04.Apr.2019
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Shoot'em Up: Port of "Kobo Deluxe"
Artur Jarosik has ported the shooter Kobo Deluxe (screenshot) to AmigaOS 3. At least an Amiga with 68060 processor and graphic board are required, a Vampire is recommended.
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04.Apr.2019
Olaf Schönweiß (E-Mail)
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Lawsuit: Court denies Cloanto's motion for preliminary injunction
In the lawsuit between Cloanto and Hyperion yesterday the court has denied the motion for preliminary injunction against the sale of AmigaOS 3.1.4 (PDF file). After the futile attempt of registering the trademark "Workbench" also in the EU, this is the second setback for Cloanto in a row.
The court found that Cloanto could not provide sufficient evidence for the claimed irreparable harm. This decision does not affect the judgment of the principal proceedings: Was the sale of AmigaOS 3.1.4 lawful?
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03.Apr.2019
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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MorphOS: Internet radio player RNORadio
RNORadio (screenshot) "is a GUI based internet radio player program for MP3 streams" which provides the following features:
- Two GUI options: MUI or custom skin(s)
- Displays stream titles in real-time from the MP3 metadata
- Comprehensive station editor with an option to download station logos from a local drive or Internet
- Supports multiple streams per station
- Can import streams from PLS, M3U, Extended M3U, and XSPF playlist files
- Has a Shoutcast search window
- Animation support for custom skin elements, including a station's logo
- Alpha transparency support in custom skins with images and animations
- Can display extra information from stations, but currently it only shows the "OneLiner" chat from Nectarine in the MUI GUI
- ARexx, command line, and tooltypes support
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Apr.2019
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Tutorial: Using a Linux box as a Proxy for SSL connections
While AmiSSL 4 makes a modern version of SSL available for AmigaOS 3, software that supports it is still hard to find. And given its slow CPU, an Amiga is barely able to decode modern SSL cyphers anyway. amiga-news.de reader 'Cego' solved this problem by using a PC running Linux - you could also use a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian - as a proxy:
In this scenario the Amiga is sending all of its HTTP request to the Linux box, which handles all communication with the Internet. Since the connection between the Amiga and the Linux box is never encrypted, the ancient Commodore computer is no longer burdened with encrypting and decrypting packages and its user doesn't have to worry about protocol compatability or certificates.
Requirements
To get started, we need to have the following things available:
- a computer running Linux (e.g. Debian, Raspbian) and an account with Root privileges
- sslstrip for Linux
- the IP address of the Linux box. This can be determined by entering hostname -I in a terminal
- IBrowse
1. activate IP forwarding
First we have to activate IP forwarding on the Linux box, by entering the following in a terminal:
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
2. install and activate SSLStrip
Now we have to install sslstrip by invoking the following command with Root privileges:
apt-get install sslstrip
Then we start the program from the terminal:
sslstrip
3. configure IBrowse's proxy settings
Now we run IBrowse on the Amiga and tell it to use a proxy by enabling it in Preferences -> Network -> Proxy. Make sure you configure a proxy for "HTTP" (not "HTTPS") and enter the IP address of the Linux box here. sslstrip is using port 10000 by default, so that's what we need to enter here.
How it works
As far as IBrowse is concerned, the entire Internet is now available without encryption. Should a website enforce an SSL connection, the Linux proxy will take care of that and remove any encryption before forwarding the content to the Amiga - which frees the latter from the ressource-heavy process of decryption.
Thanks to IBrowse's "URL Prefs" functionality, you could selectively enable or disable the use of the proxy for certain sites, but it's just as convenient to simply enable/disable the proxy using the Preferences -> Proxy menu or via the global configuration. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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02.Apr.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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TCP/IP-Stack: SDK update 1.4 for Roadshow
For developers now version 1.4 of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for the TCP/IP stack Roadshow is available. The update became necessary because of the Amiga port of NetSurf that makes use of the SDK.
download site (snx)
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01.Apr.2019
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Preview video: Super Star Blast (Entwickler-X)
The latest project of Entwickler-X (e.g. Emotion, M.A.C.E., Tap Jewels, Bubble Shooter DX) obviously is a remake of the Amiga classic Transplant. On YouTube a video was published which shows some scenes from the game announcing releases for modern platforms as well as for AmigaOS-4.1.
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[News message: 01. Apr. 2019, 23:44] [Comments: 0]
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01.Apr.2019
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Canceled game project: Street-Fighter-2 clone "World Warrior"
"World Warrior" was the attempt of a programmer to overcome his disappointment about the moderate quality of the Amiga port of "Street Fighter 2". In his blog the author described how the project started and explained some of his decisions regarding the game design. Besides, an unfinished version is available for download. The auhor remarked: "The option screen doesn't work and you can only play against another human player...and the round goes on forever as there's no health system."
