06.Apr.2024
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Artikel: Sampling sound on the Amiga
An Amiga has stereo line-out connectors that allow it to play audio, but normally no audio inputs. In order to record sound with the Amiga, additional hardware had to be purchased. This article by Edwin van den Oosterkamp describes an example of such hardware, the "Sampling Cartridge" for the Amiga, which is also available as Open Source project. (dr)
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06.Apr.2024
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Do it yourself: Amiga 2000 5.25" front panel for PiStorm 2K
Klaus Kupferschmid's GitHub project at the title link is about a 5.25" front panel for the Amiga 2000 with openings for USB ports, switches and a MicroSD slot for usage of a PiStorm 2K together with the, originally external, keyboard switch A234. (snx)
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05.Apr.2024
OSnews (ANF)
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History of technology: The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disc
IEEE, an online magazine specialising in technology topics, has published a background report on the storage medium floppy disk and the company 3M that is well worth reading.
Floppy discs had an amazingly long life - it was only in January 2024 that the Japanese government announced that it would no longer require floppy disc copies of government applications. 3M got out of the data storage business some 28 years ago when it transferred its floppy disc production to an outsourced company called Imation. Imation still exists, under the name Glassbridge Enterprises, but with a much lower profile.
You can read the entire article in English under the title link. (nba)
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05.Apr.2024
Amigans.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonHD V5.20 for Sam460
The RadeonHD driver software is a graphics driver for RadeonHD graphics cards for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). Version 5 only supports "Southern Islands" cards (HD7000 series), but offers hardware-accelerated video decoding (Enhancer Software 2.2 required). The new version 5.20 has now been released for the Sam460. The changes:
- Fixed a potential crash in the find card code when the card is already in
use
- Fixed an infinite loop in code to get PCIe speed capabilities, which would
trigger if the parent PCIe device isn't the root controller
- Disabled GART for the Sam460 again (was accidentally enabled)
- The usleep() threshold for using the timer device was broken a while ago.
FIXED
- Rewrote usleep() so it no longer needs to open/close the timer device
every time there's a longer delay (lowers overhead)
- Now skips attempting to initialize the card altogether if the card is
already in use
- Fixed a potential crash if initializing the driver failed
- Enabled the UVD interrupt (trap handler)
- Fixed interrupt handling for the Sam460. Caching on PCIe reads from VRAM
was causing the interrupt handler to read stale data, resulting in missed
interrupts which, in turn, causes a complete freeze. Added fallback and
workaround code
(dr)
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04.Apr.2024
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.4 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.4 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes:
- Requires Greaseweazle 1.16.3
- Read: Added new template "Commodore C64 SingleSided 48-TPI floppy disks (35 tracks).inir" by Richard Verlinden
- Write: New option --gen-tg43 generates 8-inch /TG43 signal on pin 2
- Write: Added new template "CommodoreC64170kbSingleSided(35tracks).iniw" by Richard Verlinden
- Read: --dd option renamed to --densel
- Write: --dd option renamed to --densel
- Read: Fixed reported issue #5: File extension error when select EDSK format
- Convert: Fixed reported issue #5: File extension error when select EDSK format
(dr)
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04.Apr.2024
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Casual puzzle game: Kondi Krush
"Kondi Krush" is a clone of the smartphone classic Candy Crush: On a playing field filled with sweets, the aim is to place at least three identical elements in a row and making them disappear from the playing field by swapping two pieces of sweet in each turn.
Kondi Krush versions are offered for a host of retro platforms: In addition to the Amiga port (Video), there are also conversions for Commodore 64, Commodore 16/Plus 4 and the Hungarian Videoton TC Computer.
Direct Download:
Executable: kondikrush-amiga (432 KB)
ADF image: kondikrush-amiga-adf (880 KB)
(cg)
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04.Apr.2024
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Interview with AmigaOS 3.2 developer Camilla Boemann
David Brunet has published on his Obligement website an interview with the Danish developer Camilla Boemann, who is part of the AmigaOS 3.2 team.
