05.May.2022
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Mutation Software: First teaser for CyberPunks 2
Already at the end of last year Mutation Software announced the second part of their top-down shooter Cyberpunks (amiga-news.de reported). There is now a first teaser video for the game, which was originally supposed to be released in the third quarter of 2021, but is now announced for the fourth quarter of 2023. (dr)
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04.May.2022
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MorphOS 3.17: openssl3.library hotfix
The MorphOS developer team has announced: "New vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.17. Three discovered issues, namely CVE-2022-1343, CVE-2022-1434 and CVE-2022-1473, were found to potentially affect MorphOS users.
A fixed OpenSSL library will be bundled with a future MorphOS release. Meanwhile, you can download (1,6 MB) and install the following replacement openssl3.library that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.17. To install it, copy the file to MOSSYS:Libs and reboot." (dr)
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04.May.2022
Erik Hogan (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.3
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
A few moments ago he has relesaed version 2022.3 with the following changes:
- Custom splash screens for Patreon backers.
- Improved AGA support, including "GothicVania" triple parallax demo.
- One click export to Win/Mac (FS-UAE), AmiBerry/A500 mini, Workbench.
- Improved code and animation editing.
You can support the developer on his Patreon website. (dr)
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04.May.2022
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Open Source: Talks of 'Open Hardware Summit'
On April 22, 2022, the Open Hardware Summit took place virtually: an annual conference organized by the Open Source Hardware Association about Open Source. The talks were recorded and can now be viewed retrospectively at the title link. (dr)
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04.May.2022
Twitter
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.11
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday the new firmware version 1.11 was released with the following improvements/new features compared to version 1.10:
- Improves/Fixes ZZ9000AX playback on many Amiga models through improved IRQ behavior (also improves Ethernet)
- Fixes spurious missed ARM register writes, improving stability on all platforms
- Fix 128MB mapping of framebuffer area on Z3
- ZZ9000AX: improved resampling (linear interpolation on ARM)
- ZZ9000AX: programmable DSP, automatic Butterworth low pass filter, mixer
- ZZ9000AX: New Audio Mode with Panning Flag (has different volume level)
- ZZ9000AX: Adjusted volume level for digital playback (to prevent clipping)
- ZZTop: Shows if ZZ9000AX is detected
- ZZTop: Slider for ZZ9000AX low pass filter
- ZZTop: More tests in "Bus Test"
- axmp3: Dynamic buffer location
- ZZ9000AX and axmp3: Support for ENV:ZZ9K_INT2 setting to use INT2 instead of INT6 (via jumper J4)
(dr)
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04.May.2022
Harry (ANF)
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The Guardian: How Amiga computers reprogrammed modern music
The British newspaper 'The Guardian' describes in a long article how the Amiga influenced the electronic music scene in the early 90s and continues to do so today. (dr)
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03.May.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.6
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.6 of his MorphOS web browser Wayfarer. Besides bugfixes an Amazon Fire Stick user agent and a check for existing files on download have been added.
Changes:
- Added code to skip redraws of web contents entirely when Wayfarer is on an invisible screen
- Added an Amazon Fire Stick user agent to settings, works well with youtube.com/tv
- Removed 'Skip All Frames' loop filter option
- Fixed a possible crash in the MediaSource player
- Checks if a file exists and asks to overwrite in Download As requester
Download: wayfarer3.6.lha (26 MB) (snx)
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03.May.2022
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Last Minute Creations: Games 'GermZ' and 'Atarenium Falcon' released
Last Minute Creations', a Polish group of amiga game developers, has finally released two of their games that have been available in pre-release versions for quite some time:
In GermZ you have to try as a tiny organism not only to survive, but to infiltrate and take over other organisms (amiga-news.de reported):
Features:
- single player campaign
- multiplayer mode up to 4 players using joy1, joy2, WSAD, arrows controls
- several maps to choose from
- special cells with features expanding your tactics
- in-game editor for creating own maps and campaigns
An Amiga 500 with 1MB CHIP RAM is required. The game can be downloaded as lha or adf file for a recommended price of three Euro. The source code is available on GitHub.
