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22.Mar.2024



Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #169 - Amiga iBrowse 3.0a Review and Tutorial
In the 169th edition of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton focuses on the iBrowse 3.0a web browser. (snx)

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22.Mar.2024



Atari ST: EmuTOS 1.3 released
The Atari ST and TT compatible operating system EmuTOS is now available in version 1.3. EmuTOS can also be run on Amiga computers, Vampire turboboards or the THEA500Mini using ROM files based on it. (snx)

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22.Mar.2024
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Der Standard: Bobby Kotick, who wants to buy Tiktok, once interested in Amiga
The Austrian daily newspaper "Der Standard" reports on Robert 'Bobby' Kotick at the title link. The former Activision boss had put himself forward as a possible buyer should the US business of TikTok be sold.

In this context, the newspaper recalls that the entrepreneur had unsuccessfully tried to take over Commodore International in 1987 and modify the successful Amiga 500 model - namely by removing the drive and keyboard and turn it into a games console. His plans were thwarted by Commodore boss Irving Gould. (snx)

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21.Mar.2024



Emulator: WinFellow 0.5.11
Release candiate 1 of version 0.5.11 of the Amiga emulator WinFellow has been released. The default display driver has been changed from DirectDraw to Direct3D 11, where supported. In addition, keyboard-initiated reset in Amiga Forever has been implemented. Besides, there are numerous bug fixes and code improvements.

Update: (30.03.2024, 06:56, dr)

The release originally named as RC1 is now listed as version 0.5.11 (official news). (dr)

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21.Mar.2024
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.8 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.7 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes:
  • fixed WebAnimations support
  • fixed several issues with the internal refresh loop
  • fixed taking screenshots of scrolled-down pages
  • file:// handling fixes
  • updated libxml2
Update: (23.03.2024, 08:02, dr)

Meanwhile version 7.8 (changelog) is available which fixes a regression in OpenURL support and improves handling of Open File and OpenURL to allow loading of files with non-ascii characters. (dr)

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21.Mar.2024



Article series: The history of software soundtrackers (parts 1-3)
30 years ago, Xavier Borderie had fun making music on his Amiga with the help of Protracker. This was the reason for him to take a look behind the scenes in a series of articles and write about those who made soundtracking possible:

Soundtracker origins, part 1: Where in the World is Karsten Obarski?
Here the author wants to find out when the way music is composed made the leap from a physical hardware product to a software product. Who was the first person to come up with the programming of this interface? Is it really Karsten Obarski, the father of The Ultimate Soundtracker?

Soundtracker origins, part 2: Welcome to Turrican, aah hahahaha
Karsten Obarski apparently got the inspiration for "The Ultimate Soundtracker" from a tool called SoundMonitor, which the developer and musician Chris Hülsbeck released for the Commodore 64 in 1986 - a year before Obarski's own Ultimate Soundtracker. Hülsbeck was 18 years old at the time. Was this the beginning of software trackers?

Soundtracker origins, part 3: Facing a stone mountain
The history of software sound trackers seems to go back even further: in the second of the series, Chris Hülsbeck told the author that he remembers using Steinberg's MIDI Multitrack Sequencer tool on the Commodore 64 computer, around the time he was writing his own tool, Soundmonitor.

Soundtracker Origins, interlude: The coders behind the Cambrian explosion
In this somewhat off-topic article, Xavier Borderie spoke to the developers of the various Soundtracker clones, including the developers of Protracker and NoiseTracker. (dr)

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21.Mar.2024
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Demoparty: Posadas Party 2024 (Posadas/ES, 28.6.-30.6.)
In the very south of Europe, the demoscene has been celebrating occasionally for many years, since 1995, at the Posadas party in the town of the same name north-east of Seville.

The Posadas has its origins in the Amiga demoscene, and this is also reflected in the current competitions: entries in the demo, intro and cracktro competitions are only permitted for Amiga OCS or Amiga AGA. The best-known release on the Posadas to date is most likely the 1995 demo Batman Vuelve by the Batman Group.

In addition to the competitions, there will also be two concerts this year by electro music artists KHROME and Narcisound.

