07.Aug.2021
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Raspberry Pi: Dev Diary on Emu68
Michal Schulz is working on his Motorola-68000 emulation for the Raspberry Pi (amiga-news.de reported). In two Dev Diary entries Emu68 meets PiStorm and A little bit more of PiStorming he has now reported on his latest efforts of get his emulation running on an A500 and a Raspberry Pi3. Furthermore he provides Nightly Builds on the corresponding GitHub website. (dr)
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07.Aug.2021
Amitopia
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UnRAR 6.02 for all Amiga systems
Marcin Labenski has ported the source code of UnRAR 6.0.7 to all Amiga systems and provides the following features:
- support all the basic unrar commands and switches, including listing, unpacking (all or selected items), printing and testing archive files
- support national characters in archive name, names of files and directories in the archive, passwords, comments and list files
- support restoring information about file modification date, owner and group
- support unpacking symbolic links and hard links stored in archives
- support unpacking multi-volume and SFX archives
- can read switches from configuration file s:rar.conf or RAR environment variable
- large files support (>4GiB) on MorphOS and AmigsOS4
- support AmigaOS localization via locale.library
As the author wrote, "there are no special requirements for MorphOS and AmigaOS4. It should work on any system provided that it has a relatively fresh version of the operating system (I test on MorphOS 3.12 and AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 1). AROS version requires i386 and ABI-v0. Classic AmigaOS version requires a system with:
- CPU Motorola 68000 - FPU is not required
- Kickstart 2.04 or higher
- ixemul V48 (http://aminet.net/package/util/libs/ixemul-48.0)
- 4MB RAM (UnRAR requires 2.6MB on its own)
Exact memory utilization depends on the size of compressed files. For instance my test archive with one 2.0GB file in it needs 32MB of RAM to unpack."
The source code of his port is available on GitHub. (dr)
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07.Aug.2021
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Final Amiga port of 'Metal Gear' (MSX)
In February 2021 announced by a videos, musician, DJ and coder 'Hoffman' has released his final version of his Amiga port of 'Metal Gear', originally developed for MSX home computers. Version 1.1 fixes some bugs and compatibility issues and has the following features:
- Code ported from Z80 to 68000 assembly by Hoffman
- Gameplay adjusted to work at full 50hz/60hz
- No slow-downs or sprite flicker
- Multiple game modes
- English Remix Fan Translation
- Original European Version
- Original Japanese Version
- New Spanish Translation by Akira
- Enhanced Amiga Soundtrack and SFX by Hoffman
- Optional emulated MSX / PSG Music and SFX
- Full support for CD32 gamepad for keyboard-less gameplay
- Additional character graphics by Toni Galvez
- All new ending / credits section
- For any Amiga with 512kb Chip Ram + 512k Other Ram
- Bootable disk image for low spec Amigas
- WHDLoad installer by Psygore
The original ProTracker modules can be also downloaded from his website. About the history of his project he wrote:
"This project started out as a curiosity which got WAY out of hand. Back in November 2020, after 8 months of coronavirus lock-down, I found myself looking at a GitHub repo by Manual Pazos and wondering really just how hard would it be to port this to the Amiga. As a test, I looked at converting some of the tile graphics and within a couple of days built some tools in C# to deal with that. Next I moved onto the map / room data and quickly built a renderer on the Amiga which could draw every room from the game. By now I was done for, I couldn't stop, I had to see just how far I could take the project. Each completed step kept pushing me to do the next and now here we are, a complete and full port of Metal Gear running on all Amigas!
There is more to be said about the development process (like spending weeks building a fully dynamic Amiga sprite multiplexer only to throw it all away) but I think I'll save that for a series of blog posts. For now, I hope you enjoy this game as much as I've enjoyed, and endured, putting it
together."
Download: MetalGear-v1.1.zip (914 KB)
Download: MetalGear-mods.zip (914 KB) (dr)
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07.Aug.2021
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Accelerator board for A1200: Tsunami 1230
Additional to his 'A1100' project, Miguel Fides has built a new accelerator board for the A1200 called Tsunami 1230. According to the his own statement "most compatible acelerator for the A1200 since the Blizzard serie" can be plugged in without any modification of the A1200 case and has the following specifications:
- 68EC030 QFP CPU at 42MHZ.
- 64MByte FastRAM.
- 68882 FPU footprint ready and also selectable clock for overclocking the FPU.
