08.Jul.2023
ANF
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Event: DEF CON 31 with Amiga FTP client vulnerability identification
From August 10 to 13, 2023, the IT security event DEF CON 31 will take place in Las Vegas. In one of the presentations, Dr. Wesley McGrew is dedicated to the possibility for beginners to find security vulnerabilities in earlier operating systems - and will demonstrate this using an FTP client for the Amiga from 1994. (snx)
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08.Jul.2023
itch.io (ANF)
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Tool: Closer closes Workbench windows
Its name tells it all: the BlitzBasic program "Closer" will take away the chore of closing the Workbench windows for you. (snx)
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08.Jul.2023
ALBs Blog (ANF)
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AI picture generator: AmiDream 0.2
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiDream generates pictures described by text using the language model Stable Diffusion. The program is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS. (snx)
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07.Jul.2023
MediaMarkt advertising (ANF)
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Trademark exploitation: "Commodore" household appliances
Apparently the most recent use of the brand name "Commodore" with a logo similar to the original can currently be found in MediaMarkt's advertising in Germany and Austria: on the one hand wet mopping robots in three variants and in Austria on the other hand also a so-called "balcony power station". Both products are distributed by the Austrian company KSR Group GmbH. (snx)
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07.Jul.2023
Demozoo (ANF)
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Jump'n'Run: Absolute Zero
In "Absolute Zero", a jump'n'run game created with RedPill, one has to collect batteries for "climate reactors" in a frozen world (video).
Download: AbsoluteZero.lha (1 MB) (snx)
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06.Jul.2023
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A-EON announces that A1222+ production is underway
In a joint press release (PDF), A-EON, ACube and AAA Technology announce that production of A1222+ motherboards is underway. Pre-orders for the A1222+ are "expected to open in the coming months", with shipments said to begin shortly afterwards. Customers who committed to A-EON’s 'Early Adopter' scheme will have first choice of refusal after which orders will be accepted on a first come first served basis.
According to the press release, A-EON is financing the design and production of the A1222+, while ACube has developed the final prototypes and will now manage the production and testing process. The Luxembourg based "AAA Technology", a joint venture between Amedia Computer France, AmigaKit Ltd. and A-EON Technology Ltd, will act as the main distributor for the product.
Note from staff: A year ago, A-EON confirmed that it no longer has a license to distribute AmigaOS 4 and that the X5000 motherboards on sale at the time were bundled with AmigaOS by a third party. The unnamed company mentioned in our old news item that was rumoured to be said third party was indeed AAA Technology. (cg)
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05.Jul.2023
ANF
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Emulator of an optical drive with CD³² support
Felix Lazarev has announced that his "Phøde Universal Optical Drive Emulator" will also support the Amiga CD³² among other systems. An "Optical Drive Emulator" (short: ODE) replaces an optical drive with a board that reads CD images from e.g. an SD card instead of using real CDs. This is much more robust, since no mechanics and no laser are used anymore.
Pre-orders are currently underway, and production is planned for the end of September, with delivery starting at the end of October. (snx)
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05.Jul.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 163
The English and German issue 163 (July/August 2023) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes a preview of the ASM game, a review of the IceDrake turbo board and show reports. (snx)
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05.Jul.2023
ANF
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AmigaOS 4: Script for adjusting Browservice usage by Odyssey
In order to be able to visit more modern websites on AmigaOS 4 with the Odyssey web browser, Browservice can be used (amiga-news.de reported). However, it happens that lateral scroll bars constantly appear and disappear again.
George Sokianos has now provided a Javascript file at the title link which solves this problem by generating the images supplied by Browservice a few pixels narrower so that the scroll bars do not appear at all. Before importing the file into Odyssey, one does only have to adjust the IP address in line 12 using a text editor. (snx)
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05.Jul.2023
Patreon
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.2
The "Scorpion Engine" 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.
New features in version 2023.2 include an optional sliced blitting mode for the Amiga, which greatly reduces the memory consumption of animations. (snx)
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03.Jul.2023
Nico Barbat (ANF)
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German translation of "Commodore: The Inside Story" available
The book "Commodore: The Inside Story" by David Pleasance is also available in German now. Details can be found in our German news-item. (snx)
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03.Jul.2023
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Videos of the Kickstart 01
Last weekend, after a break of several years, an event for Amiga fans took place again in Great Britain with the Kickstart 01 (amiga-news.de reported). A short walk around of the event organised by Ravi Abbott (interview with amiga-news.de) was recorded by AmigaNG, detailed live recordings can be found on the Twitch channel StudioFromTheSky. (dr)
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02.Jul.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.14
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 1.14 of the Greaseweazle Tools provide the following changes:
- Windows 64-bit: Install correct 64-bit version of CAPS/SPS IPF library
- Windows 32-bit: Install 32-bit versions of required MSVCR DLLs
- Now require Python 3.8 or later
- TD0: Support advanced compression blocks
(dr)
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02.Jul.2023
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Frogger clone: RANA
Already two years ago, Lorenzo Di Gaetano from the group Phaze101 wrote his Frogger clone RANA (Reckless Amphibian New Adventures) for the "Retroprogrammers Inside Gamedev Challenge" and published the source code on GitHub.
Since there was no finished binary so far, the idea arose in a forum discussion on Amiga-News.de to create one and make it available to the general public. With the kind permission of the author and the final implementation by Josef Wegner, the game is now available on Aminet (YouTube video). (dr)
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02.Jul.2023
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Aminet uploads until 01.07.2023
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to Aminet:
encore_morphiller.lha demo/misc 11M MOS Morphiller by Encore - demo f...
ssh2fs.i386-aros.lha disk/misc 94K x86 SSHv2 file system client
ssh2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha disk/misc 176K 68k SSHv2 file system client
worldcup.lha docs/misc 655K Statistics of World Cups 1930...
IndivisionAGAVampireP... driver/mon 1K 68k Patch for Indivision AGA sw f...
TONY.adf game/demo 880K 68k TONY playable demo
NightShift.lha game/role 16M 68k NIGHT/SHIFT: A Cypherpunk Adv...
imp3.lha mus/play 45K ALL Do stuff on Amiga!
