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22.Aug.2023
itch.io Rogue-like game: Roguecraft V0.4.3
In October 2022, Budger Punch announced an Amiga version of their C64 game Rogue64 with improved graphics and adapted features (amiga-news.de reported). At the beginning of August a demo version was released for the AmiGameJam 2022 (YouTube video). Now a first update is available which among others fixes some bugs. The developers wrote:

"We have fixed issue with the game turning real-time when you tap the fire-button. We have added an instructions screen, and an (currently empty) Achievements screen. The spikes now work in the game. Be careful! The player now moves smoothly when there are not monsters in the room, to make backtracking less tedious.

We have also fixed some graphical glitches, and random memory writes that would corrupt the music. Hopefully this is good now, or at least a lot better!

There are other changes you will just have to find out yourselves. Have fun finding them!

We also want to say THANK YOU for all the awesome feedback and suggestions from all of you playing our game. It is so lovely so see the community embracing this hobby project, and want to help us make this a great game!" (dr)

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22.Aug.2023

Mediathek V0.3 for all Amiga systems
In early August, we presented Jörg Renkert's Hollywood implementation of the MediathekView program for Amiga systems. Five days ago he updated to version 0.3. It would have been quick to write a report about it, but we wanted to test the program in more detail, especially with regard to streaming.

In addition to some adjustments and bug fixes, the information on a selected program is now no longer displayed on the bottom right-hand side, but on the left-hand side in a separate tab, which is automatically switched to when a program is selected.

In our first article, streaming did not work at all, although we were told by Edgar Schwan, among others, that it worked for him. So let's take another closer look. Jörg Renkert has clarified the usage again in his German instructions: next to the path to the preferred player, a "%u" must be appended, which transfers the link of the stream to the program.

One thing can be said in advance: Emotion is the only video player that could stream all videos. On the X5000, however, it only makes sense to use the low quality, as the picture and sound are no longer synchronized with the medium quality. Incidentally, ORF programs can neither be streamed nor downloaded. All fields are grayed out. There are two different MPlayer versions for AmigaOS 4 in the OS4Depot:

Liveforit-MPlayerNG, based on MPlayer 1.1.1
MickJT-MPlayer, based on MPlayer 1.3.0, in two versions:
- for Radeon HD graphics cards (released in 2018)
- for Radeon RX graphics cards (released in 2023)

The Liveforit-MPlayerNG for AmigaOS 4 cannot stream broadcasts any more than Fabien Coeurjoly's port of MPlayer 1.1.1 for MorphOS (the only one that runs without AltiVec and can therefore be used on the AmigaOne X5000).

First I checked which version of MickJT-MPlayer was installed: of course the wrong one, the one for HD graphics cards...Perfect, error found, I thought. So I unpacked the RX version, read the readme (!): I found the note there that I also needed the older version for HD graphics cards (the full archive). Good, also unpacked. Then copied the (supposed) RX version to the disk in my existing directory and saw that the archives are otherwise no different. Started the media library again, selected the program, let MPLayer stream - error message again:

Can't be true... Should Edgar have swindled me? Of course not! ;) So out of desperation (or cleverness? ;) I chose another program and tried again. And what happened? I could suddenly hear sound! And read in the text of the output window that no window could be opened using the "comp_yuv2" driver. Why was that? And slowly it dawned on me: when unpacking the HD version of the MickJT player, I had probably overwritten the RX version...stupid mistake! So, I unpacked the RX archive again, and lo and behold: the application now had an "RX" at the end. So, I copied it over, selected the transmission, timidly pressed the "E" button, and?

There you go! :) To be on the safe side, I asked Daniel Westerberg again, who had uploaded the RX version. The only difference between the HD and RX version is actually only in the replacement of the graphics card driver used: the HD version from 2018 searches for the "RadeonHD.chip" at startup and refuses to open a window if it is not found or the corresponding graphics card is present. He simply replaced this "HD" with "RX" in the exe file.

When I tried it out further, however, I noticed that there are programs for which MickJT-MPlayer still refuses to play with the above error message. If you want to see an example: just enter the search term "Garten" and then select the BR program "Bauerngärten". It could not be the codec used, as both working and non-functioning programs used "libavformat version 57.25.100". I contacted Edgar Schwan again and the clever fox found the reason: the "Bauerngärten" movie is on the server "https://cdn-storage.br.de". Edgar had tried to download it using the "wget" tool. The answer he got was:

'The certificate owner does not match the hostname "cdn-storage.br.de"'.

He then switched off the certificate check and called the following command in the shell:

wget --no-check-certificate https://cdn-storage.br.de/MUJIuUOVBwQIbtCCBLzGiLC1uwQoNA4p_AQS/_-dS/_Akp5-Fd571S/d2cdb4c7-b7e3-4b0a-89ec-1a43bdf5d273_E.mp4

And: now it works! By the way, also with the LiveForIt-MPlayer! So if it is possible to deactivate this certificate check in the media library, you could then also use the LiveForIt-MPlayer and (presumably) also stream under MorphOS.

The only remaining question is why the DvPlayer cannot stream: as Hans de Ruiter (who gave the DvPlayer hardware acceleration) told us, in his opinion the libavformat library used should in principle be able to stream over the network. The use of this feature could be added in future versions of DvPlayer. (dr)

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22.Aug.2023 Blog: Amiga 4000T Upgrade, part 2
In the second part of a richly illustrated series of articles (amiga-news.de reported), "Epsilon's World" describes how he equips his Amiga 4000T with, among other things, a scanner, IDE CD drive and the applications AmiTube and AGABlaster. (dr)

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21.Aug.2023 Point'n click adventure with photos: Holiday V1.05b
The photo point'n click adventure Holiday (YouTube video) is also a contribution to the AmiGameJam (you can still cast your vote today only!).
The player arrives in a Spanish resort in 1988 and has the task of surviving the next 11 days. To do this, you move through the town by means of photographs and must use three special items that offer protection from the sun. A few screens contain instant death scenarios. (dr)

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21.Aug.2023 Frogger clone: Frogger (beta version)
After Croaker, RANA and Megafrog, Frogger is the fourth recent attempt to adapt the classic game produced by Sega in 1981 and developed by Konami, in which you have to guide a frog safely across a busy road and then across a river, for the Amiga. Frogger (YouTube video) is to be a 1:1 conversion of the Konam game and is written in assembler, based on the original Z80 code. (dr)

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20.Aug.2023

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.24
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.98, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.

The new version 0.9.24 provides the following changes:

Added support for 64 global variables, it was 32.
In the exported game only the used variables will be allocated, potentially saving some memory.
Fix in the tile animations that was causing the exported games using them to run very slowly.
Simplified handling of reading exporting projects.
Fixes and implementations related to custom fonts usage in HUD and in triggers.
Exact values for friction and weight can now be set up and displayed.
Trigger help routines have been improved.
More triggers have been documented in the in-editor help.
Optimizations in the main loop of the game.
Optimizations in the tile comparison triggers.
Optimizations in the player input triggers.
Optimizations in the render code.
Some memory was wasted when changing the current mod being played, this has been optimized.
Some unused code has been removed.
Fixed a bug in Absolute Zero project when going back to menu and starting a stage again.

(dr)

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20.Aug.2023
Look Behind You (ANF) Event: Retro Area at Gamescom 2023 with Amiga celebrities
This week, from August 23 till 27 (opening for the public on thursday), world's greatest computer games event, Gamescom, takes place in Cologne, Germany, again. Part of it is a Retro Area, and also Amiga celebrities like Turrican developers Factor 5, composer Chris Hülsbeck and former Commodore managers Petro Tyschtschenko and David Pleasance will visit the show, with the latter presenting his books at the joint booth of the publishers Look Behind You and Gameplan.

