29.Mar.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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Disk magazine: Old Power-Brei issues downloadable at Amiga Future (German)
At the title link the issues 1-6 as well as 9-20 of the German-language floppy disk magazine Power-Brei are downloadable, the Amiga Future editors would be grateful for receiving the missing floppy disks as well.
Power-Brei magazine was first published in June 1990, founded by Stefan Kremer and Alexander Carbin, as third senior editor and publisher finally Sven Drieling joined the editorial board. In June 1999 a cooperation with amiga-news.de came about through him. Sven Drieling our news-site owes, beyond the editorial work started at that time, especially many years of extensive programming and maintenance work. (snx)
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29.Mar.2023
Amiga.org (forum)
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Video: Background story of the game "Ring around the World"
"Ring around the World" is a point'n'click adventure game about a supposedly drowned man with memory loss, which is also one of three test games for the AMOS Layers System by the same author.
At the title link as well as in a video Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua describes the beginnings of the game, which go back to 1994, as well as the further development history. (snx)
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28.Mar.2023
Indie Retro News (website)
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Arcade conversion: Shoot'em Up 'Xevious' (Beta)
Xevious is a vertical scrolling shoot'em up released by Namco in 1982. Jean-François 'jotd' Fabres is currently working on an Amiga conversion (video), which requires an AGA Amiga. A current beta version can be downloaded from his website for free or for a small donation. (cg) (Translation: snx)
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28.Mar.2023
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.3
"AmiFox" displays modern web pages on an Amiga by downloading and displaying pages converted to images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). Version 0.3 brings various minor changes which, according to the author, are mainly intended to increase the ease of use of the browser:
- Copy Text from selected webpage (AmiFox-Server 0.2+)
- Copy Clipboard from Server (AmiFox-Server 0.2+)
- IFF Format (AmiFox-Server 0.2+)
- send longer texts to page (needs texteditor.mcc)
- Mouse wheel support
- Shift cursor up/down send as Page up/Down (AmiFox-Server 0.2+)
- Error message when Datatype could not load image
- send Youtube URLs to AmiTube
- send Google Maps and OpenStreetmap positions to Mapparium
- AROS Version atm i386 and 64bit ABIv11
- Read URL at Mouse position
- direct download of catched URL at mouse position
- save Webpage Image
- Copy/Paste URL
(cg) (Translation: snx)
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27.Mar.2023
Amigans Forum (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: NVMe device driver for SSD
Besides his audio driver for Intel HD Audio (amiga-news.de reported), Harald Kanning has now started developing a NVMe device driver for SSDs and has released the first version 53.1 under the title link.
As the author explained, "is short for 'Non-Volatile Memory express'. It's basically a transfer protocol for attachment of mass storage to a computer.
Unlike SATA, NVMe is specifically designed for solid state flash memory. There is no separate storage controller. Instead, the NVMe SSD is directly connected to the PCIe bus through an M.2 slot.
None of the current NG systems offer a M.2 slot directly on the mainboard. But since an NVMe M.2 slot is basically a PCIe x4 slot with a different form-factor, we can use a widely available passive PCIeM.2 adapter card.
These adapter cards are available with a PCIe x1 or PCIe x4 connector. Don't use the adapter cards with multiple M.2 slots because they will not work.
The driver was tested on an AmigaOne X5000 and in the x4 slot with the following drives:
- Samsung 970 EVO 1TB
- WD Black SN770 1TB
For this, the developer has provided a few first benchmarks:
p50x0SATA.device: Samsung 840 SSD 120GB
- Copy 1GB file from RAM: to NGFS/01: 51.5MB/s (20.4 sec)
- Copy 1GB file from NGFS/01 to RAM : 98.9MB/s (10.6 sec)
nvme.device: Samsung 970 EVO SSD 1TB
- Copy 1GB file from RAM: to NGFS/01: 129.5MB/s (8.1 sec)
- Copy 1GB file from NGFS/01 to RAM : 152.0MB/s (6.9 sec)
- Copy 1GB file from RAM: to SFS/02 : 327.7MB/s (3.2 sec)
- Copy 1GB file from SFS/02 to RAM : 233.0MB/s (4.5 sec)
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27.Mar.2023
AmiKit (Twitter)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 12.1 for Raspberry Pi and Windows/Mac/Linux
About 10 days ago AmiKit released version 12.0 of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday a hotfix was made available with version 12.1, which among other things adds AmiSSL 5.8 and now enables an installation of AmigaOS 3.2.2 via Morpheuz, which previously failed if AmiKit already ran with AmigaOS 3.2.1. Likewise, opening files with RabbitHole apps via double-click now works again under Windows/Mac/Linux. Detailed changelogs for Windows/Mac/Linux and Raspberry Pi 4/400. (dr)
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26.Mar.2023
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Tutorial: Installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU 8
QEMU is an open-source computer emulator and virtualiser. This means you can functionally simulate computers or provide virtual systems that replicate the functionality of a real system. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software without the need to support hardware virtualisation. So it is also possible to emulate Amiga operating systems like AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This is provided by the developer Zoltan Balaton who shares many information and tips on his webeite. In the middle of 2021, Amiga-News.de had a closer look at the installation of MorphOS under QEMU 6.