IdentifyLib_FR.lha util/libs 21K French catalog and docs for i...
z_lib.i386-aros.lha util/libs 54K x86 Zlib core as a shared library
z_lib.m68k-amigaos.lha util/libs 91K 68k Zlib core as a shared library
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 206K 68k App for chatting to ChatGPT
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 12M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
gidatario.lha util/time 229K 68k GI Datario
(snx)
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02.Jul.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.07.2023
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to OS4Depot:
imp3.lha aud/pla 45kb 4.0 Do stuff on Amiga!
gluae.lha emu/uti 15kb 4.0 Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
silkraw.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.1 GUI for Dave Coffin's progr...
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
(snx)
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02.Jul.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.07.2023
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to AROS Archives:
worldcup.lha doc/mis 655kb Soccer World Cup statistics 1930...
z_lib.i386-aros.lha lib/mis 54kb Zlib core as a shared library
yam29p1-aros-i386.lha net/ema 3Mb Email Client 2016 Fixed Verson
yam29p1-aros-ppc.lha net/ema 4Mb Email Client 2016 Fixed Verson
ssh2fs.i386-aros.lha net/mis 94kb SSHv2 file system client
(snx)
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02.Jul.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.07.2023
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Morphiller_1.2.lha Demoscene/ENCORE Demo for MorphOS PowerPC
SilkRAW_2.0.lha Graphics/Misc GUI for Dave Coffin's p...
Wayfarer_5.5.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
(snx)
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02.Jul.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.07.2023
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 01.07.2023:
- 2023-06-29 fixed: Star Command (SSI) the game will be loaded correctly, manual included (Info)
- 2023-06-29 fixed: Nevermind (Psyclapse) an access fault removed, some options added, QuitKey for 68000 (Info)
- 2023-06-27 fixed: Cobra (Bytec) access fault in SidMon replay routine patched (Info)
- 2023-06-25 improved: TFX (Digital Image Design) various performance optimizations (Info)
(snx)
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02.Jul.2023
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- May/June 2023 news
- Old artiles from Ami-GrafX 5 to 7:
- Comparison: Virtual landscape software
- Tutorial: Imagine - The modelling possibilities of the shape editor
- Tutorial: ClariSSA - Interfacing ClariSSA with other software
- Miscellaneous: Simulation of an ambulatory surgery clinic
- Tutorial: Volumm 4D - Trees and cut-out volumes
- Tutorial: Real 3D - Robotics
- File: Presentation of ASC Presta
- Interview with Yannick Buchy (Meta-MorphOS.fr, Amiga-Classic.org)
- Interview with Ravi Abbott (The Retro Hour, Amiga Addic)
- Review of MorphOS 3.18
- Review of Karateka
- File: Presentation and history of the Emerald Mine series
- File: The Copper
- File: The history of Simulmondo (second part)
- Tutorial: Making backup copies on MorphOS
- DIY: Icarus 1 - AROS One and Icaros Desktop
- DIY: Installing and configuring Wi-Fi on CD32
- Programming: Articles from GuruMed.net website
- Special quiz about Shadow Of The Beast
(snx)
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02.Jul.2023
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Lubricator 2.0: Receiving disk images via HTTP and writing them on disk
"Lubricator" written by Timm 'bifat' Mueller loads disk images from the World Wide Web and writes them on an Amiga disk using an Amiga with only 1 MB RAM and without harddrive. New in version 2.0:
- Parser bits rewritten in assembler
- Minor corrections in signal handling, verbose output, improved documentation
- AmigaGuide and Installer added
- some requests could be performed twice, corrected
- directories are now sorted to top in local facility
- now deletes __MACOSX garbage from archives automatically
(dr)
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02.Jul.2023
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RTG driver: Preferences editor "P96Prefs" 47.9 for P96
With "P96Prefs" Thomas Richter has written an improved, alternative preferences editor for the RTG driver P96 (amiga-news.de reported). Version 47.9, now available on Aminet, adds support of tooltypes that are supported as of P96 3.4.0, namely the RainbowII and the CBMs only graphics card, the A2410. AmigaOS 3.2 or higher is required. (dr)
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02.Jul.2023
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Developer tools: Amiga SDKs adapted to GCC compilers
Cameron 'Nightfox' Armstrong, who recently published AmigaGPT, offers SDKs of AmigaOS 3.2 NDK and AmigaOS 4.1 (V54.16) adapted to the GCC compiler based on Stefan 'Bebbo' Franke's Amiga GCC Development Kit. These contain additional adaptations of AmiSSL-SDK and the translator.library.
A Dockerfile is now also included with today's update to create an AmigaOS 3 & 4 compiler development environment with everything included. (dr)
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01.Jul.2023
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New cross compiler/assembler: Calypsi
"Calypsi" is a collection of compilers and assemblers that run under Windows, Linux and macOS and can generate code for various retro platforms - among others, 6502 and 68000 processors are supported. Although the project is hosted on Github, the source code is not freely available and the use of the tools is only permitted for private purposes.
A runtime library for Amiga programmes is delivered with the compiler, it is described by the author as "work in progress". The associated source codes are available, cooperation of other developers is explicitly welcome here. (cg)
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01.Jul.2023
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Preview video 31: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported). He has written about his 31. preview video:
"Lots of stuff has happened during the past months, the highlights being:
- about 30% wider goals!
- optional radar!
- no glued ball anymore, real dribbling!
Personally I always found SWOS or KickOff dribbling way too hard to master. Therefore my dribbling mechanics got some kind of twist, so that you get an unglued ball with the ease of use as if it was glued :) In a nutshell it works as follows:
Once you touch the ball, your player enters "dribbling mode".
In that mode it will more or less auto-follow the ball, unless you make something like a 180 deg turn or stop moving. If you change joystick direction from e.g. up to up-right, then this direction change will not be applied immediately. Instead your player will continue to run up until he hits the ball for the next dribbling short-kick - and at this precise moment your current joystick direction will actually be applied and you continue dribbling up-right.
Expanding the goal's width was a rather tedious task because I had to heavily mess around with the carefully tweaked sprite setup to somehow make one more hw-sprite available for the larger goals. The new radar made this even more complicated.
