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16.Aug.2022



Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000
The Amiga 1000 is extremely popular right now: After Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports about the restoration, now Richard "Shred" Körber describes in two blog entries (part 1, part 2) his experiences which he made during the refurbishment of the Amiga 1000. (dr)

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16.Aug.2022



Preview video 28: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported).

About his 28th preview video, the developer writes:
"This time you can see how the current CPU player plays against himself :) By the way, for the video the CPU player was artificially dumbed down, especially he shoots quite often much too firm. Without this little hack, the video would be a bit too boring, because the CPU player practically never provokes a throw-in or a corner by himself at the moment :P

The AI is already sufficient (there is still room for improvement, of course) to take care of the control of the team members that are not being controlled by the player himself in a human vs human match. Most importantly, the AI is also fast enough: we're still at 50 fps even in CPU vs CPU on a bare Amiga 1200.

Besides many details (e.g. the ball is now animated quite nicely) and many internal improvements, there is now also a neat free kick and throw-in system, which is based on Goal!: by means of a dotted line you can parameterize the direction, strength, height of the shot / throw..." (dr)

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16.Aug.2022



Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R62 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 R62 was released with the following changes:
  • Mask Export option ABQ - Trans Mask &HE0
  • Save IFF/BBM Amiga brushes - not compressed
  • ILBM decompression bug fixed
  • 256 color ILBM files were not being saved correctly - these are pc pbm format
(dr)

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15.Aug.2022



Programming language: Update on "Amiga C Tutorial"
Peter John "pjhutch" Hutchison's English-language "Amiga C Tutorial" is supposed to help C newcomers to program under AmigaOS with the help of many code examples (amiga-news.de reported). Even though it has existed for more than ten years, the author still improves it selectively and corrects errors. As he told us, this is what happened in the Screens chapter: A wrong pointer was used to close screens. (dr)

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15.Aug.2022
Robert Smith


Video: The World of Amiga Tracker Music
In his latest video, Robert Smith goes back in time to the 1980s to explore the origins of Amiga Music: the Tracker, and The MOD file. He looks at how these mod files are put together, how a Protracker module works, and why the files are so small even though they contain such long pieces of music. (dr)

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14.Aug.2022



Image processing: RNOEffects 1.4 for all Amiga systems
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has updated RNOEffects from his family of RNO applications. RNOEffects is a simple image processing program with a focus on good batch conversion options and alpha channel based effects (YouTube video). It was available in previous versions for MorphOS, OS4 and AROS, and the new version now also supports 68k and WarpOS configurations. The changes:
  • Images can be saved as AmigaOS, NewIcons, GlowIcons, OS4, PNG, and DualPNG
  • icons with configurable properties that include icon type, tooltypes,
  • selected image, default tool, stack, position, drawer properties, etc.
  • Added the "Freehand" drawing mode
  • Added the "Opacity map" effect for creating and inserting B&W opacity map images of alpha channels
  • Added the "ARexx" effect to launch ARexx scripts within the program
  • Added an example ARexx script
  • Better text editing/importing/exporting options for the text drawing effect
  • Draw and crop effects can be positioned with the mouse
  • Re-designed the line effect and added an arrowhead option
  • Added buttons and keys to load next and previous pictures in the directory
  • Added the undo levels setting
  • Added the redo option
  • Removed overlapping keyboard shortcuts for copy/cut/paste operations
  • Fixed pathless file arguments
  • Safer error handling
  • Other changes and fixes
Downloads: (dr)

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14.Aug.2022
Stefan Reinauer


ReA4091: Video and pre-order for the reconstruction of the Fast SCSI2 controller
During the Vintage Computer Festival East, which took place from April 22 to 24 at the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall Township in the USA (see also the video talk of former Commodore employees), Stefan Reinauer gave a talk about the project of rebuilding the Fast SCSI2 controller A4091, which he and Chris Hooper successfully accomplished. The project, christened "ReA4091", lasted four months and was accomplished with the help of an original copy purchased at an eBay auction.

The YouTube video, which has been available since the end of April and was recorded by Robert Bernardo, has been edited again by him and now has a much better sound quality (see title link).

As Stefan Reinauer explained to amiga-news.de, they are "still busy building cards and debugging". In parallel, the open source driver is being written, which will replace the original ROM. Currently, 30 cards are being built. On the corresponding project page you can not only find more information, but you can also express your interest in building a card. The price is about 225 Euro (without shipping). (dr)

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14.Aug.2022



Aminet uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to Aminet:
DFT_IDFT_DWT_FFT.zip     dev/src    147K  68k DFT, IDFT, DWT and FFT for A1...
PyPlayer.zip             dev/src    1.1M  68k Audio Player for Python 1.4.0...
CCOS-disk-utils.lha      disk/misc  73K   MOS Manipulate GRiD OS floppy images
Sensei.lha               driver/oth 35K   68k Displays I2C Sensor informati...
dynAMIte_v24.lha         game/2play 2.0M  68k Internet (only) Bomberman/Dyn...
RescueLander.lha         game/actio 45K   68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  3.6M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
StefADV2.lha             game/text  65K   68k 2nd little italian text adven...
WhatIFF1.06.lha          mags/misc  55K       What IFF? #1.06-August-2022
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.5M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.9M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   5.1M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.4M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
emutos.lha               misc/emu   338K      EmuTOS - Amiga version
NAFCYI1991S1-B01.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip     text/bfont 2.6M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-01.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip      text/pfont 1.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
avalanche_ger.lha        util/arc   11K       german catalog for Avalanche
(snx)

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14.Aug.2022



OS4Depot uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to OS4Depot:
kittymusicraft.librar... dev/lib 67kb  4.1 Reimplementation of the MusiCraf...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb   4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
blobwarsattrition.lha    gam/act 2Mb   4.1 A 2D mission and and objective-b...
amosextension.library... lib/mis 375kb 4.1 AmosExtension.library load AMOS ...
(snx)

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14.Aug.2022



AROS Archives uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to AROS Archives:
whatiff1.06.lha              doc/mis 55kb  Magazine on amigaguide format
myman.i386-aros.zip          gam/mis 3Mb   A Pacman style game, done with t...
games.tar                    gra/ico 350kb Collection of Drawer Icons Goril...
icone_drawer.tar             gra/ico 170kb Collection of Drawer Icons Goril...
(snx)

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14.Aug.2022



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_29.04.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
SilverNightsCrusaders_... Games/Action              SilverNightsCrusaders_O...
SFFGPLNS_OpenBOR.lha      Games/Action              FINAL FIGHT LNS GOLD SU...
GoldenAxeMyth_OpenBOR.lha Games/Action              GoldenAxeMyth_OpenBOR.lha
ATaleOfVeangeance_Open... Games/Action              ATaleOfVeangeance_OpenB...
MCE_13.8.lha              Games/Editor              Multi-game Character Ed...
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14.Aug.2022



WHDLoad: New installers until 13.08.2022
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 13.08.2022: (snx)

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14.Aug.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood: Plananarama 2.0 manual available in German
Helmut Haake and Dominic Widmer have translated the manual of the Plananarama plugin into German. It is available for download at the title link.

Plananarama is a plugin for Hollywood which allows to use Hollywood even on systems without a graphics card (OCS, ECS, AGA). Thanks to Airsoft Softwair's MetaDoc system, the translation is not only available as PDF file, but also in AmigaGuide, HTML and CHM format. (snx)

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13.Aug.2022
Ko-fi


AmigaOS 4: Platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" V1.22r1
The very busy AmigaOS 4 developer George 'walkero' Sokianos - among others aiostreams, Flawfinder, Lite XL or iGame - has ported the commercial platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" to AmigaOS 4 in the latest version of December 2019.

