03.Jun.2021
Aminet
|
Aminet: New Version of AmigaOS 3.2 FAQ
Today the new version 47.2 of the AmigaOS 3.2 FAQ was published on Aminet. Among other things the following points were added:
- 1.5: The Vampire V4 is able to boot AmigaOS 3.2, but this requires a special procedure from the user. More information on the support page of the Vampire
- 4.15: Graphical errors in the palette's settings editor and help subsystem are most likely due to the Indivision AGA MK3 scandoubler. Only a new firmware could solve this.
- 4.16: If no drives are connected or none are detected when booting the Amiga, the process stops with a black screen. Either connect a drive or floppy drive or switch to the Early Startup Control menu by holding down both mouse buttons.
- 12.11: When asked if the current Kickstart ROM can also be used to boot older AmigaOS versions, it is pointed out that the system partition must absolutely contain the workbench.library and the icon.library to be extracted from the 'AmigaOS 3.2 Install3.2.adf' image. Further support is not provided here.
(dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 03. Jun. 2021, 08:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
03.Jun.2021
Amigans (Webseite)
|
Demo: THE CURE for AGA-Amigas
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua had produced a demo called 'THE CURE' some time ago, which he released at the 'Solskogen' demo party 2020 and won first place in the oldskool category. Now he has released an update that, among other things, fixes a supposed memory leak.
At the end of 2017, he extracted the graphics engine from one of his other demos to play around with in the time that followed. Among other things, he intended to release a game based on it, but failed: the engine would have been too tiring on the eyes and inappropriate for small or medium graphic elements.
So he concentrated on using the engine in a demo, but beyond that he pursued a higher goal: to send out a message. Amiga users can convince themselves of this in advance by watching the YouTube video on his site. But Simone recommends for the full graphical and acoustical enjoyment to play the demo on an Amiga, which should fulfill the following conditions:
- AGA Amiga
- 68030 @ 50 MHz
- ~32 kB CHIP RAM
- ~14.5 MB FAST RAM
- ~15 MB disk space
(dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 03. Jun. 2021, 07:48] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
02.Jun.2021
|
Shoot'em Up: More info about RESHOOT PROXIMA 3
Ex-"Amiga Joker"-editor Richard Löwenstein is still working intensively on his third shoot'em up. After RESHOOT and RESHOOT R, the title "RESHOOT PROXIMA 3" is currently being developed.
The developer regularly informs about the latest progress on his Patreon page. Last week, for example, he explained his approach and changes to the ocean theme of his game in a short video. For three months he tinkered with the visual design of this level because he was not satisfied with the original version, which, in his opinion, did not contain anything unique or surprising. He came up with the idea of perspective scrolling: that's what he calls a variation of scrolling that applies scrolling at different speeds to different rows of images. This creates the illusion of a camera pulling forward on a 3D structure, he says. This can greatly enhance visual depth, he says. Normally, horizontally scrolling games like "Street Fighter II" are associated with this, but examples on the Amiga would be rare. He still mentions "Lionheart", "Elfmania", "Overkill" and "RESHOOT R". For his latest game he wanted to turn the feature to vertical orientation, which he succeeded in doing after a few attempts. He asks users to tell him what they think about the sample scene and also if they know any other games with vertical scrolling, if any.
In another brief statement, Richard Löwenstein shares that his "pixel artist" Kevin Saunders and he have completed the themes and color scheme for all five sections of the game. Likewise, his the code and implementation of all visual effects for the levels ready. (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 02. Jun. 2021, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
01.Jun.2021
|
MorphOS: E-Mail-Program Iris 0.118
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is to become the default MorphOS email client in the future. It supports IMAP and can both display and create HTML emails.
Among the new features of version 0.118 is an improved image scaling when reading mails. In addition, the author asks to ensure that in any case a written server name and not an IP address is to be used for the SMTP server, since some servers reject an IP address when establishing an SMTP connection. For feedback to the author, the corresponding MorphZone discussion on the topic can be used. (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 01. Jun. 2021, 13:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
01.Jun.2021
|
MorphOS: Web-Browser Wayfarer 1.21
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has updated his Wayfarer web browser to version 1.21. The changes at a glance:
- Fixed a crash on player exit
- Fixed an issue where player settings weren't correctly applied when loading pages
- Fixed an issue where wrong player settings were used in some code paths
- Fixed a problem with quitting Wayfarer
MorphOS 3.15 and 1 GB RAM are required. A processor with at least 1.5 GHz is recommended. For feedback to the author, e-mails to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu or the corresponding MorphZone discussion on the topic can be used in addition to the integrated crash detector.
(dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 01. Jun. 2021, 13:03] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
01.Jun.2021
|
Detailed Review (Czech): Graphic cards for Sam440ep-flex
On the Czech Amiga portal, the user 'sailor' has published a detailed review about graphic cards for Sam440ep-flex, here as English-language translation. Of course the texts of the graphics cannot be translated, so these are important words to know:
- neni treba = not necessary
- ne = no
- ani = still
- ano = yea
Finally she has given some conclusions depending on for what you are using your Sam440ep-flex most: For current applications for example she recommends the Radeon HD 7750. In any case she advises to have 128 MB VRAM graphic memory.
(dr) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jun. 2021, 08:48] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
31.May.2021
|
Aminet uploads until 29.05.2021
The following files have been added until 29.05.2021 to Aminet:
AmIRC_DE.lha comm/irc 16K New German catalog for AmIRC
COP.lha dev/debug 165K 68k Low Level Debugger
fpc-3.2.2-arm-aros.lha dev/lang 54M FreePascal for arm AROS ABIv0
fpc-3.2.2-i386-aros.lha dev/lang 53M x86 FreePascal for i386 AROS ABIv0
fpc-3.2.2-m68k-amiga.lha dev/lang 38M 68k FreePascal for AmigaOS 3.x
fpc-3.2.2-ppc-amiga.lha dev/lang 55M OS4 FreePascal for AmigaOS 4.x
fpc-3.2.2-ppc-morphos... dev/lang 55M MOS FreePascal for MorphOS
spod.lha game/actio 317K 68k Spaceship vs Asteroids Game (...
F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 6K 2021 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 3.1M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.3M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
pcexhumed.lha game/shoot 604K 68k Exhumed / Powerslave
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 17M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 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...
Bonzai.lha mods/8voic 141K Bonzai 8ch Japanese Pop Ballad
Club82.lha mods/misc 70K Club 82 4ch Synth Disco by HK...
StartinOver.lha mods/misc 73K Startin All Over 4ch Soft Rock
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 618K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 739K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 783K OS4 Multipurpose utility
EjectADF.lha util/wb 3K 68k Add Eject commmand to OS 3.2 ...
(snx)
[News message: 31. May. 2021, 19:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
31.May.2021
|
OS4Depot uploads until 29.05.2021
The following files have been added until 29.05.2021 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
jfsw.lha gam/fps 2Mb 4.1 First-person shooter video game
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 17Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
mediavault.lha net/mis 373kb 4.1 Discover online radio stations
bootclock.lha uti/har 2Mb 4.0 Program to computers without bat...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 783kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
(snx)
[News message: 31. May. 2021, 19:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
31.May.2021
|
AROS Archives uploads until 29.05.2021
The following files have been added until 29.05.2021 to AROS Archives:
fpc-3.2.2-arm-aros.lha dev/lan 54Mb FreePascal for arm-aros ABIv0
videoslotmachine.lha gam/boa 3Mb A slot video game
casablanca.lha gra/ico 43kb MacroSystem Casablanca GlowIcons
fonttester.lha gra/mis 2Mb test the fonts installed in your...
(snx)
[News message: 31. May. 2021, 19:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
31.May.2021
|
MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.05.2021
The following files have been added until 29.05.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Chrysalis_3.15.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
AmIRC_3.8.lha Communication AmIRC is the best clien...
FPC_3.2.2.lha Development/FreePascal Free Pascal Compiler
x5000_manual.lha Documentation/X5000 Ceci est le Manuel Tech...
AmiArcadia_27.2.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Blues_R1.lha Games/Platform Blues Brothers & Jukebo...
ReportPlus_8.2.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
BootClock_1.20.lha Misc A little and easy progr...
VAMP_2.30.lha Multimedia A Multimedia Player pro...
(snx)
[News message: 31. May. 2021, 19:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
31.May.2021
|
WHDLoad: New installers until 29.05.2021
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 29.05.2021:
- 2021-05-26 fixed: Dimo's Quest (Infernal Bytes/Boeder Software) keyboard handler corrected (Info)
- 2021-05-26 updated: Battletoads (Mindscape) renamed to Battletoads (Info)
- 2021-05-25 improved: Zyconix (Accolade) supports original release, loads and saves high scores (Info)
- 2021-05-25 improved: Garfield: Big, Fat, Hairy Deal (The Edge) uses less chip memory, 68000 quitkey (Info)
- 2021-05-25 fixed: Hero Quest (Gremlin) saving character doesn't crash anymore when no expansion disk is available (Info)
- 2021-05-24 improved: Dimo's Quest (Infernal Bytes/Boeder Software) uses less chip memory, new install script (Info)
- 2021-05-23 improved: Atomic Robo-Kid (Activision) in-game cheat can be enabled with CUSTOM1, support for second fire button (weapon selection), 68000 quitkey support (Info)
(snx)
[News message: 31. May. 2021, 19:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
31.May.2021
Amigans
|
Memory game: MeMO 3.11 (update)
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. The latest update among others provides an improved framework ("which makes the startup and cleanup procedures more robust"), support for joystick in mouse port and a reworked/extended menu.
