08.Dec.2023
commodore.news (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: Ami Tech-Gazette, issue 6
"Ami Tech-Gazette" by Eric Schwartz and Michael Barclay is a 16 page retro newsletter dominated by Amiga topics. The current issue contains another episode of the "Graphics Workshop", reviews of various recent ports of older Arcade games to the Amiga and a look at at Antic's former north American print magazine "Amiga Plus". (cg)
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07.Dec.2023
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X-Mas game: Turbo Santa 2023 Competition
In December 2021, Nivrig Games released the arcade action game "Turbo Santa" (our review of the game) and organised a high score competition one year later. This year, you can once again compete with others and win prizes: the best high scores in Endless and Normal mode submitted between 1 and 24 December 2023 can choose one of the following prizes:
- Rogue Declan - Collector's Edition box (Amiga or CD32)
- Rogue Declan - Budget Edition box (Amiga or CD32)
- Amiga Addict T-Shirt (Amiga Addict Magazine)
- Amiga Christmas Decorations, Amiga Warranty Labels, and a Mouse Mat (Retro32)
The remaining prizes will then again be offered to a random selection of players who have finished 2nd-10th until all prizes have been claimed. (dr)
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07.Dec.2023
Nivrig Games
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Rogue-like game: Physical edition of Rogue Declan can be ore-ordered
In co-operation with poly.play, Nivrig Games will also distribute its Rogue-like game "Rogue Declan" (amiga-news.de reported) in a boxed version, for which pre-orders can now be placed.
There are two editions, a Deluxe Collector's Edition and a Budget Edition, both of which are available as disc or CD32 versions. Both editions include physical media and a printed manual. The Collector's Editions include extras such as posters, stickers, keychains and digital bonus materials.
The boxes are in production and the expected shipping date for pre-orders is currently February 2024. (dr)
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07.Dec.2023
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40th anniversary of Turbo Pascal: An Amiga version was also planned
In an article on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the integrated development environment "Turbo Pascal", the author Blake Patterson found out that the Borland company had also announced an Amiga version, which never became reality. (dr)
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07.Dec.2023
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Website lists Christmas games: "Amiga Christmas Tree" update
To give Amiga users the opportunity to get into the Christmas spirit, 'Cammy' has set up its own website, which lists all Amiga games related to Christmas (amiga-news.de reported). So far, "Santa's Present Drop", "Santa's Present Drop 2" and "Santa Claus Christmas Season" have been added. She encourages Amiga users to report any missing games. (dr)
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07.Dec.2023
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Event: Kickstart 02, 29 to 30 June 2024 in Nottingham (UK)
After the premiere this year (amiga-news.de reported), there will be another event for Amiga fans in the UK next year: Kickstart 02 will take place in Nottingham from 29 to 30 June 2024. (dr)
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07.Dec.2023
BitFellas
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Intro competition: Nominations for the "Nano Awards 2024"
The "Nano Awards 2024" intro competition will honour the best demo productions of 2023 at Lovebyte 2024 on 9 February 2024. The Amiga productions from the "Oldschool" category:
The vote will run until 1 January 2024. (dr)
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07.Dec.2023
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Preview video: Shadow Dancer, demo version available
Mohammed Malik is about to implement one of his favourite games on the Amiga with the Scorpion Engine: Sega's Shadow Dancer (amiga-news.de reported). He has now published another preview video as well as a demo version. (dr)
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06.Dec.2023
ANF
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Video: Another Robin Hood port preview by Apollo team
The Apollo team is working on a port of the game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" (amiga-news.de reported). A video of the current beta version has been published at the title link.
Major changes in that version are:
- Tuning of Main Hourglass (divider for lesser important elements)
- Tuning of Main Refresh (disabled some fancy but costly effects)
- General cleanup of all individual element Hourglass & Refresh
- Moved all static UI elements to separate PiP layer
- Created “intelligent” refresh for UI so it refresh only when there are real Updates
- Dynamic Audio slot allocation for all Sounds incl. 2D stereo effect (volume + L/R panning)
- Deleted the complete Threaded Input routines (SDL) and recreated Input from scratch
- Replaced software blitted Mousepointer with hardware Amiga pointer (to be improved later)
(snx)
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06.Dec.2023
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for November
For the month of November 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)
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06.Dec.2023
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Dungeon Crawler: "The Cthulhu Project" (DevLog)
About three weeks ago, we introduced Maurice Doerr's dungeon crawler "The Cthulhu Project" and reported on the first part of his DevLog series. In this episode, he explains parts of his AMOS PRO code in general and loops in particular. (dr)
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05.Dec.2023
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.0 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. As the author writes, this is the seventh time Wayfarer has been upgraded to the latest stable WebKitGTK. At the same time, this release also marks the fourth anniversary of the project.
Version 7.0 has been the most challenging update so far: "Several new endian issues have crept into WebKit, with one of them causing an immediate crash when running JavaScript on big endian CPUs. The removal of some of the WinCairo port has also made it more difficult to maintain the MorphOS port. Many of the code paths that the MorphOS port is using aren't being used by the officially supported ports, which requires additional testing and bug fixing." Furthermore, support for the clipboard and the editor for saved passwords have been improved.
The developer appreciates every donation that supports the project.
Download: wayfarer.lha (35 MB) (dr)
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05.Dec.2023
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Video series: Turning an Amiga 600 into a Classic Gaming Console
In a three-part series, two episodes have been published so far ((part 1, part 2), Wolfgang Kierdorf shows on his YouTube channel "RETRO is the new black" how he transforms an Amiga 600 into a retro game console for 4 players. As he told us, this project actually came about by chance, as he didn't want to have a bare Amiga 600 board lying around. All the components used are linked in the second video.
