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15.Dec.2021
AMIGATRONICS


AmiTube 0.5: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video).

Yesterday version 0.5 has been released, providing the following changes:
  • As described before, 3 different quality settings for the movies, CDXL OCS, CDXL AGA, MPEG1
  • Share your most favorite videos with other AmiTube users
  • Load list of shared videos from internett
  • type a YouTube URL to search bar to directly get a video description
  • observe clipboard for YouTube URLs
  • parameter for CDXL and MPEG Player
  • special Version for 68000 processors (normal Version needs at least a 68020)
Additionally a separate website has been set up where always the latest version of the toll can be found. The requirements for AmiTube:
  • minimum requirement: 68020 processor, OS3.0, 4MB RAM, MUI 3.8
  • minimum requirement for the 68000 version: 68000 processor, OS3.0, 4MB RAM, MUI 3.8
Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link. (dr)

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13.Dec.2021



Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #19 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 19 (autumn/winter) are game reviews on 'Turbo Tomato' and 'Metal Gear' as well as articles on AmigaOS 3.2 and WinUAE (part 2.

The magazine is available in a printed edition including the Commodore 64/128 cover disc for 7,42 Euro (plus approx. 5 Euro shipping costs), the price for the digital edition is 1,48 Euro. (dr)

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13.Dec.2021



Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS, part 2
Rob Smith, known for his project DrawBridge for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, has now released the second part of his YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). While the first video concentrated on the background layer, the second part focuses on the foreground layer and how to combine the two. (dr)

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12.Dec.2021



New preview video: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported) which is supposed to run on unaccelerated Amiga 1200 and CD32 with 50 fps.

Meanwhile the author has published the 22. preview video which is "mostly about visual quality improvements and first gameplay logic functionality." (dr)

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12.Dec.2021



Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.5 (update)
Robert Smith's project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive is officially supported since the recently released WinUAE 4.9.0. In addition, Smith has made other changes with the new version 2.8.4: Among other things, IPF and SCP files can now be written to floppy disks, HD disks are supported, and reading and writing in general has been improved.

Besides, it is possible to be placed on a waiting list: Smith sells his little board for USB Slimline disk drives for 25 British Pound plus shipping. The boards are fully compatible to Arduino Software (IDE) which enables future firmware updates.
All documents of Smith's project are available on GitHub under a free license.

Update: (21.12.2021, 05:45, dr)

Meanwhile version 2.8.5 is available which adds a warning if known applications are running that may be using the serial port. (dr)

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12.Dec.2021



Vampire 1200 V2 accelerator board: Availability, reviews
In summer the Apollo team had announced two new accelerator boards: the FireBird (A500/A1000/A2000) and the IceDrake (A1200). Meanwhile, a third card has been added, the Apollo Kraken V4 (Amiga 3000/4000). While the latter is announced for the fourth quarter of 2022 and the Firebird is already available, the IceDrake is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2022. It can currently be pre-ordered for 572 Euros (including fees, plus postage).

Currently available is (still) the Vampire 1200 V2: We want to give a brief overview of how the specifications of the Vampire 1200 V2 and the IceDrake differ:
Feature         Vampire 1200 V2                 IceDrake
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Processor       Apollo 68080, AMMX,             Apollo 68080 AMMX,
                64-bit support                  64-bit support

RAM             128 MB SDRAM                    512 MB DDR3

Video output    RTG, truecolor 32 bit,          SuperAGA, RTG, truecolor
                1280×720@60Hz                   32 bit, 1280x720@60Hz

Audio           ?                               8/16-bit, 56 kHz, 24-bit
                                                mixing, 8 DMA voices

Ethernet        Ethernet Module Connector       100Mbit Ethernet RJ45 port

Ports           44-pin FastIDE/CompactFlash     2x FastIDE/CompactFlash
                Controller (up to 14 MB/Sek)    Controller (up to 20 MB/Sek),
                                                2x USB Port

The decision whether a potential buyer should rather wait for the IceDrake or better buy the Vampire 1200 V2 now, we do not want to take away from him, but at the end we want to give a little help in the form of a test report compilation: (dr)

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12.Dec.2021



Aminet uploads until 11.12.2021
The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to Aminet:
IBrowseSP.lha            comm/www   19K       IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs
hpdinrto.lha             demo/intro 211K  68k Intro by Hippopotamus Design,...
CubicIDE-FreePascal.lha  dev/misc   69K       Cubic IDE FreePascal Plugin
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   2.2M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
ADF_Device.lha           disk/misc  14K   68k Insert and remove ADF Files
TilesSlide.lha           game/actio 81K   68k Align 3-4 tiles of same colou...
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
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha    gfx/fract  17M   OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
hippogen.lha             gfx/fract  25K   68k Small generator for 16 fracta...
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...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.2M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
KorgDS8PatchRem.lha      mus/misc   132K  68k Banks memory for the Korg DS8...
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha  mus/misc   186K      Some samples created by Sampl...
HuntnGather.lha          util/dir   110K  68k File indexing and search util...
DOpus4-OpenWindow.lha    util/dopus 4K        ARexx: open a WB window for d...
IdentifyDev.lha          util/libs  65K   68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyLib_FR.lha       util/libs  11K       French catalogs for identify....
IdentifyUsr.lha          util/libs  87K   68k Identify hardware and more
ADiffView.lha            util/misc  160K  68k Graphical ASCII file compare/...
AnalogClock.lha          util/time  39K   68k Resizeable analog transparent...
(snx)

