04.Aug.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Mount disk images on Workbench: GoADF! 3.0
The Shareware (7 Euro) utility "GoADF!" mounts floppy disk images on Workbench. Changes in version 3.0:
- from now GoADF can be localized with the locale.library, included catalogs:
- italian (by Samir Hawamdeh)
- spanish (by Ignacio Gully)
- french (by Mickael 'BatteMan' Pernot)
- greek (by Nikos Pagonis)
- russian (by Mikhail Malyshev)
- finnish (by Joona Palaste)
- german (by Frank Brandis)
- czech (by Predseda)
- norwegian (by Kolbjorn Barmen)
- danish (by Michael Englyst)
- dutch (by Folkert de Gans)
- polish (AmigaPL by Krzysztof Donat)
- polish (ISO-8859-2, conversion from AmigaPL by Mandi)
- new original device goadf.device included:
- full support for 68000
- HD ADFs now can be mounted
- 4 virtual drives can be additional enabled
- appwindow enabled (disk images can be dragged into GoADF window)
- GoADF! can be minimalized
- new module to create new (empty) disk images
- requesters with asl.library (no reqtools needed)
- support for RAD disk (images can be written to RAD: )
- new configuration options, like 'Do not show splash at startup' and others
- GUI and procedures fixes for NG systems
- new icons
- several bug-fixes
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04.Aug.2020
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MorphOS celebrates 20 year anniversary
André Siegel from the MorphOS team reminds us in a morph.zone announcement, that the PowerPC based clone of AmigaOS has been available to the public for 20 years now: on August 2nd, 2000, the team initiated public Betatests. At that time, the target hardware was still an Amiga 1200, 3000 or 4000 with a PowerPC expansion from Phase 5 - the 'Pegasos' was first mentioned in December 2000. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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03.Aug.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Amiga emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 0.9.10
Dirk Hoffmann's 'vAmiga' is a new, "user friendly" (quoting the developer) Amiga emulator that emulates a A500, A1000 or A2000 computer. Changes since our last news item:
- Added support for .zip and .gz files.
- The VERTB interrupt fired one cycle too late (Pygmy Projects - Extension demo)
- ECS Agnus failed if bitplane DMA was enabled in the middle of a raster line (Ghosttown - SushiBoyz).
- Denise is emulated correctly now if both the HAM bit and the DPF bit are set.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused disk DMA to be switched on too early.
- Fixed a bug in the TOD clock initialization code (Blast From The Past).
- Registers JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT returned wrong values if no mouse was connected.
- The CHK instruction didn’t work correctly with negative bounds.
- Fixed the operand write order of the CLR instruction.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the Copper to write into BPLxDAT.
- Added support for the Ricoh real-time clock.
- Added support for the ADZ and DMS file formats.
- vAmiga can load some encrypted Cloanto Roms now (a rom.key file is required).
- Fixed a bug which made it impossible to load snapshots if no default Rom was specified.
- Fixed a timing issue affecting shift instructions in byte addressing mode.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed bitplane DMA to happen even if DDFSTRT was never hit.
- Writes to pointer registers may be dropped if DMA is in progress (Plasma Force - New stuff).
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03.Aug.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade game: Atarenium Falcon (demo)
In 'Atarenium Falcon' (Video) the player has to collect pieces of coal and other items lying around in the screen-sized levels and then head for the exit. The early demo version that has been made available now does not seem to feature any enemies other than the static meteorites that should be avoided. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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02.Aug.2020
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Aminet uploads until 01.08.2020
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 01.08.2020:
Crono_AROS.lha biz/misc 6.8M x86 Generator of printable calendars
Crono_MorphOS.lha biz/misc 6.7M MOS Generator of printable calendars
Crono_OS4.lha biz/misc 7.4M OS4 Generator of printable calendars
NoIDE13.lha disk/misc 16K 68k Disable IDE interface on OS3....
FrenchCanadianKeymap.lha driver/inp 2K Keymap for French Canadian ke...
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 7K 2020 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 2.8M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.2M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.3M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
EXULT_RTG.lha game/role 49M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (EXULT)
FreeSynd_RTG.lha game/strat 3.4M 68k Amiga port of Syndicate (Free...
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 41K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
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...
DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 1.5M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox
Rambo4Theme.lha mods/misc 34K 4ch Rambo 4 Theme by HKvalhe
MusicDesignStudio_1.0... mus/edit 37M MOS Music designer / composer
AmigaAMP3.lha mus/play 1.8M OS4 Multi format audio player wit...
AmigaAMP3-68k.lha mus/play 347K 68k MPEG audio player with GUI
RNOPublisher.lha text/dtp 7.8M MOS PDF creator
RNOPublisher_68k-RTG.lha text/dtp 7.2M 68k PDF creator
RNOPublisher_AROS.lha text/dtp 4.3M x86 PDF creator
RNOPublisher_OS4.lha text/dtp 8.3M OS4 PDF creator
RNOPublisher_WOS-RTG.lha text/dtp 7.5M WOS PDF creator
aiostreams.lha util/batch 263K MOS Stream video from major onlin...
