12.Nov.2021
Youtube / 8-Bit Guy (ANF)
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8-BitArcade-Adventure: "PETSCII Robots" announced for Amiga
PETSCII Robots by popular Texas youtuber 8 Bit Guy is an arcade adventure game originally developed for the Commodore PET, whose in-game "graphics" consisted entirely of PETSCII characters (video).
Since then the commercially distributed title has been made available for various retro platforms (including VIC 20, C64, C128, Plus/4, Apple II, Atari), with each port attempting to exploit the graphical and sound capabilities of the target system as much as possible. In his most recent Youtube release the "8 Bit Guy" now announces further ports, including one for the Amiga 500 - moving pictures of this version can be seen starting at minute 16:50. (cg)
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11.Nov.2021
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #127 - Nicola and Anthony Caulfield
In their new podcast episode, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Nicola and Anthony Caulfield, a filmmaking team from London. They are responsible for documentaries like "From Bedrooms To Billions" and its sequel "The Amiga Years" . Their current project, called "The Rubber-Keyed Wonder", is about the ZX Spectrum. Interview starts at 9:47 minutes. (snx)
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11.Nov.2021
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: Interface XXIX in Kiel (Germany) on November 27, 2021
On saturday, November 27, 2021, the next "Interface" retrocomputing event takes place in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. Details can be found in our german news-item. (snx)
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11.Nov.2021
amigaworld.net
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Anniversary: 20 years AmigaSource
For 20 years now Scott Pistorino collects on his site AmigaSource all information around the Amiga. On October 19, 2001 he introduced his project on amiga-news.de. Beside several interviews with Ben Hermans or Fleecy Moss from 2002 there are numerous categories like software, hardware, demos etc. Because Pistorino changed to a new database some time ago, some articles are not yet available again. In the future he plans to add links to all official Amiga systems like X1000, A1222 etc. as well as systems of external developers like MiSTer, Vampire, Raspberry Pi etc. We say congratulations! (dr)
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10.Nov.2021
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AmigaOS 4.1: Start of video and discussion series
Each Friday on 19:30 Uhr CET George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, explains on Twitch the AmigaOS and had so far focused on version 3.2. Those videos he also has uploaded to YouTube. Since last Friday now he talks about AmigaOS 4.1 and explains among others in the first episode the AmigaOS 4.1 FE file structure, the different Prefs utilities and what can be done with them and why the WBStartup folder is removed and what took its place. (dr)
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09.Nov.2021
AmigaImpact
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New preview video: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported) which is supposed to run on unaccelerated Amiga 1200 and CD32 with 50 fps.
Meanwhile the author has published the 20. preview video from which here two screenshots have been taken:
The crowd asset is a temporary placeholder, taken from Super Soccer (SNES). About the history of the game the author wrote:
"Around 1994 or so, when I lived in Ecuador, my friend Patricio Maldo and I were pretty much the only Amiga users all around, everybody else was into PC. Therefore software supply was pretty bad and we usually had to wait until the next trip to Germany to stock up.
Although I actually hate soccer, we both spent hours over hours with the soccer management simulations "Starbyte Super Soccer" and "Bundesliga Manager Pro" (and he constantly beating me ;) ).
Our verdict was clear: Starbyte had the more interesting features whereas Bundesliga Manager had the superior presentation with its great goal sequences.
What we wanted was a mixture of both, so I started coding one. I'm pretty sure it was Patricio who came up with the name "Souverän!".
Back then I used GFA Basic on my A500 with 1MB. By the time it was pretty cool, had lots of advanced features, but the primary reason for using it was: I simply had nothing else ;)
For the goal sequences I came up with something special: SNES Super Formation Soccer like 3D view! I had seen this in an issue of the german games mag "VideoGames", used those mags a lot for inspiration. Well, it was not fullscreen, of course, limited to 4 color IIRC, consisting out of some 10 precalculated base pictures (thanks to DeluxePaint's 3D functions) and parallax scrolling chunks of 5 rows of pixels or so. Was actually pretty cool nevertheless :)
Unfortunately I ran into some RAM limitations at some point, IIRC it was some issue with GFA Basic itself, something like no more arrays available or so, so the project died when it was already fairly advanced.
