28.Apr.2024
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Aminet uploads until 27.04.2024
The following files have been added until 27.04.2024 to Aminet:
expression_1.2.lha dev/hwood 24K MOS A hollywood plugin
formator_1.1.lha dev/hwood 14K MOS A hollywood plugin
ods_hwp_1.0.lha dev/hwood 51K MOS A hollywood plugin
turbocalc_1.1.lha dev/hwood 21K MOS A hollywood plugin
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
anaiis.lha driver/oth 240K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.24
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 268K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 46K 68k Massive release 1.24
anaiis_xmass.lha driver/oth 84K 68k xmass examine massstorage
MCE.lha game/edit 4.1M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.7M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
amiget.lha util/cli 34K 68k search & download aminet from...
Image2PDF.lha util/conv 21M ALL convert images to PDF and more
Theme_List.lha util/dir 5.0M NGA list any OS4/AROS/MOS themes ...
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28.Apr.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 27.04.2024
The following files have been added until 27.04.2024 to OS4Depot:
faac.lha aud/con 76kb 4.1 Freeware Advanced Audio Coder
faad2.lha aud/con 217kb 4.1 FAAD2 AAC decoder
seq.lha aud/mis 416kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer
libfaac.lha dev/lib 123kb 4.1 Freeware Advanced Audio Coder li...
libfaad.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 Freeware Advanced Audio (AAC) De...
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
stream.lha uti/ben 51kb 4.0 STREAM is a Memory + floating-pt...
theme_list.lha uti/mis 5Mb 4.1 List any OS4/AROS/MOS themes in dir
image2pdf.lha uti/tex 21Mb 4.1 Convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
thumbnailmaker.lha vid/mis 16kb 4.1 Arexx script for ArtEffect, gene...
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28.Apr.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 27.04.2024
The following files have been added until 27.04.2024 to AROS Archives:
image2pdf.lha off/dtp 21Mb convert images file to PDF
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28.Apr.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 27.04.2024
The following files have been added until 27.04.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
Formator_1.1.lha Dependencies/Hollywood A hollywood plugin to c...
ods_1.0.lha Dependencies/Hollywood A hollywood plugin to O...
Expression_1.2.lha Dependencies/Hollywood A hollywood plugin to c...
snes9x_1.62.3.lha Emulation Snes9x - Portable Super...
MCE_14.70.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
Fallout2-ce_1.3.lha Games/RPG Open source Fallout 2
Image2PDF_2.6.lha Graphics/Convert Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG...
MicroExcel_1.1.lha Office/Spreadsheet A Spreadsheed Editor
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28.Apr.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 27.04.2024
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 27.04.2024:
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28.Apr.2024
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- In the Forest (Midnight Resistance)
- Concerto for Lasers and Enemies (Tyros 3 edition)
- Outrun - Magical Sound Shower (Fast Track Remix)
- Vixen Megablast
(snx)
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28.Apr.2024
Mastodon
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Do it yourself: HD floppy drive - Herr Doktor Diskettenlaufwerk (Amiga-HDDLW)
"Herr Doktor Diskettenlaufwerk" describes the conversion of a 1.44 MB PC floppy disk drive into a corresponding HD drive for the Amiga. It is described for two models, the MPF920-E from Sony and the FD-235HF from TEAC. After the conversion, the speed of the motor is halved, as is typical for the Amiga, when an HD diskette is detected, otherwise it remains unchanged. (snx)
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28.Apr.2024
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A simple AmigaOS GUI in assembler
At the beginning of October last year, Edwin van den Oosterkamp kindly wrote a tutorial for us based on his book "Classic AmigaOS Programming - An introduction" on how to create a GUI in C and thus demonstrated an introduction to C programming. Now he has published a similar example source code on his website, which shows this GUI creation in assembler. This article is not so much a tutorial as an accompanying text to the assembler source code, which has also been made available on the download page. (dr)
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27.Apr.2024
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A-EON announces new version of Personal Paint for A600GS
Press rekease: Cardiff, 27 April 2024
A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce further development of Personal Paint. Latest version 7.4 will be pre-installed on the forthcoming A600GS Computer.
A-EON Technology purchased rights to Personal Paint from Cloanto in 2014 (amiga-news.de reported) which has led to notable development over the last decade for both Classic Amiga systems and Next Generation systems.
