17.Jul.2020
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Other books written by Adam Zalepa in English translation
Adam Zalepa writes books on Amiga topics and with a little delay he also offers them in an English-language translation. Since out last news item, some new books have been published in English - available either as printed version including a pdf-file or just the PDF for a reduced price:
- Wordworth 7 - user`s manual
- Deluxe Paint - user`s manual
- MorphOS - Volume Two
- AMIGA OS 3.1 Volume Two
- AMIGA OS 3.1 Volume Three
- AMIGA E Programming base
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17.Jul.2020
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Media player: EaglePlayer 2.06
EaglePlayer is a media player for the Amiga playing a lot of audio formats (MP3, AIFF, MOD...). The program has been available for many years and still is being updated. Version 2.06 provides many minor improvements and a new "Skin" for the user-interface of the program. Besides diverse bugs have been fixed:
- some more 68000 related fixes (some plugins are still 68020+)
- 14 Bit Amplifier: significant audio quality improvements
- automatic limitation to 28 kHz sampling rate on OCS and when
non doublescan display modes are detected
- way better defaults for the 14 bit table for uncalibrated systems
(previous default was closer to 13.5 Bit - like AHI)
- fixed 14 bit table for calibrated setups: the C. Buchner
quantization approach was wrong, resulting in unnecessary artifacts
- fixed transition delay from one song to another
- added optional noise shaping for 16-14 bit conversion (060 or faster)
- adjusted default volume for filtered mixing modes
- support for stereo 14 bit calibration
- Amiga1200 autodetection with appropriate adjustment for the "highboost"
equalization filter (A600 and A1200 have a different audio filter
compared to the other Amiga models)
FFT Analyzer
- whole new set of new display modes in High and True color P96 RTG
(using AMMX acceleration, if detected/available )
internal sine/cosine table instead of math libs due to
broken mathtrans/mathffp libraries
MPEG Audio (i.e. .mp2/.mp3)
- automatically select freqdiv=2 in 8 Bit output mode
(i.e. when neither of 14 Bit/Pamela/AHI/Toccata Amplifier are active)
preliminary UTF-16 support for Moduleinfo and ID3TagV2
Moduleinfo
Playerloader
- 68000 fixes and sanity checks for some tests to avoid
enforcer hits (e.g. tronic)
renamed some eagleplayers for more resilience against
broken unarchiver tools (replacing spaces with underscores in
filenames)
better check for MP3 files with certain ID3v2 header versions
AIFF file detection improvements (AIFC)
Patternscroll
- P96 RTG support: colorful and faster scrolling, color bars in 16/24 bit
Protracker
- fixes for some tightly looping modules in cases where "song end"
detection is disabled (thanks to Gerben van K. for the report)
fix for some broken Protracker modules which work with VBlank timing
only
AIFF
- ADPCM support added (standard IMA4, Tavenard's ADP4)
Manager
Pamela Amplifier
- 16 Bit audio output plugin for Vampire V4
QuillUI
- truecolor user interface for big screens (>800x600) as homage to
a certain movie series
TFMX_Pro player by Don Adan included
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17.Jul.2020
Aminet
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.17
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 0.7.17:
- The frame control system has been redone, now it is faster and smoother.
- In Audio screen, after playing a sound the duration in seconds of the sound is displayed.
- FIX: After deleting an object in the level, there was a freeze.
- FIX: games using sound effect were suffering slowdowns.
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16.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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FreePascal 3.2.0a for all Amiga systems
Despite pronouncements to the contrary, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released another update of his Amiga port of the programming language FreePascal.
Version 3.2.0a is based on Károly 'chainq' Balogh's hints which made available the versions for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (i386, ARM) on the official download site as planned.
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16.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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The 100% useless AROS distribution version 0.2
By releasing version 0.2 according to the author Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow his AROS distribution "it's only 99% useless". His version is based on AROS64 before SMP was added.
The author wrote: "I added some more programs, (not only my own) the FP-IDE does work, but sadly the compilation still crash, so you have to use the shell to compile. I even got the network to work and MUIMapparium shows the map nicely and search also works".