So, this here is a tribute to this project from ~25 years ago :)." (dr)
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09.Nov.2021
AmigaImpact
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Emulator: FS-UAE 3.1
The author Frode Solheim wrote:
"While I'm primarily working on FS-UAE & Launcher 4, I've seen the need to do some updates to version 3 as well. Especially for macOS users where 3.0.5 is not working very well on the latest macOS releases. But it has useful fixes for other platforms as well, including a fix for using .lha archives on Windows and a compatibility fix for using QEMU-UAE on recent Linux distros. I haven't announced version 3.1 on fs-uae.net yet, among other things because I don't have installers prepared yet, and I also haven't had time to make sure that FS-UAE Arcade runs correctly. Apologies for not having a more smooth upgrade path, but I simply haven't had time.
I have made a post over at the English Amiga Board with links to FS-UAE & Launcher version 3.1. I recommend that most users using 3.0.5 upgrade to this version." (dr)
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07.Nov.2021
George Sokianos (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.5.1
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations and, since Version 1.4.0, also to listen to podcasts. An external player like the free AmigaAmp or the commercial Emotion and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. About the latest version 1.5.0 the author George Sokianos has written:
"When I started working on MediaVault I was thinking that I would be very happy to release new versions every two weeks. And here we are, with releases every few days, not even two weeks. Sure, some of them were small or bug fixes only, but the majority had one or two changes that make the user experience better.
Like the way the podcast episodes are shown in this version and the new updates auto check every time you start MediaVault. The latter will keep you updated, without the need to learn about a new release from a blog post or check for that manually.
From v1.5.1 when you select a podcast, either from your favourites list or from the discovery ones, the podcasts list appears at the middle of the MediaVault window. This way it is easier to read their titles and the date they were released, with the need to make the window bigger. You can always return to the search results by selecting the section from the left sidebar.
There were some extra changes and fixes to make the application better all the way and a lot of code cleanup, to keep it readable for other developers.
I would like to thank all of my supporters for helping me develop MediaVault, adding new features and making it better and better." (dr)
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07.Nov.2021
OS4Depot
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Little review: Password management "PassPocket"
Yesterday version 1.1 of the password manager 'PasspPocket' was released in the OS4Depot. However, the archive includes versions for both AmigaOS 3 and 4. We took a look at the version for AmigaOS 4 and daringly left the instructions (in German and English) aside (for now) and started the program directly - hoping to be able to dive intuitively into the world of password management...
After starting the program, we are greeted by the following small window:
Hm, our expectations were dashed right at the beginning: Logically (?) I assumed that some window opens and you are asked whether you want to create a new password database or open an existing one. Since one is asked directly for a password, this can only mean: First start of the program, so a new database is created and I give the password. Which of the readers goes along with this train of thought...? I try to be creative, not to use simply "test" and decide for "OhneAmigaistdieWeltfade" ;) I could have saved myself this labor of love, though, as immediately a window grumbles, "The main password does not match a database". Well, the menu of 'PassPocket' only allows an "Quit". So, with my intuition I didn't get far and now I'll have a look at the manual after all. "Getting Started - Test driving PassPocket." The author probably guessed that there would be questions. There I read that 'PassPocket' always automatically searches for databases in the folder "Database" and in this first case finds the sample database. Aha. The password would be "AmigaRulez!". Let's try, works:
I learn further that pressing the pen (AISS package required!) starts the edit mode of the entry. I try with the "Sample Account":
Oh dear, also caught Google...;) With the magnifying glass the password can be shown, here "Password" is used sensibly. I cancel and want to create my own database now, of course. Using the menu item "Database" and the entry "New", a window like the first one shown above is generated, now with the text:" Enter a master password to create a new database." After so much mental work already done, I now make it easy and use: "Amiga". Thereupon a selection window opens for the assignment of a name for the database. I stay with "Amiga".
I'll do it!
So, how can you use this in a meaningful way? Again a look into the manual. One learns: If an entry is activated (left mouse button), you can use CTRL+Alt+u to enter the web page, for example, in the browser at the top. Works! The username can be inserted with CTRL+Alt+n and the password finally with CTRL+Alt+p. Works.
I am now still interested in what happens after closing and restarting the program. Will I be offered different databases? No, I am simply asked for the main password of the database. Hm, okay, then, I think, it will simply compare all existing databases with my entered password and open them if they match. So I type in "Amiga" and get the disappointing message: password does not match any database. Hmm...Consult the manual again. Oha: I have to change the tooltypes of the program myself and add to my newly created database...:
So I add: 'DATABASE2=Amiga' and 'BACKUP2=Amiga_Backup'. So, now I start the program again and type in 'Amiga' and behold, my "Forum Amiga News" entry appears...But there shouldn't be a more user-friendly solution...? What is also not clear to me: Why is it only possible to delete all account entries of a database and not a single one? It is more likely that I have deleted my access data of a single site, so I don't need them anymore and only want to have this entry deleted...
