25.Sep.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 150 (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 is about "Goal!". (snx)
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25.Sep.2023
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Video: Building a ReAmiga 1200, last episode
We reported about the first and second and the third and fourth episode of the video series of the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Manshed" which builds John 'Chucky' Hertell's Amiga1200 clone ReAmiga 1200. Now the final fifth part is available. (dr)
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24.Sep.2023
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Crowdfunding: Illustrated book "Demoscene - The Amiga Renaissance", Vol. 3
In 2021, the first illustrated book about the demoscene, "Demoscene - The Amiga Years", was completed, covering the years 1984 to 1993. Volume two, "Demoscene - The AGA Years", followed a year later and was dedicated to the years 1994 to 1996. Now the third part of the series, "Demoscene - The Amiga Renaissance", is being crowdfunded, covering the period from 1997 to today. The aim is to collect 21,000 Euros by 15 October, of which around 8,000 have already been raised so far. (dr)
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24.Sep.2023
CommodoreBlog
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Game ports: Game..X and Dragon Slayer
Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has ported two games from X68000, home computer created by Sharp Corporation, to the Amiga:
Dragon Slayer should run on any Amiga and is based on Moby Games' version for the FM-7 home computer. The game is commonly considered one of the progenitors of the action RPG genre. The premise is similar to Roguelikes: the player takes control of a knight who must fight his way through large overhead maze-like dungeons. Unlike roguelikes, the combat in the game is fully action-oriented
The shoot'em up Game.X (YouTube video) requires an AGA-Amiga and was originally released in 1990 by Kugenuma Soft. (dr)
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24.Sep.2023
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Video: The chronological history of AmigaOS
The hobby YouTube channel "Proteque - Classic Beige Nostalgia" shows the chronological history of AmigaOS. (dr)
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24.Sep.2023
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Music: Cover version of Chuck Rock
Linus 'lft' Åkesson has been an active part of the demoscene for a good 25 years, composing music for numerous demos and music discs for Amiga and C64 as 'Lairfight' bzw. 'lft'. Creatively, he also builds various instruments from Commodore hardware like the Paulimba or the C=TAR. He now uses these instruments to recreate the main melody of the game Chuck Rock composed by Matthew Simmonds. (dr)
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24.Sep.2023
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Aminet uploads until 23.09.2023
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to Aminet:
64tass.lha dev/cross 1.3M 68k Cross assembler targeting the...
c2plib.lha dev/misc 201K 68k chunky2planar as an Amiga sha...
giplanner.lha dev/misc 286K 68k GI Planner
Beziery_Beizera.lha dev/src 153K 68k Further Laffik's works on Bez...
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 10K 2023 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 3.7M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.2M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 51K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
Play2CPC.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 18K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
GoneFishin.lha mods/misc 292K 16bit 4ch Country Ballad by H...
avalanche.lha util/arc 115K AOS ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
avalanche_guide_de.lha util/arc 9K German translation of Avalanc...
dtconvert.lha util/conv 48K OS4 File format conversion using ...
ModelerConverter10.lha util/conv 11K 68k 3D Object Converter from 1991
GifAnimDT.lha util/dtype 164K OS4 Datatype for animated GIFs
AmiSSL-5.11-OS3.lha util/libs 3.4M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.11-OS4.lha util/libs 3.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.11-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
Mnemosyne.lha util/misc 77K 68k Disk usage stats+file/folder ...
PolyOrga_de.lha util/misc 4K Updated German catalog for Po...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 656K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 749K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 826K OS4 Multipurpose utility
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 15M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
AnalogClock.lha util/time 40K 68k Resizeable analog transparent...
LilCalendar.lha util/time 3.4M 68k Versatile calender and remind...
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24.Sep.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.09.2023
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to OS4Depot:
gifanimdt.lha dat/ani 164kb 4.1 Datatype for animated GIFs
giflib-extras.lha dev/lib 126kb 4.1 Some extras to go with GifLib.
libwebp.lha dev/lib 7Mb 4.1 lib for handling WebP images
libx264.lha dev/lib 8Mb 4.1 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video compressi...