The second release, Atarenium Falcon, reminds at first glance a bit of the classic 'Space Taxi': With a spaceship, the player has to head for the exit already visible at the beginning of the level. However, gravity is not the problem but he has to choose the way in such a way that he collects enough coal (as fuel) and also floating capacitors and the like (amiga-news.de reported):
Again, an Amiga 500 with 1 MB chip-ram is sufficient and is also available for a recommended three Euros (more is possible, of course, but also less) as lha and adf archive. The source code is on GitHub. (dr)
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03.May.2022
RetroRGB
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Video interview: Neil und Richard from RMC
The website RetroRGB is comprehensively dedicated to the world of retro games. An interview with Neil and Richard from RMC, who not only run their own YouTube channel but also an interactive retro computer museum in England (amiga-news.de reported), has now been published there. (dr)
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03.May.2022
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Motorola68k emulation: Bug-fixed FPU implementation of Emu68
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon website.
In today's entry he reports to have finally found the bug in the FPU implementation: a copy&paste error that remained hidden for over a year! To check to what extent this has influence on the FPU implementation, he played all Elude demos available on his hard disk: All demos now run without wobbles, all effects are now shown (YouTube video). Thus, "many FPU demanding things that were broken before are working now". All twelve Elude demos shown were played on his A600 with Emu68 and PiStorm.
In addition, has been able to eliminate another bug: ARM interrupts were passed through to M68k. Now, he reports, he can finally starts developing the WiFi driver. (dr)
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03.May.2022
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AmigaOS 4: FTP server 'ZitaFTP' 1.32
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.32 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:
"ZitaFTP Server v1.32 is finished, and available for download. It's missing the big new feature I had planned because I couldn't get it finished in time, and didn't want to delay the smaller enhancements any further. The improvements are:
- EPSV support - enables full internet accessibility through devices with Network Address Translation (NAT), such as your home router
- IPv6 support - the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IP)
NOTE: This is for Windows only, since AmigaOS currently lacks IPv6 support. Should that change, then IPv6 will be enabled for AmigaOS as well
The next version will have automated SSL certificate generation capability. I'll let you know when it's done, which should hopefully be in a few weeks time..."
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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02.May.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Anniversary: APC&TCP has now been active for 30 years
Andreas Magerl writes: "The APC&TCP computer club was founded more than 30 years ago. (Does anybody of you know exactly when?) As one of the largest Amiga clubs worldwide, the question of how to better support all the programmers in the club came up quite quickly. Our members produced some really good programs and games, but they all voiced their opinion that they weren't very happy with the commercial contracts that were offered by major publisher. After long deliberations, APC&TCP sales was founded in May 1992.
The main task of sales was to market the club members' software as effectively as possible. The first software titles released through APC&TCP were Databench and 1990. Other titles such as Kargon, Jaktar, Flyin High, Pinball Brain Damage, and many others, followed on quite quickly by even more. More recently, APC&TCP has released software titles for the Amiga such as Roadshow, CygnusED, Reshoot R, Tiny little Slug, Trap Runner, and there are other products that are already in their 'starting blocks'.
Some time ago a shareware series was released, which comprised of a few dozen shareware titles that were marketed here by club members. Incidentally, APC&TCP blossomed quite quickly into one of the cheapest PD diskette dealers in Germany.
Initially there were also a number of third-party products in the range, which were mainly sold to club members. Though quite quickly after that, our range of goods reverted to being only our own products that were offered, apart from a few exceptions. One of those exceptions, by way of example, is the LOAD from VzEkC e.V. Issue 8 will soon be available in the APC&TCP online shop.
For many years, the NoCover floppy disk club magazine was also distributed through APC&TCP. Incidentally APC&TCP has been publishing the print magazine Amiga Future for over 20 years, and what's more, the Amiga Future will be reaching its 25th anniversary in January. Yes, the Amiga Future magazine is still being printed. :)
Over the years, in addition to the many software titles released through APC&TCP, there has also been a whole range of merchandise produced by APC&TCP: such as, posters, mouse pads, mugs, stickers and much, much more. APC&TCP also took over the distribution of the Amiga Joker magazine, issues 17 and 19. Recently the VD Aktuell has also become available through APC&TCP.
Over the years APC&TCP has remained very active, in many areas, though generally that is in the background, without Amiga users really being aware of their involvement. For example, APC&TCP took over the advance ticket sales for the Amiga trade fairs from ICP. So, it was a natural step for APC&TCP to present the Amiga at Gamescom in a show area of approx. 100 square metres. APC&TCP will be there, yet again, at the Amiga 37 in the autumn of 2022 and is also assisting the organisers to make the venture a success, as usual, in the background.
