03.Jul.2022
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Farming simulation: Third beta version of Farmiga released
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). A few moments ago, the third beta version (03.07.2022) was released. Changes:
- The control of goods purchases and sales is now done completely with the mouse.
- A new mini-game with a cow has been added, where you have to "paw" the fly. On the screen we can see the life bar of the cow and the time the cow has left to live ;-)
- Adding an introductory main menu to the game and a "credits" screen (but only in Polish for now).
- When saving/reading the game, it is possible to select a specific file
Hardware requirements: 1,5MB ChipRAM bzw. 1MB Chip + 0,5MB FastRAM. (dr)
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03.Jul.2022
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Aminet uploads until 02.07.2022
The following files have been added until 02.07.2022 to Aminet:
CestinoGlobale.lha dev/blitz 53K 68k Italian global trashcan WIP
wla_dx_v10.2.lha dev/cross 7.0M 68k WLA DX - 8-bit CPU Cross Macr...
Kwiz2.lha game/2play 71K 68k A Blockbusters-style quiz game
ScummVM_RTG.lha game/misc 7.4M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM 1.7.0
jfduke3d.lha game/shoot 1.3M 68k JFDuke3D Amiga Port
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.5M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.8M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.3M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
ataruita.lha mods/midi 34K Urusei Yatsura GM italian song
LHArchiver.lha util/arc 4.6M create lha archives intuitively
BootPicture.lha util/boot 87K 68k Shows pictures, plays sound d...
JFIFdt44.lha util/dtype 694K 68k fastest JPEG picture datatype
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 630K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 723K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 801K OS4 Multipurpose utility
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03.Jul.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.07.2022
The following files have been added until 02.07.2022 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 5Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
reportplus.lha uti/mis 801kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
jasspa-memacs.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 JASSPA MicroEmacs under AmiCygni...
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03.Jul.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.07.2022
The following files have been added until 02.07.2022 to AROS Archives:
samples_8bit.tgz aud/mis 62Mb Varius Samples for Tracker Software
tc4.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 53Mb Solo OpenGL tetris game with AI ...
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03.Jul.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.07.2022
The following files have been added until 02.07.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_28.91.lha Emulation AmiArcadia_28.91.lha
LHArchiver_1.3.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
NMTM_Final_1.20.lzx Games/Adventure No More Toxic Man!!! - ...
Kulki_1.0.lha Games/Think Puzzle game
StarTrek-Planets_1.0.lha Misc StarTrek-Planets_1.0.lha
Wayfarer_3.9.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
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03.Jul.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.07.2022
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 02.07.2022:
(snx)
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03.Jul.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Video interview with DeepMind founder: First AI program on Amiga
At the title link, a video interview was conducted with Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of the AI company DeepMind, which was later bought by Google.
After his start with a ZX Spectrum, he had, unlike his "merely" Atari-using friends, an Amiga, which he programmed in assembler and AMOS and on which he wrote his first AI program at the age of about twelve, an implementation of the game Reversi, in which he applied principles of chess computer programming.
Also mentioned is his later involvement in the Bullfrog game "Theme Park", to which economic simulation he contributed the behaviour of up to 2000 simulated figures of the theme park at the age of 16. He had programmed these as individual so-called "state machines", which independently satisfy their needs. (snx)
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03.Jul.2022
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.3
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch.
Two days ago version 5.3 was released providing the following changes:
New Features
- statusline resync indicator, merged from latest WinUAE
Bugs fixed
- AmiQuit was missing from boot-data.zip file
- Fixed P96 not working anymore in some environments
- input options were not properly parsed when using default.uae on startup, until the GUI was opened once
- Navigation in Custom controls when using SDL2 versions older than 2.0.14 wasn't correct
- don't overwrite all of changed_prefs when enabling autoheight in DMX
- Reverted CIA changes until upstream bug is fixed
Improvements
- Updated WHDLoad binary to 18.8
- updated WHDBooter XML to latest version
- Added logging when parsing Custom Controls from XML
- CD32 C2P/NVRAM only config fixes, C2P init fix.
- Add Brightness/Contrast controls on the GUI #974
- upgraded floppybridge to latest version (v1.3), fixes some issues with GreaseWeazle
- fixed multiple datatype related compiler warnings
- merged various definitions from latest WinUAE
- CPU emulation STOP update
- upgraded FloppyBridge to v1.3
- check for w/h values before setting custom limits
- newcpu emulation minor fixes
- set a default pattern for memory hard reset
Build system
- updated CMakeLists file, excluded "other" labels from release notes
- Removed Dispmanx 64-bit Manjaro build
- allow CI workflow to be triggered manually also
- added docker build for rpi4-sdl2
- don't try to copy file locally when using docker
- Added x86_64 build, disabled rpi 32-bit self-hosted
- Fixed x86-64 make command
- deprecated self-hosted agents for SDL2 builds, using Docker instead
- Removed Dispmanx targets from pre-compiled binaries list
Refactors
- WHDBooter options parsing improvements
- compiler warning fixes in disk.cpp
Documentation Changes
- removed "bug" from recognized commit labels
- Added CI badge on Readme
- updated README with improved instructions
(dr)
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03.Jul.2022
Jens Schönfeld
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Individual Computers: Software updates
Before the summer break Individual Computers has published new installation disks for turbo cards in the wiki, as well as a new AmiTCP installation disk:
- Version 0.146 for the accelerator board ACA500plus includes a new installer, network installer and Sana2 driver
- Version 20220625 for the accelerator board ACA1234 includes a new installer and network installer
- there is also a new AmiTCP installation disk but can only be accessed via log in
(dr)
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02.Jul.2022
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Preview video: Kung Fu action 'Devil's Temple'
Devil's Temple features 10 stages of intense arcade kung fu action based on the classic Irem games Kung Fu Master and Vigilante. Over 300 frames of animation were packed into the game and every cycle of performance was used on the Amiga A500. The game will adapt to upgrades, so additional chip ram will result in better music, AGA will provide additional colors and a greater variety of enemies in the game.
Yesterday, a new preview video was released for the game that is currently in development. As the developer writes, he had assumed to release Devil's Temple in May or June, but he just didn't have the necessary time to finish the game. The current progress is shown in the latest video:
- The game now has a hiscore system
- The game now has an attract mode
- The game has a menu system included allowing the player to modify game settings
- The background video music is now all included
Only three elements of the game are still missing: the final boss, the coding of the final sequence and the optimization of the code.
The game is already available for pre-order as a boxed edition. Likewise, a demo version of the first stage is available on itch.io.
(dr)
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02.Jul.2022
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- May/June 2022 news.
- News : Apollo, revive the Amiga.
- Old articles from Joystick 45 to 48:
- News: Cryo, always more innovative
- News: FMV, put a video recorder in your machine
- Report: Supergames Show 1993, Review of Blues Brothers Jukebox Adventures, Review of Campaign 2
- News: Core Design speeds up, Review of Arabian Nights [CD32], Review of Cool Spot, Interview with David Pleasance, Review of Hero Quest 2: Legacy Of Sorasil, Review of Microcosm, Interview with Jeremy San, Review of Liberation: Captive 2, etc.