The port of the game developed by Parallel Realities does not include data files. These have to be purchased on the game's itch.io project page - but at a price to be determined by the user.

As the developer writes, the game requires SDL2 and a powerful Amiga including graphics card to play it on Full HD. He himself played the game on his AmigaOne X5000/40 with a RadeonRX 550. To achieve smooth gameplay, he had to set SDL2 to opengles2 and activate the batching mode. He recommends experimenting with these settings, depending on your own hardware.

A test on his microAmigaOne was less successful, because the small graphics memory (max. 32MB) ran out quite fast, so that the game was slowed down very much. He is open for suggestions and possibly tricks to change this.

Anyone who wants to support the author has the opportunity to do so on his Ko-fi website. The author returns 50% of the donations to the community at the end of each month by supporting projects or developers. (dr)

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13.Aug.2022



AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 5
As standard C librar, AmigaOS officially uses a variant of the Newlib C standard library implementation. A popular alternative C standard library implementation is called clib2 and it is included as an option with the standard Amiga SDK. The clib2 library is particular well suited for porting software from the Unix world (taken from AmigaOS-Wiki).

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. All warnings (except for a very few) generated by GCC 10 and higher have disappeared. As the developer further writes, all obsolete OS4 functions have been replaced by modern ones (except for StackSwap, for which he has not found a replacement).

Yesterday he released the fifth beta version with the following changes:
  • Implemented open() and opendir() and now it is possible to open a directory like open("T:") and use some functions on the returned fd
  • Changed some socket functions that now use open source code
  • Implemented new funcions
  • Fixed a memory leak on fstat
  • Removed test on check_abort_enabled prior call since it is already checked in the function
  • Moved rand* functions to prng folder
  • Implemented syslog (using files)
  • A lot of other fixes an improvements
(dr)

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13.Aug.2022



Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1
After five beta versions (amiga-news.de reported), developer Dirk Hoffmann has just released the official version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for macOS, thus ending the beta phase. The minimum system requirement for his emulator is macOS 10.15. (dr)

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13.Aug.2022



Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 14
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).

In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Episode 14 is now available. (dr)

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13.Aug.2022
Alain Fontanin


Anniversary advertising: 30 years of Cristaline mineral water with Amiga
The French mineral water brand "Cristaline" is celebrating its 30th birthday (history in French) and to mark the occasion has published a picture on its Facebook page showing a young girl playing with a Gameboy and an Amiga in the background. (dr)

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13.Aug.2022



Linux: Update of Open Sonic
Yesterday, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has released a new version of Open Sonic for Linux PowerPC (32-bit) and thus for AmigaOne X1000/X5000. The updated version provides bug fixed graphics and sounds.


alsa-oss and allegro4.4 required. For the installation, Christian listed the commands:

Void PPC
  • sudo xbps-install -S alsa-oss
  • sudo xbps-install -S allegro4
Debian (MintPPC)
  • apt install alsa-oss
  • apt install liballegro4.4
It also works on old Linux distributions like Ubuntu 10.04 PowerPC. (dr)

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12.Aug.2022



AmigaOS 4: Shader player Shaderjoy 1.23
Shaderjoy allows displaying and creating Shadertoy compatible fragment shaders. Fragment shaders, also called pixel shaders, are programs that are executed per fragment (pixel) on the GPU.The ogles2.library 3.2 and Warp3D Nova 1.86 are required. Today Juha "Capehill" Niemimaki has released version 1.23. Changes:
  • Start using stb_image_write.h to save PNG screenshot.
  • Add LOAD_PROJECT and SAVE_SCREENSHOT ARexx commands.
  • Make About window asynchronous.
  • Add BORDERLESS tooltype.
  • Remove support for ogles2.library versions older than 3.0
  • Disable vertical flipping of FBOs when ogles2.library version is greater than 3.1.
  • Remove workarounds for older library versions.
(dr)

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12.Aug.2022
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AmigaKit: ZuluSCSI Mini
ZuluSCSI is a file-based hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator (amiga-news.de reported). Besides the original, AmigaKit now also offers a "mini" variant, which can be plugged directly into devices with a DB25 SCSI connector. (snx)

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12.Aug.2022
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Preview video: Jump'n Run "L'Abbaye des Morts"
The developer 'UltraNarwhal', among others Duckstroma, has released a current snapshot of its extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead", which is currently in development (amiga-news.de reported). Like Duckstroma, the Jump'n Run is developed with the Scorpion Engine. (dr)

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12.Aug.2022
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Operating system: NetBSD 9.3
Version 9.3 of the free and open-source Unix-like operating system NetBSD has been released. Ports are also available for PPC (experimental) and 68k Amiga computers. For the 68k port, wsfb(4) based X11 using amidisplaycc(4) was enabled (global changes).

The project page for 68k Amigas also lists the requirements:
  • Amiga wit 68020 processor or higher with MMU
  • at least 24 MB FastRAM
  • at least 250 MB harddrive space
Further information on the PPC port. (dr)

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11.Aug.2022



Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: Introduction of the game "Settle the World"
At the beginning of June, indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen had started the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, which is running - deadline was extended - until November 1, 2022 (amiga-news.de reported).

In our first article we had introduced the two projects of 'pixelplop'. Today we are talking about "Settle the World" (YouTube video), developed by 'TheoTheoderich'. About his game he tells us the following:

Basically, the game is a turn-based building and trading game in which the goal is to colonize several islands and stay in power for a long period of time. The game is similar to the old DOS/Amiga game Colonization, but has a slightly different approach.

"Settle the World" is a pure multiplayer game without AI, which you play together with up to three other players, one after the other, on one (Amiga) computer. A single player mode is also planned, but it will be even more difficult because then there are no trading partners.

What is "Settle the World" about? The game begins roughly in time with the conquest of the new world. Background of the story:

Two (or up to four) experienced captains feel oppressed in their home country and want more freedom. Without further ado, they organize several ships and gather like-minded people around them to seek their happiness and freedom across the ocean.
he king, however, suspects that his best captains want to defect to his hostile neighboring countries and sends soldiers to arrest the captains and hang them as traitors. Thus, secretly and by night and fog, the group immediately decides to leave the kingdom, knowing full well that they can never return.

After weeks of hardship at sea, the ships reach uninhabited land. Immediately, a dispute breaks out about how to proceed. The group is unable to agree on a leader. Each of the captains involved asserts his claim to leadership. There are heated arguments, and to prevent bloodshed, the captains each decide to find a good place to settle with their ships on their own.

At this point, the gameplay begins:
In order to play at all, the game needs a map. This is calculated using Perlin noise and then provided with (more or less) randomly generated features (bonus fields, such as sheep, gold, wood, etc. and also shipwrecks or abandoned settlements where you can find something). The map is of course not yet revealed to the players!

The map generation takes between 20 and 30 minutes on an unaccelerated Amiga 500. Therefore there will be some included "presets" with appealing maps.

Players can build settlements and field improvements with pioneer units. Settlements serve the production of raw materials and their processing into finished goods. In contrast to "Colonization", the workers of a city are not its inhabitants at the same time. Inhabitants belong to a city. If the food supply is good, the number of inhabitants increases. Increasing population generates additional workers, who can be used on the fields or factory buildings of any own city.
If a city has certain important buildings and "luxury goods", the population can advance in three levels (settler/pioneer class --> worker class --> noble). With each class and a certain number of citizens, higher quality buildings or improved production facilities can be unlocked.




