14.Jun.2021
Blog Amigaguru
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Game announcement: 'CYBERSPHERE' for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS(x86)
In his latest blog entry the 'AmigaGuru’s Gamerblog' has announced a new commercial point&click adventure developed by GDG-Entertainment among others for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS(x86). You can get some first impressions by watching a YouTube trailer.
According to GDG-Entertainment the game will have the following features:
- Loads of locations to visit, divided into three main areas: city streets, city undergrounds, space station.
- Voxel-based futuristic graphics.
- Easy icon-driven mechanics that mimics text-adventures ones.
- Full range of sound effects and inspiring music.
- Localized in English, French and Italian.
Hardware requirements:
- CPU: G3 or PPC440 (AmigaOS), G3 (MorhpOS)
- Fast memory: 512MB (AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS)
- Harddrive: 100MB
According to AmigaGuru’s Gamerblog the game has been finished and will be probably released in August 2021. On its website there is also a demo version for each platform available. (dr)
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14.Jun.2021
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Contest: Amiga Art Contest 2021
The "Amiga Art Contest 2021" (video) is organized by the two Youtubers 10 Minute Amiga Retrocast and Pixel Vixen. In its third edition, participants can submit their works in the categories of "hand-drawn artwork", "digital photography", "ray tracing" and "music pieces". The submissions of the two previous years 2019 and 2020 can be viewed on the official website.
Only works created or (in the case of digital photographs) edited on an Amiga (real or emulated) are eligible. Second place winners will receive A-EON sponsored digital licenses for Personal Paint 7.3 or ImageFX 4.5, first place winners will receive four $50 vouchers for the Retrorewind.ca store. Deadline for entries is October 11, winners will be announced in an episode of the Youtube show "10 Minute Amiga Retrocast". (dr) (Translation: bb)
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14.Jun.2021
Reddit
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68k.news: Simple HTML-Google News for vintage computers
Recently we reportd about the FrogFind! search engine which simplifies search results and thus make them accessable for older browsers. Simultaneously to this project the YouTuber 'Action Retro' has created a Google News website based on SimplePie and a php port of Mozilla's Readability which displays news items without menus, ads, footers and all what it is not necessariliy needed for the message itself. So it is possible to read them for example with the Amiga browser AWeb. You can set your country as well as your favourite news section in the upper menu of the website. The source code is available on GitHub. (dr)
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13.Jun.2021
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Remake: Textadventure Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut)
In 2019 the commercial textadventure 'Hibernated - This Place is Death' was released as first part of a planned trilogy. His release Stefan Vogt now has ported as Director's Cut' to the Z-machine originally developed by Infocom: An development environment for textadventures.
Vogt finally "ended up completely rewriting it" adding "tons of narrative content and new riddles". The game also now is available for many platforms.
Probably on 1. August the game also will be available in a boxed edition on poly.play featuring the following content:
- 3,5" floppy disk
- Cardboard box with slipcase (23 x 18,5 x 2,5 cm)
- Mission patch
- Developer's autograph card
- MicroSD card including disk images and more
- Manual (DIN A5, English)
- Quick guide "How to Play Interactive Fiction"
- Stickers
- Din-A3 poster
- Shrink-wrapped
The game can be pre-ordered for 35 Euro.
(dr)
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13.Jun.2021
AmigaLove
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Third part of textadventure series: Silk Dust
After Two Days to the Race and The Queen's Footsteps, Davide Bucci has released the third part of his textadventure series named 'Silk Dust'.
About the tasks of the player the author has written: "Today is April 19, 1907. You, Emilia Vittorini, arrived yesterday in Varenna, on the shore of the beautiful Lake Como. You are hosted at the magnificent Villa Briccorosso; Princess Lucilla Briccorosso is preparing the Silk Road Race, a 10,000km rally raid between Cairo in Egypt and Peking in China, to be done by car. You represent ITA, founded by your father, the company that built the car the Princess just bought to use during the rally. The car is supposed to be delivered today. Your role will be to assist the delivery and make sure everything is perfectly functional".
