12.Jan.2022
Ko-fi
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AmigaOS 4: 'Lite XL' editor 1.16.12.7
At the end of last year, George Sokianos had announced with the release of version v1.16.12.3 that he had started porting the editor 'Lite XL', which originates from the Linux world (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday he released the for the time being last update to v1.16.12.7 for this version branch and writes the following about it:
"Today I did the last release of Lite XL for AmigaOS 4.1. Don't worry, I am not stopping working on this fine editor. On the contrary. I will stop working on the v1.16.12 source branch so to focus on the latest available version.
The last few days I managed to port Lua 5.3 and Lua 5.4, as well as the PCRE2. Although the newer versions of Lua are not necessary yet, the PCRE2 is one of the mandatory libraries needed. All of them are highly experimental, and not tested thoroughly, but I am happy I managed to finish them.
In the new v1.16.12.7 release, which is already available to be downloaded from my Git repository and OS4Depot, I did a few changes that might help with the SDL to use the Gfx Card in a better way, which will increase the overall speed. Also, I included a few plugins and colour schemas that are tested and working fine with this version, in case you would like to add some extra features or make it look better for you.
I updated the README_OS4 file where you can find more information about all these additions, how to use them and a couple of tips 'n tricks that might help you.
I hope it will keep you occupied until the next major release, which is going to be epic.
If you want to track the progress of Lite XL v2 development, you can always check https://git.walkero.gr/walkero/lite-xl/issues/12 or make sure to watch this page, since I am going to update you frequently.
Finally, I would like to thank you once more for your generous support. The motivation I get from you all is inexpressible." (dr)
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11.Jan.2022
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RTG driver: P96 V3.2.2 released
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) wrote:
"The RTG driver P96 enjoys growing popularity: More then 40 paid downloads (more than a third of them for the full price or more) during the weeks since version V3.2.0 has been published, have taken us over the threshold of 30% cost coverage since we've taken ownership of the software in 2016. We'd like to send a big thank-you to the Amiga community for strong support and detailed bug reports in our support forum, which help us improve the software on a regular basis." Changes:
- Version 3.2.2 attempts one more time to deal with broken software: If a program like Descent opens a planar screen mode, but combines it with chunky rendering routines, the new version 3.2.2 can display a correct picture despite this evident software error.
- Sprite colours are now switched if the sprite travels from one screen to another in a split-screen environment. This fixes the colour of the mouse pointer during screen dragging.
- masked blitting of planar bitmaps has been fixed: This fixes the "Palette"-preferences program.
- If a split-screen (dragged screen) is used on a PIV-card, the video-window will not be disabled, but will pan together with the front screen. Note that P96 currently does not support video or memory windows on the back screen.
(dr)
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11.Jan.2022
Twitter
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Vertical shooter: Amiga port of 'Knightmare' released (update)
The musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' had released the final version of his amiga version of the game 'Metal Gear' last year (amiga-news.de reported). Also originally written for the MSX and published by Konami was the vertically scrolling shooter Knightmare, of which he released his amiga port today (official video). He wrote:
"Originally released in 1986, Knightmare is one of the many classic games produced by Konami for the MSX. It’s the first in a trilogy of games with each edition opting for a different style of gameplay throughout the series. You play as Popolon and your Mission is to rescue Aphrodite from the clutches of the evil Prince of Darkness. You have to fight your way through 8 levels of enemies and bosses along the way to rescue the Goddess of Love and Beauty. The action takes place in the form of a top-down vertical scrolling shoot’em up style including various power-ups along the way".
The Amiga port contains the follow features:
- Original game fully disassembled to ensure accurate gameplay
- All graphics remastered by Toni Galvez
- Brand new title and loading screens
- High quality Amiga Enhanced Sound Effects
- All levels and bosses have unique Amiga Enhanced soundtracks
- All new Hi-score table with automatic saving to disk
- 50hz / 60hz gameplay option
- Built-in auto-fire
- Additional secret bonus power-up added ( can you find it? )
- Compatible with all Amigas running 512k chip and 512k other ram
Download Knightmare v1.1: knightmare-v1.1.zip (9 MB)
(9 MB)
Download Soundtrack ProTracker: knightmare-soundtrack-mod.zip (1,3 MB)
Update: (19.01.2022, 06:39, dr)
Meanwhile a bug fixed version 1.1 is available. The download link has been updated. (dr)
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10.Jan.2022
Project R3D (ANF)
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Sokoban clone: Astro Blox Revisited downloadable for free
Astro Blox Revisited, a variant of Sokoban and basically a 'deluxe' edition of Robert Szacki's Astro Blox, had been released in 2020 at the Polish retro event Decrunch 2020 as a demo version (amiga-news.de reported), which still had - according to the developer - a lot of errors and was impossible to pass. Later commercial distribution as a boxed edition followed.
