24.Feb.2023
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Video: Development of the MiniMig
The developer Ranko Rodic reported at the World of Commodore 2022 about the MiniMig project (amiga-news.de reported), of which he had published revision 1.91 at the end of 2022. (dr)
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24.Feb.2023
Commodore News
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Paint program: Multipaint 2023 for Windows/Linux/Mac
Multipaint is designed to be able to draw pictures with the colour limitations of some typical 8-bit and 16-bit computer platforms. In the now released version 2023, the Amiga mode is now also an official part of the painting programme (see also the corresponding blog entry on this):
n Amiga screen with variable size and 2-32 colours, adjustable palette with 16 levels each for red, green and blue. Multipaint can only handle larger bitmaps to a limited extent, so it is recommended to limit the size to the usual resolutions, e.g. 320 x 200 or 320 x 256.
There is an export for IFF files that can be loaded e.g. in Deluxe Paint, but currently no IFF import. (dr)
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23.Feb.2023
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Event: AmiWest 2023 (12.-15. October in Sacramento, USA)
According to the organizers, the 26th edition of the AmiWest will be held at the Holiday Inn Express in Sacramento, California, from October 12 to 15, 2023. More information will be released as time goes on. (dr)
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22.Feb.2023
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Italian print and PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 12
The twelfth 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 and this time features an exclusive cover picture by Eric Schwartz, deals with the following topics:
- Ring around the World, new graphic adventure reviewed in world premiere!
- Video games reviewed: Turrican II AGA, Abu Simbel, Crimbo, AmiBlock, Agonman, Maria Renard's Revenge, Kulki
- Reportage Amiga Ireland 2023
- Reportage Press Start 2022
- Museums with Amiga in Italy
- Archer MacLean
- AmigaGCC - introduction
- Corso di Blender, part 4
- Commodore CD32 FMV
- Interview with Eric Schwartz
- And also: Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Tricks and Solutions, Demo Scene, New Talents, Mailbox
(snx)
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22.Feb.2023
Floppy (forum)
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AROS: amisslmaster.library 4.12
Following the release for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4, version 4.12 of the open source encryption library AmiSSL is now also available for AROS/x86.
Download: amissl.i386-aros.zip (3 MB) (snx)
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22.Feb.2023
'S0Y' (Mail)
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Temptations port for CD32: Second demo version available
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 released a second demo version which additional to the CD32 version also is available as adf file for the Amiga 1200 and as WHDLoad (2 MB ChipRAM + 4 MB FastRAM required). (dr)
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22.Feb.2023
Patreon (Webseite)
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2023.0
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
A few moments ago he has relesaed version 2023.0 (YouTube video). Changes:
- Major performance optimisations make this by far the fastest release of the Scorpion Engine to date.
- New features like "maskless blit" and draw clipping, and the new "Big Ship" demo shows how these can be used to render massive actors with relatively minimal performance overhead.
- New "line of sight" demo shows how an enemy can be made to chase the player only if there's no walls between them.
- Filters in the editor allow you to quickly search through long lists of actors, animation, code and blocks.
- Powerful new randomizer based on the XORSHIFT* algorithm.
- Improvement for the "foreach" command, actors can be filtered by more than just the type of actor.
- Channels can now be reserved specifically for music or SFX.
- Various other fixes and improvements.
You can support the developer on his Patreon website. (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Arcade game: C64 port "Kalle Kloakk" in development
Kåre Johansen is in the process of porting one of his old C64 games, "Kalle Kloakk", to the Amiga and has already published three developer videos for it (1, 2, 3). (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Puzzle game: Follix 1.3 (AGA)
Besides his puzzle game ArtPazz, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has also updated his second puzzle game Follix:
- Fixed endless floppy drive motor spinning.
- Fixed graphical glitch that could happen in the transition between the game and information screens.
- Made disappearance of game area when passing to the pause screen happen in a single frame instead of two.
- Added clearing of CPU caches after the loading of the data file (as that contains also a couple of machine code routines).
- Changed the conditions of many If, Until and While statements and turned For ... Next loops into Repeat ... Until loops to have the AMOS Professional Compiler produce shorter and faster code.
- Sharpened the top/bottom sides of the menu buttons.
- Recompiled against ALS v2.3.
- Optimized executable with custom tool.
- Touched up manual.
(dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Puzzle game: ArtPazz 1.4 (AGA)
In ArtPazz, the goal is to put the jumbled pieces of each classic painting back in their original place by moving them around (video). The puzzle game was created with AMOS Professional for AGA-Amigas and is free, but the author also allows you to pay a voluntary price.
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has now released version 1.4, which includes the following changes:
- Fixed endless floppy drive motor spinning
- Recompiled against ALS v2.3.
- Optimized executable with custom tool.
- Touched up manual.
- Changed the conditions of many If, Until and While statements and turned For ... Next loops into Repeat ... Until loops to have the AMOS Professional Compiler produce shorter and faster code.
(dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Web browser: AWeb APL Lite 3.5.091
The AWeb APL Development Team and Mirek Michalak have compiled the latest version 3.5.09 of the web browser AWeb APL Lite with the latest AmiSSL SDK to give the browser better compatibility regarding encrypted https web pages. (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Game soundtrack: "Turrican II - Secret Dungeons" remix
In addition to complete albums (for example Jaguar XJ220 Remix album), Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann releases single remixes: now happened with an extended remix of Chris Hülsbeck's "Turrican II - Secret Dungeons". (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Linux: Kernel 6.2 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Right after the release of the Linux kernel 6.2, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered the kernel for download in the associated discussion topic of the Hyperion forum. (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Video: "Tunnel" animation recovered
As an user reports on his YouTube channel "Elpis Is Hope", he happened to have in his old CD backups an old "tunnel" animation that he had originally created for the advertising agency "Propaganda".