- Interview with Urban Muller (Aminet, from 1995).
- Interview with David Newman (musician).
- Review of MorphOS 3.17.
- File: AltiVec.
- File: history of Dynabyte.
- File: the Amiga on TV and in movies (update).
- File: Ramrod, an unpublished game.
- Point of view: the Amiga'89 show and following.
- Programming: an introduction to the PowerPC assembler on MorphOS.
- Special quiz on the characters of Amiga video games.
(dr)
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02.Jul.2022
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Article: Achieving period-correct graphics in WinUAE emulator
Some time ago John Novak published a detailed article in his blog that explores how to best display Amiga graphics with today's monitors using the WinUAE emulator.
The point is to experience the Amiga system as users did with original hardware and possibly still do today - as far as today's emulation technology allows. The goal is that the emulated graphics are as close as possible to the output of CRT screens used with the Amigas in the 80s and 90s. The WinUAE Shader Pack is used for this. (dr)
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01.Jul.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 9
'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. Here the ninth episode was published. (dr)
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01.Jul.2022
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Blog: Introduction of text editor "reED" for AROS and AmigaOS 3
The blog "Amiga alive" not only reports about various software and hardware news, the operator also presents his own, partly older projects in the series AMIGA alive DevLog from time to time. In the latest blog entry, the C-programmer will report about an editor he started a long time ago under the name "proWEB": an HTML editor with advanced features like sophisticated TABLE creation, FRAME management etc. First started for AmigaOS 3, then continued for AROS, but finally stalled.
Development of the editor has now resumed under the name "reED". As the developer reports, "it took me just a day to make all code adjustments from AROS' gcc to AmigaOS' vbcc, including lots of stylistic improvements, and I got a working executable. The code now doesn't use any special compiler features, and should work with gcc, probably SAS-C, etc. just as it does with vbcc. There were a couple of minor differences between AmigaOS and AROS that needed to be taken care of - for example my old AROS system used a font called "ttcourier" instead of "courier"".
"reED" has its own GUI layout engine, it has a large function menu (many functions are not yet implemented), uses ASL file requesters, can edit multiple documents, it can highlight/cut/copy/paste - and it has real tabs with keyboard control.
Even though the editor has been made to work, the developer is still considering whether to continue this project. If, then both AmigaOS 3 and AROS should be supported, whereby he has the hope for an updated vbcc for AROS. As the developer Frank Wille told Amiga-News on request, this is currently not planned. Reason: More than 15 years ago he had created an experimental version. But the official AROS header files are full of gcc-specific (i.e. not ISO-C compliant) instructions and therefore not usable on any other compiler. (dr)
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30.Jun.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.3
At the end of March the new major version 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz was released. Yesterday a third update with bug fixes was released with version 3.9.3. Changes:
- fixed a bug that the current directory was not set for the executable when "Compile&Run"
- fixed a window refresh bug on AmigaOS3.2 when window was moved out of screen
- fixed a source corruption bug if one clicked in a non existing line (after end of source)
- fixed a possible crash when doing copy&paste
- fixed: togglestate of menuentry "generate debug code" was sometimes wrong
- fixed: console window was not opened at own screen, even if the option was set
- fixed: changes to current sourceline were forgotten if menu item was selected or user clicked somewhere in source
- fixed a bug in "screenslib" that always tried to open "cybergraphics.library" even on Kick <3.0-systems
- changed behaviour of "wzlib": lack of wizard.library will not crash at startup
- therefore Amiblitz3 will not crash at startup anymore, if wizard.library is not found
- changed: finally the full rewrite of the eventloop has been completed
- removed file extention for displaying blitzlibs-list (Library Browser)
- added display of decimal offset values (Definition Browser)
- changed: PEDs messages are now displayed in source window, not at screen bar
In addition, the documentation and examples were revised:
- updated documentation drawers
- updated autodoc for graphics.library
- added documentation for RndSeed-command to vallib.guide
- added some lib-sources from UltimateBlitz3-distribution (internal)
- added some code examples from original Blitz2-manual
(dr)
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29.Jun.2022
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Event: Demo party 'Evoke' (Cologne, 05.08 - 07.08)
In August, this year's edition of the Evoke scene demo party will take place at the AbenteuerHallenKALK in Cologne (Germany). As usual, various demo, graphics and sound contests will be held. Special categories for retro computers are not planned, 8- or 16-bit productions can be submitted in the category Alternative Platforms - but here you might have to bring your own hardware. (dr)
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29.Jun.2022
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Video: Is AROS The Future of Amiga?
In this YouTube video, Dan Wood explores the question of whether AROS, the open source development of the classic Amiga operating system, is a worthy successor to it, and for that looks at the Icaros Desktop distribution. (dr)
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29.Jun.2022
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.9
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.9 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS, which mainly includes changes for media playback. As the author writes, ClearKey encryption is not very popular nowadays, but is still used by some live streaming services. Wayfarer can now play these streams (e.g. https://tv.nrk.no).
The emulation of touch events makes it possible to search on mobile Youtube again. In this regard, the developer refers to the updated FAQ page: instructions on how to fix Youtube/iOS search and how to use a VPN with Wayfarer (with additional hardware) have been added.
Jacek also thanks everyone who had donated to the project in the last. He said that this is a motivation for further development. Changes:
- Implemented ClearKey DRM support for HLS media streams
- Implemented HLS stream quality switching accessible from the media popup
- Added configurable touch events emulation (think Youtube-Mobile seeking slider)
- Refactored the HLS player to allow MPEG-TS playback
- Live HLS streams now start playing closer to the current time
- Improved stream end position reporting to get some streaming services correctly skip to next stream after playing ads
- Updated libcurl
Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB) (dr)
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28.Jun.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Kultmags.com: Amiga Fever issues added (German)
On kultmags.com the computer and video game magazines of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s are preserved in digital form for posterity with the permission of the rights holders. Most recently, Jakob Voos, who once founded the Protovision publishing house with Malte Mundt, gave permission to add all four issues of German magazine Amiga Fever.
So far, however, only the first two issues could be scanned, and help in finding the remaining issues is requested. (snx)
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28.Jun.2022
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Review: Workbench distribution AmiKit XE 11.8.0 for Windows
About two weeks ago version 11.8.0 of the workbench distribution AmiKit for Windows/Mac/Linux was released (amiga-news.de reported). Our reader Thomas bought the latest version for his Windows computer and kindly tells us his impressions:
"After the purchase, you will receive an e-mail with the download link quite quickly. Before that you should definitely install VcRuntime https://file.amiga.sk/amikit/download/vc_redist.x64.exe, otherwise the installation will fail. The version Amikit 11.5.0 is delivered, which can be updated later. Original Amiga ROMS are necessary, otherwise the installation will fail. In which form or better said from which source the ROM's come, is up to you. Whether Amiga Forever or original AmigaOS (OS 3.1.4, OS 3.2, OS 3.9 etc.) does not matter.
