19.Jan.2024
|
Diving game: "The Deep" V1.00 for Apollo Vampire V4
A few days ago, we reported on the preview video of Sami Vehmaa's latest project: a diving game exclusively for the Apollo Vampire V4. He has now released version 1.00, which is currently available for 2.50 euros. (dr)
[News message: 19. Jan. 2024, 18:38] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
19.Jan.2024
|
Multiplayer arcade game: "WiZONK!" v0.1
On the occasion of this weekend's Amiga Ireland 2024, Michael 'Mixel' Dawes is making available a first playable version of his multiplayer arcade game "WiZONK!", which he is developing with the game construction kit "Scorpion Engine".
In an arena, you have to defend yourself as a wizard against (up to) three enemies with a range of mystical powers and, if possible, be the last one standing.
This multiplayer test is intended for two to four players, who either play against each other using a multiplayer adapter or two players with a joystick and two with a keyboard. Wizonk's multiplayer component is basically free of charge - although anyone interested can take advantage of the opportunity to honour the developer's work with a little donation. In the future, there will also be an improved Wizonk+ with a single-player mode, which will then be subject to a charge.
Wizonk should run on all Amigas with 1 MB. If there are any problems, the author asks you to inform him. Known bug: On some systems, when loaded from the workbench, the title screen freezes (usually you press fire to skip it). If you boot without the startup sequence, it should work fine. The developer will add more levels over time. (dr)
[News message: 19. Jan. 2024, 14:40] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
18.Jan.2024
|
Analogue Pocket: Amiga-Core V0.2.1
The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. Version 0.2.1 has now been published of the Amiga Core. Changes:
- ICACHE Fixed for WDLOADER to work correctly
- LBA48 is done to make larger HDD images to 2TB in size
- The Joysticks are completely disabled when using the emulated mouse or keyboard
- Audio Mixing - Still some work to be done here to get rid of the snap or pops from the lower frequencys to 48Khz
- Some changes to the caching for the MPU to speed up some processes
(dr)
[News message: 18. Jan. 2024, 21:11] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
18.Jan.2024
|
Amiga Games That Weren't: Stuntman Seymour
Codemasters is a British developer and distributor of video games that has been part of Electronic Arts since 2021. At the end of December last year, the website "Amiga Games That Weren't" reported on the game studio's platform game "Stuntman Seymour", which was probably started in the late summer of 1992 and largely, if not completely, finished. The game is a spin-off of CJ's Elephant Antics, also developed by Codemasters.
As the site reports, the finished game was probably not published because new quality standards were introduced at the time, according to which games with only a single protagonist, for example, did not meet these standards. In addition, the game developer focussed more on console games than on home computer games. The game is now available under the title link. (dr)
[News message: 18. Jan. 2024, 09:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
18.Jan.2024
|
Preview video: Robocop (AGA), Update #13
Daniel Allsopp is working on a port of the arcade classic "Robocop" by Data East. The aim is to significantly surpass the official Amiga version. After a year, Allsopp has now published a new preview video of his title developed in 68k assembler, which requires an AGA computer (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)
[News message: 18. Jan. 2024, 09:01] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
17.Jan.2024
|
MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.12.41
Rafał Zabdyr has released a third beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required. This release includes many fixes, UI/UX changes and improvements, the diff accuracy mode by 'word' and a application settings window have been added. (dr)
[News message: 17. Jan. 2024, 22:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
17.Jan.2024
|
Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.10.0 (beta version)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. Changes of version 0.10.0:
- made some changes to the code generation function to add a window id enumeration
- changed window 'name' property to 'identifier' and added some validition
- added a user manual text file
The author asks you to test ReBuild extensively and report any bugs to him.
Download: rebuild0.10.0-beta.lha (160 KB) (dr)
[News message: 17. Jan. 2024, 22:04] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
17.Jan.2024
|
Game development: IFF/ILBM exporter v1.4 for Aseprite
Recently We introduced a script written by Prismatic Realms for the image editor Aseprite that converts graphics into an IFF/ILBM file. With the current version 1.4, the script recalls the previous export path and file name, which makes the workflow a little more efficient. (dr)
[News message: 17. Jan. 2024, 21:55] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
16.Jan.2024
|
Preview video: Platform game "Robot Jet Action 2"
Almost two years ago, Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik released the platformer "Robot Jet Action" for the C64. Now he is working on porting the game to the Amiga and has called it "Robot Jet Action 2". The author has listed the new features:
- Level screen scrolling in 4 directions
- Initial boss level implementation
- Initial implementation of the worldmap / level selection screen
- A lot of implementation and bug fixes
- what you see is going to be World #1 and Gfx for World #1 is almost done.
