16.Oct.2021
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AmigaOS 4: Preview to Qt 6.2.0
In 2011, Alfkil Wennermark released a first native port of the C++ class library Qt 4.7 for AmigaOS 4.
At the end of August on amigans.net, the author reported that he is about to port Qt6. Now he has uploaded a first preview of a text editor to OS4Depot ceated with QT 6.2.0. Following the instructions of the author, we get the following impressions:
The text can be smoothly marked and formatted using the corresponding icons. The tool runs without any problems or crashes. On amigans.net the author also has introduced other applications like a clock or a calculator. He also has confirmed that at one point he will also port the Qt WebEngine. Further details he will provide in a future Twitch stream.
If you want to support the author you can do it using his PayPal address. (dr)
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16.Oct.2021
Achim Kern (Mail)
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Game announcement: 'Balloons' for all Amiga systems
Achim Kern is not only continuously working on his 'SmartHome' project for automating one's own four walls (amiga-news.de reported), but also uses the multimedia-oriented programming language Hollywood used for this purpose to develop games such as Mars Tank Attack.
In his latest game project, 'Balloons', those balloons have to be shot at a fair, with the difficulty increasing from level to level: with more balloons, shorter time and a limited number of shots. Likewise, in higher levels, certain sequences are given, such as three blue, two red, four green balloons. This sounds simple, but the player has to remember this order...If you have further ideas for levels, please contact Achim Kern. The screenshots kindly provided by the author should give a first impression. The game will be available for free for all platforms supported by Hollywood Player and is planned for the end of the year.
(dr)
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16.Oct.2021
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Commercial action game: Turbo Tomato 1.10
At the end of July, Bitmap Soft released the commercial action game , in which you have to try to remove mutated vegetables from the playground using bombs. Now an update to version 1.10 has been released introducing the different difficulty levels 'SOFT' and 'SPICY'. The other changes:
- Other improvements
- Add "No Friendly Fire" trainer
- Allow dead players to rejoin a 2P game (counts as using continue)
- Show default and most recent level codes on select level screen
- Limit damage taken from enemies exploding very close to the player
- Debounce fire button on Continue screen
- Allow more time to read text on introduction screens
- Rebalance BONUS! letter probabilities to be more evenly spread
- Fixes
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- Fix data corruption when certain enemies die by friendly fire
- Fix some enemies not exploding and dropping items when they should
- Fix player energy bar not updating after large hits
- Fix flashing of PUSH BUTTON message on Continue screen
- Fix "Max Strength" trainer not activating when selected
- Fix "Black Lagoon" creature movement getting stuck
- Fix map glitch allowing entering a wall in "Waste Dump Sinister"
- Fix spread and rendering glitches with Waste Drum radiation
- Fix cosmetic glitches with decal tiles on some levels
(dr)
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15.Oct.2021
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 0.128
Today MorphOS team member Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek released an update for his e-mail client Iris. Changes in version 0.128 include OpenSSL 3 and removal of duplicate addresses when replying to all.
For feedback to the author the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used. (snx)
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15.Oct.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 16 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 16 was published, dediacated to chapter 7 of the book and is about "Sprites / Joysticks / Tables / Bit Manipulation". (dr)
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14.Oct.2021
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 2.8
Today, version 2.8 of Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web browser Wayfarer has been released, consisting of several small optimisations.
Required are MorphOS 3.15 and 1 GB of RAM. A CPU with at least 1.5 GHz is recommended. For feedback to the author, besides the integrated crash report tool and e-mails to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu also the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used. (snx)
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12.Oct.2021
ANF
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ComputerBase: 32-bit console Amiga CD³² & 16-bit CD player Philips CD-i (german)
At the title link, german tech magazine ComputerBase compares Commodore's Amiga CD³² as Europe's first 32-bit game console with the CD-i, the 16-bit multimedia system that was introduced by Philips in 1991 and co-developed with Sony.
