23.Dec.2021
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.30 released
Thomas Wenzel has released version 3.30 of his audio player AmigaAMP for AmigaOS 3.9 and AmigaIS 4 at the title link. Changes include ARexx macro support and automatic fallback from MHI to AHI.
Bugfixes:
- Pulldown menus now work across all ReAction windows
- If a datatype can't load the cover image from memory, then AmigaAMP will write it to T: as a file and try to load it from there
- Fixed radio station name taken from stream metadata in playlist
- Up to ten reconnect attempts when shoutcast server reports 'unavailable'
- Fixed handling ID3v2 tags in front of FLAC files
- Fixed loading / adding whole directories
- Fixed initial state of EQ/Playlist buttons in skin mode
- Automatically save current equalizer setting when saving prefs
- Reworked visualisation routines for better synchronicity
- Fixed SSL connections that require Server Name Indication
New features:
- Automatic fallback from MHI to AHI for uncompressed audio and tracker modules (68k version)
- Multi-select playlist in ReAction mode
- Snapshot windows directly via pulldown menu entry
- Popup menu for "Add..." button in ReAction playlist window
- ARexx macro support: Macros must have .rexx extension and start with a line saying "/* AmigaAMP ARexx Macro */"
- Automatic adding of .pls to saved playlist filename
- Now using octave-spaced equalizer band frequencies
(snx)
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22.Dec.2021
G. Bernhardt (ANF)
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WinUAE 4.90: German translation file by BlackByte
On his WinUAE mirror Webwood.de Gunnar 'gunaTM' Bernhardt released a german translation file by BlackByte updated for version 4.90 of the emulator. The file has to be copied into the WinUAE drawer. Then german language can be selected under "Host/Misc". (snx)
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22.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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Game: Second level for "Project - Quest"
The fantasy shooter "Project - Quest" is still in development (amiga-news.de reported). Now at the title link a second level has been released (video). (snx)
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22.Dec.2021
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #130 - THEA500 Mini
In episode 130 of their Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk with Darren Melbourne and Chris Smith of Retro Games about their down-scaled Amiga replica THEA500 Mini. Interview starts at 5:55 minutes. (snx)
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22.Dec.2021
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WinUAE 4.9.0: Setting up the Voodoo3 RTG emulation for AmigaOS 4.1, part 1
At the beginning of March we reported for the first time that for the Amiga emulator WinUAE the emulation of the Voodoo3 graphics card is in development. This was then already made available in the beta versions.
With the release of the official version 4.9.0 the other day, this emulation is now officially introduced. So far I had defined a Zorro III board with uaegfx for the emulation of AmigaOS 4.1. Now I wanted to find out, also driven by a request in the forum, how the Voodoo3 emulation can succeed and whether it brings advantages for working with AmigaOS 4.1. With the friendly support of WinUAE developer Toni Wilen - thank you very much - and a little bit of my own investigative spirit, this task was basically mastered. However, I would like to emphasise that I am not a WinUAE expert, so comments and possible suggestions for improvement are very welcome for the benefit of all.
First of all the 'PCI bridgeboard' must be configured. For the Voodoo3 emulation, a Mediator, Prometheus or G-REX board can be used. The special thing about AmigaOS 4 is that all the necessary drivers are already included in the operating system. In contrast to the use for the AmigaOS 3 emulation, where among other things the BIOS ROM of the Voodoo 3 board must be added as a file. The same is true of the RTG driver Picasso96, now trading as P96.
'PCI bridgeboard' can be found under 'Expansions':
As is so often the case, you should also pay attention to the trivial things and check the 'Enabled' box. Otherwise, you can save your configuration as often as you like: the setting will be lost.
Then you can select the Voodoo 3 graphics card under 'RTG board':
If all this has worked, you should see the following under 'Hardware info', as Toni Wilen wrote: "It should list 2 Mediator boards, 'parent' and 'child' board with Voodoo 3 under the 'child'":
board. :
That was it and it can be booted. I am omitting a screenshot of the Workbench that now appears: The resolution cannot look good because nothing has been defined yet.
For the definition of the monitor type under Devs/Monitors I copied my uaegfx monitor and changed the name and the tooltype accordingly:
That was still easy. Now one or more screen resolutions have to be defined under Prefs/Picasso96Mode. I have never had anything to do with Picasso96 before - I would not call it intuitive after my current experience. I cheerfully click on the upper left icon, under which 'New Item' appears. Yes, but nothing happens. Only with the help of a YouTube video, in which the person fittingly failed to get it to work correctly, did I learn that you have to hold down the left mouse button and then drag the icon into the first window:
Then go to the menu 'Attach setting to' and select the Voodoo3 board.