The goal of the whole game is to remain the head of the government for as long as possible. As soon as the first inhabitants of a city have reached the level of the worker class, the citizens demand the establishment of a republic. If you don't set up an electable government, the inhabitants become more dissatisfied with each round until they eventually send the player packing.

The satisfaction of the citizens depends on the ("luxury") buildings available in the cities, such as tavern, theater, marketplace, etc.. And above all according to the availability of ("luxury") goods. Here the settlers/pioneers have the least demand and aristocrats the highest. These satisfaction values are the basic values. In addition, there is how much the citizens trust the president (the players). Trust builds up very slowly, but can be destroyed quickly.




Free elections are held every four years. In each election, there is a competitor who runs against the president. The latter also gains the trust of the citizens with each round. If, for example, the delivery of goods to the city with the most aristocrats falters shortly before an election that was thought to be safe, this has a strong effect on their satisfaction and can be decisive for the election of the competitor. In such a case, it is possible to eliminate the competitor before the election. A new candidate then takes his place, but of course he does not yet enjoy the trust of the population.

Thus, it is still possible to turn the tide shortly before an election. However, eliminating an opposing candidate also has a strong effect on the population's trust in its own president.



Scouts can explore the surrounding area. Abandoned settlements and shipwrecks can be found all over the world. Bandits can be a problem: if they are not defeated, they can roam the land and become a danger to the transport of goods. This whole system is currently still under development. Sound effects or music are missing at the moment, but are planned.

The game is developed under WinUAE with AmiBlitz 3.8 and temporarily on a real Amiga 500+ with FireBird accelerator card. The developer has been working his way into AmiBlitz for about two years. The goal is that "Settle the World" works well on an A1200 with hard disk and 2 MB RAM. As he writes, currently many things are still programmed very simply in the game and therefore very slow. The graphics are all created with PPaint on the Amiga or in WinUAE itself. (dr)

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10.Aug.2022



ACube Systems: Production of Sam460LE boards finished by the end of September
In March, ACube Systems has anounced the begin of the production of the Sam460LE boards in a press release (amiga-news.de reported).

Today the company has announced, that by the end of the September the boards are supposed to be finished. Please read the original press release:

"Dear customers,

We would like to share with you an update about the production of the new Sam460LE. Well, to be short...the boards are expected to be ready by the end of September - yes, THIS September, just in time for AMIGA37 event (HINT: ACube will be present in Mönchengladbach, Germany...so connect the dots...).

We had to overcome many issues that slowed down the production, but now - finger crossed - we managed to fix them all.

Everything is progressing well and the factory will ship the boards at the end of September. We plan to start shipping to our customers shortly after.

Thanks again everyone for your patience and interest.

See you at Amiga37 in Germany!" (dr)

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09.Aug.2022



Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.0
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). A few moments ago version 1.5.0 has been released providing the following changes:
  • FIX: fixed WinUAE-crash in savestate profiler for non-68000 CPUs, and non-bogomem memory configs
  • FIX: savestate controls improved, debug output
  • FIX: screen/resource zoom window now clips to document
(dr)

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09.Aug.2022



AmigaOS 4.1: Enhancer Software 2.2
Six years after the release of the first version of the "Enhancer Software" (amiga-news.de reported) version 2.2 for AmigaOS 4.1 by A-EON Technology has been released today. Existing customers of version 2.x can get it for free via the updater tool. For first-time customers, the digital version is available from AmiStore for about 90 Euro and on CD from AmigaKit, among others, for also 90 Euros plus shipping.

The "Enhancer Software" adds and partially replaces system components in AmigaOS 4.1 to provide more functionality: from basic 2D graphics drivers to a modern 3D graphics subsystem, more advanced utilities, tools, classes and gadgets.

In parallel with the current version 2.2, work has also already begun on the next version, V54, which will represent an even greater leap forward in development. Several components developed for it are already included in the present version 2.2. First and foremost is "Warp3D Nova V54". This upgrade reflects more than a year's worth of development work and provides important new features, speed improvements and bug fixes. It is an essential prerequisite for many new 3D game ports with full shader support, such as Doom3 (amiga-news.de reported). Also support for the soon to be released NovaBridge software has been added, which can be used to run old Warp3D games (amiga-news.de reported). This release will be chargeable. br>
The OpenGL ES library has been updated to version 3.3 and contains many rewritten and optimized parts which are also required for new 3D applications like SCUMMVM, SDL2 and GL4ES.

The RadeonRX 2D graphics driver has been updated to include GART- support, which provides additional 3D performance as well as many additional optimizations.

In addition, numerous programs, datatypes, classes, preferences, commodities and commands have been updated. In the past time the sense or nonsense of new versions for commands or classes was discussed and partly ignored by the users. As Matthew Leaman from A-EON explains to us, there is a basic distinction to be made:
"The classes are mandatory to install and are crucial for running the applications like X-Dock, MultiEdit, Multiviewer, Power Prefs, etc. They are extended versions of the AmigaOS 4.1 classes. For example, the Tabbed Gadget class supports draggable tabs, while Hyperion's Clicktab does not. The Toolbar Gadget class has many advanced features that the old Speedbar Gadget does not." Since there is no reliance on Hyperion's classes being updated and released regularly, "we developed our own gadget classes. We want to be able to develop our applications independently with the building blocks (classes) that give users the most functionality."

The commands included in AmigaOS 4 are from Commodore source code that is part of the third-party legal dispute. The next version of Enhancer Software V54 will be a self-booting distribution. It will require a set of native commands to achieve self-boot. As Matthew continues, "we have spent the last 3 years developing these commands from scratch. When we intiially released them, some bugs were found and we have since rapidly resolved every bug report that users have given us. We have got to a point now where these commands are mature and work well - with the added bonus of not being tainted by legal issues."
An added advantage, he continued saying, is "that the same command code base is now running for Classic Amiga's. The commands work very well with even Kickstart 3.0. They also offer many advanced features over the standard commands. So we have achieved development Commands set for both PPC and Classic which share the same code base and provide up to date features."
The changes in detail:

Classes
  • InfoWindow Class v53.15 (updated)
  • ListViewer Gadget v54.25 (updated)
  • MediaDeck Gadget v53.9 (updated)
  • Tabbed Gadget v54.455 (updated)
Commands
  • AddDatatypes v54.10 (updated)
  • AddBuffers v54.6 (updated)
  • Assign v54.7 (updated)
  • Copy v54.11 (updated)
  • Dir v54.5 (updated)
  • dt2ico v54.1 (added)
  • List v54.15 (updated)
  • MakeDir v54.11 (updated)
  • SystemReboot v54.1 (updated)
  • Version v54.15 (updated)
Commodities
  • Exchanger v54.4 (updated)
  • InfoWB v53.43 (updated)
Datatypes
  • AK-BMP v54.4 (updated)
  • AK-ILBM v54.16 (updated)
  • AK-JFIF v54.16 (updated)
  • Sound Datatype v54.14 (updated)
  • WAV Datatype v54.14 (updated)
Kickstart
  • RadeonRX v2.11 (updated)
Libraries
  • Datatypes Library v54.15 (updated)
  • OpenGL ES 2.0 Library v3.3 (updated)
  • RadeonHD_drv_video Library v1.11 (added)
  • RadeonRX_drv_video Library v1.11 (updated)
  • VA Library v1.11 (updated)
  • Warp2D Library 1.5 (updated)
  • Warp3D Nova Library v54.16 (updated)
  • Warp3D Nova GCN Library v54.16 (updated)
  • Warp3D Nova SI Library v54.16 (updated)
Preferences
  • Notifications v54.5 (updated)
  • Power v1.7 (updated)
  • Sound v53.33 (updated)
  • Time v53.22 (updated)
System
  • CLI v54.5 (updated)
  • Format v54.13 (updated)
  • NotificationServer v54.5 (updated)
Utilities
  • AmiDVD v1.53 (updated)
  • Archiver v53.26 (updated)
  • Calendar v53.31 (updated)
  • Clock v53.31 (updated)
  • InfoWindow v1.4 (updated)
  • MultiEdit v2.17 (updated)
  • MultiViewer v3.18 (updated)
  • TuneNet v2.18 (updated)
  • X-Dock v2.54 (updated)
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Aminet uploads until 06.08.2022
The following files have been added until 06.08.2022 to Aminet:
LuettjeBookholler.lha    biz/misc   1.7M  OS4 Little Personal Finance program
ign-addon-ods.lha        biz/spread 209K  OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
TilesScrollDemo.lha      dev/amos   206K  68k A simple tiles scroll demo
RescueLander.lha         game/actio 45K   68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
F1GP2022Carset.lha       game/data  14K       2022 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha                  game/edit  3.3M  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  3.8M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
rcross.lha               game/race  8.6M  68k RCross - RC car racing agains...
StefADV.lha              game/text  52K   68k Little italian text adventure
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.9M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.4M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
IntsyPX.lha              text/bfont 5K        A complete 8pt font. 
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B10.zip     text/bfont 2.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B19.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-07.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-10.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-19.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
avalanche.lha            util/arc   89K   AOS ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
patchas.lha              util/boot  21K   68k Fix a bug in AmigaStart
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  1.5M  68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
dintwm.lha               util/wb    27K   68k Dynamic Intuition Window Manager
perciman_68k.lha         util/wb    1.5M  68k manage contact and other info...
perciman_AROS.lha        util/wb    1.7M  x86 manage contact and other info...
perciman_MOS.lha         util/wb    1.6M  MOS manage contact and other info...
perciman_OS4.lha         util/wb    2.0M  OS4 manage contact and other info...
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OS4Depot uploads until 06.08.2022
The following files have been added until 06.08.2022 to OS4Depot:
libpcre.lha              dev/lib 276kb 4.1 PCRE (Perl-compatible regular ex...
libpcre2.lha             dev/lib 263kb 4.0 PCRE2 (Perl-compatible regular e...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb   4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mednafen.lha             emu/gam 8Mb   4.1 Mednafen Emulator
scummvm.lha              gam/mis 101Mb 4.1 Run supported classic adventure/...
scummvm-src.zip          gam/mis 169Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
mce.lha                  gam/uti 4Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
speedtest-cli.lha        net/mis 157kb 4.1 Measure you system download and ...
luettjebookholler.lha    off/mis 2Mb   4.1 Little Personal Finance program
ign-addon-ods.lha        off/spr 209kb 4.1 Ignition addon for access ods-files
avalanche.lha            uti/arc 89kb  4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
avalanche_deu.lha        uti/arc 11kb  4.0 german catalog for avalanche 1.7
avalanche_ita.lha        uti/arc 5kb   4.0 Italian translation for Avalanche
scummvm-tools.lha        uti/fil 3Mb   4.1 A collection of various tools fo...
scummvm-tools-src.zip    uti/fil 2Mb   4.1 ScummVM Tools Source
perciman.lha             uti/wor 2Mb   4.0 Person Contact and Information M...
amitube.lha              vid/pla 1005k 4.0 Direct stream and download YouTu...
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AROS Archives uploads until 06.08.2022
The following files have been added until 06.08.2022 to AROS Archives:
perciman.i386-aros.lha       off/mis 2Mb   manage contact and other informa...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 06.08.2022
The following files have been added until 06.08.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
ScummVM_2.6.0.lha         Games/Adventure           2D Point-and-Click adve...
OpenMRac.lha              Games/Race                OpenMRac is a split-scr...
PerCIMan_0.7.5.lha        Office/Organizer          A program to manage con...
TinyGL-Update-2022-08-... System/Update             First public MorphOS Ti...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.08.2022
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 06.08.2022: (snx)

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09.Aug.2022
Amiga Future (website)


Virus Help Team: Amiga Virus Encyclopedia updated
Last week Virus Help Team made a major update of the Amiga Virus Encyclopedia. (snx)

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09.Aug.2022



AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 6 of 'WhatIFF?' published
WhatIFF? is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is mainly intended for users who want to be creative with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported).

Now issue 6 is available providing these topics among others:

Reviews:
  • Amiga Lightwave 3D book
  • Infinity Music Player is on the
  • AmiSSL 5.1 for classic Amigas
  • TheA500 Mini
Tutorials:
  • ADF's with AmigaOS4.1
  • 5th eposide about LightWave 3.5
  • 5th episode about Brilliance
  • Pros and cons of using floppy disks Gotek drives
  • Installing an FPU onto an Amiga 1200 motherboard
  • Tutorial on ARexx
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09.Aug.2022
itch.io


Jump'n Run: Duckstroma V1.01 released
The Amiga version of Duckstroma was released at the end of June. Here, as duck Aura, you have the task of delivering eight floppy disks to a customer. To fend off all kinds of hostile enemies, you can jump on weak opponents and lay an egg to reach higher places (YouTube video). Version 1.01, which is now available, fixes a few bugs and also provides a manual. The game requires 1MB RAM and can be purchased for about 3 Euros (or more). (dr)

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08.Aug.2022



Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.1 beta5
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga.

In the current version the developer 'mithrendal' has integrated the latest vAmigaCore2.1b5. Likewise, it is now possible to load the old Snapshots game saves with a new vAmigaCore version. This has been solved by the fact that vAmigaWeb can now hold several versions of the vAmigaCore in parallel. Via the settings you can now reactivate vAmigaCore versions already installed in the past and continue playing the saved games. Detailed changes:
  • supports parallel installation of different versions of vAmigaCore; from now on old snapshots can be run by switching back to an older installed version of vAmigaCore
  • updated to latest vAmigaCore version v2.1.beta5
  • supports ECS denise (SuperHires modes)
  • improved memory managment ... support for hdfs with a size of 256Mb (e.g. classic_wb project)
  • introduced df0/dh0 eject buttons
  • fixed a severe bug where vAmigaWeb stopped accepting any adf or hdf file
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R61 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).

Since our last news item, the author has focused on the Amiga, especially in the version 1.2 R61 released today, and among other things added Deluxe Paint ILBM/IFF format as well as support for Amiga QuickBasic (AQB). Detailed changelog:

R61
  • new Deluxe Paint ILBM/IFF format
  • new Amiga QuickBasic (AQB) support - right click over thumbnail view to select export options. use RES Text Export
  • fixed some issues with select tool - will not allow you to select out of work area bounds now!
  • fixed QuickPascal bug not outputting correct palette array constant
  • Added Overwrite file prompt - it would overwrite files without telling you they exist
  • Added prompt when selecting exit/close button - just in case you clicked on by accident
  • RES Text Include drop down list allows you to select various extensions (c,bas,h,pas,inc,bi)
  • grenade constants for Amiga formats c/basic/pascal
R60
  • R60 brings QB64/Freebasic RGB/RGBA formats - with auto loading into _NewImage/CreateImage variables
  • some bug fixes - I think i was generating basic labels for all the languages instead of just basic in RES Text Export - fixed!
  • Created QB64 as separate option now. Use this to use the RGB/RGBA formats, use QBasic\QuickBasic to use PUT for legacy screen modes (CGA/EGA/VGA)
  • Freebasic also has 2 options now. Freebasic QB mode - use this when in QB compatibility mode. Use Freebasic for RGB\RGBA modes
  • -Map Editor export options has QB64 and Freebasic as options now. This was done because Freebasic needs variables defined prior to use and no period "." in variable names when not in QB mode. So both modes of Freebasic use under scores to sperate fields. eg. Imagename_Width = 16
R59
  • Fixed Clip Scroll Issue when top left of work area is clipped and scrolled right
  • QB64/Freebasic export of RGBA now properly displays ImageName.Size variable, also added labels for images
  • QB64 users see example on how to load RGBA/RGB for _putimage using the the RayLib RGBA/RGB export options (you do not need RayLib for this)
  • Sprite import now allows JPG/BMP and ICO files. These are already part of Lazarus runtime anyway (zero cost feature)
(dr)

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07.Aug.2022
Alinea Computer (ANF)


Two new OmniPort multiport adapters for Amiga 1200
Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to offer two new versions of the OmniPort multiport adapter for the Amiga 1200 (amiga-news.de reported).