The actual competing product, however, the Amiga CDTV, that had been introduced by Commodore also in 1991, is not mentioned at all. (snx)
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11.Oct.2021
ppa.ppl
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MorphOS: Adventure interpreter ScummVM 2.5.0
Press release: Twenty years ago today, on Tue Oct 9 16:30:12 2001, Ludvig Strigeus pushed the initial revision of the ScummVM code, which was version 0.0.1 of the project. Time flew quickly and, fast-forward to the present day, we are proudly releasing ScummVM 2.5.0 "Twenty years ago today…"
The list of changes is tremendous.
First of all, this is the first release that supports 2.5D games (almost 3D), thanks to the merger with ResidualVM. With this release we announce support for Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey and Myst 3: Exile. This is why we jumped straight to 2.5 in our versioning. Please note that only desktop platforms currently support these games and other platforms may or may not gain the support later depending on their capabilities.
In addition to these 3 games and engines, we officially support 10 more new engines and subengines that add compatibility with the following games:
- Little Big Adventure
- Red Comrades 1: Save the Galaxy
- Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice
- Transylvania
- Crimson Crown
- OO-Topos
- Glulx interactive fiction games
- Private Eye
- AGS Games versions 2.5+
- Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
- The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
- Crusader: No Remorse
- L-ZONE
- Spaceship Warlock
We love localized game releases and multiple platform versions, thus with this release, we enhanced the support for Lure of the Temptress Konami release, Blue Force Spanish, Ringworld Spanish, Amazon: Guardians of Eden Spanish, Mystery House French, Russian translations of Sierra AGI games, Elvira 1 Japanese PC-98, Bargon Attack Russian, Woodruff Russian, Eye of the Beholder Japanese Sega-CD, Legend of Kyrandia Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 2 Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 3 Simplified Chinese, Inherit the Earth PC-98 Japanese, Gabriel Knight 1 Macintosh, Xeen Russian to name but a few. Notably, Macintosh b/w versions of Loom and Indy 3 are now also supported.
Besides the new games and game versions, ScummVM 2.5.0 brings many notable improvements and new features. We have completed a major rework of the GUI: We now support Unicode characters everywhere. The GUI also adapts to high resolutions used in HiDPI screens. The Nintendo DS port has been significantly rewritten. We added GOG and Steam achievements to a large number of Wintermute games and enabled KeyMapper in more games. Thanks to the work of one of our GSoC students, we have now added an option for text-to-speech to the games Sfinx, Soltys and The Griffon Legend.
You may find all of this goodness available to a number of platforms on our download page or let the autoupdater kick in on Macintosh and Windows.
We wish you great adventuring, happy puzzle-solving and exciting journeys to RPG worlds, and hope to see you around in the coming years.
And by the way, GOG.com is running a special promo tied to the release and our anniversary, where you can buy many ScummVM-supported games at a discount.
(dr)
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11.Oct.2021
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 beta 4
At the End of May the developer Dirk Hoffmann released version 1.0 of his Amiga emulator for MacOS. He continued the development by releasing the first beta version for version 1.1. Now he has released beta version 4 providing the following changes:
- The Blitter interrupt was triggered one DMA cycle too early (High Density by Darkness, #466)
- Fixed an IPL polling issue in the CLR command (High Density by Darkness, #466)
- The emulator does no longer crash when mouse controls are accessed from keyboard window (#550)
- Merged in Rom database extensions made by @chris70c
(dr)
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11.Oct.2021
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Alinea Computer: OmniPort - Multi port adapter for Amiga 1200
Press release: We are pleased to announce the release of the OmniPort multi port adapter for the Amiga 1200.
The OmniPort is a multi-port adapter that neatly routes various hardware interfaces on the Amiga 1200 desktop case to the outside via the expansion port. The interfaces are 2x USB, 1 x HDMI and 1x MicroSD. In order to be able to use the respective interfaces with the OmniPort, the corresponding hardware must already be installed in the Amiga 1200.
The hardware can be purchased now for 24.95 Euro in the online shop. (dr)
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10.Oct.2021
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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USB-Adapter: Firmware update 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 a new version of the USB stack support for wheel and the 4th and 5th mouse buttons.
