empty data disk.
  • New XML format : Sharp X68000 2HD disk.
  • Track display : Fix possible infinite loop : check the bitrate value and stop + report if needed.
  • HFEv3 loader : Support RAND_OPCODE right after SKIPBITS_OPCODE.
  • New X68000 DIM file image loader.
  • New Apple II 2MG file image loader. (WIP - To be completed)
  • XML raw loader : Fix images last sector loading.
  • Track editor : New "insert" and "remove" track operations.
  • HFE writers : New "HFE_WRITER_WRITENOTALLOWED" parameter : Set it to 1 to write protect the exported hfe files.
  • HxC stream (Pauline) : Auto detect and load properly hard-sectored dumps.
  • D88 loader : Fix possible infinite loop with corrupted image.
  • Batch converter : New BATCHCONVERT_KEEP_SOURCE_FILE_NAME_EXTENSION setting to enable/disable the source file extension to the output file name.
  • BMP export : New Stream tracks mode export.
  • User interface : Save and restore previous state (WIP, Done : batch converter window)
  • NSI Northstar : Some index timings and formats fixes.
  • macOS : Better CAPSlib/ipf lib support. (Renaud Guérin)
  • New track format : Centurion MFM. (Rick Altherr)
  • Code : gcc's -fanalyzer used against the libhxcfe library : Many possible issues fixed !
  • Many internal code improvements and fixes.
(dr)

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23.Dec.2023



Platform game: Demo version of "Terryble Knight"
The author of the RedPill game construction kit, Carlos 'Zener' Peris, started this game project because he wanted to test the slope system in RedPill. With RedPill version 0.9.32, also released today, this slope system has been greatly improved. "Terryble Knight" (YouTube video) uses the assets of Ansimuz, a very good and productive pixel artist. The music was provided by 'Fireb0y'. (dr)

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23.Dec.2023
Mastodon


Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (V0.0.4)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world". This early demo version now has its first opponents, even if the score is not yet calculated correctly. The game uses the free graphics set "NEONworld", which Kevin Saunders made available as part of the Amiga Art Contest 2020 (amiga-news.de reported). The game should run on an Amiga 500.



Direct download: NeonWorld.adf.zip (70 KB) (dr)

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22.Dec.2023



Web browser: IBrowse 3.0a
One month after the release of version 3.0 of his web browser "IBrowse" (amiga-news.de reported), Oliver Roberts has made an update available. Although, as he writes, "things have gone pretty smoothly", one problem in particular went largely unnoticed: a bug in the HTTP(S) module could trash memory, which could result in either instant crashes or seemingly random crashes at a later stage. For this reason, all users are advised to update their IBrowse 3.0 installation using the supplied installer. See the History log page for full details of the changes in this update. (dr)

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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.13 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.13 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.2 including important security related fixes, a built-in HTTP(S) client and comes with new encryption ciphers. Detailed changes:
  • Switched to OpenSSL 3.2, with full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.2.0 (23.11.2023) version, which includes the following new features:
    • Support for client side QUIC (RFC 9000)
    • Support for Ed25519ctx, Ed25519ph and Ed448ph in addition to existing support for Ed25519 and Ed448 (RFC 8032)
    • Support for deterministic ECDSA signatures (RFC 6979)
    • Support for AES-GCM-SIV, a nonce-misuse-resistant AEAD (RFC 8452)
    • Support for the Argon2 KDF (RFC 9106)
    • Support for Hybrid Public Key Encryption (HPKE) (RFC 9180)
    • Support for SM4-XTS
    • Support for Brainpool curves in TLS 1.3
    • Support for TLS Raw Public Keys (RFC 7250)
    • Support for using the IANA standard names in TLS ciphersuite configuration
    • Multiple new features and improvements to CMP protocol support
  • Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html dated 12.12.2023.
  • Use Exec mutexes instead of semaphores on AmigaOS 4.x, decreasing system overhead.
  • Use ASOPOOL_Protected instead of our own semaphore protected memory pool on AmigaOS 4.x.
  • Improved error handling should failures occur early in library initialisation.
  • The installer now properly handles any certificates that may have been disabled by the user and will update them, but leave them disabled.
  • The installer on AmigaOS 4.x can now install the libraries whilst AmiSSL is still in use, provided elf.library 53.35+ is installed and no instances prior to AmiSSL 5.6 are still in memory.
Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.13-OS3.lha (3,7 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.13-OS4.lha (3,4 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.13-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)

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21.Dec.2023



Sprite Tricks: Stunt Car Racer
On Codetapper's Amiga Site there are interviews and various articles as well as a Sprite Tricks section, in which the author tries to find out what tricks the programmers use to master tricky or demanding graphic tasks. In the linked article he takes a look at how the tops of tyres are displayed with sprites. (dr)

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21.Dec.2023
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Emulator: WinUAE 5.1.0
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.1.0. Changes:

New features/updates: UI
  • On screen keyboard. Default mapped to pad button 4.
  • Gamepad GUI control. Use game pad to control WinUAE GUI with some limits.
  • Optional dark mode (Windows 10 or newer required)
  • Emulation window dragging and resize does not anymore pause emulation.

New features/updates: emulation
  • Built-in Munt MT-32/CM-32L emulation. Emulated devices listed in MIDI out setting. ROM images should be in \mt32-roms. or c:\mt32-rom-data\.
  • AT&T DSP3210 emulation (AA3000 prototype). Not complete.
  • More programmed chipset screen mode emulation improvements.
  • Disk emulation improved, undocumented disk read DMA “last word may not come in” bug emulated.
  • Chipset emulation updates and fixes.
  • “Autoclip screenshots” option now supports programmed native screen modes.
  • Native<>RTG and RTG<>RTG mode switching optimizations.
  • A2410 display card emulation updates, works now with new Picasso96 driver.
  • Input panel Backslash/F11 option now has third option that restores pre-5.0 keymap behavior.
  • Do not list GPT partitioned harddrives in “Add Harddrives” panel.
  • Football Director 2 dongle emulation.
  • Quickstart Host Configuration menu first option renamed, “Default configuration” -> “Current host configuration”. Added new option “Default host configuration” that resets host configuration to defaults.
  • Hard reset now randomizes CPU reset start up delay and initial floppy motor position.

