14.Oct.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.2
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.2 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes:
- Added AdBlocker settings with three different data sets
- Improved search vs URL detection in the URL string
- Added "Paste and Go" to the URL string context menu
- New tabs are now being added after the active tab (can be changed in Settings/Interface)
- Added a Font Code Path setting and changed the default to Simple on slower machines. This was previously forced to Complex to allow ligature handling, but could lead to very poor performance when editing text, etc
- Fine-tuned redraw handling while editing text
- Updated EasyList AdBlocker data
- Updated libwebp to address its various recent CVEs
- Updated sqlite, nghttp2, curl and psl libraries
Download: wayfarer.lha (33 MB) (dr)
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14.Oct.2023
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Preview video: Doom clone "Grind"
John 'Tsak' Tsakiris has published a new preview video for his Doom clone "Grind" (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)
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14.Oct.2023
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Theme set: New wallpapers for 32se (AmigaOS 3.2)
Sami Vehmaa has released another theme pack to his theme set for his AmigaOS 3.2 extension 32se or the free 32se-lite which adds ten different wallpapers, boot logos and sounds from his new game Mansion of Madness 2. (dr)
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14.Oct.2023
Simon Neumann (E-Mail)
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Neues von Alinea Computer: Wodem, KickRom-Flash und KickRom-Progger
Press release: Alinea Computer presents three new products that were presented to the public for the first time at Amiga 38:
Wodem
With the Wodem, you can integrate any Amiga into your WiFi via the serial interface and have access to the Internet via a TCP/IP stack. With the appropriate turbo card or interface card, speeds of up to 115,200 bps are possible. The configuration is described in detail in the manual supplied. The Wodem can be purchased without accessories for 29.95 euros.
KickRom-Flash
The KickRom-Flash Adapter (version 1.4) is a programmable Flash-Rom replacement for EPROM components (e.g. 27c400) or Kickstart-Roms in the Amiga computer. Up to 4 Kickstarts (512 kb each) can be loaded onto a module and switched via jumpers or a switch. The switch with the name KickRom-Switch is unfortunately not yet available, but will be released in a few weeks.
In addition to the standard version of the Flash-Rom module, there is currently a special version for the Amiga 600, as mechanical problems can occur there with the standard modules. The programming and deletion of the components is done with the programming device KickRom-Progger. A KickRom flash can be bought for 29.95 Euros. In addition, a programming service is available for customers without a programming device.
KickRom-Progger
With the KickRom-Progger you can program/read Flash-Rom (27C400 emulators) devices up to 1.4 from Alinea Computer as well as commercially available 27C400 devices. The programmer can be operated directly on your Amiga via the serial interface. In addition to the serial interface, the programmer can also be controlled via USB on any computer. The programmer is operated via its own firmware, which is controlled from the computer via a terminal programme and can therefore run on almost any platform.
The device is the world's first programmer that can burn its own Kickstart roms directly on the Amiga. The KickRom Progger can be purchased without accessories for 44.95 euros. Options include a zero-force socket and a serial cable for BigBox Amigas.
(cg)
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14.Oct.2023
commodore.news (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: AMI Tech Gazette, issue 5
The "AMI Tech Gazette", edited by Eric Schwartz and Michael Barclay, is a bi-monthly English PDF magazine. The fifth issue offers current short news and a review of the British print magazine "CU Amiga" as well as the first part of a course in which Eric Schwartz describes his approach to creating illustrations and animations on the Amiga. (cg)
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13.Oct.2023
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Visual Novel: Mansion of Madness 2
After the first part, Sami Vehmaa now continues the story of the Visual Novel game with "Mansion of Madness 2" (YouTube video). According to the author, the game offers an average playing time of 20 to 30 minutes with five different endings. You need at least an Amiga with a 68030 processor and 30 MB RAM. The game is available for download for at least around 2 Euros. (dr)
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13.Oct.2023
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit for PiStorm released
In addition to the already existing versions for Raspberry Pi, Windows, Mac and Linux, the workbench distributions AmiKit are now also available for the PiStorm or PiStorm-lite (YouTube video). Ján Zahurančík writes about this:
"It all started 20 years ago... On my Amiga 1200 with Blizzard 1240/40. The journey has continued on WinUAE, though. Today, it's come full circle, back to where it all started - The Amiga.