It is a low-resolution HAM8-ANIM8 format recorded directly from his old A4000 onto a VHS tape. He said that the playback in the video was not smooth because he did not have time to properly record and time the 50/60 fps conversion. (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
Hackaday (website)
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Do it yourself: Another solution for using an external HDMI upscaler
At the title link, 'c0pperdragon' describes ways to achieve pixel-precise HDMI output of Amiga video signals instead of upconverting the final analog output signal. Besides solutions that move the RGBtoHDMI system completely into the computer, internal modifications make it possible to connect the former alternately to several computers.
One possibility for this is an adapter board that is placed under the Denise chip (amiga-news.de reported). In the meantime, a second variant was added: With the DB23 hack, eight less used of the 23 pins of the Amiga video connector are re-purposed by re-soldering, to make all 12 color bits directly available without changing anything on the case. Using an adapted cable with the required pinout, the RGBtoHDMI system, that can thus be connected externally, can then upscale the picture with comparatively lower latency. (snx)
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20.Feb.2023
ANF
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Report from AmigaWinterTreffen 2023 (Germany)
From February 10 to 12, 2023 the "AmigaWinterTreffen" took place in Großensee near Hamburg, Germany. Simon Adolf from the organizing team sent us a report from the event, which can be read in German in our corresponding news-item. Pictures from the meeting can be found on Facebook. (snx)
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20.Feb.2023
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R75 for Windows 10/11
Raster Master 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).
Today version 1.2 R75 has been released with the following changes:
- New 8 bit Palette Mode. With the new palette mode we can import all the available art packs/sprite images without losing quality. This benefits mostly modern languages and libraries. Anything using raylib and RGB/RGBA output options
- New Palette mode is found in Palette Menu under Palette XGA and Palette XGA 256
- Sprite Import Utility also has new Palette Modes as Import options
- Fix Open Palette menu item. Small typo was causing palette to be loaded incorrectly
(dr)
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20.Feb.2023
Amigans (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 8
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas. The goal is to make it POSIX compliant and also fix any C++ problems that exist with newer compilers (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday he has released the eighth beta version with the following changes:
- Added internal pthreads library
- Added new missing math functions
- Added dprintf
- Fixed a memory leak when using posix_memalign
- Some constructors/destructors changes
- Fixed ncurses/termios problems. Now ncurses can be used without any problem
- Added stdio_ext functions (except __freadptr)
- Some test progams makefile changes. Now it is possible to compile tests using GNUMakefile
- Many other internal changes
(dr)
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20.Feb.2023
Marco A. Breddin (Microzeit)
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Crowdfunding: Book "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars"
Microzeit from Germany and Editions64K from France are going to publish "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars", a book that is supposed to illuminate the competition for the number 1 home computer between the Amiga and the Atari ST in the mid and late 1980s, with the following key data:
- English Hardback Edition
- ca. 400 colour pages
- High-quality offset print
- 170 × 230 mm portrait format
- Special cover refinement
- 135 gr/m² silk-matt illustration paper
- Finest print raster (120)
- Surface sealing (varnished pages)
- Made in Germany
The book aims to combine a fact- and opinion-based approach by providing a collection of newly written background articles, comparing hypotheses with facts, including eyewitness accounts, and presenting analyses of historical media. The crowdfunding, which still has 21 days to go, has already raised about 7000 Euros of the 22,000 needed. (dr)
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19.Feb.2023
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Puzzle game: Connect 1.2
In the puzzle game "Connect" (screenshots), you have to connect a series of ICs in such a way that each chip receives exactly the number of connections printed on its package. Developer Frank Röger has written about the now released version 1.2:
"Our visit to the Amiga Wintertreffen (Germany) brought some fun as well as some insights: Connect still has some minor bugs.
For example, we found that on a Recalbox (Raspberry Pi + emulation) Connect runs rather suboptimal. The problem is that the game controllers support more than one fire button, which leads to the joystick for the Amiga being configured as a 2-button joystick. We were not able to change this and had to live with it at the meeting. However, that doesn't mean we have to live with it forever and have summarily added support for the 2-button joystick. So now it shouldn't matter which fire button is pressed.
Next point of criticism was (once again) the installation routine. The moment Connect was installed into a subfolder, there was no longer an icon for the Connect folder. We were surprised that we didn't notice this during testing, but have corrected it with the new version. Thanks to Gothor for pointing this out!
The user Afebriwyn has taken the initiative and created a WHDLoad slave for Connect. The special thing about it is that you can run the game without graphic errors even with loaded P96 drivers or very fast CPUs. Thanks to Afebriwyn for this work.
However, we have 2 notes about this:
1. If you use a 68060, you have to use NOMMU in the ToolTypes. The same applies to other CPUs, which are emulated by any FPGAs or the like. If you don't do this, the game will abort with an error message at startup.
2. Because the slave is provided by a third party developer LogicalByte does not support the slave. If you encounter any problems, please contact the e-mail address given in the readme. Thank you for your understanding.
We wish you a lot of fun!" (dr)
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19.Feb.2023
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Aminet uploads until 18.02.2023
The following files have been added until 18.02.2023 to Aminet:
Void-Dreams39.zip demo/misc 698K 68k Demopack - February 2023
Void-FB14-AmigaOS4.zip demo/sound 4.6M OS4 Musicdisk with mods from GERP...
Void-FB14-Classic.lha demo/sound 2.5M 68k Musicdisk with mods from GERP...
libogg.lha dev/lib 325K OS4 Library for handling OGG files
libvorbis.lha dev/lib 1.0M OS4 Libraries for handling Ogg Vo...
TilesSlide.lha game/actio 81K 68k Align 3-4 tiles of the same c...
Space_Travel.lha game/misc 59K MOS C port of Ken Thompson's Spac...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.5M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 386K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
avalanche.lha util/arc 84K AOS ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
avalanche_de.lha util/arc 8K German catalog for Avalanche ...
Avalanche_FR.lha util/arc 7K French catalog for Avalanche ...
avalanche_guide_de.lha util/arc 7K German translation of Avalanc...
