28.Mar.2024
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Overview: Linux for Sam and A1222-Plus boards
With our ongoing coverage of new Linux kernels for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 models (amiga-news.de reported), the availability of the A1222 Plus, as well as the Sam460LE boards, raises the question of how Linux support will look here.
Sam boards
As Amiga Linux expert Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky explains to us, the kernels for the X1000 and X5000 cannot be used for the Sam boards. The responsible developer Julian Margetson, who built, tested, published and offered support for these Linux kernels for the Sam, had to stop working on them for personal reasons, so someone is currently being sought to take over this task.
However, there are still working Linux downloads available for the Sam boards.
A1222 Plus
The Debian developers have removed the PowerPC SPE platform so that there will be no more Linux developments for the A1222. The reason for this was the deletion as a target platform in version 9 of the vcc compiler, which was already obsolete in version 8.The Debian developers have removed the PowerPC SPE platform so that there will be no more Linux developments for the A1222. The reason for this was the deletion as a target platform in version 9 of the vcc compiler, which was already obsolete in version 8.
However, all kernels and images remain available on the Tabor Linux download page. As Christian explains, Debian PowerPC-SPE works very well on the Tabor board (screenshot). If you would like to test Debian on the A1222 Plus, you will find Linux Guide. The links to the latest kernel and to the PowerPC-SPE version of the Arctic Fox browser:
Further downloads can be found on the A1222 Linux downloads page (user name: tabor, password: amigaone). (dr)
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28.Mar.2024
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Review of March 2024
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of December at the title link. (snx)
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26.Mar.2024
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AmigaOS 4.1: ignition-OpenDocument plugin v0.39
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated to version 0.38. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. In the current version 0.39, numerous optimisations have increased the speed at which documents are read. (dr)
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25.Mar.2024
tuxcam@yahoo.it (ANF)
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PDF-Magazin: REV'n'GE 156 (italienisch/englisch)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in both an English translation and as the original Italian version. The REV'n'GE game reviews compare, where available, the conversions of classics between different platforms of the time. An attempt is also made to pick out lesser-known retro games.
The latest issue, focusing on naval simulations, now links directly to YouTube videos with recordings of the game being reviewed: If a corresponding video is available, it can be accessed by clicking on the "Trailer" icon at the top of the page. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Mar.2024
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Easter game: Bunny's "Boing Ball" Bounty
After "Hop to the Top!" last year, Robert Smith has also released a game for this year's Easter: in Bunny's "Boing Ball" Bounty, you (as a bunny) have to collect as many eggs as possible in the shortest possible time (YouTube-Video). The game requires 1MB of memory. (dr)
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24.Mar.2024
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Aminet uploads until 23.03.2024
The following files have been added until 23.03.2024 to Aminet:
amospro_darkula.lha dev/amos 19K Dark theme for AMOS Professional
BSDSocket-Extension.lha dev/amos 32K 68k Use bsdsocket.library in AMOS...
HWP_Pangomonium.lha dev/hwood 13M 68k The ultimate text engine for ...
P96Tests.lha dev/src 99K P96 Test programs
AST_Catweasel.lha docs/help 348K Spanish info about Catweasel ...
Dice_Masters_Demo.lha game/demo 47M Dice Masters demo
puzzleballsadf.zip game/misc 301K 68k PuzzleBalls game
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha game/misc 55M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 2.3...
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha game/misc 55M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.5...
skyballsadf.zip game/misc 301K 68k SkyBalls game
AmiWordle.lha game/think 156K 68k Wordle clone - English/German...
puzzleballs.lha game/wb 205K 68k PuzzleBalls game
skyballs.lha game/wb 200K 68k SkyBalls game
ham_convert.zip gfx/conv 7.0M HAM graphic converter
LN3Earth24.lha mods/misc 213K 16bit 4ch LN3 Earth Temple 24...
neatvi.lha text/edit 132K MOS Neat vi clone
listercompare.module.lha util/dopus 18K 68k DOpus Magellan II: Compare li...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.8M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 19M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
isomount.lha util/rexx 24K Mounting img,iso,adf... on do...
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24.Mar.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.03.2024
The following files have been added until 23.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
pt2_clone.lha aud/tra 24Mb 4.1 Ported clone of Protracker II
liba52.lha dev/lib 722kb 4.1 low-level interface to decode AC...
libsdl2_mixer.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 Mixer library for Simple DirectM...
libsdl2_gfx.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 Drawing and graphical effects ex...
libsdl2_image.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 SDL2 image file loading library
libsmpeg2.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 SDL2 MPEG Player Library (SMPEG2)
libtiff.lha dev/lib 8Mb 4.1 Lib for handling Tag Image File ...
libsdl2_net.lha dev/lib 88kb 4.1 SDL2_net portable network library
sdlpop.lha gam/adv 2Mb 4.1 Open-source port of Prince of Pe...
h2_locale_pol.lha gam/fps 18kb 4.0 Unofficial Polish localization f...
h2_locale_rus.lha gam/fps 189Mb 4.0 Unofficial Russian localization ...
thf.lha gam/fps 77Mb 4.0 THF for Heretic II Multiplayer Mod
letter-worm.lha gam/puz 7kb 4.0 Collect letters and fly away as ...
hwp_pangomonium.lha lib/hol 13Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for advanced te...
amiupdate_fin.lha uti/wor 38kb 4.1 Finnish catalogs for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_pol.lha uti/wor 39kb 4.0 Polish catalog files for AmiUpdate
mplayer.lha vid/pla 28Mb 4.1 A powerful multimedia video and ...
(snx)
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24.Mar.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 23.03.2024
The following files have been added until 23.03.2024 to AROS Archives:
void-fb14-aros.i386-aros.zip dem/mus 4Mb Music-disk by Void
raylib5.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 22Mb A simple and easy-to-use library...
icarosfix.zip uti/mis 100Mb Little fix for icaros v2.3
(snx)
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24.Mar.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.03.2024
The following files have been added until 23.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
Pangomonium_1.0.lha Dependencies/Hollywood a plugin for Hollywood ...
butterfly.lha Development/C Archive with C source c...
fheroes2_1.0.13.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
Wayfarer_7.8.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
Easy2Install_1.0b51.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
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24.Mar.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.03.2024
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 23.03.2024:
(snx)
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23.Mar.2024
Mastodon
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Creating and reading disk images: Disk Jockey 3 for macOS
Disk Jockey makes it easy to create and analyse disk images for retro computers and emulators. With the now released version 3 you can now also create empty DD and HD disc images (ADF images) as well as Hard Disk Files (HDF), as used by WinUAE. In addition to the Macintosh images, the contents of existing images in the above formats can now also be displayed.
Finally, Disk Jockey also offers the option of converting an existing image for Basilisk II into an image for BlueSCSI. (dr)
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23.Mar.2024
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.4 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes of version 1.4.4:
- Fixes a bug in chat mode in AmigaOS 3.X where the send button stays disabled after an error occurs
- Change the stack size in the program .info file to the recommended 32768 bytes
- Fix bug where accents were not loaded properly resulting in the speech to fail. If you get an error when generating speech, go to the menu and set the accent again
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (910 KB) (dr)
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22.Mar.2024
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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
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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
ANF
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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
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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
MorphZone (Forum)
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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
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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
demoparty.net
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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
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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)
[News message: 21. Mar. 2024, 09:26] [Comments: 0]
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21.Mar.2024
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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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