Eventually one of the corner-sticks is now made using sprite #5 - whose DMA-channel isn't working: due to horizontal soft-scrolling and 32bit fetch-mode, only the sprites 0 to 4 remain fully functional here. And the fact that we're in 64 pixel sprite mode doesn't make it better. But with some hackery #5 was tamed - luckily the corner-stick is just a stick ;)
Anyway, til the next time!" (dr)
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30.Jun.2023
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Tool for Reverse Engineering: Amiga extension for Ghidra 10.3.1
Ghidra is a free and open source reverse engineering tool (amiga-news.de reported).
Based on the work of Vladimir Kononovich and Martin Atkins, 'Bartman' has released an update for the Amiga extension supporting now the latest Ghidra version 10.3.1. It can load Amiga Hunk-Executables, Kickstart ROMs and WinUAE State File (.uss). (dr)
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30.Jun.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.07.01
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2023.07.01:
- Improve CD-ROM image switching logic
- Increase MPC3000 InitPreDelay to 600ms, from 500ms (cb5fd0a)
- Fix bootloader size comparison
- RP2040 SDIO: Increase stopTransmission timeout
- ZuluSCSI GD32 V1.1: Fix PhyMode=2 (DMA_TIMER) with AHA2940UW
- ZuluSCSI GD32 V1.1 Fix PhyMode=1(PIO)
- Temporary fix for DMA_TIMER mode on ZuluSCSI v1.1
(dr)
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30.Jun.2023
MorphZone (forum)
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Demoscene: Morphiller from Encore wins at Decrunch party in Wroclaw
From June 23rd to 25th the demoparty "Decrunch" took place in Wroclaw, Poland. In the category "wild competition" the MorphOS demo "Morphiller" by Encore has won (video). The music titled "Revolution", found on the album "Fish and Chips", is by "XTD of Lamers".
Download: encore_morphiller.lha (11 MB) (snx)
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30.Jun.2023
Yoz Montana (Mail)
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Preview video: Platform game "Guardian - The legend of flaming sword"
At the end of 2021 we reported for the first time about Yoz Montana's platformer "Guardian - The legend of flaming sword", which he creates for AGA-Amigas with the help of the Game Construction Kit RedPill. In issue 15 of the magazine Amiga Addict a demo was published. The new preview video that has now been published shows stages 1 to 5, which have been further improved compared to the demo version. (dr)
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29.Jun.2023
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 5.5
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 5.5 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes include
among others mjpeg support in ffmpeg (enables audio playback in JellyFin) and an updated/bugfixed cURL. Therefore, the author strongly recommends upgrading to 5.5 if you are using 5.2-5.4.
Download: wayfarer.lha (29 MB) (dr)
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29.Jun.2023
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Platform game: Demo version of "Gothic Vania"
Matteo 'Toolkitman' Trevisan is a about writing his first platform game using the Scorpion Engine. He has released a first, early demo version of "Gothic Vania" for AGA Amigas:
(dr)
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29.Jun.2023
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V2.0 R87 for Windows 10/11
Raster Master (amiga-news.de reported) is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).
Now version 2.0 R87 has been released. Changes:
- Maps can now be 128x128 and 256x256 tiles
- when Paint tool is selected in Map Editor hold SHIFT key it will replace all instances of the Tile
- Discovered that onpaint events were being generated when the Labels for coordinates were being updated. This is probably a bug with LCL. This caused the program to repaint the pixels/map area when it was not required. Changed all instances in program to statusbar to update coordinate information. This may have caused performance issues with slower speed computers
(dr)
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29.Jun.2023
ALBs Blog
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Preview video: "AmiDream" generates pictures from text
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow (among others AmiFox) gives a preview of his latest project in a video under the title link: inspired by websites like getimg.ai, the tool "AmiDream" generates images from text using the AI model Stable Diffusion. (dr)
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28.Jun.2023
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DIY: Firmware update for "GottaGoFaZt3r"
"GottaGoFaZt3r" developed by Matt Harlum is a memory expansion with 128MB or 256MB Z3 autoconfig FastRAM for the Amiga 3000 and 4000 (amiga-news.de reported). With today's firmware update, DTACK will be activated later during read operations to avoid problems with the A4091. (dr)
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28.Jun.2023
Echtzeit (Webseite)
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Video talk: "Demoscene: From Underground Culture to UNESCO Cultural Heritage"
On 15 and 16 June, the "ICE Conference 2023" took place, dedicated to 3D environments in the most diverse fields of application. Part of the event was the video talk "Demoscene: From Underground Culture to UNESCO Cultural Heritage" held by Dr. Andre 'kudrix' Kudra, which among other things also mentions the Amiga demo Batman Rises released at the end of last year. (dr)
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28.Jun.2023
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Music tip: Iraq Demo - Ending (D4XX Remix)
In addition to complete albums (for example the Jaguar XJ220 remix album), Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann also releases individual remixes: this time he has dedicated himself to the Iraq Demo, released in 1990 by Animators. (dr)
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28.Jun.2023
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Demoparty: Pågadata 2023 (Sweden)
Not only the demo party "Posadas" in the town of the same name in Spain will take place next weekend (amiga-news.de reported), but also the "Pågadata" in Kvidinge, Sweden. Entries for the Amiga demo competition are possible in the categories "AMOS demo", "Demo", "Music" and "GFX". (dr)
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27.Jun.2023
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky (E-Mail)
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Linux: Kernel 6.4 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Right after the release of the Linux kernel 6.4, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests (Screenshot). Changes concerning the AmigaOnes:
- X1000, X5000, and QEMU e5500: Multi-Gen LRU support (CONFIG_LRU_GEN=y and CONFIG_LRU_GEN_ENABLED=y)
- PASEMI updates in the PowerPC updates
- PASEMI ethernet and DPAA updates in the networking updates
- There are some issues with the BTTV driver for TV cards so we added the new BTTV driver originally planned for the kernel 6.5 to our kernel 6.4.
- X1000: Fix ISA mapping when "ranges" property is not present, for PASemi Nemo boards
Download: linux-image-6.4-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (59 MB) (dr)
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27.Jun.2023
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Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 3.40
FlashFloppy is an alternative, open source firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek. Its original firmware is not developed any further. Changes in version 3.40:
- XDF: Fix writes to side 1 of XDF disk images
- HFE: Better handling of long No Flux Areas
- QuickDisk: Reduce motor spinup time to 1 second (previously 2 seconds)
- LCD: Completely blank display when backlight is off
(dr)
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27.Jun.2023
Eclectic Imaginations (E-Mail)
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Game: Cypherpunk adventure Night/Shift
Night/Shift by Eclectic Imaginations is an Amiga-exclusive exploration game with Hi-Res HAM8 graphics. The game runs on any Amiga with an AGA chipset and can be downloaded for free at the title link.