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16.Jul.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Hardware preview: "mouSTer" - USB mice and joypads for vintage computers
The Polish shop retrohax.net has announced an adapter called "mouSTer" which can connect any USB mice or joypads to vintage computers. Among others the following features are offered:
- it works with every mouse and with every Game USB pad
- PS4 pad support - USB
- config via USB flash drive - INI file + default config
- config transfer via USB flash drive
- firmware upgrade via USB flash drive (takes 3 seconds, of which 2 seconds is the time the bootloader needs to recognize the flash drive)
- tested with flash drives from 32MB to 32GB
- mouse emulation mode defaults - Amiga, Atari ST, joystick/gamepad
First of all a minor batch of the adapters will be produced for test purposes. Besides, the adapter is supposed to be work with other vintage computer systems as well. Retrohax has not announced any date for availability.
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16.Jul.2020
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Competition: Amiga Art Contest 2020
The "Amiga Art Contest 2020" (video) is organized by the Youtuber 10 Minute Amiga Retrocast and Pixel Vixen. In this second issue you can participate in the categories "original hand drawn artwork", "creative photo editing", "3d rendering/raytracing" and "original Amiga music". All artwork of the previous year can be seen in a gallery.
All artwork and music must be created on an Amiga in one way or another. Deadline is October 11. The winners will be announced in an episode of the Youtube show "10 Minute Amiga Retrocast".
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15.Jul.2020
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C-A Acquisition Corp. renamed to Amiga Corporation
In 2019 Mike Battilana (Cloanto) founded the C-A Acquisition Corp. and transferred the trademarks, copyrights and Internet domains he had acquired from Amiga, Inc. to this company. So far, amiga.com didn't show anything worth mentioning, but now several Amiga-related logos and a note that these brands are registered trademarks of "Amiga Corporation" have been added to the site.
Approached by amiga-news.de, Mike Battilana confirms that "C-A Acquisition Corp." was renamed to "Amiga Corporation" but that it would remain discreet ("low profile will continue") until the [legal] issues are sorted out. He says the company is not completely inactive though, amongst other things it has been placing full-page advertisements in Amiga Future for more than a year.
Battilana pointed out to a Twitter thread which can be used for directly asking him questions about Amiga Corporation or his plans for the Amiga.
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15.Jul.2020
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Changes in Hyperion's Management
Last summer, distribution of Hyperion's shares drastically changed when the
company issued a capital
increase: New shares were issued to pay debts of nearly 400000 Euros owed
to Ben Hermans - allegedly for the latter's work as the company lawyer.
As a result of this, the other shareholders - in additon to Timothy de
Groote, who is mentioned in public documentation, Trevor Dickinson, Costel
Mincea and the Frieden Brothers are said to own shares - now
collectively own less then three percent of the company.
Shortly after that, Costel Mincea handed
over (German) his AmigaOS 4 centric forum
os4welt.de to a third party and resigned from his post as a director
("besturder") of Hyperion. The latter was not communicated publicly by either
Mincea or Hyperion at the time, but with quite a bit of a delay the change in
management is now recorded in Belgium's official company register (KBO,
Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen): Only Timothy de Groote is listed
as a "Besturder" for Hyperion now, the request
to have Costel Mincea removed as a director (PDF, Dutch) is available as well.
de Groote himself had increased his number of shares during the 2019 capital
increase - albeit only by a very tiny amount, compared to Hermans' mass
of additional shares. Now the author of the
Amiga documents report claims
on Twitter that Ben Hermans sued de Groote last November, a claim that is
confirmed to amiga-news.de by a second source.
The results of this legal battle are currently unknown. There are unconfirmed
rumours that Timothy de Groote, who was still representing Hyperion at the
Amiga 34 last October, resigned from his post as a director in the
meantime and is only listed in that position until a replacement is found. So far
we were unable to either verify or dispel these rumours.
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15.Jul.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Asteroids clone for Vampire: Preview videos for 'Jake and Peppy'
"Jake and Peppy" is a clone of the classic game Asteroids and Super Stardust which is written for the Vampire architecture and therefore requires its Fast-RAM access as well as the extended command set AMMX. On Youtube some preview videos are available which shows the engine.
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14.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 120 of Amiga Future readable online
The English issue 120 (May/June 2016) 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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13.Jul.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Jump'n Run: "Fred's Journey" now also available as a Boxed Edition
Press release: APC&TCP is proud to release the new Amiga game Fred's Journey in a physical version for collectors. A digital copy is provided free of charge. After Trap Runner, Fred's Journey is Retroguru's second Amiga title released on APC&TCP.