AmiKit, a pre-installed and pre-designed package with over 400 classic Amiga programs and games, is now highly optimized for PiStorm and works best on Amiga 1200 with PiStorm32-Lite with Raspberry Pi 4 (or CM4). Raspbery Pi 3 is also supported. Miminum configuration is Amiga 500/600/2000 with RPi3.
It requires your own AmigaOS 3.2 ADF files as well as the latest hotfix3.2.2.1, Picasso96 driver and Amiga internet connection. Full Roadshow is recommended. The installtion of the required software is automated." (dr)
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13.Oct.2023
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Demoparty: TRSAC 2023 in Denmark
The probably last edition of the TRSAC demo party will take place from 20 to 22 October 2023 in Aarhus, Denmark. TRSAC is an acronym for "The Real Scene After Christmas". TRSAC was started in 2000 by a few friends from the demoscene who thought that demoparties were too much about games.
Among the various competitions is Oldskool, which is primarily reserved for the Amiga. On the timetable, one can find precise information about the different programme items. (dr)
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12.Oct.2023
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ACube Systems: Sam460LE boards at a reduced trade fair price
Press release: Dear valued customers,
We have returned from the amazing Amiga38 exhibition, where we had the pleasure of meeting many fellow Amiga enthusiasts. We sincerely appreciate your support and the enjoyable moments we shared, all centered around our shared passion.
During the exhibition, we presented our Sam460LE board at a discounted price. We are excited to announce that we have decided to extend this special offer to coincide with the upcoming Amiwest event! Although we will not be physically present at the event, you can still take advantage of purchasing the Sam460LE from our store at the exclusive price of 729 Euros (excluding VAT) or 890 Euros (including VAT).
Thank you for your continuous support, and we look forward to serving you!
ACube Systems (dr)
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12.Oct.2023
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Arcade classic: Bagman500
Jean-François Fabre ported his SDL-based clone of the arcade classic Bagman to the Amiga, which required SDL libraries and thus a graphics card. In late 2019, he released a real port that directly used the Amiga's chipset graphics (amiga-news.de reported), but required a 68020 processor and was "still slow," according to the author.
Now Bagman 500 was transcoded to 68000 and should run on any A500. (dr)
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11.Oct.2023
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AmigaOS 4: MilkyTracker 1.04 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has again cross-compiled the source code of MilkyTracker for AmigaOS 4 with GCC 11.3.0 and linked it with the last stable version of SDL 2.28.0.. (dr)
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10.Oct.2023
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AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.28.4 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.28.4 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1. The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Changes:
- Fix renderer viewport issues
- Fill renderer bitmaps with 0 during creation
- Fill frame buffer bitmap with 0 during creation
Download: SDL2.lha (6,8 MB) (dr)
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10.Oct.2023
Misja van Laatum (Mail)
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Pixelart: Designs for unreleased game "Conflict
Misja van Laatum had recently reported in a Mastodon article that he and a friend played a lot of Empire: Wargame Of The Century in the 90s and had then made the "half-hearted plan" to make it "bigger and better". Unfortunately, nothing came of that plan. Misja, however, still owns some of the graphics he had already started, which he released to us for publication upon request: Combat backgrounds, user interface designs, a title logo and some Sculpt-3D images for an intro sequence.
Misja van Laatum explains further to us: "The game we were planning was to be called Conflict, and we had ambitious plans: terrain of different heights (hence the bunch of tiny tile graphics), more types of units than in Empire, a zoomed in view when attacking cities (the larger tiles) allowing you to target individual infrastructure, etc. The problem was that I'm not a great programmer (my skillset was limited to Blitzbasic and AMOS) and I didn't really know anyone that could, at that time... but it might be fun to one day pick this up now that I have a bit more experience."
In this respect, there is hope that the "half-hearted plan" will eventually become reality.
(dr)
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09.Oct.2023
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Review: Impbox - Internet chat on Amigas (German)
Paweł 'juen' Nowak's Infinity Music Player (IMP3) also offers internet functions such as a chat with Discord connection or sharing files with other users. While IMP3 itself runs on any Amiga with at least 512 KB RAM and OS 2.0, Chat & Co. naturally have considerably higher requirements since network hardware and a TCP stack are still needed.
