24.Jan.2025
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Video player: Amos Anim Player v2025
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).
The latest version 2025 provides the following changes:
- Palette could change between frames in movie version
- Litle optimization....Proper version a bit faster
- Different timing method?!
(dr)
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23.Jan.2025
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Video analysis: Shadow of the Beast - The Greatest Video Game Tech Demo Ever
In a 14-minute video, the Youtuber "Modern Vintage Gamer" takes a close look at the Amiga classic "Shadow of The Beast" and explains, among other things, how the up to 13 independently scrolling levels or the sometimes over 120 colours on the screen come about - but also why the title sometimes comes across as a bit monotonous in terms of gameplay due to the many technical gimmicks that push the hardware to the limit. (cg)
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23.Jan.2025
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Action game: Amiga Yoomp! 1.07
Amiga Yoomp! is a conversion of an Atari 8-bit game from 2007. In the last few weeks, several updates have been released that bring the following changes:
- Version 1.07: improved save hi-score procedure it is now much faster
- Version 1.06: fixed bug in start script preventing to rung game from Workbench
- Version 1.05: fixes for startup code and file load procedure
- Version 1.04: fixed crash (guru) on WinUAE 5.3.0 when game was loaded from HD
- Version 1.03: removed modification of user-startup file, added "assign" command to game start script (HD installation only)
(cg)
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22.Jan.2025
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Audio playback: Interview on the occasion of version 1.0 of AmiModRadio
Shortly before Christmas - after years of almost asymptotically approaching this version number - AmiModRadio 1.0 was released. Reason enough for us to ask its programmer 'Tygre' for an interview.
About the program: AmiModRadio accesses the more than twenty thousand music modules in Aminet, but also tens of thousands of tracks from Haxor.fi, Modland and Modules.pl, in order to download a piece of music, unpack it and play it on one of the playback programs such as AmigaAMP, DeliTracker, EaglePlayer, HippoPlayer, MultiPlayer or TuneNet. A rating function is also included. AmiModRadio is open source, the files are available on SourceForge and BitBucket. Anyone wishing to report bugs is asked to do so via the official bug tracker. Suggestions for improvement are always welcome.
Thank you for telling us more about your project. For a start, would you like to tell us a bit about yourself?
I'm a Breton, born and raised in Brittany, who has lived in Montréal, Québec, for 22 years (time flies!). I received an A1200 for Christmas 1993 (or was it 1994?), but I was already familiar with that awesome computer series thanks to my brother, who had had a C64 and then an A500 before that. Later, he also bought an A4000. I still have my A1200 and the A4000 (although the motherboard suffered from the infamous leakage of its barrel battery).
I used my A1200 all the way to my engineering school in 1998. I had augmented it with a Blizzard 1230 and two external harddisks connected via a ribbon cable sticking out from the A1200 case. Not very pretty, but working very well! In 2000, I bought my first PC (a Dell Inspiron) and I neglected my Amigas until 2009 or something, when I rediscovered the joy of simple computing. :-) I refurbished my A1200 but also started buying other extensions and Amigas. Now, my main Amiga is an A1200 with a Blizzard 1240, a CompactFlash card, an Ethernet card, and other goodies, all sheltered in a beautiful Evo X500 black case.
When did the work on AmiModRadio start?
In the 2010s, I was looking for a project to pick up and improve my Amiga programming and, of course, to use my A1200! I had always enjoyed Amiga music and realised that there was no convenient way to play all the modules in Aminet - the idea for AmiModRadio was born!
How was this idea implemented then?
Early on, I realised that I didn't want to program a new player (I was just not a good enough programmer!) so I decided to use ARexx, which brought many benefits: AmiModRadio can interact with most module players out there! Also, ARexx is very cool and versatile and I miss it on Linux and Windows.
Besides that, AmiModRadio is entirely programmed in C, and uses its own FTP and HTTP/HTTPS code to download modules. I wanted to learn socket programming and the intricacies of all these protocols! It also includes four different user interfaces: textual (CLI) and graphical (ClassAct, MUI, and ReAction), which share the same base code.
I couldn't have developed AmiModRadio without the community's help, in particular, on EAB, who patiently answered my many questions... or helped with translations and testing (in particular 'AmigaSystem'!).
Did you originally have different plans for the project?
Actually, AmiModRadio today is pretty much what I had in mind these many years ago... I just didn't know that it would take me 13+ years to complete. :-D AmiModRadio grew a little bit beyond what I had in mind at the beginning: it uses different tasks, so that the UI stays responsive even during the download and unarchiving of modules, and it has a companion Web server to store/retrieve/display ratings.
Regarding features: is the project finished?
Yes! I'm pretty happy with the state of AmiModRadio now... I actually use it every day on my A1200 or on the FPGA Arcade in the living room (to my daughters' horror! :-p). It is stable, doesn't crash, and doesn't corrupt the system... as far as I see! I'll improve its user interfaces and inner workings, but nothing major should change... Until someone reviews my code and tells me all the things that I did wrong...
Are there any other plans?
Actually, yes! :-D
First, I'd like to complete the reprogramming/conversions of the programs published in Amiga News Tech (ANT) in the 1990s for VBCC. VBCC is an amazing compiler for the Amiga (and not only the Amiga) and the programs in ANT have a lot to teach (me).
Then, I was talking about Linux and Windows above... One thing that I miss from Windows is the possibility of creating shortcuts simply. I'm currently developing WBShortcutMaker (working title!) that would create, in the WBStartup, shortcuts to any program: You would select a program that you'd like to run at startup and, with a click or a menu or something (I haven't figured it out yet), WBShortcutMaker would create a script in your WBStartup with icon and all.
Also, I have kind of abandoned AmiAutoUpdater for a long while, which was my naive attempt at a kind of package manager... or rather software updater! I'd like to take that up again, but first I should try Grunch, which may do exactly what I want (and more).
Finally, I'd like to fix my A1200, which used to host my website thanks to THTTPd, but that recently stopped working: I suspect that the CF card failed but I haven't taken the time yet to investigate! (snx)
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21.Jan.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Shoot 'em up: Sky Shapers available in a physical box edition
Sky Shapers is a 50 FPS vertically scrolling shoot 'em up from the Norwegian development team Digilicious Nibbles. With three levels and 37 different enemy types, boss fights, weapon upgrades and special weapons, high-quality sound and two levels of parallax scrolling, the game brings arcade flair to the Amiga. Sky Shapers includes an extensive introduction sequence, a bonus point screen and a permanent high score table. The game achieved a positive 88 percent in the December issue of Amiga Addict.
Sky Shapers requires an Amiga with an AGA chipset and Kickstart 3.0 or higher, at least 1877 KB of free Chip RAM, 1 MB of Fast RAM and a hard drive. It is playable on systems with a 68020 processor running at 14 MHz, but a minimum of a 68030 running at 25 MHz is recommended. It can be controlled using a joystick (joysticks with two buttons are supported) or the keyboard.
