08.Dec.2020
amiga.org (Webseite)
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ACube: Firmware update for Sam 440ep (flex) - U-boot 1.3.1g
For its PPC motherboards Sam 440ep and Sam 440ep-flex ACube Systems has released a firmware update which can be downloaded for free from the corresponding website. Radeon-HD and Radeon-RX- cards now can be used with a PCIe adapter:
- Improved support for Radeon HD and Radeon RX graphic cards.
Now you can use a Radeon HD / RX via a PCI to PCI Express adapter. On the Sam440ep flex motherboard, it is recommended to use PCI slot #1 for maximum performance. Please note that full support for Radeon RX is still under development and for this reason, with many models of gfx cards, U-Boot does not show any output, but the card works fine once the operating system is loaded.
- Introduced a new menu entry to change the x86 gfx BIOS emulator accuracy.
If your graphic card show some visual problems on startup, try increasing the x86 BIOS emulator accuracy.
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07.Dec.2020
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Polybios 1.3: Hollywood Designer 5.0 can import PDF pages
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working elves in snow business, are proud to present Polybios 1.3. This is a major update which makes it possible to import PDF pages into Hollywood Designer 5.0. Furthermore, it also adds full support for treating PDFs as vector animations in Hollywood and there are some bug fixes as well.
The plugin Polybios 1.3 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k, m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android (arm, arm64), and iOS (arm, arm64) are provided.
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07.Dec.2020
Amiga Ireland (ANF)
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Online competition: Commodore Creative Competition 2021
The "Commodore Creative Competition" is organized by the "Amiga Users Ireland" every year. In January in a meeting of the group the winners of the categories "Mod/AHX", "Pixel Art" and "Raytracing" will be elected. This time it is going to be a virtual meeting. You can send a competition entry using the upload website as well as take part in the vote. You can reserve tickets for the virtual meeting on Eventbrite.
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06.Dec.2020
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Aminet uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to Aminet until 05.12.2020:
twittAmiga.lha comm/misc 5.2M MOS Twitter client
ddns_check_v2.2_web.lha comm/tcp 318K retrieve public IP and web se...
streamer.lha comm/www 356K 68k Play MPEG/RealAudio internet ...
asm-kurs4.lha dev/asm 780K Assembly course, German
vbcc_bin_amigaosppc.lha dev/c 2.6M OS4 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PP...
vbcc_bin_powerup.lha dev/c 1.1M OS4 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PP...
vbcc_bin_warpos.lha dev/c 933K OS4 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PP...
vbcc_target_m68k-kick... dev/c 474K ISO C compiler, AmigaOS 1.2/1...
vbcc_target_ppc-amiga... dev/c 186K ISO C compiler, PPC-AmigaOS T...
vbcc_target_ppc-power... dev/c 351K ISO C compiler, PPC-Powerup T...
vbcc_target_ppc-warpo... dev/c 221K ISO C compiler, PPC-WarpOS Ta...
A09-1.45.lha dev/cross 275K OS4 6800/6801/6809/6301/6309 Asse...
cazm-1.27.lha dev/cross 154K OS4 Z80 Cross Assembler
F9DASM-1.80.lha dev/cross 348K OS4 6800/6801/6809/6309 Disassembler
rasm_os4.lha dev/cross 1.5M OS4 Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
less-mos.lha dev/gg 764K MOS Viewer program similar to "more"
regina-doc.pdf dev/lang 1.2M Alternative REXX interpreter doc
sdl_sprite-1.2b.i386.lha dev/lib 168K x86 Display animated sprites
GoADF.lha disk/misc 468K 68k AIO software to handle ADF/AD...
Square_Destroy.adf game/board 880K 68k special version of classic re...
DeluxePacman_A.lha game/misc 388K 68k PacMan clone with lots of fea...
DeluxePacman_E.lha game/misc 315K 68k PacMan clone with lots of fea...
labyrinth64.lha game/misc 123K 68k Port of Commodore 64 game Lab...
dMagnetic.lha game/role 260K MOS Interpreter for Magnetic Scro...
dMagnetic.lha game/text 316K MOS Interpreter for Magnetic Scro...
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 49K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
trx2x.i386-aros.lha misc/emu 362K x86 ZX Spectrum floppy image conv...
HexShow.lha util/cli 5K 68k shows files as Hex
SysInfoFix.lha util/libs 5K 68k 68040/060-Loadlib fix for Sys...
mousemeter.sbar.lha util/misc 101K MOS A mousemeter screenbar module.
SysinfoBoards.lha util/moni 13K 68k More Boardinfos for Sysinfo
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06.Dec.2020
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to OS4Depot until 05.12.2020:
rasm.lha dev/cro 1Mb 4.0 Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
vbcc.lha dev/cro 3Mb 4.0 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PPC/A...
vbcc_libs.lha dev/cro 186kb 4.0 Compiler target AmigaOS 4.x PowerPC
starpusher.lha gam/puz 7Mb 4.1 A cute Sokoban clone
deficons_dump.lha uti/she 5kb 4.0 show what project tools is assoc...