A third part of the video series will be published next week, in which HDMI will be added. In the meantime, there is also a version for the Amiga 500 (same case, only wider and deeper), as some users had asked for it, and the MiSTer/Raspberry Pi. The whole thing was designed in TinkerCad. (dr)
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05.Dec.2023
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Game development: IFF/ILBM exporter v1.2 for Aseprite
Recently We introduced a script written by Prismatic Realms for the image editor Aseprite that converts graphics into an IFF/ILBM file. Version 1.2 has now been released with the following changes:
- Dialog button shortcuts have been added.
- Added a new checkbox option to export just the sprite's palette (CMAP). This is useful for Deluxe Paint users and Amiga game developers that work in Blitz Basic 2 and any other tools that allow you to load in an IFF palette file. The file essentially consists of just the IFF CMAP chunk.
- Miscellaneous code cleanup.
(dr)
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04.Dec.2023
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Video tutorial: Playing samples in AMOS
Following on from his last tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows in the current episode how to use samples on the Amiga in an AMOS programme. He also briefly explains how to use Audacity and SoundBox (Aminet link, key available) to get sample files in the right format on the Amiga. As always, source codes of his programmes can be downloaded from his website. (dr)
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03.Dec.2023
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Mastodon client: Amidon 1.3
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.3 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). This version fixes a bug, where Amidon's Settings window would stop responding if opened on a non-RTG screen.
Download: Amidon_v1.3_OS3.zip (1,83 MB) (dr)
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03.Dec.2023
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Aminet uploads until 02.12.2023
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to Aminet:
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
f1champ.lha docs/misc 74K Statistics of Formula One 195...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 46K 68k Massive release 1.23
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 85K 68k P96 Preferences Editor
Capitan_Trueno_v1.1.lha game/actio 1.0M 68k El Capitan Trueno
CapitanTrueno_v1.1_WH... game/actio 1.0M 68k El Capitan Trueno
LAbbayeDesMorts.adf game/actio 880K 68k L'Abbaye Des Morts
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 11K 2023 Carset for F1GP
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 55K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.9M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
ataruita.lha mods/midi 34K Urusei Yatsura GM italian song
mdx2wav.lha mus/misc 541K 68k Convert MDX music files to PC...
vgm2wav-gme.lha mus/misc 1.0M 68k Convert console music to WAV ...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 400K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
Image2PDF.lha util/conv 19M ALL convert images to PDF and vic...
MMULib.lha util/libs 787K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 16M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
(snx)
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03.Dec.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.12.2023
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to OS4Depot:
nallepuh.lha aud/mis 494kb 4.1 Nalle Puh (Paula,CIAA,CIAB emula...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
xrick_sdl2.lha gam/pla 3Mb 4.1 Rick Dangerous SDL2 port
pintorweb.lha gra/mis 15Mb 4.0 An easy program to handling pict...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 795kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
omanko.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.0 web tool made to get the MD5 and...
image2pdf.lha uti/tex 19Mb 4.0 Convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
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03.Dec.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.12.2023
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to AROS Archives:
f1champ.lha doc/mis 74kb Statistics of Formula One 1950-2023
pintorweb.lha gra/con 14Mb Handle your pictures to use on y...
iff_icon_data_decoder.zip gra/ico 175kb Iff Icon Data Decoder snippets a...
omanko.lha uti/fil 2Mb web tool made to get the MD5 and...
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03.Dec.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.12.2023
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
WitchCleaner_3.05.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
Omanko!_1.20.lha Files/Tools A tiny web tool made to...
AmiArcadia_30.60.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Image2PDF_2.4.lha Graphics/Convert Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG...
Easy2Install_1.0b46.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
PintorWeb_4.00.lha Graphics/Tools A little and easy web t...
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03.Dec.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.12.2023
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 02.12.2023:
- 2023-12-02 improved: Foundation's Waste (Exocet Software) supports another version, customs option added (Info)
- 2023-11-30 improved: S.D.I. (Cinemaware) supports another version (Info)
- 2023-11-30 fixed: Super Hang-On (Sega/Electric Dreams) highscore/laptimes incompatibility introduced with 1.7 update fixed (Info)
- 2023-11-30 improved: Wings of Death (Thalion/Eclipse) freeze on exit in NTSC mode fixed (Info)
- 2023-11-29 updated: Hellrun Machine (Amiga Fun) patch rewritten, editor is now supported, control problems fixed, blitter wait patches can be disabled with CUSTOM1, new install script, source code included (Info)
- 2023-11-26 improved: Time Bandit (Microdeal) supports another version (Info)
- 2023-11-26 improved: Alien Legion (Pegasus) install script updated (Info)
(snx)
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03.Dec.2023
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Apidya (Highscore)
- Urban Ferret (Afterburner Final Take Off)
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03.Dec.2023
Sascha Kirschgens (ANF)
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Amiga38: Video of PiStorm panel held by Michal Schulz
At Amiga38 Michal Schulz gave a presentation about the Amiga extension PiStorm, which uses the minicomputer Raspberry Pi as an 68k emulator. You can find a video recording of it at the title link. (snx)
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03.Dec.2023
Sascha Kirschgens (ANF)
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Amiga Graphics Archive: Article on t3n.de (German)
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995 (amiga-news.de reported). Outside the Amiga media, it now also received an article yesterday at the title link on the site of the digital magazine t3n, which belongs to Heise. (snx)
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03.Dec.2023
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Emulation: BBoot boot loader v0.5 now supports AmigaOne in QEMU (update)
In our Simplified installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU published in mid-August and written by Rene Engel (in German), the bootloader "BBoot" written by QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan was already used, which can now load the AmigaOne as well as the Pegasos 2 model in version 0.5.