- External expansion port for future upgrades (secret stuff, can’t tell)
- Clockport port (RTC only).
- Compatible with any A1200 motherboard revision.
- A1100 friendly of course.
A recently published YouTube video compares the Tsuanami 1230 with the Blizzard 1230 by means of benchmarks and games. This is a non-commercial project and you can express your interest for a first batch. (dr)
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06.Aug.2021
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Memory game: MeMO 3.14
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has released an update of his memory game MeMO. His game is based on the classic memory card game but in his port two payers can simultaneously play for getting the best highscore. MeMO requires a 68020 processor and the ECS graphic chip. Changes of this release:
- Adapted to Amiga CD³²: added saving through nonvolatile.library when writing to disk fails; allowed pausing, aborting and name entering by means of the joypad; added CD ISO image to distro packages.
- Reworked controls (see manual).
- Added controls information to pause screen.
- Added cards numbers to the back of face down cards (which helps with matching cards).
- Straightened cards corners, to match better the overall sharp look of graphics.
- Fixed bug that caused the EXTRA JOYSTICK option to be highlighted shortly after returning from the "about" screen.
- Made several optimizations.
- Adapted to and built against latest custom framework (which makes startup and cleanup more robust and has a couple of bugfixes).
- Fixed/improved/added outer antialiasing of graphics on all cards (trying to stay faithful to the original design).
- Touched up a few cards.
- Reduced and partly eliminated bass notes clicking.
- Made various other minor changes.
- Improved manual.
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04.Aug.2021
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Jump'n Run for Vampire V4: SonicVamped 1 and 2
'SonicVamped' is a port of the 2013 Android version of SEGA's Sonic The Hedgehog 1 & 2 to AmigaOS optimised for Vampire V4 computer. The games ported by Artur "Arti" Jarosik and "Quetzal" also run under Vampire V2 accelerator boards but not at full speed.
According to the developers the Amiga port features "many speed improvements including AMMX, direct SAGA draw with triple buffer and direct SAGA audio implementation. All of that made it possible to run at stable 60 fps gameplay on The Vampire V4.". A Vampire V4 Release 6 at least is required but a Release 7 - which still is not publicly available - for getting all the features is recommended.
For installation the Sonic 1 or 2 Unpack.bat must be executed on Windows 8 or 10 and then the SonicVamped folder copied to the SD/CF card. (dr)
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03.Aug.2021
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Controlling Sonos speakers (update)
Michael Rupp, well-known by his Workbench simulation TAWS now has started a new project: Learning the programming language Hollywood.
Specifically, he is currently developing an application for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS for controlling Sonos speaker.
The programm is called 'SonosController' and will have the following features:
- listing your speakers with the info of the currently playing song, with an icon that is downloaded from the speaker itself
- subscription of the speaker's UPnP events (that was probably the hardest one to crack, man-o-man), it means that the controller gets a notification if the Sonos system receives a command from some other controller (f.e. from your mobile or on some other computer) or directly from the speaker's buttons
- sending control commands:
- Play
- Pause
- Next
- Back
- Jump to time index
- Volume
- Mute
- Shuffle
- Repeat (everything, current song)
- Crossfade
- display of the current song's title, artist, and album on the selected speaker
- download and display of the album cover if possible (f.e. if embedded into the playing MP3 file)
- local cache for album covers for better performance
- local cache can be emptied in the Preferences dialog
- listing the selected speaker's current queue
- playing a song by clicking an entry in the queue
- listing the Sonos favourites incl. starting one
- listing the Sonos playlists incl. starting one (normal oder shuffled)
- listing TuneIn's saved radio stations incl. starting one
- listing TuneIn's saved radio shows incl. starting one
- browsing your music library incl. starting songs, albums, etc. (normal or shuffled)
- searching your music library by search string and search type (artist, album, composer, genre, song or imported playlist)
- the last x search strings are save, whereas x can be configured in the Preferences (0 - max. 50)
- saved search strings can be emptied in the Preferences dialog
According to the author, he "absolutely wanted to have an Amiga exclusive feature in it, something that the original Sonos app doesn't feature:
- Exporting playlists in M3U format. These can be put into your music library's "playlists" folder to be re-imported into Sonos, thus enabling you to kind of backup and restore your playlists.
All these features already have been implemented and currently are bug fixed. In future versions the following features will be added:
- grouping / ungrouping of speakers
- integration of music services such as Spotify, etc.
