03.Nov.2024
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Aminet uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to Aminet:
COP.lha dev/debug 167K 68k Low Level Debugger
MusicPort-AHI.lha driver/aud 7K 68k AHI driver for Trinity 1240/1...
F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 10K 2024 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 4.1M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 8.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 9.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 9.3M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
NAFCYI1991S2-B00.zip text/bfont 1.2M NAFCYI Summer 1991 (BMP Fonts)
CompressionOS4.lha text/dtp 2.3M OS4 A PDF generator
MMULib.lha util/libs 787K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 17M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
BaseConv.lha util/wb 66K 68k Convert numbers between bin/o...
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03.Nov.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 9Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wipeout-re_fe.lha gam/dri 9Mb 4.1 WipeOut RE Fantômas Edition
wipeout-re_fe-data.zip gam/dri 137Mb 4.1 Datas for WipeOut RE Fantô...
a_little_remember_gam... gam/mis 8Mb 4.0 A Simon Says (Senso) like game
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
rvncd.lha net/ser 124kb 4.1 Amiga VNC Server
compression.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.1 A PDF generator
legadon.lha uti/tex 280kb 4.0 A simple ePub reader (Text only ...
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03.Nov.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to AROS Archives:
kmusicplayer.i386-aros.zip aud 11Mb kMusicPlayer is a visual music p...
rfxgen-aros.zip aud 796kb A simple and easy-to-use fx soun...
perl-5.7.2.x86_64-aros-v1... dev/lan 11Mb Perl 5.7.2 x86_64 ABIv11
lib_glfw_3_4.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 926kb GLFW is an Open Source, multi-pl...
lib_raylib5.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 22Mb A simple and easy-to-use library...
libmad-0.15.1b.x86_64-aro... dev/lib 118kb Libmad
raygui.i386-aros.zip dev/mis 7Mb raygui is a simple and easy-to-u...
residualvm-0.3.1-1.x86_64... emu/mis 4Mb ResidualVM x86_64 abiv11
scummvm-1.9.0-1.x86_64-ar... emu/mis 17Mb ScummVM x86_64 abiv11
koala_seasons.i386-aros.zip gam/str 4Mb game compiled using raylib..
owb-2.0.i386-aros.zip net/bro 50Mb Odyssey Web Browser
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03.Nov.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
glib-2.0.lha Dependencies/Library/Misc A second experimental M...
ATasm_1.09.lha Development/Cross Mac65 compatible 6502 c...
libwebp-1.4.0.lha Development/Library WebP codec is a library...
glib-2.6.0.lha Development/Library Low-level core library ...
fluidsynth_2.4.0.lha Development/Library fluidsynth_2.4.0.lha
libFLAC-1.4.3.lha Development/Library MorphOS port of LibFLAC...
SDL2-demo_1.0.lha Development/SDL2 Port of SDL2-demo
SDL2-Demokit_1.0.lha Development/SDL2 Port of Patater SDL2 de...
AmiArcadia_33.42.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Arinoid_1.0.lha Games/BrickBreaker Port of Arinoid
MCE_15.21.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
OpenMoHAA_0.80.0.lha Games/Shoot3D OpenMoHAA 0.80.0 for Mo...
Mutatris_1.3.0.lha Games/Think Port of Mutatris by Pap...
Untangle_1.1.lha Games/Think A logic puzzle, where t...
FFmpeg_6.1.2.lha Multimedia FFmpeg is a collection ...
Legadon_0.3.lha Office/Show A new simple ePub Reader
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03.Nov.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.11.2024
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 02.11.2024:
- 2024-10-31 updated: Pop-Up (Infogrames) manual included, publisher corrected (Info)
- 2024-10-29 new: Charly (Magic Soft) done by DJ Mike (Info)
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03.Nov.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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Event: Videos of AmiWest 2024
As usual Robert Bernardo presents several videos of AmiWest again:
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02.Nov.2024
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Action adventure: October update for Castlevania AGA
Dante Mende has released another update to his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure “Castlevania”. He adjusted the moving platforms on level 2 to align with the floors in the level (so the player sprite don't appear with "feet sunk" in the floor if he just walks out of them). DJ Metune is now in charge of the music department, about half of the soundtrack is still currently finished. (cg)
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02.Nov.2024
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GUI for identify.library: Huh? 0.1
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's “Huh?” is a MUI-based graphical user interface for Richard 'Shred' Körber's identify.library, which can read built-in extensions and other properties of the system. (cg)
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01.Nov.2024
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Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.5.0 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).
