31.Oct.2021
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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Product announcement: 7-bit accelerator board 'Wicher 520EC' for Amiga 500/500+
After announcing the Wicher 1220 turbo card for the A1200, Artur Gadawski of the retro hardware company 7-bit now takes aim at the A500/500+ with the Wicher 520EC turbo card:
Wicher 520EC turbo card has been designed for installation inside Amiga A500/A500+ computer. It supports 68EC020 CPU, up to 11 MB of Fast RAM and IDE 2,5” hard drives. CPU clock speed can be set up to 33 MHz.
Specification
- AmigaA500/A500+ compatibility
- CPU support: MC68EC020 (recycled processor)
- supported CPU clock speeds: 25, 33 MHz
- guaranteed to run at 25 MHz
- RAM memory: 16MB SDRAM (AmigaOS uses 11MB)
- Amiga A600-compatible IDE controller (required Kickstart >= 2.05 (37.350))
- MapRom, BootRom function
- SPI controller, RTC
- Kickstart: recommended Kickstart 3.1 or up
SPI BusBoard
- MINI ENC28J60 Ethernet module
- microSD card slot
Driver
- SD Card
- DS1306 RTC
- ENC28J60 Ethernet
According to Artur Gadawski the first boards will be available at the first retailers in early November.
(dr)
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31.Oct.2021
IBrowse-Website
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 4.11 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 4.11 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL provides the latest root-certificates as well as some bug fixes. Detailed changelog:
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html dated 26.10.2021
- Legacy entropy generation is now faster on OS3 machines, with the removal of delays caused by using the vblank timer, which typically causes AmiSSL to initialise 2 seconds faster
- Fixed legacy entropy generation to correctly use an entropy factor of 4, as originally intended, which was broken since AmiSSL 4.3
- Entropy generation now uses SHA-256 instead of SHA-1
- Tweaked OS4 memory allocations to not be locked
- Fixed issues when redirecting OpenSSL tool output to a file
- Added Ctrl-C break detection to the OpenSSL tool
- OS4 binaries now stripped further with --strip-unneeded-rel-relocs
(dr)
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31.Oct.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #111 - Report from AmiWest
In episode 111 of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton is talking about his visit of this year's AmiWest in Sacramento. (snx)
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31.Oct.2021
Twitter
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Music: Rave album 'Breaking Even'
Yesterday gwEm has released the album 'Breaking Even' featuring "authentic 1992 style breakbeat hardcore rave, produced 100% on a Commodore Amiga 600". The eight tracks are available in different formats, e.g. as MP3 and FLAC. for a price which you choose. (dr)
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31.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 30.10.2021
The following files have been added until 30.10.2021 to Aminet:
asm3210.lha dev/asm 154K Cross assembler for DSP3210 c...
evo.lha dev/e 603K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
HWP_RapaGUI.lha dev/hwood 7.2M MOS Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.2M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
Maestix.lha driver/aud 96K 68k MaestroPro driver + AHI driver
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 412K 68k Driver for G3/G4 PCI cards
jfsw.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k Shadow Warrior Amiga Port
nblood.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Blood Amiga Port
darkest-hour.lha game/text 44K MOS Old-fashioned text adventure ...
impiccatogame.lha game/wb 262K 68k Impiccato game
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 51K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
mandel_dsp.lha gfx/fract 23K 68k Mandelbrot generator for DSP3...
MysticView.lha gfx/show 311K 68k RTG datatype picture viewer
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
bas2tap.i386-aros.lha misc/emu 111K x86 Sinclair BASIC file to TAP co...
shorttunes.lha mods/pro 37K Protracker modules by Omen
sweet_reggae.lha mods/pro 97K Protracker module by Omen
Venomen.lha mods/pro 95K Protracker module by Omen
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.7M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
siddump.i386-aros.lha mus/misc 106K x86 C64 music debug output utility
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 280K 68k Updated HippoPlayer, a module...
MMV8_Player.lha mus/play 33K 68k MusicMaker V8 Player
z802tzx.i386-aros.lha util/conv 183K x86 TZX Tape
HuntnGather.lha util/dir 171K 68k File indexing and search util...
PicDTBench.lha util/dtype 26K MOS Benchmark picture.datatype im...
WarpPSDdt.lha util/dtype 71K WOS Adobe Photoshop® datatype V45.7
AmiSSL-4.11.lha util/libs 5.7M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
fpu512.lha util/moni 16K 68k FPU 'benchmark' for fast systems
AnalogClock.lha util/time 38K 68k Analog transparent clock for ...
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31.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.10.2021
The following files have been added until 30.10.2021 to OS4Depot:
libcurl.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 The multiprotocol file transfer ...
curl.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.1 Command line URL file transfer
mediavault.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.1 Discover online radio stations a...
hbecard.lha uti/mis 4Mb 4.0 This little happy birthday elect...
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31.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.10.2021
The following files have been added until 30.10.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Multimediatags.lha Audio/Misc Dump meta data from sou...
