20.Aug.2023
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.24
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.98, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
The new version 0.9.24 provides the following changes:
- Added support for 64 global variables, it was 32.
- In the exported game only the used variables will be allocated, potentially
saving some memory.
- Fix in the tile animations that was causing the exported games using them to
run very slowly.
- Simplified handling of reading exporting projects.
- Fixes and implementations related to custom fonts usage in HUD and in
triggers.
- Exact values for friction and weight can now be set up and displayed.
- Trigger help routines have been improved.
- More triggers have been documented in the in-editor help.
- Optimizations in the main loop of the game.
- Optimizations in the tile comparison triggers.
- Optimizations in the player input triggers.
- Optimizations in the render code.
- Some memory was wasted when changing the current mod being played, this has
been optimized.
- Some unused code has been removed.
- Fixed a bug in Absolute Zero project when going back to menu and starting a
stage again.
(dr)
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20.Aug.2023
Look Behind You (ANF)
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Event: Retro Area at Gamescom 2023 with Amiga celebrities
This week, from August 23 till 27 (opening for the public on thursday), world's greatest computer games event, Gamescom, takes place in Cologne, Germany, again. Part of it is a Retro Area, and also Amiga celebrities like Turrican developers Factor 5, composer Chris Hülsbeck and former Commodore managers Petro Tyschtschenko and David Pleasance will visit the show, with the latter presenting his books at the joint booth of the publishers Look Behind You and Gameplan.
Further details about the Retro Area at Gamescom 23 can be found at the title link as well as in our german news-item. (snx)
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20.Aug.2023
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Aminet uploads until 19.08.2023
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to Aminet:
sylpheed.lha comm/mail 22M OS4 Sylpheed e-mail for AmiCygnix...
sylpheed-src.lha comm/mail 1.8M Sources of Sylpheed 3.7.0 for...
WhatMightHaveBeen.lha demo/aga 117K 68k Demo for DSP3210 chips
asm3210.lha dev/asm 153K Cross assembler for DSP3210 c...
7800basic.lha dev/cross 4.4M MOS BASIC-like language for Atari...
beebasm.lha dev/cross 708K MOS Assembler with BBC Micro styl...
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 822K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.5M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 83K 68k P96 Preferences Editor
RescueLander.lha game/actio 59K 68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
TONY.adf game/demo 880K 68k TONY playable demo
labyrinth64.lha game/misc 137K 68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L...
gfx2crtc.lha gfx/conv 51K MOS Convert gfx to Amstrad CPC fo...
mandel_dsp.lha gfx/fract 21K 68k Mandelbrot generator for DSP3...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
AlwaysTogether.lha mods/8voic 1.9M 16bit 5ch Soul/R&B Tribute by...
AlwaysTogetherTuned.lha mods/8voic 1.9M 16bit 5ch Soul/R&B Finetuned ...
PDF2JPG.lha util/conv 4.9M MOS convert PDF to JPG
LilCalendar.lha util/time 3.4M 68k Versatile calender and remind...
(snx)
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20.Aug.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 19.08.2023
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to OS4Depot:
libfreetype.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 A Free, High-Quality, and Portab...
libx264.lha dev/lib 8Mb 4.1 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video compressi...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
blackjuan.lha gam/car 5Mb 4.0 Blackjack clone
sieteymedida.lha gam/car 4Mb 4.0 The Siete y Media card game.
sylpheed.lha net/ema 22Mb 4.1 E-mail client for AmiCygnix with...
sylpheed-src.lha net/ema 2Mb 4.1 Sources of Sylpheed 3.7.0 for Am...
mediathek.lha net/mis 3Mb 4.0 Downloading Movies from differen...
set_get_ts.lha uti/scr 25kb 4.0 obtain time in scripts
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20.Aug.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 19.08.2023
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to AROS Archives:
blackjuan.lha gam/car 4Mb Blackjack clone
sieteymedia.lha gam/car 4Mb The Siete y Media card game.
(snx)
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20.Aug.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.08.2023
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
PowerSDL_16.2.lha Dependencies/SDL PowerSDL.library 16.2 (...
beebasm_1.10.lha Development/Cross Assembler with BBC Micr...
7800basic_0.28.lha Development/Cross A BASIC-like language f...
AmiArcadia_30.02.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Barkanoid2_demo.lha Games/BrickBreaker Demo of a commercial game
Siete-y-Media_1.10.lha Games/Card Play in this virtual Ca...
Blackjuan_1.10.lha Games/Card Blackjuan Poker Card
Sqrxz_0.9.9.6.lha Games/Platform A Jump'n'Run game.
fheroes2_1.0.7.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
gfx2crtc_0.3.1.lha Graphics/Convert Convert gfx to Amstrad ...
Wayfarer_6.1.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
Iris_1.16.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email...
TinyGL-Update-2023-08-... MorphOS-update Ninth public MorphOS Ti...