Set in Boston in 2039, this cypherpunk adventure game tasks three young citizens with uncovering the greatest conspiracy of their time in a mix of dystopia and nostalgia. (snx)
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27.Jun.2023
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Music tip: Protracker music track "Grogon - Tabular Ravers"
'no9' has been working in the audio field for years and also occasionally composes music for games (amiga-news.de reported). On his YouTube channel, he also publishes his own compositions time and again, like now the piece "Grogon - Tabular Ravers". (dr)
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27.Jun.2023
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Management of ADF files: adflib V0.8.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS
Laurent Clevy first released adflib in 1999 in version 0.7.8 (Aminet). The portable C library, written mainly in C, is used to manage Amiga-formatted devices such as hard disks and ZIP disks or to swap them out via the .ADF format. Besides Volker Schwaberow's approach to convert the library into the programming language Rust, the original library is now also being updated, currently maintained by Tomasz Wolak.
Reading files has been bug-fixed and writing them has been introduced as a new function. Changes in version 0.8.0:
- full file read and write support
- added support for hard- and soft links
- added Linux native devices
- updated and improved unadf
- added new command-line utilities:adf_floppy_create, adf_floppy_format, adf_show_metadata
- numerous bugfixes and improvements
- more extensive testing
- added configuration to build with CMake (ie. to facilitate building for Windows)
- added (unofficial) Debian and Ubuntu packaging
(dr)
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26.Jun.2023
AMIGASYSTEM (ANF)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 2.1 (x86)
"AROS One", a distribution based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.0 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as DVD ISO file or as USB flash image at the title link, where you can also find video recordings.
Besides updates of the included programs and games as well as bug fixes, also new functions have been added. The changes in detail:
- Update AROS One OS System:
- Update RNOTunes.catalog for version 1.1
- Create OpenURL.prefs which allows OpenURL to open a link directly with OWB
- Create 4Sets of AmiFox Buttons
- Fix Theme BlackIce
- Created new Icon Set for all styled Apps "Circle"
- Translated and Updated in Italian all system Apps (Catalog)
- Fix AlarmClock
- Fix Theme PixBlue
- Create 12 Themes for AROSAmp
- Create Script Theme-Prefs for AROSAmp
- Create 3 Button and 5 Wallpaper for MPlayer
- Create Script Theme-Prefs for MPlayer
- Created new Set "Button Themes" for OWB
- Create Script Theme-Prefs for OWB
- Create New Button "BIG" AmiStart
- Create New Script AmiStart
- Create Icon DosDriver SMB2 and SMB2-Restart
- Create Script SMB2-Restart (Mount/Dismount SMB2)
- Create new script for BoingIconBar (BiB-Prefs), "now no need to reboot the system to replace Sondi and Buttons"
- Update AROS One Apps:
- RNOTunes 1.1
- Update - RNOTunes.catalog for version 1.1
- LilCalendar 2.4
- iConecta 4.25
- AppBuilder 3.1
- FlexCat 2.18
- UnMount 0.1
- HWP_hURL 2.0
- HWP_APNG 1.2
- HWP_YAFA 1.2
- HWP_TIFF 1.2
- HWP_PCX 1.2
- HWP_JEPEG2000 1.2
- HWP_FLIC 1.2
- InstallerLG 1.0.3
- VIM 9.0.1546
- LHA 1.14i
- WildMidi 0.4.5
- Update Dopus Config: associati file .ct, cd a Editor, tasto Del elimina file, tasti Amiga + C, copia file
- AROSAmp 0.24
- Image2PDF 2.2
- SMB2-handler 53.7
- Filesysbox.library 54.4
- BoingIconBar 1.12
- Update AROS One Games:
- Update Core ABIv0 20201110:
- Fix kms.library
- Fix muimaster
- Fix Input prefs
- Fix BoingIconBar
(snx)
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26.Jun.2023
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Demoparty: Posadas 2023 (Spain)
From 30 June to 2 July, this year's edition of the Posadas demoparty will take place in Posadas, Spain. As the Spanish graphic designer José A. 'jojo073' Gonzáles tells us - the French magazine BOING interviewed him in its fifth issue and has now published this interview in Spanish - the demo party was first organised with numerous competitions in the 1990s and was brought back to life a few years ago after a long break. To get in the mood, he published a pixel artwork showing a character from a film, which the experienced film connoisseur will surely be able to identify without difficulty... (dr)
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26.Jun.2023
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Video-Tutorial: Animation and collision detection of sprites in AMOS
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, and following on from his last video on sprites, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains how to control the animation of sprites and how to detect collisions between them. (dr)
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25.Jun.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 147 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about Project: Quest, Tower FRA and Final Fight. (snx)
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25.Jun.2023
itch.io
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Adventure: "The Oregon Trail" V1.00
Sami Vehmaa's "The Oregon Trail" (YouTube video) is set in 1847 and is a text-based adventure game (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.00 provides the following changes:
- Fixed repeat event not to occur
- Weather gfx
- Fixed/tested out family member deaths
- Cholera
- Some missing gfx
- Clothes wearing
- More events
- Time passes even in stand still things like in shop
- Text scroll recoded
- Menu gfx updated
- Custom mouse pointer
- Most graphics fine tuned
- Game travel line "story" fine tuned
- Game saved on quit
- Icon touched up
- Reset option in menu to reset saved game
- More detailed health status key h
(dr)
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25.Jun.2023
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Aminet uploads until 24.06.2023
The following files have been added until 24.06.2023 to Aminet:
NetFS-revised.lha comm/net 620K 68k Remote filesystem & AREXX bet...
PED81C.lha dev/amos 612K 68k "Native" chunky screens system
wla_dx_v10.5.lha dev/cross 8.5M 68k WLA DX - Cross Macro Assemble...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 3.3M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
DFT_IDFT_DWT_FFT.zip dev/src 287K 68k DFT, IDFT, DWT and FFT for A1...
