16.Feb.2022
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Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.6
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin FloppyBridge, WinUAE is also officially supported since version 4.9.0. The changes of the current version:
- Better extraction of disk revolutions and a few bugs fixed
- Accurate flux extraction available but experimental so you can choose to use it or not (can't handle some long-track disks)
- Modification of older flux reading method for more better compatability
- New firmware *1.9.23* includes basic PLL support for UAE to provide better support for games using Weak/Flaky bits
- Improved IPF & SCP writing by changing some of the parameters
- Console application now has an icon and version information
- Tidied up some of the assembly language in the Arduino Sketch
(dr)
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15.Feb.2022
ACube Systems (Mail)
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ACube Systems: Sam460LE boards announced / Pre-order campaign
Press release: After many months, we are so happy to announce we are very close to a production start for a new batch of Sam460 boards.
Well, these will not be Sam460 but Sam460LE, i.e. Limited Edition.
Due to the pandemic time and huge delays in delivering hardware components, we had to spend a lot more time than planned to find all components for a production run. Finally, we reached a point where we need your help to start this production.
We are now taking pre-orders for these Sam460LE boards. You can find a pre-order product right now in our online shop.
All Sam460LE bundles are made of:
- Sam460LE board running up to 1.1 Ghz
- Micro-ATX form factor with enough space for double slot graphic cards ;-)
- MicroSD Slot at the rear of the board, so it can operated from the back.
- 1 backplate
- AmigaOS 4.1 FE
- final price is 735 Euros VAT excluded (european countries should add 22% VAT).
Pre-orders will be processed as follows:
- you can pay now 240 Euros (VAT excluded, see above), for a Sam460 package
- we'll announce on all social media when the production starts
- we'll also announce when the production has been completed
- you will be asked one by one, to complete your payment (basically, the total cost minus what you paid as the pre-order)
- first payment, first served. We'll ship in the same order we receive the remaining payments.
- in case you decide to ask for a refund, we'll send your money back without condition.
Note: people that will purchase outside the scope of this pre-order offer will have to pay a final price of 785 Euros for the same product.
We are happy to work with you on this effort to bring more Sam460 boards on the market and we hope you will join us in this project! (dr)
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15.Feb.2022
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Commercial RPG: Glamorous Zombie Flakes (OCS/AGA/RTG)
The developers of 'Glamorous Zombie Flakes' describe it as an "oldschool, console-style RPG", where the player must guide a group of models to cure zombies of their bizarre affliction and chase UFOs. The title features more than 30 different zombie types, more than 100 items and a turn-based strategy "intervention" system.
On AGA or RTG machines, the game supports 256 colors. There's a special build for OCS based Amigas that uses the EHB mode featuring 64 colors. 'Glamorous Zombie Flakes' requires a 68040 CPU, 3.5 MB RAM as well as AHI and can be bought from itch.io for 14 USD (or any higher amount).
A few days ago, additional "experimental" Amiga builds that run faster on AGA machines and support CD32 joypads have been released. (cg)
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14.Feb.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: How Floppy Disk Copy Protection Worked
In the first episode of his two-part series on floppy disks, Robert Smith, best known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, explained how data is stored on a floppy disk, both physically and computer-wise. In the second episode, he goes into some of the physical copy protection methods used to prevent hard disk duplicates from working. (dr)
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13.Feb.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: Plananarama 2.0 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, continue Hollywood's 20th anniversary celebrations with yet another major new release: Plananarama 2.0. Plananarama is the magic plugin which allows Hollywood scripts to be run on classic Amiga hardware without any graphics board. Once Plananarama is installed, all Hollywood scripts will 'automagically' run on palette screens as well! All resolutions are supported - from 8-bit LowRes to 1-bit productivity SuperHighRes Interlace.