Bugs fixes
  • DMS brute force decryption failed to work with some encrypted DMS files.
  • Alt-Tab from D3D11 fullscreen RTG mode made hardware mouse cursor invisible.
  • Some configurations crashed when GUI Reset or Restart button was clicked.
  • Enter GUI, eject disk, insert new disk, exit GUI: Disk was inserted immediately which is physically impossible and can confuse programs. Inserting disk without manually ejecting it first worked correctly.
  • GUI Restart button didn’t fully restore GUI position/size if “Restarting” from fullscreen or full-window mode.
  • Some configs crashed when GUI Restart button or Reset was pressed.
  • WASAPI sound was disabled if sound driver only supported 8 channel audio.
  • Some configurations opened multiple tiny inactive multi-monitor mode emulation windows without enabled multiple monitors.
  • Workbench programmed screen mode (DBLPAL etc) positioning was not always correct when switching from other native mode.
  • None serial port emulation mode and fast CPU configuration: serial port driver hung if serial data transmit was attempted.
  • Integer scale + full window: Display panel windowed width and height was used instead of full window size (desktop size) when calculating scaling values.
  • Screen might have flickered when starting Picasso96 RTG screen dragging.
  • Multiple 0x76 partitions per HD/card can be mounted now, previously only first was mounted and the rest become zero size non-existing drives.
  • USB HID input device usage page check fixed, it accepted devices that had nothing to do with being input device.

Gamepad GUI control details
  • A = select (pad mode)/left mouse click (mouse mode)
  • B = right mouse click (mouse mode).
  • Y = change active GUI area (pad mode)/TAB UI element change (mouse mode).
  • D-pad = select UI elements, “pad mode”.
  • Left stick = move mouse, “mouse mode”. Currently requires XInput compatible gamepad.

Onscreen keyboard details
  • Pad button 4 is default mapped to open/close on screen keyboard input event (if loaded config has button 4 mapped to something else, button is not mapped to OSK)
  • Pad button/d-pad that normally controls Amiga joystick moves keyboard selection. Joystick movements and button presses are not sent to Amiga side as long as OSK is open.
  • Fire button press = send selected key’s press
  • Fire button release = send selected key’s release
  • Second button press = toggle state of selected key. Keep shift or control or other qualifier key pressed.
  • Second button release = does nothing.
  • Keyboard layout is US layout + 2 keys that are used in international layout variants + few bonus “keys”.
  • If GUI is entered when OSK is open, GUI pad control is automatically enabled.
(dr)

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AmigaOS 4: AAMP 2.1 (Apache, MySQL and PHP)
AAMP offers a development environment on your Amiga, with which you can create and test your own web projects. Similar to the well-known XAMPP package for Linux and Windows, it contains the HTTP (web) server "Apache" with compiled-in support for the scripting language "PHP" (version 8.0.28 and 5.2.10) and the database server "MySQL" version 5.5.10. (amiga-news.de reported).

The new version 2.1 contains many improvements and also some bug fixes. The main innovation is a new control centre that can be used to manage all servers:


Detailed changes:
  • The "AAMP-Control" tool is now available for the central administration of all servers and settings. In addition to Apache and MySQL, it can also be used to manage the PHP development server and the Subversion server "svnserve". The scripts "Start_AAMP.bat" and "Stop_AAMP.bat" are now obsolete and no longer included. All other start and stop scripts are still included, but the use of "AAMP-Control" is recommended.
  • Update of the Apache web server from version 2.2.11 to version 2.2.34.
  • The configuration of the Apache SSL module is now complete and working. So that clients can work with it without problems, there is a selection of CA root certificate collections in the Contrib folder, which also contain the server's certificate. Simply replace the required file of the client or browser.
  • The package now also includes a complete package of "phpMyAdmin" in version 5.0.4. This has been patched for better compatibility with PHP 8 and is already preconfigured. The package will be installed automatically during the installation of AAMP.
  • Optimized autostart at system start or when starting "AAMP-Control".
  • Update of the CA root certificates (Mozilla certificates as of 20.11.2023).
  • The default WebDAV directory is now "AAMP:Apache/uploads" and no longer "AAMP:Apache/htdocs/dav".
  • The Subversion package has been recompiled using the new Apache 2.2.34 libraries.
  • Various bug fixes. For existing errors please read the section "Problems"!
(dr)

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20.Dec.2023



Aiostreams V1.7.7: Scripts for streaming videos (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS)
"All In One streams" (aiostreams) is a pack of scripts, written in Python, that can be used to stream and watch videos from different online networks, like Twitch.tv, YouTube and Vimeo.com. All the scripts are developed and fully tested under AmigaOS 4.1 FE and MorphOS 3.x. which are the target systems of George 'walkero' Sokiano's project. Changes of version 1.7.7:

Added
  • The youtube script supports now the urls of shorts videos
  • Added video resolutions at the youtube script, when the -x argument is used
  • Added more resolutions selection in the vqw.py for Vimeo and twitch
Changed
  • The youtube script supports more urls, to cover more Invidious servers
As a companion to these scripts, he created the website AIOstreams which can be a fast way to discover Twitch and YouTube videos. It is really fast and can be used on older browsers that do not support Javascript and CSS. This is a proxy website. No data is stored in any database, there is no tracking and no authentication is required. You can read more about it in his latest ko-fi article.

Download: aiostreams-v1.7.7.lha (228 KB) (dr)

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20.Dec.2023



Assembler: ASM-Pro 1.20 released
ASM-Pro is a MC680x0 macro assembler for the Amiga with integrated editor, debugger, linker and monitor. The programme offers complete MC680x0, FPU and MMU support. ASM-Pro has now been updated to version 1.20. The changes:

ADDITIONS
  • ASM: New symbol REPTN, value is set to 0 to (N-1) while inside a REPT block and -1 while outside.
  • ASM: New predefined symbol ASMPRO, value contains ASMPro version in the following format: major*256+minor.
  • ASM: New directive EQUA, intended for post-processing. Do not use if unsure how it works and what it does. It works similar to EQU but the value is absolute (it also "relocates" and can be used to access relocatable data from absolute sections).
  • ASM/DISASM: Added support for PLPA instruction (68060).
MODIFICATIONS
  • UI: reqtools.library v38+ is required instead of any version.
  • DISASM: FNOP is now displayed instead of a 0 displacement FBF.W.
  • ASM: Macro parameter \@ reimplemented to work correctly with system includes (pass1/2 conflicts with conditional assembly).
  • ASM: Trailing / is appended to INCDIR path if needed.
  • ASM: Current source directory is used as fallback to find include files, and finally the INCLUDE: assign as well.
  • ASM: Both CMP and CMPM with (Ax)+,(Ay)+ are now allowed.
  • ASM: Allow MOVEM and FMOVEM descending register lists.
  • ASM: Allow longword size for FMOVEM with control registers.
  • UI: The ancient prefs toggles and closewb code removed from the menu event handler.
  • Over 900 additional micro optimizations, 21KB reduction of the executable size compared to v1.18.
BUGFIXES
  • UI-1.19: File pattern in the read/write source file requester is incorrect if Source .ASM is enabled in the general preferences.
  • UI: Crash if diskfont.library couldn't be opened.
  • DISASM: Crash on 68000/010 systems if DBcc.L (Apollo) has a 2-char conditional code.
  • EDIT: Continuously pressing page up to reach the top of the source code after unsuccessful assembly (and similar variations), would freeze the editor.
  • DISASM: CALLM absolute and pc-relative modes don't work, immediate mode's hex operand is missing a leading $.
  • DISASM: Several CHK2 and CMP2 modes don't work.
  • ASM: Incorrect opcodes generated or not supported for CHK2 and CMP2.
  • DISASM: CINV and CPUSH specifier NC (neither cache) is displayed as BC (both caches).
  • ASM: CINV and CPUSH specifier NC (neither cache) is not implemented.
  • DISASM: MOVES destination absolute long mode doesn't work.
  • DISASM: PMOVE (68030 variant) mixes up registers TT0 and TT1.
  • ASM: FMOVEM and some FMOVE variants allow destination pc-relative modes.
  • UI: The changed source prompts are brought up at the end of restart instead of right away.
  • ASM: No CPU warning for CALLM (68020 only) if the selected CPU is 68030 or higher.
  • ASM: INCDIR path is not reset when starting a new assembly.
  • ASM: Including a directory prints out random trash characters.
  • MONI: Scrolling left/right (alt-left/right arrow) hides the cursor.
  • ASM: PMOVE with MMUSR outputs incorrect register.
  • DBG: Debugged program's user and supervisor stacks (and corresponding USP/SSP registers) are switched.
  • DISASM: FMOVEM has a trailing "/" in some scenarios.
  • ASM: FMOVEM allows size .X with control registers.
  • DISASM: Infinite loop with some 68040 specific FPU opcodes.
  • ASM: Watchpoints and breakpoints are kept after switching to a different source.
  • Public port's name and type are not initialized.
  • ASM: PRINTV doesn't flush the print buffer properly causing the next line to be truncated (for example, if followed by INCLUDE or INCBIN the path is not printed).
  • UI: System freeze and/or crash if multiple hotkeys are pressed at the same time, and the first one is causing the menu strip change (for example, pressing amiga-AS in the editor).
  • ASM: Numerous FPU instructions with source immediate longword operand are generated as byte, resulting either in the out of 8-bit range error or incorrect opcode.
  • DISASM: FSINCOS prints only one destination FPU register.
  • DISASM: Absolute and pc-relative modes don't work with all bitfield instructions (68020+).
  • DISASM: CMPI pc-relative index mode (68020+) doesn't work.
  • DISASM: CAS allows several invalid and non-existing modes, absolute modes don't work.
  • DISASM: LPSTOP (68060) is not implemented.
  • DISASM: Typos in FPU ROM constant names (appended as a comment to the MOVECR instruction), probably due to the same typos in the M68K manual. Additionally, TAB changed to a space if Printer Dump is not enabled in the preferences to avoid weird characters on the screen.
  • ASM: PFLUSHR doesn't allow address register indirect mode.
  • ASM: MMU register PCSR is not recognized (PCR is checked twice instead).
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20.Dec.2023



Workbench distribution: AKReal 9.2
AKReal can already works with 16 colours and is the inofficial adaption of the Workbench distribution AmiKit to real Amigas (AGA/RTG). The update from the previous version 9.1 is for free and can be installed via LiveUpdate. New users have to pay 9.99 Euro for the download. Changes:
  • ADDED: Freeware PowerWindows 1.3 by by Georg Steger, 10/11/2000.
  • ADDED: Some existing RTG 1024x768 wallpapers saved now in iff format.
  • ADDED: UAEgfx by Toni Willen in Sys:Devs/Monitors to be used with RTG when needed.
  • ADDED: New option in Morpheuz to change the pointer or also the wallpapers/backdrops/skins used if you are already using some RTG option in your Amiga.
  • ADDED: AmigaGPT version 1.2.0 by Cameron Armstrong. Now backwards compatible with OS3.9.
  • ADDED: Spanish "esRadio", "Flower Power radio", "Love Radio Florida" and "CGM UKScene Radio*". You can find them in Sys:Utilities/Expansion/RadioStations/Scripts.
  • ADDED: Filesize v40.1, 1998-02-22 by Msi Software, http://home.sol.no/~msi/
  • UPDATED: WHDLoad to version 18.9.6601
  • UPDATED: HippoPlayer v2.58 - kpk@iki.fi. K-P Koljonen 2023-06-21.
  • UPDATED: AmigaAMP v3.33 -Thomas Wenzel (www.toms-home.de). 2022-12-20.
  • UPDATED: IMP v3.411 - Pawel Nowak. 2023-06-29.
  • UPDATED: TextEditor.mcc v15.56. Jens Maus (mail jens-maus de). 2021-08-31.
  • UPDATED: BetterString.mcc v11.36. Jens Maus (mail jens-maus de). 2021-08-31.
  • UPDATED: NList.mcc v0.128. Jens Maus (mail jens-maus de). 2021-08-31.
  • UPDATED: TheBar.mcc v26.22. Jens Maus (mail jens-maus de). 2021-08-31 .
  • UPDATED: AmiSSL v5.11. AmiSSL Open Source Team. 2023-09-19.
  • UPDATED: OpenURL 7.18. Jens Maus 2016-09-07.
  • UPDATED: MMULib v47.6. Thomas.richter at alumni.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter) 2023-07-01.
  • UPDATED: WBDock by Thomas Rapp. Version 2.896. 16-Jul-2023.
  • UPDATED: MUI v5.0. 2021-08-31 by Thore Böckelmann and changed MUI prefs for iGame.
  • UPDATED: iGame V2.4.1 2023-07-19 by mrzammler at freemail.gr (Emmanuel Vasilakis).
  • UPDATED: TinyMeter 3.56 by gibs2b gmail com (Michael GIBS).
  • UPDATED: iBrowse to 2.5.8 and TextHistory.mcc to 11.8 version for the installation.
  • CHANGED: Magellan Start menus. Now in Sys:Utilities/Expansion/Opus5/Buttons we have a shorter version. There are three drawers with different versions to try if you wish.
  • CHANGED: SID Station Radio stream changed as suggested by @bjdcleary at the EAB site.
  • CHANGED: "Disable_CGXAga&Birdie" is now "Change_CGXAga&Birdie" with more options.
  • CHANGED: Femu by Jari has been exchanged by SoftIEEE, developed by Thomas Richter. Version 40.6.1 from 2023-01-23.
  • CHANGED: Cinemix radio station to use Amplifier and a new script.
  • FIXED: SceneSat radio
  • DELETED: Nostalgia, XPD and WNMC48 radios, no longer working.
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Preview video: Platform game "SUPERMiniJu"
Yoz Montana has published another preview video (amiga-news.de reported) of "SUPERMiniJu" which is being developed with the Game Construction Kit RedPill. This video shows the end boss of the first level. (dr)