The installation process runs through smoothly. In between, Picasso96 is downloaded and installed independently. After the installation process has run through and Amikit has been loaded, the Morpheus Updater opens automatically. There you can update Amikit 11.5.0 to version 11.8.0. This update is the biggest one (23 MB) and for this reason it seems to cause problems. Always only 12-14 MB arrive. This gave me no peace, so Jan was written to on Discord asking him what the problem could be. He answered promptly and wrote me that a few had the same problem. He then sent me the archive of 11.8.0, since the error could not yet be narrowed down. So I could update to version 11.8.0 myself. Many thanks Jan to the fast and smooth help.
The next step is to install AmigaOS 3.2 and the corresponding update 3.2.1. For this you put all AmigaOS 3.2 ADF's, the Amiga1200.Module, Update3.2.1.lha into the Rabbithole directory and start the Morpheus Updater again. There you can select and install the AmigaOS 3.2 installation. This is done quickly, after an automatic reboot it is freshly installed. So you have the latest AmigaOS running in the WinUAE installation. Amikit uses WinUAE for the AmigaOS emulation on the PC.
So Amikit transforms the PC into a modern Amiga. The Rabbithole is used to start PC programs directly from the AmigaOS. So you can run programs like VLC, Chrome etc. on the screen of the AmigaOS and don't need to switch to Windows. In addition, Amikit is faster than any Amiga hardware depending on the PC model, even if turbo cards etc. are used.
But it will never replace the feeling of real Amiga hardware. But it is not so easy to use it on the go. That's where Amikit makes sense. If you want to use the AmigaOS everywhere, Amikit is a good choice. It is a complete AmigaOS for people with little time and desire to build their own AmigaOS.
For myself it only serves as a replacement to real Amiga hardware. Mainly I use Amikit to transfer files from the PC via NAS to the Amiga and vice versa or when I want to use the AmigaOS mobile. The purchase was worth it."
Herzlichen Dank, Thomas. (dr)
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27.Jun.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1b3
By releasing 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 yesterday released the third beta version. Changes:
Bug fixes:
- SlowRam mirror emulation was broken
Enhancements:
- The video config panel has been redesigned
Compatibility:
- Improved UART timing
- Improved display window emulation
- Improved display logic emulation
macOS 10.15 or higher is required. (dr)
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27.Jun.2022
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Preview video 27: 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). According to the developer, "the game still runs on a standard A1200 without turbo card and without Fast RAM in PAL lowres with 50 frames per second."
About his 27. preview video the developer wrote: "This time I concentrated not so much on the ingame playfield engine but more on all that other necessary stuff, mostly the menus and tournament logic. Therefore the new video is maybe a bit boring to watch ;) Nevertheless it's a very huge step forward because from now on "only" the actual match gameplay is missing, everything else is in place (well, apart from bug fixes and polishing and some music and more sfx, of course)." (dr)
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27.Jun.2022
ALBs Blog
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AmiTube: Preview video to version 1.2
Yesterday the developer Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released a preview video to the forthcoming version 1.2 of AmiTube showing a new feature: a play list like feature to play the downloaded movies automatically or by random or in a loop. (dr)
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27.Jun.2022
Vinnny (ANF)
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Video: AMIGA Alive and Kicking
Already in March 2020, the documentary "AMIGA Alive and Kicking" - originally marketed under the name "Amiga 2020", as it was also supposed to be released this year - was successfully crowdfunded (amiga-news.de reported). Now Steven Fletcher has finished the post production work and the video, which documents various events and shows interviews with community members or developers and vendors, is available as a digital download for 10 Pounds. (dr)
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26.Jun.2022
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Farming simulation: Update of Farmiga
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday another update veröffentlicht. Änderungen:
- Mill for the production of wheat flour added
- Bake oven bread from flour
- Added milk-drinking cat, thanks to which mice do not steal flour from the warehouse
- Added sheep and cat sound
- New background music for the mini-game with the fox and the main farm screen :-)
- Enlarged farm x2 !!! Scrolling through the image when reaching the edge of the page
- Improved upper rainbow that no longer disappears from the screen
- When shopping / selling on the store map screen, the top screen with available cash is not hidden, so that the account and stock status can be seen at any time
Adding scrolling leads to increased hardware requirements: 1,5MB ChipRAM bzw. 1MB Chip + 0,5MB FastRAM. (dr)
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26.Jun.2022
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Aminet uploads until 25.06.2022
The following files have been added until 25.06.2022 to Aminet:
ZitaFTPServer.lha comm/tcp 19M OS4 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
links-mos.lha comm/www 7.2M MOS Links text-only WWW browser w...
vbcc_target_m68k-amig... dev/c 689K ISO C compiler, M68k-AmigaOS ...
vbcc_target_m68k-kick... dev/c 486K ISO C compiler, AmigaOS 1.2/1...
vbcc_target_ppc-morph... dev/c 940K ISO C compiler, MorphOS Target
c2plib.lha dev/misc 158K 68k chunky2planar as an Amiga sha...
ShellInternals.lha docs/misc 26K Amiga Shell internal workings
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 14K 2022 Carset for F1GP
ScummVM_RTG.lha game/misc 6.6M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM 1.7.0
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
qoi.lha gfx/conv 208K MOS Quite OK Image benchmark/conv...
zx81paint.lha gfx/edit 32K 68k Paint program, creates ZX81 c...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.5M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.8M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.7M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
ne.lha text/edit 1.3M MOS The nice editor is coming home
AmiSSL-5.2-OS3.lha util/libs 3.3M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.2-OS4.lha util/libs 3.0M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.2-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 692K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
Lupe.lha util/wb 201K MOS The magnifying glass program
newmeter.lha util/wb 25K 68k Shows free RAM and storage as...
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26.Jun.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.06.2022
The following files have been added until 25.06.2022 to OS4Depot:
rave.lha aud/edi 2Mb 4.1 An editor for mono/stereo audio ...
rexxmlib.lha dev/lib 188kb 4.1 ARexx XML procedure library
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
sm502.audio.tar.bz2 dri/aud 641kb 4.0 SM502 audio driver for the Sam46...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
nmtm.lzx gam/adv 27Mb 4.0 Point and click adventure game
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
pidgin.lha net/cha 27Mb 4.1 A chat client for AmiCygnix
pidgin-src.lha net/cha 4Mb 4.1 Sources of Pidgin 2.13.0r2 for A...
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 19Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
amigainputanywhere.lha uti/har 166kb 4.1 Control mouse and keyboard with ...
litexl.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
jasspa-memacs.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 JASSPA MicroEmacs under AmiCygni...
thumbnailmaker.lha vid/mis 6kb 4.1 Arexx script for ArtEffect, gene...
