15.Jun.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Arcade racer: Developer diary on "Super Sprint"
The British developer Graeme Cowie is working on a port of Atari's racing video game Super Sprint to the Amiga. In short "development updates" on Youtube he gives insights into the latest state of the project.
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15.Jun.2020
LemonAmiga (Webseite)
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Arcade games: Bad Ninjas, Blain Home, Lord Vader, Super Capacitor
José A. 'Jojo073' Gonzáles (e.g. Retro Wars, Mini Zorro, Mini Swat) is a very active graphic artist who in co-operation with different developers and using different Game Construction Kits like Backbone or GRAC creates little games distributing them half-commercially. During the last one and a half year obviously we missed some of his releases:
The platform game Bad Ninjas was created with Redpill and is available also as "boxed edition" from the authors. All other games are Backbone productions: Blain Home and Super Capacitor also are platform games while Lord Vader is a beat'em up.
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14.Jun.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.06.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 13th, 2020:
luettjebookholler.lha biz/misc 1.7M OS4 Little Personal Finance program
Roadie.lha comm/net 49K 68k Commodity/GUI App for Roadsho...
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 19K IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs
SteMarRegAMOSSources.lha dev/amos 118K 68k 3 AMOS sources+exes by Stefan...
AMCommand.lha game/shoot 100K 68k Arcade Missile Command
AmiQuake.lha game/shoot 6.3M 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
AGAConv.lha gfx/conv 723K MOS Commodore Amiga CDXL Video Co...
WastedNinja2020.lha mods/8voic 207K 5ch Wasted Ninja 2020 Alterna...
AmiModRadio.lha mus/play 2.7M 68k Play modules from Internet so...
led-20200202.tar.gz text/edit 14K A simple line-oriented text e...
MCAmiga.lha util/dir 1.5M MOS MyCommander for all Amiga sys...
WarpDTPrefsSP.lha util/dtype 12K WarpDTPrefs 45.11 spanish cat...
AmiSSL-4.6.lha util/libs 5.9M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiUpdateSP.lha util/wb 11K AmiUpdate 2.47/53.13 spanish ...
tdcc.lha util/wb 1.3M MOS Timer for shutdown and displa...
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14.Jun.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.06.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 13th, 2020:
chimaera.lha gam/adv 128kb 4.0 rethinking the Colossal Cave adv...
rftg.zip gam/pla 119Mb 4.1 Run, Shoot & Jump
amilines_rus.lha gam/puz 23kb 4.0 Russian catalog file for AmiLine...
gemrb.lha gam/str 6Mb 4.0 Portable Bioware's Infinity...
homeworld.lha gam/str 18Mb 4.0 Real-time strategy video game
netpanzer_afxgroup.lha gam/str 18Mb 4.0 Multiplayer online RTS game with...
wesnoth_afxgroup.lha gam/str 297Mb 4.0 Battle for Wesnoth (afxgroup ver...
iodbc.lha off/dat 2Mb 4.0 Indipendent Open Database
iodbc_sdk.lha off/dat 662kb 4.0 Indipendent Open Database SDK
luettjebookholler.lha off/mis 2Mb 4.1 Little Personal Finance program
deark.lha uti/arc 3Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
omanko.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.0 Get MD5 and CRC32 checksums
bbquote.lha uti/tex 57kb 4.0 Wrap clipboard text in BB quote ...
gnash.lha vid/med 8Mb 4.0 The GNU Flash player
gnash-src.lha vid/med 8Mb 4.0 The GNU Flash player
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14.Jun.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 13.06.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until June 13th, 2020:
AGAConv_0.9.5.lha Commodore Amiga CDXL Video Converter
AmiSSL_4.6_68k.lha OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library.
Ancient.lha Decompress ancient formats
FireAttack_1.0.lha LCD game conversion
Imp_1.0.lha Play modules from internet, chat...