WhatIFF1.05.lha mags/misc 248K What IFF? #1.05-June-2022
WhatIFF2.10.lha mags/misc 1.4M What IFF? #2.10-June-2023
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.6M 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...
LadyInBlueJazz.lha mods/8voic 303K 8ch slow Amiga Blues Jazz by ...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 406K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
Cebo_Dark_Theme_Grabs... pix/wb 1.3M Screenshots of the Cebo_Dark_...
luett-font.lha text/bfont 4K Small HiRes font (8x8, all co...
Avalanche_FR.lha util/arc 7K French catalog for Avalanche 2.3
avalanche_guide_de.lha util/arc 8K German translation of Avalanc...
filesysbox.i386-aros.lha util/libs 53K x86 A FUSE compatible file system...
filesysbox.m68k-amiga... util/libs 73K 68k A FUSE compatible file system...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.6M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
(snx)
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OS4Depot uploads until 24.06.2023
The following files have been added until 24.06.2023 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
eaqne1.lzx gam/adv 18Mb 4.0 Adventure detectives, crimes an...
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AROS Archives uploads until 24.06.2023
The following files have been added until 24.06.2023 to AROS Archives:
whatiff2.10.lha doc/mis 1Mb Magazine on AmigaGuide "Jun...
eaqne1.lzx gam/adv 18Mb Adventure detectives, crimes an...
easyrpg.i386-aros.lha gam/adv 4Mb play games created with RPG Make...
filesysbox.i386-aros.lha lib/mis 53kb A FUSE compatible file system layer
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha net/sam 82kb SMB2/3 file system client
(snx)
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.06.2023
The following files have been added until 24.06.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_2.28.0_Libraries.lha Dependencies All Libraries SDL : SDL...
AmiArcadia_29.41.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
REminiscence_0.5.1.lha Games/Adventure REminiscence is a re-im...
EAQNE-1_2.0.lha Games/Adventure Adventure point and cli...
NetFS_3.2.lha Network/Filesystem Network File System for...
Easy2Install_1.0b16.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
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25.Jun.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.06.2023
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 24.06.2023:
(snx)
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25.Jun.2023
Nico Barbat (ANF)
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Event: Look Behind You and Gameplan at the Level Up in Salzburg (Austria)
In addition to Amiga Future, the two German publishers Look Behind You and Gameplan will also participate at Level Up in Austria for the first time this year. Below you can read the translation of their official press release:
"Level Up is the first Austrian gaming and eSports festival that brings together recreational gamers, professionals, gaming fans, as well as creators and stars of the scene in an experiential atmosphere to experience new trends and celebrate their shared passion. But retro computing will not be neglected either: in a separate retro area, those interested can experience historic computers live.
The two German publishers Look Behind You and Gameplan will be taking part in Level Up for the first time this year. At the joint booth, the two publishers, who focus on video game culture and retro technology, will offer their complete book program, including 'Spielkonsolen und Heimcomputer 1972-2022', 'Die Geheimnisse von Monkey Island', 'Atari: Kunst und Design der Videospiele' und 'Die Kunst von Assassin's Creed Valhalla'. Publishers Winnie Forster (Gameplan) and Nico Barbat (LBY) will be on hand throughout.
Visitors will also be able to play through the adventure game 'The Secret of Monkey Island' on an Amiga 1000 at the joint booth of LBY and Gameplan. A special exhibit will be the rare Vectrex game console, released in 1982, which visitors will also be able to try out for themselves. Revolutionary at the time, the device from General Consumer Electronics features a built-in vector screen and is often referred to as the first 'truly portable' game console.
There's something for everyone at Level Up, whether you're a hobby gamer, eSports pro, cosplayer, retro fan, indie aficionado, card gamer, tabletop player or game-loving family. Particularly successful program items from previous years will be back this year. Among others, the Level Up Icarace World Championships, the high-class Rocket League tournament Morekats Mayhem #4, cosplay action in cooperation with Animix, tabletop and card gaming in cooperation with Gamers Finest Salzburg and CardArena, a drone championship, as well as a charity stream to raise money for charity. There will also be a separate FSK16+ area, where players and orgs will battle it out in tournaments without youth clearance.
Level Up will take place from July 1 to 2, 2023 at the Messezentrum Salzburg. Tickets are available in advance and at the box office. To ensure that this year's event is once again a pleasure for the whole family, visitors under 16 pay a reduced price, while children under 12 attend the event completely free of charge." (snx)
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24.Jun.2023
Twitter
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Game announcement: Twin-Stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero"
After Nivrig Games had already published some preview videos (amiga-news.de reported), the official game announcement now followed with the opening of the itch.io project site: the twin-stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero" (latest YouTube video) will be released this summer and can be played at the Kickstart taking place next weekend in England.
The plot: "The wizards have been at it again, and this time they've accidentally opened Hellgates under the castle! Now it's up to you, brave brave Sir Declan, to search each procedurally generated castle dungeon and find enough magical shards to access and close its gate.
Armed with a magical Caster Sword, potions you find, and perhaps the occasional legendary charm, Sir Declan must fight demons that escaped from the gate, avoid traps, and collect treasures to trade for battle enhancements, before finally facing the Hellgates themselves." Features:
- 50fps 2D hell-blasting action
- Billions of procedurally generated dungeons
- Multiple control schemes,
- including new Abstraction Games twin-stick controller
- Online high score table
- Many enemies and traps to defeat
- Upgrades to unlock as you progress
- Legendary artefacts to recover
- Hapless villagers to save
An Amiga 500 with 512 KB Chip RAM and 512 KB other RAM are required. (dr)
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24.Jun.2023
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Text comparison tool: ADiffView 2.4
ADiffView compares two ASCII text files and displays the differences graphically. The diff engine uses Eugene Myers' diff algorithm. After Uwe Rosner had already published version 2.4 for MorphOS in May, this version is now also available for AmigaOS 3 (direct download, 134 KB). Changes:
- Behavior: When ADiffView opens its own screen it is now a public screen named ADIFFVIEW.1. This number is incremented for each instance. The name of the screen where ADiffView is actually running is displayed in the About requester.
- Behavior: On AmigaOS 3.1.4 and newer when ADiffView opens its own screen the new off-screen dragging mode is enabled. This allows windows to be dragged beyond the screen borders.
