27.Dec.2023
Gaming on AmigaOS 4 (ANF)
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Interview with Steffen Häuser (Heretic II port)
In addition to his monthly summaries of AmigaOS 4 news, 'Puni' has now also conducted an interview with Steffen 'TheMagicSN' Häuser, who is working on AmigaOS 4 ports of the games Heretic II and Sin, at the title link. (snx)
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27.Dec.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Review of December 2023
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS news for the month of December at the title link. (snx)
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27.Dec.2023
Nicola Morocutti (ANF)
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Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 17
The seventeenth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available with 50 color pages both as a booklet and digitally, deals with the following topics:
- Games Reviews: Crimbo, STAR WARS: Dark Forces, L’Abbaye des Morts, Death Rally, Emerald Caves, Rally Cross, Project Quest, Super Bagman, Hop to the top: Bunny’s Revenge
- Reviews: IBrowse 3.0, zTools
- Interview: A man called CLOANTO
- Hardware: Greaseweazle and Waffle
- Amiga GCC – Not only Amiga…
- Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Demo Scene, Back Chat
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27.Dec.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 153 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about 1000cc Turbo and Frogger500. (snx)
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27.Dec.2023
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8/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2023-12-26
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now. Changes:
- improves support for Apple II NIB images;
- thanks to @ryandesign corrects Apple II/II+/IIe floating bus issues;
- resolves a potential crash-at-startup for the Enterprise;
- resolves potential stuck-on drive motors on the Amiga;
- resolves some disk writing issues specific to the Enhanced Apple IIe;
- thanks again to @ryandesign also corrects an internal optimisation around Disk II write protection sensing, and an error to do with data bus loading
- adds emulation of the most basic form of IBM PC — an 8086 compatible with MDA or CGA graphics and a floppy drive.
(dr)
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27.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Santa and the Goblin
Havsoft' has also contributed a Christmas game: based on the Atari game Dragonfire and written in Blitz Basic 2, you have to help Father Christmas get his presents back by storming the castle and then collecting them (YouTube video) (dr)
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27.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Deck the Drones
'Amiga Cammy' decided on 23 December to write a Christmas game for my Amiga in the hope of finishing it by Christmas Day. It didn't quite work out, but she would like to share the first playable level with everyone and thus contribute to a successful Christmas. In this platform game (YouTube video), the player must retrieve the stolen Christmas presents from mysteriously reprogrammed delivery drones. (dr)
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26.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Videoplayer MPLayer 1.5RC2
A team of several developers has published a second release candidate of version 1.5 of the video player MPlayer for AmigaOS 4. This version is based on the official MPlayer 1.5 source code, merging code from LiveForIt-MPlayer, MickJT-MPlayer and Andrea Palmatè's MPlayer ports, with several additional changes and improvements. (dr)
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26.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Music tracker Protrekkr 2.6.3r1
Protrekkr (formerly marketed as "NoiseTrekker") is an SDL-based music programme that combines a software synthesiser with a traditional sample-based tracker. Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has now published a first release candidate for version 2.6.3, which is based on the official Protrekkr 2.6.3 source code and on the previous port (version 2.5.5) by Fredrik Wikström. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
Balaton
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Emulator: QEMU 8.2.0 released
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualiser. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software. It is therefore also possible to emulate Amiga operating systems such as AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who has set up a dedicated website with lots of tips and information. As already reported at the beginning of December, the now released QEMU version 8.2.0 also supports AmigaOne emulation via its BBoot bootloader. In addition, the Pegasos 2 emulation now supports the audiodev property (PowerPC changes). For Windows 64 Bit a compiled binary was made available on Christmas Eve. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
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Trevor's Blog: Christmas Present
Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology has published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" for Christmas. In it he reports on the Amiga trade fairs he attended, AmigaKit's A600GS project and also mentions once again the "AAA Technology" alliance formed by ACube Systems, A-EON Technology and Amedia Computer, which is to deliver the long-awaited A1222 Plus.
The A1222 Plus comes with updated ExecSG and uBoot firmware from Steven Solie. Also included in the A1222 Plus package is a new version of DvPlayer (v54.11) that supports A-EON's video acceleration library, enabling smooth playback with clear DMA power audio. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
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Demo: "Castlevania AGA" with stages 16-18
Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). This adds stages 16 to 18, which now include the fight against Dracula, the final boss, in the clock tower. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Merry Xmas (beta version 0.2)
Scorpion Engine developer Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of a fast-paced puzzle platformer game that he created almost entirely in a 16-hour period on Christmas Eve 2023. The graphics are from the Holiday Expansion Set. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
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Preview video: Hyperborea Resurrected
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of continuing a project that was started four years ago and interrupted in the meantime (YouTube videos): back then, he began developing a new shoot 'em up called "Hyperborea" with graphic designer Torben Bakager Larsen, who was also responsible for Battle Squadron, among other things.