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26.Jun.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.06.2022
The following files have been added until 25.06.2022 to AROS Archives:
mpega.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 71kb include files for mpega.library
devtoolmsdos.zip dev/mis 38Mb Create with dosbox your game easily
whatiff1.05.lha doc/mis 494kb Magazine AmigaGuide Format June ...
nmtm.lzx gam/adv 26Mb Point and click adventure game
sieteymedia.lha gam/car 4Mb The Siete y Media card game.
zunepaint.i386-aros.zip gra/edi 530kb Bitmap paint with additional eff...
crono_aros.lha gra/mis 4Mb Generator of printable calendars
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26.Jun.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.06.2022
The following files have been added until 25.06.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
VanillaConquer_TD_R1.lha Games/Strategy Vanilla Conquer is a po...
qoi.lha Graphics/Convert Quite OK Image benchmar...
Pixy_1.0_AlphaRelease_... Graphics/Draw The next generation pix...
Lupe_2.0.lha System/Ambient/Utilities The magnifying glass pr...
LiteXL_2.0.3r2.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
ne_3.3.1.lha Text/Edit The nice editor is comi...
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26.Jun.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.06.2022
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 25.06.2022:
- 2022-06-21 improved: Guardian CD³² (Acid Software) better joypad controls, trainer added (Info)
- 2022-06-19 improved: Space Hulk (Electronic Arts) fast ram support, 68000 quitkey, savegame feature restored (Info)
- 2022-06-19 improved: Sensible Golf (Sensible Software) using fast memory, 68000 quitkey, snoop bugs removed (Info)
- 2022-06-19 improved: Deep Core (ICE) 68000 quitkey, joypad/2nd-button controls, many fixes, highscore saving added (Info)
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26.Jun.2022
Floppy (comment)
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AROS: Distribution Icaros Desktop 2.3 beta 220624
Paolo Besser released a beta version of his AROS distribution Icaros Desktop which contains the recent ABIv0 backports by Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz, but also other additions, and asks users willing to support it to test it. (snx)
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26.Jun.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: Clock port/Raspberry Pi interface
After the adapter board "A314" (amiga-news.de reported) Niklas Ekström now provides information under the title link for the reproduction of an interface with which communication between Amiga and Raspberry Pi is possible via the clock port.
After appropriate software adjustments, the developer hopes to be able to run services such as the file system a314fs, which enables access to directories of the Raspberry Pi, and the SANA II network driver via it. (snx)
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26.Jun.2022
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 135 (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. (snx)
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25.Jun.2022
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Music editor: MusicMaker V8 Version 3.16
As Thomas Winischhofer told us at the end of October last year, the development of his 'MusicMaker V8' was actually finished. Apparently, however, he always finds the time and inclination to fix minor bugs and to continue to maintain his sample-based music editor, which he started as a hobby project in 1986, so that since version 3.12, the fourth update to version 3.16 has now been released. Changes since our last report:
Version 3.16:
- Relocated prefs file (MM_V8.prefs) from S: to ENVARC:, if the latter exists (which is normally the case under OS2 and later). This also fixes the annoying requester when starting MM under 1.3.
- Installer: Install MM_V8.prefs to ENVARC: if available
- Installer: Ask if prefs file should be overwritten
- Installer: By default, do not install developer kit
- Add install script for AmigaDOS 1.3 since the installer needs >=2.x
Version 3.15:
- Filerequester: Fix long standing and potentially lethal sorting bug
Version 3.14:
- Filerequester:
- Make list display faster
- The path-resolving-bahavior described under the entry for 3.13 below was for OS2 and later. Now MM does the same under 1.3.
Version 3.13:
- Filerequester:
- fix race cond when typing a filename
- No longer resolve assigns when clicking "Parent"
(dr)
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25.Jun.2022
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Video: Dual boot with Amiga 500 and ACA500plus?
The musician and retro lover 'Ms Mad Lemon' got an ACA500plus expansion card for her Amiga 500 and presented it in a first video. In the latest video she now tests whether a dual boot of AmigaOS 1.3 and 3.1 is possible. (dr)
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25.Jun.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 8
'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. Here the eighth episode was published. (dr)
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25.Jun.2022
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Jump'n Run: Duckstroma released
After the second demo version was released at the beginning of June (amiga-news.de reported), the finished amiga version is now available and can be downloaded at a self-determined price.
In 'Duckstroma', as duck Aura you have the order to deliver eight floppy disks to a customer. To fend off all sorts of hostile enemies, you can jump on weak opponents and lay an egg to reach higher places (YouTube video). The game requires 1MB of RAM. (dr)
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24.Jun.2022
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Magnifier tool: Lupe 2.0 for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS
Matthias "UltraGelb" Böcker wrote: "'Lupe' continously magnifies an area of the screen and displays it in a window. The window can be resized and the scalefactor can be dynamically changed. Per default Lupe follows the mouse pointer and magnifies the area sourrounding the pointer, but it is also possible to have it magnify a freely setable fixed area. It can show colour values of the current pixel under the mouse pointer and also its coordinates. Additionally a grid can be enabled. Furthermore it can save the current window contents as IFF or PNG image."
Minimum requirements are AmigaOS 3.0 for the AmigaOS/68K version and MorphOS 3.0 for the MorphOS version. Saving images in PNG format needs additionally the zlib.library V3.2. Changes of version 2.0:
- Created MorphOS specific PNG icon and def_icon.
- Reworked the original documentation and made AmigaGuide files from it.
- Shows size of scaled area in window title now.
- The about window is now asynchronous and won't block Lupe anymore as long as it is open.
- Now has a proper $VER: version string.
- Added MagicBeacon support to the MorphOS version when an Image has been saved.
- Supports screennotify.library now and no longer blocks Workbench/Ambient when these want to reopen.
- Lupe can install a DOS notify on its icon in order to reload its tooltypes/config when the user changes some options there. Use ICONNOTIFY if you want Lupe checking its icon for changes.
- Added support for MorphOS extended window border gadgets 'Jump Screen' and 'Iconify'.
- Added GridColor argument to set the colour for the grid. The argument accepts a hexadecimal number in the format $RRGGBB or 0xRRGGBB. On MorphOS it's possible to also specify the alpha value like GC=$AARRGGBB.
- Grid rendering was completely broken on MorphOS. Fixed.
- Added PNG saver and respective menu option. PNG saver will save in 24 bit and won't save any alpha channel.
- Fixed true colour 24 bit IFF saver. Always only saved first 8 rows, failed on certain widths and didn't allocate bitmaps properly.
- Now uses wbmessage instead of Cli() to determine where it was started from.
- Added mouse wheel support to adjust scale factor.
- The Lupe window can be resized now by a fixed size step (the initial innerwidth/height is used) by pressing CTRL + cursor keys.
- Removed CurrentDir() stuff from saveiff(). Just using complete filename for Open() now.
- Some internal changes to argument parsing.
- Added IgnoreLupeWindow option. When enabled the Lupe window itself won't show up in the scaled bitmap anymore. This option requires MorphOS and Compositing enabled.
- Lupe won't try to jump to screens with no default title and no screen title anymore. Fixes the problem with JumpToActiveScreen and MorphOS blanker not being able to close its blanker screen when lupe jumped onto it.
- Added BeginRefresh()/EndRefresh() fixing the refresh problem with window borders on MorphOS after resizing the Lupe window.