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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.7.0 (beta version)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. Changes:
  • ensure copy/move buttons are disabled for window objects
  • add GA_ID properties for layouts
  • fix a couple of compile issues with vbcc
  • add warning to user when using TextField gadget
  • add weightbar capability
The author asks you to test ReBuild extensively and report any bugs to him.

Download: rebuild0.7.0-beta.lha (135 Kb) (dr)

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19.Dec.2023
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.2
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.2 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Wayfarer now is based on the latest WebKit engine WebKitGTK 2.42.4 which addresses crashes in JavaScript, WebCore and several rendering issues. As the author writes, he has adjusted the maximum string length in WebKit to 64 MB (from the original 2 GB). He has not found any problems, but if you find websites that worked with Wayfarer 7.1 but not with version 7.2, please report them. (dr)

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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle firmware 1.5
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP). Changes of the new Greaseweazle firmware 1.5:
  • AT32F403(A): Extend SRAM from 96kB to 224kB
  • Report USB buffer size in 'gw info'
  • GCC12 build fixes
  • USB High Speed: Fix device_qualifier descriptor
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Christmas game: Santa's Present Drop 3
After part 1 in 2021 and part 2 last year, Rob Smith now has released "Santas Present Drop 3" written with AMOS. During his flight over the Alps with the Gift-o-Matic 5000, the present delivery machine exploded and everything was scattered across the mountains. As Father Christmas has his skis with him, it is the player's job to steer them so that he can collect as many presents as possible within the time allowed. A corresponding video tutorial will be published on Christmas Eve. (dr)

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19.Dec.2023
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Overview: List of modern monitors with support for the 15 kHz RGB signal
Like many other retro systems, the Amiga requires a monitor that supports a horizontal screen frequency of 15kHz. Under the title link you will find a list of modern flat screens (LCD, OLED) that directly support analogue 15 kHz signals through discrete RGB connectors (VGA, DVI-A and/or SCART). (dr)

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DIY: Update of N2630 expansion board for Amiga 2000
At the beginning of November, developer Jason 'jasonsbeer' Neus released revision 4.0.1 of his evolution, called N2630, of the original Commodore A2630-Erweiterungskarte (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has pushed some updates to the Github repository: these changes improve performance by enabling burst support for the Zorro 3 RAM and removing the Gayle interface in favour of LIDE.device. As he writes, these updates are not required, but are strongly recommended.

Steps to upgrade: (dr)

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CS-Lab: Accelerator board Warp 4060 in progress
As CS-Lab writes in a short entry under the title link, the Warp 4060 turbo card, which was actually announced for 2022, is still in progress: a few bugs still need to be fixed from the first prototype. (dr)

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18.Dec.2023
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Event: World of Commodore - Video greetings from Babylon 5 actors
At the beginning of the month, this year's "World of Commodore" took place in Toronto, Canada. At this event, two of the Babylon 5 main actors, Bruce Boxleitner ("John Sheridan", video) und Claudia Christian ("Susan Ivanova", video), sent video messages in which they talked about their impressions of the computer technology of the time.

As we know, Amigas were used back then - thirty years ago - in contrast to the use of models, which was still common at the time. The visual effects for the Babylon 5 pilot were created by a studio called Foundation Imaging, founded by Ron Thornton and Paul Beigle-Bryant, which used a series of Commodore Amiga computers and NewTek video toaster technology. For its work on the pilot, Foundation Imaging won the 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects. (snx)

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18.Dec.2023



Tetris port: Tetris1200 (beta version)
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has ported another game for the Amiga: This time Tetris by Atari Games. According to the author, music still has to be improved and the adf version currently crashes on an A1200/020. (dr)