And for each subsequent window, drag the 'New Item' icon from the top into the same window and adjust the resolution to your own monitor. Once everything has worked, you should find the new screen mode under Prefs/ScreenMode:
In a second article we will look at what added value this has brought us compared to the previous configuration. (dr)
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22.Dec.2021
Amigatronics
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Retro gaming: WHDLoad 18.7
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 18.7 provides the following changes:
- new: if a kickstart is requested by the Slave (ws_kickname) WHDLoad
provides the current default keymap as a virtual file called
'WHDLoad.keymap'
kickemu kick13.s and kick31.s got a new option called
SETKEYBOARD which loads and activates the 'WHDLoad.keymap'
- fix: avoid a possible crash if no kickstart image could be found
- chg: the check for a read-only filesystem to ignore write
operations now checks the first data directory instead the
current directory of WHDLoad
- new: sources/whdload/lowlevel.s has been added to be used with
kickemu, it is based on the OS3.1 lowlevel.library and provides
a way to avoid the disk based library and save some memory, the
kickemu option INIT_LOWLEVEL uses it now instead loading the
disk based library
- fix: corrected the key repeat fix in kick31.s
- chg: resload_ListFiles no longer requires a switch to the OS if
Preload was able to cache all files by using the file cache to
fill the buffer with filenames
- new: support for virtual filesystem plugins (VFS) added,
if one of the Data/K objects specified is not a directory but
a file WHDLoad will attempt to load PROGDIR:WHDLoad.VFS and
uses this interface to load data for such data objects, the
VFS-ABI/API is described in "include/whdvfs.i", a VFS
implementation which currently supports lha and zip-archives
can be obtained from http://github.com/temisu/WHDLoadArchiveFS
Thanks a lot to Teemu Suutari for his great work!
VFS objects are always read-only for WHDLoad, so either use
SavePath/K or a first data directory which isn't VFS to
allow WHDLoad to save something
- fix: cursor down in the CLI usage message is working again in the
standard AmigaShell (issue #5146)
- chg: DIC 1.2: if a track has a read error and option Skip is active
and the device is controlled by trackdisk.devices, DIC
switches to sector reads now to be able to read more good data
in case not all sectors on this track are unreadable
- chg: WHDLoad now returns with an error code = 5 if the Preload
operation has been canceled by pressing the Esc key while
the splash window is open (issue #5171)
- chg: a new option NoWriteInfo/N has been added as local and global
option, if set WHDLoad will not update/write any .info
files (issue #5153)
- chg: WHDLoad now resets custom.serper on exit to stop a possible
MIDI/MT32 playback via the serial line (JOTD)
- new: option WriteCache/S added to overwrite global option
NoWriteCache/S (issue #5263)
- new: WHDLoad is now able to cache also write operations to new
created files or existing files which grow in size. For that
the option PreLoad must be active and there must be enough
memory available to preload all files. WHDLoad will then
allocate the largest free memory block remaining and use this
memory to dynamically cache new files or growing existing
files. The cached files are written to disk on WHDLoad exit.
- new: kick31.asm can be enabled to activate internal resident
command WHDCtrl which supports to quit WHDLoad ATM
(dr)
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21.Dec.2021
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Hyperion Entertainment released AmigaOS 3.2.1
Press release: Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is proud to provide the first free update of AmigaOS 3.2. It demonstrates our dedication to ensure that AmigaOS 3.2 is the most capable and most stable operating system ever for the 68K based Amigas. If you have do not already own a copy of AmigaOS 3.2, there is now even more reason to get one from your favourite dealer!
AmigaOS 3.2.1 fixes several bugs and additionally comes with new features. The team of developers and testers have worked ever since the release of AmigaOS 3.2 fixing bugs and implementing new features. They have read social platforms for user anecdotes, videos and reviews, and are excited by the positive reception and feedback.
The AmigaOS 3.2.1 update is available now!
While no new ROM images are provided, we do not suggest that you go buy new ROMs. If you are already using some kind of MapROM solution or if you or a friend have an EPROM burner, then go ahead. But it is possible that more ROM changes be rolled out in AmigaOS 3.2.2 so for everyone else we suggest that you use the file-based updating instead.