- Initial implementation of bigger enemies (wider that 16 pixels sprites)
(dr)
[News message: 16. Jan. 2024, 21:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
16.Jan.2024
|
Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.5 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 2.5:
- rearranged GUI to make it more intuitive
- melted the target requesters to one single target requester
- added source PDF-file requester to GUI for PDF2Image and PDF2PDF
- added function "Image2Image" to change the format of images
- added function "scan file(s)" to determine the attributes of the image(s)
- added function "rem (dup)" to remove duplicate entries from the listview
- added function "check" to check the given images if they are valid to
process and to clean the listview from unvalid image files
- added possibility to scale images to a fixed size
- added more formats for Image2PDF (B4, B5, US, Executive, Comm10)
- installer now sets the OS automatically (thanks Daniel ;-))
- key F1 now opens the guide file as help too
- updated tooltips
- optimized output messages
- fixed a bug where "read source" did not work correctly sometimes
- many improvements done "under the hood" ... ;-)
(dr)
[News message: 16. Jan. 2024, 21:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
16.Jan.2024
|
Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.2.0 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 2.2.0:
- Updated to .NET 8.
- Can now show sample information from TFMX modules. Because the TFMX format does not have a sample list structure like other module formats, it is hard to find out how many and where the samples are stored. Therefore sometimes you will see that a sample may be splitted into several samples or other small glitches.
- SidPlay will now show the right number of channels used to play the module in Module Information window. Normally, this will be 3, but for multiple SID chips module, it will be higher.
- Oktalyzer player will now convert 7-bit samples to 8-bit when loading a module.
- Will now be able to start playing on systems which has more than 2 speakers setup. Thanks to Raph99-Thanys and 7zxkv for reporting this.
- Removed the latency option again from the CoreAudio agent. It is now hardcoded to 200 ms, since it gave problems when it was too low when playing e.g. SidPlay modules.
- The sample visualizers now show the whole buffer and not only the last 20 ms.
- Now the module information updating also uses the mixer latency settings.
- The module information window will not switch tab back to the default one anymore, when changing sub-song.
- Added close button in message boxes.
- It's now possible to press the F1 key in any window to open the relevant help page.
- When you press the next module button, the end of module list settings will be used to find out what to do.
- Updated mpg123 to version 1.32.4.
- Updated SharpCompress to version 0.35.0.
- Updated Krypton.Toolkit and Krypton.Navigator to version 80.23.11.321.
- Updated libsidplayfp to version 2.6.0.
- Renamed Atari Octalyser to just Octalyser.
- Moved MultiTracker, FastTracker, Mod's Grave, Digital Tracker MOD and Octalyser formats from ModPlayer to Xmp.
- Added new TakeTracker format, since LibXmp can detect the difference between FastTracker and TakeTracker.
- Added Scream Tracker 3 MOD, OpenMPT MOD and FlexTrax formats.
An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store. (dr)
[News message: 16. Jan. 2024, 21:17] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
16.Jan.2024
|
ACube Systems: Guides for Radeon driver and USB/SD boot on Sam4x0
Press release: Dear valued customers,
We have received numerous inquiries regarding the appropriate Radeon driver to use and how to go about it. We understand that using AmigaOS 4.1 can be a bit challenging in this regard, so we would like to provide you with some helpful information to make the process easier.
Please take a moment to read this PDF Radeon QuickGuide, which discusses the various versions of Radeon drivers and provides instructions on how to install them on AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition. It is crucial to carefully go through the article to ensure a smooth installation.
Additionally, with the Make Bootable USB-SD QuickGuide we have prepared an article on utilizing an USB key or SD card that contains an AmigaOS 4.1 system, allowing for easy booting on Sam4x0 systems. We understand that working with an USB key / SD card may not be as straightforward as it should be, so we are here to assist all our customers and fellow Amigans in the Community.
We genuinely hope that you find these details invaluable and that they enable you to utilize AmigaOS 4.1 on Sam4x0 at its best. (dr)
[News message: 16. Jan. 2024, 06:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
15.Jan.2024
|
Preview video: "The Deep" for Apollo Vampire V4
Sami Vehmaa's latest project will be an action adventure exclusively for the Apollo Vampire V4: as a diver you try to find the 50 loads of gold that a sunken ship once carried. (dr)
[News message: 15. Jan. 2024, 22:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
15.Jan.2024
|
Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.2
ApolloExplorer is a simple file exchange programme that can be used to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga running an Apollo card and vice versa over the network. A server software runs in the background on the Amiga and allows a client running on a PC with Windows, Linux or MacOS to connect to the Amiga and browse the local hard drives. Changes in version 1.1.2:
- Hopefully the Amiga server shouldn't crash anymore on any machines. Please let me know if it does for you.