According to the organisers, pre-sales for the party will begin in a few days. (nba)

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21.Mar.2024



Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.3.0 for Amigas with 68060 processor
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3: the latest version 2.0.1.01 is available for RTG-Amigas and AGA-Amigas with 68060 processor and is based on ScummVM 2.3.0 for the first time. (dr)

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21.Mar.2024



Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0
Developer Michal Schulz has released the first stable version 1.0 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Emu68 1.0 contains all the changes from 1.0 RC1, RC2 and RC3 plus some additional fixes and improvements. Starting with Emu68 1.0 all users are encouraged to use official releases only and do not use nightly builds unless really necessary.

About this release and the changes, Michal Schulz has written in detail on his Patreon website and also recommends this YouTube-Video by Tomaz. (dr)

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20.Mar.2024



Shoot 'em up: R-Squadron
Developer Monster's Legs has made a name for himself in the scene with games for the ZX Spectrum. Recently, he has released a previously unpublished shoot 'em up for the Amiga, which he designed as a 16-year-old in the 1990s: "R-Squadron" was created using the legendary SEUCK ("Shoot 'em up Construction Kit") and deals in a humorous style with resurrected arcade games from the 70s and 80s that attack the earth - and, of course, only the player can stop them!

R-Squadron can be downloaded free of charge in ADF format from the website at the title link. (nba)

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20.Mar.2024
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Demoparty: Outline 2024 (Ommen/NL, 9.5.-12.5.)
Since 2004, Outline has been an important part of the demo scene, attracting creatives from Benelux, Germany and other European countries. This year, the demoparty will take place during the extended weekend around Ascension Day, from 9 to 12 May 2024, in Ommen, Netherlands - tickets are still available.

Although the Outline is an Atari party at heart, all platforms are welcome, as the open competitions show: the demo, intro, graphics and music competitions are open to so-called oldskool and newskool systems, but with a focus on 8-bit computers and PCs. (nba)

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20.Mar.2024



Handheld console: "Amigo Tracker" 1.15 for PlayDate
PlayDate is a handheld games console released in 2022 by the US software developer and computer games publisher Panic Inc (Wikipedia). As the operating system is kept open, external developers can also write software for the console using Lua and C (and a simulator). At the end of January, Outgunned Games released a first version of his "Amigo Tracker": a retro player that can play 4-channel ProTracker modules.

Since then, he has corrected numerous errors and made improvements (dev log) and released version 1.15 yesterday. (dr)

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19.Mar.2024



Snake conversion: "Letter-Worm" for AmigaOS 3 and 4
For fun, 'tickBit' has released a Snake implementation with letters for the Workbench for AmigaOS 3 and 4. The game requires the respective background graphics in a "gfx" folder.

Worm-OS4

Downloads:
Letter-worm-OS4-exe.lha (7 Kb)
Background picture OS4
Letter-worm-exe.lha (11 Kb)
Background picture OS3
(dr)

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18.Mar.2024
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Modern text engine for Hollywood: Pangomonium 1.0 supports Emojis
Press Release: Airsoft Softwair is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a powerful new plugin for Hollywood: Pangomonium - the ultimate text engine for Hollywood. Pangomonium is a plugin of epic proportions and the first plugin to require Hollywood 10. Pangomonium contains an ultra-modern text engine that is at the cutting edge of technology and can draw text in almost any language in the world.

Pangomonium-Logo

In addition, Pangomonium also supports fonts with colored characters, making it finally possible to write programs on Amigas that support colored emojis! Pangomonium is based on the established Pango and Cairo libraries and also allows Hollywood scripts to call all Pango/Cairo functions directly. Of course, there is also a simpler interface to draw text via Pangomonium without having to deal with Pango/Cairo in depth. Pangomonium has been two years in the making and is now finally ready for release, exclusively for Hollywood 10.