Here are the highlights of the new features and fixes of AmigaOS 3.2.1:
- Fixes to almost every single gadget and image class
- Fix to clipboard.device that since AmigaOS 3.1.4 would not handle clips above 16KB in some cases
- Important fix to locale.library that would convert signed values to unsigned
- New IconEdit with support for colorful icons (like the “GlowIcons”)
- TextEdit has gained an ARexx port per open document
- ShowConfig had its GUI reworked, and can now make reports in AmigaGuide format
- The RAM disk linking feature have been changed a bit so it seems more like AmigaOS 3.1.4 while still being copy on read as in AmigaOS 3.2
- Dropping files on console will now activate the console window
- The screen will no longer remain black if you start up without any attached drive
- Eject menu item in Workbench;
(dr)
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21.Dec.2021
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Arcade-Adventure: "PETSCII Robots" erhältlich
"PETSCII Robots" by well-known Texan Youtuber 8 Bit Guy is an arcade adventure originally developed for the Commodore PET, whose in-game "graphics" consisted entirely of PETSCII characters (video). The Amiga version (video) developed by Vesa Halttunen and announced about a month ago has been completed in the meantime and can be ordered from the Youtuber's web shop.
On offer are a download-only version for $10 and three different physical editions for $20, $35 and $45. The latter are currently in production and should be ready to ship by "late January, early February".
(cg)
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20.Dec.2021
George Sokianos (ko-fi)
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AmigaOS 4: Port of editor 'Lite XL' announced
George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, has announced that he has started porting the editor Lite XL, which originated in the Linux world. About his motivation and the current development status he wrote the following:
"Recently I started creating a couple of plugins for CubicIDE, trying to make it work the best way for my needs. Although CubicIDE is a 68k application it is working quite well on AmigaOS 4 and it is really fast. But it has some quirks here and there, like, for example, there is no way to show the space characters, and for projects like python sometimes this is crucial. But currently, CubicIDE is my beloved editor for development.
I also started working on porting another editor from the Linux world, called Lite XL. This one is based on lite, which as its name implies, it's a very simple small editor, but it is not maintained anymore. The reason, based on its developer, is that it has all the features he wanted, and it is finished. To be honest I rarely hear about a project being finished. Abandoned yes, but finished?
Lite XL development is quite active, getting more and more features on every release. This editor is based on Lua, SDL and plain C, except for a couple of libraries it uses which are in C++. Which makes it an interesting project to work with. It is quite fast and light and has a lot of the features most people are looking from an editor in modern computing. And for me, it gives me a good opportunity to work with technologies that I didn't have the chance to use before.
Currently, the version I am working on is 1.16, and the reason is that since v2 new libraries were introduced, that are not available on AmigaOS 4. So, before I start working with these libraries, I wanted to know if I am able to port an older version and make it work. If I will not succeed, there is no reason for me to try the newer versions.
I am also developing it in a way that the minimum amount of changes are done in the code, by introducing platform-specific files, where all the necessary methods are going to be stored, like those that have to do with paths and filesystem.
As you read these lines, I have Lite XL running on AmigaOS 4.1 FE. It can load files and save them. The scrolling is quite fast on my X5000 even for big text files, and I want to test it on another system. I am curious how it will work on my μAmigaOne.
But, unfortunately, there are other things that are not working yet, like the keyboard shortcuts. And this is what I need to do the following days.
As soon as this is finished, the code and all the changes will be available on one of my Git repositories, for everyone to have access to, and a release will be done. I hope that this won't take long."
(dr)
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20.Dec.2021
Zoltan Balaton
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Emulator: QEMU 6.2.0 released
A week ago version 6.2.0 of the emulator QEMU was released. We had described at the beginning of May in an excursion to the use of Amiga operating systems on non-native hardware how to use the operating system MorphOS under QEMU. With the release of the latest QEMU version, bugs in the USB emulation have now been fixed and some minor improvements in Pegasos2 support have been integrated:
- Suppress warning when qtest enabled
- Implement power-off RTAS function with VOF
- Add constants for PCI config addresses
- Access MV64361 registers via their memory
- Implement get-time-of-day RTAS function
- Warn when using VOF but no kernel is
- Restrict memory to 2 gigabytes
(dr)
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20.Dec.2021
Rob Smith
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Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS, part 3
Rob Smith, known for his project DrawBridge for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, has now released the third part of his YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). In this episode he does focus on hardware sprites and collision detection. (dr)
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20.Dec.2021
Twitter (ANF)
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Amigaworld.de: Amiga 500 Clockport Adapter V3
On Amigaworld.de the Amiga 500 Clockport Adapter V3 was published under the title link. While the adapter V1 provides a total of 2 buffered clock ports and the more compact Amiga 500 Clockport Adapter V2 offers exactly 1 buffered clock port, there is now for the side expansion port in the Amiga 500 and the front expansion port in the GBA A1000 also the Amiga 500 Clockport Adapter V3 with a total of 2 buffered clock ports. (dr)
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20.Dec.2021
Jochen Hoffer (ANF)
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Puzzle game: Crazy Columns 1.05
Jochen Hoffer has released version 1.05 of his conversion of the Sega classic 'Columns' (video) as a small Christmas present (amiga-news.de reported). The game mode "Bad Buddy" has been revised, in which you have to compete against each other. The first to win a total of 9 rounds is the winner. Likewise, the instructions for the game have been expanded to include the game modes. (dr)
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19.Dec.2021
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Aminet uploads until 18.12.2021
The following files have been added until 18.12.2021 to Aminet:
LuettjeBookholler.lha biz/misc 1.7M OS4 Little Personal Finance program
ArLanMOS.lha comm/net 162K MOS Simple Gopher client
Roadie.lha comm/net 129K 68k Commodity/GUI for Roadshow TC...