Version 2.0 is a major update which makes use of many new features offered exclusively by Hollywood 9. By integrating seamlessly with Hollywood 9's new palette interface, it is now possible to write scripts which make use of the Amiga's custom chip hardware for a much better performance. Here is a non-exhaustive list of the new features in Plananarama 2.0:
- support for Amiga hardware sprites
- direct access to color registers for all kinds of effects like color cycling and fading
- true palette based drawing without any color remapping
- Unicode support
- screen menus are now supported
- drag'n'drop support
- guigfx.library and render.library are only needed when in remapping mode
- added a fully featured documentation in AmigaGuide, PDF and HTML
- added three new example scripts demonstrating the new features like hardware sprites
- several bug fixes and other improvements
Plananarama 2.0 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. For its basic functionality Plananarama requires Hollywood 6 but all the new functions introduced in version 2.0 require Hollywood 9 which is why we highly recommend upgrading to Hollywood 9 if you haven't done that yet.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood we also offer a special 20 euros discount on the full version of Hollywood for a limited time only. This is the perfect chance for all people who don't own Hollywood yet to grab their own copy and to explore the wonderful world of Hollywood and be fascinated by the gigantic functionality of this unique piece of software and all of the plugins that come with it! (dr)
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13.Feb.2022
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Aminet uploads until 12.02.2022
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to Aminet:
SonosController_MOS.lha comm/misc 2.3M MOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3.lha comm/misc 2.0M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3fp... comm/misc 2.0M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS4.lha comm/misc 2.8M OS4 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_WOS.lha comm/misc 2.4M WOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
rasm.lha dev/cross 1.3M MOS Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.2M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
mon165src.lha dev/moni 150K 68k Source for Amiga Monitor
adfZ.lha disk/misc 7K 68k read/write ADF from/to disks,...
HydraDriver145src.lha driver/net 29K 68k Hydra Amiganet driver + source
scummvm-1.7.0-rtg.lha game/misc 5.0M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 1.7.0
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 332K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
webptools122_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.4M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 22M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
Vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha text/edit 12M x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-amigaos.lha text/edit 14M OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-morphos.lha text/edit 13M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
base64.i386-aros.lha util/conv 249K x86 Encode/decode file as base64
AmiSSL-4.12.lha util/libs 5.7M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 542K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 121K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 155K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
(snx)
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13.Feb.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 12.02.2022
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to OS4Depot:
sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your...
reactivec_lib.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Reactive C Library
sminkiator.lha gam/mis 6Mb 4.1 Randomize world for fun
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 22Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
mrwolf.lha net/mis 32kb 4.0 Pool-friendly SNTP time sync client
amigattext.lha uti/mis 3Mb 4.1 Shows German ARD/ZDF Teletext fr...
vim_mui.lha uti/tex 14Mb 4.1 The ubiquitous text editor
(snx)
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13.Feb.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 12.02.2022
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to AROS Archives:
whatiff1.01.lha dem/mag 24kb December 2021
whatiff1.02.lha dem/mag 162kb January 2022
vim-8.2.i386-aros.lha dev/edi 12Mb The ubiquitous text editor
sminkiator-1.1.lha gam/mis 6Mb Randomize world for fun
burgerspace.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 617kb Similar to BurgerTime (1982)
amigangwallpaper.lha gra/the 13Mb AmigaNG Wallpapers (1080p)
installerlg.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 121kb Commodore Installer replacement
(snx)
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13.Feb.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.02.2022
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
RASM_1.6.lha Development/Cross Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
SDL_2.0.20_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.2...
SonosController_1.2.lha Devices/Speakers Control your Sonos spea...
GenesisPlus_2.2.lha Emulation Genesis-Plus emulates t...
Sminkiator_1.1.lha Games/Misc Randomize words for fun
AmiSSL_4.12_68k.lha System/Library/SSL OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
InstallerLG_1.0.lha System/Shell Commodore Installer rep...
Vim_8.2.4291.lha Text/Edit A highly configurable t...