HWP_RapaGUI_2.1.lha Development/Hollywood/... A cross-platform GUI to...
HappyBirthday_eCard_1.... Misc Little happy birthday e...
PicDTBench_1.2.lha System/Benchmark Benchmark picture.datat...
WarpPSDdt_45.7.lha System/Datatypes Adobe Photoshop? dataty...
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31.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
- Hired Guns (Awesome Megablast)
(snx)
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31.Oct.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Trademark protection: Cloanto withdraws opposition against Intellivision's Amico
After being forced by third party to defend the Amiga trademarks against Intellivision's "Amico" game console, Cloanto now filed a motion to withdraw their opposition at USPTO with prejudice, meaning that the opposition is replaced by a separate agreement between the parties, which prevails (PDF file).
On Twitter Amiga Corporation commented: "Amiga and Amico both mean friend. To stop any speculation: we had a productive exchange about coexistence, and concerns were resolved. Amiga wishes Intellivision all the best for its entertainment project." (snx)
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31.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 127 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time.
Download pages:
Italian (Schlüssel: DrdBPIPM8WFERqI5_4EmunyBTL4LjwTmvKi1-PHVvIM)
English (Schlüssel: OyoO3QZtiOz4GzRYsb-gu3vjCTmZSm8oxE_pYjcniAg) (snx)
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31.Oct.2021
Carlos Peris (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.2
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.
Regarding the major jump from the previous version 0.8.13 to the latest 0.9.1, we have asked the author for some additional information which he kindly provided:
"Version 0.9 is a big step forward in the game creator progress, not just for the number of features that have been added but because it makes game development easier than before which is why Redpill exists in the first place. For each level you can define the music to play, the transition effects, the background to use and a lot more things. Before you had to use some triggers to set up these values per level as they were set up only for the project. Adding and browsing objects and tiles is much easier with the shortcuts added in the screens, editing levels if faster now (YouTube video).
The performance has also improved as has the compatibility with 68000 cpus (older versions required a 68020). The audio engine now uses PHX library which means that you have music and sounds at the same time without using a 3 channels mod.The sprite layer support is much better now, supporting 16 colors layer (instead of 4 color) and setting it up in the background or the foreground of the screen (YouTube video). When running in AGA, games use 24bit color precission and gradients even if the game is ECS. There are many other fixes and improvements thanks to the feedback from users.
These are two YouTube example tutorials showing how to do some type of games, and how fast is to get results:
Currently some games are in developemnt:
A lot of effort has been put into this rekease, I hope the Amigans enjoy it".
Update: (04.11.21, 20:40, dr)
Meanwhile version 0.9.2 is available on Aminet which mainly fixes bugs. (dr)
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30.Oct.2021
George Sokianos (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.5.0
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations and, since Version 1.4.0, also to listen to podcasts. An external player like AmigaAmp and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. About the latest version 1.5.0 the author George Sokianos has written:
"I just released a new version of MediaVault for everyone to play with this weekend. With this version, a couple of new features arrived and a few fixes as well. With MediaVault v1.5.0 you will be able to mark online radio stations and podcasts as your favourite ones and have them listed in a separate list. This way you will be able to find and start listening to them much faster, without the need to search all the time for them.
To do that, above the play button, there is now a small yellow star with a plus sign, which you can use to add the radio station or podcast to the favourite list. This then changes to a star with a red minus sign, so to remove it from the favourite list. To enable those buttons you have first to find in the lists the one you want, select it and then the buttons will be enabled.
While we are on that, there is also one more button available, whenever you select a podcast episode, which can be found beside the little star, above the play button. By clicking on that when an episode is selected, the episode is added at the "Listen Later" list, under the Podcast section at the left sidebar. This way you can mark episodes you would like to listen to when you have more time.
If you already use the previous version, please use the self-update process, which you can find in the application menu. This can be used to update to the latest available version automatically, and before you do that, the whole changelog is shown.
I would like to thank all of my supporters for helping me develop MediaVault, adding new features and making it better and better." (dr)
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30.Oct.2021
Polnisches Amiga Forum
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AmigaOS 4: Comparison of video players (Polish)
In a detailed article - Polish original bzw. automatic translation - the author 'MUFA' has reviewed the different video players available for AmigaOS 4: Tested with an AmigaOne X1000 equipped with a Radeon HD R9 270 graphics card and an AmigaOne X5000 equipped with a Radeon RX 560 graphics card. Test candidates has been on the one hand the free MPlayer and FFPlay as well as the two commercial players DvPlayer and Emotion. He also has include in his consideration the support of the Unified Video Decoder (UVD).
Verdict: As of now, he recommends Emotion for overall performance. He awards second place to MPlayer for the best player without UVD support as well as its exemplary stability and free availability. Only in third place he sees DvPlayer, whereby he points out that with Hans De Ruiter a proven expert is entrusted with the further development and he therefore expects a lot from future versions. (dr)
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29.Oct.2021
Commodore 64 Forum
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Text adventure: "Darkest Hour" released
Darkest Hour is an old-fashioned text adventure game, available for several platforms and also for AmigaOS 3.
