19.Feb.2022
|
Video: The history of the Amiga 1000
In his eighth eposide on Commodore's history, the well-known Texan YouTuber The 8-Bit Guy has recorded a video explaining the Amiga 1000. (dr)
[News message: 19. Feb. 2022, 12:59] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
18.Feb.2022
|
Text adventure: Updates for Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut)
In mid-June 2021 we reported about the remake of the text adventure Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), which was released for numerous platforms. In the meantime, several updates have been released, which also affect the Amiga version: Release 8 mainly corrected spelling errors, while Release 9 helped to improve the overall performance of the Amiga version, since it uses a new "Z-Machine Version 5"-enabled interpreter. The presumably last update 12, released three weeks ago, "fixes an issue with the PunyInform library that caused a few of the interpreters to throw warnings when playing, particuarly the Amiga and Atari ST version of the game." (dr)
[News message: 18. Feb. 2022, 09:23] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
18.Feb.2022
|
Fundraiser: Preserving Commodore documents
Two days ago Dave McMurtrie of the Commodore International Historical Society and Brian Bagnall, known for his books about Commodore's company history, started a fundraising campaign to finance the retrieval of Commodore documents from a basement archive in Toronto. Brian Bagnall writes about this:
"These documents were gathered in 1965 and contain information about Commodore’s co-founders, including three days of interviews with Manfred Kapp and five days with Jack Tramiel. There are corporate logs (called minute books) and financial documents that can uncover some strange paths the company took, such as a foray into the hotel business in the Bahamas, and the unique story behind Commodore Jamaica. And much more.
In 2020, both Dave McMurtrie of the Commodore International Historical Society and Brian Bagnall, author of Commodore: A Company on the Edge, independently requested documents from the archives. However, the archives were shut down due to the crisis and only reopened in late 2021. Now we have been able to jointly request scans of the documents, but it comes with a steep price. The examination interviews with Tramiel and Kapp amount to 570 pages. At over a dollar per page that the archivist charges, this adds up fast. We want to unearth more than just the examination interviews, we want the thousands of other pages of business records, financial documents, sworn testimony, and evidence.
What it comes down to is we need your help! The best way to preserve these documents before they are lost to time is to back them up digitally and disperse them across the Internet. We will upload the documents to the Internet Archive so they have a permanent and reliable repository for future generations to explore."
Accordingly, one page costs around one US dollar. The initiators had issued the goal of 2000 Canadian dollars, which was already exceeded yesterday with over 3000 donated dollars. Accordingly, Brian Bagnall wrote:
"Thanks to everyone for helping us reach our goal in a matter of hours! It was much more than Dave or myself expected. Today we submitted an order for the first batch of 570 pages of interviews and should see the scans within two weeks if all goes well. The next request is a list of documents drawn up by Dave that includes notes from Commodore Jamaica director's meetings, corporate minute books, and some other evidence from Commodore Drycopy in New York. What we find will help guide us to other documents we might want to request after that. With 314 boxes, I don't think the well of documents will run dry anytime soon." (dr)
[News message: 18. Feb. 2022, 06:20] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
17.Feb.2022
Gotek-Retro
|
RaSCSI: SCSI adapter for Raspberry Pi
In 2015, we reported about SCSI2SD, a SCSI adapter that allows SD cards to be used as SCSI hard drives. The firmware is still being maintained and the adapter is also still available, but it costs just under 90 Euros converted. As Gotek-Retro reports, there is also a solution for Raspberry Pi users: RaSCSI is a virtual SCSI device emulator that can emulate multiple SCSI devices at once. Likewise, there is a control interface to attach/detach drives on the fly, as well as insert and eject removable media. It works with a variety of Amiga models. The adapter is available for about 50 Euro for example at SamplerSpa or AmigaKit. (dr)
[News message: 17. Feb. 2022, 06:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
16.Feb.2022
|
Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.6
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. The changes of the current version:
- Better extraction of disk revolutions and a few bugs fixed
- Accurate flux extraction available but experimental so you can choose to use it or not (can't handle some long-track disks)
- Modification of older flux reading method for more better compatability
- New firmware *1.9.23* includes basic PLL support for UAE to provide better support for games using Weak/Flaky bits
- Improved IPF & SCP writing by changing some of the parameters
- Console application now has an icon and version information
- Tidied up some of the assembly language in the Arduino Sketch
(dr)
[News message: 16. Feb. 2022, 08:30] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
15.Feb.2022
ACube Systems (Mail)
|
ACube Systems: Sam460LE boards announced / Pre-order campaign
Press release: After many months, we are so happy to announce we are very close to a production start for a new batch of Sam460 boards.