Easy2Install_1.0b30.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
LilCalendar_2.6.lha Office/Organizer Versatile calender and ...
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20.Aug.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 19.08.2023
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 19.08.2023:
(snx)
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20.Aug.2023
AUGS - Alisha Stutz (ANF)
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Event: Vintage Computer Festival in Zurich (Switzerland) with David Pleasance
On November 11 and 12, 2023 the Vintage Computer Festival in Zurich, Switzerland, takes place. Guest of honor on invitation by Amiga User Group Switzerland (AUGS) will be David Pleasance, who has been General Manager of Commodore Electronics LTD in Basel, Switzerland, from 1990 until 1992.
Further details on the event can be found at the title link or in our german news-item. (snx)
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20.Aug.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: German translations of the manuals of the ZIP and XML plugins
Andreas Falkenhahn writes: "Helmut Haake and Dominic Widmer have been busy again and translated the manuals of the ZIP plugin 1.2 and the XML plugin 2.0 for Hollywood into German. Both are available for download at the title link. Thanks to Airsoft Softwair's MetaDoc system the translations are not only available as PDF files but also in AmigaGuide, HTML and CHM format." (snx)
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20.Aug.2023
Welt (ANF)
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Welt.de: Short article about "Commodore-Amiga - Legendary girl-friend" (German)
At the title link, Martin Klemrath, Managing Editor History, has published for "Welt.de" a short article in German about the "iconic computer" Amiga. (snx)
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20.Aug.2023
Rene Engel (Mail)
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Emulation: Simplified installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU
In mid-April Amiga-News.de had published Rene Engel's updated installation guide of AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU 8.1. Since then numerous attempts have been made to improve the emulation and simplify the installation. Rene Engel has kindly summarised the efforts for us and published a correspondingly updated and simplified installation guide in the forum (German):
"The QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan, who mainly concentrates on the Amiga operating systems MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.1 by means of Qmiga, has written an alternative boot loader for the Pegasos-2 emulation, which he himself calls BBoot. This bootloader simplifies Pegasos-2 installation many times over (YouTube video).
The modification of the Pegasos-2-Install-ISO and Pegasos2.Rom are no longer necessary. AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 is also no longer needed, as A-Cube has made the Silicon Motion chip required for the emulation freely available on OS4Depot.
The new driver can now display resolutions up to 1920x1080, the limitation to 16 bit remains for the time being. With the new boot loader, up to 2048 MB memory allocation is now possible under the QEMU Pegasos 2 emulation. The boot process has accelerated again with the new boot loader.
They are currently working on an AmigaOne emulation, which already works to a limited extent."
(dr)
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19.Aug.2023
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Video tutorial: Episode 36 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 36 was published. (dr)
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19.Aug.2023
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LinuxJedi blog: Restoration of an Amiga 4000, parts 5-7
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings had already published four blog entries on the restoration of an Amiga 4000 (amiga-news.de reported) and continued this now with the parts 5, 6 and 7. (dr)
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18.Aug.2023
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Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.3.1
'wicknix' has released version 32.3.1 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for Linux PPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix 6 on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. The new version includes minor bug fixes and improvements to the user interface. A few new extensions have also been added.
Downloads:
sealion-32.3.1.linux-powerpc-gtk2.tar.bz2 (53 MB)
SeaLion-Extras.zip (65 MB) (dr)
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18.Aug.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.1
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.1 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. The developer recommends installing the new version via the "Check for updates" function, as this is quicker and ensures that all necessary files are updated correctly. Changes:
- Downloads and network cache writes now use asyncio.library
- Adjusted SSL ciphers to try to default to ones that are faster on PowerPC
- Checks whether lo0 interface is enabled and warns if not
- Improved error handling in auto-updater
Download: wayfarer.lha (32 MB) (dr)
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18.Aug.2023
Pawel Tukatsch (Mail)
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Platform game: Tony demo version v1.2
Tony by Monochrome Productions is a monochrome platform game that is now available in version 1.2 on Aminet (YouTube video). After the programmer Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch first had written games like Farmiga in AMOS, he switched to the Blitz Basic 2 programming language and "trained" his skills with games like Ami-Tower or Wood Block Puzzle. Tony is now to be the first major game written with Blitz Basic 2, which is a tribute to the Polish journalist and travel writer Tony Halik.
As an explorer in the style of Indiana Jones, you travel through ancient ruins and try to avoid snakes, creepy insects and deadly pits with spikes. There are also various keys to find. In the new demo version 1.2, there is a new game menu and the entry of a code at the end of a level has been removed. Instead, you now have to collect the last key. In addition, throwing potions from the inventory has been removed: if you collect a key and have a full inventory, a potion turns into a key by itself.