APC&TCP is now offering the game in a boxed version in its own online shop at a price of EUR 29. In addition to the game on CD, the box contains a printed manual and an A3 poster. With the purchase, a link to the download version is provided. (nba)
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21.Jan.2025
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Flappy-Bird-clone: Happy Bat 1.2
The skill game "Happy Bat" has been developed by Carlos Zener for testing the high score function of the game development tool REDPILL (amiga-news.de reported). Happy Bat has now been updated to version 1.2, which features new graphics by Jordi Palome and a new music track for the initial level. In addition, executable files have been provided for Amigas with 68000 or 68020+ processors. The game requires a real or emulated Amiga with an AGA chipset.
"Happy Bat" is an adaptation of the game "Flappy Bird". The aim is to make a bat flap its wings by pressing the space bar or the joystick button, thus preventing it from hitting the ground or pillars, and guiding it safely through the level.
Happy Bat is provided both as a LhA archive and in ADF format. It can be downloaded in return for a voluntary donation. (nba)
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21.Jan.2025
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Hyperion Entertainment: Press release regarding the new director
As reported, Timothy De Groote has been appointed as the new director of Hyperion Entertainment. The following press release has been officially published by the company at the title link today.
New Ownership of Hyperion Entertainment CVBA – New Director Appointed
Brussels – January 21, 2025
At a general assembly held on December 18, 2024, organized and convened by the temporary administrator, the shareholders of Hyperion Entertainment CVBA appointed Timothy De Groote as the company’s new director.
The general assembly also instructed the new directors to prioritize consolidating the company’s financial situation and restarting development of AmigaOS.
The general assembly followed the bankruptcy of Hyperion Entertainment’s largest shareholder, Ben Hermans BV, which, under Belgian law, resulted in the annulment of its shares. (snx)
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20.Jan.2025
Games That Weren't
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Joy of Killing
"Joy of Killing" was a shoot'em up started in 1996 by the Polish development team S-Crew. The site "Amiga Games That Weren't", which collects information on unreleased Amiga titles, has now restored the demo produced at the time in co-operation with 'Rygar'. (dr)
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20.Jan.2025
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Linux: Kernel 6.13.0 for X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.13.0, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled a version for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The new kernel fixes, among others, bugs around network, sound and SCSI. (dr)
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20.Jan.2025
Mixel
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Multiplayer arcade game: "WiZONK!" 1.0.4
"WiZONK!" (Video) is a single-screen platformer developed with the Scorpion Engine, in which up to four combatants try to kill each other. In version 1.0.4, a few bugs have been fixed and some changes have been made to the functionality:
- More menu controls are now Player 1 exclusive.
- Fixed a lockup if you quit the game in a particular way.
- Made Player 1 mandatory
- Fixed bug where sometimes 2 players were invisible!
- Optimised the Menu Screen (ongoing)
- Improved multitap icon
- Added ability to cycle characters by clicking beside the portraits
In particular, the optimisation of the main menu has not yet been completed and will only improve over the course of the next updates. (dr)
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20.Jan.2025
Kobold_Eduard
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Christmas game: The Young Icefighter, Level 5 and bonus level
"The Young Icefighter" is a Christmas game for children created with the "Shoot'em Construction Kit", for which the developer's eight-year-old son drew most of the graphics (amiga-news.de reported). Now another bonus level and level 5 have been released. (dr)
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20.Jan.2025
Marcel Stritzelberger
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Article: Amiga-Memory - A computer that shaped us (German)
Christian Spanik is an Austrian presenter, film producer and author who has written books about the Commodore 64 and Amiga. He also runs the website Der Digisaurier, where he looks at current topics with the knowledge of the past.
In the recently published German article "Amiga Memory: A computer that shaped us", he takes readers "on a journey through personal memories, quirky details and special moments that make the Amiga an unforgotten classic. And my favourite computer to this day." (dr)
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19.Jan.2025
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Aminet uploads until 18.01.2025
The following files have been added until 18.01.2025 to Aminet:
TuneFinderMUI.lha comm/misc 66K OS3 Search+play online radi...
AFG.sh.zip dev/gg 636K VAR Audio Function Generato...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 6.2M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
E-ROMATO.lha dev/src 2K GEN A python script to swap...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 256K OS3 ANAIIS USB Stack Releas...
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 259K OS3 ANAIIS USB Boot disk Re...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 82K OS3 Massive release 1.25
HappyBat.lha game/jump 244K OS3 A flappy bird clone for...
3doc_m68020_v1.10.lha gfx/3d 2.2M OS3 3D Object Converter for...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 9.5M MOS Signetics-based machine...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
MuEVD.lha misc/emu 152K OS3 MuLib driven ShapeShift...
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 127K OS3 ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pen...
Felicidad.lha mods/midi 59K GEN Felicidad, General MIDI...
NoJob.mp3 mods/mpg 4.1M GEN A motif made by Stefano...
AmySequencer.lha mus/midi 564K OS3 MIDI sequencer for the ...
AMIGA-SCARTRGBcable.jpg pix/illu 26K GEN Schematic for generic A...
AmiTranslateItaCat.lha text/misc 17K GEN Italian catalog for Ami...
MMULib.lha util/libs 789K OS3 Library to ctrl the MC6...
AnalogClock.lha util/time 42K OS3 Resizeable analog trans...
(snx)
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19.Jan.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 18.01.2025
The following files have been added until 18.01.2025 to OS4Depot:
resrc4.lha dev/mis 128kb 4.1 MC680x0 Disassembler
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 10Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
openjazz.lha gam/pla 883kb 4.1 open-source version of the class...
afa-viewer.lha uti/arc 4Mb 4.1 Browse AmigaFuture Archive-DVD
amitranslate.lha uti/tex 5Mb 4.0 Translate text with DeepL
litexl2.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
(snx)
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19.Jan.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 18.01.2025
The following files have been added until 18.01.2025 to AROS Archives:
alac.x86_64-aros-v11.zip aud/mis 71kb Apple Lossless Audio Codec decoder
tinysid.x86_64-aros-v11.zip aud/pla 66kb A small, multiplatform SID player
gorillaz_drawer.lha gra/ico 188kb Collection of Drawer Icons for A...
nomarch.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/arc 80kb extract old .arc and .ark archives
zunearc.x86-64-aros-v11.zip uti/arc 301kb a zune front end for archivers
bin2iso.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/fil 45kb convert Bin File to ISO 9660
dirtree.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/mis 49kb Shell command displaying directo...
joytest.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/mis 45kb joypad test prints lowlevel data...
rescode.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/mis 87kb Calculates resistor values (4 an...
diskusage.x86_64-aros-v11... uti/she 49kb Estimates file space usage
timeit.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/she 46kb Shell command for timing other c...
dclock.x86_64-aros-v11.lha uti/wor 31kb Utilities Clock for wanderer
skandalfoclock.x86_64-aro... uti/wor 173kb Advanced Analog Clock
(snx)
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19.Jan.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.01.2025
The following files have been added until 18.01.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
Physfs-3.3.0.lha Development/Library MorphOS port of Physics...
boost-1.87.0.lha Development/Library Boost 1.87.0 for MorphOS
Freetype-2.13.3.lha Development/Library MorphOS port of LibFree...