Everything from the original prototype code was discarded, started from scratch and only some auxiliary functions from Souverän Soccer were adopted. Technically, the game is as good as finished and has the following features:
- 304 x 256 PAL @ 50 fps (almost always ;) )
- vertical scroller with additional horizontal scrolling (384 pixel wide levels)
- 1p and 2p simultan mode
- 100% flicker free bullets and enemies
- tons of bullets
TTorben Bakager Larsen is back on board, the strict colour restrictions of the old version have been removed. The game is mostly developed in C++ and about 10% in ASM. The video shows the current test level with some enemies and many, many bullets on an A1200 with deactivated turbo card / FastRam. (dr)
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24.Dec.2023
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Aminet uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to Aminet:
aamp.lha comm/www 149M OS4 Amiga Apache MySQL and PHP fo...
aamp-src.lha comm/www 16M Sources of AAMP server package
Kp2023-HonorYourFathe... demo/slide 3.4M 68k Honor Your Father, Slide Show...
dynamic_circle.lha dev/amos 1K circle over three points
ASMPro1.20.lha dev/asm 110K 68k ASM-Pro v1.20 (update)
ASMPro1.20src.lha dev/asm 790K ASM-Pro v1.20 source code
rasm.lha dev/cross 939K MOS Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
SegTracker.lha dev/debug 17K 68k A global SegList tracking uti...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
MeetBall.lha game/2play 193K 68k Bat & ball type of game
TerrybleKnightDemo.lha game/actio 789K 68k Demo of a Ghost`n`Goblins lik...
WhatIFF2.12.lha mags/misc 2.0M What IFF? #2.12-December-2023
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.2M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AChristmasKiss.lha mods/8voic 332K 16bit 6ch XMas Club Jazz by H...
dp_pretracker.lha mus/play 11K 68k PreTracker v1.5 deliplayer
cubic_win_keyboard.lha text/edit 3K Cubic IDE: Windows-like keybo...
aiostreams.lha util/batch 228K Stream video from major onlin...
FastExec30.lha util/boot 12K 68k Moves exec.library to fastest...
AmiSSL-5.13-OS3.lha util/libs 3.7M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.13-OS4.lha util/libs 3.3M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.13-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.8M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
MMULib.lha util/libs 787K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
Quick_1.3.lha util/wb 1.5M MOS A software launch manager
(snx)
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24.Dec.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
snes9x.zip emu/gam 63Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e...
woof.lha gam/fps 13Mb 4.1 A continuation of Lee Killough&#...
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
aamp.lha net/ser 149Mb 4.1 Amiga Apache MySQL PHP. A develo...
aamp-src.lha net/ser 16Mb 4.1 Sources of AAMP (Amiga Apache My...
astralgame.lha uti/mis 5Mb 4.0 A little tool to know zodiac sig...
wb2filer.lha uti/wor 47kb 4.0 Hack to run Filer when dbl-click...
aiostreams.lha vid/mis 228kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
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24.Dec.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to AROS Archives:
AROS-One doc 6kb AROS One x86 ABIv0
black_white_drawers.zip gra/ico 83kb Set of Black & White Icons w...
drawer_games_unofficial_k... gra/ico 258kb Unofficial Drawer Games Icons Ke...
icondrop_12-18-23.i386-ar... gra/ico 70kb Icon Make to make PNG Icons from...
astralgame.lha uti/mis 5Mb A little tool to know zodiac sig...
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24.Dec.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Quick_1.3.lha Ambient/Launchbar A software launch manager
RASM_2.1.lha Development/Cross Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
AmiArcadia_30.71.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
HomeWorld.lha Games/Strategy Full version of Homewor...
Wayfarer_7.2.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
Scriba_1.9.9.lha Office/WordProcessor Simple word processing ...
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24.Dec.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.12.2023
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 23.12.2023:
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24.Dec.2023
MeMo History (ANF)
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Memory game: MeMO 3.20
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has released an update to his memory game MeMO. It is based on the classic memory card game, but in his implementation two players can compete against each other at the same time and compete for the best score.
MeMO requires a 68020 processor and the ECS chipset.