ChangeExp.lha util/misc 2K 68k Change Expansion-Devices, esp...
FlipSide_v2.2.lha util/misc 16K 68k Switch screens via the Mouse-...
SniffEmu.lha util/sys 12K 68k check if system is running in...
AnalogClock.lha util/time 40K 68k Resizeable analog transparent...
StartWin.lha util/wb 104K 68k Two bugged workbench launchba...
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19.Feb.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 18.02.2023
The following files have been added until 18.02.2023 to OS4Depot:
libogg.lha dev/lib 325kb 4.0 Library for handling OGG files
libvorbis.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 Libraries for handling Ogg Vorbi...
drally.lha gam/dri 3Mb 4.1 AmigaOS4/SDL2 Port of Open Sourc...
amystromwifiswitch.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 Control and query the myStrom Wi...
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19.Feb.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 18.02.2023
The following files have been added until 18.02.2023 to AROS Archives:
chocolatekeen.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 427kb Game engine for Commander Keen (...
beastieworker.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 1Mb OpenGL sokoban game in 3d (10 le...
lunapaint.i386-aros.zip gra/edi 756kb Updated Lunapaint with better da...
animplayer.i386-aros.zip vid/mis 2Mb Anim player with playlist support
(snx)
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19.Feb.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.02.2023
The following files have been added until 18.02.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.3GI... Emulation FinalBurn Neo, an Emula...
dRally.lha Games/Race Open Source Engine / De...
Fallout2-ce_1.2_R2.lha Games/RPG Open source Fallout 2
Image2PDF_1.4.lha Graphics/Convert Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG...
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19.Feb.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.02.2023
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 18.02.2023:
(snx)
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19.Feb.2023
Cizar via Discord/CS-Lab Warp#general (ANF)
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CS-Lab: Further Warp 1260 and/or Warp 1240 boards can be assembled
As Greg Donner reports at the title link, CS-Lab will soon receive 50 more FPGAs that were ordered a year ago. So the production of Warp 1260 and Warp 1240 turbo boards can be resumed. Potential buyers therefore can contact CS-Lab now or already send in processors for testing. (snx)
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19.Feb.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 161 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 161 (March/April 2023) have been published online meanwhile at the title link. Contents include an interview with Colin Vella and a review of AmiCygnix 1.7.
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.Feb.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Firmware 1.3
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. Today version 1.8 of the Greaseweazle firmware has been released providing the following changes:
- AT32F403A: Run this MCU at 216MHz in main firmware
- USB: Implement GET_STATUS(DEVICE) as required by USB spec
- This fixes repeated USB resets on some Linux hosts
- Blinky test: Fix serial baud rate (115200)
(dr)
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18.Feb.2023
TheoTheoderich
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Developer log: Single player mode in "Settle the World"?
A week ago, Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel published an intro update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). In the feedback, the wish was expressed to integrate a single-player mode including at least one computer opponent into the game.
In a recent developer log, the programmer now outlines how this could be implemented:
"To say it in front...this will not be easy.
Settle the World was an entry for BlitzBasic Jam 2022 and was supposed to be finished within six months.
It was designed as a purely local multiplayer game due to the tight time constraints of the competition.
Unfortunately, this ensures that visual feedback for players is actually stored everywhere in the programme code.
This means, for example, that a window appears when a unit has no more movement points, or a window appears when a Pioneer has no more tools, etc.
The calls to these information windows are built into the programme parts of the units and may of course not be called up during movements of computer-controlled units.
Either all program parts will now be rewritten for universal use by players and computer opponents, or the computer opponents will receive their own program parts, which will, however, massively increase the file size of Settle the World (and with it the Fast RAM requirement).
Unfortunately, I realised yesterday that many Statements and Functions cannot simply be rewritten for shared use.
That would be equivalent to a complete rewrite in many parts and so I won't be doing that.
It would probably lead to a mess in the code that I wouldn't understand after a few weeks and so I would stop the project.
Like dozens of projects on Amiga and PC in the last 20 years.
Settle the World should be saved from this "fate", however, because the game is really close to my heart!
So I will include the part of the computer opponents as additional program code, which is mostly separate from the actual code.
This won't be easy, I've never done anything like this before.
To get a feel for what work is needed, I just started over the last two days and marked one of the players as a computer opponent. This opponent doesn't start with loaded ships like the player, but directly with a first city.
So I wrote a function that determines a "perfect" position for a city.
The basis is the starting position of the respective player, i.e. the position where the player's ships normally spawn.
Now all fields in a radius of 12 fields are checked for a suitable position.
For this purpose, the surrounding fields of each land field are rated according to certain criteria.
How it works:
- Each type of terrain gets points for its relevance. Fertile farmland gets a lot of points, tundra or desert give no points. Bonus and river fields give extra points.
- There are three additional criteria:
- Does the checked position on the map have access to wheat, wood and/or ocean?
- If yes, the first field that fulfils one of these criteria gives extra points.
- If it is the first city of a player, access to the ocean gives a lot of extra points to make sure that the first city is built by the sea.
Then a city is built at the position with the most points.
After that a Pioneer is created at the position of this first city, placed into the city and used as a farmer on a field.
So far, this works quite reliably on all the maps I have tested.
However, it has already taken me two evenings...