IntyBASIC_1.4.1.lha BASIC compiler for Intellivision
Omanko!_1.0.lha A tiny web tool made to get the MD5 and CRC32 ch...
tdcc_0.2.lha Timer for shutdown and display/blanker control
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14.Jun.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 13.06.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until June 13th, 2020:
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13.Jun.2020
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C source codes for unreleased Amiga games: "Magic Miner" and "Sea Trade"
Magic Miner and Sea Trade are two Amiga games written in C, which the author Joona Palaste started developing around the turn of the millennium but never finished. Palaste describes the status of the games which were compiled using DICE as "almost completed". He has released the source codes under the GNU GPL on Github.
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[News message: 13. Jun. 2020, 23:36] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jun.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Text adventure: "The Queen's Footsteps", collector's edition
"The Queen's Footsteps" is a text adventure available for a lot of platforms. The "collector's edition" which can be purchased on poly.play includes the game as disk image on a microSD card, a printed manual, a DINA3 poster as well as a pocket mirror in linen bag. As bonus the adventure "Two days to the Race" featuring the same actor is also included.
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13.Jun.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.15
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Changes in version 0.7.15:
- Extra HalfBrite (EHB) support added. Now you can have 64 colors in ECS games.
- Tile animations are now possible. Anim speed can be changed but for the time being all animations have the same speed.
- FIX:When no sprites are used, the tile palette is used for the game.
- FIX:issue in Change Tile trigger when used tilesets with borders.
- FIX: issue in Dialogs not showing properly. This only happened in the exported game.
- FIX: in bar HUD elements.
- Some other minor changes and fixes.
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12.Jun.2020
Gregory Donner (E-Mail)
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Graphics card: Firmware and driver update for ZZ9000
For his graphics card ZZ9000 (amiga-news.de reported) Lukas F. Hartmann has released updates of the firmware and the driver. Version 1.6.2 among others offers improved stability and performance.
Changes:
- Higher stability, esp. with 68060/CyberStorm. Better output signal. 1.5.1 for Zorro 3 had faulty FPGA timing. We finally figured out this was a Xilinx Vivado bug
- Improved raw read/write speed
- Improved speed on some P96 drawing functions, especially RectFill() Pattern
- Fixes to network driver incl. the possibility to switch to INT2 instead of INT6 in the case you have hardware conflicts. To do this, set the interrupt jumper on ZZ9000 to INT2 and create an empty file ENVARC:ZZ9K_INT2
- Unified scandoubler (“videocap”) code for Denise and Videoslot sampling with slightly better centering
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12.Jun.2020
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Full version for download: Nicky 2
After the platform game Nicky Boom, now the successor released in 1993, "Nicky 2", can be downloaded for free from the website of the Amiga Future. An ADF disk image as well as WHDLoad installer are available.
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12.Jun.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Crowdfunding: A book from David Pleasance and Trevor Dickinson
After Commodore - The Inside Story, the former "managing director" of Commodore UK, David Pleasance, is working on a second book, this time in co-operation with Trevor Dickinson from A-EON. The book with the subtitle "From Vultures to Vampires" will tell the Amiga history "starting from the day when Escom were the highest bidder at Commodore's liquidator’s auction in New York (I was there), how their attempts to relaunch the Amiga spectacularly failed, then the troublesome years when our beloved computer bounced around from company to company, Viscorp, Quickpack, Gateway 2000, etc. and beyond."
For 15 Euro supporters will get an e-book (epub, mobi and PDF), for 30 Euro a printed book. Both variants are supposed to be available in February 2021.
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12.Jun.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Arcade classic: Missile Command
Kevin Gallagher's "Missile Command" (video) is a remake of Ataris' arcade classic having the same name. The game runs on each Amiga having at least 512 KB RAM. The developer is already working on another arcade remake, the shooter Phoenix.
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11.Jun.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video: Hans de Ruiter about his stagnant laptop project
For a long time there has not been any news about Hans de Ruiter's plans of creating a laptop case for the Tabor board (amiga-news.de reported). In a video now the developer, well-known for his RadeonHD graphics card drivers, spoke about this project: According to him it has not been cancelled but is only stagnating.
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11.Jun.2020
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Self-made project: USB joystick adapter with support for three fire buttons
With Volker Oth's "C64 Joystick Adapter" you can connect Atari and Commodore compatible joysticks to modern computers having an USB port. The adapter supports up to three fire buttons, the mode for additional fire buttons (Amiga or C64) is set by a click on the button and displayed with a status LED.