Personal Paint has a rich record of being bundled with home computers over the years. In 1996 PPaint 6.4 was part of the Escom's Amiga 1200 Magic Pack. Even more recently in 2016, PPaint 7.3 was bundled with A-EON's powerful X5000 computer system. In 2024 the tradition continues with a new
version 7.4 being pre-installed on the forthcoming A600GS.
A-EON's latest update to this famous paint package accelerates 1080P and larger high resolution screens. 1080P is the resolution that most HDMI televisions operate at and the default screen mode of the A600GS. The drawing tools at this resolution would ordinarily be very slow. However they have now been significantly accelerated by using ARM native code.
The latest Personal Paint 7.4 from A-EON is ready-to-run on the A600GS and will bring a nostalgic paint package experience to modern 1080P televisions.
Matthew Leaman, MD of A-EON remarked: "Personal Paint originated on Classic Amiga systems which are these days becoming rarer, more expensive and requiring on going maintenance. This fact alone does not help to expand the future use of Personal Paint outside the Amiga community. As one of A-EON most important applications, Personal Paint can now have a new lease of life on low cost ARM hardware platform such as the A600GS. We are excited by the development possibilities that this provides for this famous application. We hope we can reach a wider audience, expanding the user base and ensure the application's longevity for many years to come."
Trevor Dickinson, A-EON’s co-founder added: "Personal Paint became the leading easy-to-use Amiga program for bitmapped graphics and animation and was one of the first to support AGA and RTG. We developed updated versions for both 68K and PowerPC, and it's great to see the ARM accelerated version
joining the family."
Personal Paint 7.4 will be launched in Q2/2024 on the A600GS computer system. (dr)
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27.Apr.2024
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AROS: "Irritating bug of the month" April fixed / Poll for May
In the poll for the "Irritating bug of the month" for April, two tasks were selected: in Wanderer, deletion should be allowed by pressing the Del key (#116) and DiskInfo should display the correct FAT instead of the wrong OFS (#105). Both tasks were solved and the corresponding archives (#105 and #116) were made available.
The poll for the "Irritating bug of the month" May has been started. (dr)
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26.Apr.2024
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USB-Stack: ANAIIS 1.24
ANAIIS ("Another Native Amiga IO Interface Stack") written by Gilles Pelletier is an USB stack which also runs on a 68000 processor. This can be used, for example, to operate the Subway 2021 from Alinea Computer. Changes in version 1.24:
- Fix Massive for most usb keys
- Fix hub with more than 4 ports
- Add LoadRDBFS option for massive (crashy thing)
- Wood dragon version
- StartDrivers changes
- remove c.o for massive (bug with output, keeping the cli open with WB1.3)
- CDFS/AmiCDFS
- CD/DVD
For future development steps, Gilles Pelletier mentions, among other things, the optimisation of the graphic interface and the improvement of speed and reactivity. (nba)
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26.Apr.2024
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Video tutorials: Run command and IFF screens in AMOS
In two more videos of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows on the one hand how to call other AMOS programs from existing AMOS programs by using the Run command (YouTube video), and on the other hand how to use an IFF file as a screen (YouTube video). (dr)
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25.Apr.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 157 (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, which is dedicated to flight simulators, is about "Knight of the Sky" and "Duck Hunt". (snx)
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25.Apr.2024
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Survey: Future focus of Kea Sigma Delta's work
Hans De Ruiter's (for example FTP server ZitaFTP) company Kea Sigma Delta has written several books on programming, produced videos and spent most of his time developing his own stuff. In the future, he would like to do more justice to his own slogan "We enjoy creating awesome stuff using software & electronics, and helping others to do the same" and intends to create a membership programme.
For that, he is asking for information in advance about what interested parties need and what their current level of knowledge is. He has published a short survey for this purpose. As he tells us, an "Amiga corner" is also planned based on the response so far. (dr)
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25.Apr.2024
Balaton
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Emulator: QEMU 9.0.0 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.
According to him, the new version 9.0.0 contains improvements of the Sam460ex emulation (faster, support of short drive options like -cdrom & -drive media=..., SFS fixed) and Pegasos2 IRQ fixes. A ready to use binary for Windows 64 bit has already been made available. (dr)
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24.Apr.2024
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit 12.5
The Workbench distribution AmiKit for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Vampire, PiStorm and Raspberry Pi is now available in version 12.5, called "Spring Update".
