08.Oct.2021
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Video tutorial: Assembler coding course
Formerly the demo group RamJam released several Amiga demos. Between 1994 and 1996 the member Fabio 'Randy' Ciucci wrote the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi". In 2016, with Ciucci's permission, RamJam published this course as book. On the website there is also a two-disk version as well as an Italian-language pdf document of the course. 'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams it on Twitch in English and then uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday eposide 15 was published, dediacated to chapter six of the book. (dr)
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07.Oct.2021
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: New revision 2.0 announced
At the end of July the developer 'jasonsbeer' fixed revision 1.2 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX', as production candidate. Now he has recommended all users who are going to build such a board to wait for he "expects to assemble and test the next revision (2.0) of the Amiga 2000 EATX board by the middle of November. The revision 2.0 board will have additional features that many will find attractive." Detailed changes:
- Supports both Agnus 8372A and Agnus 8375 (A500+/A600 variety) on the same board
- Added external floppy drive header
- Support for two real-time clock options
- Moved Zorro bus termination
- Cleaned up the schematics
(dr)
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07.Oct.2021
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Dungeon Crawler: "The Shadows of Sergoth" available for pre-order
At the end of 2018 the Dungeon Crawler "The Shadows of Sergoth" was announced for 2019. So far only a playable demo was released. From now on the game is available for pre-order from Doublesided Games: For 14,99 Euro for the disk version or for 39,99 Euro for the boxed edition. The game is supposed to be released on 13. November. "The Shadows of Sergoth" runs on any graphics chipset (OCS, ECS, AGA), but 2MB Chip-Ram are required and a faster Amiga is recommended (A1200 or accelerated) to activate the 3D movement effects and enhance the gameplay experience. Content of the boxed edition:
- Glossy Cardboard Box
- Three 3"1/2 Floppies
- Instruction Manual
- An actual compass to find your way through the dungeons (or in real life)
- A D20 die, to make sure your rolls are perfect
- Dungeon inhabitants stickers
- Digital download (ADF)
(dr)
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06.Oct.2021
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Dock bar: WBDock V1.26
Thomas Rapp has updated his dock bar 'WBDock', similar to Toolmanager oder AmiDock, for AmigaOS 1.3. WBdock can now load custom images for icons, supporting icon and IFF ILBM files, without color remapping. (dr)
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06.Oct.2021
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.4.1 (Update)
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations. An external player like AmigaAmp and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. For the first time now Podcasts also are supported. The author George Sokianos wrote:
"I just released the new version of MediaVault 1.4.0, which brings one of my favorite features, and I am talking about the podcasts support.
MediaVault uses PodcastIndex.org to get data for the listed podcasts and episodes. It has more than 4.2 million of podcasts in it's database, making it one of the biggest online sources. I am sure you will find your beloved podcasts in there, as well.
MediaVault is the first native application for AmigaOS 4 that brings podcasts at the tip of your fingers. And I am sure that you will love it as much as I did developing it.
For now, MediaVault returns only 100 podcasts based on your search criteria, and only the latest 100 episodes of the selected podcast, but I am sure, until you listen to all of this content, the next version will be ready, bringing unlimited access.
The new version can be downloaded from the project GitHub page. If you already use the previous version, there is a self-update process, which you can find at the application menu. This can be used to update to the latest available version automatically.
I would like to thank all of my supporters for helping me develop MediaVault, adding new features and making better and better."
Detailed changes:
- You can now search for podcasts based on their title, see info and their avatar and a list of the latest 100 episodes.
- By selecting an episode and clicking the play button the audio is loaded to the player and starts playing.
- Changed the way the avatar images are downloaded, which is now faster and solves a lot of errors with network access, which resulted connection error messages to appear.
Update: (05:01, 11.10.21, dr)
Meanwhile version 1.4.1 is available. You now can choose your favourite player. With regard to playing Podcasts it seems that the 'Emotion' media player developed by Entwickler-X is most suitable. It can be purchased directly from the developer or e.g. in the Alinea Computer Shop for 25 Euro. Detailed changes:
- Added an error message when podcast response is not a successful one
- Added scripts/start_player.sample script. This can be used to set the preferred player. This needs to be renamed as start_player to be used. The reason the file is named like that is to avoid replacements in future updates. The file includes configuration for different supported players, but more can be added.
- Added Trending Podcasts search based on category and/or language
- Added radio station bitrate and codec information in results list and at the right sidebar.
- Changed the about window to add more information.
- Fixed the error of not finding the texteditor.gadget on start
(dr)
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05.Oct.2021
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.7.0 Update for Raspberry Pi 4/400
Version 11.7.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the Raspberry Pi 4/400 increases performance and security and provides program updates. Changes:
- Amiga side changes:
- ADDED: host-multiview 1.0 by Dimitris Panokostas. It allows you to open Amiga files with default Linux app!