Obviously the author has used real persons and places. Its history he has explained in a separaten article. The game is available for several platforms like Amiga, C64, ZX Spectrum etc. The author asks for reporting "typos, errors and bugs". (dr)
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13.Jun.2021
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Aminet uploads until 12.06.2021
The following files have been added until 12.06.2021 to Aminet:
KONEY_MECHMICROBES.lha demo/sound 362K 68k KONEY: MECHMICROBES Hardcore ...
ALS.lha dev/amos 546K 68k AMOS Layers System
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 95K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 13K 2021 Carset for F1GP
EXULT_RTG.lha game/role 49M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (EXULT)
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 938K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
D1X_Rebirth_RTG.lha game/shoot 2.5M 68k Amiga port of Descent (DXX-Re...
ODAMEX_RTG.lha game/shoot 19M 68k Amiga port of ODAMEX
OpenDUNE_RTG.lha game/strat 276K 68k Amiga port of Dune 2 (OpenDUNE)
DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 1.5M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox
Lofoten.lha mods/8voic 2.0M Lofoten 8ch Synth by HKvalhe
Crockettstheme.lha mods/misc 250K 4ch Crockett's Theme Corrected
RNOArchive.lha util/arc 1.7M MOS Graphical archive manager
RNOArchive_AROS.lha util/arc 1.8M x86 Graphical archive manager
RNOArchive_OS4.lha util/arc 2.1M OS4 Graphical archive manager
TDir2Guide.lha util/cli 11K 68k Create AGuide from text dir scan
dintwm.lha util/wb 26K 68k Dynamic Intuition Window Manager
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13.Jun.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 12.06.2021
The following files have been added until 12.06.2021 to OS4Depot:
oo.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
egalaxtouchusbfd.lha dri/inp 45kb 4.1 USB driver for eGalax touchscree...
itmtouchusbfd.lha dri/inp 45kb 4.1 USB driver for ITM touchscreen c...
wavesharetouchusbfd.lha dri/inp 44kb 4.1 USB driver for waveshare touchsc...
thewidow.lha gam/adv 19Mb 4.0 Game Terror Paranormal Adventure
loschinos.lha gam/chi 4Mb 4.0 This is the classic spanish game...
aos-iconsupdate7.lha gra/ico 17Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
redeth.lha net/sam 3Mb 4.0 Graphical interface to manage co...
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 11Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
rnoarchive.lha uti/arc 2Mb 4.1 Graphical archive manager.
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13.Jun.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.06.2021
The following files have been added until 12.06.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
RNOArchive_1.0.lha Files/Archive Graphical archive manager
TheWidow_FinalVersion.lha Games/Adventure The Widow the point and...
LosChinos_3.51.lha Games/Think This is the classic Spa...
AnimWebConverter_4.10.lha Graphics/Tools A little and easy web t...
YT_URL_Extractor_2.2.lha Network/Web YouTube URL extractor.
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13.Jun.2021
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology: Updates for Warp3D Nova and Copy command
As part of their Enhancer Software, A-EON Technology have updated both the graphics card driver Warp3D Nova and their own variant of the Copy command - the latter being, besides AmigaOS 4, also available for AmigaOS 3.x. The Warp3D Nova update is especially useful for owners of Radeon RX 570/580 cards, fixing a bug that caused freezes.
As always, customers can download the new versions using the Updater software.
Changes:
- Warp3D Nova 1.85
(Warp3DNova.library, W3DN_SI.library, W3DN_GCN.library)
- W3DN_SI/GCN: Added framebuffer lock failure detection to prevent a crash (#717)
- W3DN_GCN: No more freezing with RX 570/580 cards (#361)
- W3DN_GCN: Fixed W3DNHelloTriangle corruption with Radeon RX 570/580 cards
- W3DN_SI/GCN - Using an array of textures in a loop would cause graphics corruption and also a GPU lockup. FIXED
- W3DN_SI/GCN - Elementwise access to vec3 vertex shader inputs was broken. FIXED
- DDK: Added tests for the bug listed above
- Copy 46.7 / 54.7
- Fixed bug in setting the path of the destination file if it wasn't provided. It could use the source file's path instead of the current dir.