Changes in version 3.20:
- Replaced Nebulus' card with Ring around the World's
- Fixed a stray pixel in Bubble Dizzy's card
- Built against latest custom framework (which ensures that the system MMU setup does not interfere)
- Touched up manual
(snx)
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24.Dec.2023
Puni (ANF)
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Amiga musik database AMP: MP3 mix "December Feelings"
The music database "Amiga Music Preservation" (AMP) has selected 20 tracks to create the right mood for Christmas and compiled them into an MP3 file. (snx)
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24.Dec.2023
Amigatronics (ANF)
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Demoscene review: "Tint" by The Black Lotus (video)
The video by Amigatronics at the title link reviews the demo "Tint" by The Black Lotus from 1996. (snx)
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24.Dec.2023
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Merry Christmas!
Dear readers, dear Amiga friends,
As Christmas draws to a close, so does the year and we would like to take this opportunity to thank our loyal readers, for whom we have endeavoured over the past twelve months not only to collect news, but also to provide background reports, tutorials, anecdotes and so on. It is fascinating how many private, but also professional projects still exist around the Amiga.
Therefore, on the other hand, thanks should also go to all the people who develop these small and large software and hardware projects and sacrifice time for them: without them there would be nothing for us to report on and nothing for the many Amiga users to be happy about, test, complain about... ;)
For this reason, we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year together with a few randomly selected people who represent all the projects we have reported on over the past year! Stay in touch with the developers, the creatives, support them, also by actively participating in discussions in the corresponding news items here: Feedback is always welcome! A big thank you to the graphic designer 'jojo073', who provided us with the Christmas pixel art.
Merry Christmas!
(dr)
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23.Dec.2023
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Developer tools: Amiga SDKs adapted to GCC compilers, Release 1
Cameron 'Nightfox' Armstrong (AmigaGPT) offers SDKs of AmigaOS 3.2 NDK and AmigaOS 4.1 (V54.16) adapted to the GCC compiler based on Stefan 'Bebbo' Franke's Amiga GCC Development Kit (amiga-news.de reported). Changes to the current version:
- Added json-c
- Updated AmiSSL to version 5.13
- Moved AmiSSL libs and includes out of SDK folder
- Add symlinks for /opt/amiga incase you use a Makefile that allows you to build natively
(dr)
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23.Dec.2023
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HxC floppy emulator: Software V2.15.1.2
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
- Many fixes and improvements into the flux stream management :
- One revolution only / 2 indexes support fixed.
- Fix stream files formats export : No more glitch after the first revolution index. (Fix SCP and KF export).
- Sectors recovery support - Can be disabled/enabled with the FLUXSTREAM_SECTORS_RECOVERY variable.
This feature try to automatically recover/fix bad sectors with copies present in others stream revolutions.
- Default pulses timing jitter tolerance increased from 10% to 14% (Config file).
- Kryoflux writer : stream to stream conversion : Don't align output stream to the next index.
- SCP writer : stream to stream conversion : Don't align output stream to the next index.
- SCP loader : Fix singled-sided images support (Fix the number of tracks/cylinder).
- SCP loader : Fix broken support of SCP images with more than 5 revolutions.
- SCP loader : Fix odd number of tracks + double step mode issue (Last track missing).
- Logic analyzer capture loader : nameTT.S.logicbin8bits file name convention support. (TT=track S=side)
- New XML format : MC50/MC300/MC500 formats and empty data disk.
- New XML format : Sharp X68000 2HD disk.
- Track display : Fix possible infinite loop : check the bitrate value and stop + report if needed.
- HFEv3 loader : Support RAND_OPCODE right after SKIPBITS_OPCODE.
- New X68000 DIM file image loader.
- New Apple II 2MG file image loader. (WIP - To be completed)
- XML raw loader : Fix images last sector loading.
- Track editor : New "insert" and "remove" track operations.
- HFE writers : New "HFE_WRITER_WRITENOTALLOWED" parameter : Set it to 1 to write protect the exported hfe files.
- HxC stream (Pauline) : Auto detect and load properly hard-sectored dumps.
- D88 loader : Fix possible infinite loop with corrupted image.
- Batch converter : New BATCHCONVERT_KEEP_SOURCE_FILE_NAME_EXTENSION setting to enable/disable the source file extension to the output file name.
- BMP export : New Stream tracks mode export.
- User interface : Save and restore previous state (WIP, Done : batch converter window)
- NSI Northstar : Some index timings and formats fixes.
- macOS : Better CAPSlib/ipf lib support. (Renaud Guérin)
- New track format : Centurion MFM. (Rick Altherr)
- Code : gcc's -fanalyzer used against the libhxcfe library : Many possible issues fixed !
- Many internal code improvements and fixes.