Recently the first release candidate of QEMU 8 was published. What has changed importantly from the Amiga point of view?
- via-ac97: Basic implementation of audio playback via VIA southbridge chip (for the first time it is possible to use the sound support of the via-ac97 directly under the Pegasos-2 emulation)
- sm501: Implemented more 2D raster operations (added simple implementation for two raster operations used by AmigaOS 4.1 to fix graphics problems in some programs like IBrowse).
- Fix PCI interrupt routing: Fix PCI interrupts within the Pegasos 2 emulation under Linux, MorphOS and AmigaOS. This now makes it possible for the first time to activate and use network support via the RTL8139 driver under AmigaOS 4.1
Our reader Rene Engel, in collaboration with Zoltan Balaton, has produced an installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU 8, which he has kindly made available for publication and which will be refined and adapted over time:
1. Preparations
1.1 What is required?
The CD must be available as ISO file, which can easily be done under Windows, for example, with the free tool ImgBurn.
AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 and AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 are also required, which can be downloaded free of charge from the Hyperion Entertainment website after registering and entering the CD key supplied. Since owners of the AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition do not have access to the AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 anymore, you would have to find another way to get the required files. Alternatively, you could also buy the AmigaOS 4.1 Sam460 version: this also contains the files.
- QEMU 8: currently no finished builds are available there (you have to compile them yourself).
Under macOS, the package manager Homebrew and Xcode should be installed beforehand, as described in this article. You can then install QEMU via the terminal as follows:
brew install Qemu
Until finished builds for macOS with Apple chips are available, it is necessary to compile the source code yourself. With the release of the final version of QEMU 8, Homebrew will also have adapted its packages to the new version 8.0. Currently, all versions up to and including Qemu 7.2 can be downloaded and installed there.
- Flash Update für Pegasos 2
Download the file "up050404" either from the bplan homepage (only working under macOS with "Save as...") or via Wayback Machine. The file "extract_rom_from_updater" (direct download) is available on the Qmiga project page and is needed to extract a Pegasos2.rom from it. There is also a description of how to use the "updater".
- an unarchiving tool that can unpack LHA-packed files, such as 7-zip. There are similar tools for Linux and macOS that can do this.
- the freeware tool UltraISO (Windows), a tool that can open and edit ISO files. There are also similar tools for Linux and macOS that can do this.
1.2. Creating a QEMU hard disk image
Via Console/Shell/Terminal under Windows/Linux/Mac:
Qemu-img create –f raw hd.img 2G
2G here stands for 2 gigabyte hard disk size and can be individually adjusted depending on how large the virtual hard disk is to become. For the beginning, I recommend not going higher than 2GB. Important: to create the hd.img, you must be in the QEMU directory.
1.3 Adaptation of the installation medium
Before we can boot with the Pegasos 2 emulation under QEMU, the installation medium must be adapted. First you should unpack the archives "AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2" and "AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3" and search in the unpacked folder for the file "PCIGraphics.card" in the folder Content/Kickstart or for the file "siliconmotion502.chip" in the folder Files_Sam460ex/Kickstart.
Now copy the files "siliconmotion502.chip" and "PCIGraphics.card" to your AmigaOS 4.1 FE Pegasos2InstallCD.ISO with the help of UltraIso into the directory /System/Kickstart. Then you only have to open the file "Kicklayout" in the Kickstart and /System/Kickstart folders with a text editor and add the following line without "":
- for the Kicklayout in Kickstart directory: "MODULE System/Kickstart/siliconmotion502.chip"
- for thw Kicklayout in System/Kickstart directory: "MODULE Kickstart/siliconmotion502.chip"
Save the changes under UltraIso. The bootloader should not be affected by the changes and the Pegasos2InstallCD.ISO should still be bootable.