- modifying the current queue, adding songs (or whole playlists), remove songs, change song order
- save a queue as a new playlist
- modifying playlists (change, rename, delete, etc.)
- sleep timer functionality
- alarms functionality
- Ringho notifications
Regarding his experience with Hollywood, Rupp told us:
"I got into the new syntax very quickly, especially because the documentation is simply exemplary and full of sample code. Also, you can find an example for practically every programming aspect in the provided sample projects. And if I had any questions, I was always helped promptly in the Hollywood forum, be it by Andreas himself or other Hollywood programmers.
Hollywood is a programming language and so programming knowledge is necessary. Using the Hollywood Designer, however, you can do one or the other without, but this is more comparable to Scala or PowerPoint and is not a programming toolbox in the sense.
However, if you want to learn programming, I can recommend Hollywood as a starting point, especially because of the excellent documentation. Or you can click together something simple in the designer (a small slideshow or so) and then look at the generated script and try to understand what is going on."
Update: (05:53, 10.08.21, dr)
Michael Rupp emphazies that he is looking for beta testers. If you have a MorphOS or AmigaOS4 system and a Sonos speaker, then please contact him via mail. (dr)
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03.Aug.2021
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Dev Diary: 'This week in PiStorm'
In his weekly column 'This week in PiStorm', the developer Andrew Hutchings gathers progresses and insights on the 'PiStorm' project.
In his latest entry among others he reported that the PiStorm-Wiki was updated and now includes a FAQ as well as a detailed software installation guide. (dr)
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02.Aug.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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From Vultures to Vampires: Shipping of book by Pleasance and Dickinson (vol. 1)
The first volume of "From Vultures to Vampires", a book by the former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and the A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson, is currently shipping to those crowdfunders who pledged for the e-book version. Printing of the real book is expected to be finished August 20.
For the Kindle variant, its manufacturer currently states September 6 as date of availability. Regarding prices, on his website David Pleasance mentions 15 (e-book, same amount as previously for crowdfunders) and 35 British Pounds, respectively (printed book, for crowdfunders it had been 30 Pounds; for volume two, the latter get a discount of 50 % on both variants). (snx)
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01.Aug.2021
Alain Fontanin
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Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.52 (update)
By releasing version 1.2 (2019), at the end of the last year Alain Fontanin has resumed the development of his "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE) which originally started in 1989.
The author constantly develops his text editor further and now has released version 1.51 with the following changes:
- Compiled with SAS/C 6.58
- Use of the locale library for language-specific and country-specific properties (date and time) and catalogs for the localized version (english in the code, french and german as catalogs). The source file to generate the catalogs (ASE2019.cs with SimpleCat) is in the release
- Use of the gadtools library for menus and gadgets
- Reentrance mechanism, based on Arexx script to avoid having multiple instances of ASE2019 in memory
- Replacement of obsolete functions
- Ability to handle differents 'EOL' characters
- Significant improvement in the reading speed of a document
- Ability to create and manage document backups
- Improve configuration of ASE2019
- Improve tabs management : tab size from 1 to 10 and hard tabs
- Improve speed cancellation changes
- Integration of the Amiga clipboard
- First version (limited) of document comparison function
- Correction of the 'Delete content of the current line' function
- Correction of the 'Delete characters after cursor' function
- Correction of the 'Delete characters before cursor' function
- New functions 'Delete word before/after cursor'
- New configuration of the 'DEL' & 'BACKSPACE' keys;refer to 'Shortcuts' section, of the documentation for more information
- Removal of the 'Lorem Ipsum' function
- Correct version of the 'ASE2019.cs' localization file
Meanwhile version 1.52 is available which fixes a bug in the English menu.
Download: ASE2019_1.52.lha (134 KB) (dr)
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01.Aug.2021
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Aminet uploads until 31.07.2021
The following files have been added until 31.07.2021 to Aminet:
Healthcare_1.0.lha biz/misc 240K MOS Displays data from Garmin dev...
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 305K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 13K 2021 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 3.2M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
BOOM_AGA.lha game/shoot 2.8M 68k Amiga port of BOOM (DOOM)
BOOM_RTG.lha game/shoot 2.8M 68k Amiga port of BOOM (DOOM)
giocodel15.lha game/wb 158K 68k classic, some 50 year old puz...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
BetterPerson.lha mods/8voic 3.8M Better Person 7ch Slow Latin ...
amiditools.lha mus/midi 82K 68k Tools for MIDI processing
ToolsMenu_FR.lha util/cdity 6K French catalog for ToolsMenu ...