Besides updates of system files and included programs, also new software has been added, e.g. a converter for HEIF images, the SONOS controller and various Hollywood plugins; the changelog can be found at the title link. (snx)
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24.Apr.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Mini review of Heretic 2
The adaptation of the third-person shooter "Heretic 2", originally released in 1998 for the PC and two years later also for the Amiga, to AmigaOS 4, which was released this year, was subjected to a short review by Pavel 'pavlor' Dohnal at the title link.
His positive assessment is that the game runs fast and relatively stable (tested on a Pegasos 2), supports various graphics standards (software rendering, MiniGL, GL4ES) and can also be played with music without a physical CD in the drive.
Apart from the costs, the disadvantage is that some configuration work is required initially (adapting the keyboard layout, setting up MiniGL and the CD unit to be used). Graphic errors were also noticed at certain screen resolutions, but after contacting the author he expects these to be rectified quickly. (snx)
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24.Apr.2024
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Demo scene: How the Backslide demo was created
At this year's Revision demo party, Backslide to Arcanum by Cosmic Orbs took 3rd place among the Amiga demos. Interest attracted that a large bitmap image rotated effortlessly at 50 Hz in full overscan and 1×1 resolution, moving across the screen and changing size arbitrarily.
At the title link, 'Jobbo' from Cosmic Orbs explains how he went about it. (snx)
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23.Apr.2024
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.38
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
All changes of updated version 0.9.38:
- Trigonometry functions are now intertal and mathtrans library is no longer needed.
- Mathtrans library is no longer copied when building games, diskfont is only copied if topaz is not used.
- Added a condition trigger CPU is to check the processor of the machine where the game is running.
- When building a game targeting A500 assign ENV: to RAM: is not executed.
- Optimization of math functions.
- Fix for tileset not being saved.
- Fix in basic_platformer project that made impossible completing the second stage.
- Fix for Default screen width being overwritten by the level one.
- Fix for Tiled Move action trigger when moving in diagonal.
- Small fixes.
(nba)
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23.Apr.2024
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Arcade port: Phoenix500
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has converted another arcade classic for the Amiga: Phoenix500 is a top-down space shooter (YouTube video) that has been remade for ECS Amigas. (dr)
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23.Apr.2024
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Shoot'em Up: Game.X 1.2
Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has released version 1.2 of his port of the shoot'em up Game.X (YouTube video, amiga-news.de reported). It uses a newer and faster engine and saves the highscore in the game directory if the NVRAM is not available.
The game requires an AGA Amiga and was originally released by Kugenuma Soft in 1990. (dr)
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22.Apr.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 168, preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 168 (May/June 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content of this issue, which features four additional pages, includes interviews with David Pleasance as well as Steve Quartly and Paul Huxham of PhotoFolio, reviews of the AmigaOne A1222 Plus and the (German) AmigaOS 3.2 book as well as an article about parallax scrolling on the Amiga.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
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22.Apr.2024
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Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.3.0 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2.3.0:
- The "Remove unknown modules" options did previously remove modules if a player could not be found or the module could not be loaded. This has been changed, so it will only be removed if a player cannot be found.
- Added a new Level Meter visualizer. This one shows the current level for the left and right speakers in dB.
- If a module is packed, it will now be shown in a separate line in Module Information Window together with which packers that are used.
- Updated SharpCompress to version 0.36.0.
- Updated mpg123 to version 1.32.6.
- Updated libsidplayfp to version 2.7.0.
- Added support to player the David Whittaker module Q-Ball.
- Renamed the AHX player to HivelyTracker + added support for HivelyTracker modules.
- Added these new module formats: SoundTracker 2.6, IceTracker, ProTracker IFF, SC68, Digital Mugician, Digital Mugician 2, SidMon 1.0, SidMon 2.0 and AMOS Music Bank.
An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store. (dr)
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22.Apr.2024
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Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.6 for all Amiga systems
Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 2.6:
- updated guide file
- On MorphOS and AROS the guide file is now copied to the installation drawer
- On MorphOS the "Path" command in s:user-startup is now deactivated
If wanted active, one needs to uncomment it manually, save it
and then reboot the computer
- added possibility to scale images with all chosen formats
- added possibility to compress PDF docs when Ghostscript is installed
- the orientation of PDF docs can now be changed (not with ImageSize format)
- a print margin can be set now
- using commandline will now adapt the orientation automatically (not with
ImageSize format)
- compiled single versions for the supported platforms
- removed applet from archive
- added a print function to print PDF documents
(dr)
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