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17.Dec.2023



Aminet uploads until 16.12.2023
The following files have been added until 16.12.2023 to Aminet:
lubricator.lha           comm/www   74K   68k GUI HTTP search/download + di...
dyn_kwadraty_4th_deg.lha dev/amos   4K        example of least squares method
dynamic_bezier.lha       dev/amos   2K        example of bezier curves
dynamiczna_hiperbola.lha dev/amos   1K        hyperbole targetted through t...
dynamiczne_kwadraty.lha  dev/amos   2K        example of least squares method
dynamiczne_wielomiany... dev/amos   2K        example of targetted polynomial
suwane_punkty.lha        dev/amos   1K        Displays 14 points to be move...
HWP_APNG.lha             dev/hwood  1.3M  ALL Hollywood plugin for APNG anims
HWP_Plananarama.lha      dev/hwood  462K  68k Run Hollywood scripts on plan...
GitDesktop.lha           dev/misc   1.3M  MOS Graphical git frontend
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   4.8M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
WormWars.lha             game/actio 881K  68k Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWarsMOS.lha          game/actio 928K  MOS Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-OS4.lha         game/actio 1.1M  OS4 Advanced snake/Tron game
EDF_Special_0.04_BIN.lha game/misc  65M   68k E.D.F. Special DEMO v0.04 alpha
EDF_Special_0.04_NERO... game/misc  65M   68k E.D.F. Special DEMO v0.04 alpha
MirrorRedPill.lha        game/misc  390K  68k Control two robots simultaneo...
StefADV.lha              game/text  52K   68k Little italian text adventure
StefADV2.lha             game/text  65K   68k 2nd little italian text adven...
mariaconv.lha            gfx/conv   40K   68k Convert images to/from Maria'...
WhatIFF2.12.lha          mags/misc  1.9M      What IFF? #2.12-December-2023
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.9M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   5.5M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
SantaShoemaker.lha       mods/8voic 207K      Christmas Theme 16bit 6ch by ...
CompressionOS4.lha       text/dtp   2.2M  OS4 A PDF generator
XPDF-GUI_1.1.lha         text/misc  11M   MOS A GUI for XPDF Suite
AmiWeatherForecasts1.... util/app   41K   68k Weather forecasting application
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  15M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
AnalogClock.lha          util/time  40K   68k Resizeable analog transparent...
Quick_1.1.lha            util/wb    1.5M  MOS A software launch manager
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OS4Depot uploads until 16.12.2023
The following files have been added until 16.12.2023 to OS4Depot:
nallepuh.lha             aud/mis 504kb 4.1 Nalle Puh (Paula,CIAA,CIAB emula...
seq.lha                  aud/mis 425kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha             gam/act 1Mb   4.0 Advanced snake/Tron game
woof.lha                 gam/fps 13Mb  4.1 A continuation of Lee Killough&#...
hwp_apng.lha             lib/hol 1Mb   4.0 Hollywood plugin for APNG anims
hwp_plananarama.lha      lib/hol 462kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for planar screen
compression.lha          uti/tex 2Mb   4.0 A PDF generator
ffmpeggui.lha            vid/con 248kb 4.1 A GUI for the ffmpeg video conve...
simplesub.lha            vid/mis 21Mb  4.1 Create, edit and encode .srt sub...
yt.lha                   vid/mis 830kb 4.1 YouTube URL Extractor script
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AROS Archives uploads until 16.12.2023
The following files have been added until 16.12.2023 to AROS Archives:
apng_amiga.lha               dev/lib 1Mb   Library Plugin For Hollywood App...
xpdf-gui.i386-aros.zip       off/dtp 7Mb   Gui for XPDFTools Suite
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.12.2023
The following files have been added until 16.12.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Quick_1.2.lha             Ambient/Launchbar         A software launch manager
APNG_1.3.lha              Dependencies/Hollywood    Hollywood plugin for AP...
GitDesktop_0.11.31.lha    Development/Tools         A graphical git fronten...
WormWars_9.34.lha         Games/Action              Advanced snake game by ...
CircusLinux.lha           Games/BrickBreaker        Based on the Atari 2600...
Abombniball.lha           Games/Think               Based on a game of the ...
BootClock_1.50.lha        Misc                      A little and easy progr...
Wayfarer_7.1.lha          MorphOS-update            Wayfarer is the latest ...
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AROS distribution: AROS One 2.3 (x86)
The distribution "AROS One" (Screenshot), which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.3 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings can also be found.

It is claimed to be the most stable AROS x86 version to date, with many bug fixes concerning Wanderer and hardware compatibility - the list of which has also been revised in the meantime. A clean installation of the distribution is recommended. A list of the new features can be found in the forum of AROSWorld. (snx)

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Platform game: NinjFeratu AGA V1.2
Following the version for ECS Amigas, Amiten Games has now also released an AGA version of NinjFeratu (YouTube video, Italian), which is currently available for at least 5.95 Euros. (dr)

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Point'n-Click adventure: Demo version of MonkeyEye
After Holiday and Beat Cancer, "MonkeyEye" is the third game from 'lifeschool22': a reminiscence of Monkey Island, which was created with CanDo V3. Basically, the developer wanted to find out whether it was possible to create a point'n'click adventure with CanDo. MonkeyEye is labelled as a demo version, as only 4 control panels work. Otherwise, the game would have slowed down considerably. In addition, according to the developer, the code still contains many errors, which is why it is included in the archive and everyone is invited to improve it. An Amiga with Kickstart 3.0 or higher is required. (dr)

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AmigaOS 4: Creating PDFs with "Compression" V0.20 (beta version)
In addition to the ignition spreadsheet and the LüttjeBookholler financial management software, Achim Pankalla is also working on a third project: similar to a DTP programme, Compression allows text and graphics to be set and the document, for example a manual, then output in PDF format. A German manual is included in the "Extra" folder, the tools ZIP and UnZIP are required. Changes since version 0.10:
  • It is possible to set temp directory
  • Better handling for text and graphic elements
  • Many improvements in the user-interface
  • Many little corrections
  • PDF settings now available
  • Filtering of loaded text files for editor
  • Solved problems with spaces in file-path and scripts
  • Now list of content are implemented
  • Now CompressionOS4 supports spellchecking with iSpell
(dr)

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Shoot 'em Up: "Amiga E.D.F." V0.04 (alpha version with demo)
The developer 'S0Y' (among others Temptations port for the CD32) has taken a look at the Shoot 'em Up Earth Defense Force, originally released for the SNES, and tested if an implementation and continuation on Amiga-AGA computers would be possible (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has not only published a new video, but also an early alpha demo version on his website: a CD32 emulator is included in the archives, so that any AGA Amiga with FastRAM can run the game (CD/DVD drive required). (dr)

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Receiving disk images via HTTP and writing them on disk: Lubricator 2.3
"Lubricator" written by Timm 'bifat' Mueller loads disk images from the World Wide Web and writes them on an Amiga disk using an Amiga with only 1 MB RAM and without harddrive. New since version 2.0:
  • Added READ argument for reading disks to files locally, requested by Henne/AC; improved determination of local filenames from URLs; host header did not provide port numbers, fixed in httpclient.library 4.3. Node.js proxy server examples added.
  • Unpacking of archives could hang during icon creation, fixed; did not actually set the agent string to Lubricator, fixed with httpclient.library 4.1
  • Added command-line UNPACK feature; can now download and unpack to a destination directory from command-line; command-line exits with WARN if a destination file or unpack directory already exists; fixed \\ and \" escaping in parser; reduced memory consumption for DMS unpacking; fixed minor quirks in documentation generator; improved error reporting and output in command-line disk writing; some cleanup in initialization and exception handling; tries to no longer overwrite a drawer icon provided by an archive
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.5
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. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. This new version of Amiberry provides many new functions, especially in the area of I/O ports. MIDI devices are now supported with the help of the portmidi library. This library is now required.

In addition, MIDI emulation in the form of MT-32 (using the munt library) is now also available. The library is included in Amiberry, but the required MT-32 ROMs are not.