- UPDATED: ADiffView 2.0 by Uwe Rosner (with a code from M.Hertel)
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 4.10 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: HippoPlayer 2.47 by Kari-Pekka Koljonen
- UPDATED: Infinite Module Player (IMP) 3.28 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: JFIFdt44 44.15 by Henryk Richter and Gunther Nikl
- UPDATED: MCC_BetterString 11.36 Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_NList 0.127 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TextEditor 15.56 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TheBar 26.22 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: RapaGUI 2.0 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: RNOPDF 1.4 by jPV^RNO
- UPDATED: SnoopDos 3.11 by Eddy Carroll, Thomas Richter et al.
- UPDATED: UnRAR 6.02 by Alexander Roshal, Amiga port by Marcin Labenski
- UPDATED: VirusZ 1.04Ăź by Georg Wittmann
- UPDATED: xvs.library 33.44 by Georg Wittmann
- FIXED: Initialising of YAM theme works now
- FIXED: If you're experiencing sound glitches, in new Amiberry increase the sound buffer to 8
- Linux side changes:
- UPDATED: Amiberry 4.1.5 by Dimitris Panokostas, the emulation engine of AmiKit, now with MANY bugfixes and increased performance including Fast Copper too!
- UPDATED: Game Controller and WHDLoad databases
- UPDATED: Linux updates (included with new image only; for existing installation simply run "Update Linux" from start menu)
Besides, 3 music tracks have been added in memory of Paul van der Valk who recently passed away. (dr)
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03.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 02.10.2021
The following files have been added until 02.10.2021 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...
sedna2.lha demo/aga 1.5M 68k 'Sedna2' by Venom (AGA)
speedmachine.lha demo/aga 521K 68k Speedmachine (AGA)
vice.lha demo/ecs 189K 68k Vice
victory.lha demo/ecs 237K 68k Victory
breakdown.lha demo/intro 52K 68k Breakdown! (AGA)
broken_eyes.lha demo/intro 51K 68k Broken Eyes (AGA)
Snow_Ninja.i386-aros.lha demo/misc 16M x86 Demo from SSEP 2012
WakeUp_MOS.lha demo/misc 8.6M MOS Invitation to CAFe'2022
WakeUp_OS4.lha demo/misc 8.9M OS4 Invitation to CAFe'2022
F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 18K 2021 Carset for F1GP
MunchDude.lha game/misc 6.2M x86 An OpenGL game in the style o...
AMICUBE.adf game/think 880K 68k Rubik's Cube for classic Amiga
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
UniDOS-Cartridge-68k.lha misc/emu 2.0M 68k Create Amstrad Plus UniDOS ca...
UniDOS-Cartridge-MOS.lha misc/emu 2.3M MOS Create Amstrad Plus UniDOS ca...
UniDOS-Cartridge-OS4.lha misc/emu 2.7M OS4 Create Amstrad Plus UniDOS ca...
xiffview.tgz misc/unix 32K IFF ILBM picture viewer for L...
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.7M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
MMV8_Player.lha mus/play 33K 68k MusicMaker V8 Player
RNORadio.lha mus/play 3.5M MOS Internet radio player
GF4RSID8.zip pix/misc 83K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
ASE2019_1.60.lha text/edit 143K 68k Text editor
guideml.lha text/hyper 189K OS4 HTML converter with GUI
Alltests.zip util/misc 286K 68k Automated Amiga Test Program
EjectADF11.lha util/wb 38K 68k Add Eject commmand to OS 3.2 ...
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03.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.10.2021
The following files have been added until 02.10.2021 to OS4Depot:
sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your...
wakeup.lha dem/sce 9Mb 4.1 Invitation to CAFe'2022
oo.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
whdload-to-uae.lha emu/uti 207kb 4.1 WHDLoad to E-UAE
nmtm-solution.lha gam/mis 9kb 4.0 The solution for the game No Mor...
pixy.lha gra/edi 7Mb 4.0 Pixel editor new generation
witchcleaner.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 Clean temp data from OWB and IBr...
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03.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.10.2021
The following files have been added until 02.10.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
RNORadio_1.3.lha Audio/Players RNORadio is a GUI based...
SonosController_1.1.lha Devices/Speakers Control your Sonos spea...
AmiArcadia_28.21.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
UniDOS-Cartridge_1.1.lha Emulation Create Amstrad Plus Uni...
NMTM-solution.lha Games/Adventure This is the clues and s...