(snx)
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12.Jun.2021
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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Product announcement: 7-bit accelerator board Wicher 1220 for A1200
After developing the Wicher 508i accelerator board for the A500, Artur Gadawski from 7-bit has announced the version for the A1200, the Wicher 1220:
Currently the board is in beta test phase and will have the following features:
- CPU: MC68EC020
- CPU clock speed: 25MHz, 33MHz
- Memory: 11MB Fast Ram (16MB SDRAM)
- SPI-Controller
- Realtime clock (RTC)
- microSD card reader
- Ethernet controller
A price for the Wicher 1220 has not yet been set. (dr)
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11.Jun.2021
Bufee-Webseite
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Update to accelerator board project 'Buffee'
The open source accelerator board project "Buffee" started by Renee Cousins and Tim Wacker consists of an adapter board which is connected to the processor socket of an A500, A1000 or A2000 and has a SoC of type Octavo OSD335x-SM inclusive 512 or 1024 MB RAM (amiga-news.de reported).
In their latest blog entry the developers has announced that a beta charge of 60 Buffees been ordered. Unfortunately the alpha version of the board did not perform well enough. Therefore in version 0.5 of the board a 'GreenPAK' SPLD (simple programmable logic device) was added: By that it is "ensured that on this version every signal that is not bound to the SPLD, is bound to the PRU (Programmable Realtime Unit) which is almost as good as the SPLD, just not quite as fast".
Changes of version 0.5 of the Buffee project:
- Flash SPI data lines were swapped (this is possible to fix on the alpha)
- Made Flash SPI lines length matched to ensure good data up to 104MHz
- Power rails changed to support down to 2.7V (alpha will brown out at 4.5V)
- JTAG had no system reset only target reset (makes debugging annoying)
- CLK pin may work either as an input or output (improved TF1200 support)
- A few extra passives that weren’t needed were removed
- Switched to lower-profile headers to make Buffee the same height as a 68000
- And added the GreenPAK for some simple programmable fun
- Fixed the silkscreen to align with the BGA orientation
The developers offer four options for users already having the alpha board:
- 1. You can fix the data lines and the alpha will still run in the TF1200.
- 2. We can send you a new PCB and you can try and swap it yourself or source the CPU.
- 3. You can send it back and we’ll try and replace the PCB for you.
- 4. We can send you a TSSOP GreenPAK and you can try and bodge the alpha yourself.
The developers recommend taking the first option. And explain it: "Yes, it’s possible to remove and replace a BGA chip, but on the SAME chip, it’s likely to result in catastrophic damage to the inner components of the CPU. And while the GreenPAK bodge is in theory possible, it would be fragile and very difficult to do correctly as at least one of the pads from the BGA is required and not brought outside of it’s footprint."
Finally they report that due to "all the chip-shortages, we’re actually just barely coming in under the MSRP with almost no margin left. Also, we’re stuck with a six week build time as there are some lead times we have to absorb." (dr)
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11.Jun.2021
Aminet
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ALS 1.94: Screen overlay
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has provided "ALS", the AMOS Layers System, a way to layer individual screens of AMOS Professional, specifying the order, colors and degree of translucency (video).
The whole thing is written in AMOS and is therefore available as a source code library. Due to his work on the puzzler Follix, some changes were also made in ALS with version 1.94:
- Added ALS_CHECK_LAYER_INDEX[].
- Added ALS_COPY_PALETTE_SEGMENT[].
- Added ALS_CREATE_LAYER_AS_CLONE[].