Well, these will not be Sam460 but Sam460LE, i.e. Limited Edition.
Due to the pandemic time and huge delays in delivering hardware components, we had to spend a lot more time than planned to find all components for a production run. Finally, we reached a point where we need your help to start this production.
We are now taking pre-orders for these Sam460LE boards. You can find a pre-order product right now in our online shop.
All Sam460LE bundles are made of:
- Sam460LE board running up to 1.1 Ghz
- Micro-ATX form factor with enough space for double slot graphic cards ;-)
- MicroSD Slot at the rear of the board, so it can operated from the back.
- 1 backplate
- AmigaOS 4.1 FE
- final price is 735 Euros VAT excluded (european countries should add 22% VAT).
Pre-orders will be processed as follows:
- you can pay now 240 Euros (VAT excluded, see above), for a Sam460 package
- we'll announce on all social media when the production starts
- we'll also announce when the production has been completed
- you will be asked one by one, to complete your payment (basically, the total cost minus what you paid as the pre-order)
- first payment, first served. We'll ship in the same order we receive the remaining payments.
- in case you decide to ask for a refund, we'll send your money back without condition.
Note: people that will purchase outside the scope of this pre-order offer will have to pay a final price of 785 Euros for the same product.
We are happy to work with you on this effort to bring more Sam460 boards on the market and we hope you will join us in this project! (dr)
[News message: 15. Feb. 2022, 05:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
15.Feb.2022
|
Commercial RPG: Glamorous Zombie Flakes (OCS/AGA/RTG)
The developers of 'Glamorous Zombie Flakes' describe it as an "oldschool, console-style RPG", where the player must guide a group of models to cure zombies of their bizarre affliction and chase UFOs. The title features more than 30 different zombie types, more than 100 items and a turn-based strategy "intervention" system.
On AGA or RTG machines, the game supports 256 colors. There's a special build for OCS based Amigas that uses the EHB mode featuring 64 colors. 'Glamorous Zombie Flakes' requires a 68040 CPU, 3.5 MB RAM as well as AHI and can be bought from itch.io for 14 USD (or any higher amount).
A few days ago, additional "experimental" Amiga builds that run faster on AGA machines and support CD32 joypads have been released. (cg)
[News message: 15. Feb. 2022, 00:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
14.Feb.2022
Robert Smith
|
Video: How Floppy Disk Copy Protection Worked
In the first episode of his two-part series on floppy disks, Robert Smith, best known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, explained how data is stored on a floppy disk, both physically and computer-wise. In the second episode, he goes into some of the physical copy protection methods used to prevent hard disk duplicates from working. (dr)
[News message: 14. Feb. 2022, 19:05] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
13.Feb.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
|
Hollywood plugin: Plananarama 2.0 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, continue Hollywood's 20th anniversary celebrations with yet another major new release: Plananarama 2.0. Plananarama is the magic plugin which allows Hollywood scripts to be run on classic Amiga hardware without any graphics board. Once Plananarama is installed, all Hollywood scripts will 'automagically' run on palette screens as well! All resolutions are supported - from 8-bit LowRes to 1-bit productivity SuperHighRes Interlace.
Version 2.0 is a major update which makes use of many new features offered exclusively by Hollywood 9. By integrating seamlessly with Hollywood 9's new palette interface, it is now possible to write scripts which make use of the Amiga's custom chip hardware for a much better performance. Here is a non-exhaustive list of the new features in Plananarama 2.0:
- support for Amiga hardware sprites
- direct access to color registers for all kinds of effects like color cycling and fading
- true palette based drawing without any color remapping
- Unicode support
- screen menus are now supported
- drag'n'drop support
- guigfx.library and render.library are only needed when in remapping mode
- added a fully featured documentation in AmigaGuide, PDF and HTML
- added three new example scripts demonstrating the new features like hardware sprites
- several bug fixes and other improvements
Plananarama 2.0 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. For its basic functionality Plananarama requires Hollywood 6 but all the new functions introduced in version 2.0 require Hollywood 9 which is why we highly recommend upgrading to Hollywood 9 if you haven't done that yet.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood we also offer a special 20 euros discount on the full version of Hollywood for a limited time only. This is the perfect chance for all people who don't own Hollywood yet to grab their own copy and to explore the wonderful world of Hollywood and be fascinated by the gigantic functionality of this unique piece of software and all of the plugins that come with it! (dr)
[News message: 13. Feb. 2022, 20:30] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
13.Feb.2022
|
Aminet uploads until 12.02.2022
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to Aminet:
SonosController_MOS.lha comm/misc 2.3M MOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3.lha comm/misc 2.0M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3fp... comm/misc 2.0M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS4.lha comm/misc 2.8M OS4 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_WOS.lha comm/misc 2.4M WOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
rasm.lha dev/cross 1.3M MOS Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.2M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
mon165src.lha dev/moni 150K 68k Source for Amiga Monitor
adfZ.lha disk/misc 7K 68k read/write ADF from/to disks,...