2. Booting QEMU
This is a pure basic command line to be able to boot from the Pegasos2InstallCD.ISO under QEMU. The paths to pegasos2.rom, hd.img and also to Pegasos2InstallCD.iso must be adjusted accordingly. Make sure you are in the QEMU directory and type in the following command line:
qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -M pegasos2 /
-bios /pfad/zum/pegasos2.rom / -vga none / -device sm501 /
-drive if=none,id=cd,file=/pfad/zum/Pegasos2InstallCD-53.54.iso,format=raw /
-device ide-cd,drive=cd,bus=ide.1 /
-drive if=none,id=hd,file=/pfad/zu/eure/hd.img,format=raw /
-device ide-hd,drive=hd,bus=ide.0 /
-device rtl8139,netdev=net0 /
-netdev user,id=net0 /
-rtc base=localtime / -serial stdio
Under MacOs, the line -display cocoa or -display sdl must also be entered, otherwise no window will open. If everything has worked, QEMU welcomes you with the Pegasos2 SmartFirmware.
Now simply enter the following command:
boot cd amigaboot.of
The SmartFirmware should now boot AmigaOS 4.1. The installation of AmigaOS 4.1 will then proceed as usual: partition the hard disk, install the boot loader, etc.
Important: AmigaOS 4.1 FE can currently only be installed and booted on FFS-formatted virtual hard disks. Partitions with the file system SFS will not be registered under AmigaOS 4.1 for Pegasos 2 (the problem is already being investigated). An illustrated pdf instruction can be found on the pages of Amedia Computer France.
After the installation on your virtual hard disk and after ejecting the installation CD (ISO), the command
boot hd:0 amigaboot.of
under the SmartFirmware to boot from your virtual hard disk:
For some reason, which is not yet known, the first boot process after installation starts in Pal-LowRes mode and there is incorrect screen display. However, the problem can be easily solved by simply calling System/Prefs/Screenmode and selecting a 16-bit screen there.
3. Conclusion
I am unbelievably positively surprised at how fast the whole thing runs and also 2D accelerated. I didn't know anything like that from other emulators before. Not everything runs perfectly yet, but at least the everyday things can already be used under AmigaOS 4.1. On 16 bit, the screen resolution is limited to 1440x900 and there is no 3D acceleration. In this YouTube video I show the general usability of the Workbench under the Pegasos 2 emulation: playing mp3 files, multitasking, loading times and displaying folders with many files, etc.
The biggest thanks go to BALATON Zoltan who programmed the whole thing for us and in his spare time. Without him it would never have been possible! I hope you have fun testing! If you get stuck at any point, please write a comment and ask your questions.
This was tested extensively under macOS 13.2.1 with Apple M1 Max. However, it should be just as possible under Linux and Windows, albeit in a slightly modified form. (dr)
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26.Mar.2023
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Aminet uploads until 25.03.2023
The following files have been added until 25.03.2023 to Aminet:
AmiGemini.lha comm/net 239K AOS Gemini, Spartan, Gopher + Fin...
COP.lha dev/debug 167K 68k Low Level Debugger
MuForce.lha dev/debug 325K 68k V40 Enforcer,detect illegal R...
MuGuardianAngel.lha dev/debug 347K 68k detect accesses to non-alloca...
OsGrind.lha dev/debug 30K 68k Configurable Os argument checker
SegTracker.lha dev/debug 17K 68k A global SegList tracking uti...
eurochamp.lha docs/misc 247K Soccer Euro Champs 1960-2020 ...
worldcup.lha docs/misc 655K Statistics of World Cups 1930...
PcmciaCD.lha driver/med 11K 68k ATAPI PCMCIA CD driver Sony Vaio
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 8K 2023 Carset for F1GP
gse.lha game/edit 17K 68k Editor for Gunship2000 roster...
MCE.lha game/edit 3.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.1M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Gunship.jpg game/hint 375K A500/2000 Gunship Keyboard Ov...
PhotoMosaic.lha gfx/misc 2.9M 68k Make Photo Mosaic from photo ...