- Added ALS_SET_LAYER_A_AND_COLORS_FROM LAYER[].
- Made check on layer index in ALS_DESTROY_LAYER[] and ALS_MAKE_LAYER_DESCRIPTOR[] more robust.
- Removed check on layer index from ALS_GET_LAYER_DEPTH[].
- Simplified ALS_OPEN_FILE[].
- Updated manual.
(dr) (Translation: bb)
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10.Jun.2021
Twitter
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Preview video: New platform game 'Primal Blade'
Dante Mendes is working on a new hack 'n slash game based on the Scorpion Engine. On his Twitter account Mendes has published a short video demonstrating the attacks of the Druids with fireballs, the life bar and a first version of the start screen showing the title of the new game: Primal Blade. (dr)
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10.Jun.2021
Aminet
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.8.10
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz 3.8, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. Recently the boxed edition of the platform game "Putter" has been released which also has been developed with RedPill. An ADF image of the game is available as well. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires a total of 1,5 MB RAM.
Changes in version 0.8.10:
- Start button added to Play the game not from the current level but from the initial game level.
- Level background menu is now in Properties tab in the Level Editor.
- New action trigger Change Icon to change an object icon.
- When editing an object with parent, parent object is now displayed.
- After a new project is created paths are initialized and point to the project folder.
- BlockBreaker example has been added.
- FIX: Not enabled objects are not visible anymore in the level editor screen.
- FIX: When setting the frame manually in Animation screen.
- FIX: Tile On Screen trigger was not working properly.
(dr)
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09.Jun.2021
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Archive manager: RNOArchive for all Amiga systems
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has added another Hollywood application to his 'RNO family' (e.g. PDF viewer RNOPDF, FTP(S) client RNOXFER or DTP application RNOPublisher): RNOArchive is a graphical archive manager which can can extract, modify, and create archives based on the XAD system. RNOArchive also can create ZIP files. As the author wrote "writing to other formats relies on separate Shell commands, and their availability and compatibility in the used system."
RNOArchive has the following features:
- Reads and extracts all archiving formats supported by the XAD system
- Write and modify support for ZIP and LhA archives
- Write and modify support for Tar if MorphOS SDK is installed (experimental, but supports Amiga file attributes)
- Batch extraction for multiple archives
- Automatic sub-directory creation for batch extracted archives
- Archive browsing and file viewing
- Filetype editor for configuring file viewers
- Intelligent drag & drop support
- Recursive adding of files/directories
- Create new directories inside archives
- Delete files and directories
- Handles UTF-8 filenames in archives
- Extensive file selection options
RNOArchive is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS. (dr)
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08.Jun.2021
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AmigaOS 4: FTP-Server ZitaFTP 1.21
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.21 of his commercial FTP erver 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:
"I'm pleased to announce another ZitaFTP Server update is available now. This is version 1.21, and it's primarily a bug-fix and fault tolerance update. Here's what's new:
- Multiple bug-fixes: For example, adding/editing/deleting users or directories wouldn't take effect until after a manual restart. This is now fixed, and the UI will ask you if you want to restart to apply new changes when it's needed.
- Fault tolerance: The server used to spit out an error and shutdown if something went wrong, such as missing TLS security certificates. A rather poor user experience. Version 1.21 will inform you of the problem, and give you the opportunity to fix it.
- Licensing UI moved to the web-based GUI: While it definitely looks an behaves better, this was done now rather than later in preparation for the Windows version. Windows doesn't allow servers/services to show a GUI directly for security reasons (servers usually run at a higher privilege level, with access to more of the system). So, ZitaFTP Server needs to be split into a pure server, plus a GUI program (on Windows, the AmigaOS version can remain as-is).
The Windows version is coming, but there's more work to do. If you're interested in testing the Windows version as soon as it's ready, then contact me to let me know."
The new version can be tested for 30 days for free. The author also has published a YouTube video explaining the changes of this verson.
(dr) (Translation: dr)
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