09.Dec.2024
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2000 (parts 1 and 2)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutching had recently purchased an Amiga 2000 for £350 which was in an unknown condition but contained many upgrades. The aim of his restoration is to get the motherboard working in the first part and to continue working on it in the second part. (dr)
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09.Dec.2024
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Internet radio: TuneFinder 1.3a (update)
Marcin Spoczynski's TuneFinder enables users to search internet radio stations with various filter options. Results are displayed in a list with detailed station information, and the app includes options to save selections as either a complete PLS playlist for playing them via AmigaAMP directly from within Tunefinder or as individual station files (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.3 provides the following changes:
- Users can now select a program (AmigaAMP) to launch together with TuneFinder
- Added favorites management system
- Added iconification support
- Added list content preservation during iconification
- Added window position persistence
- Added functionality to save last used country and codec on exit
- Added French translation (Eric 'Tarinz' LUCZYSZYN)
- Bug fixes and UI improvements
Update: (10.12.2024, 06:04, dr)
Version 1.3a is now available, which adds Iconify AmigaAMP on start to automatically minimize AmigaAMP.
Download: TuneFinder.lha (79 KB) (dr)
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09.Dec.2024
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AROS: Sound editor ProTrekkr 2.7.5
ProTrekkr is a tracker program that combines a software synthesizer with a traditional sample tracker. It can mainly be used to create electronic music (such as psytrance, trance, goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) for small intros, demos or games. Version 2.7.5 has now been released for AROS (and other systems). Changes:
- Sample editor tries to keep loop information intact whenever possible.
- Synth distortion can now have positive or negative values.
- Synth ENV 1 & 2 can be directed to drive synth distortion.
- Synth LVO 1 & 2 can be directed to drive synth distortion as well.
- Removed broken instruments and presets from distribution.
- Fixed a couple of bugs here and there.
- Added replay routine support for AROS.
- Added global stereo VU meters view for each channel.
Download: ptk_v2.7.5_aros_x86.zip (12 MB) (dr)
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08.Dec.2024
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Aminet uploads until 07.12.2024
The following files have been added until 07.12.2024 to Aminet:
eTIN.lha biz/misc 1K German eTIN and Leitweg-ID en...
DiskCopier.lha disk/bakup 13K 68k Simple 2024 floppy disk copier
anaiis.lha driver/oth 250K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.24
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 271K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
g17demo_68k_and_wos.lha game/demo 355M 68k Demo version of Gorky 17
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 35M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 9.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 9.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 10M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
DevilsTorture.lha mods/misc 1.3M 16bit 4ch Amiga Doom Metal by...
Protrekkr_AROS_i386.zip mus/edit 12M x86 Tracker/Synth hybrid Program
IMP_GI.lha pix/gicon 6K GlowIcon for IMP
(snx)
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08.Dec.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 07.12.2024
The following files have been added until 07.12.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 10Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mgba.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.1 GB/GBC/GBA Emulator
roguefootballcardgame... gam/car 6Mb 4.0 Card game by AmiGameJam
jfduke3d.lha gam/fps 119Mb 4.1 JonoF's Duke Nukem 3D Port
prboom-plus.lha gam/fps 15Mb 4.1 An improvement on id Software�...
processactionreply.lha gam/uti 615kb 4.0 fun hack, works like action repl...
iff-converter.lha gra/con 1Mb 4.0 Convert images into raw format.
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 35Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
litexl.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
(snx)
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08.Dec.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 07.12.2024
The following files have been added until 07.12.2024 to AROS Archives:
protrekkr.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 12Mb Tracker/Synth hybrid Program
(snx)
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08.Dec.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.12.2024
The following files have been added until 07.12.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_33.70.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
PacMan-SDL_1.0.lha Games/Action Port of PacMan-SDL
NetPuzzleArena_1.0.lha Games/Think Port of NetPuzzleArena ...
SacrificioPagano_3.00.lha Misc A special app to people...
Iris_1.45.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email...
Lite-XL_2.1.6r1.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
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08.Dec.2024
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WHDLoad: Version 19.1 and new installers until 07.12.2024
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.
Version 19.1, which has been released meanwhile, can check for code now that possibly triggers a hardware bug caused by accessing custom.copjmp1/2 while blitter is active.
The following installers have been added until 07.12.2024:
(snx)
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08.Dec.2024
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Xenophobe [feat. Necropolo] (Encore64 V2)
- Echoing Genos Edition
- Saman Kar Tanesii
(snx)
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08.Dec.2024
discord (ANF)
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AMOS game with source code: Sybil - Halloween Defender
The game "Sybil: Halloween Defender" (video) is inspired by the classic game Defender. Here you control Sybil, a friendly witch who lives on the edge of the forest and is viewed with suspicion by the inhabitants of the nearby village. But every year on Halloween, when the barrier between the earthly and spirit worlds is at its thinnest and evil creatures emerge from the underworld, Sybil flies out on her enchanted broom with her spell book to keep them at bay.