AmiSSL-5.8-OS3.lha util/libs 3.4M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.8-OS4.lha util/libs 3.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.8-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
MMULib.lha util/libs 786K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 7.3M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
(snx)
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26.Mar.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.03.2023
The following files have been added until 25.03.2023 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
petsciirobots.lha gam/act 2Mb 4.1 PETSCII Robots ported to SDL
terri-fried.lha gam/mis 2Mb 4.1 Everyone is dead except for... a...
unext.lha gam/pla 26Mb 4.1 Super Mario Clone!
vanillara.lha gam/str 4Mb 4.1 Red Alert/VanillaRA V1.1 Port fo...
vanillatd.lha gam/str 3Mb 4.1 Tiberian Dawn/VanillaTD V1.1 Por...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
amigemini.lha net/bro 239kb 4.0 Gemini, Spartan, Gopher + Finger...
nm2mw.lha uti/mis 2kb 4.0 NewMouse events into native IECL...
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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26.Mar.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.03.2023
The following files have been added until 25.03.2023 to AROS Archives:
photomosaic.lha aud 3Mb Make Photo Mosaic from photo col...
eurochamp.lha doc/mis 247kb statistics euro soccer 1960-2020
worldcup.lha doc/mis 655kb Soccer World Cup statistics 1930...
lightwave_quick_guide.zip doc/tut 113Mb Video Tuttorial for Lightwave 3d...
tecnoballz.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 3Mb brick breaking game.
icon_pack_app_kensv4.lha gra/ico 168kb application drawer icon kens v4
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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26.Mar.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.03.2023
The following files have been added until 25.03.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
MaestrixReloaded_2.1.lha Audio/Drivers The Maestrix 2: Reloade...
Terri-Fried.lha Games/Misc Everyone is dead except...
PhotoMosaic_1.0.lha Graphics/Misc Make Photo Mosaic from ...
AmiTube_1.4.lha Multimedia The first YouTube Clien...
VAMP_3.05.lha Multimedia A Multimedia Player pro...
AmiSSL_5.8-68k.lha Network/SSL OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
SnoopDos_3.11_68k.lha System/Monitoring SnoopDos_3.11_68k.lha
Pegasos.zip Videos Video of Pegasos by The...
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26.Mar.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.03.2023
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 25.03.2023:
- 2023-03-25 improved: Spellbound (Psygnosis) RawDIC imager used, decruncher relocated in fastmem, save hiscores, trainer added, 68000 quitkey, icons, hits and manual (Info)
- 2023-03-23 improved: Ghouls'n'Ghosts (Capcom/U.S.Gold) supports another version, 2nd button support, 68000 quitkey, icons and solution added (Info)
- 2023-03-19 improved: Body Blows (Team 17) countdown color fixed (Info)
(snx)
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26.Mar.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Midnight Resistance Live Performance
- Wild West World (Sunset Calm remix)
- Final Hyperbase a Live Performance
- Wild West World
(snx)
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26.Mar.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Elbox: pci.library 13.14
At the title link Elbox have released an update of their pci.library for owners of the PCI busboard Mediator. Information on changes in version 13.14 is not available. (snx)
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26.Mar.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 144 (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 "Enemy: Tempest of Violence (V2)", "Frontier: Elite II" and "OnEscapee". (snx)
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26.Mar.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Issue 137 of Amiga Future readable online
The German and English issue 137 (March/April 2019) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine as well as a higher resolution PDF version can be purchased from the publisher. (snx)
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25.Mar.2023
Twitter
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Music tip: Track "Amiga" by LukHash
'LukHash' is a musician from Edinburgh in Scottland. He describes his music as "fusion of 8-bit digital mayhem and '80s inspired synth music combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." His latest track "Amiga" can be listened and bought under the title link from a supplier of choice. He hopes to take the audience "on a magical journey back to the golden age of home video gaming". (dr)
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25.Mar.2023
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AmiTube 1.4: YouTube client for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. They are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded.
As the developer wrote on his website, "the biggest enhancement is the Search by ID window for easier handling of YouTube URLs (YouTube video).
A second improvement is the self made AREXX Port for AROS which make it possible to send URLs from AmiFox to AmiTube when you are on a Youtube Video page. (all other platforms had it before already."
The current version can be downloaded from the AmiTube website or installed via the update check in AmiTube. (dr)
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25.Mar.2023
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Website application: The virtual Hippoplayer
It all started at the end of 2009, when Spot created aSCIIaRENa as a website for the ASCII scene, which underwent a complete relaunch in 2021 with the help of 'Burps', 'Nicomen', 'Phantasm' and 'Ziphoid'.
Later came other ideas, they wanted to clone the number one ASCII tool, CygnusED, as CED for the web as a way to co-op on ASCII collys similar to how google docs works, but in a CED environment, Fred and Phiwer was brought into the team to write CED. It is available in alpha state now.