- Pubscreenlist traversal could access illegal memory. Fixed.
- Ported C source code to E.
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24.Jun.2022
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Italian Print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 8
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euro) or printed (7,50 Euro, Amazon) form. Its current issue consists of 36 color pages and includes the following topics:
- COVERDISK: World Premiere Playable Demo of SNAKY - The Mysterious World!
- Many videogames reviewed: Riamel Black Prophecy, Atarenium Falcon, Flappadiddle, Emotiworld, Blockman Gets, Mr Poo's Journey
- Collectibles: some useful tips
- Special: Ocean Software
- Interviews with: with Renee Cousins the vampire slayer and Luca Stradiotto
- And also: Games & Tech News, Demo scene, New Talents, Mailbox
(dr)
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24.Jun.2022
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20190416-2
AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the new version 20190416-2 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-Bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). It includes about 1000 new changes added between April 2018 and April 2019 as well as upgrade of GCC to 6.5.0. This closes the 20190416 release cycle. The full change log is available under the title link. (dr)
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23.Jun.2022
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Short video tutorials: Programming with AMOS Pro (update)
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' has published two short tutorials on YouTube demonstrating basic steps of programming with AMOS Pro: In part 1, he shows how to use the 'INPUT' command to capture data entered by an user and display it on the screen. The second part is about validating the data captured in the first video and showing errors to the user if necessary.
Update: (25.06.2022, 21:48, dr)
Meanwhile, the third part has been published, showing how to save the data collected in the previous videos in a Random Access File. (dr)
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23.Jun.2022
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Announcement: 'PiStation ITX' board
The store 8bits4ever, which already offers various FPGA solutions for retro enthusiasts, plans to soon offer a board that is designed to accommodate a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 in a mini-ITX case. It features a DB15 connector for outputting VGA/RGB video signals to CRT TVs and monitors. A USB hub and two DB9 joystick ports are integrated.
The image output via the DB15 port requires a Linux distribution, such as Recalbox. Among other things, this distribution also supports AGA Amigas. Alternatively, other Raspberry Pi distributions can be run that use the HDMI output. (dr)
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22.Jun.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.1
For about a year, Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has been introducing the audio editor 'Rave' in status updates on his blog, today not only the recent blog entry on Jedlicka's project was published, but also the first public version was released.
Jedlicka describes the main features of the program as follows:
- A modern, configurable graphical user interface (GUI).
- A tabbed environment for managing multiple projects from within a single program window.
- Asynchronous operation: performing a task in a project doesn't block the other projects.
- Support for multiple clipboard units.
- Modular design with an object-oriented plugin system, which makes the program easy to extend.
- A wide range of supported audio file types and formats.
Rave requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 as well as A-EON's Enhancer Core. (cg)
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22.Jun.2022
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.2 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 5.2 and is now based on OpenSSL 3.0.4, which was released yesterday. (dr)
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22.Jun.2022
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AmigaOS 4: FTP server 'ZitaFTP' 1.33
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.33 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:
"I'm pleased to announce that ZitaFTP Server v1.33 is out now, and available for download. As usual, it's got one major new feature, and fixes for a bunch of niggling little issues.
Users can now get and renew their SSL certificates automatically via Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL. Both will let you create free certificates for your server, provided that it's visible over the internet (on the standard HTTP port 80).
You'll also need a domain name, and probably a Dynamic DNS (DDNS) service. Dynu is the one I used for testing, and you can get a subdomain from them for free. Other changes:
- Server settings UI wouldn't allow the maximum number of clients to be set to 0 (infinite). FIXED
- Server settings UI wasn't showing error messages immediately. FIXED
- Fixed a rare "SSL routines:ssl3_write_pending:bad write retry" error that could cause HTTP requests to be cut off
- Now recognizes HTTP proxy headers, so it won't treat proxy connections as local
- Local peer detection wasn't working properly for HTTPS connections. FIXED
- Fixed a possible SEGV fault if a receive error occurred before the start of an HTTP message (e.g., a client tries to establish an HTTPS connection on an HTTP port)
- Fixed a silly bug that flipped the HTTP port number's endianness."
A single license of 'ZitaFTP Server' costs around 47 Euros. The program can be tested free of charge for 30 days. (dr)
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21.Jun.2022
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Self-made project: 68060 accelerator board for Amiga 3000(T) and 4000(T)
Matthias Heinrichs has already developed several hardware projects: among others a Flickerfixer for Amiga 2000, 3000 and 4000 or Matzes graphics card for all Amigas equipped with Zorro slots. Now he has published documents for a turbo card for the Amiga A3000 and A4000(T), which can be equipped with up to 128MB SDRAM, a 68060CPU with 50/75/100MHz or a 68040 with 25MHz. (dr)
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21.Jun.2022
Robert Smith
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Video review: WinUAE & FloppyBridge
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin FloppyBridge, WinUAE is also officially supported since version 4.9.0 (amiga-news.de reported).
In a short video review, the developer looks back at the history of this project and gives an outlook on his current project. (dr)
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21.Jun.2022
Janne Peräaho
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AmigaOS 4: Creating XML files using RexXMLib
RexXMLib is an ARexx library that allows to write XML documents with ARexx scripts with minimal effort. For example, data can be converted to XML form, XML documents can be generated or a variety of XML data files, such as license keys, can be created algorithmically.
RexXMLib has support for PObjects schema (Amiga XML preferences file) allowing to easily create preferences files. RexXMLib comes with sample scripts that show how to create preferences files, license files, and XML databases. Features:
- Automatic indentation that ensures clean readble XML files
- Supports arbitrary XML element names, attributes, and attribute values
- Support for PObjects schema (Amiga XML preferences file)
- Support for fuzzy PObjects arguments
(dr)
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21.Jun.2022
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Farming simulation: Update of Farmiga
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de repoeted). On June 18 another update has been released. Changes:
- new mini-game (chicken flees from fox) is activated, the game is played with one chicken
- saving the game by clicking on the disk icon in the bottom menu
- more random appearance of boar and fox (without a specific tag)
- game packed with Titanics Cruncher to save space in ADF file
- mini-game: D - shoot a wild boar, L - the chicken running away from the fox
(dr)
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20.Jun.2022
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MorphOS: Real-time strategy game Vanilla Conquer V1.0 released
Artur Jarosik had ported the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer for AmigaOS 3 and called it "Vanilla Conquer" (amiga-news.de reported). Now Bruno "BeWorld" Peloille has released an SDL implementation for MorphOS 3.17 based on the source code. Also needed is the latest version 2.0.22 of the SDL libraries. (dr)
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20.Jun.2022
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The Amiga Buyer's Guide - Edition 2022
Carl Svensson deals with all facets of the Amiga: Besides his ARexx development environment RxEnv, he also devotes himself to philosophical topics time and again. Now, with his 2022 edition of his 'The Amiga Buyer's Guide', he provides assistance for all those who are concerned with the question of which of the classic Amiga models to buy today.