Balaton Zoltan wrote: "BBoot is replacing the second level boot loader (amigaboot.of on pegasos2 and slb_v2 on amigaone) and makes booting AmigaOS on QEMU simpler and without needing a firmware ROM. Because BBoot runs without firmware it does not load files from disk but expects an initrd with the kickstart files in zip format loaded in memory and boots from that. This not only allows BBoot to remain simple but may also be more convenient to work with in an emulated environment and boot faster. The initrd should be a zip archive of all boot files within a Kickstart directory that can be created with "zip -r Kickstart.zip Kickstart/" for example. BBoot will look for Kickstart/Kicklayout file in the zip and boot the first config (LABEL) found in it. Currently BBoot takes no input and does not provide a boot menu so other than 1st config defined in Kicklayout cannot be chosen, but one could have different zip files for different configs and choose on the QEMU command line by using different Kickstart.zip.
BBoot can also configure PCI devices that is normally done by the firmware. Linux and MorphOS don't need this as they scan and configure PCI devices themselves during boot but AmigaOS relies on the firmware to do this so BBoot implements this too. While configuring PCI, BBoot prints debug messages that can be useful to check how these devices are configured, which can help in debugging PCI pass through or even when using newer graphics cards on a real PegasosII as BBoot can also patch 64 bit BARs that the Pegasos2 version of AmigaOS kernel cannot handle."
Balaton Zoltan has published a little guide on how to use BBoot. At least QEMU 8.1 is needed for the -initrd option on Pegasos 2 and QEMU 8.2 for the AmigaOne machine. (dr)
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02.Dec.2023
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Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor
After The Curse of Rabenstein and Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), Stefan Vogt has published another text adventure with graphics: "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (YouTube video). Here, the player takes on the role of writer Thomas King and his wife Cora, who move into a remote Scottish manor house a few days before Christmas 1986. In search of inspiration for his next book, Thomas begins to research the history of Blackwood Manor and discovers a dark secret that goes back to the time of the great Scottish witch hunts.
The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor was written in Infocom's Z-machine format XZIP. The game has three different endings, a bad ending, a neutral ending and a good ending, depending on the player's choices. It is very likely that the player will not reach the good ending on the first playthrough, even though it is possible. Reaching the bad or neutral ending is part of the experience and helps the player to understand the true intentions of some of the protagonists and the consequences of the decisions made, so that these can be reconsidered.
A physical version will be available soon and can be pre-ordered from poly.play. The box will resemble Infocom's original packaging from back then. (dr)
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02.Dec.2023
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.3.1 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes:
- Fix pasting into chat input textbox (AmigaOS 3.2 and 4.1 only for now)
- Remove trailing newline from user messages
- Enclose all user lines in asterisks to make bold
- Fix memory leak that was present in downloading responses from OpenAI
Direct download: AmigaGPT.lha (795 KB)
(dr)
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02.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Extended audio emulator "Nallepuh" 1.7
"Nallepuh" or "Nalle Puh" is the Swedish name for Winnie the Pooh and is a hack that intercepts some custom chip register accesses and converts them into AHI function calls. The project, originally started by Martin Blom and now continued by Kjetil Hvalstrand and Damian, initially only emulated the Paula chip, which is responsible for audio and disc control.
With the resumption of development, the emulation of the Complex Interface Adapter (CIA-Chip), which manages serial, parallel, keyboard and other Amiga input and output activities, and the Blitter, an Amiga coprocessor with its own DMA channel, which is responsible for copying data and line drawing and can manipulate images, have also been added. The latter is based on Peter Gordon's Blitzen project: a blitter emulator for AmigaOS 4, which attempts to implement enough of the functionality of the classic Amiga blitter to allow more old programs to run on OS4 systems without the classic chipset. Blitzen has been integrated into the project by converting it into an Amiga library, libblitter.library. The following is currently being emulated:
Ascending and descending copy operations with shift
- Descending mode fill operations with shift
- Line mode (not tested)
- End of DMA interrupt for apps using SetIntVector()
- The 68k "WaitBlit" function is patched to wait for the emulated blitter
As Kjetil Hvalstrand tells us, the additions were necessary because some audio players use so-called "scanline synthesis" (see Marko Ciciliani's essay (PDF file) or the example FORMULA MINUS ONE): a translation of pixel data from a digital image or film into a graphic waveform.
Basically, the Nallepuh project tries to support system-friendly 68k software by "hijacking" the exception handler and thus giving it a higher priority than the OS exception handler. The following software has currently been successfully tested:
- HippoPlayer
- Dpaint4 (starts, you can do simple drawings, most of the tools are broken)
- Payback (game sound now works)
- SamplitudeOpus Light 3.5
- Myst playable demo (CGX)
- Symphonie Pro player (Some sound quality issues, 15bit playback not supported.)
- Symphonie Pro Editor (works partially can be unstable, some sound issues.)
- Electric Ocean - (use NewMode to set correct screen), Ignore DSI error, and it starts, crashes after.
- ASnake - Workbench game
- MiniArcanoid - Workbench game
The ptreplay.library, powerpacker.library and reqtools.library are required.
The author assumes that the problems can be solved with DPaint. There are many other interesting programmes and he is always happy to receive small unit tests: small programmes that test a function in the chipset. Bug report are highly appreciated.