If you are in the mood for some visual variety, you can now try out different colour palettes in the settings. (dr)
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17.Aug.2023
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga CD32
In the first part of a series of articles Richard 'shred' Körber shows how he restores an Amiga CD32. (dr)
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17.Aug.2023
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Video: Installing PageSetter 2 under Workbench 3.2
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explores in his latest video whether it is possible to install the desktop publishing software "PageSetter 2" (information on version 1), released in 1989 for Workbench 1.3, under Workbench 3.2. (dr)
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17.Aug.2023
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Platform game: Boxx 3 remake v0.2
After the release of Boxx 4 and the remake of Boxx, the developer 'Lemming880' has also started to remake the third part of the Boxx series, which he originally released in 2017, with the Scorpion Engine and improve the graphics (YouTube video of the editing of the third level). This version is declared as a beta version, the developer asks to report any bugs. (dr)
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16.Aug.2023
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Video: Setting up a Greaseweazle V4
In a video the YouTube channel 'MikeyGRetro' shows how to set up Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" with the help of the Greaseweazle Tools and the GUI FluxMyFluffyFloppy for reading Amiga disks. (dr)
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15.Aug.2023
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AROS: Forum closes, successor recommended
Already in the middle of July Ola '4pLaY' Jensen had announced that the forum "AROS-Exec" would be closed on September 19 for health and financial reasons. Since nothing has changed since then, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz recommends to use AROSWorld as successor.
Ola Jensen's withdrawal from the AROS Archives, on the other hand, has no further consequences, since Krzysztof Śmiechowicz has already supported him here since the end of 2021 and continues this commitment. (snx)
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15.Aug.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Ninth beta version of TinyGL
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen had offered a bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link, which has been successfully funded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has released the ninth public beta version of his TinyGL update which mainly includes a preview of the R600 driver even though there are still plenty of known issues with the R600 driver.
As the developer explained, "in this update only Evergreen and Northern Islands based Radeons are supported. Support for R600 and R700 based Radeons will be added at a later date." Since the R600 driver is a preview driver, it must be expected that many applications and games will either be misrendered or cause the system to crash. The author asks to report any problems.
The newly supported Radeon graphics cards are all of the Radeon HD-5000 series, all of the Radeon HD-6000 series and the following cards:
- Radeon HD 7350
- Radeon HD 7450
- Radeon HD 7470
- Radeon HD 7510
- Radeon HD 7570
- Radeon HD 7670
- Radeon HD 8350
- Radeon HD 8450
- Radeon HD 8470
- Radeon HD 8490
- Radeon R5 220
- Radeon R5 230
- Radeon R5 235
- Radeon R5 235X
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15.Aug.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.16
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.16 of his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS which introduces a lot of improvements, optimizations and bug fixes, including faster message list updates and better handling of operations on big numbers of messages. This is also the first version coming with a Polish translation. Detailed changes:
- All operations that can potentially modify a lot of messages are now done in stages to avoid timing out while server copies/deletes/etc the messages
- Added progress to more message operations
- Avoids reloading message list when deleting emails
- Improved the Find Messages window's UI
- Return key in the message editor now creates paragraphs instead of line breaks (hold shift to insert a line break)
- Warns when trying to quit while there's still write operations running on server, etc
- Improved CSS sanitization when viewing emails authored using Outlook
- Implemented Auto-Update
- Worked around a problem that caused longer subject lines with non-ASCII characters would sometimes end up with extra spaces added inside words
- Fixed to refresh folder contents after deleting all messages in it
- Fixed a case where Find Messages could get stuck forever when doing an advanced search
- Fixed a case where message finder could continue working even after closing Find Messages window
- Fixed a case where upon selecting a folder, the active message wouldn't automatically load
- Updated WebKit and associated libraries
- Added Polish translation
(dr)
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14.Aug.2023
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Sylpheed 3.7.0 for AmiCygnix released
Edgar Schwan wrote: Version 3.7.0 of the email client Sylpheed is available for AmiCygnix (snapshot). It is based on GTK+ GUI Toolkit. The design and
user interface is similar to many well-known email programs from the Windows
world, such as Outlook Express.
Why another mailer? Sylpheed has a very good support of the IMAP4 protocol,
which is currently only available with a few Amiga mailers. But Sylpheed
also has other interesting features.
New in this release:
- Update to the latest stable version of Sylpheed. The program was ported from scratch and some bugs were fixed that way.
- Working remote control of Sylpheed. Sylpheed can only be started once, when started again, the options are passed to the running program.
- Update to SQLite 3.9.3 in "bogofilter 1.2.5".
Supported protocols:
- POP3 / APOP
- IMAP4rev1
- SMTP / SMTP AUTH
- NNTP (News)
- SSL / TLSv1 (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1, NNTP)
Features:
- multiple accounts
- thread display
- newsreader
- printing
- address book
- templates
- external editor (e.g. Vim, which has spell checking)
- powerful filtering (POP3, IMAP4, local spool)
- powerful search (query search, quick search, search folder)
- customization of toolbar
- mark / color label
- and much more
(dr)
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