This guide is primarily aimed at those who have little or no previous Amiga experience, but experienced or former Amiga owners are sure to find one or two useful pieces of information as well. (dr)
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20.Jun.2022
Gunnar (ANF)
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Video preview: Space Invaders Remake
Arne von Boehn is writing a Space Invaders remake in 68K assembler on a Vampire4 standalone. The state of the game shown in this preview video was programmed in one day. It is not quite finished but already playable. Under the title link you can download the demo version and the assembler program code including all graphics and music files.
When the game is ready, the program code will be explained in the Amiga Homeschooling online course, showing how easy it is to program Amiga games. (dr)
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19.Jun.2022
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Chat software Pidgin 2.13.0r2 for AmiCygnix
Since today chat software Pidgin is available in version 2.13.0 release 2 for AmiCygnix at OS4Depot (screenshot). Pidgin supports several protocols which can be used in parallel.
New in this package:
- Update of the SSL/TLS layer GnuTLS to version 3.7.3
- Fixed Facebook plugin that didn't work anymore before
- Update of Skype plugin to version 1.7
- Update by libotr of the OTR plugin (off-the-record messaging) to version 4.1.1
- New Slack plugin (untested)
- Discord plugin not working at the moment!
- Spell checker updated
Protocols supported:
- 1. Pidgin package:
- AIM
- Gadu-Gadu
- Google Talk
- GroupWise
- ICQ
- IRC
- SIMPLE
- Sametime
- XMPP / Jabber
- Zephyr
- 2. Third party:
- Discord
- Facebook
- Skype (HTTP)
- Slack
- Twitter
Download: pidgin.lha (27 MB) (snx)
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19.Jun.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 157 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 157 (July/August 2022) have been published online now at the title link. Contents include reviews of "Junior's Great Adventure" and "Devil's Temple - Son of the Kung-Fu Master" as well as a preliminary report about the Amiga37 event.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
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19.Jun.2022
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Aminet uploads until 18.06.2022
The following files have been added until 18.06.2022 to Aminet:
NetFS-revised.lha comm/net 553K 68k Remote filesystem & AREXX bet...
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 662K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 663K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
AmiQuake2_AGA.lha game/shoot 1.1M 68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II
AmiQuake2_RTG.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II
gimastermind.lha game/wb 201K 68k GI Master Mind
qoi.lha gfx/conv 170K MOS Quite OK Image benchmark/conv...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.5M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.8M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
MED.90sDream.lha mods/misc 161K MED.90's Dream
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip text/bfont 1.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip text/pfont 1.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
Deark.lha util/arc 2.9M MOS Extract data from various fil...
qoi-datatype.lha util/dtype 11K 68k Datatype for the Quite OK Ima...
pfetch.lha util/moni 18K Pretty fetch for MorphOS
newmeter.lha util/wb 23K 68k Shows free RAM and storage as...
SteMarRegDOSScripts.lha util/wb 10K 68k 7 AmigaDOS scripts by Stefano...
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OS4Depot uploads until 18.06.2022
The following files have been added until 18.06.2022 to OS4Depot:
autodocviewer.lha dev/uti 124kb 4.1 AutoDoc viewer for OS4
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
pixy.lha gra/edi 7Mb 4.0 Pixel editor new generation
deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
amigainputanywhere.lha uti/har 303kb 4.1 Control mouse and keyboard with ...
wet_update.lha uti/wor 213kb 4.0 Wet weather software v6.8 patch
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19.Jun.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 18.06.2022
The following files have been added until 18.06.2022 to AROS Archives:
devtoolmsdos.zip dev/mis 38Mb Create with dosbox your game easily
whatiff1.05.lha doc/mis 494kb Magazine AmigaGuide Format June ...
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19.Jun.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.06.2022
The following files have been added until 18.06.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_28.73.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Deark_1.6.2.lha Files/Archive Extracting data from va...
Woof!_10.0.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Woof! is a continuation...
qoi.lha Graphics/Convert Quite OK Image benchmar...
AmiTube_1.1.lha Multimedia The first YouTube Clien...
NetFS-revised_3.1.lha Network/Filesystem Network File System for...
RNOPDF_1.5.lha Office/Show A compact PDF viewer.
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19.Jun.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.06.2022
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 18.06.2022:
- 2022-06-17 updated: Super Seymour saves the Planet (Code Masters/Optimus Software) patch redone, access faults fixed, highscore load/save, more trainer options, 68000 quitkey support (Info)
- 2022-06-13 improved: F/A-18 Interceptor (Intellisoft/Electronic Arts) added speed regulation, joypad controls, added ButtonWait, skipped code protection completely (Info, Image)
- 2022-06-13 improved: 7 Cities Of Gold (Ozark Softscape/Electronic Arts) fixed issue for 68000/68010 (Info)
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19.Jun.2022
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Amiga sighting: Microsoft says goodbye to Internet Explorer on Amiga 1000
Via the Twitter account of its current web browser "Edge", Microsoft says goodbye to its predecessor "Internet Explorer": now it would be time for it to surf the great web of heaven. The text is accompanied by an animation in which the logo of the browser lights up on the screen of a computer whose operating system it never ran on - an Amiga 1000. (snx)
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19.Jun.2022
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Editor: 'Lite XL' 2.0.3r2 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS released
At the end of last year George Sokianos had released the first version v1.16.12.3 of his port of the editor 'Lite XL' (amiga-news.de reported). The now available version is for the first time also available for MorphOS. He writes about it:
"I am delighted to inform you all that a few hours ago I released a new version of LiteXL, the v2.0.3r2, not only for AmigaOS 4.1 FE but also for MorphOS. For the first time, LiteXL runs on MorphOS, something I was working on for the last couple of months.
For all of you who love to use MorphOS, please give it a try and send me your feedback. How does it work? Is it fast on your system? Is it helpful for you for your development projects?
There are some known issues though. Some of them are SDL problems and some are LiteXL's ones, which I am working on fixing in future releases.
The MorphOS version wouldn't be possible without Bruno's "BeWorld" Peloille work. With his SDL port, his testing and help I managed to have LiteXL work quite well. Thank you so much Bruno for your support and the SDL fixes.
From now on, the AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS code is merged into one branch. This is necessary to simplify the work on both systems, fixing the same problems.