HydraDriver145src.lha driver/net 29K 68k Hydra Amiganet driver + source
scummvm-1.7.0-rtg.lha game/misc 5.0M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 1.7.0
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 332K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
webptools122_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.4M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 22M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
Vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha text/edit 12M x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-amigaos.lha text/edit 14M OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-morphos.lha text/edit 13M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
base64.i386-aros.lha util/conv 249K x86 Encode/decode file as base64
AmiSSL-4.12.lha util/libs 5.7M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 542K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 121K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 155K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
(snx)
[News message: 13. Feb. 2022, 07:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
13.Feb.2022
|
OS4Depot uploads until 12.02.2022
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to OS4Depot:
sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your...
reactivec_lib.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Reactive C Library
sminkiator.lha gam/mis 6Mb 4.1 Randomize world for fun
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 22Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
mrwolf.lha net/mis 32kb 4.0 Pool-friendly SNTP time sync client
amigattext.lha uti/mis 3Mb 4.1 Shows German ARD/ZDF Teletext fr...
vim_mui.lha uti/tex 14Mb 4.1 The ubiquitous text editor
(snx)
[News message: 13. Feb. 2022, 07:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
13.Feb.2022
|
AROS Archives uploads until 12.02.2022
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to AROS Archives:
whatiff1.01.lha dem/mag 24kb December 2021
whatiff1.02.lha dem/mag 162kb January 2022
vim-8.2.i386-aros.lha dev/edi 12Mb The ubiquitous text editor
sminkiator-1.1.lha gam/mis 6Mb Randomize world for fun
burgerspace.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 617kb Similar to BurgerTime (1982)
amigangwallpaper.lha gra/the 13Mb AmigaNG Wallpapers (1080p)
installerlg.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 121kb Commodore Installer replacement
(snx)
[News message: 13. Feb. 2022, 07:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
13.Feb.2022
|
MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.02.2022
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
RASM_1.6.lha Development/Cross Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
SDL_2.0.20_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.2...
SonosController_1.2.lha Devices/Speakers Control your Sonos spea...
GenesisPlus_2.2.lha Emulation Genesis-Plus emulates t...
Sminkiator_1.1.lha Games/Misc Randomize words for fun
AmiSSL_4.12_68k.lha System/Library/SSL OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
InstallerLG_1.0.lha System/Shell Commodore Installer rep...
Vim_8.2.4291.lha Text/Edit A highly configurable t...
(snx)
[News message: 13. Feb. 2022, 07:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
13.Feb.2022
|
WHDLoad: New installers until 12.02.2022
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 12.02.2022:
- 2022-02-12 improved: Seven Gates of Jambala (Thalion) long write to Bplcon2 fixed, access faults fixed, CD32/2-button joystick support, lots of trainer options added, 68000 quitkey support, access faults fixed, support for Grandslam and Thalion intros added, source code included (Info)
(snx)
[News message: 13. Feb. 2022, 07:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
13.Feb.2022
Amiga Future (website)
|
Kultmags.com: All issues of Amiga DOS magazine archived
At kultmags.com, german computer and video game magazines of the 80s, 90s and early 2000 years are digitized and preserved for posterity with permission of the respective copyright holders. Recently, the final eight issues missing to complete the Amiga DOS collection ("The magazine for active Amiga users") could be added. (snx)
[News message: 13. Feb. 2022, 07:40] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
| |
| Recent Discussions |
 |
|
|
|
| Latest Top-News |
|
|
|
|
| amiga-news.de |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