AmiArcadia_33.80.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
AmiTranslate_0.5.lha Misc A DeepL interface for A...
Lite-XL_2.1.7r1.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
(snx)
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19.Jan.2025
Amiga Boing (website)
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Amiga Boing Blog: Successor wanted
The "Amiga Boing Blog" offers tests of numerous games from the PD/freeware area. In addition, game collections with freely distributable games or games licensed to the operator are compiled, which are already delivered with a fully prepared WinUAE - the user only has to add a Kickstart ROM.
There are also collections in RP9 format, which therefore work optimally with Cloanto's "Amiga Forever" emulator package, and a collection of games that work with the AROS-based Kickstart ROM supplied with WinUAE.
As the blogger will not be able to continue his work in the foreseeable future, a successor will be sought from 2026 on. Plenty of work is available, as there are 3,000 more games ready to be added. (snx)
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19.Jan.2025
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Do it yourself: CompactFlash adapter AmigaCF for Amiga 600 and 1200
The CompactFlash adapter AmigaCF for the Amiga 600 and 1200 is connected to the internal IDE port not by cable like other variants, but is plugged directly into it instead. In addition, noises are made during access, as a substitute for those made when accessing a real 2.5" hard disk inside the computer.
The AmigaCF is intended for use directly on the mainboard - as it is unbuffered, it is not suitable for use on the IDE port of some turbo boards, i.e. those which require a buffered adapter instead. (snx)
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19.Jan.2025
Steffen Haeuser at A1K.org (ANF)
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Financing of a Warp3D driver for the PiStorm32 (PI4/CM4) on IndieGoGo
Steffen Haeuser writes at A1K.org (translated): "Warp3D for PiStorm! Until now, 3D games on Amiga computers with PiStorm were limited to software-only rendering solutions, even though a Pi4/CM4 has a powerful 3D chip (Videocore VI). The aim of this project is to change this. Developer Dennis Boon has offered to create a Warp3D.library for PiStorm systems with Pi4 and Pi CM4 for a fee.
With 3D hardware acceleration, you get higher resolutions, faster FPS and more impressive visuals for 3D gaming on PiStorm-equipped Amiga systems. Additionally, it enables porting of games that require 3D hardware acceleration or games that would be too slow in software-only rendering on a PiStorm Amiga." (snx)
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19.Jan.2025
spillhistorie.no (ANF)
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Spillhistorie: Interview with Michael Haire (Microprose)
Hans Arne Jacobsen and Joachim Froholt have conducted another interview for the Norwegian website Spillhistorie - this time with Michael Haire, the former head of Microprose's graphics department.
Michael Haire worked on classics such as Sid Meier's Pirates! and Civilization. He entered the games industry in 1981 when he created cover art for a series of games for the TRS-80 8-bit computer. He quickly began to create game graphics and worked for the legendary game publisher and developer MicroProse from the mid-1980s. (snx)
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19.Jan.2025
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Video: Data recovery from an Amiga 1000 (German)
In the video at the title link, the home computer and games console museum Yesterchips in Lützelbach (Hessen, Germany) deals with data recovery from the hard disk of an Amiga 1000. As this is not a SCSI or IDE hard disk, but one of the MFM hard disks used previously, the task was somewhat more complex. (snx)
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19.Jan.2025
MiDWaN
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry-Lite 5.8.1
As announced, Amiberry 7.0 has now been followed by the release of the slimmed-down version 5.8 of Amiberry-Lite. This version, which is still based on WinUAE 4.4, has now also received selected cherry-picked features from its big brother, insofar as they are still useful on less powerful systems up to and including the Raspberry Pi 4. (snx)
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19.Jan.2025
Mastodon (ANF)
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Game: Tank in a Dungeon 1.1 (update)
In "Tank in a Dungeon" you have to drive a tank through a labyrinth exposed by an earthquake in order to free researchers held captive by alien robots.
An Amiga with at least 1.5 MB RAM and Workbench 2.0 is required, an Amiga 1200 is recommended.
Update: (19.01.2025, 21:27, dr)
Version 1.1 is now available, which fixes a bug (flickering numbers in the score and player ammo have been removed) and also assigns the player a rank based on accuracy after completing all missions. (snx)
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19.Jan.2025
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AmigaOS 4: New port of the game engine OpenJazz for Jazz Jackrabbit
OpenJazz is an engine that can be used to play the commercial Sonic clone Jazz Jackrabbit (the original files are required accordingly). It was ported for AmigaOS 4 back in 2012 already by Roman 'kas1e' Kargin. Since then, OpenJazz has undergone several additions and has been converted to SDL2 though.
However, in the current version by George Sokianos, the bonus stages are switched off as they lead to crashes. A problem that also occurs on other platforms. (snx)
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18.Jan.2025
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Operating system: MorphOS 3.19 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.19. This release includes numerous important stability and security improvements.