Of course, my work doesn't stop here. Your support with plenty of coffee, and the good words I hear from those who contacted me, give me the motivation to continue working on the next fixes and releases." (dr)
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19.Jun.2022
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Paperback: Bare Metal Amiga Programming
"Bare Metal Amiga Programming" is Edwin Van Den Oosterkamp's second paperback on programming the Amiga after Classic AmigaOS Programming - An introduction. This time the programming of the hardware bypassing the operating system is on the agenda. In this way, assembler programmers should learn to use the hardware to the maximum. (cg)
[News message: 19. Jun. 2022, 00:27] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jun.2022
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Full version of Riamel
'Riamel: Black Prophecy' was a sequel to the 1992 RPG Lords of Time written by Steve Postma, and for years only a demo version of this sequel had been floating around. The site "Amiga Games That Weren't", which collects information about unreleased Amiga titles, now reports about the efforts and finally the success to make the full version of this game available, which can also be downloaded there. (dr)
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17.Jun.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 7
'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. Here the seventh episode was published. (dr)
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15.Jun.2022
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Music: Amiga sound modules available as album
The musician Konsta 'DJ Muffler' Mikkonen has released some of his Amiga sound modules as album on Bandcamp which he composed in 1997/1998 and which were used in diverse demos and intros by Haujobb, Scoopex, DCS, Nah-Kolor and Loveboat. The music was composed with an Amiga 1200 and Protracker (4 x 8-bit audio channels / 28 kHz) and can be bought for 1 Euro or more. (dr)
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15.Jun.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.8.0 for Windows/Mac/Linux
An update to version 11.8.0 has been released for the workbench distribution AmiKit, which is intended for emulators. In addition to an emulator, AmigaOS 3.x and the Kickstart ROMs are required.
The changes include among others updates to MUI 5 and AmiSSL 5.1 as well as the latest versions of IBrowse (demo), Hollywood Player and AmigaAMP:
- AmiKit Morpheuz 11.7.0 by Jan Zahurancik
- UPDATED: ADiffView 2.2 by Uwe Rosner (with a code from M.Hertel)
- UPDATED: AmigaAMP 3.31 by Thomas Wenzel
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 5.1 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: Another World WHDLoad Slave 2.7 by Harry & JOTD
- UPDATED: Ask Your Amiga (AYA) 0.6 by ALB42
- UPDATED: DOpusFTP now uses passive transfers to maximize compatibility
- UPDATED: DOpusFTP address book (backup is created first, of course)
- UPDATED: HollyMan 9.1 - a Workbench Pacman clone by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: Hollywood Player 9.1 by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: hURL 1.2 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: IBrowse 2.5.6 (020/FPU) DEMO by Stefan Burstrom and Omnipresence Intl.
- UPDATED: iGame 2.1 (4-June-2022) by E.Vasilakis, D.Panokostas, G.Sokianos, C.Charabaruk and J.R.Santurde
- UPDATED: Infinite Music Player 3.382 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: MUI 5.0 (20210831) by Stefan Stuntz, Thore Bockelman and Jens Maus
- UPDATED: MUIbase 4.4 by Steffen Gutmann
- UPDATED: ScummVM RTG (Fullscreen) 2.2 by Artur Jarosik
- UPDATED: WHDLoad 18.8 (build 6478, 28-May-2022) by Bert Jahn et al.
- UPDATED: xvs.library 33.47 by Georg Wittmann
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15.Jun.2022
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Preview video: Beat'em Up 'Metro Siege'
In the latest preview video on the side-scrolling beat'em up Metro Siege (amiga-news.de reported), the developers show the latest changes and enhancements made to the game engine and the initial design of level 9. (dr)
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15.Jun.2022
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Video presentation: Michael Spindler on 'Akiko 32' and 'Akiko Portable'
On Saturday, 28.05.2022, the RETROpulsiv 15.1 took place at the university in Augsburg. During this event Michael Spindler gave a presentation (in German) about his 'Akiko 32'-Projekt project and reported on the current status.
The Akiko32 is an Amiga-AGA compatible computer with extensions in modern mini ITX format. The board is a hobby development and appears as open source for non-commercial purposes. On the board is a 68030 processor in PGA form factor, which can be clocked with 14MHz or 50MHz and also the complete AGA chipset (Alice, Lisa, Paula). To save ICs, not the usual combination like in the A1200 (Budgie, Gayle, CIAs) was used, but an Akiko IC which does almost the same tasks in the CD32. Currently the developer is working on the network card, which is based on the ZorroLAN.
Simultaneously, the developer has been working for a good half year on the 'Akiko Portable', an Amiga to go, which is not an emulation. This is supposed to fulfill the following requirements:
- as thin as possible
- two to three hours of battery operation targeted
- 14 inch display
- conversion of Amiga signals to the TFT display
- USB-C power supply
- Compact Flash card routed to the outside
- Notebook keyboard with number pad
- Trackpad
- USB for data exchange
The goal is to present a first early prototype at Amiga37. (dr)
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14.Jun.2022
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Kickstarter campaign: The Gaming Chronicles - Episode 1 - The Amiga 500
Nicola Caulfield & Anthony Caulfield from London have produced films documenting the video games industry, in addition to various other documentaries for cinemas, broadcast and advertising. Their work includes "From Bedrooms to Billions", the history of the British video games industry from 1979 to the present day, released in 2014, and the sequel "From Bedrooms to Billions", entitled "The Amiga Years", released in May 2016 (amiga-news.de reported).
Over the years, hundreds of hours of filmed interview material have accumulated, not all of which has been included in previous films. The two were thus looking for a way to make this material available to everyone and present it in an informative and entertaining way. Thus the idea of the 'Gaming Chronicle's was born.
The Gaming Chronicles are specially created episodic content that covers certain topics in gaming or computer history in more detail. The crowdfunding campaign now launched for this is intended to help fund this project.
Over time, it is hoped that this work will become a digital film resource containing everything there is to know about the gaming industry. The goal is to produce a main documentary-style episode of 50-60 minutes, but also to create several self-contained featurettes totaling 40 minutes that will act as companion material to the main documentary and put all of this into a downloadable archive.
For this first installment, the filmmakers have decided to focus on the Commodore Amiga 500 computer, which was released 35 years ago this very year. The Kickstarter campaign, which runs through Sunday, July 10, 2022, has already raised about $18,400 of the 24,354 needed. (dr)
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14.Jun.2022
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #127 - Chip-RAM upgrade with RAMesses
In issue 127 of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton upgrades his Amiga 500 to 2MB Chip RAM using RAMesses introduced by us at the end of March: with this board developed by Andrew Hutchings it is possible to upgrade an Amiga 500, 2000 or the Commodore CDTV without soldering or cutting the motherboard. (dr)
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13.Jun.2022
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Weather tool: Wet 6.8 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young - among others http-handler, ReAction-GUI for XAD Avalanche or Netsurf ports - has released an update for his weather tool 'Wet', which now also uses AmiSSL 5. Furthermore, the proxy server tooltype format has changed and now needs to be 'https://proxy-server:port'. The update requires a previous installation of version 6.7. Wet is available for AmigaOS 3.9 and 4.
You can support the developer on his Ko-fi page. (dr)
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13.Jun.2022
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Video: Amiga Computer Buyers Guide 2022
For all old and new users interested in the Amiga, Ravi Abbott summarizes in his YouTube video the current possibilities to run Amiga software. The spectrum ranges from the 'THEA500 Mini' over FPGA Amigas like Minimig, UnAmiga, FPGA multisystems like FPGA Mister, Mist 1.4 and NeptUNO up to PowerPC based Amiga computers. (dr)
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13.Jun.2022
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Dock bar: WBDock 2 V2.604
Thomas Rapp has updated his dock bar 'WBDock 2' for AmigaOS 3.1 and to version 2.604. Changes:
- added special support for project icons with a default tool of Mount (for example from Devs/DosDrivers or Storage/DosDrivers): if the drive is already mounted, the context menu gets new items Unmount and Eject. If you run it again, it will eject the drive rather than issue an "already mounted" error message.