The "Impbox", a version of the Plipbox adapted to IMP3, which was introduced in August, corrects this problem: it enables the use of IMP's Internet functionality without requiring additional hardware or software. A user has documented his experiences with setting up and using the Impbox in a short report including a video.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Oct.2023
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New diskmag: Amiga Rulez
"Amiga Rulez" is a quarterly free diskmag whose first issue was distributed on real disks at the "Amiga 38" last Saturday and can meanwhile also be downloaded from the magazine's website. The German edition is already available, an English translation is to follow shortly. (cg)
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08.Oct.2023
ALBs Blog
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Program for DeepL use: AmiTranslate 0.3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's programme AmiTranslate (video) serves as a link to the translation service DeepL and is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.
The new version 0.3 can now also display and print Japanese characters.
Besides an SSL-secured internet connection (OpenSSL3 under MorphOS resp. AmiSSL for the other systems) the program also needs the MUI class texteditor.mcc. (dr)
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08.Oct.2023
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Event: News from the Amiga38 (update)
This weekend the Amiga38 took place. We asked around for news and things worth reporting:
AmigaOS 3.3: Camilla Boemann, who joined the AmigaOS 3 development team 4 years ago, gave a preview of the upcoming version 3.3 in a speech (YouTube video), which among other things should offer an improved and more intelligent handling of ADF files and run noticeably faster. The HDToolbox will also be replaced and partitioning will become much easier: it will no longer be necessary to specify a device or block size.
Enhancer 2.3, Virtio GPU driver: In his talk (YouTube video), Trevor Dickinson described the history of A-EON's hardware developments, announced a new Enhancer version 2.3 for probably before Christmas, and introduced the Virtio GPU driver for Picasso96: a virtual GPU for use with emulators like QEMU and virtual machines (KVMs), developed for A-EON by Hans der Ruiter. Features:
- Looks like a regular PCI device
- Passes graphics commands through the host operating systems graphics drivers
- Provides 32-bit display support
- High resolution
- Fast - no need to emulate hardware registers
- Virtio GPU has 3D and video decoding hardware acceleration - WIP
Virtio GPU driver current status:
- Fully working framebuffer driver, with 8, 16, and 32-bit modes
- Hardware accelerated mouse pointer
- DDC/EDID working, so automatically gets available screen-modes
- High resolution
- Fast - no need to emulate hardware registers
- Virtio GPU has 3D and video decoding hardware acceleration - WIP
- Version 0.5 has just been released
- Very usable as-is
Pre-order of A1222 Plus: At Amedia France, part of the "AAA Technology" alliance consisting of Amedia Computer, AmigaKit and A-Eon, one could place pre-orders for an A1222-Plus complete system at the special price of 1600 Euros (incl. VAT, plus PayPal or extra shipping costs), and continue to do so by via e-mail or the corresponding website. The following is a sample offer, which can be modified according to your wishes, e.g. graphics card, tower, etc:
- Chieftec mATX Tower
- A1222+ 1.3 Motherboard
- Kingston 4GB SoDDR3 1600MHz
- Crucial 240GB SSD harddisk SATA3
- AFox Radeon RX550 4GB gfc card
There should be an official sales link on the official A1222 Plus website soon.
new products from Alinea Computer: new products were available for purchase at the Alinea Computer stand, which will also be available in the shop this week. More details will be published this week:
- Wodem - WLAN via the serial interface for every Amiga
- KickRom-Flash - 4-fold flash-rom adapter with up to 4 kickstarts
- KickRom-Progger - Flash-Rom programmer for programming the KickRom flash modules directly on the Amiga
And a few prototypes were also shown, which will be released this year:
- KickRom switch - 4-fold kick-start switch for the KickRom flash
- KickRom switch as TV port version
- Joyport Power Adapter - Get 5V power via the joystick port and use it for Wodem, KickRom Progger or other 5 V devices so that a separate power supply unit no longer has to be used.
- Floppy to 5V/12V switch - To be able to quickly connect e.g. fans via the floppy power cable
native AmigaOS 4 version of Heretic II: At the beginning of the year we reported that Steffen Häuser was working on a native AmigaOS 4 version of Heretic II. The finished version could be marvelled at both at the HunoPPC stand and at Alinea Computer. At the latter, the game was shown on a Sam460ex with Radeon HD 7750 and the new GL drivers. According to Simon Neumann, it ran "absolutely smoothly". On the Sam with a resolution of 1280x1024 with 39 fps, on Steffen Häusers own AmigaOne 1000 at 1024x768 with about 100 fps.