For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.19, please read our release notes:
MorphOS 3.19 boot.img Changes
Quark
- Fixed the MAC address reading on dual core PowerMac G5 machines
- Prefer the loader-supplied CPU frequency, if available
- When accessing the regular PCI bus, do a type 1 configuration transaction (Sam460LE)
- Fixed time being off by couple of seconds on Mac systems
Dos
- Improved the ExAll emulation
- Removed unnecessary current directory change in MatchEnd
Intuition
- Corrected the gamma channel handling for copy operation in GetDefaultGammaTables
- Fixed a regression when uncovering hidden windows with Enhanced Display being off
MarvellDMA
- IDMAWaitCopyASync: fixed a race condition
Poseidon
- Fixed a language array overflow error
Ram Disk
- ACTION_END: Improved compatibility
USB
- Improved display of special rawkeys in the keyboard tab
- Fixed initial state of event tracking, action enable/disable buttons
- Fixed a possible illegal access issue for certain HID mouse devices
MorphOS 3.19 Disk Changes
Ambient
- Fixed snapshot/unsnapshot to properly retain metadata for SVG icons
- Fixed snapshot/unsnapshot for dualpng icons
- Added multiple new filetype definitions
- Disabled unconditional debug
- Fixed root view icon unsnapshot issues
- Fixed not to show bogus data in the Information window if a disk icon is missing
- Fixed incorrect logic when locating icon Default Tool
Applications/Flacapella
- Added GnuDB UniqueCode support
- Disabled defunct cover search services
Applications/Hex
- Search is now abortable
- Added Recent Files menu and other UI improvements
- Viewing RAM now starts in read-only mode
Applications/Jalapeno
- Made it possible to ignore a failing disc capacity check on P5020
Applications/RemoteShell
Applications/Transfer
- Fixed local path handling when navigating to parent directory
Applications/VPDF
- Updated to latest libpoppler 25.01.0
- Fixed C++ locale support
- Fixed an exception/exit issue with specific PDFs related to outlines
- Fixed some issue with opening document internal and external links when outline view was enabled
C/HDWrite
- Fixed Start Offset to handle 64bit values
C/Installer
- Fixed memory corruption issue with some scripts
C/Newer
- Added a FILE/S argument to explicitly disable resident and library searches
C/Version
- Improved compatibility parsing content between revision and date
Classes/Frameworks/MUI
- Re-worked separator settings in the ASL requesters
- Use [self new] instead of [class new] in helper constructors to aid with overriding
- MUIList active would return 0 (instead of -1) even if the list was empty early on
- Fixed the MUIA_Poplist_Object getter
Classes/Frameworks/OB
- Added several missing methods to OBQueue
- Reworked all error handling to go through common handlers and provide more data
- Arexx messaging between two ObjectiveC apps bypasses rexx's baked in string length limits and uses UTF-8
- Fixed a memory leak in OBArexxPort
Classes/Mui/Hex
- Exposed 'isediting' state
Classes/Mui/VGraphics
- Don't redraw on mouse moves when MUIA_VGraphics_LightenOnMouse is off
Classes/Reggae/Http_stream
- Fixed memory leaks and other bugs in error code paths
- NetThreadSendRequest: improved handling of network errors
Classes/Reggae/MediaLogger
- Fixed a buffer overflow when rendering long event descriptions
Classes/Screenbar/Netlamps
- Fixed incorrect network traffic statistics in certain conditions
Classes/Usb/Camdusbmidi
- Fixed a bug with SysEx reception handling for multiple in/out DIN interface
Classes/Usb/Xbox360
- Added support for GameSir-G7 SE Controller for Xbox
L/NetworksFS
- Fixed connection error requester message
- Store volume names in bookmarks when using the Connect window
- Added missing MUIA_CycleChains
L/Smb2FS
- Fixed to return error when setting date for a non-existing object
- smb2_futimens: use mtime not atime for last_write_time
L/TrashFS
- Respect DefIcon_Path when loading Trashcan icons
- Hide .mtrash directories as they're created (SFS only)
Libs/Filesysbox
- FbxSetupSystemStart: use GetUTCSysTime to get systemstart time
- FbxDS2Timespec: Fixed tv_nsec overflow when ds_Tick was past the first second in minute
- FbxTimeSpec2DS: Take tv_nsec into account when calculating ds_Tick
Libs/Icon
- Fixed problem with classic icons
Libs/Ixemul
- getcwd: Fixed signal locking
Libs/Lzma
- Updated to liblzma 5.2.12
Libs/OpenSSL3
Libs/Random
Libs/Thumbnail
Data/SSL/Curl-ca-bundle.crt
- Updated root certificates
Devs/Monitors/Radeon
MUI
- Added the Unicode collection to Fontpanel
- Context menus will now open right-of mouse pointer
- Check whether MUIA_Coloradjust_ShowAlpha is TRUE before adding the alpha slider
- Fixed fixed-width font support in ASL requesters
- Fixed dereferenced submenu edge case after some scroll/move operations
Network/Netstack
- Improved errno/h_errno handling
Prefs/OpenURL
Prefs/Printers
- Fixed paper size units from cm to mm
Tools/HDConfig
Tools/IWizard
- Don't overwrite Wayfarer/Iris when updating MorphOS and a newer version is already installed
- Preserve newer Radeon and TinyGL, if installed
- Fixed a bug in path filtering
Tools/Scout
- Improved stability
- Improved task UID display
Utilities/Commodities/Expose
Utilities/Multiview
- Improved detection of text documents
- Fixed a crash when rendering colored AmigaGuide text
(dr)
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17.Jan.2025
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MorphOS: Jump'n Run SuperTux 0.6.3.1549
'BeWorld' has ported SuperTux, a classic, side-scrolling platform game in the style of the original Super Mario games, for MorphOS in its current version. (dr)
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17.Jan.2025
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Platformer: Hotfixes for "Tiny Pixel Adventure"
Tiny Pixel Adventure (video) is a classic platformer. After the final version was released a good week ago (amiga-news.de reported), the author has now added some bug fixes:
- fix some graphics bug in level 23
- Fixed a general bug in the level code display (it could happen that no level code was displayed if you had collected exactly the number of coins)
- Removed the hearts at the beginning of the boss level (was actually only meant to test the level)
- Level 29 small graphic errors fixed
(dr)
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16.Jan.2025
Amiga WARP Organization (ANF)
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Amiga WARP calendar for 2025
As every year, the Croatian Amiga WARP Association has published a calendar for 2025, which this year has the motto "40 years of Amiga". The calendar is available as a PDF file in Croatian and English. (cg)
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16.Jan.2025
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 3.2
vAmiga is an Amiga emulator for macOS. Changes in version 3.2:
Enhancenemts:
- Improved Dashboard (#856)
- User-selectable number formats in inspector (#862)
- Auto-completion for enum-like options in RetroShell (#861)
- Framebuffer screenshots (#863)
Bug fixes:
- The emulator does no longer crash when a dropdown menu in a shrinked toolbar is selected.
Internal changes:
- Switched Swift interoperability from C to C++.
- Encapsulated more data structures and types in the vAmiga namespace.
(cg)
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16.Jan.2025
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Text editor: Lite XL 2.1.7r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George 'walkero' Sokianos has updated his port of the SDL-based text editor Lite XL. The update makes the changes from the official Lite XL 2.1.7 release now also available for Amiga users, in addition the settings have been significantly revised and some plugins are delivered directly with the editor. (cg)
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16.Jan.2025
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Breakout/Circus clone: Alehop
Alehop (video) is a clone of the arcade classic Circus. Originally released in 2017, the title is now available for download at itch.io. The author recommends an Amiga with at least a 68020 processor. (cg)
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16.Jan.2025
Mixel
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Multiplayer arcade game: "WiZONK!" 1.0.3
"WiZONK!" (video) is a single-screen platformer developed with the Scorpion Engine, in which up to four combatants try to kill each other. Version 1.0.3 includes additional enemies and maps, special weapons, more music tracks, guest appearances and a tournament mode. There are also adjustments to the gameplay, for example projectiles can now bounce off obstacles or destroy each other. (cg)
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15.Jan.2025
MiDWaN
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0 released
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems such as the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which comes with some newly developed features such as a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch.