(snx)
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13.Feb.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.02.2022
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 12.02.2022:
- 2022-02-12 improved: Seven Gates of Jambala (Thalion) long write to Bplcon2 fixed, access faults fixed, CD32/2-button joystick support, lots of trainer options added, 68000 quitkey support, access faults fixed, support for Grandslam and Thalion intros added, source code included (Info)
(snx)
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13.Feb.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Kultmags.com: All issues of Amiga DOS magazine archived
At kultmags.com, german computer and video game magazines of the 80s, 90s and early 2000 years are digitized and preserved for posterity with permission of the respective copyright holders. Recently, the final eight issues missing to complete the Amiga DOS collection ("The magazine for active Amiga users") could be added. (snx)
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12.Feb.2022
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Board game featuring a computer opponent: Castle Danger
'Castle Danger' (Video) ist a virtual, 2-player board game that was initially released as Freeware for Windows. The Amiga version can also be played against the computer, the AI is described as "kind of working" and planned to be improved in subsequent releases. (cg)
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12.Feb.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Dungeon Crawler: playable demo version of 'Black Dawn Technomage' (AGA)
'Black Dawn: Technomage' (Video) is the sequel to Black Dawn Rebirth and developed by the same team. The game was initially announced as Black Dawn Rogue and is the first title in the Black Dawn series requiring AGA. A playable demo has been released a few days ago. (cg)
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12.Feb.2022
IBrowse website
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 4.12 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 4.12 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL provides the latest root-certificates as well as some bug fixes. Detailed changelog:
- Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility to latest OpenSSL 1.1.1m (14.12.2021) version, which brings security and bug fixes.
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle dated 1.2.2022.
- Fixed RSA_X931_derive_ex() from not being reachable on OS3.
- Fixed crash after OpenSSL fatal error message requester shown.
- Cleaned up and unified error requesters, removing redundant code.
- Fixed GCC linker alignment for all OS4 binaries.
(dr)
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11.Feb.2022
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Word processing: FinalWriter update status
Just about a year ago, we last reported on the update for Finalwriter first announced by new rights owner Timothy "Terminills" Deters in 2015. Yesterday, the developer briefly outlined the current status on Amigans and MorphZone respectively:
According to them that there would now have been a "feature freeze" and it would now only be about bug fixes. Furthermore he explains that the AmigaOS4 port depends on whether he has the money to pay a developer for the port after the release of the AROS and MorphOS versions. In total there were 5 developers working on the current version until Deters owned it. The changes so far:
- RTF updated
- Libharu implemented(PDF Saving/Printing Support)
- MySpell(Updated Spell Checker). Spell checker can now work real time
- Libcurl support for direct printing
- 64Bit fixes
- Modernizing layout
- P96 support
(dr)
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10.Feb.2022
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Connector board for FPGA Amiga clone: MiSTress 1200
After a currently sold out version for the installation of the FPGA Amiga clone MiSTer into an Amiga 500 case, there is now with the MiSTress 1200 under the title link also a corresponding extension for the case of the Amiga 1200 (original or replica).
The MiSTress is used to install the FPGA computer into the Amiga case, whereby the original keyboard can still be used. The rear openings for the original connections are used to make the sockets for the network, USB, SD card, joystick, audio, HDMI and analog VGA/RGB connections, among others, accessible. (snx)
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10.Feb.2022
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AROS distribution: The 100% Useless AROS Distribution 0.3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released version 0.3 of his "The 100% Useless AROS Distribution" at the title link. The reason for this is the version AROS ABIv11 for 64-bit Intel and AMD processors released by the developer 'deadwood' at the beginning of January (official GitHub page).
This new AROS version doesn't support symmetric multiprocessing anymore, which makes the compilation of his programs easier. Included are some of his programs like MUIMapparium, LEU, AYA, AmiTube or MCAmiga. The distribution serves the developer primarily as a test environment for his FreePascal AROS64 development, which is why it can neither be called finished nor stable. However, the applications work "reasonably well", only with the calculation of the font size there would be problems.
This new version can be downloaded from the corresponding website. (dr)
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10.Feb.2022
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Video: Installation of AmiKit XE under Windows 11
Appropriate to yesterday's release of AmiKit 11.5+ Jörg "Torque" Klopsch shows in a video how to install the new version under Windows 11 and using WinUAE. (dr)
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