(dr)
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02.Dec.2023
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Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.4 for all Amiga systems
At the end of August, we reported on Bernd Assenmacher's PDF2JPG tool, which can be used to convert the images contained in PDFs into JPG images. As the author has developed further tools, Image2PDF (converts images into PDFs) and PDF2PDF (converts PDFs into copy-protected PDFs), there was a request in the subsequent comments to the news article to bundle these tools into one. This has been realised with the present Image2PDF version 2.4, which is available for AmigaOS 3, 4, AROS and MorphOS. The author has kindly provided us with a few explanations of the new version:
"The new version can do even more, such as "PDF2Image" (i.e. convert PDF not only into JPG or PDF format, but also into other formats such as PNG, BMP, GIF or ILBM/IFF). PDF2Image" also includes options such as "scaling" and "PDF2JPG" allows you to set the compression quality of the JPG image.
As another feature I have added an image scaling function "Image2NewSize", which can scale images to the desired resolution while maintaining the aspect ratio. (The result is of course highly dependent on the source image used). All other functions known from "Image2PDF V2.3" are of course still available. With "Image2PDF", you can now also scale the images at the same time by setting "ImageSize" as the format. I am already working on "Image2PDF V2.5", where the whole thing should be a bit more intuitive and where a function for converting images into other image formats will be added.
The beta versions can be downloaded from my my website and tried out. I am well aware that there are good tools that offer such functions, but since "Image2PDF" is all about images and PDFs, I try to include as much as possible.
I hope that many people will enjoy the tool and that it can help with tasks involving scans, images and PDFs.
I would be delighted to receive feedback by e-mail. Everyone who writes to me will receive his/her personal key." (dr)
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02.Dec.2023
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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.4.0 (beta version)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to write graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. With version 0.4.0 now released, his project has reached beta status: all planned features have been integrated.
Now the author asks you to test ReBuild extensively and report any bugs to him. (dr)
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01.Dec.2023
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Platform game: Update for Amiga port of Electro Man
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch is porting the game Electro Man, originally published in 1992 by Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS, to AGA Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). This update adds the final eighth level. (dr)
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01.Dec.2023
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Platform game: Abbey(s) of the Dead
About two weeks ago, the developer 'UltraNarwhal' released a demo version of his extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead" (YouTube video) which is now followed by the full version, available for about three Euro.
(dr)
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30.Nov.2023
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Preview video: Temptations port for CD32
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported) and now has published another preview video showing the first draft of the sixth level. (dr)
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29.Nov.2023
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Visual Novel: Mansion of Madness for Apollo V4
In mid-September, Sami Vehmaa released his first Visual Novel game, "Mansion of Madness" (YouTube video). He has now added a version for the Apollo V4 accelerator cards. (dr)
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29.Nov.2023
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Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas: PED81C updated
With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach to work on AGA Amigas with pseudo-native chunky screens without performing the known chunky-to-planar conversions when displaying 3D graphics or any other slowing down additional calculations by CPU or custom chips (Copper, Blitter) at all (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has added a Voxel engine to his project and demonstrates it in a YouTube video. Other changes:
- Fixed some palette values in a table in the documentation.
- Added formulas for calculating DIWSTRT, DIWSTOP, DIWHIGH, DDFSTRT and DDFSTOP to documentation.
- Replaced fixed values with the aforementioned formulas in the AMOS Professional source code example.
(dr)
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29.Nov.2023
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Video: Repairing an Amiga 2000
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he gets a non-working Amiga 2000, which he received for his birthday, up and running again. (dr)
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29.Nov.2023
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Game development: Color Palette Mixer for Aseprite
Two weeks ago, we reported on a script that converts graphics created using Aseprite into an IFF/ILBM file. In the German comments, Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus pointed out that "Aseprite always works in 24 bit." As a result, "Prismatic Realms" has now published a second script with which you only have 4096 colours to choose from.
When executed, a dialogue window presents a retro colour palette and a mixer, an RGB slider known from the Amiga with 4-bit granularity (i.e. values from 0 to 15 for each colour component). The palette mixer supports 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64 (Extra HalfBrite) colour palettes without alpha channels and ensures that all colours on the palette conform to the Amiga's 16-bit colour palette restrictions. There is also a button that resets the colour palette to Deluxe Paint V's default palette. (dr)
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29.Nov.2023
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Mod player: HippoPlayer 2.59
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.59. Changes:
Fixes:
- Patternscope and AHX modules: Fix bug which caused track 0 sometimes not being
displayed.
- Info window: Fix PSID song speed information sometimes showing wrong values.
- Prevent jam when receiving no results from recent stations search.
- Allow MS-DOS line changes in playlist/module program files.
- Info window: Allow mousewheel to work with scrolling the content.
- Commandline parameters: If started with "QUIT" and there is no
existing HiP instance running, do not start a new one.
- Keep list on exit: when starting HiP with commandline/icon modules
as parameters do not lose the kept list, instead append to the end.
New features:
- Scopes: When paused display the paused contents instead of the Hippo gfx.
- MED/OctaMED: Display song length and channel count for multichannel modules.
- Patternscope now supports MED and OctaMED modules, up to 18 channels visible.
"mini4" font is needed to display more than 8 channels as before.
- STIL support added for use with the High Voltage Sid Collection.
- PSID improvements with the updated playsid.library v1.6:
- SIDBlaster support upgraded by Erique, now faster and much less
likely to cause jams. A 68020 should be enough for normal
playback, previously a faster CPU was needed.
- reSID mode now supports playsid-style digisamples, as heard for
example in tunes like "Skate Or Die" and "Arkanoid".
- "Prefs/Play-2/reSID boost" can be used to boost the volume
in reSID mode.
- The library also now works on kickstart 1.3 in the original
playback mode, no need to have a separate kick1.3 lib version.
- Improved configuration with environment variables, if not using
with Hippo.
- MIDI file playback support:
- "Prefs/Play-2/MIDI mode" setting chooses which mode is active.