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[News message: 01. Apr. 2019, 23:36] [Comments: 0]
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01.Apr.2019
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Source codes of VirusExecutor, ABBS and PlayItPro released
With permission of the author Jan Erik Olausen, "4play" has released the source codes of VirusExecutor, the mailbox software ABBS and of the 8SVX sample players PlayItPro at Github. It is also planned to release the sources of VirusZ V2.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Apr. 2019, 23:27] [Comments: 0]
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01.Apr.2019
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: hURL 1.0 released
Press release: Yes, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, did it again! This time we proudly present hURL - the ultimate multi-protocol data transfer plugin for Hollywood. Based on curl, hURL supports an incredibly wide range of transfer protocols, e.g. DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. Furthermore, hURL supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, HTTP/2, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Plain, Digest, CRAM-MD5, NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and more. It really is the ultimate data transfer engine for Hollywood, leaving nothing to be desired!
There are two ways of using hURL: There is a high-level interface that can directly hook itself into Hollywood's network library, enhancing it with hURL functionality like SSL/TLS support. This makes it possible to use Hollywood commands like DownloadFile() to download files using custom protocols that Hollywood itself doesn't support, e.g. SSL/TLS.
Another way of using hURL is the low-level interface: This interface allows you to access the curl API directly from Hollywood scripts. This is extremely powerful because it allows you to access hundreds of different curl options, making it possible to fine-tune hURL to your specific needs. Just to give you an idea of how powerful hURL is: it contains over 500 (!) commands to fulfil all your data transfer needs!
Finally, hURL comes, as usual for Hollywood plugins, with extensive documentation in various formats like PDF (over 300 pages!), HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM that contains detailed descriptions about all functions and methods offered by the plugin.
All of this makes hURL the ultimate data transfer tool for Hollywood that contains everything you need to send and receive data via almost any transfer protocol on the planet.
hURL is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS 3.x (m68k), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), Mac OS X (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64) and Android (arm, arm64) are provided.
Note that on AmigaOS and compatibles, AmiSSL 4.x is required by hURL. Since this isn't available in a native MorphOS version yet, you can just use the 68k version of AmiSSL 4 on MorphOS. It has been verified to work fine with hURL. (snx)
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31.Mar.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 30.03.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 30th, 2019:
F1GP2019Carset.lha game/data 23K 2019 Carset for F1GP
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 16M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
D1X_Rebirth_RTG.lha game/shoot 1.9M 68k Amiga RTG port of Descent
MiniKonnex.lha game/wb 31K 68k Connect all tiles!
MixTiles.lha game/wb 33K 68k Place tiles of same colour to...
Passage.lha game/wb 35K 68k Move gates and get to the exit
ViewLHA.lha gfx/show 11K 68k View graphics files compresse...
Novalight.lha misc/emu 85K 68k Very fast tape loader for Oric
xpdftools_401_m68k.lha text/misc 5.0M 68k Tools to manipulate pdf docum...
MMULib.lha util/libs 718K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 99K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 130K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.src.lha util/sys 2.1M Commodore Installer replacement
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31.Mar.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.03.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 30th, 2019:
bermudasyndrome.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.1 Bermuda Syndrome
five.lha gam/boa 10Mb 4.0 Gobang game (aka. Gomoku, Five-i...
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31.Mar.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 30.03.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until March 30th, 2019:
rdesktop-1.6.0.i386-aros.zip aud 404kb rdp protocol server and client w...
zolb.i386-aros.zip gam/adv 3Mb Fan made Zelda style SDL game.
zroth.i386-aros.zip gam/adv 2Mb Fan made Zelda style SDL game.
viewlha.i386-aros.lha uti/arc 19kb Cli tool to show image(s) includ...
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31.Mar.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 30.03.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until March 30th, 2019:
montreal_hd.zip Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks montreal_hd.zip
melbourne_hd.zip Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks melbourne_hd.zip
monza_hd.zip Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks monza_hd.zip
hockenheim_hd.zip Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks hockenheim_hd.zip
hungaroring_hd.zip Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks hungaroring_hd.zip
indianapolis_hd.zip Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks indianapolis_hd.zip
imola_hd.zip Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks imola_hd.zip
interlagos_hd.zip Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks interlagos_hd.zip
VGP2-Monaco.zip Games/Race/VGP2/Tracks Additional Track for VGP2.
VGP2-Sepang.zip Games/Race/VGP2/Tracks Additional Track for VGP2.
InstallerLG_0.1.0a35.lha System/Shell Commodore Installer rep...
menu_graphics.zip Games/Race/VGP2 menu_graphics.zip
ShogoLauncherUpd.lha Games/Shoot 3D/Shogo ShogoLauncherUpd.lha
ShogoDemoUpd.lha Games/Shoot 3D/Shogo ShogoDemoUpd.lha
ShogoDemo.lha Games/Shoot 3D/Shogo ShogoDemo.lha
2007_Carset_and_Driver... Games/Race/VGP2 2007_Carset_and_Driver_...