On the one hand, it is a version for the Vampire 2 accelerator and on the other hand, one for the ScanPlus Scandoubler or for the BVision graphics card.
The multiport adapters route all available interfaces of the mentioned hardware cleanly out via the expansion port of the Amiga 1200.

Vampire 2 Version

With this version, the HDMI and the network port of the Vampire 2 to the outside. The required network module is already installed on the OmniPort available. In addition, two USB ports can be connected to the outside if a USB card is available.

ScanPlus/BVision Version

With this version, the VGA port of the ScanPlus/BVision is connected to the outside In addition, two USB ports can be led to the outside if a USB card is present.

Matching cables are partly standard and partly optional present.

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07.Aug.2022



AmigaOS 4.1: Update of ignition-OpenDocument plugin
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. In version 0.36 the handling of text attributes was bug fixed. (dr)

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07.Aug.2022



AmigaOS 4.1: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.84
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import.

In version 1.84, UTF characters are now converted to Amiga characters, for example umlauts. And CSV entries can also be categorized without purpose. (dr)

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07.Aug.2022



Evoke demo party: Demo "Talking Heads" by Spreadpoint
This weekend the demo party 'Evoke' is taking place in Cologne (amiga-news.de reported). The demo group 'Spreadpoint' has now published their 'Talking Heads' 64kB intro contest entry for 'Alternative Platforms' on YouTube. (dr)

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07.Aug.2022



Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: Introduction of two entries
At the beginning of June, indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen had started the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, which will run until September 1, 2022 (amiga-news.de reported).

We would like to introduce two contributions of 'pixelplop': "Deathmine" and "Capacitor's Revenge". Both were written with Blitz Basic 2.10 installed under WinUAE. The developer had learned Blitz Basic on the Amiga in the early 90's and after a 25 year break now found his way back to it.

"Deathmine" (YouTube video) is basically a platform game, with an original idea: the player must escape from the mine as quickly as possible before his oil lamp runs out. Each time you die, you leave a light source in the place where you died, and you return to the last checkpoint. You have an infinite number of lives, but each death costs the player time. As the player, you can only see as far as the lamp in your hand or the stationary ones attached to the walls illuminate the environment. The development is in a relatively early stage.

More complete is "Capacitor's Revenge" (YouTube video). It's a remake of Transistor's Revenge, a shoot'em-up game that came out in 1983 for the BBC Micro Computer. A conversion of this game had been planned by him for a long time: here the player takes on the role of a microchip, in his conversion that of the 68000 processor of an Amiga 500+, which is attacked by electrical components such as resistors and capacitors. One defends oneself by sending electrical impulses along the conductive paths on which the enemies approach. When an enemy reaches the chip, it is destroyed and a life is lost. (dr)

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06.Aug.2022
Prince (Mail)


Video tutorial: Episode 30 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 30 was published. (dr)

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06.Aug.2022



Farming simulation: Fourth beta version of Farmiga released (update)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). A few moments ago, the fourth beta version (06.08.2022) was released. Changes:
  • A farmer has been added to the game who needs to be provided with food and drink. His age and state of contentment are shown in the picture.
  • The aim of the game is for the farmer to survive four ages (young, middle-aged, old and grandfather). Then he retires. If the farmer's health declines, his sad face is shown on the photo, and if his health declines completely, the game is lost.
  • Additional cultivation of coffee and tea, which can be sold or drunk by the farmer. Coffee or tea with sugar quenches much of the peasants' thirst.
  • New mill and cooking sounds.
  • Full game time of 8 tax periods.
Hardware requirements: 1,5MB ChipRAM bzw. 1MB Chip + 0,5MB FastRAM.

Update: (12:04, 08.08.22, dr)

The developer uploaded a new adf file today, which now actually contains the sounds of the mill and the cooker. (dr)

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MorphZone


MorphOS: TinyGL update V2202-08-05
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen has offered a Bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link which has been successfully financed (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released a first update of TinyGL which provides the following changes:
  • Support for OpenGL "ARB" programs.
  • Support for cube maps (R200 only for now. R300/R400/R500 will have cube map support added in the next update).
  • Work has been done towards making TinyGL OpenGL 2.1 compliant.
  • A much improved SDK, making it easier for developers to create and port OpenGL applications on MorphOS.
  • Many bugs in both TinyGL and the drivers have been fixed.
You can find a more detailed description of the changes in the Readme file of the archive. (dr)

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05.Aug.2022



Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2000, part 2
At the end of July, Epsilon reported in his blog 'Epsilon's World' on the restoration of his Amiga 2000. Today he has published part two, describing the installation of the 'Picasso IV' graphics card, a real-time clock and of Picasso 96. (dr)

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05.Aug.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: M.A.C.E. Tower Defense
Entwickler X have released another game of this genre with "M.A.C.E. Tower Defense". Your mission this time is to defend your home planet against alien invaders as the "Military Alliance of Common Earth".

According to the archive name, Warp3D Nova is required, further details about the system requirements under AmigaOS 4 are not given. For Windows, a 2 GHz processor and 2 GB of RAM are mentioned. (snx)

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05.Aug.2022
Sven Scheele (ANF)


Event: Interface XXXI in Kiel (Germany) on 20.08.2022
On Saturday, August 20, 2022, retro-computing event "Interface" will take place again in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany, organized by Vintage Computer Club, Amiga-Club Schleswig-Holstein and Computer-Club Klausdorf. Registration by e-mail is recommended.

Details can be found in our german news-item. (snx)

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04.Aug.2022
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Linux: Kernel 5.19 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Right after the release of the finalen Linux Kernel 5.19, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered it for download in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum where also a screenshot is available. (dr)

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03.Aug.2022



ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.7 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young has released version 1.7 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 it has also been tested under AmigaOS 4), because it uses a new window.class, so it might not work with older OS3 versions. Changes:
  • Avalanche now registers as a commodity
  • Added Tools menu item "Extract here" for quick extraction
  • Fix initial state of "confirm quit" and "ignore fs" menu items
  • Warning corrections
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Amiga Future (website)


Backbone game: Operacion Fallida
With "Operacion Fallida" José 'Jojo073' Gonzáles has published another game. As always, it was created using Backbone, which is at the expense of speed.

In the two levels of the current title, you have to fight your way as a soldier through a World War II bunker in which, until recently, dangerous alien technology was being researched. (snx)

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03.Aug.2022
Amiga Future (website)


AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Adventure interpreter ScummVM 2.6.0 (Update)
The adventure interpreter ScummVM supports nine additional games in version 2.6. Further changes include various bug fixes and a new graphical overview of the games in the launcher.