Further details about the Retro Area at Gamescom 23 can be found at the title link as well as in our german news-item. (snx)

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20.Aug.2023

Aminet uploads until 19.08.2023
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to Aminet:

sylpheed.lha             comm/mail  22M   OS4 Sylpheed e-mail for AmiCygnix...
sylpheed-src.lha         comm/mail  1.8M      Sources of Sylpheed 3.7.0 for...
WhatMightHaveBeen.lha    demo/aga   117K  68k Demo for DSP3210 chips
asm3210.lha              dev/asm    153K      Cross assembler for DSP3210 c...
7800basic.lha            dev/cross  4.4M  MOS BASIC-like language for Atari...
beebasm.lha              dev/cross  708K  MOS Assembler with BBC Micro styl...
HollywoodSP.lha          dev/hwood  822K      Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   4.5M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
P96Prefs.lha             driver/vid 83K   68k P96 Preferences Editor
RescueLander.lha         game/actio 59K   68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
TONY.adf                 game/demo  880K  68k TONY playable demo
labyrinth64.lha          game/misc  137K  68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L...
gfx2crtc.lha             gfx/conv   51K   MOS Convert gfx to Amstrad CPC fo...
mandel_dsp.lha           gfx/fract  21K   68k Mandelbrot generator for DSP3...
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.7M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   5.0M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   5.2M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.7M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
AlwaysTogether.lha       mods/8voic 1.9M      16bit 5ch Soul/R&B Tribute by...
AlwaysTogetherTuned.lha  mods/8voic 1.9M      16bit 5ch Soul/R&B Finetuned ...
PDF2JPG.lha              util/conv  4.9M  MOS convert PDF to JPG
LilCalendar.lha          util/time  3.4M  68k Versatile calender and remind...

(snx)

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20.Aug.2023

OS4Depot uploads until 19.08.2023
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to OS4Depot:

libfreetype.lha          dev/lib 3Mb   4.1 A Free, High-Quality, and Portab...
libx264.lha              dev/lib 8Mb   4.1 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video compressi...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
blackjuan.lha            gam/car 5Mb   4.0 Blackjack clone
sieteymedida.lha         gam/car 4Mb   4.0 The Siete y Media card game.
sylpheed.lha             net/ema 22Mb  4.1 E-mail client for AmiCygnix with...
sylpheed-src.lha         net/ema 2Mb   4.1 Sources of Sylpheed 3.7.0 for Am...
mediathek.lha            net/mis 3Mb   4.0 Downloading Movies from differen...
set_get_ts.lha           uti/scr 25kb  4.0 obtain time in scripts

(snx)

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20.Aug.2023

AROS Archives uploads until 19.08.2023
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to AROS Archives:

blackjuan.lha                gam/car 4Mb   Blackjack clone
sieteymedia.lha              gam/car 4Mb   The Siete y Media card game.

(snx)

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20.Aug.2023

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.08.2023
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:

PowerSDL_16.2.lha         Dependencies/SDL          PowerSDL.library 16.2 (...
beebasm_1.10.lha          Development/Cross         Assembler with BBC Micr...
7800basic_0.28.lha        Development/Cross         A BASIC-like language f...
AmiArcadia_30.02.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
Barkanoid2_demo.lha       Games/BrickBreaker        Demo of a commercial game
Siete-y-Media_1.10.lha    Games/Card                Play in this virtual Ca...
Blackjuan_1.10.lha        Games/Card                Blackjuan Poker Card
Sqrxz_0.9.9.6.lha         Games/Platform            A Jump'n'Run game.
fheroes2_1.0.7.lha        Games/Strategy            fheroes2 is a recreatio...
gfx2crtc_0.3.1.lha        Graphics/Convert          Convert gfx to Amstrad ...
Wayfarer_6.1.lha          MorphOS-update            Wayfarer is the latest ...
Iris_1.16.lha             MorphOS-update            Iris, the MorphOS email...
TinyGL-Update-2023-08-... MorphOS-update            Ninth public MorphOS Ti...
Easy2Install_1.0b30.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
LilCalendar_2.6.lha       Office/Organizer          Versatile calender and ...

(snx)

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20.Aug.2023

WHDLoad: New installers until 19.08.2023
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 19.08.2023:

2023-08-17 improved: 3D-Net Analyzer (aka D.O.C. Demo 2) (Doctor Mabuse Orgasm Crackings) interrupt problems on slow machines fixed (Info, Image)
2023-08-16 improved: Animotion (Phenomena) interrupt problems on slow machines fixed (Info, Image)
2023-08-14 improved: Book of Songs (Complex) patch works on 68000 machines now, delay in keyboard interrupt fixed (Info)
2023-08-14 improved: Gettysburg (ARC) supports another version (Info)

(snx)

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20.Aug.2023
AUGS - Alisha Stutz (ANF) Event: Vintage Computer Festival in Zurich (Switzerland) with David Pleasance
On November 11 and 12, 2023 the Vintage Computer Festival in Zurich, Switzerland, takes place. Guest of honor on invitation by Amiga User Group Switzerland (AUGS) will be David Pleasance, who has been General Manager of Commodore Electronics LTD in Basel, Switzerland, from 1990 until 1992.

Further details on the event can be found at the title link or in our german news-item. (snx)

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20.Aug.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF) Hollywood: German translations of the manuals of the ZIP and XML plugins
Andreas Falkenhahn writes: "Helmut Haake and Dominic Widmer have been busy again and translated the manuals of the ZIP plugin 1.2 and the XML plugin 2.0 for Hollywood into German. Both are available for download at the title link. Thanks to Airsoft Softwair's MetaDoc system the translations are not only available as PDF files but also in AmigaGuide, HTML and CHM format." (snx)

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20.Aug.2023
Welt (ANF) Welt.de: Short article about "Commodore-Amiga - Legendary girl-friend" (German)
At the title link, Martin Klemrath, Managing Editor History, has published for "Welt.de" a short article in German about the "iconic computer" Amiga. (snx)

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20.Aug.2023
Rene Engel (Mail) Emulation: Simplified installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU
In mid-April Amiga-News.de had published Rene Engel's updated installation guide of AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU 8.1. Since then numerous attempts have been made to improve the emulation and simplify the installation. Rene Engel has kindly summarised the efforts for us and published a correspondingly updated and simplified installation guide in the forum (German):

"The QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan, who mainly concentrates on the Amiga operating systems MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.1 by means of Qmiga, has written an alternative boot loader for the Pegasos-2 emulation, which he himself calls BBoot. This bootloader simplifies Pegasos-2 installation many times over (YouTube video).

The modification of the Pegasos-2-Install-ISO and Pegasos2.Rom are no longer necessary. AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 is also no longer needed, as A-Cube has made the Silicon Motion chip required for the emulation freely available on OS4Depot.

The new driver can now display resolutions up to 1920x1080, the limitation to 16 bit remains for the time being. With the new boot loader, up to 2048 MB memory allocation is now possible under the QEMU Pegasos 2 emulation. The boot process has accelerated again with the new boot loader.

They are currently working on an AmigaOne emulation, which already works to a limited extent." (dr)

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19.Aug.2023 Video tutorial: Episode 36 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 36 was published. (dr)

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19.Aug.2023 LinuxJedi blog: Restoration of an Amiga 4000, parts 5-7
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings had already published four blog entries on the restoration of an Amiga 4000 (amiga-news.de reported) and continued this now with the parts 5, 6 and 7. (dr)

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18.Aug.2023 Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.3.1
'wicknix' has released version 32.3.1 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for Linux PPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix 6 on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. The new version includes minor bug fixes and improvements to the user interface. A few new extensions have also been added.

