05.Feb.2022
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Shoot'em up: Fifth demo version of Jackal
NeesoGames has released the fifth demo version (YouTube video) of its game a href="https://neesogames.itch.io/jackal-amiga-port">Jackal, created with the Scorpion Engine. The shoot 'em up was also submitted as an entry for AmiGameJam 2021. Changes since fourth demo version:
- Game Over screen and music
- Bomber plane dropping bombs (Level 2)
- Golden statues shoot missiles (Level 2)
- Level 2 boss fight
- Credits after level2 result screen (to complete the game loop)
- Bugfixes and improvements
(dr)
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05.Feb.2022
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Video interview with AmigaDOS creators
The YouTube channel The Digital Orphanage has done an interview with Dr Tim King and his wife Jessica about their important contribution to the release of the Amiga 1000 computer. Without the TRIPOS operating system, the release of the Amiga would have been significantly delayed. The interview was recorded on 1 October 2021. (dr)
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05.Feb.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 25 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. Now the episode 25 was published, which is also about sprites and its collision detection.
(dr)
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04.Feb.2022
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Emulator: WinUAE 4.9.1
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been updated to version 4.9.1. Changes:
Bug fixes of version 4.9.0
- JIT indirect was unstable.
- JIT enabled + emulated (not uaegfx) RTG board corruption was possible in certain situations.
- Direct 3D 11 mode shader buffer leak.
- x86 AT bridgeboard (A2286 and A2386SX) boot crash.
- PCem RTG board 15 and 16-bit lores modes didn’t horizontally double correctly.
- Remove interlace artifact option added 1 scanline offset to bitplanes and sprites.
- Custom chipset and programmed display mode updates and fixes.
Older bug fixes
- Mouse would start moving erratically if emulator has been running continuously more than 10 hours.
- Integer scaling only worked correctly if horizontal (lores, hires, superhires) and vertical resolution (non-doubled, doubled) matched.Filtered lores had wrong colors if host graphics mode was 16-bit.
- NTSC mode and software switch to PAL: display was incorrectly vertically stretched.
- Software YUV based filters had bad colors (32-bit only)
- Paula configured for 4us (GCR) mode but normal 2us MFM disk in drive: disk index reporting was unreliable.
Updates
- Programmed display mode improvements (positioning, blanking etc)
- uaegfx Picasso96 overlay now works correctly with screen dragging.
New features
- It is now possible to type (almost) normally in warp mode. Keyboard key (if non-qualifier key) presses are released immediately in warp mode.
- Epson printer emulation does not anymore print each page as a separate document.
- Added IDE scsi.device disable hack. Makes booting noticeably quicker on OS39 and newer KS versions if mainboard IDE is not needed.
- PCem Cirrus Logic SVGA emulation planar support enabled. Picasso96 supports 4bit/16 color planar mode.
- "Default" filter and integer scale filters now automatically double horizontal or vertically if horizontal and vertical resolutions are different (for example lores + vertical doubling)
(dr)
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04.Feb.2022
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 2.2
At the beginning of October, developer 'jasonsbeer' had announced revision 2.0 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX'. Now he has released revision 2.2 on his GitHub website, which adds a TICK header with three options for generating a TICK signal. (dr)
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04.Feb.2022
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Mini-game: Demo version of EmotiWorld
Although Amiten Games continues to devote most of their time to their main project CyberPunk Alien City, there is still time for smaller side projects: In the course of a Spanish-language AMOS tutorial on the use of tiles, a mini-game called EmotiWorld was created, which is currently available in a demo version 0.3 and already contains three levels (YouTube video). (dr)
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04.Feb.2022
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Unsatisfactory Software: Updates of tools
In the last few days Unsatisfactory Software has updated some of its tools:
FACTS is the first GUI-based clock synchronization program for the Amiga. It logs on to any NTP server and uses either the time of day, time (tcp/udp) or SNTP services to keep the Amiga clock accurate. The tool has been updated to version 5.10 for AmigaOS as of Kickstart 2.0.4, which includes improvements to keep NTP pool usage as well as a complete overhaul of the time calculation to improve accuracy.
Mr.Wolf is the official successor of the clock synchronisation program YoctoFacts (yfacts) for AmigaOS 4 and now offers an built-in SNTP client.