Besides the english version at the title link there is also a french one. (snx)
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04.Apr.2024
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Video tutorial: Extended Parallax scrolling in AMOS
Following on from his parallax scrolling tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at how to implement commands such as Double Buffer, Autoback, and Screen Swap in order to address some of the scrolling issues in the latest part of his tutorial series. (dr)
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04.Apr.2024
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Preview video: Pumpman v0.003
In addition to several other projects such as "Deathmine", 'PixelPlop' is also working on the game "Pumpman" (amiga-news.de reported), for which he has now published a new preview video. Changes:
- "Fake" vertical scrolling allowing for more floors.
- Increased the spacing between floors.
- Dithering pattern added to the background to help smooth the colour gradient.
- Added a bonus balloon that floats up between the floors.
- Added a trap door at the top so you can complete/exit the level.
- Status bar is now mostly functional.
- Redrew most of the gfx to add more detail.
- Added/changed some sfx.
- Bugfixes.
(dr)
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03.Apr.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 13 of "WhatIFF?"
"WhatIFF?" is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. The topics of the thirteenth issue include reviews of hardware (e.g. xT Amiga 600 Turbo Card, Open Amiga Sampler) and games (e.g. The Deep, Dice Masters), instructions (e.g. Game Graphics: What NOT to do, Making Modules 101 Part One) and interviews (e.g. Massimo Loi, Simone Bevilacqua). (snx)
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02.Apr.2024
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Operating system: NetBSD 10.0
The Unix derivative NetBSD has been released in version 10.0. The eighteenth major version of the NetBSD operating system is also available as an original port for PowerPC-Amigas (experimental) and 68k-Amigas.
The global changes since the last version 9.3 are listed on the NetBSD website and include numerous performance, security and general aspects. Two new features are listed specifically for Amiga systems:
- support for Kickstart 3.2 (the release from 2020)
- loadbsd bootloader now loads the kernel into the highest priority memory segment instead of the largest segment
The following system requirements are specified for installation and operation on 68k Amigas: Amiga with 68020 processor or higher with MMU, at least 24 MB Fast RAM and at least 250 MB free hard disc space. An FPU is not required; according to the developers, the system "does not run correctly" on LC processors 68LC040 and 68LC060 as well as on the 68040V. (nba)
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02.Apr.2024
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Video tutorial: First steps in game porting with the Scorpion Engine
In addition to existing video tutorials on using the Scorpion Engine, its developer Erik 'earok' Hogan shows in a short video how to proceed when porting an existing game. (dr)
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02.Apr.2024
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Demoparty: Demos and results of Revision 2024
This year's edition of the demoparty Revision took place this Easter weekend in Saarbrücken (amiga-news.de reported). In two YouTube videos you can watch the competition entries in the categories Amiga Intro and Amiga Demo. The winners are ((overview of all entries and winners on Demozoo):
Amiga Intro
Amiga Demo
(dr)
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01.Apr.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for March 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)
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01.Apr.2024
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Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.2 for Windows, Mac and Linux
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Amiga. Version 0.6.2 provides many bug fixes, improvements and new effects.
The songs can be exported as audio files (.wav), VGM files and ZSM files (for Commander X16). An manual is available. (dr)
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01.Apr.2024
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Puzzle game: Glubble
The "Revision" demo party takes place in Saarbrücken over the Easter weekend. The group Oxygen has published a puzzle game there called "Glubble", in which blobs of the same color have to be pushed together to form groups of the same color.
Glubble is a conversion of the PC game Yugo Puzzle. The title runs on any Amiga with one megabyte of RAM. If you want to play from hard disk you need more RAM. (cg)
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31.Mar.2024
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Aminet uploads until 30.03.2024
The following files have been added until 30.03.2024 to Aminet:
ign-AddOn-ODS.lha biz/spread 203K OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
amigassh.lha comm/net 30K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga
amospro_darkula.lha dev/amos 26K Dark theme for AMOS Professional
amospro_setflash.lha dev/amos 3K Edit AMOS Pro cursor flash
expression_1.0.lha dev/hwood 23K MOS Hollywood plugin: calculate e...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
P96Tests.lha dev/src 103K P96 Test programs
BWBasic111_Manual.zip docs/help 497K bwBASIC111 Manual AND Orig. i...