When making ASCII you need to listen to Amiga music of course, a prototype clone of Hippoplayer (HiP) was written by Stalvik, but it got scrapped early on.
In a next step of this exciting journey of the project, TAWS developer Michael Rupp was asked to use his Amiga Workbench simulation for browsers for the project. At that time HippoPlayer used the Bassoon tracker's playback routine as backend, work-in-progress was the conversion to a better backend by Jürgen Wothke based on UADE, which supports a variety of Amiga formats (some of them very exotic) due to the Paula emulation included in it. The graphical user interface was already very close to the original HiP 68k, the behavior of the windows was still quite rudimentary compared to TAWS.
It soon became apparent that it was more expedient to not only use Michael Rupp's assistance, but to completely hand over the implementation in TAWS to him, since the GUI was completely rewritten based on his TAWS classes.
Parallel to this it happened that K-P Koljonen had resumed the further development of HippoPlayer for Amiga in 2021 (amiga-news.de reported) and it was agreed that their webclone should become official with K-P Koljonen’s blessing.
In close cooperation between the author of the mod player and Michael Rupp, the original GUI was studied and rebuilt down to the smallest detail for the web implementation. Care was taken to ensure that the two HippoPlayers are compatible, i.e. that playlists can be exchanged. No matter which version created the playlist, the other one can read it.
Thanks to the UHC tools by Patrik Axelsson and David Eriksson, HiP can now access Internet sources directly. The UHC server and its search API is also used for searching in HiP-TAWS. This makes compatible playlists possible, because if local files on the Amiga hard disk were referenced, this would not be possible otherwise.
In this context, one of the new features is the published playlists, which can be found in the "Playlists" folder. Through the Amiga remix search it should then also be possible to play MP3s, but the existing backend was only for the various tracker formats, but not for normal audio files like MP3, WAV, etc.. So Michael Rupp developed this himself. Now it is possible to play all formats including all audio files via this one player class. When HiP finally supported internet radio streaming, a streaming backend was added.
The scopes (graphical representation of what was heard) were also quite elaborate. In addition to the original HippoScope, RuppScope was created as a separate scope option by reverse-engineering.
The site was first published at workbench.asciiarena.se/, and the other existing projects were integrated as iFrame applications by the "aSCIIaRENa" people: AmIRC, NComm and the demos under Work:Demos. AmIRC and NComm is in early alpha stage and their names will probably be changed later on.
The IBrowse implementation was done by Michael Rupp himself and is intended as a homage to the Amiga browser, which its author, Oliver Roberts, took good note of when we pointed it out. In contrast to the original, the online version of course only handles a fraction.
aSCIIaRENA can still be reached through https://www.asciiarena.se if you prefer that instead of viewing it in the iBrowse clone at https://www.hippoplayer.se.
When HippoPlayer became more and more central, the alias address hippoplayer.se/ was added. The UADE backend alone already supports about 300 formats, as Wothke had developed (and continues to develop) more backends, and made them available as open source. So more were integrated, whereby currently about 500 formats are supported. More will follow. (dr)
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25.Mar.2023
mnemo (ANF)
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.13
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be ordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday, the new firmware version 1.13 was released, which mainly provides stability improvements. In addition to the firmware, the driver package (LHA) must also be updated. The changes:
- Fix Z3 autoconfig issues incl. RAM on first boot
- Improve ethernet to amiga irq
- Fix ethernet freeze on NetShutdown
- Fix scaled sprite and split position
- Fix split panning
- Fix 320x200 mode
- Fix 15bit mode for real (remove hack)
- Add 1920x800 video mode
- MHI/AHI mutually exclusive checks by Tom W.
(dr)
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24.Mar.2023
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.0
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.
A few moments ago, version 5.6.0 has been released. Changes:
Bugfixes
- Fix "default" button setting not fully enabling CD32 pad mode when CD32 was configured.
- Detection of hotplug controllers didn't work after 5.4
- Restart would cause crashes sometimes
- fixed controller axis should be separate from joystick axis handling
- memory pattern would cause graphics glitches in some cases
- virtual keyboard now works with CD32 mode as well
- fixed crash if something triggered a CPU HALT3
- fixed various compiler warnings
- revert custom, blitter and drawing to WinUAE 4.4.0 standard
- 50Hz scroll was not smooth
- improve scrolling smoothness under 50Hz
- Don't use SDL_Quit until we actually quit Amiberry
Improvements
- Implemented On-Screen Virtual Keyboard
- Added VKBD default toggle key
- added VKBD retroarch mapping support
- updated game controllers db to latest version
- Clean up filesystem and bsdsocket emulation earlier.