Downloads:
sealion-32.3.1.linux-powerpc-gtk2.tar.bz2 (53 MB)
SeaLion-Extras.zip (65 MB) (dr)

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18.Aug.2023
MorphZone (Forum)

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.1
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.1 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. The developer recommends installing the new version via the "Check for updates" function, as this is quicker and ensures that all necessary files are updated correctly. Changes:

Downloads and network cache writes now use asyncio.library
Adjusted SSL ciphers to try to default to ones that are faster on PowerPC
Checks whether lo0 interface is enabled and warns if not
Improved error handling in auto-updater

Download: wayfarer.lha (32 MB) (dr)

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18.Aug.2023
Pawel Tukatsch (Mail)

Platform game: Tony demo version v1.2
Tony by Monochrome Productions is a monochrome platform game that is now available in version 1.2 on Aminet (YouTube video). After the programmer Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch first had written games like Farmiga in AMOS, he switched to the Blitz Basic 2 programming language and "trained" his skills with games like Ami-Tower or Wood Block Puzzle. Tony is now to be the first major game written with Blitz Basic 2, which is a tribute to the Polish journalist and travel writer Tony Halik.

As an explorer in the style of Indiana Jones, you travel through ancient ruins and try to avoid snakes, creepy insects and deadly pits with spikes. There are also various keys to find. In the new demo version 1.2, there is a new game menu and the entry of a code at the end of a level has been removed. Instead, you now have to collect the last key. In addition, throwing potions from the inventory has been removed: if you collect a key and have a full inventory, a potion turns into a key by itself.

If you are in the mood for some visual variety, you can now try out different colour palettes in the settings. (dr)

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17.Aug.2023 Blog: Restoration of an Amiga CD32
In the first part of a series of articles Richard 'shred' Körber shows how he restores an Amiga CD32. (dr)

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17.Aug.2023 Video: Installing PageSetter 2 under Workbench 3.2
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explores in his latest video whether it is possible to install the desktop publishing software "PageSetter 2" (information on version 1), released in 1989 for Workbench 1.3, under Workbench 3.2. (dr)

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17.Aug.2023 Platform game: Boxx 3 remake v0.2
After the release of Boxx 4 and the remake of Boxx, the developer 'Lemming880' has also started to remake the third part of the Boxx series, which he originally released in 2017, with the Scorpion Engine and improve the graphics (YouTube video of the editing of the third level). This version is declared as a beta version, the developer asks to report any bugs. (dr)

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16.Aug.2023 Video: Setting up a Greaseweazle V4
In a video the YouTube channel 'MikeyGRetro' shows how to set up Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" with the help of the Greaseweazle Tools and the GUI FluxMyFluffyFloppy for reading Amiga disks. (dr)

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15.Aug.2023 AROS: Forum closes, successor recommended
Already in the middle of July Ola '4pLaY' Jensen had announced that the forum "AROS-Exec" would be closed on September 19 for health and financial reasons. Since nothing has changed since then, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz recommends to use AROSWorld as successor.

Ola Jensen's withdrawal from the AROS Archives, on the other hand, has no further consequences, since Krzysztof Śmiechowicz has already supported him here since the end of 2021 and continues this commitment. (snx)

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15.Aug.2023
MorphZone (Forum)

MorphOS: Ninth beta version of TinyGL
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen had offered a bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link, which has been successfully funded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has released the ninth public beta version of his TinyGL update which mainly includes a preview of the R600 driver even though there are still plenty of known issues with the R600 driver.

As the developer explained, "in this update only Evergreen and Northern Islands based Radeons are supported. Support for R600 and R700 based Radeons will be added at a later date." Since the R600 driver is a preview driver, it must be expected that many applications and games will either be misrendered or cause the system to crash. The author asks to report any problems.

The newly supported Radeon graphics cards are all of the Radeon HD-5000 series, all of the Radeon HD-6000 series and the following cards:

Radeon HD 7350
Radeon HD 7450
Radeon HD 7470
Radeon HD 7510
Radeon HD 7570
Radeon HD 7670
Radeon HD 8350
Radeon HD 8450
Radeon HD 8470
Radeon HD 8490
Radeon R5 220
Radeon R5 230
Radeon R5 235
Radeon R5 235X

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15.Aug.2023
MorphZone (Forum)

MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.16
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.16 of his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS which introduces a lot of improvements, optimizations and bug fixes, including faster message list updates and better handling of operations on big numbers of messages. This is also the first version coming with a Polish translation. Detailed changes:

All operations that can potentially modify a lot of messages are now done in stages to avoid timing out while server copies/deletes/etc the messages
Added progress to more message operations
Avoids reloading message list when deleting emails
Improved the Find Messages window's UI
Return key in the message editor now creates paragraphs instead of line breaks (hold shift to insert a line break)
Warns when trying to quit while there's still write operations running on server, etc
Improved CSS sanitization when viewing emails authored using Outlook
Implemented Auto-Update
Worked around a problem that caused longer subject lines with non-ASCII characters would sometimes end up with extra spaces added inside words
Fixed to refresh folder contents after deleting all messages in it
Fixed a case where Find Messages could get stuck forever when doing an advanced search
Fixed a case where message finder could continue working even after closing Find Messages window
Fixed a case where upon selecting a folder, the active message wouldn't automatically load
Updated WebKit and associated libraries
Added Polish translation

(dr)

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14.Aug.2023
Edgar Schwan (ANF)

AmigaOS 4: Sylpheed 3.7.0 for AmiCygnix released
Edgar Schwan wrote: Version 3.7.0 of the email client Sylpheed is available for AmiCygnix (snapshot). It is based on GTK+ GUI Toolkit. The design and user interface is similar to many well-known email programs from the Windows world, such as Outlook Express.

Why another mailer? Sylpheed has a very good support of the IMAP4 protocol, which is currently only available with a few Amiga mailers. But Sylpheed also has other interesting features.

New in this release:

Update to the latest stable version of Sylpheed. The program was ported from scratch and some bugs were fixed that way.
Working remote control of Sylpheed. Sylpheed can only be started once, when started again, the options are passed to the running program.
Update to SQLite 3.9.3 in "bogofilter 1.2.5".

Supported protocols:

POP3 / APOP
IMAP4rev1
SMTP / SMTP AUTH
NNTP (News)
SSL / TLSv1 (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1, NNTP)

Features:

multiple accounts
thread display
newsreader
printing
address book
templates
external editor (e.g. Vim, which has spell checking)
powerful filtering (POP3, IMAP4, local spool)
powerful search (query search, quick search, search folder)
customization of toolbar
mark / color label
and much more

(dr)

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13.Aug.2023

Aminet uploads until 12.08.2023
The following files have been added until 12.08.2023 to Aminet:

aamp.lha                 comm/www   130M  OS4 Amiga Apache MySQL and PHP fo...
aamp-src.lha             comm/www   16M       Sources of AAMP server package
lubricator.lha           comm/www   70K   68k GUI HTTP search/download + di...
batari_Basic.lha         dev/cross  321K  MOS BASIC-like language for Atari...
dasm_mos.lha             dev/cross  1.1M  68k Multi-CPU 65xx/68xx cross ass...
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha      game/misc  11M   68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 2.0...
ScummVM_ECS_030.lha      game/misc  3.9M  68k Amiga ECS port of ScummVM 1.4...
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha      game/misc  11M   68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.0...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.7M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
AudioEvolution320_bin... mus/edit   1.2M  68k Multitrack audio application ...
AudioEvolution320_src... mus/edit   351K      Multitrack audio application ...
IdentifyDev.lha          util/libs  67K   68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyLib_FR.lha       util/libs  21K       French catalog and docs for i...
IdentifyUsr.lha          util/libs  100K  68k Identify hardware and more
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  15M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram

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13.Aug.2023

OS4Depot uploads until 12.08.2023
The following files have been added until 12.08.2023 to OS4Depot:

libfreetype.lha          dev/lib 3Mb   4.1 A Free, High-Quality, and Portab...
libharfbuzz.lha          dev/lib 6Mb   4.1 HarfBuzz text shaping engine
libsdl_ttf.lha           dev/lib 2Mb   4.1 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL
libsdl2_ttf.lha          dev/lib 4Mb   4.1 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL2
ciccioview.lha           gra/vie 656kb 4.0 A simple viewer written in Holly...
mediathek.lha            net/mis 3Mb   4.0 Downloading Movies from differen...
mediavault_script.lha    net/mis 16kb  4.0 Choose player or download stream...
aamp.lha                 net/ser 130Mb 4.1 Amiga Apache MySQL PHP. A develo...
aamp-src.lha             net/ser 16Mb  4.1 Sources of AAMP (Amiga Apache My...
cocktailsshaker.lha      uti/mis 439kb 4.0 Cocktails database
owlong.lha               uti/she 12kb  4.0 Times the duration of a command.
tubexx.lha               vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 ARexx script to play Youtube videos
vamp.lha                 vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player