Over the last 30 years, APC&TCP has released over 200 products for the Amiga, and there are also 125 NoCover issues. Additionally approx. 140 German and 80 English Amiga Future magazine issues have been printed during that time. After 30 years, APC&TCP actually seems to be one of the largest software publishers for the Amiga with a current 6-digit annual turnover. From which no-one has become super-wealthy here, it's just that the Amiga is simply great fun to use. :)
Our main goal, currently, is to reach our 50th year anniversary, which would be something to really celebrate. In addition, we are always searching for entertaining games and applications, where the programmer is looking for a fair and reliable publisher. One of the great advantages of APC&TCP is that a programmer can have their say as to any choice of packaging, which is also one of the reasons why APC&TCP does not have any standardised or similar packaging from one product to another. If you are one of those gifted, and interested programmers, then please send an email to Andreas@apc-tcp.de." (snx)
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02.May.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.
- March/April 2022 news
- Old articles from Joystick 41 to 44:
- News: Psygnosis steps up its game
- Review of Mortal Kombat
- Review of Mad Dog McCree
- Interview with ID Software
- Comparison: Space Hulk vs Hired Guns
- Review of Goblins 3
- Review of Theatre Of Death
- News: Amiga CD32 - Commodore it's already tomorrow
- Interview with Peter Molyneux
- Review of Alfred Chicken
- Review of Uridium 2
- News: Gremlin, the aftermath of Zool
- Review of Realms Of Arkania: Blade Of Destiny
- Review of International Open Golf Championship
- Interview with Robert Hunter (graphic designer of Rambo 3 and Operation Thunderbolt)
- Interview with Metin Seven and Reinier van Vliet (authors of the game Hoi)
- Review of MorphOS 3.16
- File: The history of Novagen
- Hardware: AA+ (update)
- Point of view: The beginnings of the European pirate scene
- Point of view: Should the Amiga be revived?
- Point of view: The development of Rave (part three)
- Tutorial: Copying an entire hard disk as an image file to MorphOS
- Tutorial: Using HDF and ADF on THEA500 Mini.
- Special quiz about ERBE Software
(snx)
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02.May.2022
Protovision (Webseite)
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Video: Commodore 64 celebrates 40th anniversary
According to Wikipedia, the Commodore 64 was introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and thus celebrates its 40th anniversary. The YouTuber 'BastichB 64K' has dedicated a special video with several guests to it. (dr)
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01.May.2022
U. Beckers (ANF)
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Operating system: MorphOS 3.17 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.17. This release includes numerous important performance, stability and security improvements. X5000 hardware support was improved to handle two Radeon cards and the HDD activity LED. Several text layout and rendering issues have been fixed in MUI.
For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.17, please read our release notes.
We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.17 is available for download in our files section. (dr)
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01.May.2022
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Video review: A1200NET's crystal replacement cases for the Amiga 500
In his latest video, Jan Beta takes a closer look at the new Amiga 500 Crystal Bundle offered by A1200NET, which includes a replacement case for the computer as well as for the mouse. (dr)
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01.May.2022
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Aminet uploads until 30.04.2022
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to Aminet:
femto.lha dev/gg 768K MOS Extended version of Atto Emacs
Fynn_Thorin_Finale.zip game/2play 698K 68k Fynn and Thorin (German and E...
flappadiddle.lha game/actio 88K 68k Flappy's Spike-Filled Adventure
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 7K 2022 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 3.3M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.6M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
AbuSimbelProfanTFA_es... game/misc 716K 68k Abu Simbel Profanation - Full...
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 621K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 622K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
Gotcha199.lha game/think 80K 68k Pair two numbers to get the 1...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 32M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
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...
ham_convert.zip misc/misc 4.2M HAM graphic converter
djjmeds.lha mods/med 1.9M DDJ OctaMed Modules
SamplesMaster.lha mus/edit 82K 68k Creates IFF and RAW samples (...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 312K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
SimpleSamples.lha mus/play 43K 68k Little musical toy
NAFCYI1991S1-B01.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B02.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B03.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B04.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B05.zip text/bfont 2.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B06.zip text/bfont 2.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B08.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B09.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B10.zip text/bfont 2.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B11.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B12.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip text/bfont 2.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B18.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B19.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B20.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip text/bfont 636K NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-01.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-02.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-03.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-04.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-05.zip text/pfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-06.zip text/pfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-07.zip text/pfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-08.zip text/pfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-09.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-10.zip text/pfont 1.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-11.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-12.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-13.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip text/pfont 1.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-15.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-16.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-17.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-18.zip text/pfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-19.zip text/pfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-20.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-21.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-22.zip text/pfont 679K NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
AmiKick.lha util/misc 44K Check Kickstart images under ...