Since yesterday now also the full version is available for free download at the title link. System requirements are 512 KB of RAM. The game was written by Paweł 'Juen' Nowak, graphics and music are from Zbigniew 'PPILL' Pożoga and Jakub 'Aceman' Szeląg, respectively. (snx)
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10.Jan.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 6
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Here the sixth episode was published. (dr)
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09.Jan.2022
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Aminet uploads until 08.01.2022
The following files have been added until 08.01.2022 to Aminet:
AmiGemini.lha comm/net 117K 68k Gemini protocol browser
void-dreams36.zip demo/misc 497K 68k Demopack - January 2022
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/blitz 37K 68k 21 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
dis8080.lha dev/cross 21K MOS Disassembler for Intel 8080 p...
WormWars.lha game/actio 906K 68k Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-AROS.zip game/actio 700K x86 Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 963K MOS Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake/Tron game
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
Oshogatsu_Breaks_2021... mods/techn 389K Oshogatsu Breaks 2021
AmigaAMP3-68k.lha mus/play 384K 68k MPEG audio player with GUI
GF4RSID9.zip pix/misc 79K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSIDA.zip pix/misc 80K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
MMULib.lha util/libs 750K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 73K 68k Minimal MuLib archive for red...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 626K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 742K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 795K OS4 Multipurpose utility
zencheckerboard.lha util/misc 38K 68k Display checkerboard for vide...
ScreenTime.lha util/time 63K 68k Screen clock, configurable wi...
WBDirShell.lha util/wb 2K Open shell to current WB drawer
(snx)
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09.Jan.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 08.01.2022
The following files have been added until 08.01.2022 to OS4Depot:
os4weltweihnachtsdemo... dem/mis 4Mb 4.0 Little demo for Christmas 2021 m...
ext2e.lha dev/lan 14kb 4.0 extended IEEE modules for E
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 &...
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake/Tron game
odyssey.lha net/bro 38Mb 4.1 Port of Odyssey from morphos
reportplus.lha uti/mis 795kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
litexl.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
amiupdate_dan.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 Danish catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_deu.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
(snx)
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09.Jan.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 08.01.2022
The following files have been added until 08.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
wormwars.i386-aros.zip gam/act 700kb Advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade...
mplayer-1.0-v5.x86_64-v11... vid/pla 8Mb Multimedia player with MUI user ...
(snx)
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09.Jan.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.01.2022
The following files have been added until 08.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
WormWars_9.25.lha Games/Action Advanced snake game by ...
ScummVM_2.5.1.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
MCE_13.4.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
ReportPlus_8.24.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
(snx)
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09.Jan.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 08.01.2022
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 08.01.2022:
(snx)
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09.Jan.2022
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:
- Blitzremix
- Classic Tunes
- Grand Monster Slam (Menu)
- A Prehistoric Tale - Main Theme [Atari inspired version]
(snx)
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09.Jan.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Full version for download: Time
On the Amiga Future website the full version of the 2D adventure Time can be downloaded for free. Besides ADF and IPF disk images, also WHDLoad files in German, English and French are available. (snx)
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09.Jan.2022
BitFellas
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Intro competition: Nominees of 'Nano Awards 2022'
At the beginning of December, we reported on the intro competition The Nano Awards 2022. Now the nominations have been announced, without Amiga participation:
- Best Oldschool Tiny Intro
- Quarter Express, by ilmenit / agenda (256b, Atari XE/XL)
- Gleest, by Bfox (256b, ZX Spectrum)
- Metro, by Xeen / Agenda (256b, Atari XE/XL)
- VIFI Videoram Filler by Busy / BusySoft (256b, ZX Spectrum)
- Sapere Aude, by Ilmenit / agenda (256b, Commodore 64)
- Best Hi-End Tiny Intro
- Lightcrypt, by Gopher / Alcatraz (256b, DOS)
- Mems, by Digimind (256b, DOS)
- Sseraf, by Rrrola (256b, DOS)
- Blake32, by Superogue / Marquee Design (32b, DOS)
- Up up Down, by Sensenstahl (256b, DOS)
A video summary of the productions is available on the official website of the competition. (dr)
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09.Jan.2022
Retro Commodore
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PDF manual: 'ROM Kernel Reference Manual' for AmigaOS 3.2
The 'ROM Kernel Reference Manual' for AmigaOS 3.2, written by Camilla Boemann and Jason Stead, is updated continuously and is oriented to the 'Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals' from the 80s written by Robert Peck.