It's going to be a very, very lengthy project to integrate a computer opponent..." (dr)
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17.Feb.2023
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Unofficial successor: "It Returned From The Desert" for Windows
Tim Rachor's "It returned from the desert" (official release trailer) is an unofficial successor of the Amiga game It came from the desert for Windows (amiga-news.de reported), which now was released on Steam for 8,99 Euro. (dr)
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17.Feb.2023
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Video: Hidden developer messages
Piracy was rife on the Amiga, and almost every game was cracked by various scene groups. In his latest video, Kim Justice presents the messages and rants left in the code by developers for these crackers, which were sometimes angry but mostly hilarious. (dr)
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17.Feb.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.2.1
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). Version 1.2.1 of the firmware has been released. Changes:
- Reinsert CD-ROM image when receiving Inquiry command
- Open image as read-only if attribute set
- RP2040: Reduce delay between phase signal changes
(dr)
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16.Feb.2023
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.9
A few moments ago, version 3.9.9 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been released. Changes:
changes in project::
- updated documentation
- updated examples drawer
- re-added serveral resident sourcefiles of BB2 for later improvement
- added disassembled source code for blitzlibs animlib, iffiolib, ilbmifflib
- added several StormWizard-demos made by @mdbergmann
changed:
- moved commands GetD0, PutD0, GetRegD0, PushD0 from wzlib to environlib (wzlib needs at least OS2 so use of these commands prevented the executable to be working with an older OS
- reduced memory consumption for string in PED
- changed scroll size to 1 character when scrolling left or right
- changed behaviour of marked blocks, they behave now like blocks in other editors
- removed dependency of fontlib for diskfontlib when using ROM-font, so diskfont.library is not needed anymore if topaz is used!
added:
- new function win windowslib: WindowIsOpen(win#) returns True if the window with given number is opened
fixed:
- fixed several broken OS-functioncalls in PED and compiler that could lead to a crash
- fixed crash of PED when source code contains TAB-characters
- fixed crash when using HELP-key on certain macro names
- fixed some display problems with cursor when blinking is turned off
- fixed some display problems when scrolling source from outside the window
- fixed seldom display problems with highlighting of statement names
- fixed multiple redraws of source window at resize of window
- fixed configuration: state of intellisense option was not parsed correctly
- fixed: if a source file was "saved as", the new filename was not shown in tab title
- fixed: crash when saving as plain text
Download: AmiBlitz399.lha (10 MB) (dr)
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Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.167 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 offers support for PCI-Express SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) host adapters.
Download: linux-image-5.10.167-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71 MB)
(dr)
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16.Feb.2023
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Video tutorial: The AMOS command "Limit Mouse"
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains, how you can limit your mouse movements on screen by using the AMOS "Limit Mouse" command. (dr)
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15.Feb.2023
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Demoparty: MountainBytes 2023 (Switzerland)
After a six-year hiatus and another three years of involuntary postponements by Covid, from 24 to 26 February 2023, the "MountainBytes" demo party will take place in Cham, Switzerland, organized by Echtzeit - Digitale Kultur. In addition to various workshops and competitions (timetable), the nominees for The Meteoriks Award will be presented during a show on Friday. The award ceremony will then take place at the Revision demo party in Saarbrücken at the beginning of April. (dr)
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15.Feb.2023
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.56
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.56 which among others provides improved MP3 support and PSID playback. (dr)
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14.Feb.2023
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Blog: The Colorful Charm of Amiga Utility Disks
In his latest, richly illustrated blog entry, Carl Svensson looks at Amiga utility disks and their often creative CLI menus: Utility disks were especially popular in the demo scene, and included editors, crunchers, graphics tools, trackers for composing music, or tools for displaying or playing text, graphics and music files. To create a demo, you only needed a handful of these disks. (dr)
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14.Feb.2023
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Review: ZuluSCSI
Already in mid-January, 'Jaruzel' had reported in his blog about his experiences with the file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator ZuluSCSI. (dr)
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13.Feb.2023
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Video: Chemical Free Retrobrighting Alternatives
In his latest video, Robert Smith uses theoretical considerations and practical experiments to address the question of how to brighten up yellowed keyboards and cases of retro computers without the usual hydrogen peroxide. He has found two successful alternatives. (dr)
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13.Feb.2023
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Article on Amiga use in film productions by Digital Domain
Befores & Afters is a (primarily online) magazine on visual effects and animation. At the title link, it dedicates a current article to the use of the Amiga in the film industry - to be more precise, it is simply a reproduction of memories of Digital Domain graphic artist Sean Cunningham, which he published as a comment on the YouTube channel of Retro Recipes after an Amiga 4000 apparently used for the films "Apollo 13" and "Titanic" turned up three years ago. (snx)
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12.Feb.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Status of Qt 6.2.0
In October 2021, developer Alfkil Wennermark had published a first preview of a text editor created with Qt6 (amiga-news.de reported).
Now he shows in a current YouTube video how he edits text in this editor and then exports it to a pdf file. The special thing about it:
Until now, there was only a static link version of Qt6, which means that all library objects are collected in the executable file at build time. In the dynamic link now, they use shared objects that are all loaded and linked at runtime. Since most complex programs from other platforms need dynamic links (shared objects) for their build systems to work, this is another development step regarding the creation of such programs for AmigaOS 4. (dr)
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12.Feb.2023
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Aminet uploads until 11.02.2023
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to Aminet:
fe.lha dev/lang 45K MOS A tiny, embeddable language
TinyInvaders.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k SPACE INVADERS poor clone in ...
LazyMines_FR.lha game/think 6K French catalog for LazyMines 3.x
RPNScientific.lha misc/math 2.7M x86 RPN scientific and programmer...
AmigaKlangSamples.lha mods/smpl 664K Samples & Instruments for Ami...
UADE_MMV8.lha mus/play 15K 68k MusicMakerV8 players for UADE
NAFCYI1991S1-B28.zip text/bfont 2.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-28.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
cabextract.lha util/arc 54K 68k Extract MS Cabinet (.CAB) arc...
cabextract_MOS.lha util/arc 51K MOS Extract MS Cabinet (.CAB) arc...
cabextract_OS4.lha util/arc 44K OS4 Extract MS Cabinet (.CAB) arc...
deark.lha util/arc 2.9M 68k Extract data from various fil...
MousePressed.lha util/batch 8K 68k Check if mouse buttons are pr...
Image2PDF.lha util/conv 8.9M ALL convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
AmiSSL-5.7-OS3.lha util/libs 3.3M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.7-OS4.lha util/libs 3.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.7-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
eflashutil.lha util/misc 41K 68k GUI for eFlasher utility for ...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 3.9M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
AnalogClock.lha util/time 39K 68k Resizeable analog transparent...