PCCardInfo.lha util/misc 32K 68k Display details about PCMCIA ...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 655K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 101K 68k External Virus Scanner Librar...
StartWin.lha util/wb 199K 68k A bugged workbench launch bar
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.04.2022
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
blackjuan.lha gam/car 4Mb 4.0 Blackjack clone
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
deficons_2021.lha gra/ico 2Mb 4.0 Some new def_icons for exchange
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 32Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
litexl.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.04.2022
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to AROS Archives:
orbithopper.i386-aros.zip gam/act 3Mb OpenG game. Jump across space pl...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.04.2022
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to MorphOS-Storage:
Chrysalis_3.16.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
ld80_0.6.1.lha Development/Cross L80 replacement linker
zmac.lha Development/Cross Z80 Macro Cross Assembler
femto_2.11.lha Development/GeekGadgets Extended version of Att...
fluidsynth_2.2.7_sdk.lha Development/Library fluidsynth_2.2.7_sdk.lha
SDL_2.0.22_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.2...
BlackjuanPokerCard.lha Games/Card BlackjuanPokerCard.lha
MCE_13.72.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
OpenTyrian_2.2_SDL2.lha Games/Shoot2D An open-source port of ...
Wayfarer_3.5.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.04.2022
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 30.04.2022:
- 2022-04-30 improved: Narco Police (Dinamic) 68000 quitkey support, manual included (Info)
- 2022-04-30 updated: Indianapolis 500 (Papyrus Design Group) patch redone, saves done to separate files, manual protection completely skipped, new install script (Info)
- 2022-04-29 fixed: Mortal Kombat 2 (Acclaim) made working in NTSC (Info)
- 2022-04-27 improved: Syndicate (Bullfrog) select language at startup, fixed random quit, added speed regulation (Info)
- 2022-04-27 improved: Jurassic Park (Ocean) runs with 512K chip, fixed access fault, new imager (Info)
- 2022-04-27 fixed: Chaos In Andromeda: Eyes Of The Eagle (On-line) debug code removed from the cdtv slave (Info)
- 2022-04-24 improved: XP8 (Weathermine Software) fixed crashed in trainer (Info)
- 2022-04-24 improved: Rygar (Seismic Minds) supports another version (Info)
- 2022-04-24 fixed: New Zealand Story (Taito/Ocean) crash in "disable speed regulation" mode (Info)
- 2022-04-24 improved: Mortal Kombat 2 (Acclaim) requires less chiÃp-memory, trainer added, 2-button joystick support added (Info)
- 2022-04-24 improved: Cadaver Demo Level (Bitmap Brothers) added quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2022-04-24 improved: Black Dawn Rebirth (Doublesided Games) added support for alpha-1 flashtro (Info)
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30.Apr.2022
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Chipmusic tracker: PreTracker 1.5
Abyss, an Amiga demo group founded in 1992, hat released version 1.5 of its chipmusic tracker 'PreTracker'. It emulates the Paula soundchip of the Amiga computers. The tracker for creating music for Amiga demos, intros and games runs under Windows. All samples are precalced on startup according to the instruments. While most Amiga trackers only support 3 octaves (Note C-0 to B-2),
PreTracker offers 5 octaves (C-0 to B-4). The group used it for creating the music of some of its games. (dr)
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30.Apr.2022
Ko-fi
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AmigaOS 4: Version 2 of editor 'Lite XL' released
At the end of the last year, George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, had released the first version v1.16.12.3 of hisport of the editor 'Lite XL' (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released version 2 and has written on it:
"I was keeping that release back for a long time now, but today I decided to give everyone the opportunity to use the newer version of Lite XL.
This new version is a really exciting one. It has so many new features and fixes against the older v1, that is hard to be listed here. But in general, it is faster in scrolling and file loading, there are multiple cursors that I know some of you were asking for, there is an easy way to have open files side by side, and many other things. And also uses the latest SDL 2.0.20 by Capehill.
