23.Nov.2021
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail-Programm Iris 1.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.0 of his email program Iris today, ending its beta status. On this occasion the author has published a separate statement:
"After about 5 years of development, the first non-beta release of Iris is now available for download!
Iris is the most advanced and modern mail client among all of the clients available on MorphOS and Amiga. It's the only client to support OAuth2 for GMail, Yahoo and Outlook. It's the only client to support full html viewing and editing of emails, thanks to the inclusion of a stripped down WebKit. Iris is the application that has sparked off countless innovations in other parts of the OS, including adding ObjectiveC support and Unicode support into MUI.
Getting to the 1.0 version would not have been possible without the support of all of the betatesters, translators and users who either donated to the project or sent me bugreports and logs. I would also like to single out Christoph Poelzl of https://rms-communications.ch for all of his contributions and pushing me to add features to meet his business use cases. Iris would not have been what it is now without your input. Thank you!
There's still a long TODO for Iris, so keep looking out for future updates."
Among the new features of version 1.0 is the long awaited keyword search in email body.
For feedback to the author, the corresponding MorphZone-discussion on the topic can be used. (dr)
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23.Nov.2021
Prince (Phaze 101)
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial
Prince', founder of the former demo 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-shifted to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
Among other things stimulated by our inquiry, to what extent the newly acquired knowledge is practically applied by his participants, Prince has now decided to give further assistance and to show the conversion into assembler for the Amiga step by step on the basis of the small C64 game 'Poop's Journey'. The episode 1 has now been uploaded to YouTube. (dr)
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22.Nov.2021
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Texteditor: Amiga Source Editor 1.70
By releasing version 1.2 (2019), at the end of the last year Alain Fontanin has resumed the development of his "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE) which originally started in 1989.
The author constantly develops his text editor further and now has released version 1.70 with the following changes:
- Documentation in Amiguide format
- Correction of the German localization (thanks Andreas and Daniel)
- Fixed ARexx functioning under MorphOS
- Processing screens with a resolution greater than 800x600
- Possibility of positioning the status bar in the upper or lower part of the window
- Improved text selection
- Improved management of the active window
- Removal of single-window mode
- Possibility to configure the default clipboard
- Added 'drag & drop' functionality to document windows
- Possibility to use an icon for standby documents
(dr)
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21.Nov.2021
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: hURL 1.2 for several data transfer protocols
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with a major update of hURL - the ultimate multi-protocol data transfer plugin for Hollywood, which allows Hollywood scripts to transfer data using all kinds of different network protocols including full SSL support.
Version 1.2 is a major update that now supports Hollywood 9's extended network adapter so that Hollywood's DownloadFile() and UploadFile() functions can now handle all protocols supported by hURL instead of just HTTP. This makes it much easier to use hURL because you often don't have to use hURL's lowlevel interface any longer but can just use DownloadFile() or UploadFile().
hURL supports an incredibly wide range of transfer protocols, e.g. DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. As with all Hollywood plugins, hURL comes with extensive documentation in various formats like PDF (over 300 pages!), HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM that contains detailed descriptions about all functions and methods offered by the plugin.
All of this makes hURL the ultimate data transfer tool for Hollywood that contains everything you need to send and receive data via almost any transfer protocol on the planet.
hURL is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS 3.x (m68k), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux (PPC, ARM, x86, x64), Mac OS (PPC, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android (ARM, ARM64), and iOS (ARM, ARM64) are provided.
Note that on AmigaOS and compatibles, AmiSSL 4.x is required by hURL for SSL transfers. Since this isn't available in a native MorphOS version yet, you can just use the 68k version of AmiSSL 4.x on MorphOS. It has been verified to work fine with hURL. (snx)
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21.Nov.2021
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Aminet uploads until 20.11.2021
The following files have been added until 20.11.2021 to Aminet:
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.2M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
MaestrixReloaded.lha driver/aud 163K MOS The Maestrix 2: Reloaded on P...
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 407K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 17M 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...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
abcm2ps.lha mus/misc 554K MOS Convert music tunes from ABC ...
HuntnGather.lha util/dir 102K 68k File indexing and search util...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 431K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
AnalogClock.lha util/time 38K 68k Analog transparent clock for ...
(snx)
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21.Nov.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 20.11.2021
The following files have been added until 20.11.2021 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 17Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
datenbank.lha off/dat 51Mb 4.1 Simple offline Database done wit...