With Avalanche Unsatisfactory Software has released a simple, graphical ReAction GUI for the unarchiving system XAD. Version 1.3 of this has already been released, which now also allows multiple files to be selected. (dr)
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03.Feb.2022
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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7-bit: Firmware update for Wicher 1211
7-bit has released a firmware update for the Wicher 1211 memory expansion card for the Amiga 1200 today, which includes fixes for the RAM controller and adds an SPI controller to the ZorroII card chain. (dr)
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03.Feb.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Void-Update für den AmigaOne X1000/5000
In the corresponding post in the Hyperion forum from the end of last week Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky reports about a new image of the Linux distribution Void Linux for the AmigaOne X1000 and 5000. (dr)
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02.Feb.2022
Gunnar Kanold
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Programming contest: BASIC 10Liner Contest
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some sound or colorful lines by writing little BASIC programs.
The organizers wrote: "The BASIC 10Liner Contest started 2011 as a party fun at the NOMAM meeting in Northern Germany. NOMAM means 'Not only marvelous Atari machinery' and is an annual meeting from classic computer enthusiasts. The visitors of the meeting decided to hold a little contest: Write a program in 10 lines of BASIC on Atari Computers! We had loads of fun with programming the whole weekend. 2013 we decided to repeat the contest. This time only games were allowed. In 2014 we opened the 10Liner contest also for programmers who did not visit to the meeting. Owners of other 8 bit computer requested to open the contest for their machines. We met the wish and opened it for all 8 bit computers."
This year the 11th Edition of BASIC 10 Liner Contest takes place. And also Amigas as 16 bit computers can partiticipate: In the category "Wild" those contributions can be sent in. You can get some inspiration from contributions of the previous years. Additional to many little games, two programs for the Amiga were also written: In 2018 Matteo Trevisan wrote an "Amiga BASIC Login" (fourth post) and in 2019 an "Amiga 500 Chatbot", listet as first post.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 26, 2022, 6 p.m. CET. Award ceremony: Saturday, April 9, 2022 at NOMAM. A detailed overview of the submitted programs can be found at bunsen.itch.io. (dr)
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02.Feb.2022
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Text viewer: NEXT 4.1
In 2002 Jürgen Klawitter reported us for the last time a new version of his text viewer NEXT (version 3.5), the last public version 4.0 was from May 31, 2011. But as the author writes, NEXT is much more than a pure text viewer: it is also Amigaguide replacement, HTML offline browser, DataTypes viewer, uncruncher, unpacker of archives, file converter, print utility and some more. This versatility is also the reason why the program was installed from the beginning on my Amiga 1200, integrated via ToolsMenu. Next also has a very powerful search function, which marks all occurrences of a searched term at the same time and allows searching with wildcards and in binary files.
As the author explains to us when asked, he has not been involved with programming and the Amiga since 2011 and has devoted himself to other hobbies. His Amiga hardware, an A3000 and a second floppy drive, were given away. Only a Zip drive, which was never used before, is in the depot. His turning away from the Amiga at that time had among other things to do with the fact that he couldn't read or use PDFs and other files that were common in the PC world.
The return to programming, Jürgen Klawitter continues, came in this winter of 2021/22, which also limited him in his leisure activities and caused boredom. So he came up with the idea to install WinUAE on his laptop:
"After this was successful, I tried out how much of my former programming knowledge was still left. Surprisingly much, actually everything was still there! Nevertheless, there were difficulties to understand the source code of the more extensive programs again. Next has about 20000 lines, Anno (calendar) and OMon (system monitor) about 6000 lines each.
Parts of it are quite complicated. I then started to implement small improvements, first with Anno, later with Next. With Next, I was particularly annoyed by the fact that I had not managed to get the converted text from docx files into a reasonable form. I finally found details of the format on the internet and a tag () that was responsible for the outline in paragraphs. That was the breakthrough."
NEXT formats loaded text before it is displayed. In the process, lines that are too long are wrapped at word boundaries and characters that cannot be displayed are replaced by spaces. Color, style, and print control sequences are preserved.
Finally, a small test shall show how Word files are loaded, for which the following example poem - written and saved in Word 2010 - shall serve us:
To load a Word document either UnZip is needed or the XAD system. For the use of the latter one goes either over the menu option "Use XAD" or creates itself a "next.prefs" text file under Prefs/Env-Archive with the contents "XAD". In this configuration file you can also define window dimensions, font and colors for the text display.