In addition, support for the serial interface has been improved and support for the parallel interface has been added (initially only with VPAR), AHI playback has been corrected and much more. The changes in detail:

Bugfixes
  • Fixed AHI playback, which wasn't working 100% until now
  • Fixed incorrect A600HD ROM identifier, in WHDBooter
  • Validate config after command line parsing.
  • Fix FABS(-0)
  • Do not close audio streams when audio settings change
  • Fix AUDPER=1 unreliable interrupts
  • Clear also blitter_cycle_exact when switching to JIT mode
  • remove duplicate parsing of amiberry options
  • Quickstart options and floppy drives
  • Added missing memory bank deallocations.
  • Fix 800% disk mode crash.
  • Fixed crash when opening MIDI device
  • Sync macOS icon with Linux one
  • GUI would not update on all events in some places
  • OpenGL option would fail on vkbd
Improvements
  • Implemented physical MIDI and MIDI emulation (MT-32) support
  • Improved serial port support
  • Implemented support for virtual Parallel ports
  • Implemented support for AMAX
  • Implemented support for Arcadia platforms
  • Implemented support for Casablanca platforms
  • Keep a backup of config files when overwriting
  • Scan for ROMs recursively
  • The GUI colors and font are now configurable
  • New command line option, -v or --version
  • Added DBUS support, to control Amiberry from other applications
  • Initialize Savestates on startup
  • Do not check mousehack state if emulation is going to exit
  • added P96 ModeChanged checks
  • Do not detect monitor as changed if monitor is not attached to any graphics board.
  • Do delayed insert also if disk was ejected first and then immediately new disk is inserted.
  • Skip also CD32 fast CPU ROM patch if ROM is smaller than 512k
  • bring sound/audio closer to preview status
  • memory Chipmem noise implemented
  • Improved newcpu handling of separate thread
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Games for graphics card: Sky Tower and Börd updated
Sami Vehmaa has updated two of his arcade games written with AmiBlitz for owners of graphics cards (amiga-news.de reported):

Sky Tower can now be played with Christmas themes and is also now optimally playable under Apollo accelerator systems. The aim of this game is to stack parts of a tower with good timing (YouTube video).

Börd is a Flappy Bird clone and has now also been optimised for Apollo systems (YouTube video). (dr)

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Video: Kevin Saunders' review of the year
In a short video, graphic artist and designer Kevin Saunders looks back on the year 2023 and shows excerpts from his projects. (dr)

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THEA500 Mini: Firmware 1.2.1 released
Retro Games Ltd. has released the new firmware 1.2.1 for "THEA500 Mini", its replica of an Amiga 500. The changes:
  • Adds additional game Time Bandit
  • Adds support for custom controller configurations
  • Corrects the speed of Amiga 500 WHDLoad games that could run too quickly
  • Allows a second controller to be used with ADF files
  • Fixes issue where a USB stick can appear corrupt after removing from THEA500 Mini
  • Improves game action translations
  • Minor bug fixes
There is also a detailed description of the changes. (dr)

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AROS: "Irritating bug of the month" December fixed
In the poll for the "Irritating bug of the month" for December (amiga-news.de reported), the problem was chosen that Wanderer could not change the capitalisation of folder or file names without changing the name. AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has solved this problem: it should now be possible to change this under RAM, SFS and FAT. (dr)

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MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.11.31
Rafał Zabdyr has released a third beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required. The following features have been added:
  • publish branch
  • open "home" page in web browser for GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket repositories
  • open "create new issue" page in web browser for GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket repositories
  • open "compare branch", "view branch", "create Pull Request" page in web browser for GitHub repositories
  • publish branch
  • checkout given commit
  • configure global git options (user name, user email, default branch name)
  • configure local (per repository) git options (user name, user email)
  • copy author/hash/message of given commit to clipboard
  • copy file path or file relative path to clipboard
  • open new shell for given repository path
  • open repository path via external editor -> Flow Studio
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.1
One week after Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek released version 7.0 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS, the author has now provided an update that fixes some problems and bugs:
  • Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.42.3
  • Fixed a network thread deadlock when resuming downloads
  • Changed the '+' button to always adds tabs at the end
  • URL bar would stay empty when moving a tab to a new window, fixed
  • Selection redraw issues fixed
  • Added Save Screenshot to the Debug menu
  • Worked around and fixed reported crashes
Download: wayfarer.lha (35 MB) (dr)

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Video: Repairing an Amiga 2000, part 2
A fortnight ago, Robert Smith showed in a first video how he got a donated and non-functioning Amiga 2000 up and running again. In the second part he introduces some upgrades such as BlueSCSI and takes care of the yellowed case. (dr)

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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.6.0 (beta version)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. Changes since version 0.4.0:
  • set default skipval in gradient slider to 1000
  • led settings page width label was incorrect
  • add window name and screen title settings in window editor
  • more window settings are now shown in preview
  • pass in window id and gadgets array to runwindow function in generated source
  • add new info file for rebuild made by Michael Bergmann
  • tweak to window message procesing so that the correct value is put in the 'code' variable
The author asks you to test ReBuild extensively and report any bugs to him.

Download: rebuild0.6.0-beta.lha (133 Kb) (dr)

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Platform game: Agonman V0.99b
Agonman is a platformer created with the RedPill game construction kit, inspired by a picture by Edwin van den Heuvel and the Psygnosis game Agony, and is intended as a homage to the game studio (amiga-news.de reported, YouTube video). Some bugs have been fixed and adjustments made in this version. (dr)

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Blog Epsilon's World: Amiga 500 with AmiKit 12, Pistorm and Checkmate
In his latest blog entry in his "Epsilon's World", Epsilon shows how he installs an Amiga 500 board in a Checkmate 1500 Plus case, provides it with a Pistorm upgrade and then installs AmiKit 12. (dr)

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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2023.12.13
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2023.12.13:

What's Changed
  • Fix device type for IMG0-9
  • Log Initiator sense request data in standard (non-debug) mode
  • Change default Apple SCSI Floppy device strings
What's new
  • Updates to the ZuluSCSI v1.1+ firmware for ZuluSCSI v1.2
  • Improvements for ZuluSCSI v1.2
  • Fix device selector for ZuluSCSI V1.2
Which firmware do I use?
  • "ZuluSCSI RP2040" (ALL red boards), you must download and place ZuluSCSI_RP2040.bin on your SD card.
  • "ZuluSCSI Compact Homebrew" (Green or Red boards), you must download and place ZuluSCSI_RP2040.bin on your SD card.
  • "ZuluSCSI V1.1 or V1.2" you must download and place ZuluSCSIv1_1plus.bin on your SD card.
  • "ZuluSCSI V1.0", you must download and place ZuluSCSIv1_0_.bin on your SD card.
  • "ZuluSCSI Mini V1.0" (DB25 version, blue printed circuit board) ZuluSCSIv1_0_mini.bin
(dr)

