12.May.2022
Twitter
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.8.0 for Raspberry Pi 4/400
The update to version 11.8.0 (changelog) of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the Raspberry Pi 4/400 single board computer contains updated Amiga programs as well as the recently released version 5.1 (amiga-news.de reported) of the emulator AmiBerry which AmiKit is based on. Likewise there is now the possibility to update AmiKit with AmigaOS 3.2.1. (dr)
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11.May.2022
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Web emulator: vAmiga Online 0.9
At the end of November we reported about Christian Corti's web conversion of the Mac emulator vAmiga. He has now updated his project called 'vAmiga Online' to the latest version of the Mac emulator and furthermore preconfigured some demos and games which can be selected via the 'Rocket' button (second picture). According to our small test, the web emulator currently works fine with an original 1.3 ROM as well as 3.1 ROM (A600) provided by AmigaForever. Attempts with the AROS replacement ROMs or 3.1 ROMs od A1200 failed under Windows and using Firefox or Edge.
(dr)
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11.May.2022
Dirk Hoffmann
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.0
After several beta versions (amiga-news.de reported) the developer Dirk Hoffmann released the final version 2.0 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS yesterday. (dr)
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11.May.2022
Twitter (ANF)
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Vampire V4+ Standalone: Mini-ITX I/O Board
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has designed a simple, modular and cost-effective I/O Board im Mini-ITX Format for the FPGA-based motherboard Vampire V4+ Standalone, which facilitates installation in standard desktop or tower cases.
Those who want to rebuild the hardware can order the boards in Münch's customer accounts at PCBWay. The use for private users is free. Commercial use is prohibited. (dr)
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11.May.2022
PPA-Forum
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Arcade game 'Jump!': demo version available
At the end of last year we had the opportunity to (test) the alpha version of 'Jump!', a conversion of the game Yoomph, originally written for the Atari. The Polish developer Markus Duda now has released a demo version of his arcade game, so that everyone can get an impression for themselves. You need an Amiga 1200 with 14MHz and 4MB Fast RAM. The demo version offers three levels.
The game can be pre-ordered at the title link as a digital variant for 29 Euros or as a 'Boxed Version' for 45 Euros plus shipping (depending on the destination).
Download: jump_demo.zip (2,5 MB) (dr)
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10.May.2022
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Animations tool: VectorAnim Player
The group 'ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP', known among other things for the fantasy shooter Project Quest, which is currently in development, released a few days ago a simple animation playback and creation program, VectorAnim Player.
As one of the developers writes, he had been playing with the idea of creating animations as simple and small as possible on the Amiga for a long time. As a result this player was born. Compared to other similar players it uses vector data for the display as shown for example in The Black Lotus demo.
The program was written in AMOS, the source code is included in the archive. (dr)
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10.May.2022
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Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.3
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz's "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as well as Linux (amiga-news.de berichtete). Examples videos show the AROS desktop Wanderer (MP4) and gmPlayer (MP4) under Linux.
One user reported that he got AxRuntime to work also under Windows 10/11, whereupon the developer made some more adjustments and finally released version 41.3. The use under Windows succeeds with the use of the 'Windows Subsystem für Linux' (WSL). This feature enables the execution of Linux GUI applications:
- Launch Linux apps from the Windows Start menu
- Pin Linux apps to the Windows task bar
- Use alt-tab to switch between Linux and Windows apps
- Cut + Paste across Windows and Linux apps
Since AxRuntime binaries are Linux binaries, they can also use this feature to give impression of running nativelly under Windows.
(dr)
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09.May.2022
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m68k assembly: 'Amiga Assembly' plugin v1.4.0 for Visual Studio Code
We just reported about an updated 'C/C++' extension for Visual Studio Code and also referred to an extension to support assembler for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. This extension, called 'Amiga Assembly' by Paul Raingeard, has been intensively developed recently, made the leap from pre-release versions to version 1.0 at the end of last year and was updated to the current version 1.4.0 yesterday (changelog).
On GitHub the author provides a detailed documentation. (dr)
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09.May.2022
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.9
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM.
The new version 0.9.9 offers several improvements and bug fixes:
- Loading animation is now displayed during game loadings.
- F5-F10 Keys can be used as a shortcut for Play, Spritesheets, Animations, Objects, Tiles and Levels screens.
- Animation screen now shows animation frame shortcuts.
- Sounds are now also packed using Imploder.
- Editor now checks the project version before loading it, prompting for confirmation.
- In Game setup screen the game name and author can be setup, they will be displayed when loading the WHDLoad.