Update: (06:00, 02.06.21, dr)
Meanwhile version 3.11 is available which fixes a bug introduced with the previous version. (dr) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. May. 2021, 06:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
29.May.2021
|
Hyperion: Ben Hermans temporarily relieved from director position
After Timothy de Groote had been delisted as a Hyperion director,
Ben Hermans was entered into the company register as Hyperion's sole manager.
But in contrast to his predecessors, he wasn't listed as a "besturder"
(director): his position is that of a "vaste vertegenwoordiger" (permanent
representative) of the actual director - a company named "Ben Hermans BV".
That company "Ben Hermans BV" now is the subject of a compulsory dissolution: According to
Belgium's legal newsletter, a court appointed a lawyer named Jean Louis de
Chaffoy de Courcelles as an judicial liquidator ("gerechtelijk
vereffenaar") on May 7. As far as we know, this means that this liquidator now also acts as the company's representative in its role as
Hyperion's director.
Ben Hermans still owns the vast majority of Hyperion's shares though - we
assume he will return to his post as a director at some point. We currently
have no information on how this change of management would be achieved though.
In the lawsuit against Cloanto and the Amiga parties a decision regarding the
trial schedule was published
yesterday. The judge grants the motion of the Amiga parties, explaining
that it was the only one properly submitted: Apparently, Hyperion's motion
was transmitted via E-Mail as a Word document by Ben Hermans himself, which
is not accepted court procedure. According to the judge, the reason given by
Ben Hermans was that he was unable to reach the company's US lawyer.
We approached Mr. Hermans and asked for a statement regarding the Ben Hermans
BV issue. Mr. Hermans told us he can't really comment on this, as it's
being handled by his lawyer currently. He gave us the following statement:
"There is no issue of 'insolvency', there was failure to file the yearly
account for 2019 in time due to the accountancy firm not having the time
to complete this in time apparently due to the COVID restrictions
including but not limited to 'work from home' restrictions and very
limited staff allowed in offices. It would be inappropriate for me to comment further without approval for
my lawyer." (cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 29. May. 2021, 21:21] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
29.May.2021
|
Amiga Corporation: Statement regarding commercial distribution of AmigaOS 3.2
After the release of AmigaOS
3.2, it was stated that a digital edition might take
a while to arrive, since Hyperion wants to create a window for dealers to
generate some revenue with the CD version.
This Thrusday, an anonymous source supplied a PDF document to
amiga-news.de, allegedly containing a fax from Amiga's lawyer Gordon E. Troy
to Digital River. Digital River is an E-commercie service provider that is
used by Hyperion for digital distribution of AmigaOS 3.1.4 - even if
Amiga's and Cloanto's lawyers managed to
stop that for a while.
In the document, which is dated May 25th, the lawyer justifies why the
distribution of AmigaOS 3.2 violates Amiga's trademarks and copyrights
and explains in which areas the judge presiding the case against Hyperion
already agreed with Amiga's point of view.
Mr. Troy also claims that (quote) "our recent investigation of Hyperion [...]
strongly suggests" that Hyperion "would not be able to honour its indemnification
obligations" and that Digital River might end up being found liable. In conclusion,
he asks the E-commerce provider to take down all Downloads of AmigaOS 3.1.4 and
to not act as a distributor for AmigaOS 3.2 at all.
We approached Mike Battilana (Amiga Corporation, Cloanto), to verify if the
document we recieved is genuine. In repsonse, Mr. Battilana supplied us with an
official statement from Amiga Corporation regarding the distribution of
AmigaOS 3.2:
"Timothy De Groote and I negotiated a settlement agreement that was agreed to
by Ben Hermans in writing on January 20, 2021. (He also represented this to
the Court.) Eleven days later, he reneged.
Under the agreement Ben Hermans reneged on, Amiga Corporation would have
granted Hyperion Entertainment the right (which it currently doesn't have) to
release AmigaOS 3.2. If Hyperion wants to release it as a free update, Amiga
has no objection, but Hyperion can't exceed its rights AND profit from it."
(cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 29. May. 2021, 16:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
29.May.2021
|
Plattformer: Alpha-Version 0.1m of 'Super Delivery Boy'
A new alpha version 0.1m (video) of platformer 'Super Delivery Boy' developed with the Scorpion Engine can be downloaded from the developer's website. Among other things, new sound effects and features (red bird) have been added. The first two levels are playable, the rest are for preview purposes only. (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 29. May. 2021, 08:30] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
29.May.2021
|
CS-Lab: Warp 3060/4060 turbo cards not available until 2022
On his 'unofficial Warp 3060/4060 page' Greg Donner quotes one of the developers of CS-Lab, according to which due to the lack of availability of components on the market and due to lack of time the WARP 4060 will only be finished next year. For the two already finished sister cards for the Amiga 500 and 1200 (amiga-news.de reported) the planned webshop is not yet available. (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 29. May. 2021, 08:11] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
29.May.2021
|
Pre-order starts soon: Amiga inspired case in MiniITX format
Stephen Jones had an A3000-inspired case crowdfunded in 2018, reviving the "Checkmate" brand he used thirty years ago for an A500 desktop case. Announced in late summer, the "Checkmate Mini" variant which is significantly smaller and intended for motherboards in the mini-ITX form factor and can also accommodate the "UnAmiga" and "MIster" FPGA emulators using an adapter kit, was successfully crowdfunded by 303 backers to the tune of around 75,000 euros earlier this year.
As the developer Steve Jones told us on request, the 'Mini' is still available until July only for the backers. The general pre-order page is already up, but the links are still hidden until then. The developer has just received detailed documentation on the case in a test version for review.
Pre-orderable, but currently not in stock, is the 'Plus' variant in black or white for around 210 Euros each. (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 29. May. 2021, 07:12] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
29.May.2021
|
Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #18 (English/Polich)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 18 (spring/summer) are background reports on 'Outrage' and 'Boss Machine', game reviews on 'Dune 2020' and 'Fury of the Furries' as well as articles on 'Amiga68k on a Raspberry Pi 400' and WinUAE.
The magazine is available in a printed edition including the cover disc for 6.67 euros (plus approx. 5 euros shipping costs), the price for the digital edition is 1.56 euros. (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 29. May. 2021, 06:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
28.May.2021
OS4Depot
|
AmigaOS 4: Fractal and Mandelbrot program FlashMandelNG 3.6
Developer Dino Papararo, about whom we published a detailed portrait the other day, has uploaded version 3.6 of his fractal and Mandelbrot program FlashMandelNG to OS4Depot. This version enables graphics card rendering even under 24bit screens. There are also minor optimizations and speed improvements. (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 28. May. 2021, 06:31] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
28.May.2021
|
AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.2.0
MediaVault is an open source desktop application for AmigaOS 4 that can be used to stream online radio stations. An external player like AmigaAmp is needed. It is planned to create egine favorite lists with Mediavault and also to be able to retrieve podcasts. The program needs the oo.library v1.13 and the jansson.library v2.12.1.
The author George 'walkero' Sokianos has now released version 1.2.0, which includes the following changes:
- New:
- Added Unicode conversion to system charset on radio station names - Thanks to Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka
- Now the application registers properly and can get requests from other apps, like Exchanger - Thanks to Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka
- Now the MediaVault can jump to different screens - Thanks to Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka
- Added better error manipulation when there were API response errors - Thanks to Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka
- Now the size and the position of the window can be saved by the Popup Gadget - Thanks to Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka
- Changes:
- Added code to detach the listbrowser before change it's data. That's the way it should be done
- Restructured code to reduce the duplicated code in radiofuncs.c. Now, one method is used instead of three separated that had pretty much the same code. Better code, less problems.
- A lot of refactoring, removing global variables.
- Reduced a lot of duplicated code.
- Now the default radio station number increased to 50. The response is also much faster - Thanks to Tuomas Hokka and oo.library 1.13 fixes
- Changed the way classes and gadgets are initiallized - Thanks to Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka
(dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 28. May. 2021, 06:23] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
27.May.2021
|
Redesign: Amiga-compatible Joypad 'Protopad'
The well-known C64 vendor Protovision has successfully finished a fundraising campaign for the production of new joypads especially designed for the C64, but also compatible with Amiga (we reported). More than 15,000 Euro collected mean that the new paddles including multibutton controllers can be produced.
Now they are thinking about a redesign. The developers write:
"After the successful crowdfunding campaign for the Protopad, we worked enthusiastically on the project and made some tweaks to make this pad the best possible. During this time, we realized that we were not satisfied with the controller case we originally intended to use. As a result, we are currently looking into suitable alternatives. This has set us back a bit in our intended schedule." (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 27. May. 2021, 06:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
| |
| Recent Discussions |
 |
|
|
|
| Latest Top-News |
|
|
|
|
| amiga-news.de |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