- The annoying bug on MacOS where the folder contents (not the folder) were copied when dragging a folder is fixed. Finally!
- Fixes for the blinking drive icons
- The browser window should remember the user's selection of list or icon mode
(dr)
[News message: 15. Jan. 2024, 21:55] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
15.Jan.2024
|
Game Construction Kit: Video tutorials for the Scorpion Engine
The Scorpion Engine is not only intended for developers, but - as Erik 'earok' Hogan, author of the Game Construction Kit, emphasises - for anyone who wants to create a game for the Amiga. With the Scorpion Engine, he is trying to realise a project that strikes a balance between user-friendliness, performance and flexibility. We therefore asked the developer to what extent video tutorials are available.
Just recently Erik was a guest on AmigaBill. The recording of the live stream available on YouTube shows in great detail how a very simple game can be created from scratch using the Scorpion Engine. Coincidentally, it uses the same Terybleknight artpack that was used in a Redpill game.
The video series launched in April 2022 in collaboration with Michael Parent from BitBeamCannon (amiga-news.de reported) was also continued: Making Games with Scorpion Engine has six parts.
Finally, please refer to the video tutorial on creating a vertically scrolling demo, which we also mention in our update messages. (dr)
[News message: 15. Jan. 2024, 11:27] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
14.Jan.2024
|
Tool: Mnemosyne V1.2.0
Mnemosyne is a tool for AmigaOS 3.x that shows how much space files and folders take up on the hard disk. It is supposed to help manage the space on the hard disk better. Mnemosyne is written in C and uses ReAction. ClassAct is required under AmigaOS 3.1 and 3.1.4.
Version 1.2.0 provides the following changes:
- Added ability for ToolType usage.
- Added feature for Rounding numbers.
- Added NOROUND ToolType to prevent Rounding if chosen.
- Added Menu Toggles for Tooltypes.
- Updated Images to represent new Version.
- Added Tooltypes information to Wiki and Guide.
- Making Tooltypes available for CLI Use as well.
- ReImplemented -g flag to GUI flag.
- Fixed Incorrect overflow handling.
You can get further information from the Wiki.
Direct download: Mnemosyne-1.2.0.lha (80 KB) (dr)
[News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 21:37] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
14.Jan.2024
|
Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.6
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. Changes in version 5.6.6:
Bugfixes
- WHDBooter would default to 020 CPU in cases it should use 68000
- WHDBooter should detect AGA/CD32 games and use 020 CPU for them
- don't exclude the fps counter calculation
- switch back to normal vsync
- Revert timing changes, as some users reported problems
- don't keep native window size when opening an RTG screen
- Fix zero length disk dma not finishing when dsksync is detected.
- Do not generate Fat Gary delay/exception if Z2/Z3 board unmapped space access.
- floppy sounds did not load on macOS
- fix floppy sounds dir name should be lowercase on macOS as well
- dlopen was broken on macOS after previous changes
- changing the value of capture_always on the fly didn't work
- don't enable RTG hardware sprite by default
Improvements
- Updated WHDLoad to latest version
- remember window position and size
- merge recent updates from preview
- improve DrawBridge functionality
- merge statusline updates from preview
- implemented multithreaded RTG rendering
- fix background color for main window selectors
- allow higher V.Offset values
- allow more values in joy-mouse settings
- Do not force key release if mouse capture was requested but mouse was already captured.
(dr)
[News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 17:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
14.Jan.2024
|
Blog: Mingo's Commodore Page" becomes "Mingo's Commodore Blog"
Domingo has been running his "Mingo's Commodore Page" for almost two decades and has published numerous instructions, information and tips there. Now he has moved to Google's blogger service at a new address and has already published a new tutorial for Amiga users on data exchange between Amiga and PC via the serial interface (German).
The move had become necessary due to permanently rising costs with the previous provider, the enormous amount of time required for maintenance (which is no longer necessary with the new provider) and the code of the old website, which had become increasingly complex over the years and therefore more difficult to manage.
As Domingo tells us, the old manuals will be revised and gradually republished in the new blog. The focus of the blog is on tutorials, but there will be "reviews" of Commodore hardware and software, such as the one about the Amiga 1200 (German).