For_the_Love_of_Ben.zip demo/sound 124K 68k Musicdisk dedicated to Ben Da...
aqb-0.8.0.lha dev/basic 289K 68k A BASIC Compiler+IDE for Amig...
COP.lha dev/debug 165K 68k Low Level Debugger
FFT_AMIGA.py.txt dev/src 5K 68k Simple FFT for AMIGA Python
f1champ.lha docs/misc 72K Statistics of Formula One 195...
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 407K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
StandardGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 8.0M Standardised GlowIcons Icon Set
JPEGLibrary_FR.lha util/libs 6K French catalog for JPEG libra...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 455K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
Anno.lha util/time 93K 68k Reminder and calendar utility
(snx)
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19.Dec.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 18.12.2021
The following files have been added until 18.12.2021 to OS4Depot:
scoopx_demo_sky.lha dem/sce 1Mb 4.1 Scoopx demo sky
oo.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
nmtm-solution.lha gam/mis 23kb 4.0 The solution for the game No Mor...
sminkiator.lha gam/mis 7Mb 4.1 Randomize world for fun
libblitter_library.lha lib/gra 2Mb 4.0 software blitter
(snx)
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19.Dec.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 18.12.2021
The following files have been added until 18.12.2021 to AROS Archives:
nmtm-solution.lha gam/mis 23kb The solution for the game No Mor...
cubosphere.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 481Mb OpenGL maze game. Roll sphere to...
giddy3.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 3Mb OpenGL puzzle-solving platform g...
standardglowicons.lha gra/ico 8Mb Standardised GlowIcons Icon Set
(snx)
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19.Dec.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.12.2021
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 18.12.2021:
(snx)
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19.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Shadow of the Beast II level 2 (Sultry dark side of Karamoon)
- Rings of Medusa
(snx)
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19.Dec.2021
Games.ch (ANF)
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THEA500 Mini: Release date and games list
On their Facebook account RetroGames Ltd. has published the release date of their size-reduced replica "THEA500 Mini" now (amiga-news.de reported). The just 20,7 x 14,4 x 2,7 centimeters measuring device - therefore being without a working keyboard - will be available on March 25, 2022.
Included are the 25 games listed below, own ones can be loaded via USB, full WHDLoad support included:
- Alien Breed 3D
- Alien Breed: Special Edition'92
- Another World
- Arcade Pool
- ATR: All Terrain Racing
- Battle Chess
- Cadaver
- California Games
- The Chaos Engine
- Dragons Breath
- F-16 Combat Pilot
- Kick Off 2
- The Lost Patrol
- Paradroid 90
- Pinball Dreams
- Project-X: Special Edition 93
- Qwak
- The Sentinel
- Simon the Sorcerer
- Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe
- Stunt Car Racer
- Super Cars II
- Titus The Fox: To Marrakech And Back
- Worms: The Director's Cut
- Zool: Ninja Of The "Nth" Dimension
(snx)
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19.Dec.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 154 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 154 (January/February 2022) have been published online now at the title link. Contents include an interview with Thomas Römer as well as reviews of the 68030-TK2 by 'Matze' and the games collection Ad Cosmos Ex Terra.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
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19.Dec.2021
Roman Kargin (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4.1: Warp3D backward compatibility with 'NovaBridge'
At this year's AmiWest it was announced that Hans De Ruiter is working on NovaBridge: This driver should allow all 3D applications written under the old Warp3D and MiniGL to work on modern graphics cards like Radeon RX and Radeon HD. As the author explained in a blog post from late October, NovaBridge came about after further discussion about how confusing Warp3D's Nova naming scheme was. The main problem with this would be the fact that the end user would need to know about this incompatibility in order to get software to work accordingly. This is now to be solved by replacing the hardware-dependent code in the W3D_SI driver with Warp3D Nova code.