About Fred's Journey:
Fred fondly remembers his past journeys on the Commodore 64. Deciding to relive his adventures he heads out again!
Features:
- Runs on any OCS/ECS Amiga, with 1MB RAM from Kickstart 1.2 onwards
- Written in 100% 68k Assembler
- 50fps, soft parallax scrolling, more than 50 colours
- Oldschool pixels
- 20 levels
- 7 chiptunes
- Hidden cheats
- Highscore
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12.Jul.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 11.07.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until July 11th, 2020:
Amix530.lha comm/amiex 998K 68k AmiExpress BBS system redevel...
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 8K 2020 Carset for F1GP
AmiQuake_AGA.lha game/shoot 231K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
AmiQuake_RTG.lha game/shoot 231K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
AmiQuake2_AGA.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II...
AmiQuake2_RTG.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II...
YvesGrolet-sources.zip game/shoot 20M sourcecode for Psygnosis' Ago...
VideoEasel.lha gfx/misc 1.8M 68k THE flexible Cellular Automaton
DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 2.0M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74
GrabPrefsPointer13.lha util/cli 17K 68k Extracts WB1.3 Pointer images...
MMULib.lha util/libs 723K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
ViNCEd.lha util/shell 768K 68k the final CON: solution. ^Z, ...
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 113K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 145K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
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12.Jul.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 11.07.2020
The following archive has been added to OS4Depot until July 11th, 2020:
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
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12.Jul.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 11.07.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until July 11th, 2020:
InvidiousPlayer_1_1.lha A little script to play videos from https://www....
MCC_BetterString_11.34... BetterString custom class for MUI by BetterStrin...
MCC_NList_0.126.lha NList custom classes for MUI by NList Open Sourc...
MCC_TextEditor_15.54.lha TextEditor custom class for MUI by TextEditor.mc...
MCC_TheBar_26.20.lha Next Generation Toolbar MUI Custom Class by Alfo...
OpenSupaplex.lha OpenSupaplex - reimplementation of Supaplex (Clo...
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12.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Stormlord (Ingame Music)
- Turrican II (The Final Fight)
- Elvira - Garden Level (Metal Tribute)
- Carrier Command (2020 Edit)
- Christmas at the Mall
- Christmas Heartland
- Speedweeder
- Xmas Carol In The Nude
- Guitar Slinger Plus
- Apprentice Title (Dream Dancer)
- Cyberpunks World 1
- Occ-San-Geen
- Turrican 2 - The Great Bath (Piano Live)
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12.Jul.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaKit: 8MB memory expansion for the Amiga 1200, version 1.5
The "8MB Fast RAM Memory Expansion (FPU Upgradable)" for the Amiga 1200 provided by AmigaKit was reworked. By version 1.5 the second production run was started featuring a reduced size of the card.
Functions:
- 8 MB 32-bit Fast RAM to boost total system memory to 10 MB
- Memory auto configures with no drivers required
- Second clockport header to give computer more expandability
- Floating Point Unit socket accepting optional 68882 PLCC FPU up to 40 MHz
- Memory can be configured to 4 MB, 5.5 MB or 8 MB Fast RAM using on-board jumpers
- PCMCIA compatible in 4 MB or 5.5 MB mode
(5.5 MB PCMCIA compatiblity mode requires downloadable software patch added to startup-sequence)
- Header for optional Real Time Clock module: available installed at special price
- New version 1.5 design (July 2020)
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11.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vlink 0.16e
Frank Wille has updated his portable linker vlink featuring the following changes:
- Changing the address within an output section in a linker script didn't work correctly when the destination memory region (load-address) differs from the relocation memory region (execution-address).
- Data commands in linker scripts didn't work when there was nothing else in the output section.
- Fixed a segfault when a linker script moves the address counter backwards inside an output section.
- Fixed uninitialized pointer when loading input files via a linker-script INPUT command.
- New linker-script command: RESERVE(n) to reserve n bytes of memory and fill it with the current FILL value.
- FILL-pattern should always be written in big-endian.
- Replaced FILL command by FILL8 and FILL16.
- New option -mall to merge everything into a single output section.
- Weak symbols must only be resolved in executables.
- (rawbin) Motorola S-Records: Fixed start address in S8 and S9 trailer.
- (vobj) Fixed reference to a defined weak symbol in an object.
- (elf) Fixed reference to a defined weak symbol in an object.
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