Here are just a few of Pangomonium's impressive features:
  • Text can be drawn in almost any language in the world, including complex fonts and layouts such as bi-directional text, left-scrolling fonts, vertical layouts, etc.
  • Support for fonts with color characters (finally emoji support on the Amiga!)
  • Two high and low level interfaces for beginners and advanced users
  • Hollywood scripts can use all Pango and Cairo functions (over 500 of them!)
  • seamless integration into the text interface of Hollywood 10 allows very easy use
  • the plugin can also replace Hollywood's vector graphics engine
  • extensive documentation in AmigaGuide, HTML, CHM and PDF formats (over 300 pages!)
  • over 30 ready-to-run example scripts
And best of all, Pangomonium is available to download for free from the official Hollywood portal. At least Hollywood 10 is required. Thanks to Hollywood's platform-independent plugin system, there are versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux, macOS and Windows. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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18.Mar.2024
Simon Neumann (ANF)


Alinea Computer will take over distribution of the next two Hyperion games
Press release: We are pleased to announce that we, as Alinea Computer, will take over the distribution of the next two games from Hyperion Entertainment. The cooperation so far has been excellent and we hope to continue it to realize further projects. Our first game as a distributor will be Heretic II for AmigaOS 4, which can be ordered at the title link. Dealers should contact us directly as a distributor. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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18.Mar.2024



Linux: Kernel 6.8 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.8, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests.

Download: linux-image-6.8-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (61 MB) (dr)

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18.Mar.2024



Tower defense: "Dice Masters" 1.00 for Apollo Vampire V4
In Sami Vehmaa's tower defence game "Dice Masters", the player has to fend off aliens on a spaceship (amiga-news.de reported, YouTube video of version 1.00). Now all ten levels as well as an arcade mode are available. A demo version with one level offers the opportunity to try out the game free of charge. (dr)

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17.Mar.2024



Shaviry: DIY Amiga RGB to VGA adapter and monitor switcher
Shaviry is a new hardware project created by hobby developer Enrique Ferrari Lorenzo. It combines an Amiga video-to-VGA adapter and a monitor switcher, featuring an integrated RGB amplifier to minimise vertical bars and improve display quality. Shaviry is explicitly not a scandoubler, so the connected monitor(s) must support 15 kHz video signals.

The mode of operation of the adapter can be controlled using jumpers: Shaviry thus functions as a pure VGA adapter on Amigas that are not equipped with a graphics card or HDMI-to-VGA adapter, and/or as an automatic input switcher controlled by Switchcontrol via CIA or parallel port or by switch, Arduino or similar via a 5-volt signal. A built-in optocoupler component prevents overvoltage in this process. The switchover with a CRT monitor is immediate, with an LCD monitor it takes a little longer, according to the developer's description.

Tests were carried out by the developer with an AGA Amiga and THS7374 and THS7376 RGB amplifiers. Using the THS7374 with 9.5 Mhz filter bandwidth, the vertical bars are slightly visible, but the image is blurred, according to the developer. The THS7376 produces a sharp image and the bars are almost invisible.

Shavira is currently not offered commercially, but is aimed at the growing do-it-yourself community, i.e. those who are not afraid to wield a soldering iron. The developer Enrique Ferrari Lorenzo provides the PCB data for KiCad and Gerber files on the project page on GitHub under the title link for free download and provides a complete overview of the required components along with extensive image and video material for support. The current revision is REV23012024 from 23 January 2024. A readme about Shaviry is also available in English. (nba)