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
reminiscence.lha gam/adv 1Mb 4.1 REminiscence is a re-implementat...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
mediathek.lha net/mis 3Mb 4.0 Downloading Movies from differen...
dtconvert.lha uti/fil 48kb 4.1 File format conversion using dat...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 826kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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24.Sep.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 23.09.2023
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to AROS Archives:
pingus.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 15Mb Lead Pingus to the correct exit ...
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24.Sep.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.09.2023
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Morphobia_1.3.lha Demoscene/ENCORE MORPHOBIA by ENCORE
Kheshkhash_2.1.lha Demoscene/ENCORE A demo for MorphOS name...
Morphever_1.3.lha Demoscene/ENCORE Demo for MorphOS PowerPC
Morphiller_1.3.lha Demoscene/ENCORE Demo for MorphOS PowerPC
Play2CPC_1.0.lha Emulation/ACEpansion ACEpansion plugin for A...
SALTO.lha Emulation SALTO - Xerox Alto I/II...
MCE_14.20.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
SonicCD-RSDKv3_1.3.2.lha Games/Platform A Full Decompilation of...
Iris_1.18.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email...
Easy2Install_1.0b35.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
PolyOrga_1.21.lha Office/Organizer PolyOrga is a general-p...
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24.Sep.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.09.2023
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 23.09.2023:
- 2023-09-22 new: Tolteka (Ariolasoft) done by Psygore (Info)
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22.Sep.2023
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Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0 Release Candidate
A month ago, Developer Michal Schulz had released beta version 2.1 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Since then, many other improvements have been added. Changes of the release candidate of version 1.0:
BFxxx updated
The bitfield instructions operating on memory are not optimized to use as little memory accesses as possible. There are still corner cases which will do more traffic than necessary, but they are now very limited. The bitfield instructions will fetch byte/word/long word/quad word instead of always working on quad words.
Better write to CHIPSET registers
After a write to memory area belonging to Amiga chipset, a byte read from ROM is issued. This improves stability of some old games/demos which never assumed to be running on m68k which is that fast. A read from ROM gives Paula enough time to complete the interrupt acknowledgment properly.
IPL filter
Emu68 filters the IPL lines and recognizes an IPL change if and only if two subsequent IPL reads (which are roughly 400 nanoseconds away) give the same result. Improves many games or demos which suffered from spurious interrupts.
Write buffer removed
The write buffer was my experiment introduced quite long time ago - it featured a write combining to subsequent byte/word locations as long as they would finally result in a longword write cycle. It worked relatively well in most cases, but failed miserably in some others. Since this was just a dirty hack, it has been removed now.
CCR optimizer scan depth
The number of m68k opcodes which are scanned in-advance during m68k to arm translation for elimination of CCR flag updates is now adjustable. Use EmuControl version 1.3 for that (nightly build from 23. Sept. 2023 or newer).
The developer provides more detailed information on the changes in his new Patreon post. (dr)
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22.Sep.2023
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.4 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. Since version 2.1, simple editing of LhA/Zip archives also is possible (Zip requires zip.library - only under AmigaOS 4). The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2.1, but has also tested it under AmigaOS 4. Changes of version 2.4:
- Support Deark (needs enabling by tooltype)
- This is a "beta" feature, it may be unstable and due to a bug in Deark, it is not possible to extract to the root of any device.
- Add option to select modules (MODULES tooltype)
- Fixx password caching
- Also use T: as temp by default from CLI
Download: avalanche.lha (115 KB)
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22.Sep.2023
Bill Borsari
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Event: AmiWest 2023 DevCon Survey
This year's 26th edition of Amiwest, which will be held from 12 to 15 October in Sacramento (California), will also feature a developer conference that focuses exclusively on programming topics and is aimed at both amateurs and professional programmers. Since places are limited, a survey is now being conducted to find out who would like to take part and how. (dr)
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22.Sep.2023
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Origins and evolution of texteditors Vi and Vim
Gustavo Pezzi is a university lecturer in computer science and mathematics and runs the educational platform Pikuma. At the beginning of August, the developer of the text editor Vim, Bram Moolenaar, passed away. Pezzi had already paid his last respects to the developer in his own way in August and wrote down the history of the text editor, which is closely linked to the Amiga and which is also available in current versions for AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS provided by Ola 'sodero' Söder. (dr)
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22.Sep.2023
Amigans (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: libegl_wrap 0.7.20 (beta)
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel is working on an EGL-OpenGL-Wrapper which is based on Warp 3D Nova/OpenGL-ES combination sold by A-EON. The wrapper is supposed to simplify porting modern OpenGL based games (Youtube video example for Prey 2006).