CopyMemAIO.lha util/boot 2K 68k CopyMem which autoselects bes...
ltx-cb10.lha util/boot 4K 68k CBoot v1.0 - Ultimate boot se...
NoMoreDiv0.lha util/boot 2K 68k No more Division by Zero
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 592K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 700K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 751K OS4 Multipurpose utility
InstallerLG.src.lha util/sys 1.5M Commodore Installer replacement
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02.Aug.2020
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.08.2020
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 01.08.2020:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
crono.lha gra/mis 7Mb 4.1 Generator of printable calendars
amicygnix-base.lha net/mis 126Mb 4.1 An Unix/X11 environment for Amig...
amicygnix-base-src.lha net/mis 18Mb 4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix base pa...
amicygnix-tools.lha net/mis 91Mb 4.1 Extension package for AmiCygnix,...
amicygnix-tools-src.lha net/mis 3Mb 4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix tools p...
amicygnix-x11-src.lha net/mis 65Mb 4.1 Sources of the basic X11 system ...
rnopublisher.lha off/dtp 8Mb 4.0 PDF creator
reportplus.lha uti/mis 751kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
aiostreams.lha vid/mis 263kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
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02.Aug.2020
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AROS-Archives uploads until 01.08.2020
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archiven until 01.08.2020:
violetland.i386-aros.zip gam/act 10Mb OpenGL top-down shooter. They ha...
crono_aros.lha gra/mis 7Mb Generator of printable calendars
rnopublisher.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 4Mb PDF creator
unrar-5.90.lha uti/arc 2Mb program for unpaking rar file
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02.Aug.2020
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.08.2020
The following packages for MorphOS, which operating system celebrated its 20th birthday yesterday, have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 01.08.2020:
AIOstreams_1.6.2.lha Stream online video from major platforms
AmiArcadia_26.61.lha A Signetics-based machines emulator.
Crono_2.0.lha Generator of printable calendars
Iris_beta0.91.lha New email client supports IMAP, SSL, email autoc...
MCE_12.01.lha Multi-game Character Editor by James Jacobs.
MusicDesignStudio_1.0.lha A program to create and mix up to 20 audio tracks
ReportPlus_7.91.lha A Multipurpose utility by James Jacobs, MorphOS ...
RNOPublisher_1.0.lha An easy-to-use PDF publishing program
Void-Feedback_8.lha Void-Feedback_8.lha
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01.Aug.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Jump'n Run: Smarty And The Nasty Gluttons
'Smarty And The nasty Gluttons' (Video) is a Jump'n Run that was intended for a commercial release in the early nineties but never finished due to the collapsing market. With help from members of the active Amiga scene, the original coder has now revamped his old code and added the missing functionality. Graphics and sounds had already been completed decades ago, which is why the full version of the game is now available for download.
'Smarty' requires an Amiga with at least one megabyte RAM and Kickstart 1.2 or newer. According to the developer, 'modest' efforts were put into making it compatable with newer Amiga setups. The source code for the game is going to be released this fall, a commercial release is planned aswell.
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01.Aug.2020
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Reading Amiga disks on a PC: ADF Drive 1.110, ADF Copy 1.130
With the USB adapter 'ADF Drive' and its accompanying copy program 'ADF Copy', Amiga floppy disks can be read using a standard PC floppy drive under Windows, Linux or Mac OS. Since our last news item, both the adapter's firmware as well as the frontend were updated several times: Several bugs were fixed and the User Interface was redesigned. Additionally, the software can now react to packet loss caused by a slow USB connection. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Jul.2020
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)
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The Dork Web: Crash And Burn - The Amiga ST Story
Under the title link Steve Lord in his 14. issue of "Tales From The Dork Web" has written about the beginning of the Amiga and also has a closer look at the interdependence between Amiga and Atari.
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31.Jul.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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TF360: Prototype of a 68060 accelerator board in the CD32 (video)
The 'TF360' developed by Stephen Leary is an accelerator board for the Amiga CD32 which provides a slot for a 68060 processor as well as 128 MB Fast-RAM. A video now shows the prototype. Using an additional angle plug, providing a classic Amiga monitor port as well as a port for PS/2 keyboards, the card can be installed within the CD32.
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31.Jul.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Unreleased commercial game: 'Dragon Slayer' will be completed
'Dragon Slayer' is an arcade-adventure game similar to Barbarian (Psygnosis) in which the hero has to fight through hundreds of rooms in a fantasy setting. The game originally was meant to be released as commercial game in 1990 but was never completed.
Obviously one of the original developer is going to complete and release Dragon Slayer. The current state of the project is not clear, on the website of Indie Retro News there is an old excerpt of a magazine as well as a video with some scenes. In 1990 also a C64 port was planned of which for 30 years a playable preview has been available (video).