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13.Aug.2023

AROS Archives uploads until 12.08.2023
The following files have been added until 12.08.2023 to AROS Archives:

arosone_themes_08-07-23.zip  gra/the 310kb Aros One Colored Window Themes
vamp.lha                     vid/pla 2Mb   Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player

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13.Aug.2023

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.08.2023
The following files have been added until 12.08.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:

Aften_0.0.8.lha           Audio/Encoder             A/52 (AC3) audio encode...
Horny_1.3.lha             Audio/Sequencer           A MIDI sequencer for Mo...
DASM_2.20.14.1.lha        Development/Cross         Multi-CPU 65xx/68xx cro...
batari-Basic_1.7.lha      Development/Cross         BASIC-like language for...
RDBrecov_1.11.lha         Devices/HD/Tools          Search lost PFS/SFS par...
Sploiner_1.01.lha         Files/Tools               Split, Join & recover t...
Sqrxz_0.9.9.6.lha         Games/Platform            A Jump'n'Run game.
Easy2Install_1.0b28.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
PDF2JPG_1.0.lha           Office/Convert            Convert PDF to JPG
TopCPU_1.19.lha           System/CPU                A small CPU monitor (MU...

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13.Aug.2023

WHDLoad: New installers until 12.08.2023
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 12.08.2023:

2023-08-10 improved: TFX (Digital Image Design) fix max screen objects, fix glitchy mouse cursor, NTSC support (Info)
2023-08-10 fixed: Killing Game Show (Psygnosis) some bugs fixed, customs options added (Info)
2023-08-05 fixed: Nexus 7 (Andromeda) added a flush cache to avoid a crash under 060 before clusters part (Info, Image)

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13.Aug.2023
Amiga Future (website)

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:

Sarcophaser
Wings of death - Title (MadmaX StyLE)
Bomb Jack
Battle Squadron Game Over

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13.Aug.2023
Thorsten Mampel (ANF) Event: Amiga-Meeting Nord 2023 in Neumünster (Germany)
From November 3-5, Amiga-Meeting Nord will take place in Neumünster in northern Germany. Space is available for about 50-60 attendees to bring their own computers. There will be demonstrations and a "Party DVD" will be created. Details can be found in our german news-item. (snx)

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13.Aug.2023
Amiga.org (forum) Event: World of Retro Computing 2023 (Canada)
On September 16-17, World of Retro Computing 2023 will be held in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and admission is free. In addition to lectures, the focus will be on buying and selling, as well as repairs, including amiga-related products. (snx)

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12.Aug.2023

Video player: Amos Anim Player V2023.08.12
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported). Changes since our last news item:

Reducer: Overal motion sensitivity is set to automatic (considering the amount of changes between frames)
Reducer: fine sensitivity is adjustable by user
Reducer: High/Normal/Low Quality option (more blocks but smaller size)
Reducer: Bug Fix (related to: every fourth line left some residue/arifact)
Player : Screen was not double buffered after reselect a new file to play.(fixed)
Player : Fast forward/Rew step is fixed to 100 frames, now eats less ram. Now 14 kb, previously was 720K because the program loged everey frame!
Reducer: Filter against noise
Player: Something to handle the error of Amos (when anim framesize above 40Kb)
Player: Fast forward/Reward is fixed, loged, saved and auto loaded if the anim is already been played. So forward is faster to use, because if the log exist.... it is a direct jump.

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12.Aug.2023 AMOS: Eclips animation in "Projects in the attic" updated
At the end of November, the game developer group "Electric Black Sheep" had published a collection of games under the name "Projects in the attic", which were created for test purposes with the programming language AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). Included was the game "Eclips", in which you steer an owl through a landscape that is always the same. The group added the archive "EclipsAnim.rar" to this game, which offered a complete animation in the sense of changing landscapes. This was updated today and the member Sövény Imre explained us:

"By default, I can't put a blitter object on top of an iff animation, because AMOS automatically updates the surface underneath to a previous state when the blitter object is moved.

That's why so far I could only move sprites over it, because it didn't spoil it, but in that way I could move one "large" sprite over it.

In the new upload, however, there are several large blitter objects above it. It's slow, but worth a try." (dr)

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12.Aug.2023 Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.188 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to new kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest kernels, such as Ubuntu 10.04, or if users have problems with the latest kernels. The new version fixes the issue with the RDB (Rigid Disk Block) of an Amiga hraddrive.

Download: linux-image-5.10.188-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71 MB) (dr)

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12.Aug.2023 Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb - fullscreen feature
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.

Developer 'mithrendal' has added the fullscreen feature as well as a dimming lock which is supposed to prevent dimming or auto off on supported browsers. Besides, more ADF files are recognized now . (dr)

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10.Aug.2023
Janne Peräaho (Mail) AmigaOS 4: Amiga Game Framework
After Janne Peräaho dedicated himself to porting Python games to AmigaOS 4 among other things in the past (amiga-news.de reported), he has now started a completely new project: the "Amiga Game Framework". "Amiga Game Framework" is intended for programming 2D games under AmigaOS 4 and offers a user-friendly and intuitive C-API for 2D graphics, playing sounds, reading user input and more.

Asked about the motivation and intention of his project, Janne explains that he intends to use it in future game ports, but also hopes it will inspire other programmers to write new 2D games for AmigaOS 4. The goal is to make the programming interface so simple that anyone with basic C programming skills can write a game with it.

And he continued explaining: "The programming interface (API) is object oriented. First you create a game object by calling GetFrameworkInterface() function and then you can call the returned object's methods, like OpenWindow(), Line(), etc.

The framework is a set of include files that you include in your code like this: #include <frameworks/game/game.h> "

Janne has not yet published the source code of the framework because the event handler is still missing. Without it, you can't write real games because you can't recognise keystrokes or mouse movements, nor can you close the game window by clicking the close button. Currently, he is working on elementary geometric shapes, so-called graphic primitives. The project status picture on "OS4 Coding" shows which parts of the framework are finished and which are still in progress:

All the planned drawing functions (graphic primitives) are ready, but some of them still need to be improved. Currently, he is still thinking about how music should be integrated: should one be able to control a CD-ROM drive to play music, should there be a software synthesiser that one controls, MIDI support, or should the music be streamed from an OGG/MP3 file. On his project page, he has published a few example pictures as well as archives. (dr)

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10.Aug.2023 AmigaOS 4: mySQLcontrol 2.12
mySQLcontrol by Michael Christoph is a database administration and editing program for the mySQL database server under AmigaOS 4. Version 2.12 has been adapted to the development environment AAMP, which is required for this and has just been updated to version 2.0 by Edgar Schwan. (dr)

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10.Aug.2023
Edgar Schwan (ANF)

AmigaOS 4: AAMP 2.0 (Apache, MySQL and PHP)
Edgar Schwan wrote: This package 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.

AAMP is not only interesting for developers. This means that web applications can also be run locally on the Amiga. These are e.g. the database administrator "phpMyAdmin" or the image manager "Coppermine" - just to name a few.

You can create your own tools with the included "php" interpreter. "PHP" is easy to learn and with its extensions a powerful language. New in PHP 8 is the ability to use the "php" tool as a web server, so it is a simple alternative to Apache.

Last but not least, data can be managed with the "MySQL" database server, which can then also be accessed via the network. External programs (e.g. IODBC) can use this server as a database backend.