Videos: In addition to the recording of the official live stream, there are also short tours of the fair that visitors have uploaded to YouTube, including Retro Merlin and Propheus. (dr)
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08.Oct.2023
ALB-Blog
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.4
"AmiFox" displays modern web pages on an Amiga by downloading and displaying pages converted to images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). At Amiga38, some copies of a boxed version financed by the author were given away, which contains the new version 0.4. This offers some new features like an AREXX interface or the possibility to pass a web page as a command line parameter (both useful for OpenURL use).
Especially for Amigas with small screens (e.g. Native PAL Hires Mode), parts of the interface can be hidden: either automatically (the status bar) or by pressing a button (the text input bar). (dr)
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08.Oct.2023
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Shoot'em Up: Reshoot Proxima 3 released
The official release party took place at this weekend's Amiga38, and now, after Reshoot and Reshoot R, the third part of Richard Löwenstein's shoot'em-up series has been released: Reshoot Proxima 3 (official YouTube teaser) offers the following features:
- Custom-made for Amiga AGA-hardware
- Fluid gameflow experience
- 5 uniquely themed stages
- adaptive attack wave design
- makes full use of AGA-chipset
- 24 bit color pixel art
- Steady 50 fps framerate
- 2 difficulty settings
- Energizing music and sound-fx
- Entire code in Assembly-language
- Local and global highscore table
- Available on CD-ROM boxed, USB and digital
- Exclusive for Commodore Amiga A1200, A4000 and CD32
- Compatible with most Amiga-emulation systems, MISTer, A500 Mini, PPC
In addition to Richard Löwenstein as project manager and coder, Kevin Saunders was responsible for the graphics and Martin "Altraz" Ahman and Jochen "Virgill" Feldkötter for the sound design. The game is available in different versions in the Amiga Onlineshop (dr)
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08.Oct.2023
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Aminet uploads until 07.10.2023
The following files have been added until 07.10.2023 to Aminet:
SegTracker.lha dev/debug 22K 68k A global SegList tracking uti...
c2plib.lha dev/misc 201K 68k chunky2planar as an Amiga sha...
gibattaglianavale.lha dev/misc 278K 68k GI Battaglia Navale
giplanner.lha dev/misc 290K 68k GI Planner
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 111K 68k P96 Preferences Editor
AmiTechGazette-Issue0... mags/misc 3.7M Free preview of Ami Tech-Gaze...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
PDF2JPG.lha util/conv 16M MOS convert PDF to JPG
PDF2PDF.lha util/conv 15M MOS convert PDF to PDF
Magellan_II_SDK.lha util/dopus 146K 68k DOpus Magellan II Software De...
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 207K 68k App for chatting to ChatGPT
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 15M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
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08.Oct.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 07.10.2023
The following files have been added until 07.10.2023 to OS4Depot:
nallepuh.lha aud/mis 83kb 4.1 Nalle Puh (Paula,CIAA,CIAB emula...
seq.lha aud/mis 424kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer
oo.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
hidtouchusbfd.lha dri/inp 63kb 4.1 USB HID driver for touchscreen m...
viivi.lha gra/vie 323kb 4.1 Picture viewer
pdf2pdf.lha uti/mis 15Mb 4.0 Convert PDF to PDF
touchbench.lha uti/mis 61kb 4.1 Mouse emulator for touchscreens
quickstarter.lha uti/wor 416kb 4.1 Quick program start menu
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08.Oct.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 07.10.2023
The following files have been added until 07.10.2023 to AROS Archives:
fade2black.i386-aros.zip gam/act 6Mb Fade to Black is an action-adven...
drawer_icon_games_kensv4.lha gra/ico 246kb Drawer Games Icons Kens v4 Style
icon_game_38x38.lha gra/ico 234kb icon game 38x38
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08.Oct.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.10.2023
The following files have been added until 07.10.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
AstroMenace_1.3.3.lha Games/Shoot3D Hardcore 3D space scrol...
Easy2Install_1.0b38.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
PDF2PDF_1.3.lha Office/Convert Convert PDF to PDF
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08.Oct.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.10.2023
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 07.10.2023:
- 2023-10-04 improved: Zaxxon (Bignonia) overhauled, keyboard and snoop errors fixed, trainer and icons added (Info, Image)
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08.Oct.2023
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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:
- Battle Squadron - Loose (Spatial Mix)
- Physical Presence (Spatial mix)
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08.Oct.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Forum: AROS-Exec preserved on AROSWorld
After the closure of Ola '4pLaY' Jensen's forum AROS-Exec for health reasons, AROSWorld has preserved it read-only for posterity at the title link. (snx)
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