What is not there yet is the folder synchronization based on filesystem notification, and the reason for that is that the original development team is changing the way they implement it. They experimented with different libraries and now they brought a new way of doing it. So I wait for them to finalize it in future versions and then I will add my implementation.
New icons were added in this release, kindly created and provided by IconDesigner who has given us so many awesome icons in the past, so to make our Workbench look so nice.
I use this editor with all of my development projects and I am really happy with how it works. I hope you will like it too and be useful for your projects as well."
If you ant to support the author, then the Ko-fi website is the best place. At the end of each month, 50% of the donations are donated back to the community by supporting projects or developers. (dr)
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30.Apr.2022
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.52
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.52. Changes:
New fixes:
- Simplify file loading so that compatibility with FTPMount is better. FTPMount does not seem to support file seeking properly. FTPMount can be used to access Modland with Hippo, for example.
- Fix crash with "Keep list on exit" when restarting in file browser mode and the directory has disappeared.
- Fix the move function losing the moved item if nothing is selected when trying to insert the item back. Now it is inserted to the beginning of the list.
- Kickstart 1.3: Fix the button and box frame graphics so that they look correct in terms of depth illusion.
- MP3 files with ID3v2 tag data did not get recognized and played previously. Now they should work.
- MP3 identification improved so that in addition to filename suffix ".mp3" also the prefix "mp3." is now checked. Additionally any possible ID3v2 tag data is is used to determine if a file is an MP3 file.
- There was a rather severe regression in v2.49 sampleplayer. Scopes didn't work properly and things could crash. Fixed these.
- Move "Button tooltips" Prefs button to the "Display" Prefs subpage, which is the correct placement.
- Sometimes when a module ends and the next one should be played, the next one is skipped and the one following that is played. Fixed!
- The play button icon had an extra pixel at the bottom. This went unnoticed until now, how is that even possible?!
New features:
- "Big buttons" option in "Prefs/Display". This doubles the height of the two button rows in the main window. May be helpful with higher resolution screens. The original icons were designed for the 640x256 resolution.
- Added support for launching HiP via "project icons". These are icons used for data files which specify the default tool which should be used to open the files. This is a very basic use case from the beginning of Workbench, finally supported.
- Patternscope support added to the THX/AHX format. Also shows transposes.
- Patternscope now displays note and sample transpose information for the Future Composer and the BP SoundMon formats as well.
- PreTracker support improvements
- Improved sample scope support
- Added support for the following players: Art Of Noise (4 channels), BP SoundMon (v2.0-v2.2), Future Composer (v1.0-v1.4), Game Music Creator, Hippel-COSO, JamCracker, PreTracker, SoundFX, StarTrekker
- Also added support for the new Eagleplayers.
- Fixed a problem where samples with short repeat lenghts were displayed incorrectly, this means every chip and synth sample in practice. The playback position was calculated wrong and resulted in an unrealistically static waveform display.
- Sidenote: It's quite interesting to see how synth formats look with scopes, as they deform and manipulate the waveforms in real time. For example, FC waveforms looks quite simple whereas JamCracker and Hippel-COSO look more complex. BP SoundMon seems to be in between these two.
- The "Freq. Analyzer" scope was removed. It was some kind of a histogram display of deltas of consecutive sample bytes, usually boring to look at and not that informative.
- A new scope "Spectrum" was added. The X-axis displays frequencies, low ones on the left, high ones on the right. The Y-axis displays loudness in decibels.
- Support for running multiple scopes instead of just one. There are now separate toggles for the five different scopes in "Prefs/Display". I tried to preserve much of the previous scope functionality. For example, the scope toggle with key [Z] and LMB on the left side of the infobox. Scope window positions and open status are preserved when Prefs are saved. However, when a module is played with no scope support the scope windows will no longer be automatically closed as was done previously. Having multiple scopes running required extensive changes, so there may be some new bugs lying around. Scopes are also quite CPU and blitter intensive so having many running on A500 will work but will also not be very smooth.
- New keyboard shortcut [SHIFT+F]: toggle favorite status for the currently selected module. (Plain [F] is find module.)
- Kickstart 1.3: The hippo head is now displayed! It uses the kick2.0 palette color order so it is ugly on kick1.3, and was never shown. Now the graphics is remapped during startup to make it displayable also on kick1.3. Cool :-D
Tips and tricks:
- Enabling "Doubleclick" in Prefs makes starting playback easier if you like using the mouse.