New in AAMP 2.0:

New version 8.0.28 of PHP. Together with the new MySQL server, the latest web applications can be used again. The old version 5.2.10 is still included to keep older projects running. You can switch between the two versions at any time using a script.
Updated MySQL database server from version 5.1.35 to version 5.5.10.
Updates of the tools "myApacheStarter" and "mySQLcontrol" - now also with Italian and Spanish localization.
The Subversion package including Apache's WebDAV modules is now included and enabled by default.
Updates of the used libraries:
- curl 7.19.7 -> curl 7.61.1
- libgcrypt 1.2.4 -> libgcrypt 1.8.2
- libgpg-error 1.4 -> libgpg-error 1.27
- libiconv 1.9.2 -> libiconv 1.17
- libpng 1.2.13 -> libpng 1.2.49
- libxml2 2.6.19 -> libxml2 2.9.14
- libxslt 1.1.14 -> libxslt 1.1.34
- openssl 1.0.0d -> openssl 1.0.2o
- PDFlib-Lite 6.0.1 -> PDFlib-Lite 7.0.5p3 (only PHP 5)
- tiff v3.4 -> tiff 3.8.2
- neon 0.29.0 -> neon 0.31.1
- sqlite 3.4.2 -> sqlite 3.9.3
- subversion 1.6.17 -> subversion 1.6.23
Newly added libraries and tools:
- cadaver 0.23.3 (WebDAV-Client)
- coreutils 5.2.1 (utilities for the Unix shell)
- gmp 6.2.0 (library for arbitrary precision arithmetic)
- gnutls 3.7.3 (modern implementation of the TLS/SSL protocol)
- libtasn1 4.9 (an ASN.1 encryption library)
- libwebp 0.5.2 (library to encode and decode images in WebP format)
- nettle 3.7 (a cryptographic library)
- openldap 2.4.49 (implements LDAP directory services)
Now includes a customized version of the ABC shell called "ampsh". This avoids collisions with other packages that use the ABC shell, such as the AmigaOS4 SDK or AmiCygnix. With a script in the AAMP main directory you can start it on the workbench and access the AAMP tools directly.
This package is a complete rebuild of AAMP. This and extensive trouble- shooting eliminated many problems that were still in AAMP 1.0.
The base library "libaos4util" has been completely revised.

Homepages:

https://httpd.apache.org/

https://www.mysql.com/

https://www.php.net/

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/

https://coppermine-gallery.net/

https://wordpress.com/

Snapshots:

(dr)

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10.Aug.2023

Dungeon Crawler: The Last Dungeon V0.7.1C
As a contribution to AmiGameJam 2022, 'PixelPlop' had released a first, playable, but still incomplete version of "The Last Dungeon" (YouTube video). Now he has released another update, fixing several bugs:

Fixed multiple issues with the status panel not displaying the correct number of gold/keys/bombs.
Enemies can now display the item they are carrying which will hopefully make it less likely to miss the key in the first room on the right!
Fixed a bug where image draw offsets were getting reset to 0 when loading graphics from DAT files.
Fixed a bug where the auto map would sometimes not draw correctly for the first room.
Fixed a bug where pushable objects would sometimes draw the tile to the left when restoring background tiles.
Fixed a bug where the spinning sword on the title screen would draw in the wrong colours after returning from the character select screen

(dr)

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10.Aug.2023 LinuxJedi blog: Restoration of an Amiga 4000
After the restoration of an Amiga 3000 (amiga-news.de reported) Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings now dedicates himself to an Amiga 4000 and has already published four blog entries about it: 1, 2, 3, 4. (dr)

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09.Aug.2023
Facebook Event: Exhibitor list of Amiga38
It's almost two months away: Amiga38 will take place in Mönchengladbach on 6 and 7 October. The exhibitors have now been published:

(dr)

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08.Aug.2023 Video series "Taborized": Atomic Bomberman Remake + VoxelNoid adapted to A1222+
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of adapting his games to the Tabor board (amiga-news.de reported). After "Battle Squadron Enhanced" and "Tower 57" he finished Atomic Bomberman Remake and VoxelNoid.

The respective executables will be made available free of charge. (dr)

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08.Aug.2023
Frédéric Cordier (Mail)

Programming language: Third public alpha version of "Amos Professional Unity"
By means of his "Amos Professional Unity" project, Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier is in the process of adding new features - such as AGA support - to the classic BASIC compiler AMOS Professional (YouTube video on AGA sprites). Now he has published the third public alpha version (V0.4) on his GitHub page with the following changes:

Removed non kept extra commands for Custom Screens modes. Rebuild all the Custom Screens system.
Added space in file 'configuration/APUnity_Editor_Config.s' for eXtensions registration system
Added new command : GFXMODE = get saga c2p screen mode( Width, Height, Depth, Scanmode ) [AmosProUnity.lib/L_L_GetSagaC2PScreenModeEx]
Added new command : GFXMODE = get saga c2p screen mode( Width, Height, Depth ) [AmosProUnity.lib/L_GetSagaC2PScreenMode]
Started new command : open custom screen ScreenID, Width, Height, GFXMODE
Added SAGA CPU/GFX Detection at startup to open SAGA library version when available.
Added SAGA Chunky screen support in copper list.
Reverted Aga/sprites.s file to previous version due to a bug in Aga Sprites.
Reverted Compiler_Shell.AMOS to Original fixed a compiler crash
Fix AMOSProUnity_Support.Lib functions set fixed a compiler crash
Fix AMOSProUnity_SpecialFX.Lib functions set fixed a compiler crash
Now Amos Professional Unity examples can be compiled without crash
Upgrade compiler to compile with AGAP Sprites/Bobs/Icons banks
Fixed issue with Get Bob/Sprite/Icon palette to now handle fully RGB24 bits colors
Update Header.s bank load to handle AGAP color mode ( 256 colors AGA ) from Bank that are inside executable (Bob/Sprite/Icon)
update Header.s also fix Get Bob/Sprite/Icon Palette commands when program is compiled.
Update CompExt.s compiler extension for squashed programs to handle AGAP color mode (Bob/Sprite/Icon)

We had first reported on Frédéric Cordier's submissions at the end of 2019, at that time still operating under the name "Amos Professional X". We took this publication as an opportunity to ask him for a summary of his efforts to date, which he kindly provided immediately:

"The Amos Professional Unity is a project I work on in my spare time, together with my other project for the Amiga called "Grimoire" (amiga-news.de reported).
Even though I don't often report about changes or news, I do a lot of work in the background (e.g. compiler problems), because the compiler source code is not documented and is a bit more complex than Amos Professional itself. A few key points about the project:

Amos Professional Source code was completely reorganized to fit the requirements of AGA support upgrade times ago.
Source code is available publicly on GitHub
Many changes were done to achieve support for AGA Chipsets that makes Amos Professional Unity being not compatible with older Amos Professional extensions that uses internal Amos Professional structures (the structures evoled,for example to support 8 bitplanes max instead of previously 6, 256 colors instead of previously 32, etc.)
Amos professional now have a good AGA support. It will be improved, but it is already interesting for AGA video game creation.

And these features are already supported by "Amos Professional Unity"

Support lowres AGA graphics up to 256 colors and HAM8 using 24 bits colors support
Support hires AGA graphics up to 256 colors and Ham8 using 24 bits colors support
Interlaced is supported for the two above resolutions (lowres and hires)
Bobs and icons also support up to 256 colors using 24 bits colors support
Create/Load/Save Sprites/Bobs/Icons banks with AGA colors up to 256 colors is supported.
AGA Sprites up to 64 pixels wide are also supported using 4 or 16 colors, and native Amos Professional sprites combination using 4 or 16 colors was improved to support AGA sprites width (you can setup a sprite up to 256 pixels wide with 16 colors using all 8 sprites for example).
AGA Sprites are only low resolution sprites. Hires resolution is not yet added.
Native commands like "Screen Open" are upgraded to support 256 Colors ( ex. Screen Open 0,320,200,256,lowres+laced )
Native commands like "Colour" are upgraded to support 24 bits ( ex. Colour 1,Rgb24( 255,128, 0 ) )
Amos Professional Unity compiled program can detect at running time if configuration run on ECS/OCS or AGA, and user can then create adaptative source code for video game ( The same compiled .exe can open ECS screen on ECS configuration and AGA screen on AGA configuration ).