After the third release candidate last week, the final version 7.0 was officially released yesterday. It is not recommended for weaker systems, though; a corresponding update of "Amiberry-Lite" will follow shortly. (snx)
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15.Jan.2025
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Update of Amiga Games List
The "Amiga Games List" maintained by David Brunet since April 1991 is, by his own account, the most comprehensive of its kind on the internet and was expanded yesterday to include 254 new releases and updates from the past year.
In addition, games in machine language are now included and further publishers of public domain games have been added, such as Software 2000 and the Aminet CD series. Furthermore the Amiga Games List can now also be downloaded as a CSV or Excel file.
The list now comprises 14,648 games, level editors, data disks, expansions and interpreters, which are distributed across the individual categories as follows:
- 13843 games
- 490 expansion or data disks
- 158 game or level editors
- 157 interpreters
(snx)
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15.Jan.2025
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Exhibition "40 years of Amiga ... makes it possible!" in Karlsruhe (Germany)
In the RetroGames e.V. Museum at Schauenburgstraße 5 in Karlsruhe, Germany, the special exhibition "40 years of Amiga ... makes it possible!" can be visited on saturdays from 15 until 22 o'clock until the end of the year. (snx)
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14.Jan.2025
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 35
Issue 35 of the English-language magazine Amiga Addict is now available from the publisher addict.media and in British newsstands. The cover story is dedicated to the epic Turrican series: The editorial team talks to Factor 5 boss Julian Eggebrecht and programmer Holger Schmidt about the development of this franchise.
This issue also contains reviews of Dungeonette and of new games from the AmiGameJam competition, an art and concept gallery by Dan Malone (Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, The Chaos Engine 2), a review of the 3D software Caligari, hardware reviews of the new keyboard controllers DoohicKEY and ZonKEY, a feature on sports jersey sponsorships and much more.
Amiga Addict is published every six weeks and is available as a single issue or by subscription, in either printed or PDF format. (nba)
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14.Jan.2025
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USB-stack: ANAIIS 1.25
ANAIIS ("Another Native Amiga IO Interface Stack") written by Gilles Pelletier is an USB stack which also runs on a 68000 processor. This can be used, for example, to operate the Subway 2021 from Alinea Computer. Changes in version 1.25:
- Fix ghost vendor:product for .usbfd drivers
- Fix massive splash screen
- Fix Weak binding for WB1.3
- Use FindIName() instead of FindName() for .usbfd driver names
- rMassstorage.usbfd and massive share the same code (and bugs)
The developer has planned to improve the user interface and increase speed and responsiveness for future versions. (nba)
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14.Jan.2025
MiDWaN
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Amiga-Emulator: Amiberry-Lite 5.8.0 RC1
Blitter Studio, the developers of the popular Amiga emulator Amiberry, which was specially designed for ARM-based single-chip systems such as the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the ASUS Tinkerboard, have presented the first release candidate version (RC1) of Amiberry-Lite 5.8.0. This optimised version is aimed at systems with lower CPU performance that cannot benefit from the advanced features of the upcoming version 7.0 of Amiberry.
The release candidate of version 5.8.0 of Amiberry-Lite combines several previous updates for the RC versions of Amiberry 7.
A DEB package is now available to make installation easier, which creates a separate directory for Amiberry-Lite under $HOME. Amiberry and Amiberry-Lite can thus be used in parallel.
In addition, the GUI library, the emulation of the serial interface and the support for HDD, CD and tape drives have been updated, along with other changes.
The available binaries are currently only available for Debian-based ARM and ARM64 (aarch64) platforms. The supported Debian versions are Bookworm and Bullseye, as older versions have not been supported for some time.
In addition to the executable files for the CPU and operating system combinations mentioned, the developer also provides the complete source code on GitHub. (nba)
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14.Jan.2025
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Program for DeepL use: AmiTranslate 0.5
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's program AmiTranslate (video) is an interface for the translation service DeepL with additional PDF and UTF-8 text storage and is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.
In version 0.5, the option of local translation of the AmiTranslate user interface has been added. Currently, the interface is only available in German. However, new languages can now be easily added.
In addition to an SSL-secured internet connection (OpenSSL3 on MorphOS or AmiSSL on the other systems), the tool also requires MUI (3.8 or higher) and the MUI class texteditor.mcc. (nba)
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13.Jan.2025
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HxC Floppy-Emulator: Software V2.16.10.1
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
- New Writer : PNG file (Disk/tracks and stream layouts) -> Disk layout can now be exported into a PNG file (for disk analysis) !
- HFE v1/v2/v3, hxcstream and xml write protect flag support implemented.
- Command line hxcfe tool : Multiples-output image conversion support added.
Example : Convert a disk image to HFE and BMP :
hxcfe -finput:"path/input.img" -conv:HXC_HFE -foutput:"path/output.hfe" -conv:BMP_DISK_IMAGE -foutput:"path/output.bmp"
- DosDiskBrowser build : IMG files support added.
- SD HxC configuration window : Fix custom settings selection.
- Fix stream files import : Fix possible crash issue.
- hxcstream : manage null pulses.
- DMK loader : HD disk images support.
- Apple II : Sector decoder : fix and optimization.
- GUI : The software accept command line parameter to load image. (WIP)
e.g. : hxcfloppyemulator.exe file_image_path/image.img
- zlib updated to v1.3.1
- libexpat updated to v2.6.4 ( Security update : CVE-2024-45490 / CVE-2024-45491 / CVE-2024-45492 )
- DMK export : align all sectors ID (IDAM and DAM)
- EDE File Loader : Unidentified DD Image format code (0x00) support added.
Tested against the Giebler Ensoniq Disk Extractor Shareware Version 1.0.9. (EDE109)
- Disk viewer : Rendering enhanced : alpha blending and better drawing.
Zoom support.
Better weak bits placement precision.
GUI : Area zoom and selection changed to make it more natural/user friendly.
- New SECTOR_SIZE_FIELD_MASK variable to set the sector size id mask.
- SCP Writer : Align tracks to the first index.
- FLTK updated to v1.4.1 for all platforms.
- New Loader : Mame MFI files. (WIP!)
- IMD Loader/Writer : Missing data mark support.
- New Loader : Hampa Hug's PCE PRI. (WIP!)
New build target : Emscripten / Web page version
URL : https://hxc2001.com/hxcfesw/ (Warning : Experimental state !)
- SAP Loader (Thomson TO8) : SAP_LOADER_GAP3_VALUE setting to change/force the GAP 3 length.
- CPC EDSK writer : GAP 3 value guessing + CPCDSK_WRITER_GAP3_VALUE setting to force it to a specific length.
- 86Box 86F Loader Fixed.
- Script : Binary format support (0bxxxxx e.g. 0b101010)
- New XML formats definitions : Roland W30, Alesis DataDisk.
- XML export : CRC32 disk value added.
Configuration file : New parameter.