Iconverter_mos.lha util/conv 52K MOS Convert WB 1.x/MagicWB icons ...
ADiffView.lha util/misc 160K 68k graphical ASCII file compare/...
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01.Aug.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 31.07.2021
The following files have been added until 31.07.2021 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
cookiemaster.lha net/bro 2Mb 4.1 Web browser (currently Odyssey) ...
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01.Aug.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 31.07.2021
The following files have been added until 31.07.2021 to AROS Archives:
68k_datatypes.zip aud 24kb new datatype for aros m68k
arlan.lha net/mis 223kb Simple "self-made" Gop...
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01.Aug.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 31.07.2021
The following files have been added until 31.07.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_27.72.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
ReportPlus_8.22.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
Healthcare_1.0.lha Misc Displays data from Garm...
ADiffView_2.0.lha Text/Compare A graphical file compar...
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01.Aug.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 31.07.2021
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 31.07.2021:
- 2021-07-31 improved: Ports Of Call (International Software Development) protection removed, reduced memory usage (Info)
- 2021-07-31 new: Mutant League Hockey (Ocean) done by JOTD (Info)
- 2021-07-31 improved: Center Court 2 (G. Fritsch) run with any diskfont.library, fixed typos (Info)
- 2021-07-29 improved: Superfrog (Team 17) added 3-button joystick support (Info)
- 2021-07-26 updated: Crystal Kingdom Dizzy (Code Masters) install script corrected (Info)
- 2021-07-25 improved: Ports Of Call (International Software Development) german version supported (Info)
- 2021-07-25 improved: Crystal Kingdom Dizzy (Code Masters) 2nd version supported, reduced chip mem to 512k, 68000 quitkey, 2nd button jump, faster loading, trainers added, sound effects and blitwaits fixed, RawDIC imager (Info)
- 2021-07-25 new: Center Court 2 (G. Fritsch) done by JOTD (Info)
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31.Jul.2021
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Commercial action game: Turbo Tomato Deluxe Collectors Edition
Today Bitmap Soft has released the commercial action game 'Turbo Tomato – Deluxe Collectors Edition' in which you have to try to remove mutated vegetables from the playground using bombs.
The Deluxe collector edition is available for about 29 Euro (plus shipping) and contains the following items:
- Glossy Big Box
- Turbo Tomato game on 3.5″ floppy diskette
- Full-Colour Instruction booklet
- Turbo Tomato Fridge Magnet
- Selection of Stickers
- Glossy A4 single-sided poster
- Digital download included
Features of the game:
- Fast one or two player co-op action
- 35+ levels across four distinct worlds
- 40+ enemy types and 4 bosses to battle
- Online global high score table
- Level code system
The game runs on any Amiga equipped with 1MB Chip RAM and Kickstart 2.0+ and supports harddrive and CD32 installation.
The game also is available for about 12 Euro as digital download. (dr)
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31.Jul.2021
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7-bit: Software update for 508i-Wicher cards
7-bit has released a software update to version 2.8b3 for its Wicher 508i cards which fixes a bug in AmigaOS3.2. (dr)
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31.Jul.2021
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Print-/PDF Magazine: Amiga Addict, Issue 7
Seventh issue of British magazine "Amiga Addict" is available for pre-ordering. The lead article is about Psygnosis, but there are also articles about the Vampire, a review of Turbo Tomato and a look at how comic books helped sell the Amiga back in the day. This issue has 60 pages and includes an exclusive demo. (dr)
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31.Jul.2021
Dante
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Top-Down-View-Shooter: New Preview video for 'AlarCity'
Already at the end of 2017 the developers of Pixelglass Games had announced the Top-Down-View-Shooter 'AlarCity'. John Tsakiris now has published a YouTube video "showcasing the transition from the original old 1.0 demo to the new design and direction." The game is being developed using the Scorpion Engine. (dr)
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31.Jul.2021
Amitopia
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MorphOS: Reading data of Garmin devices
Carsten Siegners Healthcare "reads data from Garmin devices (smart watches,
portable GPS devices and bicycle computers. This data are displayed in a diagram." The first public version 1.0 can read cardiogram (data of the heart), sport, user profile and device info from the hardware. The latest MorphOS-Version 3.15 is required. (dr)
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