(dr)
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23.Dec.2023
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Platform game: Demo version of "Terryble Knight"
The author of the RedPill game construction kit, Carlos 'Zener' Peris, started this game project because he wanted to test the slope system in RedPill. With RedPill version 0.9.32, also released today, this slope system has been greatly improved. "Terryble Knight" (YouTube video) uses the assets of Ansimuz, a very good and productive pixel artist. The music was provided by 'Fireb0y'. (dr)
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23.Dec.2023
Mastodon
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Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (V0.0.4)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world". This early demo version now has its first opponents, even if the score is not yet calculated correctly. The game uses the free graphics set "NEONworld", which Kevin Saunders made available as part of the Amiga Art Contest 2020 (amiga-news.de reported). The game should run on an Amiga 500.
Direct download: NeonWorld.adf.zip (70 KB) (dr)
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22.Dec.2023
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Web browser: IBrowse 3.0a
One month after the release of version 3.0 of his web browser "IBrowse" (amiga-news.de reported), Oliver Roberts has made an update available. Although, as he writes, "things have gone pretty smoothly", one problem in particular went largely unnoticed: a bug in the HTTP(S) module could trash memory, which could result in either instant crashes or seemingly random crashes at a later stage. For this reason, all users are advised to update their IBrowse 3.0 installation using the supplied installer. See the History log page for full details of the changes in this update. (dr)
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22.Dec.2023
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.13 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.13 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.2 including important security related fixes, a built-in HTTP(S) client and comes with new encryption ciphers. Detailed changes:
- Switched to OpenSSL 3.2, with full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.2.0 (23.11.2023) version, which includes the following new features:
- Support for client side QUIC (RFC 9000)
- Support for Ed25519ctx, Ed25519ph and Ed448ph in addition to existing support for Ed25519 and Ed448 (RFC 8032)
- Support for deterministic ECDSA signatures (RFC 6979)
- Support for AES-GCM-SIV, a nonce-misuse-resistant AEAD (RFC 8452)
- Support for the Argon2 KDF (RFC 9106)
- Support for Hybrid Public Key Encryption (HPKE) (RFC 9180)
- Support for SM4-XTS
- Support for Brainpool curves in TLS 1.3
- Support for TLS Raw Public Keys (RFC 7250)
- Support for using the IANA standard names in TLS ciphersuite configuration
- Multiple new features and improvements to CMP protocol support
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html dated 12.12.2023.
- Use Exec mutexes instead of semaphores on AmigaOS 4.x, decreasing system overhead.
- Use ASOPOOL_Protected instead of our own semaphore protected memory pool on AmigaOS 4.x.
- Improved error handling should failures occur early in library initialisation.
- The installer now properly handles any certificates that may have been disabled by the user and will update them, but leave them disabled.
- The installer on AmigaOS 4.x can now install the libraries whilst AmiSSL is still in use, provided elf.library 53.35+ is installed and no instances prior to AmiSSL 5.6 are still in memory.
Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.13-OS3.lha (3,7 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.13-OS4.lha (3,4 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.13-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)
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21.Dec.2023
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Sprite Tricks: Stunt Car Racer
On Codetapper's Amiga Site there are interviews and various articles as well as a Sprite Tricks section, in which the author tries to find out what tricks the programmers use to master tricky or demanding graphic tasks. In the linked article he takes a look at how the tops of tyres are displayed with sprites. (dr)
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21.Dec.2023
WinUAE Homepage (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 5.1.0
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.1.0. Changes:
New features/updates: UI
- On screen keyboard. Default mapped to pad button 4.
- Gamepad GUI control. Use game pad to control WinUAE GUI with some limits.
- Optional dark mode (Windows 10 or newer required)
- Emulation window dragging and resize does not anymore pause emulation.
New features/updates: emulation
- Built-in Munt MT-32/CM-32L emulation. Emulated devices listed in MIDI out setting. ROM images should be in \mt32-roms. or c:\mt32-rom-data\.
- AT&T DSP3210 emulation (AA3000 prototype). Not complete.
- More programmed chipset screen mode emulation improvements.
- Disk emulation improved, undocumented disk read DMA “last word may not come in” bug emulated.
- Chipset emulation updates and fixes.
- “Autoclip screenshots” option now supports programmed native screen modes.
- Native<>RTG and RTG<>RTG mode switching optimizations.
- A2410 display card emulation updates, works now with new Picasso96 driver.
- Input panel Backslash/F11 option now has third option that restores pre-5.0 keymap behavior.
- Do not list GPT partitioned harddrives in “Add Harddrives” panel.