- cherry picked recent updates from dev
- add SDL2 version in logfile
- Rewrite Serial port support, using libserialport - this also adds a new build requirement
- Disk - Check raw write buffer index, removed debugging.
- refactored input event handling to minimize latency
- removed unreachable code
- decrease mouse map sensitivity on joystick handling
- added more logging during retroarch event handling
- refactored controller input logic
- refactored atomic operations, moved byteswap functions
- added new default options in amiberry.conf
- GUI improvements
- added Warp reset option in Misc Panel
- implemented turbo boot option
- added 1024x600 RTG resolution
- minimize diffs from dev branch
- allow on-the-fly change of virtual mouse driver
- add RK3588 platform in Makefile
- increased width of dropdowns in Input Panel
- minor speedup improvements after recent changes
- a few more minor speed optimizations
- automatically center GUI window when opening
- Updated WHDLoad XML to latest version
Build System
- renamed zip archive from ubuntu to debian
- trigger builds on dev branch and pull requests also
- add automated builds for RK3399 Manjaro platform
- added missing parser.cpp in Android and CMakeLists
- switch from Docker to self-hosted builds again
- added missing Virtual Keyboard file in CMakeLists also
(dr)
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24.Mar.2023
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga V2.4 beta 1
Dirk Hoffmann continues working on his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS and now has released the first beta version of v2.4. Changes:
Enhancements:
- Improved thread synchronization (Adaptive sync)
- Warp boot support
- Code cleanup
The minimum system requirement for his emulator has been raised to macOS 11.0. Since the developer has left the "Apple Developer Program" ("too expensive"), the app is no longer certified. This means that from now on a warning will be displayed when the app is started. (dr)
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20201110-2
In mid-February AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz released version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). Today's second release contains some changes and bug fixes (release notes). (dr)
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24.Mar.2023
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Video tutorial: The AMOS commands Load IFF, Get Icon and Paste Icon
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains the AMOS commands Load IFF, Get Icon and Paste Icon, which he uses to load in graphics for buttons from an IFF file, and use those buttons in a program. (dr)
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24.Mar.2023
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m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin V1.8.3 for Visual Studio Code (update)
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. After Paul Raingeard had already corrected a bug of version 1.8.0 under macOS with version 1.8.1, further problems are solved with the now available version 1.8.2.
On GitHub a detailed documentation is available.
Update: (25.03.2023, 07:20, dr)
Meanwhile version 1.8.3 is available, which partly fixes the bug that the link order could not be set. (dr)
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Event: Geit@Home #1 2023
From Friday, April 14, till Sunday, April 16 2023, members of the Amiga clubs Osnabrück and Steinfurt meet once again at Guido 'geit' Mersmann's home in Hörstel, Germany. Details can be found in our German news-item or at the title link. (dr)
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23.Mar.2023
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.8 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.8 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.1.0. The detailed changes:
- Switched to OpenSSL 3.1, with full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.1.0 (14.3.2023) version, which includes:
- SSL 3, TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and DTLS 1.0 only work at security level 0.
- Performance enhancements and new platform support including new assembler code algorithm implementations.
- Deprecated LHASH statistics functions.
- FIPS 140-3 compliance changes.
- Replaced many common Exec semaphore protected OpenSSL operations with atomic inline assembly code on both OS3 and OS4, decreasing overhead and increasing performance.
- Fixed bug in the 5.7 SDK (applications built with it should be recompiled using the 5.8 SDK).
Download AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.8-OS3.lha (3,3 MB)
Download AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.8-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
Download SDK: AmiSSL-5.8-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)
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23.Mar.2023
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Video: March update on BitBeamCannon projects
In a short video BitBeamCannon has informed about the current status of their projects (Metro Siege, DaemonClaw, Scorpion Boy). (dr)
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23.Mar.2023
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Maze game: Cube V0.30
Sami Vehmaa is in the process of writing another game with AmiBlitz3 for fast Amigas with graphics cards or emulators: in "Cube" (YouTube video), the player has to find his way out of a kind of labyrinth (amiga-news.de reported). He has updated to version 0.30, which now features both an intro and an ending scene, as well as adding random lights and sounds (closing doors etc.). (dr)
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