"Amos Professional Unity" offers a range of new commands that were documented in the course of the releases of the first alpha version or second alpha version. Some commands are not yet documented because they are still in the development process:

Create Rainbow Fx Bank BANK
Set Rainbow Fx Color BANK, COLOR_INDEX
Set Rainbow Fx Color Line BANK, YLINE, RGB24ColorValue
Apply Rainbow Fx To Screen BANK : Apply to current screen
Remove Rainbow Fx From Screen
= Get Rainbow Fx Color Line( BANK, YLINE )

An other extension (Special FX) was also added to the project. It is a mix between my old AmosPro_Personal.lib and new commands. It bring some new commands to Amos Professional Unity (not documented on the website), and more will come in the future:

Set Ntsc : Push to 60Hz mode
Set Pal : Push to 50Hz mode
= Right Click()
= Fire( 1,BUTTONID ) : Where button ID can be 2 or 3
Ehb : Can be used to open screen using 64 Half Brite colors (ECS)
Ham6 : Can be used to open screen using Ham6 ( 4096 colors ) screens (ECS)
Create Memblock BANK, SIZE_IN_BYTES : Create a memory block, this command set is inspired from Dark BASIC v1 & Professional )
= Memblock Exist( BANK )
= Get Memblock Size( BANK )
Write Memblock Long BANK, POSITION_IN_BYTES, 32BITSVALE : Write a 32 Bits value at POSITION_IN_BYTES of the memblock BANK
= Memblock Long( BANK, POSITION ) : Will return the 32 Bits value stored at POSITION in the memblock BANK
Write Memblock WordBANK, POSITION_IN_BYTES, 16BITSVALE : Write a 16 Bits value at POSITION_IN_BYTES of the memblock BANK
= Memblock Word( BANK, POSITION ) : Will return the 16 Bits value stored at POSITION in the memblock BANK
Write Memblock ByteBANK, POSITION_IN_BYTES, 32BITSVALE : Write a 8 Bits value at POSITION_IN_BYTES of the memblock BANK
= Memblock Byte( BANK, POSITION ) : Will return the 8 Bits value stored at POSITION in the memblock BANK
Reserve F Icon BANK, SIZE : Create a custom icons bank, not blitter, CPU drawing one for fasts CPU and FastRam. Icon size is Width/Heigth same Set Current F Icon Bank BANK : Allow to have multiple Fast Icons banks
= Get Current F Icon Bank() : Will return the current bank used for Fast Icons
Get F Icon ICON, X, Y : Grab an icon ICON from the current screen
Paste Icon ICON, X, Y(, TRANSPARENCY ) : Will draw an icon at X,Y coordinates. X is multiple of 16 pixels.
= Get Fie Size( FileName$ )
Create Playfield from sprite HEIGHT, YSTART : Create a background playfield using sprites
Remove Sprite Playfield : Remove the background playfield

There are some known issues and limitations. One known issue for example is that compiler must be improved to allow compilation of source code containing Sprites/Icons banks in it. Currently, banks must not be included in .AMOS when compiling.

Amos Professional Unity is provided with some examples that show the uses of AGA Chipset and the Special FX commands sets. This simply mean you can already create AGA video games using Amos Professional Unity and compiles them as executables." (dr)

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07.Aug.2023
Smith (Mail) Video: Status update on DrawBridge for MiSTer
Since last year Robert Smith has been working on a realisation of his "DrawBridge" project - standard PC disk drives can be used to read and write Amiga disks - for the FPGA Amiga clone MISTer (amiga-news.de reported). In his latest video he summarises the current state of development. (dr)

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06.Aug.2023 Dungeon Crawler: The Last Dungeon V0.7c
As a contribution to AmiGameJam 2022, 'PixelPlop' had released a first, playable, but still incomplete version of "The Last Dungeon" (YouTube video). Now he has made available a first update that fixes some bugs. (dr)

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06.Aug.2023
Amigans (Forum) Video: Emulator E-UAE for AmigaOS4
UAE (abbreviation for Unix Amiga Emulator or Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator) is a software emulator that can be used to run Amiga programs on various operating systems. For Windows, a special variant called WinUAE was developed on the basis of UAE. Based on WinUAE, E-UAE was developed to make its special functions usable on other operating systems. The version ported and available on AmigaOS 4 dates from 2015 (amiga-news.de reported).

Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has created an extensive video about E-UAE under AmigaOS 4, in which he describes the basics and the development. He also explains how the changes made to the source code since 2015 affect it by compiling a current version and showing this using the example of the emulation of AmigaOS 3.2.2.1. (dr)

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06.Aug.2023

Aminet uploads until 05.08.2023
The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to Aminet:

ignition.lha             biz/spread 5.0M  OS4 a modern spreadsheet
ignition-src.lha         biz/spread 1.2M  OS4 Sourcecode ignition 1.22
fastbasic.lha            dev/cross  1.4M  MOS Compiler for the Atari 8-bit ...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   4.5M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
PreludeSoftwareBundle... driver/aud 116K  68k Software bundle for Prelude s...
anaiis.lha               driver/oth 238K  68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.23
anaiis_boot.lha          driver/oth 269K  68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
labyrinth64.lha          game/misc  137K  68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L...
AcesUp.lha               game/think 2.9M  68k Aces Up solitaire card game
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.7M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.9M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   5.2M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.8M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
ANSI-Draw_v097.lha       text/edit  75K   68k Advanced ANSI character&graph...
words10.lha              text/misc  6K    68k extreme fast wordcounter
deark.lha                util/arc   4.0M  68k Extracting data from various ...
lhasa.lha                util/arc   4.2M  MOS Free Software LHA implementat...
mkatr.lha                util/conv  47K   MOS ATR disk image creation tool
AmiSSL-5.10-OS3.lha      util/libs  3.4M  68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.10-OS4.lha      util/libs  3.1M  OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.10-SDK.lha      util/libs  2.3M  OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
Add_UKBankHolidays.lha   util/time  1K        Lil Calender UK Bank Holiday ...
gidatario.lha            util/time  229K  68k GI Datario 
LilCalendar.lha          util/time  3.4M  68k Versatile calender and remind...

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OS4Depot uploads until 05.08.2023
The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to OS4Depot:

amissl-sdk.lha           dev/mis 2Mb   4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
siliconmotion502_chip... dri/vid 14kb  4.1 SiliconMotion 502 video driver
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
scummvm.lha              gam/mis 109Mb 4.1 Run supported classic adventure/...
scummvm-src.zip          gam/mis 178Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
blues.lha                gam/pla 3Mb   4.1 Blues Brothers games recreation
amissl.lha               lib/mis 3Mb   4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
mediavault_script.lha    net/mis 24kb  4.0 Choose player or download stream...
ignition.lha             off/spr 5Mb   4.1 A modern spreadsheet
ignition-src.lha         off/spr 1Mb   4.0 A modern spreadsheet (source)
deark.lha                uti/arc 6Mb   4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
set_get_ts.lha           uti/scr 25kb  4.0 obtain time in scripts

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AROS Archives uploads until 05.08.2023
The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to AROS Archives:

acesup.i386-aros.lha         gam/car 3Mb   solitaire card game
watercolor_cubic_themes_0... gra/the 460kb Watercolor Cubic Window Themes
lilcalendar.i386-aros.lha    uti/wor 3Mb   Calender scheduling and reminder...