Downloads:
RysMKII_v0.11_beta.hex (Firmware, 27 KB)
RysWheel_Installer_v0.11b.lha (AmigaOS Software, 72 KB) (dr)
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10.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 09.10.2021
The following files have been added until 09.10.2021 to Aminet:
sedna2.lha demo/aga 1.5M 68k 'Sedna2' by Venom
speedmachine.lha demo/aga 521K 68k Speedmachine
broken_eyes.lha demo/intro 51K 68k Broken Eyes
Void-FB11-Morph.zip demo/sound 7.1M MOS Music Disk for MorphOS
exomizer.lha dev/cross 820K MOS A cruncher for 6502/Z80/6809 ...
evo.lha dev/e 602K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
Umoria.lha game/role 764K MOS Robert A. Koeneke's classic r...
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 726K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.7M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
Alltests.zip util/misc 283K 68k Automated Amiga Test Program
TestProgram.zip util/misc 131K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
usbdevs.lha util/rexx 622K Vendor and product of USB/PCI...
tabexec.lha util/wb 9K 68k Tabexec - a dmenu like launcher
(snx)
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10.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.10.2021
The following files have been added until 09.10.2021 to OS4Depot:
mediavault.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.1 Discover online radio stations
(snx)
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10.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.10.2021
The following files have been added until 09.10.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Void-Feedback_11.zip Demoscene Music Disk for MorphOS
Exomizer_3.1.1.lha Development/Cross A cruncher for 6502/Z80...
(snx)
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10.Oct.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:
- LowBudget Song Remix
- Hightop (Hiphop Remix)
- Just Another
- Lisbon Fever
- The Martini Effect (Very poor little demo remix)
- Falcon
- A320 Airbus
- Fighter Bomber
- Time Machine - 2021 Dance Remix
- Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
(snx)
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10.Oct.2021
Amigasystem (ANF)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 1.6 (x86)
"AROS One", an AROS distribution based on ABI v0, is now available in version 1.6 for x86 computers (video, resolution of 720p recommended). It can be downloaded at the title link either as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image.
Updates:
- Applications:
- Abkviewer v0.06
- LoView v2.91
- AYA v06
- ComicOn v1.2
- Pintor Web v3.10
- Videntium Picta v2.45
- Horloge SDL
- SnapIT v1.5
- GrafX2 v2.5.1960
- Omanko v1.10
- Paste Quick v0.41
- InstallerLG v1.0.0beta2
- FontTester v1.10
- DiskImageGUI v52.34
- DosDrivers IPC0 and IPC1
- AutoActivate v1.11
- ZapperNG v1.2
- WBxCLI v0.6
- KGBArchGUI v02
- V.A.M.P. v2.30
- NTFS3G 53.4
- EXFAT v53.3
- ViewLHA v07
- Arlan v0.1
- UnRAR v6.02
- FrameBuild v.05
- PaperBox v1.1
- YAM v0.46
- Simplemail v4.6
- MCC_BetterString-11.36
- MCC_NList-0.128
- MCC_TextEditor-15.56
- MCC_TheBar-26.22
- Operating System:
- New Zune Themes White, Gray colors
- 18 New Wanderer Themes (Backdrops, Skins Windows and Pointers)
- 4 OWB Themes
- Wanderer Icons (File Directory "Detail")
- New Disk Image Device Icons
- Theme for FrameBuild v.05
- New Zune Arc Icons images
- New Def_Icon for Workbench
- New Def_Icon for Simplemail
- Update config Dopus4
- Games:
- Koules
- Soliton
- Tressette
- Amifish
- Demos:
- Acidwarp
- Jylam
- BoingDemo
- Hogwagen
(snx)
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10.Oct.2021
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Floppy disk images reading and writing on PC or Mac: Greaseweazle 0.31
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported).
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Now released version 0.31 increases USB buffer size from 16 to 64 KB. Greaseweazle is available at various dealers. (snx)
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10.Oct.2021
Greg Donner
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware 1.9.1
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday the new firmware version 1.9.1 was released. It requires the new RTG driver 1.9 (can be downloaded under the title link) and includes the following changes:
- Fixes issues from 1.9:
- PAL/NTSC/Interlace switching was sometimes unreliable, leading to garbage states if loading monitor driver after loading Workbench
- Video formatter writes (esp. for sprites) could be interrupted with other video formatter writes by vblank/split interrupt, leading to undefined states and garbage or doubled screen when switching modes (esp. with RTG/native mode switching)
- ZZ9000Installer had a bug that would not rename the correct driver for Zorro 2 systems (A500/A2000)
- Improvements vs 1.8:
- zzusb.device now in ZZ9000 ROM (Remove Devs:ZZ9000USBStorage.device!)