In consequence, this means that end users no longer need to worry about 3D APIs. Warp3D, Warp3D Nova, MiniGL, OpenGL ES 2, GL4ES should all work as long as Warp3D Nova drivers are installed. And developers would never need to write a Warp3D driver again.
Work on this driver is still ongoing, but Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has now summarized the current state of development in a YouTube video. In it, he notes that WarpOS apps like WipeOUT2097, Heretic2, demos of Encore, MadWizzards, etc. are working. They would all run in hardware rendering mode and would not require any patches. According to his conclusion, NovaBridge is currently the most compatible Warp3D of all possible realizations on any Amiga. Because even things that previously ran on Voodoo graphics cards but not on Radeon or vice versa would now just work as expected. (dr)
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18.Dec.2021
Guenter Bartsch (Mail)
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BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.0
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively.
Yesterday the developer has released version 0.8.0 on GitHub and has given us some notes on it:
"Actually I planned to release only a minor release with focus on sprites and BOBs, but somehow the path of development led me into another direction. BOBs and animations are now available in the runtime, but while testing I realized that I could use a debugger - so I did and now there is a 0.8.0 instead of a 0.7.4 and as a big innovation there is a real source level debugger.
The debugger is still expandable, but has all the basic functions that a debugger must have - in particular, you can insert breakpoints, examine variables and include trace outputs in the programs - the whole thing is quite useful for debugging. In the course of this, the editor was also rebuilt under the hood - so there is now a real debug console and the editor can display breakpoints and generally interact with the debugger."
As always, the author welcomes feedback, bug reports and suggestions from our readers. (dr)
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17.Dec.2021
Discord
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New preview video: 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night' winter update
With another preview video, Michael 'Mixel' Dawes presents the current state of development of his Scorpion Engine created platformer 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night'.
Making a demo out of the winter stage was his initial plan, but there wasn't enough time for that. And so the developer presents the completed game scenes as a video update. They are to be used in the full game later. (dr)
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17.Dec.2021
AmigaLove
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Holly Lights: Xmas decoration for Workbench 1.3
For those who already want to give their Workbench 1.3 some Christmas glamour, Chris 'Crispy' Brenner has written a small program that conjures up a Christmas fairy lights on the screen:
Regarding how it works, the author states the following:
"When HollyLights first starts, it looks at the depth of the Workbench screen. It will then add the required number of bitplanes needed to bring the Workbench screen up to sixteen colors. It does this in such a way that is invisible to the Workbench program, so Workbench thinks it's still operating with the same number of colors it had before the program was run. This scheme has the benefit of allowing Workbench to operate faster than if it was truly in sixteen colors, but has a couple of drawbacks as well.
When the program initialization is done, and all of the graphics data is in place, then the holly and lights decorations are rendered into the main
Workbench window once every couple of seconds. Rendering is suspended when the Workbench screen is not the frontmost screen.
If HollyLights was started from a four color Workbench, then the window will be decorated with lights of four different colors: red, green, orange, and blue. If started from an eight color Workbench, then only red and green lights will be shown. This is done so as to not interfere with the eight color palette."
And on the undesirable side effects, he writes the following:
"Since Workbench doesn't know about the extra bitplanes, it will not refresh any of the graphics in those bitplanes. Those extra bitplanes are refreshed by the HollyLights program when it renders its graphics once every couple of seconds, and because of this you will briefly see some leftover graphics in a window when you move it on top of any of the HollyLights decorations. This is normal.
Unfortunately, I haven't found a system friendly way to refresh the Workbench menus, so there will always be leftover graphics in the sections of the menus that intersect with the HollyLights decorations."
On weekend a version for AmigaOS 2 should also follow. (dr)
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17.Dec.2021
Amigatronics
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AROS: PipeWalker game ported
PipeWalker ist a puzzle-like game, where you have to make connections to link the beginning and the end: network connections, water pipes, electrical cables, roads, etc.
Versions for Linux and Wondows have been available for a while, now an implementation for AROS has been released as well.
Amigatronics has published an article on this topic (English translation), which gives a visual impression of the game by means of screenshots. (dr)
[News message: 17. Dec. 2021, 06:16] [Comments: 0]
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17.Dec.2021
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 4
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams 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 (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. In the fourth episode among others it is explained how joystick support is implemented. (dr)
[News message: 17. Dec. 2021, 04:44] [Comments: 0]
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