As Jürgen Klawitter writes, from files of the Microsoft word processors Word and Write (extensions .doc or .docx and .wri) the plain text is extracted and formatted. For Word documents with the extension .doc, references to footnotes and the footnotes themselves are numbered ([1],[2]...). The same applies to annotations, recognizable by the preceding "A"([A1],[A2]...). Since a docx file is always a zip archive, it takes two steps to get to the text: Next, after selecting a docx file, presents the contents in a small window. Each archive contains 10 or more xml files, which contain stylesheets, images, comments and footnotes, but only one of them contains the text:
By selecting "word/document.xml" you can now see the text:
As you can see, the conversion of .docx files results in pure continuous text, without styles. The information about them is in stylesheets, which are hidden in the other files. As the author writes, "taking stylesheets into account would require a disproportionate amount of extra work, which I do not want to do – if at all possible." (dr)
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02.Feb.2022
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AmiKit XE: Preconfigured front end AmiLion 1.3
AmiLion is a front end with wallpaper backgrounds for the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE, written in Hollywood for quickly accessing Rabbit Hole programs like Firefox, VLC or Steam as well as website links like Aminet, Wikipedia or YouTube. Besides Windows 10, the Raspberry Pi also is fully supported.
Changes of version 1.3 of the application, written by Vincent Perkins:
- Raspberry Version Completed (Amikit XE 11.7 or Amiberry 4.1.6 or Higher)
- LionGUI now working On RapaGUI 2.0
- Three New Wallpapers
- Taskbar Start Icon Added
- Beta Version Removed Due to being part of the Main App now
- Updated Source codes and guides
- Free Open sourced version
- Wallpapers Removed (Many will be made freely available on AmigaNG Website)
- Updated Guide
(dr)
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01.Feb.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 beta 9
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new beta version of his Amiga emulator for macOS which is currently under development. The changes version 1.1 beta version 9 are as follows:
- Enhancements:
- The hardware config panel has been split into a separate chipset panel and a memory panel.
- Compatibility:
- The DDF logic has been reworked from scratch based on the Agnus schematics.
- The HBLANK area has been shortened and moved (#637, #584, #575).
- Bug fixes:
- The Copper can’t trigger at cycle $E3 any more.
- Fixed a bug in the LINK command that had been introduced recently.
- Fixed some Sanitizer warnings.
(dr)
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01.Feb.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of January
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published a richly illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of applications and games for AmigaOS 4 in the month of January. (dr)
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01.Feb.2022
Alexandre Balaban (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4.1: CompareDirs compares directories
Using CompareDirs the directory structure of two directories can be compared, including all files. The result window shows the files with size and date. Alexandre Balaban's tool can be controlled either from the shell or via Reaction GUI.
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed incorrect file size displayed in GUI during file copy
- Added German guide translation and catalog by Helmut Haake
- Added entry update after context menu operation (Elwood)
- Fixed bad copyright year in about dialog (Corto)
- Fixed French translation typo in about dialog (Corto)
- Added ability to show file in WB (Origin, Issue#50)
- Added support for icon drop on new comparison window
- Fixed possible crash in new comparison code due to random memory access
(dr)
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31.Jan.2022
Twitter
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ACube Systems: Appeal for reporting AmigaOS 4.1 compatible hardware
ACube Systems asks in their Twitter message today to report AmigaOS 4.1 compatible hardware so that the AmigaOS 4.1 Hardware Compatibility List can be completed. (dr)
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31.Jan.2022
Twitter
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Aracade game: Green Beret released (update)
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine.
Basically, the game is not meant to be a 1:1 port. The player is much more "agile", as he can stab from ladders, for exampl). It also brings some advantages, such as permanently dropped items and more colors (due to the use of the Amiga Copper chip, which adds additional screen colors). Also, there is newly arranged music by DJ Metune instead of the simple military march (more tracks will be added through ongoing updates).
The game runs on any Amiga with 512KB Chip RAM and 512KB Fast RAM.
Update: (06.02.2022, 07:02, dr)
As the developer reports on its Twitter channel, it has updated the game several times since its release: for example, an initial update that allowed the player to jump higher has been withdrawn. Many players had complained that this higher jump ruined the game, as it defeated the purpose of ladders: you could simply jump to reach another floor. The developer has now adjusted the jump so that the player can still jump from truck to truck or over land mines in the first level, but just not reach a higher floor with it.