- When building the project all images are processed for safety and maybe even speed increase.
- New condition trigger to check if the game is running in an AGA machine.
- New trigger Instantiate Attached allows to Instantiate an object already attached to the creator.
- New triggers Custom to Var to set up global variables with Object custom variables.
- Additional checks for tileset loading.
- In Animation screen the name of the mirrored animation is now displayed.
- Improved UI in level editor screen.
- Improved UI in triggers screen.
- Projects updated, some improvements in Astro and Gravity games.
- Fixed memory corruption problems in certain situations.
- Fix in tileset shortcuts.
- Fix in Mutate trigger.
- Fix in Input screen.
- Fixes in palette handling.
(dr)
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09.May.2022
Discord
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension (update)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Yesterday he released the new version 1.3.3 with the following changes:
- fix some 68k cycle timings
- support breakpoints in .s files
- Assembly: show theoretical 68000 cycles as decoration
- Assembly: fix F12 on local labels
- Assembly: Autocomplete for opcodes, labels
- Disassembly: Hover over CPU instructions to view documentation
- Disassembly: fix loop cycle display in some cases
Various plugins for assembler programming support are also available for Visual Studio IDEs and JetBrain (amiga-news.de reported).
Update: (11.05.2022, 09:06, dr)
Yesterday version 1.3.4 was released:
- updated to GCC 12.1.0, binutils, GNU gdb (GDB) 13.0.50.20220509-git
- fixed missing error message during launching a debug session when .elf file was not found
(dr)
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09.May.2022
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Video interview: The Amiberry developer Dimitris Panokostas
In his latest interview, Robert Smith has talked to Dimitris Panokostas who is the developer of the Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems, Amiberry. (dr)
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08.May.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 9.1 add-ons released
Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 9.1. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:
- Hollywood Player 9.1 for all supported platforms (also available for your smartphone/tablet on Google Play)
- Hollywood SDK 9.1 for developing your own plugins (includes examples and over 400 pages of documentation in various formats)
- Hollywood 9.1 add-on for Cubic IDE (kindly provided by Michael Jurisch)
- Hollywood 9.1 wordfile for UltraEdit
- Hollywood 9.1 online reference manual (over 1100 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
- Hollywood SDK 9.1 online reference manual (over 400 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
The release of these add-ons completes the Hollywood 9.1 release. Please visit the official Hollywood portal for download and more information. (dr)
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08.May.2022
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Aminet uploads until 07.05.2022
The following files have been added until 07.05.2022 to Aminet:
ZitaFTPServer.lha comm/tcp 19M OS4 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
AmiBlitz3.lha dev/basic 11M 68k AmiBlitz 3.9 full distribution
iniparser.lha dev/c 113K MOS Parsing of INI files library
PyPlayer.lha dev/src 831K 68k Audio Player for Python 1.4.0...
Lyra3Tool.lha driver/inp 59K 68k Lyra 3 Keyboard Adapter Utility
Fynn_Thorin_CD32.iso.zip game/2play 179K 68k Fynn and Thorin CD32
ItalyInLockdown075.adf game/demo 880K 68k Italy in lock down
SamplesMaster.lha mus/edit 82K 68k Creates IFF and RAW samples (...
GF4RSIDC.zip pix/misc 86K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
lharchiver.lha util/arc 4.2M MOS create lha archives intuitively
BootPicture.lha util/boot 87K 68k Shows pictures, plays sound d...
lvl.pointers.lha util/mouse 32K Mouse pointer presets for RTG...
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08.May.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 07.05.2022
The following files have been added until 07.05.2022 to OS4Depot:
frozenat.lha dev/deb 5kb 4.0 find out where a program is hang...
libmikmod.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 Portable sound library (music mo...
libmodplug.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 Render mod music files as raw au...
libbz2.lha dev/lib 523kb 4.0 Bzip2 file (de)compressor
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
videntiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Videntium Picta is picture viewer
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 19Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 4Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
videoclipper.lha vid/edi 355kb 4.0 Cut and/or join multiple format ...
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08.May.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 07.05.2022
The following files have been added until 07.05.2022 to AROS Archives:
blackjuan.lha gam/car 4Mb Blackjack clone
videntiumpicta.lha gra/con 2Mb Videntium Picta is picture viewer
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08.May.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.05.2022
The following files have been added until 07.05.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
Chrysalis_3.17r1.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
iniparser_4.1.lha Development/C Parsing of INI files li...
LHArchiver_1.0.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
Aquaria_1.002.lha Games/Adventure This is a new MorphOS p...