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03.Oct.2021
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 125 (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. (snx)
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02.Oct.2021
amigaworld.net
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Video tutorial: Installation of AmigaOS 3.2 under AmigaOS 4.1
In his latest YouTube tutorial Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has demonstrated how to install AmigaOS 3.2 under AmigaOS 4.1 on his AmigaOne X5000 via EUAE with JIT enabled. After installation, AmigaOS 3.2 is running with a screen resolution of 1920x1080x32. Additionally he installs also diverse hacks and patches. (dr)
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01.Oct.2021
Technology Blog
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Programming: 'Rust'-Support for Motorola 68000 announced
As Golem reports, the Rust programming language has received experimental support for the Motorola 68000 CPU architecture and processor family for the first time, thanks to a LLVM port. The associated code has been contributed to the main branch of the language's open source repository.
Golem further points out, "Currently, the Rust port to the M68k architecture is still considered experimental and is arguably not complete. In addition, the compiler test suite is not tested by default and the team makes few guarantees that the port will work. For native builds, those involved currently recommend using Debian's M68k port in the documentation, as well as old machines with the CPU such as the Atari or Amiga.
Supported and mainly supervised the work on the LLVM port to the processor architecture, which is now about 40 years old, by a small team of volunteers. The most important goal of the work here is to support the retro computing scene with the work on the compiler. So, together with the Rust port, it will be possible in the future to run other modern software written in Rust on the cherished old computers." (dr)
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01.Oct.2021
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Amiga-Emulator: Amiberry 4.1.5
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch.
After relasing several 'release candidates' (amiga-news.de reported), today version 4.1.5 was released providing several big fixes, improvements and among others also support for AmigaOS 3.2 ROMs. Detailed list of changes:
- fixed pipeline typo
- Added distro information to pre-compiled binaries
- Removed more unused code
- Speed up Fast Copper
- More removal of unused code
- Removed inactive code from custom.cpp
- Updated whdload_db to latest version
- Added RPI3 64-bit pipelines (inactive for now)
- Updated Readme to reflect Makefile changes
- Updated Azure Build pipelines with new platform names
- Split rpi3/rpi4 64-bit builds to fix -mcpu wrong flag
- #843: Don't change GUI Window size if we are in Full Screen mode
- Reverted default sound mode to Push with increased bufffer. Pull caused glitches in some cases
- Fixed bug causing full-window mode to always show as windowed
- Fixed bug where if the GUI window was maximized and emulation started afterwards, the emulator would shut down
- Fixed ShowMessage window would always change window size (it shouldn't if it was maximized)
- Merged DrawBridge and GUI updates from dev
- Added support for Kickstart 3.2 ROMs
- #782: Brought back multithreaded drawing
- VS project cleanup
- Don't resize window if it's maximized
- Changed "default_fullscreen" option to "default_fullscreen_mode" and made it into an integer. It now controls 3 states: Windowed (0), Fullscreen (1) or Full-Window (2).
- #454: Added Warp and Quick Save State functions in Custom Controls
- #501: Implemented Warp mode for SDL2 (End + Pause to trigger)
- #821: Added default option for sound pull mode in amiberry.conf
- Added copyright and license info in About panel
- #841: Added label to show timestamp of selected savestate
- #841: Increased Savestates to 15
- Updated Remote deploy/build settings
- Fixed #824: Dispmanx would show black screen if loading another config with different screen dimensions
- DMX: initialize variable
- DMX: Remove unused function
- #805: Renamed and fixed Menu to Guide button, in Custom controls
- #805: Don't hardcode the controller Guide button to open GUI always
- #822: Use menu button from mapping instead of hardcoded SDL2 "GUIDE" button
- #827: Improved navigation in HDD panels
- #827: Implemented scrolling with controller/keyboard in master
- #827: Reduced width of Serial Port group
- #827: Get rid of horizontal scrollbar in Misc panel
- Fixed #823: Controller in Mouse mode didn't trigger Retroarch Quit combo
- Fixed select button reading would pass wrong Joy ID to function
- Don't attempt to read from non-existing joysticks
- Set Input Mouse/Joystick autoswitch to disabled by default
- Added generic Cortex-A9 32-bit target
- Ensure hotkey_pressed is reset after it was triggered to enter the GUI (@mrfixit2001)
- Added CDTV as a command line option in --model
- Change default sound buffer properly
- Revert "Changed default audio buffer size to 4KB instead of 16KB"
- Retroarch: Change button mapping loop to fixed value instead of depending on external variable
- Changed default audio buffer size to 4KB instead of 16KB
- Updated pipelines from dev
- Updated build pipelines
- Removed VisualGDB solution from repo
- Retroarch: Fixed crash on startup when parsing controller file
- Revert "Retroarch: Fixed crash on startup when parsing controller file"
- Retroarch: Fixed crash on startup when parsing controller file
- Cherry picked recent updates from dev branch
- DMX: Don't remove blackscreen_element during subshutdown
- #825: back-ported improvements to master branch
- #827: Navigation cleanup in Floppy panel
- #827: Fixed Sound panel navigation glitches
- #812: Backported fix to master branch
- Backport fix for #825 to 4.1.4
- Retain version information in optimized builds also
(dr)
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