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AmigaOS 4: Subtitle videos with SimpleSub 2.0
Kevin "ktadd" Taddeucci's SimpleSub can be used to edit subtitles in the form of SRT files and add them to a video (amiga-news.de reported). This version now requires the just released update for FFmpeg, Mencoder is no longer supported. Many new functions such as the following have been added:
  • Change the Size, Color, Bold, Italics and Underline text within each title
  • Global setting for font selection, title position, title style and title colors.
  • Support for the most popular video and audio codecs when encoding.
  • Realtime preview with all settings applied.
  • Start preview from anywhere within the title list.
(dr)

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AmigaOS 4: FFmpeg 6.1 and FFmpegGUI 3.5
The latest AmigaOS port of the video converter FFmpeg contains a number of changes and is now on a par with the last official version "Heaviside". An update of the graphical user interface FFmpegGUI now requires at least FFmpeg 6.0 and supports more video, audio and container formats. Some obsolete settings have been removed and some bugs have been fixed. Settings files that use the new filters have also been added. With today's re-upload of version 3.5, the tool types are now also set correctly. (dr)

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AmigaOS 4: Extended audio emulator "Nallepuh" 1.8
"Nallepuh" or "Nalle Puh" is a hack that intercepts some custom chip register accesses and converts them into AHI function calls. Initially only the Paula chip was emulated, but now the Complex Interface Adapter (CIA-Chip) and the Blitter have been added (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.8 offers the following changes:
  • Updated translation for Italian.
  • Updated translation for Norwagine.
  • Bug fixed: logPUH() maybe it can cause ISI error. (So rewritten to make safer under forbid state and now use DebugPrintF to log output instead, of ugly callback hook. requester used if in GUI mode. text printed in console if not.)
  • Puh.c: Improved audio validation, (to prevent playback of bad data.)
  • Puh.c: clean code style.
  • package change, tooltype settings disabled as default.
  • Reorganized lots of arrays into one array. (to reduce indexing)
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AmigaOS 4: MIDI sequencer "Seq" V2.9
"Seq" is a simple MIDI sequencer that offers fast processing and many functions for live performance (amiga-news.de reported). Changes since version 2.7:
  • FIXED note playback: A note was not released correctly always
  • FIXED setting some values in Base Note window
  • FIXED saving Base Note Shift enabled/disabled, that value was never saved
  • FIXED saving Base Note Shift Splitter value, that value was never saved
  • Splitted Base Note Shift Splitter to separate note and octave values
  • Disable all base note selections holding CTRL down while clicking any of the mute buttons
  • Fixed play buttons light flashing if turning repeat on while in song mode during the last played pattern
  • Alternative note / double note
(dr)

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AmigaOS 4: FTP server ZitaFTP with 20% X-Mas discount
ZitaFTP Server is an easy to set up and use FTP server for sharing files from one computer to another and is available for Windows and AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). With Christmas coming up, Hans de Ruiter is offering his commercial FTP server at a 20% discount. As he writes, it has been a crazy year for his family, which is why you haven't seen as much from him this year as previously. He wishes everyone a wonderful Christmas and a very happy and fulfilling New Year.

To receive the 20% discount, add ZitaFTP to your shopping basket and enter the voucher code "CHRISTMAS2023" at the checkout.

Looking ahead to the coming year, the ZitaSync project is still on the agenda, as the developer wrote us (YouTube video). However, its realisation depends largely on whether users show sufficient interest. (dr)

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Print magazine: Amiga Germany, issue 9
"Amiga Germany" is a german fanzine. Issue 9 of the print magazine has 68 A5 pages, details can be found at the title link. (snx)

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11.Dec.2023



Video: Test of the transfer of the RGB signal from the Amiga to the PiStorm
When using a PiStorm or PiStorm32-lite as an accelerator card, for example in the A1200, the RTG emulation has so far been provided via the HDMI port and the RGB data supplied by the Denise chip at the RGB port. In this video, PiStorm developer Claude Schwarz now shows for the first time how the RGB signal is transferred to the PiStorm's camera port in order to then output all graphics data via a single HDMI port. (dr)

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Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor 1.1
About ten days ago, Stefan Vogt released another text adventure with graphics: "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (amiga-news.de reported). This update fixes an issue with the game's Amiga and Atari ST interpreters. (dr)

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Dock: QDock V2.12
Since our last news item, Sami Vehmaa has updated his start bar "QDock" to version 2.12 (YouTube-Video), which includes a lot of bug fixes and improvements. Among others, transparent now works on 24 and 32 bit screen modes. (dr)

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10.Dec.2023



Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.5
AmiWeatherForecasts displays current weather information in a small window in the menu bar. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.5:
  • Added bar, digital and iconic styles
  • Added select the window and drag to the new position for all styles
  • Added environment variables (CurrentTemperature, Location and WeatherDescription) for other applications to use
  • The application interface has been made more understandable using tabs
Direct download: AmiWeatherForecasts1.5.lha (41 KB) (dr)

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Tetris clone: Atris for Apollo systems
Sami Vehmaa has released a version of his Tetris clone Atris (YouTube-Video) which is adapted to Apollo accelerator boards. (dr)

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10.Dec.2023
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Hollywood plugins: APNG 1.3 and Plananarama 2.2 released
Press release: This is to announce that bug-fix updates for the APNG and Plananarama plugins for Hollywood have just been released. The APNG plugin for Hollywood adds support for loading and saving PNG animations and Plananarama is a plugin that enables Hollywood to run on non-RTG screens on classic Amigas. Both updates are now available for free download. (dr)