(dr)
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13.Jan.2025
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AmigaOS 4: Memory game "Dragon Memory NG"
Dragon Memory NG is a "simple but fun memory game with very detailed graphics and addictive gameplay", originally written by Santiago Radeff Leria, and already ported to AmigaOS 3 in 2012 and AmigaOS 4 in 2015.
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel has now released his conversion, which offers 30 levels, six graphic themes and music. He has added 15 levels from the Linix version, a new sound engine for original music and an EGL wrap and MiniGL version. (dr)
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13.Jan.2025
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Operating system-compliant Pac-Man conversion: 10th part of the video series
Thomas Cherryhomes is working on an implementation of the game Pac-Man that uses only operating system calls. The tenth episode shows "how we'll plot the dots in the maze using an array of Intuition Images all linked together, generated from a dot map showing where maze and dot pieces are." (de)
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12.Jan.2025
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Aminet uploads until 11.01.2025
The following files have been added until 11.01.2025 to Aminet:
modifile.lha dev/amos 74K OS3 File modifier written b...
ColourMatch.lha dev/basic 28K OS3 Colour match in Blitz
GeneraNumeroCasuale.lha dev/basic 23K OS3 Custom routine: generat...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 6.0M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
ATcad-Turbo.zip gfx/edit 1.4M OS3 2D-CAD-Program
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 69K OS3 Create your own backdro...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 10M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 9.2M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
MuEVD.lha misc/emu 152K OS3 MuLib driven ShSh drive...
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 125K OS3 ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pen...
Pana_SX-KC600.lha mods/mpg 4.5M GEN Music played by Panason...
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 2.1M VAR App for chatting to Cha...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.5M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
Consumer.lha util/moni 229K OS3 WB3+ Memory Log Tool, t...
Convert.lha util/rexx 13K OS3 Simple command line cur...
GoShell.lha util/shell 24K OS3 tool for open Shell in ...
StartWin.lha util/wb 105K OS3 Two bugged Workbench la...
SteMarRegDOSScripts.lha util/wb 15K OS3 12 DOS scripts by Stefa...
(snx)
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12.Jan.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 11.01.2025
The following files have been added until 11.01.2025 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
(snx)
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12.Jan.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 11.01.2025
The following files have been added until 11.01.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_33.72.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
JustSolitaire_1.0.lha Games/Card Port of JustSolitaire
SteadyFeet_0.0.1.lha Games/Think Port of SteadyFeet by P...
TileWorld_1.3.2.lha Games/Think Port of TileWorld by Pa...
LetsSweepSomeMines_0.3... Games/Think Port of LetsSweepSomeMi...
Tutris_1.0.1.lha Games/Think Another SDL Tetris clone
(snx)
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12.Jan.2025
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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:
- Heatbeat's Space Love (2024 remix)
- acid experiment (teo rework)
- Relic - Teo's Mod Rework
- Turrican 10 Anniversary edition
- Battle Squadron Genos 2 Edition
- Mystified
(snx)
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12.Jan.2025
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NanoMig: Minimig ported to Tang FPGA developer boards
Till Harbaum has adapted the FPGA Amiga emulation Minimig, specifically MiSTer Minimig AGA, to the FPGA developer boards Tang Nano 20K, Tang Primer 25K and Tang Mega 138K Pro.
Writing to floppy disks is not yet possible. Whether AGA support and an accelerated 68020 emulation will fit into the FPGA chip is still open. (snx)
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12.Jan.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 172
The English and German issue 172 (January/February 2025) 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 part 2 of the MacroSystem interview, a report from Amiga-Meeting 2024 and a preview of AmigaOS 4.1, Update 3. (snx)
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11.Jan.2025
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Video: Introduction of "PiStorm68k" and "AmiCube 1200"
Ranko Rodic presented the current status of two of his projects a week ago: the "PiStorm68k" and the "AmiCube F1200".
The "PiStorm68k" can accommodate any Raspberry Pi, including the 3B+, thanks to its newly designed form factor. In addition to an integrated WIFI module and a RealTimeClock, the board also contains a DIP64 slot to accommodate a real 68000 CPU. Using a simple switch, it is possible to switch back and forth between the PiStorm and the 68000 CPU.
After some introductory videos (1, 2), Ranko Rodic also shows the final version of his computer project called "AmiCube F1200". It is to be a state-of-the-art FPGA computer that uses a Spartan 6 FPGA and is being specially developed for compatibility with Amiga. Among other things, it is said to offer "AGA support, stellar CPU performance, MIDI capabilities, 64MB RAM for seamless multitasking, USB support for convenient connectivity, and Joystick DB 9 support". It also has enhanced floppy interface capabilities.
As soon as the prototype has been successfully tested, porting of the AGA core will begin. (dr)
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10.Jan.2025
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.2.1 for Windows (update)
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.2.0 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for Greaseweazle Tools V1.21 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes:
- Menu: New "View" "Show all arguments" (y/n)
- Options: Save selected Greaseweazle "Device/COM" & "Drive" setting
- Read/Write/Convert: Cylinders preselection "0-76"
- GUI: Remember size (height/width) of main window
- GUI: New behaviour of resizing/scrolling
- Diskdefs: Updated "diskdefs_zx.cfg" (2025-01-01)
- Sourcecode: Small cleanups
Update: (14.01.2025, 07:00, cg)
Meanwhile version 5.2.1 is available. Changes:
- Read/Write: Fixed empty format spec after changing template
- Write: Fixed Refresh/save template with format spec discdefs always "internal"
- Sourcecode: Removed "FormResize"
- Sourcecode: Resizing fixes
(dr)
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Preview video: WIP of an isometric arcade adventure game
Nivrig Games is working on creating an isometric arcade adventure game in the tradition of Head Over Heels and is publishing developer diaries (amiga-news.de reported).
In a preview video, he now shows the current state of his game using sequences from the second part of the first area. (dr)
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09.Jan.2025
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Platformer: Final version of "Tiny Pixel Adventure"
Tiny Pixel Adventure (video) is a classic platformer. A pre-release version was published back in October and the final version is now available. No system requirements are specified for the title created with the Scorpion Engine. (cg)
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09.Jan.2025
MiDWaN
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.0-RC3
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems such as the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which comes with some newly developed features such as a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. The current Release Candidate 3 ("RC") of version 7.0.0 is not recommended for weaker systems, for which an update of "Amiberry-Lite" will be provided shortly. (cg)
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09.Jan.2025
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RTG driver: P96 3.5.0
Press release: The new version 3.5.0 contains driver updates for Trio64 (Cybervision), IMSG300 (Visiona) and ET4000 (Merlin/oMNiBus) cards. In addition, there are three new drivers for Vooodoo Banshee, Voodoo 3 and Voodoo 4/5-based graphics cards. This requires a PCI daughterboard with OpenPCI.library, which is not part of the P96 package, but can be downloaded for free.
