26.Nov.2023
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Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.4
AmiWeatherForecasts displays current weather information in a small window in the menu bar. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.4:
- Encoding problem is solved
- Some languages removed
- Fixed any icons can be moved via drag and drop on WB
- Get Days and Months from locale
- Added use or not abbreviations for days and months
- Fixed the issue of color changes using system palette
- Removed calibration setting for height of the window
- Added 'Add to Pos Y of Text' button
Direct download: AmiWeatherForecasts1.4.lha (59 KB) (dr)
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26.Nov.2023
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AROS: Poll on "Irritating bug of the month" December
After the "Irritating bug of the month" for November was fixed (amiga-news.de reported), AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has started the corresponding survey for December under the title link:
- AREXX scripts in Core show no output
- UHCTools don't work as expected
- Wanderer Rename: Cannot change size of letters in name without changing name
- DiskInfo showing OFS instead of FAT
- Wrong parsing of boot parameters in Prefs/Boot
- Contrib LHA has issues when used from ZuneARC
(dr)
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26.Nov.2023
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Aminet uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to Aminet:
wla_dx_v10.6.lha dev/cross 8.8M 68k WLA DX - Cross Macro Assemble...
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 873K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
HWP_Plananarama.lha dev/hwood 461K 68k Run Hollywood scripts on plan...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
character-sets.lha docs/hyper 13K IANA Charset MIB (Amiga catal...
drally.lha game/race 387K 68k Death Rally Amiga Port
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 54K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 35M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
NightfallMID.lha mods/midi 1K MIDI GM Nightfall Piano Balla...
file.driver.lha mus/misc 9K 68k CyberSound driver for file ou...
AmiWeatherForecasts1.... util/app 38K 68k Weather forecasting application
BootPicture.lha util/boot 87K 68k Shows pictures, plays sound d...
sysvars.lha util/boot 16K 68k Put system information in env...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.8M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 659K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 771K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 830K OS4 Multipurpose utility
incase.lha util/shell 49K 68k Conditional execution of a sh...
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26.Nov.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 35Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
videntiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Videntium Picta is picture and a...
hwp_plananarama.lha lib/hol 461kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for planar screen
iconecta.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 A little and easy program to tes...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 830kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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26.Nov.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to AROS Archives:
hollywoodsp.lha dev/mis 873kb Spanish Catalog for Hollywood 10
antiryagx.zip dev/uti 359Mb Advanced 2D/3D Game Engine
videntiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb Videntium Picta is picture and a...
iconecta.lha net 2Mb A little and easy program to tes...
(snx)
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26.Nov.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Arexx.lha Dependencies Library to activate Are...
libfreetype2_2.13.2.lha Development/Library LibFreetype 2.13.2 for ...
xad-7z_2.8.lha Files/Archive A client for xadmaster....
fheroes2_1.0.10.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
VidentiumPicta_3.00.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
ReportPlus_8.44.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
YT_2.4.lha Multimedia YT.rexx is a script for...
Easy2Install_1.0b45.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
iConecta_5.10.lha Network/Wifi A little and easy progr...
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26.Nov.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.11.2023
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 25.11.2023:
- 2023-11-25 improved: Traders (Linel) supports another version, new install script, icons added (Info)
- 2023-11-25 improved: Campaign (Empire) supports another version (Info)
- 2023-11-21 improved: Hammerfist (Vivid Image) supports another version (Info)
- 2023-11-21 fixed: Super Hang-On (Sega/Electric Dreams) problem with "Super" animation on some machines fixed (Info)
(snx)
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26.Nov.2023
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Theme set: 32se and 32se-lite v7.40 for AmigaOS 3.2
AmigaOS 32se" is a supplement of themes for AmigaOS 3.2, which is available free of charge in a "lite" version (video) or in a full version (video) for about 1,50 US Dollars. It was tested by the developer Sami Vehmaa under emulators.