In addition to updating important programme components, version 2.5.0 now makes it possible to have a question mark in the file name (to separate the file name and the standard sub-song) and to drag and drop a link to a module into the module list.
An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store, the ".NET Desktop Runtime V8" is required. (dr)
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31.Oct.2024
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Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 9.2
To stem the proliferation of incompatible, vendor-specific software solutions for PCI extensions, Benjamin Vernoux introduced his “OpenPCI” system in 2003 and actively developed it further until 2007. However, the original OpenPCI was only a wrapper that continued to rely on the original, proprietary libraries of the respective hardware provider.
Thomas 'Thor' Richter (e.g. mmu.library, P96, ViNCEd...) tries to solve this problem by implementing the OpenPCI.library from scratch: his version no longer needs the original, hardware-specific driver systems but communicates directly with the hardware.
Thanks to compatibility with the original OpenPCI solution, existing drivers should continue to work with this newer system. On the hardware side, all known PCI bus boards are supported: GRex, Prometheus including its offspring Firestorm and Firebird as well as the various Mediator busboards from Elbox.
OpenPCI has been undergoing rapid development since the beginning of the summer, with three new versions being released in the last seven days alone. (cg)
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31.Oct.2024
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AmigaOS 4: DTP program Compression 0.4 (Beta)
Achim Pankalla's DTP program 'Compression' allows graphics and text to be placed on printed pages and generates PDF documents from them. New features in version 0.4:
- now catches another two error codes during PDF generation
- shows an error message when existing file can not be verwritten
- always shows only a sequence of 12 pages now, a chooser lets you select which 12 pages
- removed wrong status messages
- content display now refreshed when pages are added or removed
- removed style names from the font name
- added ToolType for default PDF directory
- corrected some problems of the GUI when using the DEL-key
- rewrote the font-handling to use TrueType informations
- better WYSIWYG
- sped up PDF generation again
(cg)
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31.Oct.2024
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Block diagram from 1991: the Amiga 5000
The “Commodore International Historical Society” regularly publishes official Commodore documents provided by former employees and other insiders. A block diagram from 1991 by Commodore engineer Dave Haynie shows a design for an “Amiga 5000” in which the CPU/RAM/ROM module is connected to the other system modules - including an “Amiga module” containing the AAA chipset, as well as a “Zorro bridge” - via a PCI bus. (cg)
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31.Oct.2024
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Jump'n Shoot: La Noche de los Pequeños Espectros
La Noche de los Pequeños Espectros (“The Night of the Little Ghosts”, video) is a Halloween-themed platform game. The title, written with Amiten's “AmiGen” engine (including NinjFeratu) runs on any ECS Amiga with at least one megabyte of memory. A user-defined fee must be paid for the download, but a free download is also possible. (cg)
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30.Oct.2024
deadwood (AROSWorld)
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AROS: Web browser Odyssey 2.0 for AROS 32-bit released
Following appropriate tests, version 2.0 of the Odyssey web browser for the 32-bit version of AROS has now been officially released (video). Yesterday's second update for this ABI v0 version of AROS is required.
New features of version 2.0 of the browser include in particular an updated WebKit engine based on the February 2019 version, the porting of the media player from Wayfarer 1.21 and SSE acceleration for media playback, so that YouTube can be used again. (snx)
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30.Oct.2024
ALB (Blog)
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ePub reader: Legadon 0.3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's reader for e-books in ePub format, Legadon, has been updated for all Amiga systems.
Besides bug fixes, version 0.3 of the reader transforms some UTF-8 characters that have no direct equivalent in the Amiga character set into corresponding characters - for example various forms of quotation marks, dashes and accents. (snx)
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30.Oct.2024
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Halloween Pac-Man: Pumpkin
Friends of Pac-Man-like games can find a Halloween version at the title link, called "Pumpkin". (snx)
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30.Oct.2024
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Video series: AmigaOS - A Project with Sina & Paddy (German)
In a German video series with nine parts so far, Paddy da Linco and the developer Sina explore the Amiga:
- Folge: Betriebssystem und Shell
- Folge: Amiga 500, Kickstart & Workbench 3.1
- Folge: Big-Box-Amigas und WHDLoad (Teil 1)
- Folge: WHDLoad (Teil 2)
- Folge: WHDLoad (Teil 3), XFDMaster und NDK
- Folge: ADF-Abbilder und Workbench 1.3
- Folge: Interview mit dem WHDLoad-Entwickler
- Folge: OCS, ECS und AGA
- Folge: PAL und NTSC
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30.Oct.2024
Mastodon (ANF)
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Video: Developer at AmiWest gives preview of his game "Magicore Anomala"
At the title link Robert Bernardo's video of Dan Salvato's presentation of his OCS game "Magicore Anomala" at AmiWest can be found. The game is still work in progress. (snx)
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29.Oct.2024
deadwood (E-Mail)
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AROS/x86: Update of the ABI v0 version
In February Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz ported version 20220318-1 of AROS/x86 for 32-bit systems back to the original binary interface ABIv0. Now at the title link as well as on GitHub a second update for it has been published (release notes).