Up to four additional buttons can be connected to the adapter itself, required for navigating in the menus of the C64 replicas THEC64 and THEC64 Mini. On Bitbucket all required documents of the adapter Oth has published under the Creative-Commons licence CC-BY-SA.
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10.Jun.2020
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Web browser: IBrowse 2.5.3
Press release: IBrowse 2.5.3 has been released and can now be downloaded to update your existing IBrowse 2.5 installation (OS4 users can also upgrade using AmiUpdate). This is a free update for registered owners of IBrowse 2.5. IBrowse 2.4 and 1.x users can upgrade to IBrowse 2.5.3 via our store at discounted rates. We hope you are all well in these strange times - stay safe!
The main target for this new version was to improve performance on HTTPS connections, given that SSL is relatively slow on 68k processors. Despite the performance enhancements that came in AmiSSL 4.4 (4.6 is available now, by the way), there is not much more that can be done in AmiSSL unless someone is able to write 68k assembly optimised versions of some of the modules (as is the case for PowerPC). Therefore, some other options have been exploited to enhance performance, which have been in beta testing over the past 3 months, due to the major changes required to the HTTP engine...
SSL Session Caching:
IBrowse 2.5.3 now implements a SSL session cache for all HTTPS connections, supporting all the differing session/ticket methods use from TLSv1.0 to TLSv1.3. This allows the slow initial handshaking to be bypassed on subsequent connections to the same host, thus increasing performance noticably on OS3, and even on OS4 too. Most websites support this feature universally.
Persistent Connections:
This is an older HTTP feature that was never implemented in IBrowse until now, partly because IBrowse has always relied on opening multiple connections to websites, which didn't really make this feature worthwhile. However, it can be useful for HTTPS connections as it allows them to be left open and reused, without having spend CPU time renegotiating the SSL connection at all. HTTP(S) persistent connections support is now available in IBrowse 2.5.3 (can be disabled in the settings). Not all websites support persistent connections and, some of those that do, do not keep connections open long enough (e.g. 1 second) to make a difference.
We advise that 68k users pay additional attention to the Max. number of connections and Max. number of secure connections settings in the network preferences. These settings may need retuning because of the two new features described above. Probably, you should not set the number of secure connections to above 4, otherwise multiple connections can battle for CPU time and may well end up timing out. Fewer connections can turn out to be faster, but we suggest that you experiment with these settings to see what feels the best on your particular system.
A number of other improvements and fixes have also been made and are listed in the history log and newly updated changes summary. We would also love to hear your experience of the new features on our mailing list which is still working and hosted by Yahoo! Groups.
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09.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full version for download: Nicky Boom
The full version of the platform game Nicky Boom released in 1992 can be downloaded from the website of the Amiga Future for free. ADF and IPF images as well as WHDLoad installers are available. Additionally a PDF version of the manual can be downloaded as well.
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[News message: 09. Jun. 2020, 23:58] [Comments: 0]
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09.Jun.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #68 - AGABlaster
In issue 68 of the videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton has introduced the programs AGABlaster (amiga-news.de reported) and AGAConv written by Markus Schordan. AGAConv can convert video files into Commodore's CDXL video format and AGABlaster can then play them.
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09.Jun.2020
Github
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 4.6 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 4.6.
Changes:
- Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility to latest OpenSSL 1.1.1g (21.04.2020) version, which brings security and bug fixes.
- Tweaks to allow and force Amithlon to use the 68060 target, due to 64-bit integer math emulation being broken in Amithlon (68080 and MorphOS should continue to use the more optimal 68020-40 target).
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09.Jun.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Tutorial: The game contruction kit "RedPill"
Jens Henschel is working on a German tutorial on the game construction kit RedPill. According to the author text is still in a very early stage but is permanently reworked and completed, also based on the feedback of the RedPill developer Peris who in our portrait asked for such a supoort.
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[News message: 09. Jun. 2020, 00:26] [Comments: 0]
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