Additional to some changes and bug fixes, for the first time the Vampire V4 is experimentally supported. Besides, a new Theme set 9 was added, and the lite version now has free access to four themes. (dr)
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26.Nov.2023
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Dock: QDock V2.07
Since our last news item, Sami Vehmaa has updated his start bar "QDock" to version 2.07 (YouTube-Video), which includes a lot of bug fixes and improvements. (dr)
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26.Nov.2023
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World podcast Episode #177 - Richard Loewenstein
Episode #177 of the 'Scene World' podcast features an interview with Richard 'Spieleschreiber' Löwenstein, former writer for German games magazine 'Amiga Joker', currently developing games for the Amiga, his latest release being Reshoot Proxima 3. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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25.Nov.2023
tuxcam@yahoo.it (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 152 (Italian/English)
PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. REV'n'GE tries to compare ports of old Games to various classic platforms or review lesser known titles from the homecomputer era. The current issues contains reviews of the motorcycle racing game 'Red Zone' and the recently released Amiga port of the old DOS game "Star Wars:Dark Forces". (cg)
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25.Nov.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future issue 140 available online
The German and English editions of Amiga Future's issue 140 (September/October 2019) are freely available on the Magazine's webpage now. A few printed copies as well as high resolution PDF copies can be purchased from the publisher. (cg)
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25.Nov.2023
Darkage Software (ANF)
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Illustrated text adventure: C64 the Mysterious Cassette
"C64 - The Mysterious Cassette - La Cassetta del Mistero" is an illustrated text adventure for AGA Amigas, featuring English and Italian translations. The game was programmed by Colin Vella, with graphics and project management by Paolo D'Urso and music by Allister Brimble. it is based on an Italian novel written by Carlo Pastore.
'C64 the Mysterious Cassette' is available in digital (9,99 Euro) or physical (29,99 Euro) editions. The latter features an USB stick containing the game as well as a DINA3 sized poster.
Note from staff: The publisher's website does not feature any screenshots or videos of the game, a demo version is not available either. Thanks to Jürgen 'Evillord68' Weiß for kindly providing the screenshots for this news item. (cg)
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25.Nov.2023
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AROS: Irritating bug of the month November
Around a month ago, AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz launched a new initiative including a survey: every month, a bug can be selected from a list of bugs that bother the community and have been reported in the bug tracker, which he then fixes. For the month of November, a bug that did not occur 14 years ago was fixed with 40% of the votes: Wanderer can now run CLI programmes with an argument again, so that it behaves like OS3.9. He has released an updated workbench.library V45.4 for this purpose. (dr)
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24.Nov.2023
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Video: A look back at the cracker scene of the 80s
In a video, the YouTube channel "Modern Vintage Gamer" takes a look back at its own history of software piracy in the 1980s, in particular at the time of X-Copy Pro and Amiga. (dr)
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24.Nov.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.2
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Version 1.16.2 of the Greaseweazle Tools provide the following changes:
- DCP, DIM: Fix image import
- Flux: Emit one revolution of flux where possible, rather than two
(dr)
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23.Nov.2023
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Amiga Kit: A600GS Wiki updated
In addition to the launch of a dedicated, albeit currently still empty, A600GS website for the planned games console, which will be available in the first quarter of 2024, the Wiki under the title link has also been updated. According to this, there will be two versions available: "A600GS" will be equipped with 2GB system memory and 64 GB total memory and the "A600GS+" with 4GB system memory and 128 GB total memory. The official joypad will be standard equipment, while the mouse will only be supplied with the A600GS+ or as an additional purchase. This will be required for the standard applications such as Personal Paint (PPaint) and OctaMED. Furthermore, Amibench V46 and Directory Opus 4 GPL are included in the software package. Three screenshots of the Amibench user interface are now also available, showing which icons are used.
As Matthew Leaman from AmigaKit Ltd. informs us, an agreement has also been concluded with Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen. The A600GS contains his original Amiga music tracks "Space Debris" and "Beyond Music" as well as their newer MP3 remasters and remixes. (dr)
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23.Nov.2023
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Video: The best original Rogue game
The Amiga user 'intric8' has published a detailed video for the Amiga website 'AmigaLove' and its YouTube channel under the title link as well as a detailed article about what he considers to be the best implementation of a Rogue game from the 80s: the Amiga implementation. He also discusses other variants and releases. (dr)
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23.Nov.2023
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Developer log: Platform game "Robot Jet Action"
Ten days ago we reported about Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik's start to port his platformer "Robot Jet Action" for the Amiga. Now he has published a first developer update (YouTube video) and describes the progress as follows:
- Working on the first tileset for the first world of the game. What you see on the video is going to be one of the world’s graphics. Still a lot things to do, but at least the idea is here.
- Reimplemented the fuel gauge on the bottom panel. It’s more accurate and animates smoother… and it looks cooler
- Implemented my own fonts routine. I did that mainly to not use any workbench libraries of Amiga system.