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OS4Depot uploads until 11.02.2023
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to OS4Depot:
void-fb14.zip dem/mus 5Mb 4.0 A music-pack by Void
cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 This is a SDK to make your decks...
afnews.lha net/new 1Mb 4.0 Amiga Future Everywhere AmigaOS 4
afa-viewer.lha uti/arc 4Mb 4.1 Browse AmigaFuture Archive-DVD
deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
cabextract.lha uti/fil 44kb 4.0 Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.CAB)...
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AROS Archives uploads until 11.02.2023
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to AROS Archives:
cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 2Mb This is a SDK to make your decks...
image2pdf.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 9Mb convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
rpnscientific.i-386-aros.lha uti/sci 3Mb RPN Scientific and Programmer Ca...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.02.2023
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Fallout2_manual_FR.pdf Documentation/Games Fallout2_manual_FR.pdf
Fallout2_manual_EN.pdf Documentation/Games Fallout2_manual_EN.pdf
fheroes2_1.0.1.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
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12.Feb.2023
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WHDLoad: Neue Pakete bis 11.02.2023
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 11.02.2023:
- 2023-02-07 new: Rocket Attack (Softgang) done by Psygore (Info)
- 2023-02-07 improved: Magica (Andy Noble) made 68000 compatible (Info, Image)
- 2023-02-06 improved: Walker (DMA Design/Psygnosis) fixed potential crash on Terrible Fire hardware (Info)
- 2023-02-06 new: Regent (Linel) done by JOTD (Info)
- 2023-02-06 new: Magica (Andy Noble) done by DJ Mike (Info, Image)
(snx)
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12.Feb.2023
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Test Drive 2 The Duel Intro Live Performance
- LedStorm Ambient Cover
- Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
- The Sentinel Intro cover
- Cybernoid 2 (Reboot 2023)
- Rise Up
- Hard
- Turrican - Tower of M.O.R.G.U.L. (Extended remix)
- Twintris Song 2 (Intense REMiX)
(snx)
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12.Feb.2023
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Report: Amiga PowerPC hardware in Mini-ITX format (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware.
Now she has published a series of articles dealing with Amiga PowerPC hardware in Mini-ITX size or smaller:
In a concluding fourth part, she compares the three boards, adds the Mac Mini G4 for this purpose and makes recommendations as to which board is best for which operating system in her opinion. (dr)
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12.Feb.2023
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Top-Down action game: "Mighty Mike" for MorphOS and Linux
A few days ago, the developer 'jorio' published version 3.0.2 of the top-down action game "Mighty Mike" for Windows, Mac and Linux (64 bit), originally published by "Pangea Software", including the source code, on itch.io.
Analogous to "Otto Matic", 'BeWorld' has now compiled it for MorphOS and Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky for Linux PPC 32-Bit (direct download, 8 MB). (dr)
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12.Feb.2023
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Jump'n Run: Maria Renard's Revenge released
"Maria Renard's Revenge" (video) is a Jump'n Run inspired by Castlevania which was developed using the Scorpion Engine. Today the final version has been released.
An Amiga 1200 or an Amiga CD32 with 1 MB FastRam are required. (dr)
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11.Feb.2023
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.11 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young has released version 1.11 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2, but has also been tested under AmigaOS 4. Since it uses a new window.class, it might not work with older OS3 versions. Changes:
- Improve window handling:
- Can now open new window from the GUI
- Can select to ask/hide/quit when last window closed (NB: CONFIRMQUIT tooltype no longer used)
- Can now specify an archive on the command line
Download: avalanche.lha (84 Kb) (dr)
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11.Feb.2023
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Turn-based strategy: Intro update for "Settle the World"
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released an intro update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" - see detailed introduction on amiga-news.de - which now tells the background story with a slideshow (YouTube video).
Compared to the version from the beginning of December (amiga-news.de reported), there are also a number of improvements that make "Settle the World" even more playable:
- Pioneers can build mines on hills or mountains to increase the iron yield
- In the cities, once a certain number of inhabitants has been reached, you can see exactly what needs have to be met for the inhabitants to move up to the next class (a lot of time and work went into this)
- There are now master carpenters to speed up the construction of buildings
- Intermediate images for special events
- more small animations, especially on water (CPU >= 68030)
- Cities now have their own view radius
- Horses multiply faster in cities
- ...and many more little things
Thus, it is now much easier to reach a large working class city and easier for the player to understand what is needed to do so. As the developer writes to us, there are still no natives or computer opponents, but some work in this direction has already been initiated with this update.
A Quick Start Guide in PDF format should also make it even easier to get started with the game.
"Settle the World" is primarily intended as a duel between human opponents, but can also be played alone. The game requires 1 megabyte of ChipRAM and 4 megabytes of FastRAM, a hard disk and at least a 68020 processor. (dr)
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10.Feb.2023
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20201110-1
AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the new version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-Bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). Over 1400 changes have been integrated, with 1700 still to come to match the main branch. The full list of changes can be seen under the title link. (dr)
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10.Feb.2023
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Tech demo: 3D engine for Amiga 1200
In a little tech demo, 'Rst7/CBSIE' presents his 3D engine "SDDDE" for the Amiga 1200. The corresponding project is maintained on GitHub. (dr)
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10.Feb.2023
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User Report: The PiStorm32-lite, part 1
I never really planned to get a PiStorm for my Amiga 1200. Firstly, the project - the PiStorm32 - didn't seem to be finished in the near future and then, of course, there was the question of its sense and usefulness.
Since the 90s, a Blizzard 1230 has been working reliably and seemingly for eternity in my Amiga 1200. In the 2000s, I had given it 128 MB Fast RAM and an SD hard disk so that I could also "play around" with resource-hungry software such as the browser Netsurf (see the corresponding browser test). I never had any problems with the speed, since it is 30 years old hardware. But there was one thing I had always wished for, which was denied me in the desktop version of the 1200: a graphics card. For example, I ran the mail programme YAM under AGA for many, many years, but it was really no feast for the eyes.