This book aims to represent all programming topics of the Amiga operating system since release 2 up to 3.2. The challenge is to cover features that are 30 years old as well as things that would only be added in the last few years. The authors write the following about this:
"This book is initially published as a PDF as it is more important to get the information out quickly than for it to be complete. Over time it will be improved and more information will be added. Thus initially you may find several topics lacking, but please keep an eye out for updates. This book is meant to help you expand your knowledge of programming the Amiga. It assumes you have previous experience with programming the Amiga, and it all but assumes you have all the books in the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual series. Like the books in that series a knowledge of the C programming language is not required, but will make it much easier to understand the material in this book." (dr)
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08.Jan.2022
IndieRetroNews
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New preview video: Remake of Rick Dangerous
Already at the end of last year a new preview video of the remake of the game 'Rick Dangeous', developed by 'Z-Team', was released, which is registered as an entry for the current AmiGameJam (amiga-news.de reported). The new video features some cut scenes, some corrections, dynamite, the beginning of the second level and background music. (dr)
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08.Jan.2022
(ANF)
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Philosophy: The Amiga as "a computer built to last 50 years"
In early 2021, engineer, writer and lecturer at the École Polytechnique de Louvain, Lionel Dricot, wrote an essay titled 'The computer built to last 50 years' in which he ponders how a long-lasting computer could be developed to save both one's finances, but also resources, and thus the planet.
Carl Svensson, well-known our readers by his ARexx-Tools 'RxEnv', Carl Svensson has now written a rebuttal: 'The Amiga as "a computer built to last 50 years"'. In it, he claims that the '50-year-old computer' already exists - in various forms and designs - and that we just need to find it in attics and restore it: the Amiga.
A computer that has been in use for around 30 years would literally stand for sustainability. Its longevity makes up for what it lacks in energy efficiency. (dr)
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08.Jan.2022
https://blog.alb42.de (ANF)
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AmiTube 0.7: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas (update)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video).
Now version 0.7 is available which among others allows you to download the original video from YouTube in different resolutions or as audio file. Detailed changes:
- New CDXL Option 320px and AGA colors
- direct download from youtube without conversation
- select resolution on direct download
- Update checking
- Download latest version
- Question before delete movie
The latest version always is available on the AmiTube website.
Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link.
Update: (09.01.2022, 06:39, dr)
In his new blog entry, yesterday Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow pointed out that an (untested) guide published on the official AmiTube website now describes how to set up your own 'converter server'. (dr)
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07.Jan.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 154
The English and German editions of issue 154 (January/February 2022) of the rpint magazine Amiga Future have been published today and can be ordered from the staff or from Amiga dealers. This issue's topics include review of the Terrible Fire 1230, RGB-to-HDMI (RGB2HDMI) and 'The Shadows of Sergoth'. (cg)
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06.Jan.2022
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Preview video: 'Scourge of the Underkind'
At the end of 2020, we reported for the last time about "Scourge of the Underkind", which was actually announced for 2021 and which sees itself as a tribute to games like Gods, Chaos Engine and Alien Breed. On the project's Facebook page, there have been regular reports about the development status over the last year: at the end of September it was reported that the music was finished and the last level was started, while at the beginning of October the game instructions were proofread.
oday, a new preview video was released on YouTube, showing the first 13 minutes of the game, including the loading screen and intro. The authir pointed out that he "was using a bezel in WinUAE and a screen filter which has caused some noise in this video." The game would look much better for real.
There would still be a few small changes made to the game, but basically the finished version would be shown.
Additionally, an other video shows how the intro screen was drawn, with Scourge's music. (dr)
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06.Jan.2022
Discord
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Video documentary on Trackers: 'The Sound of 16-Bit'
Stuart Brow regularly posts documentary-style videos on his YouTube channel Ahoy about video games and their impact on culture. As a one-man team, he is responsible for all aspects of production: script, graphics, voiceover, gameplay recording, editing, and music.
In his last video documentary he takes the audience back to around 1984 - the dawn of 16-bit computing, and the emergence of a new style of computer music. And he also wrote:
"Ever since I did 'A Brief History of Graphics', I wanted to do a similar treatment for sound & music - but rather than attempt to cover everything in a single video, I thought it would be better to focus on a single topic. This time it's trackers - a format dear to me as it was my introduction to computer music."
And so his tracker time travel touches among other things also the Amiga programs "The Ultimate Soundtracker", "OctaMED Soundstudio" or "Digibooster".
Whereas he had previously financed his productions with advertising revenue, he now relies entirely on his audience and is happy to receive financial support on his Patreon page. (dr)
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