29.Oct.2020
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Puzzle game: AmiBrixx 2.0 for all Amiga systems
Jörg 'Evil' Renkert wrote about the game: "In a field of stacked stones, your target is to elminate groups of stones of the same color. Thereby the other stones will fall down and form new groups. The game ends, when no more groups can be eliminated."
The gameplay of the original release from 2004 is the same as in version 2.0 but online highscores and the option of downloading "skins" from within the game were added. AmiBrixx was written with Hollywood and therefore is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android.
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28.Oct.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer package: "DevPack" installs diverse compilers, editors and tools
The free "DevPack" provided by Dimitris Panokostas and Philipp Lonke is meant for Amiga users who under AmigaOS are going to develop software. The package is hosted on the Amikit website but does not have any dependencies on the commercial Workbench environment and can be installed on harddrive by extracting the lzx archive. Diverse compilers, text editors and other tools are included as listed in the Readme.
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28.Oct.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 115 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes Amiga articles about the classic point and click graphic adventure "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and the Formula One car race "Vroom".
Download sites:
English
Italian
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28.Oct.2020
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Wolfram Alpha question machine for Amiga systems: AskYourAmiga 0.2
According to the author, AskYourAmiga, in short AYA, is "a very early version of a GUI for Wolfram Alpha question machine" (Wikipedia entry). It does not find any links but right away the answer which can be also represented in e.g. graphs.
In version 0.2 "related searches" as well as a history of your searches and suggestions sorted in categories have been added. As usual the program is available for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.
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27.Oct.2020
MorphZone (Forum)
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Final Writer: New screenshots / release date is getting closer
In 2015 Timothy 'terminills' Deters has acquired the rights to the word processing software "Final Writer" (amiga-news.de reported). The latest screenshots show font rendering and spelling.
Final Writer will be able to save documents as a PDF. Furthermore Deters wrote: "RTF has been updated to the final spec as well. I have many future enhancements planned based on how quickly I can recover my costs. You can print to selectable devices and PDFDirect support has been started but it'll take a little bit before I would say that is feature complete."
He also said that there is a "a slim possibility of releasing FW before the end of the year".
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27.Oct.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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HDMI converter: D520 available again
Thorsten Schubert's HDMI converter D520 is available again. A third batch of the converter which is connected to the video port was completed. The website of the project was updated as well.
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26.Oct.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Retro gaming: WHDLoad 18.6
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 18.6 provides the following changes:
- WHDLoad now disables interrupts of graphics cards under
the Picasso96 software. This should solve problems with
Spectrum cards and newer P96 releases (issue #2598). Thanks
to Thomas Richter for providing useful information.
- Manual translations are in sync again for catalan and czech.
- Kickemu kick31.s can be instructed to load/init the custom
nonvolatile.s via option INIT_NONVOLATILE.
- nonvolatile.s now correctly works on searching nonexistent
items in a existing nvram file
- In kickemu kick13.s a waitblit has been added to avoid
problems with the gfx.Text patch (Psygore).
- The provided source keyboard.s now uses cia timers instead the
raster beam for the keyboard acknowledge delay.
- Access faults of size word to address -1 and of size long to
addresses -3..-1 are now reliable detected and reported.
In earlier releases: on 68030: when ExpMem was used these were
undetected, on 68040: when ExpMem was used and vector base was
not write protected (e.g. Freezer detected, Snoop*,
resload_Protect used) these were undetected, if vector base
was protected a fault inside WHDLoad was reported, on 68060:
these were always correctly reported
- To reduce the likelihood that resload functions get
interrupted by other calls to resload functions, some resload
functions which usually take not much execution time, have
been changed to be not interruptible anymore.
The following resload functions have been changed that way:
Abort, SetCACR, FlushCache, Control, Protect#?, SetCPU,
GetCustom, VSNPrintF and Log.
In general the option NoResInt/S can be used to avoid problems
with interrupted resload calls at the cost of possible sound/
graphics distortions when interrupts are disabled for a longer
time.
- The provided source sources/whdload/savegame.s is now fully
pc-relative. It contains also additional fixes for interrupt
acknowledge and AGA compatibility (JOTD/ross).
- The inplace decruncher for the old RNC1 format has been
improved to support files which need a larger distance
(Heimdall/JOTD).