- Behavior: Added (ToolType / CLI) argument EDITORONPUBSCREEN. When this is set and the editor (see EDITOR argument) supports a PUBSCREEN argument it will be opened on the ADiffView screen. The default editor C:Ed doest't support it, but OS3.1.4+ Tools/TextEdit does.
- Behavior: The editor is now started asynchronously.
- Fixed user interface and selection glitches that occurred when different screen or window title bar heights were set in OS3.1.4.+ Prefs/IControl.
- Built with the OS3.2 NDK.
(dr)
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23.Jun.2023
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MorphOS: Platform game REminiscence 0.5.1
REminiscence is a rewrite of the engine used in the game Flashback from Delphine Software.
This program is designed as a cross-platform replacement for the original executable. The MorphOS version requires SDL-Library 2.28.0. Changes:
- added looping for DOS .prf music
- changed audio mixer to stereo
- updated timings for cutscenes
(dr)
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23.Jun.2023
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.2.1
'wicknix' has released version 32.2.1 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for LinuxPPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. Among other things, the preferences dialogue has been changed, a new logo and some new extensions and themes have been added.
Download: sealion-32.2.1-linux-powerpc-gtk2.tar.bz2 (54 MB) (dr)
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23.Jun.2023
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AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.28.0 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.28.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1. The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Changes:
- Add USB Gamepad mapping.
- Disable SDL_FRAMEBUFFER_ACCELERATION only if user hasn't overridden it.
Download: SDL2.lha (6,8 MB) (dr)
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23.Jun.2023
Amiga.org (forum)
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PED81C: Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas (Update)
The Amiga's bitplane-based graphics, in which the color information for each pixel on a screen is captured as two-dimensional layers and, for scrolling, each layer (bitplane) is changed by the exact same value so that each pixel also gets the same color again, is memory-efficient but slow for individual changes and, with the advent of 3D graphics and fast memory on graphics cards, has fallen behind the chunky display of PCs and Macs.
With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach described in detail in the documentation in the archive at the title link 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.
Videos at the title link demonstrate the effects made possible by the fact that chunky-like each dot on the screen is defined by its own byte in Chip RAM. Among the examples included there is also one showing how to use a PED81C display in AMOS programs.
Update: (09:22, 25.06.23, snx)
Mistake corrected regarding bitplane scrolling. (snx)
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22.Jun.2023
Twitter
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Book project: "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" can be pre-ordered
In March 2023, the book project "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" was successfully crowdfunded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the book can be pre-ordered at a currently reduced price of 40 euros (instead of 44.90 euros) plus shipping. (dr)
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22.Jun.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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amigafan.de: Interviews with Retro Games and BitbeamCannon
On his site amigafan.de David Schlak has published two interviews recently. One was with Retro Games Ltd. (THEA500 Mini) - according to which a maxi version is still intended, even if the sales figures of the miniature edition of an Amiga seem to have fallen short of expectations -, the other one with BitbeamCannon about the game "Metro Siege", which has been announced for four years now and for which still no completion date is foreseeable due to limited spare time. (snx)
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22.Jun.2023
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.58
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.58. Changes:
Fixes:
- Starting with command line "HiP "
or with a "Startup" playlist and with random play mode always played the
first entry, not a random entry, fixed this.
- Fix search view sometimes not showing the last two list items.
- Increased the maximum width of the window, so it can be resized wider
than before.
- Loading with "XFDmaster library" was fixed already in the previous
version but I forgot to mention it in the last changelist.
- PlaySid on kickstart 1.3: playing PSIDs on kick 1.3 could
crash previously. There is now a fixed kick 1.3 specific playsid.library
included, which is the latest official original version with some kick 1.3
specific fixes. Use the other included library for newer kickstarts.
- AHI: Improved SBLive compatibility when stopping playback.
New features:
- A new prefs option "Prefs/Play-1/Position slider" enables a
slider in the main window which can be used to select the playing
position. This works for the most common module types supporting
pattern skipping. It also enables seeking locally played
MP3 files.
- Updated 8bitbubsy's xmaplay060 from version v0.41 to v0.46.
(dr)
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22.Jun.2023
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Icon-Library 46.4.577
In March 2021 we introduced Peter Keunecke's icon.library in detail, which he continues to maintain and improve. In the version now published, he has added, among other things, a script "ConvertToPngIcons" in the bonus folder, which can convert Amiga icons into PNG format and optionally scale them with the help of ImageConverter. (dr)
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22.Jun.2023
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Video: RTG screen mode with Amiga 1200 and Indivision AGA MK3
In its latest video, the YouTube channel "Hold and Modify" shows how to achieve a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels with an Amiga 1200 without a graphics card but equipped with an Indivision AGA MK3. (dr)
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22.Jun.2023
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Videos: Building a ReAmiga 1200
About three years ago, revision 1.5 of John 'Chucky' Hertell's Amiga1200 clone ReAmiga 1200 was released. In a two-part video (part 1, part 2), the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Manshed" creates this clone. (dr)
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21.Jun.2023
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Italian print and PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 14
The 14th issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available as usual with 48 color pages both as a booklet and as a PDF file, deals with the following topics:
- Video Games: CyberPunks 2, Tapper, Poker Nights: Tropical Heat, KalleKloakk, Chopper Duel, Tenebra 2, Galaxian500, The Ninja Zombie Killer
- Articles: What will happen to our Amigas?
- Tech: Invasion of the Replicants
- Tech: Amiga GCC, first steps
- Blender course, part 6
- Hardware: DueOttoSei
- Interviews with: David Rowe and Jerr O'Carroll
- And also: Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Demo Scene, New Talents, Mailbox
- Coverdisk: Playable demo of Super Metal Hero (A1200 and CD³² version)
(snx)
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19.Jun.2023
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Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.0.1 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 2.0.1 mainly fixes bugs of the previous version:
- Made Future Composer player more robust for empty modules.
- If you have set up Windows to use more than 2 channels, NostalgicPlayer crashed when trying to play a module. Big thanks to Robert Konrad (RobDangerous) for the fix.
- If the very first line is selected in the module list, then the page-down key didn't work.
- In some rare situations the Piano visualizer crashes when fast-forwarding with an invalid argument error.
- Some mp3 files was not recognized as so.
- Fixed different bugs when double-clicking a file to open it in NostalgicPlayer.