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06.Dec.2020
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to AROS Archives until 05.12.2020:
a09-1.45.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 169kb 6800/6801/6809/6301/6309 Assembler
cazm-1.27.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 111kb Z80 Cross Assembler
dasm-2.20.14.1.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 1Mb Macroassembler with support for ...
f9dasm-1.80.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 246kb 6800/6801/6809/6309 Disassembler
sdl_image-1.2.12.i386-aro... dev/lib 939kb library to load images of var. f...
sdl_net-1.2.8.i386-aros.lha dev/lib 28kb portable network library
sdl_sprite-1.2b.i386-aros... dev/lib 168kb Display animated sprites
trx2x.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 362kb ZX Spectrum floppy image converter
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06.Dec.2020
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 05.12.2020:
twittAmiga_4.4.2.lha Communication A Twitter client with m...
Less_563.lha Development/GeekGadgets A paginator similar to ...
dMagnetic_0.28.lha Games/Role Interpreter for Magneti...
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06.Dec.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.12.2020
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 05.12.2020:
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06.Dec.2020
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Beast III - As A New Day Dawns (Neil Mix)
- Grave Yard (Finally Out Of My Mind Mix)
- Red Sector Theme - Spatial remix
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05.Dec.2020
Forum64 (Webseite)
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PDF retro magazine: Paleotronic
According to its website, the Australian PDF magazine Paleotronic "takes an enthusiastic look back at the history of electronics, including computers, videogames and media, as well as its use professionally, in business and in industry. Along the way, we trace the roots of the devices and technologies which define our modern world. It's education meets entertainment." The final issue was published in October 2019, most of them are available on archive.org.
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04.Dec.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Modplayer: AmiModRadio 0.9998
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." A rating function is included as well. The new version provides bug fixes. If you want to report bugs then please use the official bugtracker.
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04.Dec.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Amiga emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 0.9.15
Dirk Hoffmann's "vAmiga" is a new Amiga emulator for MacOS computers emulating an A500, A1000 or A2000. Changes in version 0.9.15:
- Added support for 3.5“ HD diskettes (Kickstart 2.0 required).
- 'Export disk' opens a new dialog which lets the user view and check all disk sectors prior to exporting.
- Added 'DIR' as new export format. All files on a disk will be saved in a regular folder on the Mac.
- Some configuration panels have been cleaned up and restructured.
- Blitter register values are no longer cached at the beginning of a Blitter operation (Hostages).
- Hold-B is updated when BLTBDAT is written and keeps the original value if B channel DMA is off (Sanity Arte).
- Invalid BP2 priorities don’t affect HAM mode any more (Rocklobster).
- Fixed a bug in the ADF exporter that made it impossible to export newly formatted disks.
- Fixed a bug in the devices pref panel (clicking a trashcan icon deleted the wrong entries).
- The core emulator can be compiled with gcc (macOS uses clang by default).
- Most of the larger data structures are now created on the heap instead of the stack.
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03.Dec.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Crowdfunding: New, Amiga compatible joypad 'Protopad'
Protovision - a group of develolpers and graphic artists for developeing games for the C64 - is going to pre-finance new joypads which will be developed explicitly for the C64. The pads have eight buttons, one button emulating 'up'. The pad is described as "also compatible with Atari and Amiga". But it is not clear how many of the seven buttons the Amiga can control.
The crowdfunding campaign was started on the Protovision website and does not run on one of the well-known donation portals. The money you give always is described as donations but it is promised to pay back the money if until January 2025 no joypad will have been delivered. You can donate via Paypal or bank transfer. If you donate 50 Euro or more you will get a 'Protopad' as soosn as the production was started.
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[News message: 03. Dec. 2020, 21:43] [Comments: 0]
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03.Dec.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Jump'n Run: Boxed Edition of Sqrxz 4 released
Press release: APC&TCP is proud to announce that after Trap Runner and Fred's Journey, Sqrxz 4 is now also available as a boxed edition. As usual with Retroguru, the game was published in a DVD case with floppy disk, booklet and A3 poster. ATTENTION! Be warned! This game requires very good and very quick reflexes. The level of difficulty is above average.System requirements: Kickstart ab 1.2 and 1 MByte RAM.
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02.Dec.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Adding a HDMI port using a Raspberry Pi: Amiga-Digital-Video
The goal of the Github project Amiga-Digital-Video is to add a HDMI port to an Amiga 500, 1000 or 2000 or to a CDTV. A small adapter board is put under the Denise chip. With the help of a ribbon cable, the Raspberry Pi can extract the RGB signals of the Amigas and convert them into a digital video signal using the RGBtoHDMI software.
The software runs directly on the Pi - without requiring an operating system. According to the developer the "HDMI picture has a very low latency (a few milliseconds at most)". Therefore this solution can be also used for games. By watching some videos (1, 2) you can get an idea of the qualitiy.
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