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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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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01.Dec.2020
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Commodore's DSP software running on a prototype of an A3000+
After Commodore's software support for the AA3000/A3000+, which was never placed on market, showed up, fans tried to make it running on a replica of the AA3000. Obviously they succeeded now: the DSP response to commands of the controlling software.
Hint of the editors: Fotos of the linked thread only are available to registered users.
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01.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Free hardware: GottaGoFastRAM provides 8 Mb RAM for A500/1000/2000 and CDTV
'GottaGoFastRAM' provides 8 MB autoconfig RAM for older Amiga models. The expansion is deliberately kept small for allowing to combine it with other expansions - e.g. an IDE controller -.
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01.Dec.2020
Amigaworld (Webseite)
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Amigakit: RAM-/Flash-ROM expansion for A1200
A new expansion for the A1200 developed by AmigaKit does not only provide 8 MB Fast-RAM (configurable via jumper or "Early Boot Menu" as 4, 5.5 or 8 MB) but additional to FPU socket and clockport also 4 MB FlashRAM which is writeable using the included configuration tool. How the memory is mounted while booting the computer, the website of AmigaKit does not exactly explain: On one hand they are taking about " Kickstart modules or even full Kickstart images" but on the other hand also about software "instantly available on power on". Additionally the card also emulates the non-volatile Flash memory of the CD32, in which games can save e.g. highscores and scores.
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01.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Free hardware: Gotek Floppy Disk Emulator V2
Gotek Floppy Disk Emulator V2 is a replica of the well-known Gotek drives, running with the free firmware FlashFloppy. The website of the project currently only is available in Czech (Google translation).
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01.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Platform game: Looty v2
'Looty' (video) is a single screen platform game inspired by an old Spectrum game. Originally the game was released in the mid-90s as Freeware and now was updated providing some bug fixes and optional cursor control. The background music can be turned off. The developer is looking for a graphic artist for his game.
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30.Nov.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga 500 as paper modeling sheet
On his website, Rocky Bergen offers modeling sheets for classic computers, among others also for an Amiga 500 - inclusive mouse and mousepad. There are different screen contents for the monitor as well as the famous special editions crerated by the moderator Stefanie Tücking.
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29.Nov.2020
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Aminet uploads until 28.11.2020
The following files have been added to Aminet until 28.11.2020:
Crono_AROS.lha biz/misc 7.1M x86 Generator of printable calendars
Crono_MorphOS.lha biz/misc 7.0M MOS Generator of printable calendars
Crono_OS4.lha biz/misc 7.5M OS4 Generator of printable calendars
twittAmiga.lha comm/misc 6.6M MOS Twitter client
nfs3.lha comm/net 9K 68k Mount NFS3 shares using bsdso...
curl-7.74.0.lha comm/tcp 659K 68k File and data transfer tool a...
ALS.lha dev/amos 542K 68k AMOS Layers System
batari_Basic.lha dev/cross 326K MOS BASIC-like language for Atari...
dasm.i386-aros.lha dev/cross 1.1M x86 Assembler supporting various ...
dasm_mos.lha dev/cross 1.0M MOS Multi-CPU 65xx/68xx cross ass...
dasm_os4.lha dev/cross 1.1M OS4 Assembler supporting various ...
audio_in_e.lha dev/e 17K 68k examples for using audio and ...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
QuickBackup.lha disk/bakup 4K Simple Backup Script
HippoPlayerIR.zip docs/hard 27K 68k Wirelessly controlled HippoPl...
MaxReplayTest.lha driver/aud 10K 68k Determine Paula's max. replay...
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 9K 2020 Carset for F1GP
a2tools.i386-aros.lha misc/emu 253K x86 Move data to/from Apple DOS d...
emutools.i386-aros.lha misc/emu 424K x86 12 marvelous tools for emulators
SinEDkey.lha mus/edit 1K Public keyfile for SinED
CopyMemAIO.lha util/boot 47K 68k Speedup your programs & workb...
WhetDhryStone.lha util/cli 1.8M MOS AmigaOS3/OS4/MorphOS benchmarks
SysInfoFix.lha util/libs 5K 68k 68040/060-Loadlib fix for Sys...
amigaohm_rus.lha util/misc 41K Russian catalog file for Amig...
SysinfoBoards.lha util/moni 14K 68k More Boardinfos for Sysinfo
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29.Nov.2020
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OS4Depot uploads until 28.11.2020
The following files have been added to OS4Depot until 28.11.2020:
a09.lha dev/cro 183kb 4.0 6800/6801/6809/6301/6309 Assembler
cazm.lha dev/cro 114kb 4.0 Z80 Cross Assembler
dasm.lha dev/cro 1Mb 4.0 Macroassembler with support for ...
f9dasm.lha dev/cro 251kb 4.0 6800/6801/6809/6309 Disassembler
basiliskii.lha emu/com 2Mb 4.1 Macintosh emulator runs MacOS7 a...
crono.lha gra/mis 8Mb 4.1 Generator of printable calendars
witchcleaner.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 Clean temp data from OWB and Way...
whetdhrystone.lha uti/ben 2Mb 4.0 Whetstone, Dhrystone, Sieve, Bog...
amigaohm_rus.lha uti/mis 41kb 4.0 Russian catalog for AmigaOhm
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29.Nov.2020
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AROS Archives uploads until 28.11.2020
The following files have been added to AROS Archives until 28.11.2020:
vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha dev/edi 12Mb Vim
a2tools.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 253kb Move data to and from Apple DOS ...
afid.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 236kb Apple ][ DOS 3.3 disk image utility
emutools.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 424kb 12 marvelous tools for emulators
griffon.i386-aros.zip gam/rol 9Mb RPG style game of the SNES/GENES...
crono_aros.lha gra/mis 7Mb Generator of printable calendars
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29.Nov.2020
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.11.2020
The following files have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 28.11.2020:
twittAmiga_4.4.1.lha Communication A Twitter client with m...
cc65_2.19.lha Development/Cross ANSI C 6502 cross devel...
DASM_2.20.14.1.lha Development/Cross Multi-CPU 65xx/68xx cro...
batari_Basic_1.5.lha Development/Cross BASIC-like language for...
WitchCleaner_1.50.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
Crono_2.1.lha Office/Organizer Generator of printable ...
MouseMeter_1.3.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar A mousemeter screenbar ...
WhetDhryStone_1.4.lha System/Benchmark AmigaDOS commands for M...
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29.Nov.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.11.2020
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 28.11.2020:
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