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Aminet uploads until 09.12.2023
The following files have been added until 09.12.2023 to Aminet:
ira.lha                  dev/asm    264K  68k MC68000/10/20/30/40/60/851 re...
GVPTBCPlusMultiPinOut... docs/hard  34K       GVP TBC Plus I/O Cable Pinout...
PcmciaCD.lha             driver/med 11K   68k ATAPI PCMCIA CD driver Sony Vaio
CapitanTrueno_v1.2.lha   game/actio 1.0M  68k El Capitan Trueno
CapitanTruenoWHD_v1.2... game/actio 1.0M  68k El Capitan Trueno
BackdPattGener.lha       gfx/edit   55K   68k Create your own backdrop patt...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   5.3M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
DarkTemple.lha           mods/8voic 5.9M      16bit 7ch Dark Ambient SW Theme 
sidid.lha                mus/misc   58K   68k HVSC playroutine identity sca...
EsseEmmeErreVisPre.lha   pix/theme  85K       New buttons for VisualPrefs
AmiWeatherForecasts1.... util/app   59K   68k Weather forecasting application
AmigaGPT.lha             util/misc  795K  OS4 App for chatting to ChatGPT
ColorPicker.lha          util/wb    11K   68k get color from Workbench screen
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.12.2023
The following files have been added until 09.12.2023 to OS4Depot:
ira.lha                  dev/mis 264kb 4.0 MC68000/10/20/30/40 reassembler
iconecta.lha             net/mis 2Mb   4.0 A little and easy program to tes...
fonttester.lha           uti/tex 2Mb   4.0 Tool to test the fonts installed...
ffmpeg.lha               vid/con 51Mb  4.1 Video and audio converter
ffmpeggui.lha            vid/con 248kb 4.1 A GUI for the ffmpeg video conve...
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AROS Archives uploads until 09.12.2023
The following files have been added until 09.12.2023 to AROS Archives:
amitechgazette-issue06.pdf   doc/mis 4Mb   Magazine by Eric Schwharz issues 6
whatiff2.12.lha              doc/mis 2Mb   Magazine on AmigaGuide Format De...
iconecta.lha                 net/mis 2Mb   A little and easy program to tes...
image2pdf.i386-aros.lha      off/dtp 19Mb  convert images file to PDF
xpdf-gui.i386-aros.zip       off/dtp 7Mb   Gui for XPDFTools Suite
zunearc.i386-aros.zip        uti/arc 97kb  A Zune front end for Archivers
zoomit.i386-aros.lha         uti/mis 152kb Zoom Application
fonttester.lha               uti/tex 2Mb   Test the fonts installed in your...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.12.2023
The following files have been added until 09.12.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
IRA_2.10.lha              Development/ASM           MC68000/10/20/30/40 rea...
AmiArcadia_30.70.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
Wayfarer_7.0.lha          MorphOS-update            Wayfarer is the latest ...
Easy2Install_1.0b46.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
iConecta_5.20.lha         Network/Wifi              A little and easy progr...
XPDF-GUI_1.1.lha          Office/Convert            A GUI for XPDF Suite po...
FontTester_2.00.lha       Office/Show               Font Tester
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Look Behind You (ANF)


Book: AmigaOS 3.2 – Das Handbuch (German)
As reported, publisher Look Behind You is working on an AmigaOS 3.2 book, printed in German. It will be available on February 20, 2024 and has 512 pages. Details can be found in our german news-item. (snx)

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Crowdfunding: "The Commodore Amiga 500 Story"
At the title link, Nicola and Anthony Caulfield are collecting money to finance a documentary film about the Amiga 500, lasting more than two hours, which will initially only be made available to its backers in April.

The campaign runs until thursday afternoon, and with 555 supporters so far, more than four times the required amount has already been raised. (snx)

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marinbala / Hacker News (ANF)


Demoscene: The Commodore Amiga and its Undying Adoration by Anarchist Creatives
In his article at the title link, Marin Balabanov explains why he thinks the Amiga enjoys such popularity in the demo scene. (snx)

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WhatIFF? (ANF)


AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 12 of "WhatIFF?"
In its 12th issue, "WhatIFF?" - a magazine in AmigaGuide format - offers the following content:

Reviews:
A600 RGB2HDMI Adapters
Furia Accelerator
DrawerGenie
Aminet Goodies

Game Reviews:
Spheroid (Demo)
Tenebra 1 and 2

Guides:
Making DF1 work as DF0 with the PiStorm
A314-CP date/time and device not found fix
Creative Graphics: 3D Objects with a word processor
Brilliance 101 - Tokyo Bay
ImageFX 101 - Part 2

Articles:
The Amiga Philosopher's Stance on Amiga Games
Things Commodore Did Right
Amiga Through the Lens of an LD Learner

Interviews:
Andrew Vaisey - Spheroid
Rob Cranley - DrawerGenie
Miguel Fides - Trinity Card

Shell Talk
Invents Corner

Cover Disk:
Spheroid Xmas Demo - 15 Levels
Audio Sample Pack 1

Authors:
Ivan Sorensen, John Scolieri, Kevin Saunders, Rob O'Malley, and Timo Paul. (snx)

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09.Dec.2023
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz


AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch / Hardware list
AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the new version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems. He writes about it:

"This new version introduces close to 1000 changes made by several AROS developers, including improvements to hardware support and the Wanderer desktop, updates to several libraries as well as multiple bug fixes. The full changelog is listed on the corresponding GitHub website.

Additionally, for the first time, together with AROS community, we are publishing a list of recommended hardware. This list includes hardware that is well supported, easily obtainable second hand and will be re-tested for each future release to maintain compatibilty. If you are looking to purchase hardware for AROS, please check the list.

As we progress with future releases, more hardware will be added to give a user community a wider choice and a newer generation of hardware.

If you enjoy AROS and would like to get in touch with the wider AROS community, be sure to visit the new AROS community forum." (dr)

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Platform game: NinjFeratu 1.0
After the demo version made available last year (amiga-news.de reported), Amiten Games has now released the full version of the platformer NinjFeratu (YouTube video). An Amiga with 1MB Chip-Ram and 512 KB Fast-RAM is required. The game currently costs 9.90 Euros. (dr)

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Platform game: Capitan Trueno 1.2
"El Capitán Trueno" is a video game for 8-bit systems that was released in 1989 and is based on the comics of the same name that were published between 1956 and 1968. The Amiga port of the game was created using the RedPill game construction kit and requires at least a 68020 processor and 2 MB RAM (YouTube video). Version 1.2 mainly improves the jumping of the captain, so that you no longer have the feeling of flying across the screen. (dr)

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Game development: Color Palette Mixer 1.21 for Aseprite
"Prismatic Realms" has not only written a script for Aseprite that converts created graphics into an IFF/ILBM file (amiga-news.de reported), but also a second one under the title link that limits the colour selection to 4096. The current version 1.21 is a small bug fix to properly initialize the colour sliders to the current selected colour when the dialog opens. (dr)

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