When, relatively spontaneously and surprisingly, the PiStorm32-lite project was not only announced at the beginning of October last year, but also completed at the end of last year, and this made it possible to run my Workbench with graphics card resolution, my thoughts also became more concrete. Especially as it is obviously possible to deactivate the card and then run the old games via diskette. I am attached to my Blizzard, but it was decided: a PiStorm32-lite should be purchased.
We published a news item the other day about the current availability of the adapter (with and without the required Raspberry Pi), although Amiga Kit now also offers the PiStorm32-lite at a fair price. I ordered the adapter and the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A separately, which arrived as follows:
Having never held a Raspberry Pi in my hands before, I was amazed at how small this single-board computer is. Especially when you had just looked into the tower of the X5000 ;) I have to admit, I'm not a born hobbyist and haven't messed around with the 1200 for ages, but assembling the adapter with the Pi and then installing it in the 1200 is doable.
First, the thermal pad is put onto the square surface provided for it:
Then place the three spacers on the holes:
Now put on the Raspberry Pi and also fix the insulation rail with the three screws:
The assembled card must now be installed in the trapdoor expansion slot on the underside of the housing. In my case, the Blizzard 1230 turbo card was in there together with the memory bar, which first has to be removed:
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At the top left you can still see the SCSI cable, which I had also removed. Possibly it is meant to be inserted this way now, but with my two clumsy hands it did not work well. Since I had to open the case in such and such a way to remove the cable, I didn't try for long and was able to install the card well this way:
Incidentally, the HDMI connection can be seen in the top centre, and the USB connection in the centre right. In contrast to the Raspberry Pi 4, the 3 version has a normal HDMI connection and not a micro HDMI connection. As you can see from my standard HDMI cable: that's going to be tight!
At first I could only connect it by disconnecting the floppy drive completely:
And even then, the plug pushed the whole card up a bit by resting on the metal sheet. Anyway. I wanted to at least start a test run to see if it basically worked. Switched on and I saw:
a black screen!
As the attentive reader may have noticed, the microSD card was missing from the designated slot ;)
It was still in my discarded Nokia Lumia mobile phone. Why is that? Because my card reader doesn't have a microSD slot. I had fished out an adapter from my stock, into which the microSD card could be inserted and then read as an SD card, but unfortunately that didn't work. But I had to prepare the card somehow and so I came up with the temporary solution with the mobile phone.
The preparation of the map needs to be dealt with more intensively, but basically there are two good places to go to get information and read up:
As far as I have noticed, most users use an AmigaOS 3.x installed on the card to take full advantage of the speed benefits when accessing the card. I primarily want to use and test my software installed on the Amiga 1200 first and therefore accept the slower IDE interface. For this, one only has to install two things on the card:
The unpacked Emu68 archive looks like this:
In addition to the "bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb" file, the archive also contains other versions for the Pi 4 etc.. However, it is sufficient to keep only the version that suits you and delete the others. The exact name of the Amiga1200 kickstart ROM file must now be entered into the "config.txt" in the last line. So "initramfs kick.rom" becomes "initramfs a1200_kick_32.rom" for me.
Okay, card is now in, second try. Ahhhhh....
After all! :) However, my eyes then discover this error message in the upper left corner of the screen when I take a closer look:
The "BUPtest" is a tool that tests the communication Pi <-> PiStorm <-> Amiga Chip RAM.
After consulting Claude and Michal - thank you very much - it is possible that the card pushed up by the HDMI connector is not seated correctly. In order to exclude or confirm this, the first part ends here and will be continued with a second one as soon as the hopefully better fitting cable (UltraThin HDMI cable) has arrived at my place. (dr)
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Demoparty: Lovebyte 2023 / Call to Amiga programmers
From 8pm tonight until Sunday, the Lovebyte Demoparty 2023 will take place on Discord and Twitch, where there will again be intro competitions in various categories. However, until just before the closing date, not a single Amiga demo has been submitted for this, which is why the organisers explicitly encourage programmers to submit for example at least a small 1k bootblock intro. (dr)
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10.Feb.2023
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MorphOS 3.17: openssl3.library February Hotfix
The MorphOS developer team has announced: "Another round of vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.17. Eight discovered issues, namely CVE-2023-0286, CVE-2022-4304, CVE-2022-4203, CVE-2023-0215, CVE-2022-4450, CVE-2023-0216, CVE-2023-0217 and CVE-2023-0401, were found to potentially affect MorphOS users.
A fixed OpenSSL library will be bundled with a future MorphOS release. Meanwhile, you can download (1,7 MB) the replacement openssl3.library that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.17. To install it, copy the file to MOSSYS:Libs and reboot." (dr)
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09.Feb.2023
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.1 (update)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today version 1.7.0 has been released. Changes:
- CHG: update to latest WinUAE (41010)
- FIX: Only write m68k settings for Amiga projects
- NEW: Emulator config improvements
- NEW: profiler: get AGA colors from WinUAE
- NEW: launch.json: new configuration attribute "stack" to override the default stack size (in bytes)
Update: (10.02.2023, 19:05, dr)
Meanwhile, a bug fixed version 1.7.1 is available: 1.7.0 would not start debugging if launch.json was missing. (dr)
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09.Feb.2023
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Programming contest: 12th Edition of BASIC 10Liner Contest
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some sound or colorful lines by writing little BASIC programs.
The organizers wrote: "The BASIC 10Liner Contest started 2011 as a party fun at the NOMAM meeting in Northern Germany. NOMAM means 'Not only marvelous Atari machinery' and is an annual meeting from classic computer enthusiasts. The visitors of the meeting decided to hold a little contest: Write a program in 10 lines of BASIC on Atari Computers! We had loads of fun with programming the whole weekend. 2013 we decided to repeat the contest. This time only games were allowed. In 2014 we opened the 10Liner contest also for programmers who did not visit to the meeting. Owners of other 8 bit computer requested to open the contest for their machines. We met the wish and opened it for all 8 bit computers."