- Serial output mode using Alastair M. Robinson's "delimidi" player.
This will use MIDI equipment connected to the serial port for playing.
- Paula/AHI output mode using either Timidity Amiga port by Philipp
Grosswiler or GMPlay by Christian Buchner.
- Scopes, song end detection, AHI output supported.
- Console music playback support using the "vgm2wav" application
(dr)
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28.Nov.2023
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PDF magazine: Commodore Free, issue 97
After a break of more than six years (issue 96), the English-language PDF magazine "Commodore Free" is back: as editor Nigel Parker reports, the original website was hacked via a PHP script and all files were deleted. "Scopperdive LTD" has restored the original website and updated it so that it is easier to read on mobile devices and smaller screens. Even though he suffered numerous strokes of fate during the long hiatus, he decided to revive the magazine, also encouraged by countless emails, and offers a colourful bouquet of topics on Commodore and Amiga computers in this issue. (dr)
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27.Nov.2023
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Frogger clone: Frogger500 v1.24
Frogger500 (YouTube-Video) is a 1:1 conversion of the 1981 Konami game (amiga-news.de reported). Since our last news item, an MMU error has been fixed and the highscore can now be saved and loaded in both the ADF and WHDLoad versions. (dr)
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27.Nov.2023
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.4
The "Scorpion Engine" (video of development of vertical scroll demos) by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used. Changes of version 2023.4:
- Improved copper rainbow support on Amiga, including being able to set any of the 256 colors and at 24 bit color depth
- Support for VGM music on Mega Drive (XGM driver from SGDK)
- Support for saving on Mega Drive (SRAM)
- Ability to support more than 32 active actors at one time
- Improved Cut/Paste/Undo/Redo functionality
- Support for byte arrays - this will be expanded in future with word array support
In addition, Scorpion Engine now includes the previously exclusive Bullet Hell 2 (Amiga) and Real Time Scaling (Amiga/Mega Drive) demos.
(dr)
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26.Nov.2023
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Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.4
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 1.4:
- Encoding problem is solved
- Some languages removed
- Fixed any icons can be moved via drag and drop on WB
- Get Days and Months from locale
- Added use or not abbreviations for days and months
- Fixed the issue of color changes using system palette
- Removed calibration setting for height of the window
- Added 'Add to Pos Y of Text' button
Direct download: AmiWeatherForecasts1.4.lha (59 KB) (dr)
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26.Nov.2023
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AROS: Poll on "Irritating bug of the month" December
After the "Irritating bug of the month" for November was fixed (amiga-news.de reported), AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has started the corresponding survey for December under the title link:
- AREXX scripts in Core show no output
- UHCTools don't work as expected
- Wanderer Rename: Cannot change size of letters in name without changing name
- DiskInfo showing OFS instead of FAT
- Wrong parsing of boot parameters in Prefs/Boot
- Contrib LHA has issues when used from ZuneARC
(dr)
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26.Nov.2023
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Aminet uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to Aminet:
wla_dx_v10.6.lha dev/cross 8.8M 68k WLA DX - Cross Macro Assemble...
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 873K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
HWP_Plananarama.lha dev/hwood 461K 68k Run Hollywood scripts on plan...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
character-sets.lha docs/hyper 13K IANA Charset MIB (Amiga catal...
drally.lha game/race 387K 68k Death Rally Amiga Port
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 54K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 35M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
NightfallMID.lha mods/midi 1K MIDI GM Nightfall Piano Balla...
file.driver.lha mus/misc 9K 68k CyberSound driver for file ou...
AmiWeatherForecasts1.... util/app 38K 68k Weather forecasting application
BootPicture.lha util/boot 87K 68k Shows pictures, plays sound d...
sysvars.lha util/boot 16K 68k Put system information in env...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.8M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 659K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 771K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 830K OS4 Multipurpose utility
incase.lha util/shell 49K 68k Conditional execution of a sh...
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 35Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
videntiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Videntium Picta is picture and a...
hwp_plananarama.lha lib/hol 461kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for planar screen
iconecta.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 A little and easy program to tes...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 830kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to AROS Archives:
hollywoodsp.lha dev/mis 873kb Spanish Catalog for Hollywood 10
antiryagx.zip dev/uti 359Mb Advanced 2D/3D Game Engine
videntiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb Videntium Picta is picture and a...
iconecta.lha net 2Mb A little and easy program to tes...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Arexx.lha Dependencies Library to activate Are...
libfreetype2_2.13.2.lha Development/Library LibFreetype 2.13.2 for ...
xad-7z_2.8.lha Files/Archive A client for xadmaster....
fheroes2_1.0.10.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
VidentiumPicta_3.00.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
ReportPlus_8.44.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
YT_2.4.lha Multimedia YT.rexx is a script for...
Easy2Install_1.0b45.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
iConecta_5.10.lha Network/Wifi A little and easy progr...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.11.2023
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 25.11.2023:
- 2023-11-25 improved: Traders (Linel) supports another version, new install script, icons added (Info)
- 2023-11-25 improved: Campaign (Empire) supports another version (Info)
- 2023-11-21 improved: Hammerfist (Vivid Image) supports another version (Info)
- 2023-11-21 fixed: Super Hang-On (Sega/Electric Dreams) problem with "Super" animation on some machines fixed (Info)
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Theme set: 32se and 32se-lite v7.40 for AmigaOS 3.2
AmigaOS 32se" is a supplement of themes for AmigaOS 3.2, which is available free of charge in a "lite" version (video) or in a full version (video) for about 1,50 US Dollars. It was tested by the developer Sami Vehmaa under emulators.