OpenTyrian_2.2_SDL2.lha Games/Shoot2D An open-source port of ...
VidentiumPicta_2.50.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
Wayfarer_3.6.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
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07.May.2022
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Video: A Look at every 'Ocean Software' game
YouTuber Kim Justice shows in his latest video all the games ever licensed by former British game software developer Ocean Software. (dr)
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07.May.2022
Protovision (Webseite)
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Amiga compatible joypad 'Protopad': Status update
Protovision, after successful crowd funding, is in the process of building new 'next-generation' joypads specifically designed for the C64, but equally compatible with Amiga: the Protopad.
Now there was a status update regarding this, which we quote here:
- "We have found a case that we could use. We are still exploring the idea of creating a custom case. Making your own case is tricky and very expensive, so we will see if that works out. If not, we will revert to the standard case we found worthy.
- We have come across unexpected technical issues. The pad sometimes gives wrong readings and it appears to happen when a button is pressed only lightly. This is extremely weird and we never heard of a similar issue ever. We believe it is some kind of power fluctuation problem and have created a new prototype that will make it easier for us to track the issue.
- We are shocked about price developments. A CPLD chip that used to cost 6 Euros now costs 40. We did not see that coming and it crushes our financial calculations. We might have to redesign to use different chips than initially planned.
- We are positive we will be able to master all these issues, eventually, but it takes way longer than we expected. Since Covid, not only prices have gone up but turnaround times are much slower. Example: receiving new Prototypes previously was a matter of days or weeks, now we have to wait months before we receive a new board."
(dr)
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07.May.2022
MorphZone
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Sensible World of Soccer: SWOS Total Pack 1.1
The 'SWOS Total Pack' is a graphical user interface written by 'Cool_amigaN' and 'jPV^RNO' for launching the game Sensible World of Soccer in an emulated environment.
As jPV^RNO explains, it includes almost all variations of the game and data about the game that have been officially and unofficially released over the last 30 years. Any combination of this data can be selected through the graphical user interface, from graphics and sound sets from different game versions and platforms to team/player data from different years.
There are countless data disks from the years 1930 to 2022, which are the result of the work of the SWOS community. Tournament lineups can be viewed as well as other documentation. Game tactics can be changed from the original versions and there is an extensive tactics viewer to analyze the new updated tactics/formations. The package also includes special versions of the game, from magazine cover disk releases to versions from other platforms (SNES, GameBoy, Game Gear, Master System).
The package also includes intro animations, music remixes, cracktros for launching the game. The first version was released in the middle of last year. Now an update to version 1.1 has been released, which can be installed either from the application itself or via Grunch. (dr)
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06.May.2022
Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail)
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Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.3
After the release of A-Copy, a program similar to X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows using the ADF drive hardware, Arne Urbaniak now is in the process of writing 'G-Copy', a corresponding application for the Greaseweazle (amiga-news.de reported).
In the now available version 0.3 456 boot block viruses are now also detected and removed if you want. Minor bugs have been removed, the handling of windows in the code has been improved and Bamcopy has been fixed. In addition, the floppy selection (device) is now saved on exit.
In addition, the author has revised his website, which now lists his two programs, A-Copy and G-Copy, and provides a small documentation in English and German.
Download: gcopy.zip (30 MB) (dr)
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06.May.2022
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Event: Passione Amiga Day 2022 in Spoleto (Italy)
The organizers wrote: "Passione Amiga day is the meeting day for Amiga users in Italy organized by Passione Amiga, the printed magazine for Amiga enthusiasts and lovers in Italian language with commercial exhibitors, conferences with Italian and international guests and a flea market.
The location, in the historic center of the city of Spoleto, is the ideal place to spend a weekend in contact with history, culture and food and wine; Spoleto has been able to combine modernity with its past that can still be breathed in the streets, squares and which makes it a unique city in the world. Because of its charm, it was chosen as the location for the RAI fiction 'Don Matteo'.
After the success of the first edition, the 'Passion Amiga Day' 2022 will take place on September 18, 2022 with free admission." (dr)
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06.May.2022
Twitter
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Jump'n Run: Demo of 'Duckstroma' released
At the end of 2020, the first preview video of the jump'n run 'Duckstroma' in development was released (amiga-news.de reported). Now a first playable demo has been released: As duck Aura you have the mission to deliver eight floppy disks to a customer. To fend off all kinds of hostile enemies, you can jump on weak opponents and lay an egg to reach higher places (recent YouTube video). The game requires 1MB of RAM and should be finished soon. (dr)
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