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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.08.2023
The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:

Flite_1.2.lha             Audio/Misc                Speech synthesis engine
Python_3.2_v2.02r176.lha  Dependencies/Python       Python_3.2_v2.02r176.lha
Python_3.4-draft.lha      Dependencies/Python       Python_3.4-draft.lha
FastBasic_4.6.lha         Development/Cross         Compiler for the Atari ...
mkatr_1.3.lha             Emulation/Misc            ATR disk image creation...
AmiArcadia_30.0.lha       Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
Deark_1.6.5.lha           Files/Archive             Extracting data from va...
Lhasa_0.4.0.lha           Files/Archive             A Free Software LHA imp...
uif2iso_0.1.2.lha         Files/Convert             UIF to ISO converter
ScummVM_2.7.1.lha         Games/Adventure           2D Point-and-Click adve...
Aliens-versus-Predator... Games/Shoot3D             Aliens versus Predator ...
VidentiumPicta_2.60.lha   Graphics/Tools            An image viewer  progra...
CDXL-Player_1.1.lha       Multimedia                CDXL player with source...
VAMP_3.10.lha             Multimedia                A Multimedia Player pro...
Easy2Install_1.0b27.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
ScreamBar_1.2.lha         System/Ambient/Screenbar  Screenbar module plug-i...

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06.Aug.2023

WHDLoad: New installers until 05.08.2023
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 05.08.2023:

2023-08-05 fixed: Nexus 7 (Andromeda) added a flush cache to avoid a crash under 060 before clusters part (Info, Image)
2023-08-05 improved: Sword (Serio-Comic) no more 68020 required for the kickstart 3.1, 2nd button to jump supported (Info)

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06.Aug.2023
Puni (ANF) AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for July
For the month of January '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.Aug.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF) Amiga Future: Events calendar
Amiga Future announces that it now also enters events in its calendar at the title link. Additions can be made via form by people registered there or otherwise also by e-mail. (snx)

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06.Aug.2023 Video tutorial: Episode 35 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 35 was published. (dr)

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05.Aug.2023

Floppy disk images: Disc Image Manager V1.46.4 for Linux, macOS and Windows
Gerald J Holdsworth's Disc Image Manager is an application used to load a retro disc image, read the catalogue and output any required files. In addition, it will also add files to the image, delete, and rename files and directories. On the Amiga side, reading and writing of AmigaDOS disks and hard disks with OFS and FFS formatting are supported (not fully tested with FFS). Support for directory cache and international characters is still missing (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.46.4:

New or improved features

Font size on the BBC Basic Viewer can be changed.
Added the ability to use the mouse scroll wheel on a hex dump.
Can now read Acorn ROM FS images.
When reading UEF images, each CFS header is checked to be valid before reading.
Can now create blank Acorn ROM FS images.
Can now add files to Acorn ROM FS images.
Can now delete files from Acorn ROM FS images.
Some minor code changes (creation of new images).
Command line parsing has been completely removed and replaced by a command line console.
Attributes are now validated before applying.
CSV output now includes the option for MD5, per file.
Button added to allow loading of multiple images and outputting a CSV of each file.

Bug fixes

OS dark mode: most of the controls do not react to the change from light mode to dark mode. The changing of the font colour sometimes made them hard to see with the tiling selected.
The Hex Dump dialogue was not scaling correctly with Hi-DPI setups.
Not all BASIC files are terminated with 0xFF. This fooled the BASIC detector in the Hex Dump viewer.
If the creation of a new image fails, the application still thought that there was an image open.
When renaming a file, or editing the load or execution addresses, pressing the BackSpace key would attempt to delete the file, instead of deleting the text.
It was possible to remove the 'D' attribute of a directory, or add one to a file.
If the last line in a hex dump text output was less than 16 bytes, then the position of the ASCII representation would not line up with the columns above.
MS-DOS 6.22 failed to properly read a floppy image created by the application. Changed a few settings in the header when formatting a new image.
Fixed some quote placement errors in the CSV output.

The author also provides a detailed PDF manual. (dr)

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05.Aug.2023 Competition: Voting for the AmiGameJam 2022
For about 15 days, there is still the possibility to vote for the nine entries of the AmiGameJam 2022 or to give up to five points per game. The votes of the community will count for 25% of the final score, the remaining 75% will be determined by the three-member jury. (dr)

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05.Aug.2023

Tool: identify library 43.1
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 43.1 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:

Added more manufacturers and boards
AmigaOS 3.9 wasn't detected under certain circumstances
Fixed a crash on ACT Apollo A620 detection

Downloads:

IdentifyDev.lha (67 kB)
IdentifyUsr.lha (100 kB) (dr)

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05.Aug.2023
ko-fi AmigaOS 4.1: "Blues Brothers" games and "Prehistorik 2" ported
Titus Software Titus Software was a French software publisher and developer that also released numerous games for the Amiga. Among them were The Blues Brothers and Prehistorik. On GitHub, the developer 'cyxx' had published a new version of the engine on which the games "The Blues Brothers", "Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure" and "Prehistorik 2" are based and which now offers, among other things, configurable screen size and unlimited lives.

George 'walkero' Sokianos has now ported this engine for AmigaOS 4.1 and published it both on his GitHub page and under the title link in the OS4Depot. The accompanying readme explains exactly how the additionally required data of the original games (demo or full version) have to be installed. (dr)

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04.Aug.2023

Introduction: Mediathek V0.1 for all Amiga systems
For some time now Jörg Renkert (among others AmiBrixx or ModExplorer) has been working on an implementation of the programme MediathekView - a program searching the online media libraries of the German public television broadcasters - for the Amiga systems, based on Hollywood, and has now released a first version 0.1 (from left to right the versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS):

The programme ran very smoothly and flawlessly on our two test systems (Amiga 1200 with PiStorm-lite and AmigaOne X5000). After a search query, the results are displayed in the right half of the window. If you select an entry there, you get information about the file sizes for high, medium and low quality in the lower area and even lower information about the program itself. If you don't want to set everything up again for the same search each time you start it - keyword, channel, storage location, etc. - you can do this under a profile. - then you can save this under a profile. The only difference between the AmigaOS 3 and the other two versions: under AmigaOS 3 you have no possibility of sorting the result list, for example according to the length of the contributions.

When choosing the film quality, the high quality is ruled out for the test systems, as it cannot be played smoothly. Under AmigaOS 3, neither FroggerNG nor RiVA could be persuaded to play the present mp4 format (low quality), but this may also be due to the inexperience of the operator. Under AmigaOS 4, the X5000 manages to play the low quality without problems using Emotion Mediaplayer and DVPlayer. The latter also masters the medium quality, whereas with Emotion Mediaplayer V1.9 sound and picture no longer run synchronously.

Mplayer under MorphOS, on the other hand - here, however, in version 1.1 - manages both quality levels without visible problems.

In addition to the download (D), you can copy the link to the clipboard (C) or transfer it to a previously selected video player (E). However, the latter did not work on any system. In principle, it would be advantageous if not only the pure title were saved, but also the correct mp4 file extension.

Mediathek by Jörg Renkert is without doubt one of the best (Hollywood) Amiga applications of recent times, for which one likes to boot up the Amiga computer again more often. Even in the early version 0.1 the programme makes a very mature impression and one can only guess how much time was invested in the project. Hats off! (dr)

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04.Aug.2023

RTG driver: P96 V3.4.0 released
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has released version 3.4.0 of his RTG driver P96, which can be bought or downloaded from the order history at iComp. He wrote: "Highlights of this new release are emulation of EHB mode (64-colour mode of the Amiga chipset) and support of the RainbowII card, which is identical to the BSC Framemaster. Further, the Commodore A2410 board is supported - this card is also known as the "Tiga card". This driver is still in an early development phase, and it does not yet use DMA. Further, P96Prefs (amiga-news.de reported) and P96ScreenCX are now part of the package - the latter for multi-monitor operation with a native Amiga screen alongside the GFX card's output." Detailed changelog:

Added emulation for Extra Half Bright mode. It is enabled along with planar emulation.
Planar emulation is now disabled if the board does not support a chunky mode required for planar emulation. This should be really rare, though.
Allocation of bitmaps failed in case the bitmap flags still contained the magic DPaint flag that CPU blitting is necessary.
now prevents a crash in case a driver forgot to set the pixel clock of a mode to a non-zero value.
The CVisionPPC card driver accepts now the MEMORYCLOCK tooltype which specifies the memory clock in MHz.
The graphics.library functions ClearEOL() and ClearScreen() have been broken in all versions of Amiga OS, including AmigaOs 3.2.2. Luckely, they are rarely used (and should probably be avoided altogether). P96 now includes a re-implementation of the functions that should be safe.
If GRANTDIRECTACCESS is set, P96 now disables the planar mode as it requires switching the Chain4 mode and thus modifies content under the feed of a potential user of the direct access. In such cases, the planar emulation can be used.
The installer forgot to install the Cirrus5446 driver for the PicassoIV board.
The S3Virge driver installed a maximum horizontal resolution of 1280 for everything beyond highcolor. This limit was increased to 1440 pixels.
P96Prefs will no longer accept to create modes that the P96 core would refuse to create if they are beyond the bounds registered by the driver.
P96 disables screen dragging on autoscroll screens because VGA chipsets cannot pan the dragged screen below the screen split positions. The current logic for determine autoscroll screens compared the bitmap width with the width of the video mode. This is not quite correct as bitmaps on some cards may be required to be wider than the mode width. On cards using VRAM, the line size must be a multiple of the VRAM shift register size.
The CVision3D driver now also supports horizontal resolutions wider than 1280 pixels for high-color modes.
P96 now supports even more graphics boards. This time, the RainbowII frame buffer and the CBM A2410 was added to the list of supported boards.
The RainbowII is not very exiting as it only supports 32bit TrueColor in either PAL or NTSC, interlace or progressive, thus modes cannot be freely defined.
RainbowII was also marketed as FrameMaster by BSC and Elaborate Bytes, the driver supports all three boards.
The A2410 was CBM's only graphics board, originally designed by the University of Lowell. It is based on the TI TMS34010 chipset. The chip is an oddity as it does not provide direct access to its video RAM. Thus, its driver needs to play some tricks with the MMU and requires the mmu.library. The TMS34010 chip includes blitter functionalities the driver uses when possible, though still needs to render by the CPU itself into a "mirror framebuffer". Thus, everything will be pretty slow. Again, note that you *need* the mmu.library for the A2410.
The physical dimensions of the monitor in millimeters can now be put into the monitor icon tooltypes as MONITORWIDTH and MONITORHEIGHT. This allows P96 to compute the resolution of all modes on the monitor. Note that the tooltypes are in millimeters, not in pixels.
The P96 distribution includes now additonal contributions: The P96Prefs program is the new style preferences editor. It replaces the Picasso96Mode if the target operating system is Os 3.2 or better.
P96Mode did not compute the monitor limit frequency correctly, fixed.
P96Mode did not check whether the board type as indicated in the board is correct.
In case more than one board was installed, P96Prefs could have shown a dummy resolution of 320x200 pixels that is only for internal use.
P96Prefs disabled modes if the requested clock frequency differed too much from the actual clock frequency. This is no longer the case.
Additonal contributions are the Native monitor driver and the P96ScreenCX commodity.
Updated the installer script to also install contributions and localizations.
Again, I want to thank Samir and Javier for updating the Italian and Spanish catalogs of P96Prefs, and most of all Thomas Richter for his continued work on P96.

(dr)

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03.Aug.2023
Sven Scheele (ANF) Event: Interface XXXV in Kiel (Germany)
On Saturday, 2 September 2023, the retro computer event "Interface" will take place in Schwentinental near Kiel (Germany) for the 35th time. Organizers are as always the Vintage Computer Club (VCC), the Amiga Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH) and the Computer Club Klausdorf (CCK).

Registration by e-mail to interface@jugendhaus-klausdorf.de is recommended. Without registration there is no guarantee for a free place.

There are again two large rooms available. The café on the first floor (as a "workshop" for hardware projects, repairs, etc.) and the attic offer enough space for talking and playing games on the computers and consoles you have brought along. Power strips and network cables must be brought by the participants.

Official start is at 14 o'clock, from approx. 12 o'clock the organization team begins with the structure of the tables etc. The venue is the Jugendhaus Klausdorf, Dorfstraße 101 in 24222 Schwentinental (Klausdorf district). (snx)

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03.Aug.2023 Rogue-like game: Rogue Declan Zero released
After several preview videos (amiga-news.de reported), Nivrig Games has now released the twin-stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero" (YouTube video) as a contribution to AmiGameJam 2022. A little play guide is also available. (dr)

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03.Aug.2023 Video tutorial: Building a graphics editor in AMOS, part 2
In the second part of his video tutorial series on creating a simple graphics editor (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' fixes some bugs in the original code and adds Circle functionality. The source code as well as all other programs of the series can be downloaded for free from his website. (dr)

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02.Aug.2023

USB-Stack: ANAIIS 1.23
ANAIIS ("Another Native Amiga IO Interface Stack") written by Gilles Pelletier is an USB stack which also runs on a 68000 processor. This can be used, for example, to operate the Subway 2021 from Alinea Computer. Changes:

Install script for FD and fdclasses
Automatic activation of FD drivers
TheMouse is ok, TheGamepad still not
Hub status and port status
Fix assembly Subway code
FD drivers
A600/A1200 Gayle clockport (not tested)
Fix load/update/save prefs
NTSC mode
Another mouse with epsize at 8
Fix a guru#3 on 68000 at start
callfunction, an adempt to load Sirion 1.3 drivers
rMouse.usbfd driver
First call of a Sirion 1.3 function: bootmouse.usbfd
Water rabbit version

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01.Aug.2023
Amigaworld.net (forum) Event: Amiga Camping 2023 (France)
In the west of France, in the Vendée, on the outskirts of the town of La Roche-sur-Yon, Amiga Camping 2023 will take place from August 25 to 27 in a wooded area just a few kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean. Topics of discussion besides the Amiga itself will be retro gaming and alternative computing in general as well as robotics.

Among other things, Amiga, arcade, retro-gaming, virtual reality, introduction to 3D printing, games for geeks, games for non-geeks, the theft of unusual objects and of course barbecues are mentioned as program items. (snx)

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01.Aug.2023
Patreon Preview video: Shoot'em Up "Boss Machine" (AGA)
Kevin Saunders continues to work on the graphics of the horizontally scrolling shooter for AGA computers "Boss Machine" (amiga-news.de reported). Daniel Stephens has published a short video of the new boss 'DeathStormer' on his YouTube channel. Saunders has published further designs of opponents on his Patreon website. (dr)

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01.Aug.2023
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.10 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.10 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.1.2 (1.8.2023). Detailed changes:

Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.1.2 (1.8.2023) version, which includes improvements and fixes for three low severity identified vulnerabilities:

Fix excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value.
Fix DH_check() excessive time with over sized modulus.
Do not ignore empty associated data entries with AES-SIV.

Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.10-OS3.lha (3,4 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.10-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.10-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)

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01.Aug.2023
itch.io Action RPG: "King Arthur: Rise of the Round Table"
LateBit' have also submitted their entry to AmiGameJam 2022 just in time: "King Arthur: Rise of the Round Table" is inspired by "Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight" and requires an AGA-Amiga and currently still an 030 processor (YouTube video). The game is not yet optimised, graphics are missing, and some bugs are still included. (dr)

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01.Aug.2023
itch.io Shoot'em Up: Caravandalf
Also shortly before the deadline, Peter & Gordon Mackay submitted their game "Caravandalf" to AmiGameJam 2022 (YouTube video). An AGA Amiga is required. (dr)

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01.Aug.2023
itch.io Rogue-like game: Demo version of Roguecraft
In October 2022, Budger Punch announced an Amiga version of their C64 game Rogue64 with improved graphics and adapted features (amiga-news.de reported). A demo version for the AmiGameJam 2022 has now been published before the "closing date".

The developers point out that the demo version still contains some errors, especially graphical ones, and is not yet complete. It is therefore limited to four levels. An Amiga1200 or higher is recommended for a smooth game experience, the actual gameplay should run on an Amiga 500 with 1Mb RAM. Feedback is explicitly welcome. (dr)

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