F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 8K 2024 Carset for F1GP
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha game/misc 55M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.5...
Exult_AGA.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (Exult)
Exult_RTG.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (Exult)
ODAMEX_AGA.lha game/shoot 19M 68k Amiga port of Odamex (DOOM)
gitressetteadf.zip game/think 351K 68k Tressette a Perdere card game
gimemorygame.lha game/wb 262K 68k GI Memory Game
gimemorygameadf.zip game/wb 326K 68k GI Memory Game
2D_ATcad_UAE.lha gfx/misc 526K 68k 2D-CAD-Programm
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 7.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 7.8M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 8.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
tap2dsk.lha misc/emu 78K 68k Oric tape to disk
2D_ATcad_UAE720.png pix/misc 20K ATcad_UAE in 720p
gicalaratafont.lha text/bfont 11K 68k GI Caralata Font
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 910K AOS App for chatting to ChatGPT
isomount.lha util/rexx 24K Mounting img,iso,adf... on do...
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31.Mar.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.03.2024
The following files have been added until 30.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
libfreetype.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 A Free, High-Quality, and Portab...
libsdl2_ttf.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.1 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL2
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
losmalditosdemo.lha gam/adv 20Mb 4.0 Adventure point and click R.P.G.
thf.lha gam/fps 301Mb 4.0 THF for Heretic II Multiplayer Mod
amigagpt.lha net/cha 910kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 203kb 4.1 Ignition addon for access ods-files
meminfo.lha uti/har 23kb 4.0 show meminfo usage in a GUI
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31.Mar.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.03.2024
The following files have been added until 30.03.2024 to AROS Archives:
barsnpipesaros.lha aud/edi 10Mb Port of Amiga 68k Midi Sequencer
residualvm-0.3.1.i386-aro... emu/mis 4Mb ResidualVM
scummvm-1.9.0.i386-aros.zip emu/mis 16Mb ScummVM
losmalditosdemo.lha gam/adv 20Mb Adventure point and click R.P.G.
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31.Mar.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.03.2024
The following files have been added until 30.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
tap2dsk_2.1.lha Emulation/Misc A tool that builds a Se...
LosMalditos_1.00.lha Games/Demo Adventure point and cli...
DirSize_2.6.lha System/Shell Calculate directory sizes
neatvi-14.lha Text/Edit Neat vi clone
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31.Mar.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.03.2024
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 30.03.2024:
- 2024-03-26 new: De Profundis (The Deadliners Lemon. & Oxygene) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2024-03-26 fixed: Fusion (Bullfrog) check disk protection in game patched now (Info)
- 2024-03-26 fixed: Hard Drivin' (Domark) fixed keyboard on version SPS0126 (Info)
- 2024-03-26 improved: Alien Breed 2 (Team 17) added modding options, better blitter waits for A1000 (Info)
- 2024-03-25 fixed: Second Samurai (Psygnosis/Vivid Image) disk change patch in OCS version fixed, game now continues to end sequence after defeating the final boss (Info)
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31.Mar.2024
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Video tutorial: WIFI internet on Amiga with BlueSCSI v2
BlueSCSI v2 is an SCSI solution for retro computers. Based on the Raspberry Pi Pico-W microcontroller, there are further possibilities, though.
The Video at the title link demonstrates how one can also use it to access wireless LAN, thanks to an Amiga driver written by Rob Smith. (snx)
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31.Mar.2024
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Video: The Amiga 500 as a guitar pedal
The video at the title link demonstrates the ability of the Amiga to serve as a guitar pedal to alter the sound of an electric guitar in real-time. (snx)
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31.Mar.2024
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2024.04.01
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.04.01:
- Unified USB Mass Storage for RP2040 and GD32F205 platforms
- Move RP2040 based projects to new framework
- DaynaPORT Wi-Fi Amiga patch from Rob Smith
- Implement the SCSI side of a SCSI control and data transfer mechanism
- Allow custom block sizes, addresses issue
- Fix Plextor 0xD8 SCSI vendor command
- Free some SRAM by putting some code in flash
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