- Also implemented my hex to decimal conversion routine that is used to show score and (later) also lifes left
- First initial Implementation of up-down scroll. It needs some tuning but it works.
- The copper colors in the background started to look like some parallax effect which, most likely I will keep in the game in this form
- sprites collisions implemented but turned off as for now
- collisions for collecting diamonds needs tuning as they are not accurate in all cases.
- For the copper colors I’ve implemented set of scripts to convert them from png files. This way I can simply draw them in gfx program and convert to Amiga OCS compliant copper colors. I needed this as there will be a lot of copper colors needed for levels.
- I also have set of scripts that convert tilemaps that I create in Tiled to my own format that I use in the game.
- Some code optimization was done because the game started to slow down on Amiga 500 configs
- some concept works on the overall gfx and design, like for example some experiments with the panel at the bottom
- Regarding the gfx, I usually work iteratively on it so please keep in mind that gfx is going to evolve during the development.
(dr)
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22.Nov.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2023.11.27 (update)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). The Firmware release v2023.11.22, originally described in this article, has been rescinded by the author. He has released v2023.11.27 instead:
- Restore implicit device settings
- Fix device type being ignored in zuluscsi.ini
(dr)
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22.Nov.2023
Vitno
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Emerald Web: Emerald Caves offers 64 new levels
The "Emerald Web" has set itself the goal of offering as many variants and level sets of the legendary arcade puzzlers Emerald Mine and Boulder Dash/Rockford as possible for download (amiga-news.de reported). The "Emerald Caves" now released for both OCS and AGA Amigas (YouTube video) offers 64 new levels. (dr)
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22.Nov.2023
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Preview video: Platform game "Deathmine" (v0.03C)
In the middle of last year, we reported on an early version of the game "Deathmine" as an entry for the Amiga Blitz Basic Jam. At the end of October, the developer 'pixelplop' had converted the game into C/C++ code and has now published a new preview video, showing some new features like animated torch flames, toxic rain drops, glow worms and Morlocks. (dr)
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22.Nov.2023
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Preview video: Shadow Dancer
Mohammed Malik is about to implement one of his favourite games on the Amiga with the Scorpion Engine: Sega's Shadow Dancer. He has now published another preview video. The game is to run on an A500, and a project page has also been set up on GitHub. (dr)
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21.Nov.2023
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Turn-based strategy game: Developer version for "Settle the World"
As Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel writes, from now on the latest development version of "Settle the World" can be downloaded from the project page. The author asks that these versions not be used for public reviews or similar, as they are often poorly tested and contain features that have not yet been fully implemented. However, as updates for the stable branch of the game can only be released at longer intervals, the author hopes to receive feedback for planned or already partially implemented features by testing the developer versions. (dr)
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20.Nov.2023
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Image Gallery: Update of the "Amiga Graphics Archive"
The latest update of the "Amiga Graphics Archive" adds a series of images from the 1988 air racing game Gee Bee Air Rally, whose graphics were created by Mike Nowak. (dr)
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20.Nov.2023
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CLI command: sysvars V0.11
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical frame rate (PAL/NTSC), Kickstart version and revision, version and revision of bsdsocket.library as well as whether the emulator UAE is used - and if so, in which version.
Die Version 0.11 provides the following changes:
- Added the tiny tool KSGE36 to the distribution
- Stands for KickStart greater or equal 36
- Tests if the current OS is at least version 36 (i.e., OS 2.0)
- Used in the test script to decide if an ENV: assign is necessary (which is for OS below 2.0) and commands have to be made resident (see below)
- It is more or less equivalent to calling Version 36 from Workbench, with the difference that it can be freely distributed (unlike the Version command) and also works below OS 1.3
- Improved the speed of the test script in OS1.2 and OS1.3 by putting the ECHO, IF, ELSE, and ENDIF commands into RAM (via resident if in shell)
- The test (in test/echo-test) can be run from workbench or deployed on a bootable floppy for real Amigas. The script CreateTestDisk can be called with a device name (e.g., df1:) to create such a disk
- Fix for AROS (here, SetVar cannot access the bsdsocket.library id string)
- Code builds with most ASM-One flavors again.
- Added version information so you can call Version sysvars
- Code/comment cleanup
Direct ownload: sysvars.lha (16 KB) (dr)
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