The new beta version 0.7.20 is now available. Changes:
- Now!! Support additional shaders glsl on your code (exemple: effects Scanline, CRT and others)
- Now!! all libraries are STATIC, IMPORTANT: don't forget to delete your old dynamic libraries
- New!! Added The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library 'Glew' includes and package for SDK
- Updated SDL1 and SDL2
- Now!! SDL2 as your prefs on ENVARC:egl_wrap/
- Updated Gl4ES
- Updated GUI
- 20% speedup on renderer EGL_Wrap
- Added new icons into the GUI
(dr)
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21.Sep.2023
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Blog Epsilon's World: Hardware upgrades and games
In his latest blog entry of his "Epsilon's World", Epsilon shows the installation of various games and hardware in the usual detail and with numerous pictures: among others, Alinea's Subway 2021 USB card including the power adapter or "AURA - Audible Reality", a sound sampler that does not use the parallel port but the PCMCIA port of the Amiga 600 and 1200. The game "Renegade" from the cover disc of the Amiga Addict 22 is also tested. (dr)
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20.Sep.2023
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Fatal Mission
As the website "Games That Weren't" reports, "Fatal Mission" was an ambitious project started by Ola Zandelin and Robert Hennings in 1993: "a cinematic style adventure in the lines of Another World, but with bitmap graphics instead of vector style one". On his website, Ola Zandelin has published some examples of this. The website "AmigaPD" conducted an interview with the developer in 2013. In it, he suggests that the game was playable to a certain extent, but it was never finished because there was a lack of time and experience to put everything together and plan it properly. (dr)
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20.Sep.2023
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Emulator: Denise V2.1
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64. Now version 2.1 has been released. Changes:
General changes:
- add drag'n'drop overlay
- files can be inserted into additional drives faster
- files can either only be inserted or inserted and restarted
- multi file support
- fix: Wasapi didn't work on some audio hardware
Amiga specific changes:
- greatly improved accuracy
- ~15% speed up
- fix: Drive LED sometimes does not turn off
- display tracks more clearly
- add IPF, DMS, EXE and encrypted kick rom support
- add RTC
- add multi file support for any-loader (fill DF0-3 in one go)
- show power LED in status line
- colors for power and drive LEDs depend on the model
- click on power LED to select audio filter
Denise is available cross platform for Windows 32/64 XP and higher, macOS (from version 10.9 on, Intel and Arm), Linux and BSD.
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20.Sep.2023
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Video: Repairing an A590, part 5
In the fifth part of his video series about the repair of an A590 (amiga-news.de reported) Robert Smith had a look at an example that he could get hold of in the original case design and that still has the original Epson hard disk. (dr)
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19.Sep.2023
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.11 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.11 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.1.3 (19.9.2023) and thus provides various minor fixes, including removal of memory leaks. Furthermore the root certificates have been updated to latest Mozilla-based bundle dated 22.8.2023.
Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.11-OS3.lha (3,4 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.11-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.11-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)
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19.Sep.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.18, Contacts 1.1
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.18 of his e-mail client Iris and version 1.1 of the contact manager Contacts for MorphOS. Detailed changes:
Iris V1.18
- Updated to match changes in Contacts application
- Updated curl, mysql and other libs
Contacts V1.1
- Implemented Digest Authorization
- Implemented NICKNAME support in CardDAV
- Configurable sort by first or last name
- Fixed aspect ratio of cropped contact photos (iCloud) appearing in other applications
(dr)
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19.Sep.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Scheduler PolyOrganiser 1.21
PolyOrganiser written by Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault is a so called "PIM-Tool" (Personal Information Management) with which you can manage dates, contacts and tasks. Changes since version 1.16:
- Fix: Task edit, due date broken at creation (1970) and ignore very old due date too.