This year marks the twelfth edition of the competition. And even if Amiga computers belong to the 16-bit systems and thus do not fulfil the competition conditions, corresponding entries are included in the category "Wild". This year 'Toolkitman' has already submitted two Amiga projects. These and all other submitted programmes can be found in the overview at bunsen.itch.io.
The deadline for entries is Saturday, 25 March 2023, 18.00 CET. The award ceremony will take place at NOMAM on Saturday, 1 April 2023. (dr)
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09.Feb.2023
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Event: AMIGA Ruhrpott Convention in Duisburg (Germany)
On Saturday, 6 May 2023, the first AMIGA Ruhrpott Convention will take place in Duisburg-Rheinhausen (Germany) at the Area 51 youth centre, starting at 10 am. The event is intended as a meeting for Commodore AMIGA fans from the Ruhr region, but is open to everyone. Tickets are available for 18.31 euros. (dr)
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09.Feb.2023
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Print magazine: Issue 136 of Amiga Future readable online
The German and English issue 136 (January/February 2019) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine as well as a higher resolution PDF version can be purchased from the publisher. (snx)
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08.Feb.2023
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Odyssey script for GitHub websites v1.6
On our hint that you can't see download links on the GitHub page for version 5.7 of the encryption protocol AmiSSL, released today (amiga-news.de reported), with the browser Odyssey, George 'walkero' Sokianos has again adapted his script for the correct display of GitHub pages and made it available under the title link. (dr)
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08.Feb.2023
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HxC floppy emulator: Software V2.14.4.1
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, launched in 2006, is basically available in two versions:
There is also special firmware for the Gotek disk drive emulator.
A new version of the HxC Floppy Emulator software has now been released, which contains numerous improvements and corrections and is used to configure the emulator or create the image files. (dr)
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08.Feb.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for January
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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08.Feb.2023
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Obligement: Interview with DJ Nick (Nikola Tomic)
The French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement has conducted an English-language interview with the musician and artist Nikola Tomic alias DJ Nick. (dr)
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08.Feb.2023
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AmigaOS 4: FeeDBack #14 - 4-channel tracks of Gerp demo party
The demo group 'Void' has published the 4-channel tracks of the demo party "Gerp 2023", which took place from 20. until 22. January in Sweden, as music pack. (dr)
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08.Feb.2023
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.7 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.7 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.0.8, with updated root certificates and some improvements. The changes in detail:
- Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.0.8 (7.2.2023) version, which includes one high, seven moderate and one low severity fixes for newly identified vulnerabilities:
- Fixed NULL dereference during PKCS7 data verification.
- Fixed X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName.
- Fixed NULL dereference validating DSA public key.
- Fixed Invalid pointer dereference in d2i_PKCS7 functions.
- Fixed Use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF.
- Fixed Double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex.
- Fixed Timing Oracle in RSA Decryption.
- Fixed X.509 Name Constraints Read Buffer Overflow.
- Fixed X.509 Policy Constraints Double Locking security issue.
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html dated 10.1.2023.
- Correctly clear thread locks before using InitSemaphore() on OS3.
- Prevent OS4 load time emulation corrupting the data in the PPC ASM optimised routines by moving data from .text section to .rodata.
- Removed redundant code in PPC ASM optimised routines.
- Removed unused PPC POWER8 specific ASM optimised routines.
Download AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.7-OS3.lha (3,3 MB)
Download AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.7-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
Download SDK: AmiSSL-5.7-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)
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06.Feb.2023
Amiga WARP Organization (ANF)
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Amiga WARP Calendar 2023
Continuing their tradition from 1997, members of Croatian Amiga WARP organization have published two new calendars for year 2023 that are available in PDF format in English and Croatian language at the title link.
Download:
WARP_Calendar_2023.pdf (2 MB)
WARP_Calendar_2023_ENG.pdf (2 MB)
WARP_Calendar_2023_Line_ENG.pdf (2 MB) (snx)
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06.Feb.2023
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MP3 player: Reel Deck V1.00
In October 2022 Sami Vehmaa had released a first version 0.60 of his MP3 player "Reel Deck" for Amigas with graphics card (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 1.0 has been released with four more GUI variants and an integrated volume control including various visualization options.
The player currently costs two Euros and is primarily intended for emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. AmigaOS 3.x and at least 20 MB RAM are required. (dr)
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06.Feb.2023
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Text adventure: Developer log to "Pacuvia the Sheep"
In a recent developer log entry, Domenico 'Diduz' Misciagna, author of the text adventure "The Daring Rescue of Pacuvia the Sheep" (amiga-news.de reported), explains which problems and peculiarities he encountered when creating the Amiga version in AMOS Pro 2.0: for example, the handling of nested conditions (IF / THEN / ELSE / ENDIF) in general QuickBasic code on the one hand and AMOS on the other hand differed. And even though he didn't need any of the features of AMOS Pro 2.0, he was forced to upgrade from his preferred version 1.3 because the sample bank editor it contained didn't play his sound files without problems. (dr)
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05.Feb.2023
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Aminet uploads until 04.02.2023
The following files have been added until 04.02.2023 to Aminet:
Golem.lha biz/misc 505K 68k Business management software ...
Envoy_FR.lha comm/net 5K French catalog for Envoy 3
parForth.lha dev/lang 426K x86 pForth compiled with AROS fun...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.9M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
dMagnetic.lha game/text 361K 68k Interpreter for Magnetic Scro...