The game is free and the available source code is intended as a learning aid for budding AMOS Basic Pro programmers to help them write more Amiga games.
Download: Sybil.adf (880 Kb) (snx)
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08.Dec.2024
memo via discord (ANF)
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Event: Video announcing Amiga40 (German)
As announced via a German video at the title link, the "Amiga40" event will take place from October 17 to 19, 2025, again at the "Kunstwerk" in Mönchengladbach (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). While the program is still being worked out, it is at least certain that the previous limit of a maximum of 850 visitors can be increased this time, so that around 1000 participants are envisaged. (snx)
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08.Dec.2024
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Self-built disk archiver based on Raspberry Pi
The website "Tom's Hardware" reports at the title link about a project by Graham Tinkers. He was faced with the task of archiving his 800 Amiga disks and built a disk archiver from a Raspberry Pi 3B, an old disk duplicator, a camera and Greazeweasel, which saves them as an ADF file to a USB device with an accompanying photo of the disk (video). (snx)
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08.Dec.2024
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Workbench 1.3: A list of enhancing software
Following his AmigaNOS tutorial, Hungarian software engineer 'neongod' has published a list of software at the title link to enhance Workbench 1.3. (snx)
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08.Dec.2024
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Diskmag: Versus #10 (update)
Issue 10 of Versus, the diskmag of the demoscene groups Nukleus and Void, which contains the Amiga demoscene charts, has been published at the title link.
Update: (10.12.2024, 22:04, dr)
In the meantime, a version for AmigaOS 4 is also available on OS4Depot. (snx)
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07.Dec.2024
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Commercial action RPG: Dungeonette - The New Adventure (AGA/CD32) available
Adrian Cummings' action RPG "Dungeonette - The New Adventure" (video) is now available. A boxed edition - a DVD case containing a CD32-compatible CD, printed manual, USB stick with ADF files and two disk labels - is being sold on ebay UK for just under 36 euros plus postage, while the purely digital edition is available from etsy.com for 18.80 euros.
Dungeonette - The New Adventure runs on any AGA-Amiga, compatibility with THEA500 Mini, A600GS and WinUAE has also been ensured by the developer. On faster systems there may be occasional speed problems, for these cases the Dungeonette WHDLoad patch is recommended. (cg)
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07.Dec.2024
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Coding workshop: A500 programming at hardware level - A Sprite Rendering Engine
The eighth part of Michael Martin's course on hardware-level A500 programming is about sprites again: "A Sprite Rendering Engine" explains the interaction of the sprites created in the last episode with other elements of the graphics hardware. (cg)
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07.Dec.2024
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Web tool: Worms DC Asset Editor
Alexander Groupe's Worms DC Asset Editor is a web-based replacement for the "WormPrefs" tool from Worms: Director's Cut. The tool was inspired by the announced update for Worms DC, which will soon celebrate it's 30th birthday.
The Asset Editor can now do everything that the original WormPrefs could do, including:
- Import of existing Worms DC assets
- Export of WRM16 (custom level), MNT (mountains) and DIY (landscape) files
- Import of level/mountain/landscape images as IFFs
- Interactive palette adjustments
- Previews of everything
For his editor, the author first had to reverse engineer and document all custom file formats used in Worms. Talking to amiga-news.de, Grupe spoke of a "reverse engineering odyssey" in which his low-level assembler experience was very useful. Three bytes are still "unsolved", otherwise all questions about the file format have been answered - including problems such as "is this the height, only shifted 6 bits to the left?" and "this must be a BLTSIZE specification?".
(cg)
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07.Dec.2024
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Text adventure: Morning Panic
Written in Amiga-E, "Morning Panic" is the first text adventure by Moya 'Cammy' Jackie. Described by the author as a " small and simple text adventure", the title requires at least Kickstart 2.0. (cg)
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07.Dec.2024
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.2 LTS for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.2, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. This release has been given "LTS" status ("Long Term Support") by the Linux team and will be provided with updates until at least the end of 2026. Compared to the previous version, two minor bugs have been fixed:
- drm/radeon: Fix spurious unplug event on radeon HDMI
- KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix kmv -> kvm typo
(cg)
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06.Dec.2024
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Text editor: Lite XL 2.1.6r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George 'walkero' Sokianos has updated his port of the SDL-based text editor Lite XL. The update makes the changes from the official Lite XL 2.1.6 release available to Amiga users, and the OS4 implementation is now based on SDL 2.30.9.. (cg)
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06.Dec.2024
hyperion-entertainment.com (ANF)
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Gorky 17: WarpOS support, minor update of AmigaOS 3 version, new demo
Steffen Häuser has now also ported the RPG/strategy mix "Gorky 17" to WarpOS after AmigaOS 3. There is also a small update for the 68k edition: the wrong language file may have been installed during the installation process, this error has been fixed.