Since not only IBrowse, but under OS4 also Odyssey Web Browser offers a password management, the question remains: What for and when do I use 'PassPocket'? Since surfing the internet with an Amiga is an exciting and challenging task, which sometimes works better with one browser, sometimes with the other, it would make sense not to create the passwords again with every browser, but to use 'PassPocket'. By the way, the program is free and open source, the source code is included in the archive. (dr)
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07.Nov.2021
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Amiga-Emulator für MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 Beta 6
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 6 providing the following changes since version 4:
- CPU IPL polling is more accurate now (Phenomena Spectre Party Demo)
- Fixed a bug in the implementation of the LINK command that was able to crash the emulator
- a vastly improved Line Blitter and various smaller compatibility improvements
(dr)
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07.Nov.2021
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Aminet uploads until 06.11.2021
The following files have been added until 06.11.2021 to Aminet:
Roadie.lha comm/net 123K 68k Commodity/GUI App for Roadsho...
8stars.lha demo/intro 4K 68k Simple intro 4k (+AmigaE src)
guigfxlib.lha dev/misc 257K OS4 Application layer for pixel g...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.2M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
DAControlGUI.lha disk/misc 159K 68k GUI for DAControl on Amiga OS...
pcexhumed.lha game/shoot 666K 68k Exhumed / Powerslave
darkest-hour.i386-aro... game/text 88K x86 Old-fashioned text adventure ...
darkest-hour.lha game/text 41K MOS Old-fashioned text adventure ...
darkest-hour_OS4.lha game/text 92K OS4 Old-fashioned text adventure ...
stoppa.lha game/wb 281K 68k Stoppa game
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
bin2tap.i386-aros.lha misc/emu 107K x86 Sinclair CODE file to TAP con...
bin2tap_OS4.lha misc/emu 105K OS4 Sinclair CODE file to TAP con...
bin2tap-mos.lha misc/emu 36K MOS Sinclair CODE file to TAP con...
HuntnGather.lha util/dir 97K 68k File indexing and search util...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.0M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
PassPocket.lha util/misc 505K OS4 Password manager utility
Starlist2.98.lha util/misc 94K 68k A datasheet-like utility
TestProgram.zip util/misc 314K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
AnalogClock.lha util/time 38K 68k Analog transparent clock for ...
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07.Nov.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 06.11.2021
The following files have been added until 06.11.2021 to OS4Depot:
bin2tap.lha emu/con 105kb 4.0 Sinclair CODE file to TAP converter
darkest-hour.lha gam/adv 92kb 4.0 Old-fashioned text adventure game
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 12Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
passpocket.lha uti/mis 505kb 4.0 Password manager utility
(snx)
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07.Nov.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 06.11.2021
The following files have been added until 06.11.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
bin2tap_1.3.lha Emulation/Misc bin2tap_1.3.lha
Darkest-hour.lha Games/Adventure Old-fashioned text adve...
AmiSSL_4.11_68k.lha System/Library/SSL OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
(snx)
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07.Nov.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.11.2021
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 06.11.2021:
- 2021-10-28 improved: Inviyya (Tigerskunk) supports 7th level version, saves hiscores without trainers enabled now (Info, Image)
- 2021-10-28 fixed: Aladdin (Virgin) left border in game fixed, 3rd button joystick can be changed to throw apples (Info)
(snx)
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07.Nov.2021
Spiegel 45/2021 (ANF)
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Famous Amiga users: Horst Seehofer (german politician)
That the parting home secretary of Germany and former prime minister of the german state Bavaria enjoys a model railway in his spare time has been publicly known for quite some time already. Now, however, in an interview with german news magazine "Der Spiegel" (issue 45/2021), Horst Seehofer revealed another, at least former, hobby as well.