Unfortunately, however, not everything can be transferred 1:1 from a website to a blog, so it remains to be seen whether and what else will be on the blog. In any case, the current plan is to post a new entry at least every 10 to 14 days. (dr)
[News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 17:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
14.Jan.2024
|
Tool: identify-library 44.1
A week ago Richard Körber released version 44.0 of his identify.library. This update mainly is a bug fix release:
- Bugfix: Emu68 MMU was not detected correctly
- Bugfix: OCS Denise was not detected
- Bugfix: Apollo 2030 was not detected
- 68EC030 is recognized now (if mmu.library is present)
- Added Emu68 Unicam Board
Downloads:
IdentifyDev.lha (67 kB)
IdentifyUsr.lha (101 kB) (dr)
[News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 13:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
14.Jan.2024
|
Aminet uploads until 13.01.2024
The following files have been added until 13.01.2024 to Aminet:
JP20.lha demo/mag 1.4M 68k Jurassic Pack #20
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 88K 68k P96 Preferences Editor
VA2000.card.lha driver/vid 5K 68k Alternative VA2000 P96 driver
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
IcePrincess.lha mods/8voic 486K 16bit 6ch Wiener Royal Waltz ...
WarpWebPdt.lha util/dtype 285K 68k WebP image datatype V45.5
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 67K 68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyLib_FR.lha util/libs 21K French catalog and docs for i...
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 101K 68k Identify hardware and more
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 16M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
(snx)
[News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 08:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
14.Jan.2024
|
OS4Depot uploads until 13.01.2024
The following files have been added until 13.01.2024 to OS4Depot:
seq.lha aud/mis 427kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer
warpwebpdt.lha dat/ima 285kb 4.0 WebP image datatype V45.5
fuppes.lha net/ser 15Mb 4.1 Free UPnP Entertainment Service
(snx)
[News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 08:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
14.Jan.2024
|
MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.01.2024
The following files have been added until 13.01.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
WarpWebPdt_45.5.lha Dependencies/Datatypes WebP image datatype V45.2
MCE_14.40.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
Easy2Install_1.0b48.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
(snx)
[News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 08:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
14.Jan.2024
|
WHDLoad: New installers until 13.01.2024
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 13.01.2024:
(snx)
[News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 08:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
14.Jan.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
|
Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 166
The English and German issue 166 (January/February 2024) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes, besides various reviews, show reports from Amiga-Meeting Nord and the a1k.org-Meeting in Finkenbach as well as an interview with Richard Löwenstein. (snx)
[News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 08:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
14.Jan.2024
|
Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V3.2 R99 for Windows 10/11
Raster Master (amiga-news.de reported) is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).
Since our last last news item several changes have been made, among others:
- new fill option for paint tool in sprite edit mode. Hold shift key to paint selected pixel with same color in entire sprite
- Cloning of Sprites and Maps added
- Added new RGBA Custom option for gcc and freebasic
(dr)
[News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 08:00] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
14.Jan.2024
Michal Schulz (Mail)
|
Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 v1.0 Release Candidate 3
Developer Michal Schulz has released Release Candidate 3 of 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 Release Candidate 3 is the last release candidate before final version 1.0. It includes all fixes from RC1 and RC2. Additionally it contains several changes and fixes improving performance of old games and demos:
BlitWait
The BlitWait option allows the user to force Emu68 to do more fine-grained waits before writting several blitter-sensitive registers. Normally, the software which is using blitter should wait until it completed the operation, but in some cases the demo coders assumed that m68k is slow enough to not waist time for waiting. Such games and/or demos require the blitwait option activated either through cmdline.txt or with help of EmuControl to operate properly.
Ability to add EmuControl parameters to Emu68 globally
With this release user can pass the EmuControl command line options, like e.g. DBF ICNT=1 CCRD=0 directly to cmdline.txt file and thus making them global. This, in combination with eventually disabled CPU caches, allows one to run demos like the "State of the Art" directly from floppy, without WHDLoad.
RGB to HDMI Passthrough
This feature requires small external hardware (work in Progress or A500, A600, A1200, A2000) which sends the digital RGB data through the camera interface to raspberry directly. IN combination with new unicam.resource (embedded in kernel) and new VideoCore/Emu68-VC4 driver (available in new nightly build of Emu68-tools) this allows to display the RGB signal from Amiga on the HDMI. The unicam.resource allows one to enable this feature on boot already, new VideoCore driver allows one to easily switch between RGB and RTG modes on the same screen.
The developer provides more detailed information on the changes in his new Patreon post. (dr)
[News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 07:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
13.Jan.2024
|
Video tutorial: Reading CSV files with AMOS
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how he reads CSV (Comma Separated Values) data into a programme and separates the CSV values, both manually and using an automated method. (dr)
[News message: 13. Jan. 2024, 22:02] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
| |
| Recent Discussions |
 |
|
|
|
| Latest Top-News |
|
|
|
|
| amiga-news.de |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