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30.Jul.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Selfmade project: 8-Bit sampler 'Open Amiga Sampler'
Sampling like in the year 1988: Under this motto Brendan Ratliff has published a detailed manual for making a parallel-port sampler for Amiga computers on Github. His 'Open Amiga Sampler' digitises in 8 Bit (mono), has a typical maximum sampling rate of about 52 Khz and offers an input amplifier with variable gain. The device has been successfully tested with severel classic Amiga applications like ProTracker and AudioMaster III.
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30.Jul.2020
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Desktop Publishing: RNO Publisher for all Amiga systems
'RNO Publisher' created with Hollywood is a simple DTP application: The user creates one-page or multi-page documents and there can place text boxes, pictures and other graphic objects as well as links - the result then is exported to a PDF file. An example PDF created with the program is available on the website of the developer.
The program has the following features:
- Supports the most common page sizes in portrait and landscape modes
- Freely placeable text boxes, images, PDF links, and graphical objects
- PDF links can point to document pages or web links
- Supports base fonts that don't affect the file size
- Custom TTF fonts can be embedded into documents
- PDF outlines (table of contents) support
- User creatable page templates
- PDF exporting supports passwords and compression options
- Constrained mouse movement and resizing using qualifier keys
- Additional document saving and loading in its own format
- Drag & drop loading of documents, pictures, and text files
RNO Publisher is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, AROS and WarpOS. It requires the GUI-Toolkit MUI as well as the external MUI classes texteditor.mcc.
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29.Jul.2020
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Arcade classic: Super Wormy - The Worm-Like Snake 1.1
Unlike many other games, the levels in "Super Wormy" (video) are bigger than the screen. Therefore the screen is scrolled and the player is informed about his position by a little radar. A level editor also is included.
Changes in version 1.1:
- Now seems to work fine on Kick1.3.
- Now seems to work fine on 1MB CHIP and 1MB FAST (Still recommend A1200 though as is slower on ECS).
- Changed music and sfx routines to idrougge's blitz lib from phx's player.
- Levels after 11 didn't change colour.
- Level reached wasn't stored if the game was completed.
- Level 14 was impossible, glad I wrote an editor!
- Outro was too fast.
- Created icons for SuperWormy and WormyEditor (Something I always forget to do!).
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29.Jul.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: X11 environment AmiCygnix 1.6
Edgar Schwan's AmiCygnix is an Unix environment for AmigaOS 4. It is not an emulation but all programs has been compiled for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). AmiCygnix provides a directory and data structure similar to an Unix installation.
Additional to other changes, updates and bug fixes, now version 2.24.32 of GTK+ is used. Therefore future software packages will require AmiCygnix 1.6.
New in AmiCygnix-Base:
- Update to version 2.24.32 of GTK+, the latest version of GTK+ 2. In addition to some new features, the drag 'n drop in GTK+ 2 applications now finally works. The corresponding programs have to be linked again. Programs like Rox-Filer or Gimp benefit greatly from this. Therefore, please pay attention to updates of these programs!
- Full support for Unix locale strings. So you can now select the country, the encoding and special variants in addition to the language. You can also select multiple locales. All drivers, all AmiCygnix tools and the X server have been revised for this. See the documentation "README.Language.pdf" in the directory "Cygnix:Docs"!
- With the following display drivers for the Workbench, the size of the window can now be reduced: workbench, workbench2, picasso96wb, picasso96wb2. The content can then be moved using a scroller (screenshot). This function can be deactivated via myX11Setup!.
- Support for version 3.16.3 of GnuTLS, the latest version of the SSL/TLS layer. Support for SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.3 is new. The Trusted Certificates included have also been updated. Problems with programs like NetSurf or Claws-Mail should be solved with it. However, the corresponding programs must be relinked.
- Support for LDAP through OpenLDAP 2.4.49. Is now integrated in libcurl and will also be used in Claws-Mail.
- Support for AISS in the menus of the Workbench display drivers. The size of the icons can be set using the "MenuImageSize" environment variable.
- Revised myX11Setup with improved help function. Thanks to Michael Christoph!
- Italian translation updated in many AmiCygnix scripts. Thanks to Samir Hawamdeh!
- New Spanish translation of the texts in the Workbench display drivers. Thanks to Javier de las Rivas!
- New catalog in Russian language for myX11Setup. Thanks to Eugene Sobolev!
- Fixed a problem when starting the AmiCygnix desktop via myX11Setup.
New in AmiCygnix-Tools:
- All GTK+ 2 applications are now linked with GTK+ 2.24.32. In addition to some new features, the drag 'n drop now finally works.
- The browser "NetSurf" is now linked with the latest version 3.6.13 of the SSL/TLS layer GnuTLS. This fixes problems with SSL connections.
- The program "ROX-Filer" is configured during installation so that it can be used as a replacement for the "idesk" desktop manager. Even if the porting of the program has not yet been completed (functions such as "copy / delete file" do not work), it is now much more usable with GTK+ 2.24.32. Just try it ;-). Aftter installing the tools package, select ROX-Filer in myX11Setup under "Desktop Manager" for this.
Download:
amicygnix-base.lha (126 MB)
amicygnix-tools.lha (91 MB)
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