V3.5.0 also contains the first driver for the framebuffer mode of Indivision ECS V4. This driver requires a processor with MMU and an installed MMU library. Please note that your Indivision ECS V4 requires an updated FPGA core - this can be found in our Wiki and can be installed with the Indivision Configtool. Screen modes with 256 colors, 15/16-bit (Hi-colour) modes with over 65000 colors, as well as screen dragging of two screens are supported. Automatic panning is also supported for oversized screens. Please note that Indivision ECS V4 does not yet have a blitter, and therefore the speed of this driver is still comparatively low.
All changes are summarized in the wiki article about P96.
Unfortunately, we are still having problems with the store system, so we have not even tried to add the new files to the database. Even if it takes a little longer, we will send the new versions by e-mail - not only on request, but also pro-actively to customers who are in the free update phase. (cg)
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08.Jan.2025
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 3.1.1
vAmiga is an Amiga emulator for macOS, which now requires macOS 13.5 or higher. Changes since version 3.0 (amiga-news.de reported):
Enhancements
- Build-in 6-channel logic analyzer
- New dashboard window
- Multiple inspectors side by side
- New debug features "finish line" and "finish frame"
Bug fixes
- Released the handbreak
- Fixed an NTSC overscan bug
- Last line in the emulator texture is drawn again
Changes
- Removed RetroShell debugger command ? host as it listed nothing
- Added "? thread" for inspecting the current thread state
- Reworked the internal suspend / resume mechanism
(dr)
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08.Jan.2025
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3rd preview video: Hyper Runner - Spring Valley Route
"Hyper Runner" is an announced sci-fi racing game for the Amiga. After our last news item a good two and a half years ago, the game is still in the works and another video has now been published at the title link, showing a first race track, the "Spring Valley Route". (snx)
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08.Jan.2025
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Event: Demoparty Revision 2025 (Germany)
The Revision demo party, which traditionally takes place on the Easter weekend at the "E-Werk" in Saarbrücken, Germany, will be held again also in 2025, from April 18 to 21. (snx)
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08.Jan.2025
TheOasisBBC (Webseite)
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Game: Bunnito's Feast
Bunnito's Feast is an AGA jump-and-run game created with the Scorpion Engine, in which you have to steer a runaway rabbit safely home and make sure it eats enough food on the way. It requires 1 MB of Fast-RAM. (snx)
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08.Jan.2025
Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail)
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Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.6pre
Almost three years ago (amiga-news.de reported), developer Arne Urbaniak presented his copy program G-Copy for reading and writing Amiga ADF data on a Windows PC. G-Copy, which is visually similar to the popular X-Copy, supports the drive controllers Greaseweazle by Keir Fraser, ADF-Drive by D. Tonn or DrawBridge (Arduino) by Rob Smith.
In the new version 0.6pre, up to two Greaseweazle drives are now recognised and it is possible to read and write from DF0: to DF1: and vice versa. A repeat function has also been added. It is now possible to write from the HD to DF0: and DF1: at the same time. As a little treat and at the request of a user, there is also an X-MAS version of G-Copy. Finally, automatic update detection has been implemented. (dr)
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07.Jan.2025
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Documentary: Louis Castle talks about the history of Westwood Studios
The latest episode of the YouTube documentary series "Titans of the Industry" focuses on Louis Castle, co-founder of legendary developer studio Westwood Studios. The episode provides exciting insights into the creation of iconic games such as Dune 2, The Lion King, California Games and Command and Conquer.
Louis Castle talks about the beginnings of Westwood Studios, which was founded in 1985 as a porting studio for Amiga and Macintosh games, and how the studio developed into a real-time strategy giant of the 90s. With millions of copies of its titles sold, Westwood has had a lasting impact on the video game industry. This episode is a must for fans of classic games and those interested in retro gaming. (nba)
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07.Jan.2025
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SCSI for Raspberry Pi: SCSI2Pi 5 released as a pre-release
A new version of the SCSI2Pi emulation software is available as a pre-release. SCSI2Pi is an alternative to the well-known PiSCSI software for the PiSCSI/RaSCSI board, which brings SCSI technology to the Raspberry Pi. According to developer Uwe Seimet, the software offers optimised device emulation, higher transfer rates and numerous new functions, including tools for the SCSI initiator mode.
The software emulates several SCSI and SASI devices such as hard disks, CD-ROM drives, printers and network interfaces.It supports classic systems such as Amiga, Atari ST/TT/Falcon030, 68k Macs or Unix workstations and also offers a SCSI-to-USB bridge. Thanks to compatibility with the PiSCSI Web UI and the SCSI Control Android app, users can access advanced functionality.
With SCSI2Pi, users can seamlessly switch between PiSCSI and the new software by simply installing an optimised binary package – without complicated compilation steps.
The current version 4.1 of SCSI2Pi has been available since the beginning of December, and now version 5.0 has been released as a pre-release. It offers the following changes:
- New device type SCSG, with support for a SCSI-to-USB bridge. The bridge supports any SCSI command, not only those emulated by s2p. With some devices you can even burn DVDs.
- Extended streamer support, e.g. of SIMH-compatible tape image files, filemarks, spacing, variable block sizes, ...
- Tape dump/restore support. With s2pdump you can convert any tape into a SIMH-compatible image file and vice versa.
- s2p can create command scripts for s2pexec.
- The maximum number of data bytes to log can be configured with s2p and s2pexec.
- s2pexec and s2pdump now also support devices which are managed by the Linux SG driver. For these devices no Pi is required, i.e. you can use s2pexec and s2pdump on any Linux platform.
- s2psimh tool for the analysis and creation of SIMH-compatible image files. This tool runs on any Linux/BSD platform and on macOS.
- s2pformat tool for formatting floppy disks or other media, e.g. in USB drives. This tool runs on any Linux platform.
The software can be downloaded from the SCSI2Pi-website. All the latest source codes can also be found on the GitHub project page. (nba)
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06.Jan.2025
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy V5.1.1 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.1.1 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for Greaseweazle Tools V1.21 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes since our last news item:
- Fixes missing prefix in the diskdefs form spec selection
- Requires Greaseweazle 1.21
- Options: former location of "diskdefs.cfg" is now a folder select !
- Supports now the different "Diskdefs_.cfg" files (change options: "Diskdefs (folder)")
- Diskdefs (2024-10-23) added (change options: "Diskdefs (folder)")
- Read/Write: New disc formats: micropolis.*
- Sourcecode: Removed unused variables
(dr)
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06.Jan.2025
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Audio player: UADE-Plugin 0.12.4 for Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS)
"audacious-uade" is a plugin for the audio player Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS), which allows the use of the Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator as an input filter. In the new Version 0.12.4, support for Scream Tracker 2 has been added, among other things. (dr)
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06.Jan.2025
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Racing game: Carmageddon 1.02
A reverse engineering project brings the PC classic Carmageddon to the Classic Amiga: the conversion of Arcziii (video) is based on the original engine, was adapted for the 68k architecture and requires the original game data of Carmageddon (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 1.02 offers a 20% improved performance, fixed graphic errors of the workbench after closing and OS3.2 compatible icons. (dr)
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06.Jan.2025
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Dungeon Crawler: Custom maps for "The Shadows of Sergoth"
The dungeon crawler "The Shadows of Sergoth" was released in 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer 'quantumcodemonk' has, as he writes, created a few custom maps for the game "just for fun". The aim was to create something "a bit harder... a lot harder" and is asking for feedback in this regard. The original game is required. (dr)
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06.Jan.2025
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Browser extension: AGuide Viewer 0.6
AGuide Viewer is an open source reader for AmigaGuide documents implemented as a browser extension. It works with Firefox and Chromium on all platforms (amiga-news.de berichtete).