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12.Dec.2021



OS4Depot uploads until 11.12.2021
The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
camp_uncanny.lha         gam/mis 12Mb  4.1 Demo of basic game operation
mce.lha                  gam/uti 4Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
flashmandelng.lha        gra/mis 17Mb  4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
fortunes-ita.lha         uti/she 1Mb   4.0 Update fortune cookies
(snx)

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12.Dec.2021



AROS Archives uploads until 11.12.2021
The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to AROS Archives:
pipewalker.i386-aros.zip     gam/puz 1Mb   OpenGL pipe connecting game.
(snx)

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12.Dec.2021



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 11.12.2021
The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Iris_1.1.lha              Email                     New email client suppor...
AmiArcadia_28.31.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
MCE_13.31.lha             Games/Editor              Multi-game Character Ed...
OmniSpeak.lha             Games/Platform            Omnispeak is an open-so...
ArLan_0.1.lha             Network/Tools             Simple Gopher client
ADiffView_2.1.lha         Text/Compare              A graphical file compar...
(snx)

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12.Dec.2021



Windows: DOpus cooperation with Haage & Partner terminated
The file manager Directory Opus, originally from the Amiga and commercially continued for Windows only, which has been open source in the Amiga variant since 2012, was previously distributed by Haage & Partner (H&P) in Germany, with their support page, including a forum, still being online.

The company, which was responsible for AmigaOS 3.5 as well as 3.9 and had been entrusted with the original AmigaOS 4.0 development as well as bringing Bernd Meyer's emulator Amithlon in a package as Amiga OS XL to the market in 2001, had given up the distribution of its Amiga products in 2006.

The German DOpus support was managed by Markus Nerding, who was co-founder of H&P in 1995 along with Jürgen Haage and Jochen Becher. Now, however, he runs his own website under directory-opus.de, which is named the official German support site. In addition, all registered Directory Opus users are supposed to have received an e-mail, which we document below, stating that H&P is no longer allowed to sell the program. In fact, on the website of the Australian manufacturer of DOpus, GPSoftware, H&P is no longer linked, as a comparison of the current product page with the August version reveals (right column, upper part).

The email text reads (translated from the German original):

"Dear DOpus customers,
today we would like to introduce the new German support website at www.directory-opus.de and www.dopus.de. It is run by Markus Nerding, who has been taking care of the German translation of Directory Opus since the beginning of the Windows release. He and his team will take care of your questions about Directory Opus.
Unfortunately we had to end the partnership with our longtime German distributor Haage & Partner. They are no longer allowed to sell Directory Opus and we hope that they will also discontinue the former Directory Opus website and forum.
We are very happy about the new German support website, where you can already find first tutorials and tips. More content will follow bit by bit. Please have a look at www.directory-opus.de.
Many greetings
the DOpus team
GP Software" (snx)

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12.Dec.2021
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)


Amigaland: Two rare CDTV games for download / PD area added
At Amigaland.de - a legal collection of games, demos and emulators - Mirko Engelhardt can now offer two rare comic adventures for free download: "The Case of the Cautious Condor" and "Murder Makes Strange Deadfellows" by Tiger Media, published for Amiga CDTV in 1991.

Furthermore a PD/freeware area has been added, listing 41 entries currently. (snx)

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12.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)


Java program: ham_convert 1.84
Java-based program ham_convert for transition of standard graphics file formats into Amiga ones, has meanwhile been updated to version 1.84. Among other changes, now the number of used palette colors can be selected when creating HAM6 and HAM8 files. (snx)

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11.Dec.2021
Prince (Mail)


Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 3
'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. After the first two parts, which were mainly for introduction and preparation, the third episode now starts with the actual programming. (dr)

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10.Dec.2021
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: E-Mail-Programm Iris 1.1
Recently Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek had released version 1.0 of his email program Iris for MorphOS. Now the first update is available, which contains the following changes:
  • Added a Copy Messages... dialog that may be used to copy messages between accounts, local folders, etc
  • Drag & drop of messages into a local folder / folder of a different account will copy messages to the destination folder
  • Editing of local messages retains their original date
  • Fixed a crash in case loading a list of spelling dictionaries fails
  • Fixed a condition where the Outgoing Mail manager could send a single message more than once
  • Improved progress reports when sending mail
  • Additional heuristics when trying to determine the right extension name when saving attachments (if the sender's client did not set the correct MIME type)
  • Performing an action on a large multi-selection of messages would sometimes stall forever when trying to obtain full message identifiers to act on
  • Optimized a case where setting flags on a large selection of messages would cause the MUI list to perform very costly redraw lookups
Download: iris.lha (34 MB) (dr)

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09.Dec.2021
Reddit


Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS
Rob Smith, known for his DrawBridge project to read Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has released the first part of a YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS. (dr)

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09.Dec.2021



AmigaNG: Website lists emulation options for Raspberry Pi
The website AmigaNG is dedicated to the "next generation of Amiga computers and operating systems" in all its facets. Now with Pi Amiga Images a new category has been added, which compiles the different emulation possibilities of the AmigaOS - like AmiKit XE or Amiberry - on the single board computer Raspberry Pi with links and information. The page will be extended bit by bit. (dr)

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08.Dec.2021
Twitter


RPG: 'Briley Witch Chronicles' being ported to Amiga
Sarah Jane Avory is in the process of porting her role-playing game Briley Witch Chronicles, published for the C64, to the Amiga. It is based on her book series of the same name and is said to be playable at 50 FPS, just like the C64 version.
The story: the witch Briley is abandoned in the village of Maepole, accompanied only by her grumpy, talking cat. She can survive there only if she learns the witchcraft with the help of her spell book. Because the powerful Whitehead family hates witches. (dr)

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