Asked what exactly he would like about model making, he answered: "In the past I always unscrewed every Amiga computer because I wanted to understand how it works. Today it's different, most people don't know what a circuit board is today, some can't even fix a bicycle tire. On the model railway you do it all at once: You build with wood. You deal with electrics. You can program." (snx)
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07.Nov.2021
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New downloads on amigaland.de
At amigaland.de Mirko Engelhardt offers software that had been commercial before with the permission of the respective copyright owners. Latest additions include games published by Software 2000 or its branch Magic Soft: Backgammon, Charly and Ditris. (dr)
[News message: 07. Nov. 2021, 08:01] [Comments: 0]
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06.Nov.2021
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ModExplorer 3.8 FE for all Amiga systems
As author Jörg Renkert writes on his homepage, the point of ModPlayer is not to be just another audio player (there are already enough good ones) with which to listen to your music archives. Instead, it offers users mods that they have never heard before. To do this, ModExplorer randomly downloads modules from the Internet (including Aminet, Modland and modules.pl) and plays them. These mods are also not stored permanently. Instead, ModExplorer creates a playlist that contains Internet links to these music files. This way they can be played again later.
The new version 3.8 now also offers a visual plugin that graphically represents the tracks by patterns and equalizers. Likewise, the author has integrated a small Trailblazer game as a gimmick. Besides some bug fixes, the program can now be controlled with the joystick.
The version name has received the appendix 'FE', because according to the author ModExplorer now includes all feature requested from users and also from himself. Therefore, this will be the final version (FE) of ModExplorer. But bug fixes would be made. However, he plans a special version for 68k Amigas for some of the functions of ModExplorer these Amigas so far overload. (dr)
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06.Nov.2021
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Lionheart Remake: Version 1.20 of Java por of Lionheart in development
After Byron 3D Games Studio had released the amiga game Lionheart for the LionEngine developed by them as Lionheart Java Remake in mid-October in version 1.10, the development of version 1.20 has now been started with the release of first screenshots of the underwater world.
Pierre-Alexandre, one of the developers, told us that the boss is finished. Now there is still some cleanup to do to complete the 'Underworld' tasks. Then he wants to add support for CRT filters and a launchable level editor. Having seen some videos of the remake on YouTube where none of the players could finish the first stage, he now is going to to simplify it.
The source codes for both the LionEngine and the game implementation are available on GitHub. (dr)
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05.Nov.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 19 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 18 was published, continuing running through chapter 7 of the book teaching about 'Attached Sprites'. Furthermore the group 'Phaze101' has announced to publish an English-language version of the original Italian book. (dr)
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05.Nov.2021
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Ben Hermans listed as Hyperion's director again
In early May, Ben Hermans was delisted as Hyperion's director and presumably replaced by a judicial liquidator for Ben Hermans B.V. - the company that held the actual director position, while the person Ben Hermans acted as its permanent representative. According to an entry in Belgium's legal newsletter (local copy), Hermans was already reinstated as a director at the end of June (automated translation):
"With judgment of the Dutch-speaking business court of Brussels from June 18, 2021 [...] the judgment of May 7, 2021 where Mr. Jean Louis de Chaffoy de Courcelles was appointed as judicial liquidator, has been overruled. The judicial dissolution of Ben Hermens [B.V.] was revoked and the judicial liquidator was released from his assignment."
This week, Belgium's company register has been updated as well and now lists Ben Hermans' company as a director and Hermans himself as the company's permanent representative in that role again.
In a statement included in our previous news item, Mr. Hermans had announced that his private company had only got in trouble because it failed to file the yearly account for 2019 in time and that he was working on solving that.
Said yearly account is also available online now (local copy). The last page of the PDF file is - in contrast to the Rest of the document - made up of a picture containing scanned text instead of actual text and is therefore not readable for translation software. We OCR'd the document and fed the resulting Dutch text to a translation program. The result tells us the following:
On November 4, 2019 Ben Hermans sold 2165 Hyperion shares he personally owned to his company Ben Hermans B.V, for a price of 402,690 Euro (186 Euro per share). These are likely all of Hermans' shares: After a capital increase just a few months before the transaction in question, Hermans owned about 97% of the total of 2245 Hyperion shares. The transfer of shares from Ben Hermans to Ben Hermans B.V. has to be reported in the latter's yearly account due to a potential conflict of interest: Hermans sold shares of the company he runs to another company, while permantently representing the latter in the former's board of directors.
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05.Nov.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 153
The English and German editions of Amiga Future issue 153 (November/December 2021) has been published yesterday and can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include an interview with Frank Röchter and a "Making Of" of his release 'Falconia', a review of 'Athanor 2 - Legend of the Birdmen' as well as 'Trevors Soapbox'.
(cg)
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