Registered existing customers can download the archive with the combined 68k/WarpOS version in the download area, for all others there is now an updated demo version that also supports the PowerPC. (cg)
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06.Dec.2024
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.38
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey). Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. His work can be supported by a little donation from inside TAWS or via this link.
Version 0.38 includes a lot of changes regarding e.g. palette, menu or AmigaGuide. (dr)
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06.Dec.2024
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AmigaOS 4: MilkyTracker 1.05 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has again cross-compiled the source code of MilkyTracker for AmigaOS 4 with GCC 11.3.0 and linked it with the last stable version of SDL 2.30.9..
Download: MilkyTracker-SDL2.lha (2,1 MB) (dr)
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05.Dec.2024
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 1.45 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.44 of his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. New features of this version include faster downloading and displaying of e-mails, replying to and canceling of calendar entries, and the option of always sending e-mails as a blind copy to a preset address.
Update: (06.12.2024, 22:04, dr)
Version 1.45 is now available to fix a memtrash that could occur under certain conditions.
Download: iris.lha (27 MB) (snx)
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04.Dec.2024
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 2024.12.03
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 2024.12.03 introduces support for Ultra-SCSI (Fast-20) on RP2040/RP2350-based platforms, currently still in beta. You can find more details on this and the other changes at the title link. (snx)
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04.Dec.2024
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AROS: Sound editor ProTrekkr 2.7.3 (update)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program that combines a software synthesizer with a traditional sample tracker. It can mainly be used to create electronic music (such as psytrance, trance, goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) for small intros, demos or games. Version 2.7.1 has now been released for AROS.
New features, besides bug fixes, are OpenGL support, the ability to draw samples and saving parts of samples as waveform files.
Update: (06.12.2024, 22:04, dr)
Version 2.7.3 is now available, which fixes a cause of a crash. In addition, a more straightforward individual tracks zooming mechanism has been implemented. (snx)
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04.Dec.2024
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Programming competition: Voting opened for AmiGameJam 2024
Aim of AmiGameJam 2024 was to program a successor to an existing Amiga game. After the closing date, the winner can now be voted for until Christmas. To take part, you have to be registered on the website and can then submit your rating after clicking on the individual games. (snx)
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04.Dec.2024
heckmeck-Blog (ANF)
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Programming competition: Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2024
For the fourth time, the Logiker website is holding a Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge. Participation in this programming competition is open until Christmas Day, and prizes include issues of PDF magazines and a book. (snx)
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04.Dec.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for November 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 in his "Old School Game Blog" at the title link. (snx)
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03.Dec.2024
Mastodon
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Developer log: Writing an own dialogue scripting language
Developer Dan Salvato has presented the creation of his own dialogue scripting language for his under-development game "Magicore Anomala" in a detailed blog post (amiga-news.de reported). In "Writing My Own Dialogue Scripting Language", Salvato describes the motivation and development process behind the creation of a custom language for implementing dialogues in video games. He discusses technical challenges and describes the components script, parser, bytecode and renderer. With specific script examples, he explains how his solution makes it possible to efficiently implement complex dialogue structures. (nba)
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03.Dec.2024
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AmiGameJam candidate: Last Battle 2
Successors to Amiga games are to be created as part of the AmiGameJam 2024 contest. Under the title link, 'msmalik681' has published his interpretation of a successor to the Sega classic "Last Battle", which has also been ported to the Amiga: "Last Battle 2" is a classic beat'em up in the arcade style of the 80s.
According to the developer, the fight game should run on all Amigas with OCS and 1 MB of Chip RAM and make use of both joystick buttons. Currently, the first level of "Last Battle 2" (YouTube video) can be played. (nba)
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03.Dec.2024
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PDF magazine: Ami Tech-Gazette, Issue 11
"Ami Tech-Gazette" by Eric Schwartz and Michael Barclay is a 12-page retro newsletter with an Amiga focus. The current issue includes another episode of the "Graphics Workshop", reviews of Datastorm and Gigawatt, and a throwback to the US print magazine "COMPUTE!". (nba)
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