(snx)
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21.Nov.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 20.11.2021
The following files have been added until 20.11.2021 to AROS Archives:
barspipes.zip aud 5Mb Port of Amiga 68k Best Midi Sequ...
4klive.i386-aros.zip aud/mis 491kb Simple synth toy.
a1kstartup_remix.zip aud/mis 42kb Aros startup sound
dt42.lha aud/mis 814kb DT-42 DrumToy
flac133.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 2Mb Free Lossless Audio Codec
gtuner.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 5Mb a Guitar Tuner
muitronome.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 83kb a Mui Ahi Metronome
armodplugplayer02.i386-ar... aud/pla 2Mb Plays 22 different mod formats ,...
harmonyplayer.i386-aros.zip aud/pla 1Mb multi format music player
modexplorer_aros.zip aud/pla 2Mb Streaming mod file from Internet...
protracker23d.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 3Mb Music making software "ProT...
protrekkr.i386-aros.lha aud/tra 10Mb Protrekkr
siddump.i386-aros.lha aud/tra 106kb C64 music debug output utility
snow_ninja.i386-aros.lha dem/sce 16Mb Demo from SSEP 2012
z-nexx.i386-aros.lha dem/sce 23Mb Demo from SSSP 2013
aidea.lha dev/ide 11Mb IDE Enviroment
bas2tap.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 111kb Sinclair BASIC file to TAP tape ...
bin2tap.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 107kb Sinclair CODE file to TAP converter
z802tzx.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 183kb Spectrum Z80 Snapshot to TZX Tap...
bumprace.i386-aros.zip gam/act 1Mb Avoid obstacles in top-down spac...
darkest-hour.i386-aros.lha gam/adv 88kb Old-fashioned text adventure game
nmtm1.lzx gam/adv 20Mb Point and click adventure game
nmtm-solution.lha gam/mis 9kb The solution for the game No Mor...
brickshoot.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 3Mb Shoot to clear colored blocks (6...
football-manager.i386-aro... gam/spo 138kb Relive the Sinclair Speccy footb...
grafx2-2.7.i386-aros.zip gra/edi 1Mb The Ultimate 256-color bitmap pa...
68k_datatypes.zip gra/mis 24kb new datatype for aros m68k
hwp_rapagui-2.1.i386-aros... lib/mis 7Mb Cross-platform GUI toolkit for H...
toolbar_mcc.zip lib/mui 4kb Toolbar custom class for MUI
simplemail_0.43.zip net/ema 1Mb IMAP POP3 Client Email
hbecard.lha uti/mis 4Mb This little happy birthday elect...
(snx)
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21.Nov.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 20.11.2021
The following files have been added until 20.11.2021 to MorphOS Storage:
MaestrixReloaded_2.0.lha Audio/Drivers The Maestrix 2: Reloade...
abcm2ps_8.14.12.lha Audio/Misc Convert music tunes fro...
HivelyTracker_1.8.lha Audio/Tracker HivelyTracker 1.8 writt...
AmiArcadia_28.22.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
REminiscence_data.lha Games/Adventure REminiscence_data.lha
REminiscence_0.4.9.lha Games/Adventure REminiscence is a re-im...
NMTM_14.11.21.lha Games/Adventure A game concept demo of ...
Woof_8.0.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Woof! is a continuation...
dsda-doom_0.22.lha Games/Shoot3D This is a fork of prboo...
(snx)
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21.Nov.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.11.2021
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 20.11.2021:
- 2021-11-15 improved: Workbench 3.1 (CBM) reassembled with latest kickemu, WHDCtrl enabled (Info)
(snx)
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21.Nov.2021
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Event: Videos of AmiWest 2021
October 16 and 17, the 24th AmiWest took place in Sacramento, California (amiga-news.de reported), and as usual Robert Bernardo prepared videos of the show, with the final one published today:
(snx)
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21.Nov.2021
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FPGA: First Playstation1 game for MISTer
In mid-August we reported that Robert 'FPGAzumSpass' Peip had announced a Playstation1 emulation for the MISTer. In mid-October he announced via YouTube video that first games would basically run. Now yesterday via Twitter announced that with RidgeRacer the first PlayStation game is now playable on MiSTer: Some bugs are still present, but encourage testing. Unfortunately, those who do not have a second SDRAM available will have to wait a few more days.