The archive contains just the updated components which can be copied directly onto an existing installation of the operating system. (snx)
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29.Oct.2024
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Do it yourself: Action Replay III cartridge with case
The ar3 project is a remake of the Action Replay III cartridge for the Amiga and offers modern features to use the legendary hardware module for the expansion port on original hardware. The replica provides the original functions of the module. With the open-source approach, ar3 enables expansion and adaptation to current needs. The GitHub project initiated by Nicola Avanzi provides the data (including Kicad and JED files), ROM binaries and component lists required for the replica in the ar3 repository.
The user fongo2k has provided a template for a 3D-printable case for the Action Replay III replica. The required STL or STEP files can be downloaded for free from the Amiga Action Replay 3 Replica – Case project website.
About the Action Replay Cartridge
The Action Replay III cartridge was a popular add-on for the Amiga 500, 1000 and 2000 that offered developers and gamers various functions for accessing the system's hardware more deeply. The main function was to use the hardware as a cheat module, with which the Amiga could be "slowed down" using a potentiometer to successfully complete tricky game situations. Game data stored in the main memory of a game that was currently running could be changed, for example to give yourself more lives. But the Action Replay III and its predecessors on the Amiga also allowed you to bypass copy protection mechanisms or "rip" music, samples or images, as well as many other functions.
Current lawsuit between Datel and Sony
Just two weeks ago, the “Action Replay” brand from the manufacturer Datel was in the spotlight: on October 17, 2024, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that offering cheat software such as Action Replay for consoles does not necessarily violate copyright law (case C-159/23).The plaintiff, Sony, thus lost a legal dispute against the British company Datel, which offers cheat software for PlayStation. With this ruling, the ECJ clarifies that the use of such software does not violate copyright protection provisions under certain circumstances. (nba)
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29.Oct.2024
McFly
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Documentary: The Making of Worms (1995)
The documentary "The Making of Worms (1995)" on YouTube provides a comprehensive insight into the creation of the cult game Worms by Team 17. The one-hour film shows the history of the game, starting with developer Andy Davidson's idea and ending with its implementation and release in 1995.
In addition to game designer Andy Davidson, who recently announced a free new edition of "Worms: The Director's Cut" to mark the game's 30th birthday (amiga-news.de reported), producer Martyn Brown, graphic artist Cris Blyth and musician Bjørn Lynne also have their say in the documentary. The creators provide special insights into the mechanics, music and legacy of Worms, which has become one of the most famous classics in video game history. (nba)
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29.Oct.2024
Amiga Kit
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A600GS: Update 46.1.864 with floppy drive support
With the new update v46.1.864 for the A600GS computer, manufacturer Amiga Kit is introducing, among other things, support for floppy drives via Drawbridge (amiga-news.de reported). The changes in detail:
System-v46-updates:
- ARM Graphics Library: Add Text backend function to support generate to the antialiased text alpha template. Give 10% additional speedup on text rendering. BugFix: RGB src image with no mask was not handled correctly, resulting in no rendering at all in some cases or incorrect alpha in others.
- ShowSlide v46.1 added to C directory.
- AmiBench: Migrate to using an intermediate AmiBench-Startup script before the traditional User-Startup and filter the latter from update archives. Now the user can edit and customise this without having customistions overwritten
- AmiSSL v5.18 updated
- Icon Library v51.4.589 updated
- Version command v46.21 updated
- CLI v46.10 updated
- Add def_DF0.info et al and snapshot the lower half of screen under current disks.
- AB-Dock: Use custom rendering to draw IntuiText based lables, cacheing the font etc to try and reduce text flicker.
- SetGadgetAttrs( node, GA_Selected,....) caused TWO refreshes under AROS (and none under OS3.x); Replace with SetAttrs() followed by RefreshGList()
A600GS-updates:
- Add support for Floppy disk drives through Drawbridge.