Update: (19:50, 03.08.22, snx)
Meanwhile also the MorphOS version is available at the ScummVM website. (snx)

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03.Aug.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)


Video: Downfall Amiga, after Commodore
With "Downfall Amiga, after Commodore" Ravi Abbott, who also writes for Amiga Addict, has created a documentary that deals with the decline of the Amiga. The video starts with the Amiga CD³² and then turns to the events around Escom and Gateway. (snx)

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02.Aug.2022



How I rediscovered my floppy disks
What is, among many other nice things, the advantage of having a baby? You get to know your surroundings completely new! In our bookshelf in the living room, IKEA of course ;), there are two separate compartments on the bottom floor: one is filled with magazines, hiking maps and travel books, the other with my two Amiga floppy disk boxes and quite a few boxes.
Currently, my offspring has developed two preferences: to completely clear out both shelves :) He has a favorite with the hiking maps, which are unfolded with pleasure and meanwhile don't consist of only one piece, as well as with the floppy disk boxes. There are two of them: the Verbatim "Deluxe" version, which offers a small plastic cover for each disk (like boeder) and the Profex. Here is my complete collection:


Now I don't know if it's sacrilege to keep floppy disks not in professional plastic boxes and slipcases, but just in the original cardboard boxes, but it was the start for me to dig back into old memories.

Relatively vividly and well I can remember the various rummage boxes and walls in the local electronics store, in which the disks of various suppliers were presented. And every time the question: do I take the cheap no-name parts or do I treat myself to a box of the brand suppliers - as you can see from the colorful mixture, I then gladly reached for boeder & Co and treated myself to variety. Even in the 90s one was already on sustainability, see KAO. And the no-name boxes were semi-professionally glued together and thus used as a kind of big box.

Even if one or the other may not believe it, but a considerable part of the floppy disks was equipped with software from the Aminet. Of course, I ran a modem on my Amiga 1200! First a 28.8k modem, which drove me crazy, because I never managed to get a noise-free dial-up, and later finally a 56k modem. At that time, in the middle of the 90s, I was studying and where could I get fast and free - yes, at that time dial-up at home still cost something ;) - download software from the Aminet? Of course, in the computer cabinet there. It felt like there was a new version of Voyager and Co every week and you could hardly keep up...

Are floppy disks now just an outdated greeting from times long past? I have to admit, it's been a while since I put the last floppy disk into the 1200 (but that also has to do with the current "computer offspring"). On the one hand, of course, they consume a lot of space. For the little bit that's on there...On the other hand, it's very pleasant to have an antithesis to this "WLAN/streaming/'file-shuffling' world. And even if it might seem contradictory regarding the 'wild copy times' on the Amiga: doesn't such a disk better symbolize the efforts and value behind the development of the software? In any case my curiosity is aroused and I will rummage around in the boxes... (dr)

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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.2
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)

The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Today version 1.2 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
  • gw read, gw convert: Allow PLL parameters to be specified
  • Try fallback conservative PLL on difficult tracks
  • Kryoflux: Emit info block with Greaseweazle and frequency details
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Video: Data exchange between Amiga and Electronic Organizer
The video channel AmigaLove shows in its latest video how the data exchange between an Electronic Organizer, in this case a Sharp Wizard OZ-8600, and an Amiga succeeds. More information about the background can be found in the corresponding article. (dr)

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Jump'n Run: Demo version of NinjFeratu
The busy developers of Amiten Games - among others 'EmotiWorld' and 'CyberPunk Alien City' (amiga-news.de reported) - are in the process of writing another Jump'n Run for Amigas called 'NinjFeratu' using their 'AmiGen' game engine (YouTube video). A demo version is now available, in which you can play the first three levels. As a vampire hunter you try to avenge the loss of your family. The game should run on all ECS-Amigas with 1MB chip ram. An Amiga 1200 is recommended, but not mandatory. (dr)

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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R58 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).

Since our last message, the generation of BASIC code has been further improved. A corresponding example code has been published as RPG demo and explained in a new YouTube video. Detailed changes
  • Fixed paint bug - caused the program to freeze if clicking outside of image/grid area
  • grenade constants for Amiga formats c/basic/pascal
  • generates map code loader for basic (dims and loads map code into array)
  • generate constants for modex dos lib lbm/pbm formats (c/pascal)
  • when exporting RES Text Include files RM will add variables and assign width/height (image1.width = 16)
  • Also with PUT image format RM will now build stub that creates an array and reads the image data. so now you can do put(0,0),Image1 and it will display your images without having to write the code.
  • QB64 and Freebasic Raylib support. You can also use the RGB/RGBA data with _PutImage (not regular PUT) if you are using QB64.
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of July
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published a richly illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of hardware and software for AmigaOS 4 in the month of Jul. (dr)

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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.4.9 (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). Yesterday version 1.4.6 and 1.4.7 have been released providing the following changes:
  • NEW: memory viewer: track CPU data
  • NEW: screen: show time, enable/disable display window, more pixel sources, DMACON, BPLCON
  • NEW: show CPU registers in assembly view
Update: (01.08.2022, 17:03, dr)

Today, also versions 1.4.8 and 1.4.9 have been released:
  • FIX: fix 2 seconds delay when starting WinUAE
  • NEW: new debug functions debug_load, debug_save in gcc8_c_support.h
  • NEW: fixed template project's TakeSystem/FreeSystem to be compatible with AROS
  • NEW: Use AROS if no Kickstart ROM is configured
  • CHG: update AROS ROM in WinUAE
(dr)

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31.Jul.2022



Video talk: Former Commodore employees recall
During the Vintage Computer Festival East, held April 22-24 at the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall Township in the U.S., organizers were able to gather twelve former Commodore employees in a joint panel discussion, including former Amiga developer Dave Haynie. Also present: Andy Finkel, Al Charpentier, Benny Pruden, Bil Herd, Bob Russell, Cary Sagedy, Dave Esposito, Hedley Davis, Joe Myshko, Neil Harris, Von Ertwine. (dr)

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AROS-Distribution: AROS One 1.8 (x86)
The distribution "AROS One" based on the AROS binary branch ABI v0 is now available in version 1.7 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image under the title link, where also videos can be found.

In this version of AROS One, in addition to Amistart, BoingIconBar, a multi ToolBar that can be navigated through the right mouse button or through the mouse wheel, has also been installed. Amistart and BoingIconBar can be swapped in the system, onentither can change backgrounds and skins, all through appositscript to be executed through specific icons.