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17.Mar.2024



Aminet uploads until 16.03.2024
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to Aminet:
amosreg.lha              dev/amos   6K    68k Edit AMOS Pro username and regno
evo.lha                  dev/e      673K  68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
c2plib.lha               dev/misc   204K  68k chunky2planar as an Amiga sha...
x68k2amiga.zip           dev/misc   25K   68k Convert X68000 exec/data file...
MultiJoyTest.lha         driver/inp 6K    68k Test a MultiJoyAdapter (8 joy...
GIScopaAdf.zip           game/board 340K  68k Italian card game
slotgameadf.zip          game/board 308K  68k Slot Game
F1GP2024Carset.lha       game/data  8K        2024 Carset for F1GP
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha      game/misc  55M   68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.3...
battaglianavaleadf.zip   game/think 328K  68k GI Battaglia Navale 
slotgame.lha             game/wb    240K  68k Slot Game
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   7.2M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   7.5M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   7.7M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.7M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
LN32024Theme.lha         mods/misc  109K      4ch 16bit LN3 2024 New Theme ...
WHDArchiveExtractor.lha  util/arc   14K   68k Automates extraction of WHDLo...
DOpus4Manual_de.lha      util/dopus 120K      German DOpus 4 manual
AmigaGPT.lha             util/misc  909K  AOS App for chatting to ChatGPT
WHDLoadMenu.lha          util/misc  485K  68k A WHDLoad frontend
ConsumerV1.0.lha         util/moni  228K  68k Memory Log Tool, to Screen & ...
(snx)

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17.Mar.2024



OS4Depot uploads until 16.03.2024
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 8Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
dgen-sdl.lha             emu/gam 4Mb   4.1 Emulator of the Sega Genesis/Meg...
sdl2.lha                 lib/mis 7Mb   4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
litexl.lha               uti/tex 2Mb   4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
ffmpeg.lha               vid/con 51Mb  4.1 Video and audio converter
(snx)

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17.Mar.2024



AROS Archives uploads until 16.03.2024
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to AROS Archives:
bp_dev_tools_accessories.zip aud/edi 1Mb   Development  B&P For Tools a...
arrakis.i386-aros.zip        dem/sce 3Mb   port of the Arrakis demo for Ipo...
nano.i386-aros.zip           dem/sce 4Mb   port of the nano demo for Ipod b...
(snx)

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17.Mar.2024



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.03.2024
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_31.0.lha       Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
Iris_1.22.lha             MorphOS-update            Iris, the MorphOS email...
Wayfarer_7.6.lha          MorphOS-update            Wayfarer is the latest ...
Lite-XL_2.1.3r1.lha       Text/Edit                 Lite XL is a lightweigh...
(snx)

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17.Mar.2024



PDF manual: DOS documentation in the works
At the title link on GitHub Thomas 'ThoR' Richter, one of the developers of AmigaOS 3.2, has started work on a PDF manual for the dos.library in the style of the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals. (snx)

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17.Mar.2024



Amiga-Scoopex-C: Conversion of the Assembler tutorial into C
The GitHub project Amiga-Scoopex-C is a conversion of the examples of the Amiga assembler course "Amiga Hardware Programming", which can be found on YouTube, into the C programming language.

Now all 11 previously created instructions have been adapted to the current version of vscode-amiga-debug, so that functions such as INCBIN-CHIP have become available. Each episode now consists of a single source code file. In addition, the existing instructions for the Copperlist have been revised so that the data no longer has to be copied to Chip RAM at runtime. (snx)

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17.Mar.2024



Video: Review of the PowerShark
In a detailed video report, Robert Smith tests the "PowerShark", a USB-C-based power supply for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 keyboard cases (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)

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16.Mar.2024



YouTube: Recording of the PiStorm-presentation at FOSDEM 2024
Andrew "LinuxJedi" Hutchings, full-time CCO for the MySQL alternative MariaDB Foundation, is known as a developer of hardware and software for the Amiga. At FOSDEM 2024, an open source developer conference held on March 3rd to 4th, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium, Hutchings gave a presentation on "PiStorm - The evolution of an open source Amiga accelerator", which demonstrates the modification of the Raspberry Pi mini motherboard as an Amiga turbo card and is available on YouTube.

In the presentation, Hutchings demonstrates the use of the PiStorm32-Lite on his Amiga 1200 and talks about this and other topics:
  • What the PiStorm really is, both as hardware and a community
  • The history of the project, including the bumps along the road
  • Directions that is intended to take the project in the future
  • A demonstration of what PiStorm is capable of
The recording can be accessed via the title link. (nba)

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16.Mar.2024



Video tutorial: Parallax scrolling in AMOS
Following on from the screens tutorials (1, 2, 3), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how to achieve parallax scrolling with the dual playfild command in the latest part of his tutorial series. (dr)

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