- Add note about pressing fire button to enable DB9 joysticks
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29.Oct.2024
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #201 - Charles Cecil (Revolution Software)
In the 201st episode of the Scene World podcast, the team welcomes Charles Cecil, founder of Revolution Software and an icon of British video game development. Cecil, known for some classic adventure games that are still popular today, talks about his career and the development of these influential games. Revolution Software brought many point-and-click adventures to the Amiga, including "Lure of the Temptress" (1992) and "Beneath a Steel Sky" (1994), and also ported the Sierra classic "King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow" to the Amiga. The interview starts at 1:03:08. (nba)
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29.Oct.2024
itch.io
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Educational game: Simons Siffror / Simon's Numbers (Swedish)
A playful introduction to numbers and math is provided by the new educational game "Simons Siffror" ("Simon's Numbers") for the Amiga - but only in Swedish text and speech. Players can solve various simple math problems designed especially for children. The user interface is tailored to a young audience, making learning easy and fun.
Simon Siffror was originally programmed by Sami Vehmaa in 1998 for his then two-year-old son. The educational game is currently available in version 1.11 and requires AmigaOS 3.x, 2 MB RAM and a resolution of at least 640x256 pixels with 32 colors (640x480 pixels RTG with 8 colors are recommended). It can be purchased for a small fee of $0.99 from the project website under the title link. (nba)
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29.Oct.2024
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Print magazine: Boing #9 (French)
"Boing" is a French print magazine by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL) for all Amiga systems on 52 A4 color pages.
The ninth issue includes, among other things, the cover story on "Amiga and the Internet" ("Amiga et Internet"), an interview with Oliver Roberts (IBrowse), a preliminary report on Dune AGA, reviews of "Tony - Montezuma's Gold" and "Glubble", a workshop on developing cracktros and a presentation of the A1K SimpleClock, a real-time clock for the Amiga 1000. (nba)
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28.Oct.2024
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Hyperion continues to be managed by court-appointed administrator
“Ben Hermans BV” (hereinafter: BHBV) was a private company with limited
liability owned by Ben Hermans, which has held
97% of the shares in Hyperion
since 2019 and subsequently also acted as a ‘director’ of Hyperion. In March,
bankruptcy proceedings were
opened against BHBV for the second time and
shortly afterwards, at the request of BHBV's liquidator, a “provisional
administrator” was appointed for Hyperion to manage the company's business
until further notice.
According to a decision by the Commercial Court of Brussels
(automated translation), the provisional
administrator's mandate, which was due to expire at the end of September,
will be extended indefinitely: he will remain in office until any
uncertainties surrounding Hyperion's ownership have been resolved and a new
official director has been appointed. Hyperion will have to bear the costs of
the administrator for this period, as BHBV does not have any funds that could
be used for this purpose.
The BHBV liquidators had requested this extension because, on the one hand,
the shares in Hyperion are the only property of BHBV worth mentioning and, on
the other hand, the intangible assets of Hyperion Entertainment BV continue
to generate income and the interests of the company, its (other) shareholders
and creditors must be protected.
For his part, the administrator has already received assurances from the
other Hyperion shareholders that they do not want to collect outstanding
payments for the time being in order to prevent the company from going
bankrupt and are themselves interested in taking over BHBV's Hyperion shares.
BHBV, on the other hand, is finally bankrupt: Ben Hermans had lodged two
objections to this, but did not appear at the first hearing and withdrew his
objection at the second hearing. The decision is therefore legally binding.
But Ben Hermans is contesting the sale of the Hyperion shares which, according to
the bankruptcy trustees (and the latest available BHBV annual report from 2021),
were owned by BHBV. According to his account, the 2165 shares have since been returned to
his private ownership. The bankruptcy trustees had then initiated proceedings
to legally clarify the ownership of said Hyperion shares.
Editor's note: We have contacted both the liquidator Charlotte Piers
and Ben Hermans to clarify some points that are unclear to us and to give the
parties involved the opportunity to comment. We will provide any feedback as
soon as we receive it. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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28.Oct.2024
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master v4.9 R116 für Windows 10/11
Raster Master 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).
After our last news item, bugs have been fixed and the program "Sprite Animation" can now export C/Pascal/Basic code of all animation frames. In a recent YouTube video he shows how he created a simple platform game with the help of Raster Master and raylib (GitHub). (dr)
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28.Oct.2024
ALBs Blog
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Video: Client for chatbot "Ollama"
In a short video, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow presents his client for the chatbot Ollama (German), which he wrote at an Amiga meeting in Berlin. You can install this model on your own server using a Docker container and then access it from a small Amiga programme. He wrote this client with FreePascal. (dr)
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