Additional to some changes and bug fixes, for the first time the Vampire V4 is experimentally supported. Besides, a new Theme set 9 was added, and the lite version now has free access to four themes. (dr)
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26.Nov.2023
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Dock: QDock V2.07
Since our last news item, Sami Vehmaa has updated his start bar "QDock" to version 2.07 (YouTube-Video), which includes a lot of bug fixes and improvements. (dr)
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26.Nov.2023
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World podcast Episode #177 - Richard Loewenstein
Episode #177 of the 'Scene World' podcast features an interview with Richard 'Spieleschreiber' Löwenstein, former writer for German games magazine 'Amiga Joker', currently developing games for the Amiga, his latest release being Reshoot Proxima 3. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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25.Nov.2023
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 152 (Italian/English)
PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. REV'n'GE tries to compare ports of old Games to various classic platforms or review lesser known titles from the homecomputer era. The current issues contains reviews of the motorcycle racing game 'Red Zone' and the recently released Amiga port of the old DOS game "Star Wars:Dark Forces". (cg)
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25.Nov.2023
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Print magazine: Amiga Future issue 140 available online
The German and English editions of Amiga Future's issue 140 (September/October 2019) are freely available on the Magazine's webpage now. A few printed copies as well as high resolution PDF copies can be purchased from the publisher. (cg)
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25.Nov.2023
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Illustrated text adventure: C64 the Mysterious Cassette
"C64 - The Mysterious Cassette - La Cassetta del Mistero" is an illustrated text adventure for AGA Amigas, featuring English and Italian translations. The game was programmed by Colin Vella, with graphics and project management by Paolo D'Urso and music by Allister Brimble. it is based on an Italian novel written by Carlo Pastore.
'C64 the Mysterious Cassette' is available in digital (9,99 Euro) or physical (29,99 Euro) editions. The latter features an USB stick containing the game as well as a DINA3 sized poster.
Note from staff: The publisher's website does not feature any screenshots or videos of the game, a demo version is not available either. Thanks to Jürgen 'Evillord68' Weiß for kindly providing the screenshots for this news item. (cg)
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25.Nov.2023
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AROS: Irritating bug of the month November
Around a month ago, AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz launched a new initiative including a survey: every month, a bug can be selected from a list of bugs that bother the community and have been reported in the bug tracker, which he then fixes. For the month of November, a bug that did not occur 14 years ago was fixed with 40% of the votes: Wanderer can now run CLI programmes with an argument again, so that it behaves like OS3.9. He has released an updated workbench.library V45.4 for this purpose. (dr)
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24.Nov.2023
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Video: A look back at the cracker scene of the 80s
In a video, the YouTube channel "Modern Vintage Gamer" takes a look back at its own history of software piracy in the 1980s, in particular at the time of X-Copy Pro and Amiga. (dr)
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24.Nov.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.2
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), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Version 1.16.2 of the Greaseweazle Tools provide the following changes:
- DCP, DIM: Fix image import
- Flux: Emit one revolution of flux where possible, rather than two
(dr)
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23.Nov.2023
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Amiga Kit: A600GS Wiki updated
In addition to the launch of a dedicated, albeit currently still empty, A600GS website for the planned games console, which will be available in the first quarter of 2024, the Wiki under the title link has also been updated. According to this, there will be two versions available: "A600GS" will be equipped with 2GB system memory and 64 GB total memory and the "A600GS+" with 4GB system memory and 128 GB total memory. The official joypad will be standard equipment, while the mouse will only be supplied with the A600GS+ or as an additional purchase. This will be required for the standard applications such as Personal Paint (PPaint) and OctaMED. Furthermore, Amibench V46 and Directory Opus 4 GPL are included in the software package. Three screenshots of the Amibench user interface are now also available, showing which icons are used.
As Matthew Leaman from AmigaKit Ltd. informs us, an agreement has also been concluded with Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen. The A600GS contains his original Amiga music tracks "Space Debris" and "Beyond Music" as well as their newer MP3 remasters and remixes. (dr)
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23.Nov.2023
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Video: The best original Rogue game
The Amiga user 'intric8' has published a detailed video for the Amiga website 'AmigaLove' and its YouTube channel under the title link as well as a detailed article about what he considers to be the best implementation of a Rogue game from the 80s: the Amiga implementation. He also discusses other variants and releases. (dr)
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23.Nov.2023
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Developer log: Platform game "Robot Jet Action"
Ten days ago we reported about Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik's start to port his platformer "Robot Jet Action" for the Amiga. Now he has published a first developer update (YouTube video) and describes the progress as follows:
- Working on the first tileset for the first world of the game. What you see on the video is going to be one of the world’s graphics. Still a lot things to do, but at least the idea is here.
- Reimplemented the fuel gauge on the bottom panel. It’s more accurate and animates smoother… and it looks cooler
- Implemented my own fonts routine. I did that mainly to not use any workbench libraries of Amiga system.
- Also implemented my hex to decimal conversion routine that is used to show score and (later) also lifes left
- First initial Implementation of up-down scroll. It needs some tuning but it works.
- The copper colors in the background started to look like some parallax effect which, most likely I will keep in the game in this form
- sprites collisions implemented but turned off as for now
- collisions for collecting diamonds needs tuning as they are not accurate in all cases.
- For the copper colors I’ve implemented set of scripts to convert them from png files. This way I can simply draw them in gfx program and convert to Amiga OCS compliant copper colors. I needed this as there will be a lot of copper colors needed for levels.
- I also have set of scripts that convert tilemaps that I create in Tiled to my own format that I use in the game.
- Some code optimization was done because the game started to slow down on Amiga 500 configs
- some concept works on the overall gfx and design, like for example some experiments with the panel at the bottom
- Regarding the gfx, I usually work iteratively on it so please keep in mind that gfx is going to evolve during the development.