Updates:
  • System
    • OWB Set path Certificates (Env-Archive/SYS\Certificates)
    • Dopus4 Config (Added DH1 and USB Buttons)
    • Dopus4 Skin White
    • Fixed Variable DEVELPATH e EXTRASPATH (For those who install Development, Extras and Demos on DH1)
    • User-Startup (Fixed new paths DEVELPATH and EXTRASPATH)
    • Amistart (Added Reboot entry)
    • BlackIce Theme (Fixed Iconify and added DirUp button)
    • Amistart Prefs (Cat's eyes Presets)
    • AmiStart (Added item fix paths Development, Extras, also work if they are installed on DH1Reboot)
    • AmiStart (Install)
    • Update Theme Manager (Before Wanderer Skin Prefs)
    • BoingIconBar (Install)
    • BoingIconBar (link to change skins)

  • Applications
    • OWB (link to change skins)
    • ZuneARC (link to change skins)
    • Add Tab Images for App Theme Prefs
    • Now the "Lua" package is located in the SYS:Tools path.
    • New DualPNG Icons in the Emulation Section.
    • ZuneARC (extract/delete a single file from LHA archives)
    • Eliminated no longer needed: Development/share/doc/openssl
    • Eliminated no longer needed: Development/share/man/man3
    • Switch v1.3
    • E-UAE v0,8.29 WIMP4 GTK-MUI GUI
    • App Theme Preferences Update
    • AmiTube v1.2 (now shows thumbnail preview of searched videos)
    • Tools Development Dos
    • Muibase v4.5
    • Font Tester v1.20
    • AWeather v1.0
    • RNOArchive v1.1
    • IconClone New version by miker

  • Games
    • New icons on style Aros One for Drawer and Exe
    • AmiBrixx
    • BubbleTrain
    • NetBubble
    • DonCeferinoHazana
    • Ami-Ingenious
(dr)

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Aminet uploads until 30.07.2022
The following files have been added until 30.07.2022 to Aminet:
IvoRSS_MOS_1.1.1.lha     comm/news  2.2M  MOS Simple RSS (and Atom as well)...
IvoRSS_OS3_1.1.1.lha     comm/news  1.9M  68k Simple RSS (and Atom as well)...
IvoRSS_OS4_1.1.1.lha     comm/news  2.7M  OS4 Simple RSS (and Atom as well)...
Dh73_30th.lha            demo/misc  520K  68k Ultimate Demo with various Gf...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   2.7M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
AVAGOMouse.lha           docs/hard  540K  68k hack Dell optical mouse for a...
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.5M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.9M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   5.1M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
ASE2019_1.97.lha         text/edit  180K  68k Text editor
aiostreams.lha           util/batch 263K      Stream video from major onlin...
afetch.lha               util/moni  107K  MOS Native fetch for MorphOS
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.07.2022
The following files have been added until 30.07.2022 to OS4Depot:
flawfinder.lha           dev/uti 253kb 4.1 Code analysis for potential secu...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb   4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
mednafen.lha             emu/gam 8Mb   4.1 Mednafen Emulator
ivorss.lha               net/new 3Mb   4.1 Simple RSS client
aiostreams.lha           vid/mis 263kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.07.2022
The following files have been added until 30.07.2022 to AROS Archives:
mog.i386-aros.zip            gam/pla 53Mb  Remake of a MSX platformer
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.07.2022
The following files have been added until 30.07.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_29.02.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
c2n_1.2.1.lha             Misc                      Decoder and encoder for...
c2nload_1.0.6.1.lha       Misc                      Load files to 8-bit com...
cbmlink_0.9.8.1.lha       Misc                      Remote management for C...
IvoRSS_1.1.1.lha          Network/RSS               Simple RSS (and Atom as...
AIOstreams_1.7.4.lha      Network/Streaming         Stream online video fro...
afetch_2.2.0.lha          System/Monitoring         Native fetch for MorphOS
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.07.2022
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 30.07.2022: (snx)

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31.Jul.2022
Amiga Future (website)


Videos of the Warp 4060 turbo card prototype
Among the latest additions Greg Donner has made to his website are photos and videos taken by a visitor to CS-Lab, including two videos of the prototype of the delayed Warp 4060 turbo card. (snx)

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31.Jul.2022
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Programming Language: Amiga Assembler Plugin 1.7.0 for Visual Studio
Paul Raingeard has provided another update of his plugin for Amiga assembler programming under Visual Studio at the title link. A webview panel for setting the BLTCON0/BLTCON1 register has been added. (snx)

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AmiTube 1.3: YouTube client for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. They are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded.

As the developer wrote on his website, " I tried to implement that AmiTube remembers the splitter position. Sadly I made a big error there resulting in a very small barely recognizable List on the left side of the window. I only tested it on m68k-Amiga where it did not happen, but after a bit of trying I found the culprit and fixed it."

The current version can be downloaded from the AmiTube website or installed via the update check in AmiTube. (dr)

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30.Jul.2022



Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.12
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 which he recently updated.

Version 0.9.12 includes, among other things, a new project, a 2018 game called 'Bad Ninjas VS Rick & Joe' (YouTube video) and now uses the AmiBlitz 3.9.4 compiler. Changes:
  • Bad Ninjas game is now included in the projects folder by courtesy of Ricky Place.
  • Hud refresh speed can be set in the HUD screen.
  • Added action trigger Reset Vars that allows to reset a range of variables to its initial value.
  • In HUD screen the background image can now be edited or deleted.
  • When editing a trigger if it instantiates something it will show the instantiated object in position in the preview screen.
  • Switched to Amiblitz 3.9.4 compiler.
  • Less strict asset processing when Building a game.
  • Improved compatibility with old game projects.
  • Improved calculation when setting Line Width now allows bigger maps.
  • Fix for objects of type Shot not being automatically destroyed.
  • Fix for compressed 16 sprite backgrounds not showing properly.
  • Fix in vertical scroll leaving one empty line under certain conditions.
  • Fix for some glitch in object rendering for multiscreen games.
  • Fix for camera centering when using smaller displays.
  • Fix for spritesheet screen always asking about palette reload even if it was the same.
  • Small optimizations.
(dr)

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30.Jul.2022



Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 13
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).

In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Episode 13 is now available. (dr)

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30.Jul.2022



Pong Jam: Space Pong and Pong50 (update)
Retro Programmers Inside (RPI) (Facebook link) is a group of retro programmers and has organized a Pong Jam on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Atari's video game classic Pong. This also resulted in two new conversions for the Amiga: Mauro Antonio Radice has set his Space Pong in outer space, Giuseppe Mignognas calls his conversion Pong50.

Update: (31.07.2022, 07:03, dr)

Regarding the 'Pong Jam' the article was rewritten and the Pong50 implementation added. (dr)

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AmigaOS 4: Arcade game KOG updated
As already reported in the article on Blastaway, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has updated several games in parallel and thus his arcade game KOG as well (video). Changes:

July 29, 2022
  • Added screenshots of internal graphics (now [F1] grab a screenshot of the internal graphics and [F2] of the visible graphics).
  • Added [ALT]+[F4] quit option.
  • Simplified data files access code.
  • Set savedata directory to the game's own data directory also for the Windows installed version (which now is thus identical to the portable version).
  • Moved configuration file to the program directory.
  • Added to installers code to import previous savedata and clean up leftovers.
  • Improved/extended manual.
July 24, 2022
  • Reworked assignments of the kind *p++ = ... *p ... (as they are miscompiled by some versions of gcc).
  • Removed assignment of function "back" to joypad first button (as that was confusing).
  • Added Windows portable version.
  • Worked on Windows installer: removed unused data directory; added logo to graphics.
(dr)

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AmigaOS 4: Update of arena shooter 'Blastaway'
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua's 'Blastaway' (video) is an arena shooter with 50 levels in five different worlds. The game principle is inspired by Wizard of Wor, the graphics by The Chaos Engine (amiga-news.de reported).