As the author explains, version 0.6 adds the feature to render web links in the AmigaGuide magazine WhatIFF and a configurable theme: the page can now be rendered in OS3 style (gray background, beveled 3D-effect buttons) or using the browser's native web page settings. (dr)
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06.Jan.2025
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Christmas game: The Young Icefighter, Level 4
"The Young Icefighter" is a Christmas game for children created with the "Shoot'em Construction Kit", for which the developer's eight-year-old son drew most of the graphics (amiga-news.de reported). Now a bonus level and level 4 have been added. (dr)
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05.Jan.2025
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Aminet uploads until 04.01.2025
The following files have been added until 04.01.2025 to Aminet:
TuneFinderMUI.lha comm/misc 66K OS3 Search+play online radi...
screennotify-E.lha dev/e 1K OS3 Amiga E modules for scr...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 6.0M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
CDVDFS-1.10-AmigaOS.lha disk/cdrom 182K OS3 CD/DVD filesystem:ISO-9...
SFS.lha disk/misc 439K VAR Smart Filesystem
mhimasplayer.lha driver/aud 32K OS3 MHI driver for MAS-Play...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 255K OS3 ANAIIS USB Stack Releas...
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 259K OS3 ANAIIS USB Boot disk Re...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 82K OS3 Massive release 1.25
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake/Tron gam...
WormWars.lha game/actio 857K OS3 Advanced snake/Tron gam...
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 904K MOS Advanced snake/Tron gam...
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 346K OS4 Conversion of 3W board ...
Africa.lha game/board 297K OS3 Conversion of 3W board ...
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 398K MOS Conversion of 3W board ...
Saga-OS4.lha game/board 455K OS4 Conversion of TSR board...
Saga.lha game/board 388K OS3 Conversion of TSR board...
SagaMOS.lha game/board 433K MOS Conversion of TSR board...
F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 11K GEN 2024 Carset for F1GP
babeanoid_backs.lha game/misc 785K GEN BabeAnoid 2.0 babes bac...
PuzzleTiles_AROS.lha game/think 3.4M ARO Puzzle game working on ...
PuzzleTiles_MorphOS.lha game/think 3.3M MOS Puzzle game working on ...
PuzzleTiles_OS4.lha game/think 3.8M OS4 Puzzle game working on ...
ATcad-Turbo.zip gfx/edit 324K OS3 2D-CAD-Program
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 37M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia ...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 9.8M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 9.2M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 9.5M MOS Signetics-based machine...
illusion.lzh pix/anim 486K GEN motion illusion
ATcad_Turbo.png pix/misc 23K GEN ATcad-Turbo
NAFCYI1991S4-B02.zip text/bfont 1.6M GEN NAFCYI Winter 1991-92 (...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.9M OS3 free icon.library in op...
MMULib.lha util/libs 788K OS3 Library to ctrl the MC6...
GoVD.lha util/wb 28K OS3 Virtual Desktops for Wo...
StartWin.lha util/wb 105K OS3 Two bugged Workbench la...
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OS4Depot uploads until 04.01.2025
The following files have been added until 04.01.2025 to OS4Depot:
vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 261kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 255kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmppc_std.lha dev/cro 216kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vlink.lha dev/cro 199kb 4.0 A portable linker, written in AN...
sfs.lha dri/fil 370kb 4.0 Smart Filesystem
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
xircomce2.lha dri/net 90kb 4.0 Driver for Xircom PCMCIA network...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 10Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake/Tron game
africa.lha gam/boa 346kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
saga.lha gam/boa 455kb 4.0 Conversion of TSR board game
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 37Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 2Mb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
amigen.lha off/dat 6Mb 4.0 Genealogist program
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AROS Archives uploads until 04.01.2025
The following files have been added until 04.01.2025 to AROS Archives:
image2pdf.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 3Mb Convert images file to PDF
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.01.2025
The following files have been added until 04.01.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
Frodo_4.5.lha Emulation Frodo - The free, porta...
fheroes2_1.1.5.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
PuzzleTiles_1.0.lha Games/Think Puzzle game working on ...
AmigaGPT_2.2.0.lha Misc App for chatting to Cha...
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05.Jan.2025
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Hyperion Entertainment: Timothy De Groote new director
After Hyperion Entertainment initially continued to be managed by a court-appointed administrator, the current register entry at the title link now lists Timothy De Groote again as director of the company. Anyway insolvency lawyer Bart De Moor remains responsible for Hyperion as the court-appointed liquidator. (snx)
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05.Jan.2025
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A600GS: Video update from Proteque on the development status
After his video from summer on image and music editing with the Orange Pi-based Amiga clone A600GS from AmigaKit, in which he still had to report on various problems, 'Proteque' has now followed up and taken a look at the current status of the system.
His conclusion: A lot has happened, updates are coming regularly and the A600GS now fulfills what he had previously expected. It would therefore be an inexpensive way to try out AmigaOS or to play a game with a real joystick and a real Amiga keyboard. (snx)
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05.Jan.2025
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Virus Help Team: 30th anniversary
Founded on January 1, 1995 and strengthened within six months by branches in Norway, the Netherlands and Canada, the Virus Help Team has shrunk to just two people today, Jan Andersen and Jan Nielsen, but thirty years later it is still active in helping Amiga users with virus problems and supporting the authors of anti-virus programs. (snx)
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04.Jan.2025
Cameron Armstrong
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.2.0 with ApolloOS-support
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool can be downloaded separately.
The new version now also supports ApolloOS (amiga-news.de reported). In addition, the following changes and bug fixes have been made:
- Image preview now works in MorphOS and in MUI 3 (AmigaGPT now has MCC_Guigfx as a prerequisite)
- Replace the chat output sections from MCC_TextEditor class to MCC_NFloattext for improved memory usage and compatibility with ApolloOS
- Improved encoding to and from UTF-8 with enhanced character lookalike remapping (AmigaGPT now has codesets.library as a prerequisite)
- Fix crash when the first data chunk received from OpenAI is smaller than the HTTP header
- Fix crash when OpenAI sends a blank content string
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2,1 MB) (nba)
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