(dr)
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22.Nov.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2023.11.27 (update)
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). The Firmware release v2023.11.22, originally described in this article, has been rescinded by the author. He has released v2023.11.27 instead:
- Restore implicit device settings
- Fix device type being ignored in zuluscsi.ini
(dr)
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22.Nov.2023
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Emerald Web: Emerald Caves offers 64 new levels
The "Emerald Web" has set itself the goal of offering as many variants and level sets of the legendary arcade puzzlers Emerald Mine and Boulder Dash/Rockford as possible for download (amiga-news.de reported). The "Emerald Caves" now released for both OCS and AGA Amigas (YouTube video) offers 64 new levels. (dr)
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22.Nov.2023
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Preview video: Platform game "Deathmine" (v0.03C)
In the middle of last year, we reported on an early version of the game "Deathmine" as an entry for the Amiga Blitz Basic Jam. At the end of October, the developer 'pixelplop' had converted the game into C/C++ code and has now published a new preview video, showing some new features like animated torch flames, toxic rain drops, glow worms and Morlocks. (dr)
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22.Nov.2023
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Preview video: Shadow Dancer
Mohammed Malik is about to implement one of his favourite games on the Amiga with the Scorpion Engine: Sega's Shadow Dancer. He has now published another preview video. The game is to run on an A500, and a project page has also been set up on GitHub. (dr)
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21.Nov.2023
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Turn-based strategy game: Developer version for "Settle the World"
As Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel writes, from now on the latest development version of "Settle the World" can be downloaded from the project page. The author asks that these versions not be used for public reviews or similar, as they are often poorly tested and contain features that have not yet been fully implemented. However, as updates for the stable branch of the game can only be released at longer intervals, the author hopes to receive feedback for planned or already partially implemented features by testing the developer versions. (dr)
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20.Nov.2023
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Image Gallery: Update of the "Amiga Graphics Archive"
The latest update of the "Amiga Graphics Archive" adds a series of images from the 1988 air racing game Gee Bee Air Rally, whose graphics were created by Mike Nowak. (dr)
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20.Nov.2023
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CLI command: sysvars V0.11
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical frame rate (PAL/NTSC), Kickstart version and revision, version and revision of bsdsocket.library as well as whether the emulator UAE is used - and if so, in which version.
Die Version 0.11 provides the following changes:
- Added the tiny tool KSGE36 to the distribution
- Stands for KickStart greater or equal 36
- Tests if the current OS is at least version 36 (i.e., OS 2.0)
- Used in the test script to decide if an ENV: assign is necessary (which is for OS below 2.0) and commands have to be made resident (see below)
- It is more or less equivalent to calling Version 36 from Workbench, with the difference that it can be freely distributed (unlike the Version command) and also works below OS 1.3
- Improved the speed of the test script in OS1.2 and OS1.3 by putting the ECHO, IF, ELSE, and ENDIF commands into RAM (via resident if in shell)
- The test (in test/echo-test) can be run from workbench or deployed on a bootable floppy for real Amigas. The script CreateTestDisk can be called with a device name (e.g., df1:) to create such a disk
- Fix for AROS (here, SetVar cannot access the bsdsocket.library id string)
- Code builds with most ASM-One flavors again.
- Added version information so you can call Version sysvars
- Code/comment cleanup
Direct ownload: sysvars.lha (16 KB) (dr)
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19.Nov.2023
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Web browser: IBrowse 3.0
Press release: IBrowse 3 has arrived. It's finally time to move on from IBrowse 2, which has been developed for over 20 years! IBrowse 3 makes available the previously unreleased features that were originally being worked on alongside IBrowse 2.4 (on a completely separate development branch), whilst retaining everything from IBrowse 2.5.9 and all the new developments since its release. The IBrowse 2 and 3 development branches are now fully merged, which was a complex and time-consuming task, due to considerable divergence. The process was completed methodically and carefully, in order to not compromise stability or lose any functionality. Development can now move forward without being restricted to the limitations of the IBrowse 2 framework, allowing for more substantial changes.
See the new What's new? and "History Log for full details of all the changes, but a brief summary follows:
- IBrowse 2 and IBrowse 3 Unification
- New Reimagined HTML Parser
- Improved HTML Engine
- The HTML engine has been improved with numerous layout and rendering enhancements, including tables, lists and superscript + subscript text.
- Hotlist Multi-aliasing
- Early Data / Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT)
- Better GIF Animation Playback
- AmigaOS 3.2 Context Sensitive Mouse Pointers
- NList GUI Consistency
- Improved Preferences Window
- Decompression and Image Decoding Libraries Upgraded
- Space Saving Improve Efficiency
We hope you enjoy the new version and we look forward to adding new features and improving the HTML engine much further over the coming months.
IBrowse 3 is a free upgrade for those who registered IBrowse 2.5 (or upgraded) at the full 68K/PPC rate - existing key can be used with IBrowse 3. Users of the 68K only version of IBrowse 2.5 and older IBrowse versions will need to upgrade to unlock full functionality.
To celebrate the release of IBrowse 3, we are offering registration at reduced rates for new users (25-30% off) and upgrades (30-35% off) compared to the previous IBrowse 2.5 pricing. (dr)
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19.Nov.2023
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.3 for Windows
Just the other day, in an article about setting up a Greaseweazle V4, we mentioned the graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools. Now 'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.3. Changes:
- Read: Fixed reported issue #3: filename problem for kryoflux
- Convert: Fixed reported issue #3: filename problem for kryoflux
(dr)
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19.Nov.2023
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.4
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.