He has documented his efforts in a GitHub project. (dr)
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20.Nov.2021
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Accelerator board: Last Buffee status update for 2021
In our last new item we reported that the Buffee accelerator boards had to be sent back for revision. Now the developers have published a last bog entry for this year (pictures available under the title link):
"I have many words for the last year, none of which I can really express here. Suffice to say that this “chip shortage” has pushed back retail production run into January – at least at this point – I believe nothing anyone’s saying until I have boards physically in hand. Despite the delays, our beta testing is going along well, but very, very slowly. We’re still waiting for the last of the beta boards to come in before we begin shipping, and I absolutely appreciate everyone’s patience with this. Software is coming along nicely and we have good timing on the bus and can read and write, so that’s progress!
Debugging the bus aside, we’re well along testing PJIT and the C (slow) emulator. But I wanted to take a small step aside and talk about what we’ve been developing ON. Say hello to the DIP-64 version of the MiniMig currently under development!
While I’d love to say that this is just for Buffee, this opens the MiniMig up to running basically any 68000 accelerator, fast RAM or IDE expansion, adding a ton of utility it never had before. Want a 68030? Ok. Maybe an 8MB+IDE board? Sure. How about a Vampire? Hey, sometimes Buffee gets along with Vampires too. Anyway, this is an amazing bit of kit and of course, can still run the SEC000 at 50MHz giving it near Amiga 3000 speeds.
I’m also taking a stab at fixing up some of the old MiniMig Verilog code to add real Amiga mouse support (quadrature decode) as well as proper scanlines that don’t darken the screen along with aspect-correct scaling. Wait, what’s that, you haven’t heard of this? Well, most scanline implementations just black-out or dim alternating lines which dims the screen. Given that LCD’s already have a horrid dynamic range compared to CRTs, it’s not great makign the screen dimmer than it has to. The magic is in using what is basically an overlay filter, combined with some horizontal (but no vertical) smoothing. I think the look is fantastic.
We’re also looking at updating some other aspects like removing the antiquated PS/2 ports and supporting the 50MHz mode with Buffee to have a 50MHz bus to chip RAM. Fun times ahead, we just need to be a little more patient." (dr)
[News message: 20. Nov. 2021, 21:22] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2021
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The Amiga video memory: Amigavideo.net
Amigavideo.net collects on its site any videotapes dedicated to the Amiga. Amigavideo wants to make available hours of videos to the Amiga community, "from TV commercials to boring 2-hour long tutorials, without forgetting the institutional films selling the machine as the 'most amazing' computer ever."
The first goal of this website is to gather as many Amiga related videos as possible, preferably in the best available quality. As Thierry further reports, many of the videos can also be found elsewhere. With Amigavideo.net one simply wants to increase the chances for the Amiga fan to find and watch the video he is looking for. Besides, so many websites have disappeared without a trace, Commodore Billboard or Back2roots come to mind.
Thierry was kind enough to tell us the following about the history of the project:
"The website has been officially launched on Oct 2017 (quick panel during AmigaON, an Amiga reunion that took place in Ontario, Canada)
The first idea of this website surfaced around 2015 when my pile of Amiga VHS tapes was getting bigger and bigger. I'm a big Amiga fan/user (since...1990) and also Cinema/AudioVisual enthusiast, the reason of my "attraction" to everything involving Amiga and Video.
The main reason was to "share" those tapes instead of just keeping it in a storage and with a "better" interface than YouTube or etc (where pretty much all the videos already are...but good luck to find anything if you don't know the exact name of the video...
Recently, the whole collection has been upscaled to 720/60p with noise reduction....insanely long process but I'm very happy with the result."
A future step would be to obtain master copies (also on loan) and preserve them (at least digitally) in as future-proof a state as possible. (dr)
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20.Nov.2021
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Emulation: vAmiga as web port
Christian Corti has obviously specialized in web conversions of emulators and programs with his web presence NEOART Costa Rica: Thus, besides the web conversion of the C64 emulator "VirtualC64" and the music tracker "Future Composer" in the form of a remake, he also offers the web conversion of the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga developed by Dirk Hoffmann. All that is needed is a current browser such as Chrome, Edge or Firefox. The required ROMs are provided in the form of an 'AROS Replacement Kickstart ROM'. It is also possible to use your own ROMs, but tests in this regard have failed on our part. Corti explicitly points out the beta status of the project, but we wanted to see how applicable this already is and chose as a test object the game Crazy Columns, which the author Jochen Hoffer provides in the form of an adf file.