- Add: Task edit, add a context menu entry for remote due date.
- Fix: Task display, late date are bold. Fix no title display. Fix Columns weight.
- Change: Task list, use short date
- Fix: Contact diplay "no name" when name or company is blank.
- Fix: Contact/Event/Task, ask confiration for remove show "No name" when needed.
- Fix: Remove edit of task categories in main window due to a unfixable bug.
- Fix: Fix backgound & frames of popup objects (except Task type that have fixed back...)
- Fix:Task edit show wrond type
- Fix: Sort of contacts that was kind of random.
- Patch: Replace "Jabber" data type for "Title"
- Fix: DueDate broken due to stuoid datestamp copy
- Fix: Workaround some issue with duplicate ids in packed event storage which are used for both event item ids as
well as additional links (0xE1 and above)
- Change: Don't write DebugTracking.raw file to PROGDIR: any longer by default
- Fix: On New Task creation, use the current date for Due Date instead of leaving it uninitilized to 1978
- Fix: Correct backfill of sunday column weekday for locale country catalog settings which don't start on Monday
(like United States which starts on Sunday)
- Fix: Fixed a use-after-free for notification once the close window button of the search window was
hit and which caused a crash once PERMMEMTRACK kernel option was enabled
- Fix: Fixed some bug in some intermediate 1.18 version that always deleted the last record for each launch of the
program
- Fix: Icon sizes of top navigation bar back to 100% (from 80%) again after some intermediate change
- Rework: Code to create the DateIcon AppIcon uses Reggae instead of a direct PNG decoder now
- Fix: fixed some bug that triggered PERMMEMTRACK because the app tried to free some static application memory on
some string
- Fix: Fixed some incompatibility with MorphOS PERMMEMTRACK option due to some access to already freed memory
- Fix: Fixed hits caused by 2nd launch of PolyOrga
Fix: Fixed some possible illegal access when the database is opened or past events are checked on launch
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18.Sep.2023
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Platform games: Updates for all four parts of Boxx series
The developer 'Lemming880' has released updates for the three parts of his Boxx remake series as well as for the fourth part. All four parts now use the same Scorpion engine version. The changes in the overview:
Version 1.01 of Boxx 1 remake:
- Menu: replaced quit with options.
- Menu options and jukeboxx: replaced coin with arrow.
- Menu: removed boxx splash screen.
- Music: swapped songs of levels 3 and 4.
- Sound: changed break block sound effect to original.
- In-game: turrets shoot a bit faster.
- In-game: added boss health bar.
- In-game: moving bricks explode instead of dropping a coin.
- In-game: removed alarm lights in boss arena.
- Removed unnecessary files.
Version 1.00 of Boxx 2 remake:
- In-game: turrets shoot faster.
- In-game: moving bricks explode instead of dropping a coin.
- In-game: closed a tile gap in level 2.
- Removed unnecessary files.
Version 1.00 of Boxx 3 remake:
- In-game: turrets shoot faster.
- In-game: moving bricks explode instead of dropping a coin.
- In-game: bounce blocks only in hard mode.
- In-game: closed a gap in level 2.
- In-game: flying boss pod doesn't make a shooting sound anymore after the main boss died.
- In-game: flying boss pod now drops a bomb on hard mode instead of exploding.
- Removed unnecessary files.
Version 1.04 of Boxx 4:
- In-game: reintroduced faster shooting turrets in the flying levels.
- In-game: level 2: water collision a little bit lower at the fish jump before the boss.
- In-game: level 5: fixed end boss arena for a situation where the boss could temporary get stuck.
- Menu Options: removed Performance Mode and added Default Settings option.
- Menu Info: rearranged text at the bottom.
- Menu Credits: changed text 'box art' with 'print design'.
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18.Sep.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Voting started & further information about Amiga38
Markus Tillmann informs in our german news-item about catering at Amiga38 and other details. Also voting on the Community Award has started. (snx)
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18.Sep.2023
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Competition: Winners of AmiGameJam 2022
During a live show on Twitch, the winners of the AmiGameJam were announced (amiga-news.de reported):
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