- added a new special position value which positions a dock relative to another dock. Using this you can implement sub-docks by adding wbdock config files to the dock.
- allows to change the icon label.
- supports multi-picture files using OS 3.9's PDTA_WhichPicture attribute.
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13.Jun.2022
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Jump'n Run: Progress report on 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night'
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes regularly informs on his Twitch channel about the latest progress and developments of his Jump'n Run 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night', which is developed with the Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has summarized this information on his project page with an update richly illustrated and reports among other things about the first implementations of the multi-layered, overlapping parallax system recently integrated into the Scorpion Engine into his game, the start of work on another graveyard level or the new, improved world map.
You can support the developer on his Patreon site. (dr)
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12.Jun.2022
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Aminet uploads until 11.06.2022
The following files have been added until 11.06.2022 to Aminet:
ign-addon-ods.lha biz/spread 208K OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
ignition.lha biz/spread 4.9M OS4 a modern spreadsheet
ignition-src.lha biz/spread 1.2M Sourcecode ignition 1.20
Amix550.lha comm/amiex 1.0M 68k AmiExpress BBS system redevel...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.3M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
Goblinking_Eduard.zip game/shoot 313K 68k Goblinking_Eduard
TinyInvaders.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k SPACE INVADERS poor clone in ...
RNOPDF.lha gfx/show 5.7M MOS Compact PDF viewer
RNOPDF_OS3.lha gfx/show 15M 68k Compact PDF viewer
RNOPDF_OS4.lha gfx/show 6.5M OS4 Compact PDF viewer
WhatIFF1.05.lha mags/misc 494K What IFF? #1.05-June-2022
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.5M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.8M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.3M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
igame_german_cat.lha util/misc 133K iGame german Catalog & new iG...
iGame-v2.1.lha util/misc 318K Frontend for WHDLoad
TestProgram.zip util/misc 671K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
avalanche1_6_german.lha util/pack 11K Avalanche German Catalog
wet_update.lha util/wb 213K AOS Wet weather info v6.7 patch
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12.Jun.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 11.06.2022
The following files have been added until 11.06.2022 to OS4Depot:
oo.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
igame_deu.lha gam/uti 133kb 4.0 german catalog & Logo for ig...
rnopdf.lha gra/vie 6Mb 4.1 Compact PDF viewer
download.lha net/ftp 45kb 4.0 File download utility: http, htt...
upload.lha net/ftp 27kb 4.0 File upload utility (FTP)
httphandler.lha net/mis 88kb 4.0 HTTP: device for accessing web-h...
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 208kb 4.1 Ignition addon for access ods-files
ignition.lha off/spr 5Mb 4.1 A modern spreadsheet
ignition-src.lha off/spr 1Mb 4.0 A modern spreadsheet (source)
avalanche_deu.lha uti/arc 11kb 4.0 german catalog for Avalanche 1.6
amigainputanywhere.lha uti/har 137kb 4.1 Control mouse and keyboard with ...
jasspa-memacs.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 JASSPA MicroEmacs under AmiCygni...
inputtest.lha uti/wor 1Mb 4.1 Test input devices assigned to L...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 11.06.2022
The following files have been added until 11.06.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
bePlayer_1.4.lha Audio/Players A simple music player u...
FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.3WI... Emulation FinalBurn Neo, an Emula...
ScummVM_2.6.0GIT.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
AmiNonogramPackEditor_... Games/Think A puzzle pack creator/e...
AmiNonogram_1.0.lha Games/Think AmiNonogram forces the ...
Wayfarer_3.8.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
RNOPDF_1.5.lha Office/Show A compact PDF viewer.
MouseSpotter_1.0.lha System/Ambient/Commodi... MouseSpotter helps you ...
WarpPNGdt_45.25.lha System/Datatypes PNG image datatype V45.22
AmiSSL_5.1_68k.lha System/Library/SSL OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
Nextvi.lha Text/Edit Nextvi is a vi/ex edito...
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12.Jun.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 11.06.2022
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 11.06.2022:
- 2022-06-11 improved: California Games (World of Wonders) correct DMA channels enabled, modulo problems fixed by correcting DDFSTOP, byte writes to volume register fixed (Info)
- 2022-06-06 new: Prey - An Alien Encounter (Almathera) done by JOTD (Info)
- 2022-06-06 improved: 7 Cities Of Gold (Ozark Softscape/Electronic Arts) fixed many gfx issues (Info)
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12.Jun.2022
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Event: Geit@Home #1 2022
From Friday, July 29, till Sunday, July 31 2022, members of the Amiga clubs Osnabrück and Steinfurt meet once again at Guido 'geit' Mersmann's home in Hörstel, Germany. Details can be found in our German news-item or at the title link. (snx)
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12.Jun.2022
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Farming simulation: Update of Farmiga
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, which he has named 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday he has released an update providing the following changes:
- Fences can be bought in the building shop
- Introduced tax system (it is best to start with potatoes, as long as you don't have any animals
- Every interval a boar appears and you have to shoot each one that emerges from behind the trees (if you miss one, you lose one seedling)
- improved loading of the program (no pop-up screens with graphics)
- much smoother and faster planting and harvesting
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11.Jun.2022
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AmiTube 1.1: 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.
With version 1.1 released today, the 'Fancy List' introduced a few days ago is integrated into the program: a new list function where title, description and thumbnail are displayed directly in the list (amiga-news.de reported). After switching to this variant, the images are loaded automatically, making it suitable only for faster Amigas/RTG or NG Amigas (YouTube video). The author tested the new feature on his Amiga 1200 with TF1260, AGA and 32 colors and found: "it’s not that bad, certainly fast enough to work with it." The changes in detail:
- Fancy movie list
- updated translation for italian and french
- encoding bug fixes (should show now umlauts and other non ASCII chars in title and description)
- smaller bugs fixes related downloading movies
The current version can be downloaded from the AmiTube website or installed via the update check in AmiTube. (dr)
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11.Jun.2022
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PDF viewer: RNOPDF 1.5 for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS
The developer 'jPV^RNO' has updated the pdf viewer 'RNOPDF' to version 1.5 which belongs to some other RNO applications like e.g. the FTP(S) client RNOXFER or the DTP application RNOPublisher. Changes:
- Added the JPEG support for exporting
- Exporting can be aborted with the Esc key
- More options when exporting via ARexx
- Added "Search next" and "Search back" options
- More complete localization support
- Added an Italian catalog (thanks Luca!)
- Older versions of reqtools.library work too (v38)
- Added window resizing options in the Control menu
RNOPDF is available for AmigaOS 3/4 (for OS3 currently being uploaded to the Aminet) and MorphOS as well as for Windows and Mac.
The suthor appreciate any kind of feedback and support. (dr)
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