AmiMineSweeper.lha game/think 42K 68k Minesweeper for Amiga
RoyaltyAround.lha game/think 2.8M 68k Royalty Around solitaire card...
png2bbc.lha gfx/conv 613K MOS BBC Micro sprites from PNG im...
fxPAINT_FR.lha gfx/edit 16K French catalog for fxPAINT 2.02
PoligoniRegolari.lha gfx/show 21K 68k 99 sides regular poligon
AmiModRadio.lha mus/play 2.8M 68k Play modules from Internet so...
mhimdev.lha mus/play 12K 68k MHI driver for mpeg.device
ltx-cb12.lha util/boot 4K 68k CBoot v1.2 - Ultimate Boot Se...
NDos.lha util/boot 20K 68k Boot menu 4 games on floppies
iGame.lha util/misc 318K 68k Front-end for WHDLoad
pasfetch.lha util/moni 195K MOS Pascal fetch for MorphOS (PoC)
ScreenTime.lha util/time 66K 68k Screen clock with calendar
(snx)
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05.Feb.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 04.02.2023
The following files have been added until 04.02.2023 to OS4Depot:
thewidowii_e-card.lha dem/mis 5Mb 4.0 This is e-Card with the advertis...
igame.lha uti/mis 318kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
litexl.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
(snx)
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05.Feb.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 04.02.2023
The following files have been added until 04.02.2023 to AROS Archives:
thewidowii_e-card.lha dem/mis 5Mb This is e-Card with the advertis...
parforth.i386-aros.lha dev/lan 426kb pForth v27 compiled with AROS fu...
royaltyaround.i386-aros.lha gam/car 3Mb solitaire card game
mcc_thebar-26.15fix1.i386... lib/mui 337kb Mui Custom Class
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05.Feb.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.02.2023
The following files have been added until 04.02.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
NewRulesForTools.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes NewRulesForTools.lha
CatalogTranslation.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes CatalogTranslation.lha
BarsnPipes_1.3.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes A high-end MIDI sequenc...
BarsnPipes-EasyStart.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes Two small scripts: one ...
RulesforSkins.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes RulesforSkins.lha
SDK_MichaelRees.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes SDK_MichaelRees.lha
WildMIDI_0.4.5.lha Development/Library WildMIDI is a simple so...
pasfetch.lha Development/Monitoring Pascal fetch for MorphO...
OttoMatic_4.0.1.lha Games/Action 3D OttoMatic for modern sy...
MightyMike_3.0.2.lha Games/Action Pangea Software's Might...
TheWidowII-eCard.lha Games/Adventure The Widow II: Evil's Re...
iGame_2.2.1_FR.lha Games/Launcher French catalog for iGam...
iGame_2.2.1.lha Games/Launcher A frontend to launching...
Fallout2-ce_1.2_R0.lha Games/RPG Open source Fallout 2
dMagnetic_0.35.lha Games/Text Interpreter for Magneti...
png2bbc_1.14.lha Graphics/Convert BBC Micro sprites from ...
LiteXL_2.1.1r1.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
PageStream5_FR_1.1.lha Translations French translation of P...
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05.Feb.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.02.2023
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 04.02.2023:
- 2023-01-30 improved: Manix (Millennium) protection bug fixed, uses real files, 68000 quit key, highscore saving, trainers added (Info)
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05.Feb.2023
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.16
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, 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 0.9.16 offers seveal fixes, improvements and optimisations. (dr)
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05.Feb.2023
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DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 7)
'Drygol' is a member of the demoscene group Lamers and basically deals with retro computers in the form of restorations, upgrades etc. On his site Retrohax.net he not only offers various retro articles, but also runs a blog. Among other things he describes there his project 'Tesseract', the building of an Amiga 2000 from scratch with all maximum modifications. His project is based on the GitHub project of 'Floppie209', a replica of the Amiga2000 motherboard with Sprint layout. After six reports (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), now he has published the last part of the blog series which summarizes the project and shows a lot of pictures. (dr)
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05.Feb.2023
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky (Mail)
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Action adventure: "Otto Matic" 4.0.1 for MorphOS and Linux
The developer 'jorio' had published a few days ago on GitHub the version 4.0.1 of the action adventure "Otto Matic" for Windows, Mac and Linux, originally published by "Pangea Software", as well as the corresponding source code (changelog).
This has now been compiled by 'BeWorld' for MorphOS and Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky for Linux PPC 32-Bit (direct download, 137 MB). (dr)
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05.Feb.2023
nivrig (Twitter)
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Music album: "Amiga Collection" by Stamen
'ST Arts' is an amateur musician from Finland who likes to compose melodic electronic music, mainly synthpop and space synth music with influences from the mod/demo scene. Thereby 'ST Arts' stands as a generic term for all his musical work, regardless of genres (interview from 2008). When he bought an Amiga 500 in 1992 and started making music with ProTracker, he gave himself the artist name 'Stamen' and published tracks on Aminet and The Mod Archive.
Now he has released the album "Amiga Collection" on the online music service "Bandcamp", which contains tracks from 1994 to 1999 and can be downloaded for a price to be determined by the user. (dr)
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04.Feb.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.8
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. Today version 1.8 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
- IMD: Read & write IMD image files
- IMG, diskdef: Allow sector padding in IMG files
- gw read: No seeking to cyl 0 on retry, by default
- HFE: Fix data rate of FM tracks
- SCP: Fix checksum calculation, and verify on import
(dr)
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04.Feb.2023
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Preview video: Temptations port for CD32
The developer 'S0Y' is continuing to work on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video, he now gives a taste of the second level of the game. (dr)
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03.Feb.2023
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Tech demo of an arcade game: RemGame
'RemGame' (video) is the author's first C/ASM project on the Amiga. He describes it as a "tech demo", and he has yet to come up with a game design to go with it. RemGame uses a sprite multiplexer and can thus display up to 104 moving sprites. The colours of the sprites are changed via copper list in each grid line. Together with the scrolling background displayed in HAM mode, up to 1400 colours are displayed on the screen simultaneously, even on an A500. In a forum discussion, the author answers users' questions and offers the current version for download. (cg)
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