- The kick31.s now prefers a A600 kickstart image if NO68020 is
set. It fails now if there is only a 68000/010 and a
A1200/A4000 kickstart image was loaded (JOTD).
- When using kickfs.s the dos.library function
Open(MODE_READWRITE) now performs correctly on Kickstart 3.1
by creating a non-existent file. On Kickstart 1.3 the old
behavior remains to not create a file.
- If a call to resload_Examine is attempted without the flag
WHDLF_Examine has been set in the Slave structure WHDLoad now
terminates with an appropriate error message (JOTD).
- The kickemu kick12.s, kick13.s and kick31.s has been modified
to automatically set the Slave flag WHDLF_Examine if HDINIT is
set (JOTD).
- When using resload_Relocate with tags CHIPPTR/FASTPTR and the
specified chip/fast memory location would result in an
overlapping with base executable WHDLoad now gives a useful
error message (JOTD).
- Instead of waiting for a long video frame WHDLoad now forces a
long frame before starting the Slave. This fixes startup
problems on Kickstart 3.0 and an interlace video mode
(issue #4798).
- MMU-table creation has been reworked. It is now faster and
uses less memory.
- Support for ACA-freezer added.
- if "*" is specified for the Slave to load WHDLoad searchs the
current directory for a file with the pattern "#?.slave" and
will use the first file matching (Toni Wilen)
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26.Oct.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Another teaser video: Jump'n Run 'Super Metal Hero'
A third teaser video of the jump'n run game 'Super Metal Hero' has been published.
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25.Oct.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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FPGA: MISTer with RTG support
The FPGA Amiga clone MISTer (amiga-news.de reported) now also supports RTG. 'NovaCoder' has published a video on it.
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25.Oct.2020
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Event: Video and reports of AmiWest 2020 (update)
This year's AmiWest is taking place this weekend - as usual in Sacramento, California. Our news-item will be updated as further videos, news (besides release of Enhancer Core) and reports are released.
Videos:
Reports:
- Report of Thomas Richter: Individual Computers has released version 3.0 of the RTG driver P96, free for those ones who purchased the software during the last 12 months. It now "supports screen dragging for all graphic cards included in the package, except for the CVisionPPC whose hardware lacks a particular feature to make it work. The next important feature is that there is a new driver pair, namely for the CVisionPPC and BVisionPPC boards. They support all bitmap types (unlike under CGfx) except planar, namely chunky 8 bit, 16 bit RGB, 16 Bit RGB PC, 16 bit BGR PC, 24 bit RGB, 24 bit BGR, 32 bit RGBA, 32 bit BGRA, 32 bit ARGB and 32 bit ABGR."
- Report of TribbleSmasher: The accelerator board ACA 1260 developed by Individual Computers "is still delayed as features are added and it seems the focus will be on the 040 version because of the shortage or insane prices for 060 cpus.
IComp also produced new dsub23 connectors and will create a bugfixed Buster12 chip with Dave Haynie! - ACube will produce the Tabor A1222 prototypes and Tabor is no longer called by its code name anymore.
Also the sound driver is ready..." Only "a few bugs to iron out" (AmigaKit). - TribbleSmasher continues writing: "AmigaOS4 updates and bugfixes are plentiful but there is some controversy how to distribute them: new disc or other methods, and date is ambigious too."
- Report of Amifrog (not public): The kernel ExecSG now boots faster and includes new mechanism for later support of multiple cores; a new version of the Enhancer Software is planned for X-MAS; a PPC-native version of ImageFX Studio was announced.
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25.Oct.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Print magazine: Amiga Addict announced
"Amiga Addict" aims at reestablishing a british Amiga print magazine after 14 years. Required are 500 buyers, though. Currently, 84 copies of issue #1 have been preordered. Included will be all Amiga flavours from 68k via PPC and AROS to Vampire.
December's issue will be available - according to its webshop - for 4.50 UKP and consist of 54 full-colour A4 pages. A digital version will be available as well and be free of charge for subscribers of the printed magazine. Among the content announced are interviews with Dave Haynie and Cloanto, articles about Kim Justice and AmigaBill, a tutorial about using Compact Flash on Amiga, a report about a Raspberry Pi used as Amiga 600 and an article about PageStream. (snx)
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25.Oct.2020
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Aminet uploads until 24.10.2020
The following items have been added to Aminet until 24.10.2020:
guardamy_sources.lha comm/www 121K Watch web pages for changes + pl
PDCurses_OS4.lha dev/lib 1.8M OS4 NCurses clone that outputs th...
mhimpegit.lha driver/aud 3K 68k MHI driver for Prelude/MPEGit...