An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store. (dr)
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19.Jun.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 163 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 163 (July/August 2023) have been published online at the title link. Content includes a preview of the ASM game, a review of the IceDrake turbo board and show reports.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
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18.Jun.2023
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Video: "Browservice" under Linux and AmigaOS 4
Dave 'Skateman' Koelman, who among other things wrote the article Using two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000, explains in a video along with the accompanying video description how to set up Browservice - a web "proxy" server that allows surfing the internet on historical browsers - under Linux in order to then be able to use it with the Odyssey browser under AmigaOS 4. Comparable to AmiFox for AmigaOS 3 or AROS, Browservice converts the browser view window into images, which are then displayed by a JavaScript application on the client browser. (dr)
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18.Jun.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Support by editors SciTE and Notepad++ (Update)
Andreas Falkenhahn writes: The popular editors SciTE and Notepad++ now also support Hollywood by default.
SciTE supports Hollywood beginning with version 5.3.6 and Notepad++ supports Hollywood beginning with version 8.5.2. SciTE is especially interesting for Linux and macOS users, since on these platforms no Hollywood IDE is available.
Update: (16:50, 19.06.23, snx)
Our reader Michael Jurisch rectifies: By his Hollywood extension for Visual Studio Code there is an alternative editor available for Linux and macOS. (snx)
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18.Jun.2023
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Aminet uploads until 17.06.2023
The following files have been added until 17.06.2023 to Aminet:
links-mos.lha comm/www 7.2M MOS Links text-only WWW browser w...
evo.lha dev/e 652K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha disk/misc 82K x86 SMB2 file system client
smb2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha disk/misc 149K 68k SMB2 file system client
MCE.lha game/edit 3.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.2M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
2D_ATcad_RTG.lha gfx/misc 740K 68k 2D-CAD-Programm
WhatIFF2.10.lha mags/misc 1.4M What IFF? #2.10-June-2023
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
opus-tools-0.2_a68k.lha mus/edit 389K 68k Opus Audio Tools
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip text/bfont 2.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B18.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B19.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B20.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-13.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip text/pfont 1.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-15.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-16.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-17.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-18.zip text/pfont 1.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-19.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-20.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-21.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-22.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
avalanche.lha util/arc 110K AOS ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 67K 68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 100K 68k Identify hardware and more
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 11M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
GoShell.lha util/shell 25K 68k tool for open Shell in full s...
GoShell_pl.lha util/shell 3K polish catalog for GoShell
RNOWidgets.lha util/wb 4.9M MOS Desktop widgets application
RNOWidgets_OS4.lha util/wb 4.5M OS4 Desktop widgets application
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18.Jun.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.06.2023
The following files have been added until 17.06.2023 to OS4Depot:
nanosaur.lha gam/act 14Mb 4.1 A science fiction third-person s...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
smb2fs.lha net/sam 128kb 4.1 Filesystem for accessing files u...
avalanche.lha uti/arc 110kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
tequila.lha uti/wor 33kb 4.1 Task monitor / CPU profiler / to...
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18.Jun.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.06.2023
The following files have been added until 17.06.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
MCE_14.15.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
fheroes2_1.0.5.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
Links_2.29.lha Network/Web Links text-only WWW bro...
QuickLaunch_1.0.lha System/Ambient/Launchbar A software launch manager
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18.Jun.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.06.2023
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 17.06.2023:
(snx)
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18.Jun.2023
Amiga.org (forum)
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 10 of "WhatIFF?" published
"WhatIFF?" is an English language Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. The topics of the tenth issue include hardware (e.g. A314-CP, Commotron 2000) and game reviews (e.g. Luma, Neon Noir) as well as tutorials (e.g. Brilliance, LightWave 3D) and interviews - for example with the programmer of the demo version of Hamulet, which is exclusively included as "cover disk". (snx)
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18.Jun.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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Start bar: WBDock2 2.874
Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.874. The changes of the program for AmigaOS 3.1 or higher include "autohide" mode now moving the dock above all other windows and appearing only when the mouse is on the right screen as well as taking pens from Palette prefs for drawing the frame around the dock.
Download: wbdock2.lha (374 KB) (snx)
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18.Jun.2023
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Video tutorial: MUI-GUI (part 3) and GadTools GUI (part 1) in Blitz Basic
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch both the third part Teil of his tutorial showing how to create a GUI with MUI in Blitz Basic (amiga-news.de reported) and the first part of a tutorial series on how to create a GadTools GUI in Blitz Basic. (dr)
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18.Jun.2023
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Shell extension: GoShell 4.0
GoShell is a free and simple tool for opening a shell terminal in full screen mode on a separate screen (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in the now released version 4.0 of the tool developed by Krzysztof Donat:
- added locale support for GoShell configuration tool (English GoShell.cd and GoShell.ct included. If you want a catalog for your language, feel free
to translate)
- added new predefined color set (yellow)
GoShell (Aminet link) runs on any Amiga with Kickstart 3.0+ and is freeware, but the author would appreciate a small donation. (dr)
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17.Jun.2023
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.0
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (screenshot). Features:
- AmigaGPT uses the GPT-4 architecture developed by OpenAI to generate coherent, context-aware responses to your input.
- AmigaGPT takes full advantage of the latest AmigaOS 3.2 API and does not require any third-party frameworks.
- AmigaGPT can use the Amiga's speech synthesis capability to read the generated text aloud, using either narrator.device V34 (Workbench 1.x) or narrator.device V37 (Workbench 2.0).
The programme has the following requirements:
- OCS/ECS/AGA Amiga
- AmigaOS 3.2 or higher
- 68020 processor or faster
- TCP/IP stack for Internet access
- AmiSSL 5.9
- an OpenAI account with an active API key
- optional: narrator.device V34 and/or narrator.device V37
Direct download: AmigaGPT.lha (196 KB) (dr)
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17.Jun.2023
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SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.7 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsmb2 and allows remote access to files via the SMB2/3 protocols (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 53.7:
- Merged latest changes from libsmb2 git repository.
- AmigaOS 3 version now uses ReqTools for the password requester.
- Now uses an empty string instead of a NULL pointer when connecting to a share without a password.
- AROS version no longer gets SysBase by reading it from AbsExecBase.