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31.Mar.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.03.2019
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installer has been added until March 30th, 2019:
- 2019-03-25 improved: Premiere (Core Design) reduced chip memory requirement, fixes intro sound issue/crash (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Mar.2019
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:
- Apydia - Game Over (Memorial)
- Varanen
- Turrican 2 (The Final Challenge)
- Turrican 2 - Freedom Rocks (Freedom vs. Desert Rocks)
- Echoing (2019 Metal Version)
- Cream of the Earth (Firefox Dirty Drummer Remake vs. Romeo Knight)
- Lost Patrol (Interlude)
- Turrican - Cyborg Dragon Remix
- Turrican - Victory Dr.Future
- Turrican II - The Great Bath (World Instruments Rendition)
- Enchanted Land - The Cave
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31.Mar.2019
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Interview with Paolo Cattani (Virtual Grand Prix)
For the Spanish website Amigatronics, Paolo Cattani was interviewed. Among others he wrote the racing game "Virtual Grand Prix" released in 1999 as well as its MorphOS successor released in 2005.
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31.Mar.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 96 (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 on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Genetic Species", "Myst", "Sub Simulator" and "Sturmtruppen".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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31.Mar.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Crowdfunding: Double-CD collection with remix music of Amiga games
Under the title link you are invited to spend money for releasing two remix CDs called "Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude". So far 10785 of 18597 Euro were pledged and still 28 days are left.
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[News message: 31. Mar. 2019, 09:13] [Comments: 0]
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31.Mar.2019
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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3D print: A590 replacement cases
The Dutch website 3dpintserviceshop.com meanwhile also offers a replacement case for the harddrive SCSI controller A590.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Mar.2019
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Game prototypes: AlarCity and Blask
AlarCity Dungeon Prototype (video) is an early prototype of Erik 'earok' Hogan's top-down-view-shooter AlarCity which still is in development. According to the developer the prototype "no longer represents our vision for the game" offers 55 playable rooms and "there is a final objective to reach". Blask is a first person shooter written in AMOS for A500 (1 MB RAM) in which the player can move into eight different directions.
Download
AlarCityDungeonPrototype.lha (512 KB)
Download website for Blask
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27.Mar.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Game: Bridge Strike
Bridge Strike developed by Project R3D is a River-Raid clone. Two and half year after the pre-release, meanwhile the shoot'em up has been completed and is available as commercial download or CD version under the title link.
At the RetroKomp in Gdansk the game won the second prize.
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[News message: 27. Mar. 2019, 13:10] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2019
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 4.2.0
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE present a short preview to the changes of the next version. WinUAE 4.2.0 is supposed to be released at the beginning of April and will provide the following features:
New features:
- uaegfx and Picasso IV Overlay/PIP support.
- All GUI listviews support column order and column width customization.
- Custom ROM selection (4 slots) added.
- Direct3D 9/11 shader embedded config entry support.
- 68030 MMU instruction disassembler support and other disassembler fixes.
- 68030 MMU emulation will now also create short type bus error stack frames when possible, matching real 68030 behavior.
- Windowed mode keeps aspect ratio if CTRL is pressed while resizing.
- Added debugger invalid access logger (memwatch l).
- Reject Alt+<some key> Windows system menu key shortcuts. Invalid short cut combinations can generate annoying Windows alert sounds.
- KS ROM selection supports loading and relocation of hunk and m68k elf executables.
Bug fixes:
- Direct3D 11 shader support fixes.
- CDTV CD drive read/play startup delays adjusted. Fixes Town without no name speech audio track stopping too early.
- Accelerator board CPU fallback (to mainboard CPU mode) works again.
- Many video port adapters (which includes grayscale mode and genlock) didn’t support all doubling modes.
- Minor custom chipset fixes (Small graphics corruption in certain special situations)
- Moving mouse outside and back to WinUAE window in Magic mouse activated WinUAE window even if some other window was already active.
- AVI recording with non-standard refresh rate was reset to default if GUI was entered and exited during recording.
- uae-configuration returned return code 10 even when matching config entry was found.
- “Add PC drives at startup” enabled and same drive’s root directory also mounted manually: drive was mounted twice. (Introduced in 4.1.0)
- Genlock transparency didn’t always activate even when genlock emulation was enabled.
New emulated hardware:
- Pacific Peripherals Overdrive
- IVS Trumpcard
- IVS Trumpcard 500AT
- ICD Trifecta
- BSC Tandem
- ACT Prelude and Prelude 1200
- Harms Professional 3000
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26.Mar.2019
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Full version for download: Populous clone Genesia
The Amiga Future offers the Populous clone Genesia released in 1993 for free download. ADF or IPF images as well as WHDLoad installation are available.
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[News message: 26. Mar. 2019, 00:18] [Comments: 0]
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