Now version 5.6.4 has been released. Changes:
Bugfixes
- Fixed problems writing parition tables to HDFs after latest updates
- Fixed crash in Add Harddrive dialog
- Quickstart did not select correct ROM for A4000T
- The default.uae could not be deleted
- GUI would not use default screenmode
- not all RAM settings were reset when changing Quickstart model
- DMX targets would crash when opening the GUI
- CD images were not activated on Reset, only on Restart
- copy all directories in macOS bundle
- add missing dirs in macOS when generating them also
- macOS did not have IPF support
- removed unused cda wait() reference
- A3000 emulation didn't work
- Fixed compiler error: braces around scalar initializer for type 'int'
- Keyboard reset would not restore keys
Improvements
- increase size of text field in Create Hardfile dialog
- fixed various clang compiler warnings
- Use CD Image name as a fallback for screenshot filename, if no floppy was found
- Accept archive formats as disk images also (e.g. .zip, .lha, .7z)
Build system
- use Github hosted macOS runner
- Build Flatpak for both x86_64 and aarch64
- fixes for aarch64 flatpak build
- Remove flatpak from Github releases (they will be hosted on Flathub instead)
- fixed paragraphs in flatpak metainfo description
- fixed flatpak source browser link in metainfo
(dr)
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Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.3
AmiWeatherForecasts is a weather forecasting application that provides the latest weather information for any location. 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 1.3:
- Using screen text font for GUI (Prefs/Font)
- Added customize color settings
- Changed min and max values for 'Add Pos X and Y'
- Added feature that finding of your location automatically
Direct download: AmiWeatherForecasts1.3.lha (38 KB) (dr)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.29
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.98, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial. Changes of version 0.9.29:
- Copper gradient editor has been added in the Level Properties screen.
- Instantiated objects are now not rendered the same frame they were created.
- Dialogs now works fine when reducing the width of the screen.
- Added a condition trigger CD Playing to check if audio is playing. Only works with 020+ executables.
- In objects screen, cursor keys can be used to change the display offset.
- In objects screen, 1 and 2 keys can be used to browse objects.
- Level managing optimizations.
- Trigger optimizations.
- Condition trigger optimizations.
- Final project size optimization: Sprite and background images are not copied for each level, now they are unique.
- Attempt to fix some unwanted actions when going to the workbench screen for file accessing.
- Less artifacts when going back to the editor after playing the game.
- Fix for render objects, it could be after some plays not all objects were rendered.
- Fix in using own screen being ignored sometimes.
- Fix in HUD screen select page controls when selecting a variable.
- Fix in font sheet not being initialized properly for new projects.
- Fix in animations for basic_platformer example.
- Fix in memory available number displayed in the settings screen.
(dr)
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Hollywood plugin: Plananarama 2.1 released
Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, is proud to announce that version 2.1 of Plananarama has just been released. Plananarama is the magic plugin which allows Hollywood scripts to be run on classic Amiga hardware without any graphics board. Once Plananarama is installed, all Hollywood scripts will 'automagically' run on palette screens as well! All resolutions are supported - from 8-bit LowRes to 1-bit productivity SuperHighRes Interlace. Version 2.1 is a minor update which a new feature which makes it easier to create applications that run on both, RTG and planar screens. Plananarama 2.1 is available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. (dr)
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Aminet uploads until 18.11.2023
The following files have been added until 18.11.2023 to Aminet:
Amidon_OS3.zip comm/net 1.7M 68k A Mastodon client for Amiga
GitDesktop.lha dev/misc 1.2M MOS Graphical git frontend
BackMan68k.lha disk/bakup 48K 68k The backup system (MUI3.8+ XP...
NetStratego.lha game/board 2.9M 68k Network Stratego game
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha game/misc 11M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 2.0...
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha game/misc 11M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.0...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 40M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 5.0M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.3M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
Nightfall.lha mods/8voic 207K 16bit 7ch Piano Ballad by HKv...
AmiWeatherForecasts1.... util/app 53K 68k Weather forecasting application
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 795K AOS App for chatting to ChatGPT
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 768K MOS Multipurpose utility
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 16M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
setrc.lha util/shell 30K 68k Support for AmigaDOS script d...
when.lha util/shell 49K 68k Conditional execution of a sh...
TZUtil.lha util/time 21K 68k Time Zone and DST Utility
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OS4Depot uploads until 18.11.2023
The following files have been added until 18.11.2023 to OS4Depot:
vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 251kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 245kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmppc_std.lha dev/cro 205kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
animwebconverter.lha gra/mis 3Mb 4.0 A tool to play and convert anima...
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 40Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 795kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
grimoriumpdf.lha uti/tex 3Mb 4.0 PDF to open invoices and see the...
wbtoolbar.lha uti/wor 68kb 4.1 Toolbar on every Workbench drawe...
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AROS Archives uploads until 18.11.2023
The following files have been added until 18.11.2023 to AROS Archives:
netstratego.i386-aros.lha gam/ser 3Mb Network Stratego game
animwebconverter.lha gra/con 2Mb A tool to play and convert anima...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.11.2023
The following files have been added until 18.11.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
GitDesktop_0.10.17.lha Development/Tools A graphical git fronten...
AmiArcadia_30.50.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
AnimWebConverter_6.00.lha Graphics/Tools A little and easy web t...
Easy2Install_1.0b44.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
GrimoriumPDF_2.50.lha Office/Show A program made with Hol...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.11.2023
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 18.11.2023:
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17.Nov.2023
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Platform game: Demo version of Abbey(s) of the Dead
The developer 'UltraNarwhal' has published a demo version of his extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead", which is currently under development (amiga-news.de reported) and which he is realising with the Scorpion Engine. The full version is due to be released at the end of November. (dr)
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