- AROS version: Replaced fcntl() and close() calls with IoctlSocket() and CloseSocket().
Requirements: newlib.library V53.40 or later (or V53.30 as included in AmigaOS 4.1 FE) and the filesysbox.library V54.4 or later for AmigaOS 4, filesysbox.library 54.3 or later for AROS and AmigaOS 3 and optional the requester.class (ClassAct/ReAction, for password requester) for AmigaOS 3.
For all three operating systems there is a GUI on Aminet for creating a DOSDriver.
Downloads:
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha (82 KB)
smb2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha (149 KB)
smb2fs.ppc-amigaos.lha (128 KB)
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17.Jun.2023
itch.io
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Adventure: "The Oregon Trail" v0.85
Sami Vehmaa had started a new game project: "The Oregon Trail" (new YouTube video of a live presentation) is set in 1847 and is a text-based adventure game (amiga-news.de reported). Version 0.85 provides the following changes:
- Menu updated
- Amiga Guide in place
- Known bug fixes done
- Many audio effects added
- Trading added
- Full screen color fix
- Death enhanced
- Game is more personal, names instead of wife/daughter etc
- Map updated
- Memory optimization
- Gun Draw Duel
- Background events, things just there to make game more alive, input no longer is locked/waiting for your input something
- Game time (days) runs by it self, looks like 40-50min game play
(dr)
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17.Jun.2023
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)
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Compression of executable files: Body Guard Packer 5.6
Lorence Lombardo's "bgpk" is a 68k executable file packer which, according to the developer, makes it possible to protect programs, improve compatibility with programs intended for a Unix-like operating system, and use some of the latest compression technologies.
The program requires AmigaOS 2.x. On systems with a version 1.3 Kickstart ROM, execution of programs packed in this way is prevented, so crashes are avoided. As a further difference to other packers for executable files, programs compiled with vbcc, for example, could also be compressed. In addition, bgpk does not perform hunk sorting or stripping, so that files packed with it are restored to their original state after unpacking. (snx)
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17.Jun.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Current hardware availability
After ACube Systems recently delivered the last boards to pre-orderers, including shops (amiga-news.de reported), we asked the relevant Amiga shops if they had them on sale:
Alinea Computer offers a Sam460LE complete system for 1299 euros (plus shipping) with the following specifications:
- Sam460LE board
- Uboot
- Cover
- AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition included (OEM licence)
- Kingston KVR667D2S5/2G DDR2 memory 2GB quality memory
- Fractal Design Core 1000 Tower
- High quality 550 Watt power supply with cable management
- 4port SATA PCI controller
- 240GB SanDisk SSD hard drive
- DVD burner
- Radeon HD 77xx 2 GB Gfx board
- Soundblaster Live Audigy FX
As the item can only be ordered against prepayment, there is no direct purchase link in the shop, but must be ordered by enquiry. AmigaOne X5000 are currently not in stock.
For 1269 euro, but in the meantime sold out, Amedia Computer France had the Sam460LE on offer as a complete system. As the maintainers informed us, however, these will be available again during the next week and can thus be ordered:
- a little Micro ATX slim case,
- the Sam460LE 1,10GHz motherboard,
- 1GB memory module,
- 1x 240GB SSD 2.5 harddisk,
- 1x Radeon HD5450 2GB graphic's card,
- 1x Audio PCI Express card,
- 1x PCI Sata card,
- the AmigaOS 4.1 software.
As a specialist in assembling computers, other special configurations with many tower, Ram, hard disk, graphics card, sound card and Sata card variants can also be ordered on request.
Amedia Computer France also continues to offer the AmigaOne X5000/40, which can be ordered on request. When ordering a complete system, an AmigaOS 4 game and a recovery USB stick are included free of charge.
Amedia Computer France is not only maintaining an online but two physical shops as well which are located in France, in Courcelles-Chaussy, and in Luxembourg, in Differdange, where they also sell AmigaOne X5040 towers.
ACube Systems itself does not offer a complete system, but the pure Sam460LE board for around 963 euros.
As the maintainer of the RELEC shop told us, he is in the process of restructuring his shop. He is currently working on offering new items for the Amiga, among others a new design for the X5000, called "the red D", a desktop case. Sam460 boards are also to be offered. We will report when this will be the case.
The American shop Amiga On The Lake does not currently offer any PPC systems.
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17.Jun.2023
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Preview video: Action puzzle game "Old Towers"
Already in 2020, "Amiga Retro Development" had begun to port the action puzzle game Old Towers from the Sega Mega Drive to the Amiga. The aim of the game is to dash across walls and ceilings, collecting all the coins and finding the way to the exit, past treacherous dangers and traps. The port is written in assembler and uses 32 colours. The code is almost written, the music is in progress. However, a graphic artist is still needed to take care of the level design and graphics. Anyone who wants to help, will find an e-mail address in the accompanying text of the video. If the work is completed successfully, an AGA version is planned for the future. (dr)
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16.Jun.2023
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.3 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. Since version 2.1, simple editing of LhA/Zip archives also is possible (Zip requires zip.library - only under AmigaOS 4). The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2.1, but has also tested it under AmigaOS 4. In the current version, changes have been made to the user interface (screenshot):
- Fix setting of list mode
- Remove tree in list mode view
Download: avalanche.lha (110 KB)
(dr)
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16.Jun.2023
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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.6.1
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported).
A few moments ago, version 3.6.1 has been released. Changes:
- add checks for object going over 64k
- fix 020 optimised address calculation for array of object (or ptr to object) indexing
- added EXENAME and DESTDIR command line arguments to override the output file name
- EDBG: Setting breakpoint caused crashes on certain versions of graphics.library
- fix casing for IeeeDPFloor and IeeeDPCeil
- Extend lists to handle 64k items instead of 32k
- Fix #else preprocessor parsing issues
Direct download: evo361.lha (652 KB) (dr)
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16.Jun.2023
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Video player: Amos Anim Player V2023.06.14
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).
In the current version there are now two different player variants: AnimPlayerMovie aims at 25 FPS and neglects information within the chunk, while AnimPlayerProper tries to consider as much information as possible (colour changes, sound names within the file etc). The Reducer is a stand-alone programme to reduce the data size between consecutive frames. (dr)
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16.Jun.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 fifth level. (dr)
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