As Simone wrote, "lately work has been done in parallel on all the RETREAM games. It began with the objective of aligning the technically similar ones for PC so that they would handle data saving the same way, but it soon went out of control and brought uniformity and improvements to the installers, the documentation, the web pages and even to code and internal files -and, just as importantly, it brought new features as well!" Changes:

29. July 2022
  • Worked on MILESTONE bonus: made notification more prominent by displaying the number of soldiers and/or the points awarded, both in-game and in the arena report screen; fixed handling of multiple milestones reached at the same time (the points awarded were considered by the very same check that decides whether to award those kind of points, thus potentially awarding too many points).
  • Moved the ALIVE SOLDIERS bonus notification from the last arena end screen to the game end screen.
  • Changed the design of the DOUBLE and TRIPLE bonuses marks from "x2" and "x3" to "2x" and "3x".
  • Added glowing to Czywor's eyes.
  • Simplified data files access code.
  • Set savedata directory to the game's own data directory also for the Windows installed version (which now is thus identical to the portable version).
  • Moved configuration file to the program directory.
  • Renamed savedata file (safe.raw -> safe.dat).
  • Added to installers code to import previous savedata and clean up leftovers.
  • Improved/extended manual.
24. July 2022
  • Reworked assignments of the kind *p++ = ... *p ... (as they are miscompiled by some versions of gcc).
  • Embedded AmigaOS version string in executable.
18. July 2022
  • Added support for thumbsticks, as at times Windows treats D-pads as thumbsticks (this is just to support as many joypads as possible: using real thumbsticks is not a good idea anyway).
  • Added journey map (at the beginning of each stage, a screen shows the previous stages, the current stage and, darkened, the next stages).
  • Added FULL GAME bonus (completing the game starting it from the first arena of the first stage awards 50000 extra points).
  • Added final score in game completion screen.
  • Touched up instruments volumes and effects in tunes.
  • Removed the "commercials" showing the other RETREAM games between stages.
  • Removed donation message from title screen.
  • Fixed handling of joypad presses and releases (under some circumstances outside of the game, a release could be handled as a consequence of a previous, unrelated press).
  • Improved/extended manual.
(dr)

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Video: Upgrading an Amiga 600
In her latest video, musician and retro lover 'Ms Mad Lemon' upgrades her Amiga 600 with 1MB Chip RAM, an IDE/SD card adapter including SD card and a Furia accelerator card. (dr)

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29.Jul.2022



DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 4)
'Drygol' is not only a member of the demoscene group Lamers, but 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. After the first three reports (1, 2, 3) he published the fourth blog post of the series yesterday which is about installing the 'mouSTer' USB mouse adapter and the Buddha flash card. His project is based on the GitHub project of 'Floppie209', a replica of the Amiga2000 motherboard with Sprint layout. (dr)

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29.Jul.2022



Self-made project: Interface clock port/Raspberry Pi
After the adapter board "A314" (amiga-news.de reported), Niklas Ekström provides under the title link the information for the reconstruction of an interface with which a communication between Amiga and Raspberry Pi via the clock port is possible. After the project opening at the end of June, the developer updated the documentation yesterday, among other things. (dr)

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29.Jul.2022
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A-Pet - PET/CBM inspired metal case for Amiga 500
Mike, a British Amiga fan, is working on a metal case in the style of Commodore's CBM series. The "A-Pet" is supposed to be able to accommodate either a standard PC or various Amiga models, this is achieved by using different backplates (amiga-news.de reported).

The development of the Amiga prototype is finished so far, Mike explains the current state in this recent YouTube video. The site Hackaday has awarded the Hackaday Prize 2022 to this project. (dr)

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29.Jul.2022



Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.97
At the end of 2020, author Alain Fontanin resumed the development that had originally started in 1989 by releasing Version 1.2 (2019) of his text editor "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE). The author continues to work on his editor and has now released version 1.97 with the following changes:
  • Fixed many bugs and 'Hit Enforcer': I'm confused to have done wrong the tests of ASE2019 1.95 (shame on me)
  • Simplified window management
  • Improvement of the windows reorganization function (horizontal/vertical mosaic and borders)
  • Possibility to configure (or not) a horizontal scrollbar
  • Possibility to choose the icon of the documents
  • Possibility to use the device name (e.g. DH0) or the volume name in the access path of the documents
  • Integration of a first version of the session management.
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29.Jul.2022



RSS-Reader: IvoRSS 1.1.1 für AmigaOS 3, 4 und MorphOS
IvoRSS is a simple RSS reader written with Hollywood (amiga-news.de reported). The codesets.library and AmiSSL 4 are required. IvoRSS is available for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:

Version 1.1.1
  • Fixed crash for uncovered HTML characters
  • Finally, any smallest change of "article" will trigger IvoRSS to show it as unread. But at least left and rigth sides of application will be consistent.
  • Changed a little bit layout to look a little bit better under AmigaOS4
  • Added glow icon for AmigaOS3
  • Created kind of glow icon for AmigaOS4
Version 1.1
  • Reworked parsing in Explore window
  • Downloading is reworked, IvoRSS tracks modified time on server
  • Changed New/Read identification, there are still false positives, but should be less of them
  • Now MUI&MUIRoyale set up to not let labels to explode and break layout
  • More &HtMl_characters; are covered
  • More Amiga related feeds out of the box
(dr)

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28.Jul.2022
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Obligement: Interview with Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka (audio editor Rave)
The magazine 'Obligement' has interviewed the Czech developer Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka (English, (French), who recently has released his audio editor Rave for AmigaOS 4. (dr)

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28.Jul.2022
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Slideshow: Tron Legacy
Inspired by the movie Tron: Legacy from 2010, EcaliusSoftware has created a little slideshow written with AMOS Professional (YouTube video). It requires an Amiga equipped with 2 MB Chip-RAM, 5 MB Fast-RAM and 68020 CPU. (dr)

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27.Jul.2022



Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1b5
After the release of version 2.0 (amiga-news.de reported) developer Dirk Hoffmann has started the beta phase of version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS and released the fifth beta version today. Changes:

Bug fixes
  • Added support for ECS register DIWHIGH
  • Option "Disconnect keys from keyboard" was broken
  • Fixed a dot mask setting issue
  • The built-in trackpad is no longer recognized as an external USB device
  • Added more FFmpeg default search paths
  • Fixed some resizing issues in the inspector window
macOS 10.15 or higher is required. (dr)

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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 136 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. The latest issue among others is about the Amiga games Death Trap, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Conan the Cimmerian. (dr)

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Blog: Introducing "Globulus" (1990)
The blog Leaderboard mainly is about the world of Amiga games and here in particular about games exclusively released for the Amiga. The latest entry introduces the game Globulus, released in 1990. (dr)

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Aiostreams V1.7.4: Scripts for Streaming Twitch.tv and Mixer.com videos
George 'walkero' Sokianos has created Python scripts and bundled them in aiostreams ("All In One Streams") for viewers of the Amiga and other retro streams on Twitch.tv and Mixer.com, so that they can also watch the videos under AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS instead of on the PC.

Yesterday version 1.7.4 has been released with the following changes
  • Did a fix in YouTube script to avoid SB videos. This was breaking the video selection.
  • Fixed the video throttle in YouTube videos. So now the videos seem to play smoothly.
Download: aiostreams.lha (263 KB) (dr)

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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.4.5 (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). Yesterday version 1.4.4 was released providing the following changes:
  • custom registers view: tooltip help for registers
  • Denise emulator ("Screen (Beta)" tab), enable/disable specific bitplanes, sprites, with DMA overlay; click in screen to set time
  • blitter tooltips show blit duration, minterm
  • Profiler saves screenshots even for single-frame profiles (PNG, better quality)
  • Fix screenshot delay (screenshots were always one frame too old)
  • updated to latest WinUAE. fixes sprite DMA not showing SPRxDATA, SPRxDATB
  • removed avail in startup-sequence (commited by mistake)

Update: (30.07.2022, 06:33, dr)

A few moments ago, version 1.4.5 was released. Changes:
  • FIX: scrolling in copperlist no longer shifts whole profiler up
  • FIX: dragging time in profiler flame-graph no longer stops working once reaching the outside of the profiler
  • NEW: memory heatmap/viewer
  • CHG: update WinUAE
(dr)

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