- Automatic discovery and boot from USB stick partitions (currently OFS/FFS only)
- "Turbo" method of setting up drawing registers now the default (helps with CyberStorm MK1, for example)
- 2 different palettes supported for 8-bit P96 split screen (requires P96 3.1.4+)
- Support for new Multi Monitor feature of P96 by setting DISPLAYCHAIN ToolType of ZZ9000 to NO (requires P96 3.1.2+)
- Horizontal Panning support in RTG modes
- Ethernet negotiation doesn't block boot anymore
- Native Capture: Fix rare Column Swap Bug
- Native Capture: Optional "Non Standard Sync" modes that are closer to the original refresh rate, enabled by setting ENV:ZZ9000-NS-VSYNC. Needs a tolerant display
- Native Capture: Moved all switching (incl. NTSC/PAL) code to vblank interrupt, fixing some RTG/native switching bugs
- INT6/INT2 Interrupts reworked in ZZ9000Net.device to support interrupt sharing with other cards and ZZ9000AX.
- New Screen Modes: 2560x1440@30Hz, 1600x1200, 720x480
- Fixes compatibility with some displays vs 1.8
- Known Problems:
- 256 MB AutoConfig Memory enabled only after first reset
- Autoboot and AutoConfig Memory features can lead to problems with some special Amiga setups. Use alternative firmware versions to disable these. With Autoboot disabled, you can use zzusb.device from Extras drawer in the installer archive.
- USB storage can be crashy with CS MK1 accelerator
(dr)
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10.Oct.2021
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Lionheart Remake 1.10: Java port of Lionheart
Byron 3D Games Studio has released a Lionheart Java Remakeof Lionheart for its LionEngine (amiga-news.de berichtete). Source codes are available on GitHub for the LionEngine as well as for the game port.
Version 1.10 includes the following changes:
- Added
- Game launcher configuration
- Gamepad support (PC & Android)
- New stages (Swamp, Spidercave, Ancient Town, Lava, Secret, Airship, Dragonfly, Tower)
- Full editor with stage entities properties and checkpoints edition
- Original 50Hz support added with fullscreen
- Cheats menu added
- Click and touch support to menu
- Android virtual keyboard diagonal support
- Multi language support (shipped with English, French, German, Spanish)
- Sword level on hud
- Changed
- Intro and Extro reviewed with perfect original timing
- Font converted to bitmap to be rendered same on any platform
- Backdrop non flicker mode with more color
- Loading time improved
- Map tile file size reduced
- Sfx converted to mono with no loss
- Fixed
- Widescreen support
- Life lost even with cheats enabled
- No credits on last life lost when bitten
- Intro and Credits English texts
- Intro not working without music
- Bird behavior on collide
- Player camera limit lock
- Swamp stage5 Bee invalid patrol proximity
- Spider ground fall
- Liana and Grip soar hurt invalid jump
- Sfx not correctly cached
- Music on Windows 32bits
- AncientTown level rip 7 and 8 black color
(dr)
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09.Oct.2021
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Accelerator board: TerribleFire TF1230 available
Retro32 wrote on its website: "We’re delighted to announce that the mighty TerribleFire TF1230 is now available from our store.
This epic Amiga 1200 accelerator card offers both great performance and value and IMO is the best Amiga 1200 upgrade for your money. With a 50MHz at your disposal and up to a whopping 128MB of Fast Memory on tap, the TF1230 offers speeds over 7 times faster than a stock 1200.
At present, we only have very limited stock of these cards available but hope to offer more stock as availability improves."
According to the website, prices start at 170 British Pounds (about 200 Euro) for a TerribleFire TF1230 equipped with mit 64MB RAM. (dr)
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