After calling the title link, we are greeted as follows:
After a "Continue", the settings page awaits us:
We decide for "Install AROS" and thus for the "AROS Kickstart Replacement ROM". In the tab "Hardware" you can load pre-configured preferences. Since 'Crazy Columns' was written for the Amiga 500, we decide to use it. After an "OK" the emulator starts:
Since no action is triggered by pressing the icons, we simply drag the ADF file of the game into the window and the game is loaded. However, the first attempt is still slowed down by the message 'too little memory'. We increase the Fast RAM from the default 0 kB to 512 kB and start again. This time with success:
Furthermore, there is a second web implementation of the vAmiga emulator, vAmigaWeb. This is maintained by GitHub user "Mithrendal" and can be reached at this direct link. As vAmiga developer Dirk Hoffmann tells us, "this emulator is also in beta. At the moment important features like the keyboard are still missing. A mouse support is available since yesterday. This webport should run later mainly on mobile devices." (dr)
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19.Nov.2021
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.3
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, 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.
This new version 0.9.3 provides the following changes:
- Profiler update: Trigger conditions and actions are displayed. Also added extra cathegories in the main bar.
- Code for global variables has been optimized.
- Code for input has been optimized.
- Render code has been optimized.
- New action Trigger Sprite Layer to enabled or disable the Level Sprite Layer.
- New action Trigger Sprite Spd X to set up the Level Sprite Layer Speed in X.
- Removed HUD Enabled/Top/Bottom from HUD screen as now the setup is done in Level Properties.
- Audio routines for player and the editor have been unified.
- Code has been converted to ASCII, this is just better for me but could have some unknown implications.
- Some internal code refactoring.
- In Game Setup screen Target FPS has been renamed to Max FPS.
- FIX: Sprite setup not being seen in the Level Properties screeb.
- FIX: When entering the level screen some old projects could crash the editor.
(dr)
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18.Nov.2021
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Javascript: Scripted Amiga Emulator 0.9.13
Rupert Hausberger's "Scripted Amiga Emulator" is written in Javascript and HTML5. The goal of his project is to make the 'Amiga Classic' emulation available for browsers. This should not require any browser plugins or third-party scripts, but only HTML5 and Javascript. Finally, it should be possible to play demos, intros or mods, play games or benchmark the browser. After a small break, he has now brought version 0.9.13 online, which brings the following changes:
- Fixed bug in CLXDAT in combination with full-collision-detection. (Thanks 'dirkwhoffmann' for info)
- Fixed Semi-Colon-Key under Firefox. (Thanks 'goldnchild' for info)
- Enabled HTTPS. It should fix the Gamepad-API secure-context problem. (Thanks 'goldnchild' for info)
(dr)
[News message: 18. Nov. 2021, 06:54] [Comments: 0]
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18.Nov.2021
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.7.1 for Raspberry Pi 4/400
Besides new versions of some Amiga programs, minor update 11.7.1 (changelog) of Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the single-board computer Raspberry Pi 4/400 also includes version 4.1.6 of the underlying emulator AmiBerry that was released last month. (snx)
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17.Nov.2021
Discord
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Preview video: Remake of Rick Dangerous
'Z-Team' has announced a remake of the game Rick Dangeous with enhanced graphics for the Amiga 1200 or CD32 as their entry for this year's AmiGameJam. Now a first preview video of the game developed with the Scorpion Engine has been released. (dr)
[News message: 17. Nov. 2021, 06:44] [Comments: 0]
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17.Nov.2021
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Video tutorial: Episode 20 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now the episode 20 was published, which continues in chapter 7 and is dedicated to the topic 'Sprites'. (dr)
[News message: 17. Nov. 2021, 06:04] [Comments: 0]
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17.Nov.2021
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Amiga Art Contest 2021: Announcement of the winners
In a video show the winners of the this year's Amiga Art Contest (amiga-news.de reported) have been announced.
The "Animation" category was won by Hernán 'Hache' Beroldo with his Pink Panther production. The "3D Raytrace Images" category was won by Kevin Quattro with Sub Gate.
The "Mod and Music" category was won by Paulee Alex Bow with 'WIcked Game Remix' (found at the title link). Amiga Bill won the photography category with his Face image. Finally, the winner for the Hand Drawn Artwork category was announced: Kevin Saunders with Flower Planet. (dr)
[News message: 17. Nov. 2021, 04:38] [Comments: 0]
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