Die Story: "Halloween is almost here, but something is happening that's much scarier than the annual haunted house at the fire hall. There are rumors of a vampire - a real one - attacking people at night. Of course most people think it's just silly; who wouldn't? But people are going missing, and others swear they've seen it. It's up to you to track down this vampire, stop it if possible. The question is, will you even survive the night?" (dr)
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29.Oct.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 18 of assembler coding course
'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams on Twitch the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English and after some time uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday episode 18 was published, continuing running through chapter 7 of the book teaching about sprites and tables. (dr)
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28.Oct.2021
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French print magazine: "Boing" Nr. 2 available
Following the successful first issue of the French-language print magazine "Boing," Boing Attitude (known for the file manager Dir Me Up and the quiz game Word Me Up XXL, among others) has announced the release of the second issue.
The magazine is dedicated to Amiga in all its diversity (AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4.1, MorphOS and Aros) and offers in the second issue among other things an exclusive interview with Romain Canonge, one of the co-founders of Amiga Dream magazine and a test of the game Athanor 2 including the interview with its author Eric Safar. Also included are tests of the games Wrong Way Driver, Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons and the multimedia application Mediavault. (dr)
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28.Oct.2021
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USB-Adapter: Firmware update v.012 for Ryś MKII
The Ryś MKII adapter can be used together with USB HID devices like mouses, joysticks and pads to connect them as input devices for Amiga computers. The latest firmware update includes support for new mouse models. RysWheel driver has been given option to turn off the wheel driver operation (Stop option).
Added support for models:
- Logitech M-BT83
- Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse
- LogiLink ID0010
- Acer SM-9023
- Logitech RX 250
- Logitech RX 300
- A-EON MX 1000-4
Downloads:
RysMKII_v0.12_beta.hex (Firmware, 123 KB)
RysWheel_Installer_v0.12.lha (AmigaOS Software, 72 KB) (dr)
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27.Oct.2021
reddit
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Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.7
Robert Smith has updated his project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge)for read Amiga disks using a common PC disk drive. According to the author, additional to improved diagnostics, improved reading/writing, extra features and new UI version 2.7 mainly offers HD floppy disk support. All this work has fed back into WinUAE meaning that WinUAE (and soon Amiberry) will also support real HD disks in real-time.
As he stated, "the official WinUAE will support this in v4.9 when it’s released via a plug-in (FloppyBridge) from my site. That plug-in gives you a few more options to increase speed."
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. (dr)
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26.Oct.2021
AMIGAworld (Twitter)
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GitHub project: Amiga 4000 accelerator board 'Z3660'
On GitHub the developer 'shanshe' has started a project for the Amiga 4000 accelerator board 'Z3660' which is based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board as well as the Z-turn Board. In contrast to the A3660 (currently) only 060 CPU are supported. If Z-turn FPGA is not used, then you get a simple A3660. The only difference is that all A3660 PLDs are replaced by a XC95144XL-TQ144 CPLD. If you use a Z-turn FPGA, then you can add 128 MB of CPU RAM (more RAM, RTG, AHI, USB, SCSI are planned in the future). (dr)
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25.Oct.2021
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MorphOS: QR-Code generator 'QRCodeLab'
MorphOS developer Frank Mariak has released a MUI tool called 'QRCodeLab' which can be used to easily create QR codes and afterwards copying them to the Clipboard or saving them as pictures. We have tested the tool using our Amiga-News website: Working!
As the author wrote, "currently, it only supported encoding to UTF8 and non of the other compressed formats like numeric and/or alphanumeric are supported to reduce the code size. It dynamically adjusts the QRCode version based on the length of string."
If you have any suggestions or ideas for improvement, please feel free to contact the author via mail. (dr)
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25.Oct.2021
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: RapaGUI 2.1 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of RapaGUI 2.1. This release contains several minor bug fixes and one major bug fix for the Amiga compatible platforms. Because of a major bug in the Amiga versions of RapaGUI 2.0, everybody should upgrade to RapaGUI 2.1. RapaGUI 2.1 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. (dr)
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25.Oct.2021
Twitter
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Reprint: 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium'
In 2014, the book 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium' was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign. In a reprint available from 22. November "over the course of some 420 pages, 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium' showcases more than 140 of the biggest titles, bringing them vividly to life with a double-page screen grab or loading page. Each is accompanied by quotes and commentary from renowned Amiga artists, developers and publishers, including R.J. Mical, David Braben, Sid Meier, Ron Gilbert, Julian Eggebrecht, Tobias Richter, Dave Gibbons and many more. In this latest reprint of Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium, we’ve added a handful of new game reviews, as well as including a spread for Dune. Contributor entries now include their role in the game or profession, in line with more recent visual compendiums." (dr)
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