- Activating "Keep list on exit" allows you to conveniently continue here you left off in your module listening adventures when you start Hippo again.
- Hippo is fully keyboard controllable. A way to browse through a large mod collection is to switch to file browser using [SHIFT-M] and then using arrows, enter and backspace.
(dr)
[News message: 30. Apr. 2022, 11:24] [Comments: 0]
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30.Apr.2022
Amigans (Webseite)
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Demo: THE CURE version 1.4 for AGA Amigas
Some time ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released a demo called 'THE CURE' (YouTube video) which placed first at the 'Solskogen' demo party 2020 in the category Oldskool (amiga-news.de reported).
This demo he keeps on developing and meanwhile has released version 1.4:
- Improved music: improved S/N ratio by eliminating a peak (caused by the "str" of "street" in the spoken part) and re-normalizing the waveform; amplified initial part a little bit; reduced greatly the noise that affected the coda (due to the 8-bit quantization) by amplifying that part of the waveform to the maximum and balancing that with a real-time volume change; increased sampling frequency to 29073 Hz (side effects: channels 2 and 3 can no longer be used, so the output volume is lower; music decoding takes a little longer as there is more data to decode each frame; the CHIP bus time taken by audio DMA is almost halved, which makes the demo less demanding).
- Added switch-off of filter to ensure music sounds as it is supposed to.
- Fixed audio-to-video synchronization: fixed drifting caused by the difference between the actual video refresh rate (~49.92 Hz) and the theoretical one 50 Hz (which, by the end of the demo, caused an asynchronism of ~0.5); fixed 60 ms asynchronism caused by the fact that the first three frames required for music setup/buffering were ignored; fixed a few timing marks in the script (an off-by-one mark which caused a peak of operations in the specified frame; a mark that caused the following effect to execute 4 frames too late; a few marks that were off by a frame).
- Fixed a bad routine pointer (caused by a wrong letter in the label; it is quite incredible that this bug did not produce disastrous results).
- Added some palette effects.
- Optimized music decoding by unpacking and undeltaing data at the same time (why it was not like this right from the beginning is a mistery).
- Made some other small optimizations.
- Made startup and cleanup code more robust by shielding some critical operations from NMIs and by dealing with audio playback performed with direct hardware access by other programs concurrently.
- Added version string.
- Improved/extended README.
Additional to an AGA Amiga the demo requires a 68030 processor with 50 MHz and about 15 MB FAST-RAM. (dr)
[News message: 30. Apr. 2022, 10:03] [Comments: 0]
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30.Apr.2022
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THEA500 Mini: Video tutorial for fixing too fast WHDLoad games
In his video the YouTuber 'Crazy Burger' explains how to fix the speed of WHDLoad games which apparently run too fast on the 'THEA500 Mini'. (dr)
[News message: 30. Apr. 2022, 09:32] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2022
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Platformer: Developer for Amiga port of 'Flea' wanted
As John Girvin from Nivrig Games (e.g. Turbo Santa or Turbo Tomato) reports, developer Alastair Low (Lowtek Games) said in a conversation on Twitch that he would be open to a port of his platformer 'Flea' to the Amiga. The game was originally funded and released through a Kickstarter campaign for the Nintendo Entertainment System, but ports are now also available or in development for Dreamcast and Windows. The source code was written using Nesmaker. According to John Girvin, this project "looks very doable". (dr)
[News message: 29. Apr. 2022, 17:28] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2022
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 7
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euro) or printed (7,50 Euro) form. Its current issue consists of 42 color pages and includes the following topics:
- Review of the new THEA500 Mini
- Video games: SkillGrid, Malaga Vice, Scramble500, SpikeDislike, DepthCharge
- AmiGameJam 2021 Special
- Copyright, abandonware, free download and use of historical brands
- Hardware: HC508 MKII for A500
- Interviews with: Simone Bevilacqua (Retream), Marco Salemi (Blizzard Entertainment) and Grazia Pizzuto
- And also: Games news, Tech news, Demo scene, New Talents, MailBox
(snx)
[News message: 29. Apr. 2022, 13:58] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2022
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Video: Installation of AmiKit XE on Apollo V4 system
In a short video Willem Drijver has demonstrated how to install the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE on a system equipped with a Apollo-V4. (dr)
[News message: 29. Apr. 2022, 10:16] [Comments: 0]
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