In the update released today, a new music track was added, which will be played in stages 2 and 4. (dr)
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31.Jan.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: How Data is Encoded and Stored on Floppy Disks
Robert Smith, known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has now published the first part of a two-part series on floppies, following his tutorial on porting a Christmas game from HTML5 to AMOS. In it, he takes a look at how data is stored on a floppy disk, both physically and computer-wise. The second part will be about different copy protection methods. (dr)
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30.Jan.2022
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Developer blog: Status update on RGBtoHDMI board
Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about the latest progress and developments of projects he is involved in.
In his latest entry Amiga RGBtoHDMI Boards Update – January 2022 he summarizes the state of development regarding his version of the RGBtoHDMI adapter, which is based on the RGBtoHDMI project and is a further development of the Amiga VideoSlot RGBtoHDMI adapter for the Amiga2000 by 'Bloodmosher': The goal of the RGBtoHDMI project is to feed raw digital RGB data into a Raspberry Pi Zero, which then outputs it via HDMI to produce a pixel-perfect display of the image with low latency.
Among other things, he reports that he has developed an RGBtoHDMI tester so that homemade RGBtoHDMI adapters do not have to be tried out on a real Amiga and possibly damage it (can also be purchased). Furthermore he describes the changes he has made in the meantime to the respective versions for Amiga 500, Amiga 1000 and Amiga 2000. Also here he shows possibilities where these can be purchased. The possession of a Raspberry Pi Zero is assumed in each case. (dr)
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30.Jan.2022
Reddit
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Preview: Eleven upcoming Amiga games for 68k Amigas
The YouTube channel it's a P/XEL thing gives a playful preview of eleven Amiga games announced for 2022. (dr)
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30.Jan.2022
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Aminet uploads until 29.01.2022
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to Aminet:
facts.lha comm/tcp 249K 68k NTP clock time synchroniser A...
FactsItaCat.lha comm/tcp 16K Italian catalog for Facts v5.10
asm3210.lha dev/asm 156K Cross assembler for DSP3210 c...
aqb-0.8.2.lha dev/basic 435K 68k A BASIC Compiler+IDE for Amig...
progress.lha dev/c 27K 68k Simple progress bar display f...
dis8080.i386-aros.lha dev/cross 68K x86 Disassembler for Intel 8080 p...
dis8080_OS4.lha dev/cross 67K OS4 Disassembler for Intel 8080 p...
HWP_Iconic.lha dev/hwood 109K Load and save various icon fo...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Compute.lha misc/math 11K 68k Command line calculator
SpeedPDF_1.0.lha text/dtp 5.3M MOS Fast PDF viewer
P96ScreenCx.lha util/cdity 8K 68k P96 Multi-Monitor Mouse Movement
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 627K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 718K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 795K OS4 Multipurpose utility
ScriptSpeed.lha util/misc 11K 68k Test script execution speed
TestProgram.zip util/misc 450K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
AIBB_Emu68.lha util/moni 2K 68k AIBB 6.5 module f. A500 w/ Em...
PM.lha util/moni 20K 68k Lightweight+accurate CPU usag...
TaiwanMOS.lha util/sys 1K Taiwan country for MorphOS an...
dintwm.lha util/wb 27K 68k Dynamic Intuition Window Manager
StartWin.lha util/wb 108K 68k A bugged workbench launch bar
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30.Jan.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 29.01.2022
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to OS4Depot:
dis8080.lha dev/cro 67kb 4.0 Disassembler for Intel 8080 proc...
reactivec_lib.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Reaction C Library
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
freegemas.lha gam/puz 6Mb 4.1 Tile-matching puzzle video game
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 22Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
hwp_iconic.lha lib/hol 109kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for icon loader
gfxbench2d.lha uti/ben 2Mb 4.0 A 2D graphics benchmark tool
amigattext.lha uti/mis 3Mb 4.1 Shows German ARD/ZDF Teletext fr...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 795kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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30.Jan.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 29.01.2022
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
dis8080.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 68kb Disassembler for Intel 8080 proc...
regina-doc.pdf doc/dev 1Mb The Regina Rexx Interpreter doc
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30.Jan.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.01.2022
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
Blues_R2.lha Games/Platform Blues Brothers,Jukebox ...
SpeedPDF_1.0.lha Office/Show A fast PDF viewer
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