PreludeAHI.lha driver/aud 12K 68k AHI driver for Prelude soundcard
PreludeLib.lha driver/aud 16K 68k Driver library for Prelude so...
MrPoker.lha game/board 402K 68k The Poker game by AxelSoftware
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 9K 2020 Carset for F1GP
uqm.lha game/misc 1.9M OS4 Port of Ur-Quan Masters
uqm-src.lha game/misc 1.8M Source for Ur-Quan Masters port
GemRB-Morphos.lha game/role 3.1M MOS Portable Bioware's Infinity E...
Fortis.lha game/shoot 19M MOS classic shooter in 3D environ...
GEMATRIA.lha game/text 15K 68k Turn words into Lottery numbe...
zapperng.i386-aros.lha game/text 59K x86 Change the behaviour of the z...
AMIread_No1.zip mags/misc 124M MOS Polish magazine
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.9M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
Albireo.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 36K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.7M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
CycleCounter.ACEpansi... misc/emu 10K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
annotate_pascal_synta... text/edit 397K Annotate Pascal Syntax
CopyMemAIO.lha util/boot 46K 68k Speedup your programs & workb...
autoactivate.i386-aro... util/cdity 64K x86 Activate window under mouse o...
CONSize.lha util/cli 13K 68k Print out the size of the CLI...
HasDevice.lha util/cli 15K 68k Checks for the existence of a...
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25.Oct.2020
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OS4Depot uploads until 24.10.2020
The following items have been added to OS4Depot until 24.10.2020:
minigl.lha dri/gra 7Mb 4.0 OpenGL subset 3D API
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
uqm.lha gam/mis 2Mb 4.1 Port of Ur-Quan Masters
uqm-src.lha gam/mis 2Mb 4.1 Source for Ur-Quan Masters port
shooter15.lha gam/shm 2Mb 4.1 Shoot at enemies and collect (P)
iconecta.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 A little and easy program to tes...
muimapparium_ita.lha net/mis 7kb 4.0 Italian catalog for MUIMapparium
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25.Oct.2020
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.10.2020
The following items have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 24.10.2020:
Chrysalis_3.14.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
Drucken_mit_MorphOS_1.... Documentation/Tutorials A tutorial about printi...
Printing_with_MorphOS_... Documentation/Tutorials A tutorial about printi...
Iris_beta_0.94.lha Email New email client suppor...
CycleCounter_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Albireo_1.2.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
AmiArcadia_26.81.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
ACE_1.22.lha Emulation The acidulous CPC/CPC+ ...
TecnoBallZ_0.92.lha Games/BrickBreaker A Brick Breaker with 50...
GemRB_0.8.5b1.lha Games/Role Portable Bioware's Infi...
Fortis_1.3.lha Games/Shoot 2D A classic shooter in ne...
Wayfarer_1.4.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
WitchCleaner_1.31.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
iConecta_4.0.lha Network/Wifi A little and easy progr...
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24.Oct.2020
Amigaworld (website)
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AmigaOS 4: A-EON released "Enhancer Software Core 1.1" for free
"Enhancer Core" is a free collection of classes and libraries taken from the Enhancer Software package which was announced a year ago. It is supposed "to encourage further development in the community."
Additional to some specific A-EON applications (Amisphere Server, Updater...) the package includes the following software:
- LogFile Datatype
- Anim Gadget Class
- Clock Gadget Class
- DateSheet Gadget Class
- InfoData Gadget Class
- InfoWindow Class
- ListViewer Gadget Class
- OptionButton Gadget Class
- PieChart Gadget Class
- ProgressBar Gadget Class
- Select Gadget Class
- SliderBar Gadget Class
- Shared Image Class
- Thumblist Gadget Class
- TickBox Gadget Class
- Time Gadget
- ToolBar Gadget
- codesets.library
- LDCK
- RequestChooser
- SystemReboot
- InfoWindow
Enhancer Core can be downloaded from amisphere.com, a free registration is required.
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23.Oct.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 124 of Amiga Future readable online
The English issue 124 (January/February 2017) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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