- Football Director 2 dongle emulation.
- Quickstart Host Configuration menu first option renamed, “Default configuration” -> “Current host configuration”. Added new option “Default host configuration” that resets host configuration to defaults.
- Hard reset now randomizes CPU reset start up delay and initial floppy motor position.
Bugs fixes
- DMS brute force decryption failed to work with some encrypted DMS files.
- Alt-Tab from D3D11 fullscreen RTG mode made hardware mouse cursor invisible.
- Some configurations crashed when GUI Reset or Restart button was clicked.
- Enter GUI, eject disk, insert new disk, exit GUI: Disk was inserted immediately which is physically impossible and can confuse programs. Inserting disk without manually ejecting it first worked correctly.
- GUI Restart button didn’t fully restore GUI position/size if “Restarting” from fullscreen or full-window mode.
- Some configs crashed when GUI Restart button or Reset was pressed.
- WASAPI sound was disabled if sound driver only supported 8 channel audio.
- Some configurations opened multiple tiny inactive multi-monitor mode emulation windows without enabled multiple monitors.
- Workbench programmed screen mode (DBLPAL etc) positioning was not always correct when switching from other native mode.
- None serial port emulation mode and fast CPU configuration: serial port driver hung if serial data transmit was attempted.
- Integer scale + full window: Display panel windowed width and height was used instead of full window size (desktop size) when calculating scaling values.
- Screen might have flickered when starting Picasso96 RTG screen dragging.
- Multiple 0x76 partitions per HD/card can be mounted now, previously only first was mounted and the rest become zero size non-existing drives.
- USB HID input device usage page check fixed, it accepted devices that had nothing to do with being input device.
Gamepad GUI control details
- A = select (pad mode)/left mouse click (mouse mode)
- B = right mouse click (mouse mode).
- Y = change active GUI area (pad mode)/TAB UI element change (mouse mode).
- D-pad = select UI elements, “pad mode”.
- Left stick = move mouse, “mouse mode”.
Currently requires XInput compatible gamepad.
Onscreen keyboard details
- Pad button 4 is default mapped to open/close on screen keyboard input event (if loaded config has button 4 mapped to something else, button is not mapped to OSK)
- Pad button/d-pad that normally controls Amiga joystick moves keyboard selection. Joystick movements and button presses are not sent to Amiga side as long as OSK is open.
- Fire button press = send selected key’s press
- Fire button release = send selected key’s release
- Second button press = toggle state of selected key. Keep shift or control or other qualifier key pressed.
- Second button release = does nothing.
- Keyboard layout is US layout + 2 keys that are used in international layout variants + few bonus “keys”.
- If GUI is entered when OSK is open, GUI pad control is automatically enabled.
(dr)
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AmigaOS 4: AAMP 2.1 (Apache, MySQL and PHP)
AAMP offers a development environment on your Amiga, with which you
can create and test your own web projects. Similar to the well-known XAMPP
package for Linux and Windows, it contains the HTTP (web) server "Apache"
with compiled-in support for the scripting language "PHP" (version 8.0.28 and
5.2.10) and the database server "MySQL" version 5.5.10. (amiga-news.de reported).
The new version 2.1 contains many improvements and also some bug fixes. The main innovation is a new control centre that can be used to manage all servers:
Detailed changes:
- The "AAMP-Control" tool is now available for the central administration of
all servers and settings. In addition to Apache and MySQL, it can also be
used to manage the PHP development server and the Subversion server
"svnserve". The scripts "Start_AAMP.bat" and "Stop_AAMP.bat" are now
obsolete and no longer included.
All other start and stop scripts are still included, but the use of
"AAMP-Control" is recommended.
- Update of the Apache web server from version 2.2.11 to version 2.2.34.
- The configuration of the Apache SSL module is now complete and working. So
that clients can work with it without problems, there is a selection of
CA root certificate collections in the Contrib folder, which also contain
the server's certificate. Simply replace the required file of the client or
browser.
- The package now also includes a complete package of "phpMyAdmin" in version
5.0.4. This has been patched for better compatibility with PHP 8 and is
already preconfigured. The package will be installed automatically during
the installation of AAMP.
- Optimized autostart at system start or when starting "AAMP-Control".
- Update of the CA root certificates (Mozilla certificates as of 20.11.2023).
- The default WebDAV directory is now "AAMP:Apache/uploads" and no longer
"AAMP:Apache/htdocs/dav".
- The Subversion package has been recompiled using the new Apache 2.2.34
libraries.
- Various bug fixes. For existing errors please read the section "Problems"!
(dr)
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