29.Sep.2023
Yawning Angel (E-Mail)
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Video tutorial: Advanced menu features in AMOS
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at some of the advanced menu features in AMOS, continuing a video tutorial from last year. The source files for the programme in this video can be downloaded for free from his website. (dr)
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28.Sep.2023
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 24
The 24th issue of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" will be published on 05 October 2023. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the CD32, the latest issue looks at the history of the console. There is also a downloadable CD32 cover disc with the full version of "Beneath a Steel Sky" and Frank Gasking introduces a few CD32 games that never made it to the console. There are also various interviews and reviews.
Amiga Addict is published monthly and is available as a single issue or by subscription, either in printed form or as a PDF file.
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28.Sep.2023
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DIY: Firmware 1.01 for Amiga 4000 accelerator board "Z3660"
In October 2021, developer 'shanshe' had started a project on GitHub for the Amiga 4000 turbo board "Z3660" based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board and the Z-turn Board (amiga-news.de reported). With the current version 0.21 of the schematics, all corrections needed to ensure DMA compatibility have been incorporated. In addition, version 1.01 of the firmware was released today, which offers SCSI emulation for the first time. (dr)
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28.Sep.2023
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AMOS: Micke project to "Projects in the attic" added
At the end of November, the game developer group "Electric Black Sheep" had published a collection of games under the name "Projects in the attic", which were created for test purposes with the programming language AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). Now the Micke project was added: you control a runner in a vertically scrolling landscape. (dr)
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27.Sep.2023
Timo Weirich (Mastodon)
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Emu68 tip: Reducing the speed of the Raspberry Pi
Timo Weirich is in the process of setting up a computer museum. He is also working on his Amiga 500, which is upgraded with a PiStorm. Now he has published a tip on how to reduce the speed so that old games (e.g. XJ220) run better or correctly:
For such adjustments to Michal Schulz' Emu68 software (we reported on the release candidate of version 1.0 just a few days ago), there is Emu68-Tools provided by Philippe 'Flype' Carpentier, which were also updated four days ago. Not only the Emu68Control included in it can control some aspects of the Pi's speed, but also Emu68Info: "with the SETCLOCKRATE option, for example, you can clock the Pi 3A+ down to 600 MHz, which makes it 2.3x slower than the default speed. In combination with the possibilities of Emu68Control, you can clock the Pi 3A+ down to only about 3,000 dhrystones. That's only a little more than twice as fast as a standard A1200".
Compatibility tip: Activating the "Slow chip memory" option (or the SC parameter) in Emu68Control should be avoided. This seems to corrupt the chip memory. Test case e.g.: Pinball Dreams. (dr)
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26.Sep.2023
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Music track: "White King" with ProTracker visualisation
Since version 1.1, ProTracker (Aminet version 3.61) has a Quadrascope: ProTracker visualises the sound waveform for each channel in four small windows. 'no9' has now written a Protracker module and published it on his YouTube channel that not only plays the music but also displays visual effects in these four small windows at the same time. According to the author, it could be a "world first" in this form, as he had never seen this approach in ProTracker before.
The track was written especially for this purpose, always looking to see if what looks good also sounds good and vice versa. (dr)
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25.Sep.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 150 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about "Goal!". (snx)
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25.Sep.2023
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Video: Building a ReAmiga 1200, last episode
We reported about the first and second and the third and fourth episode of the video series of the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Manshed" which builds John 'Chucky' Hertell's Amiga1200 clone ReAmiga 1200. Now the final fifth part is available. (dr)
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24.Sep.2023
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Crowdfunding: Illustrated book "Demoscene - The Amiga Renaissance", Vol. 3
In 2021, the first illustrated book about the demoscene, "Demoscene - The Amiga Years", was completed, covering the years 1984 to 1993. Volume two, "Demoscene - The AGA Years", followed a year later and was dedicated to the years 1994 to 1996. Now the third part of the series, "Demoscene - The Amiga Renaissance", is being crowdfunded, covering the period from 1997 to today. The aim is to collect 21,000 Euros by 15 October, of which around 8,000 have already been raised so far. (dr)
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24.Sep.2023
CommodoreBlog
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Game ports: Game..X and Dragon Slayer
Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has ported two games from X68000, home computer created by Sharp Corporation, to the Amiga:
Dragon Slayer should run on any Amiga and is based on Moby Games' version for the FM-7 home computer. The game is commonly considered one of the progenitors of the action RPG genre. The premise is similar to Roguelikes: the player takes control of a knight who must fight his way through large overhead maze-like dungeons. Unlike roguelikes, the combat in the game is fully action-oriented
The shoot'em up Game.X (YouTube video) requires an AGA-Amiga and was originally released in 1990 by Kugenuma Soft. (dr)
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24.Sep.2023
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Video: The chronological history of AmigaOS
The hobby YouTube channel "Proteque - Classic Beige Nostalgia" shows the chronological history of AmigaOS. (dr)
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24.Sep.2023
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Music: Cover version of Chuck Rock
Linus 'lft' Åkesson has been an active part of the demoscene for a good 25 years, composing music for numerous demos and music discs for Amiga and C64 as 'Lairfight' bzw. 'lft'. Creatively, he also builds various instruments from Commodore hardware like the Paulimba or the C=TAR. He now uses these instruments to recreate the main melody of the game Chuck Rock composed by Matthew Simmonds. (dr)
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24.Sep.2023
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Aminet uploads until 23.09.2023
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to Aminet:
64tass.lha dev/cross 1.3M 68k Cross assembler targeting the...
c2plib.lha dev/misc 201K 68k chunky2planar as an Amiga sha...
giplanner.lha dev/misc 286K 68k GI Planner
Beziery_Beizera.lha dev/src 153K 68k Further Laffik's works on Bez...
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 10K 2023 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 3.7M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.2M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 51K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
Play2CPC.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 18K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
GoneFishin.lha mods/misc 292K 16bit 4ch Country Ballad by H...
avalanche.lha util/arc 115K AOS ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
avalanche_guide_de.lha util/arc 9K German translation of Avalanc...
dtconvert.lha util/conv 48K OS4 File format conversion using ...
ModelerConverter10.lha util/conv 11K 68k 3D Object Converter from 1991
GifAnimDT.lha util/dtype 164K OS4 Datatype for animated GIFs
AmiSSL-5.11-OS3.lha util/libs 3.4M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.11-OS4.lha util/libs 3.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.11-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
Mnemosyne.lha util/misc 77K 68k Disk usage stats+file/folder ...
PolyOrga_de.lha util/misc 4K Updated German catalog for Po...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 656K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 749K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 826K OS4 Multipurpose utility
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 15M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
AnalogClock.lha util/time 40K 68k Resizeable analog transparent...
LilCalendar.lha util/time 3.4M 68k Versatile calender and remind...
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24.Sep.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.09.2023
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to OS4Depot:
gifanimdt.lha dat/ani 164kb 4.1 Datatype for animated GIFs
giflib-extras.lha dev/lib 126kb 4.1 Some extras to go with GifLib.
libwebp.lha dev/lib 7Mb 4.1 lib for handling WebP images
libx264.lha dev/lib 8Mb 4.1 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video compressi...
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
reminiscence.lha gam/adv 1Mb 4.1 REminiscence is a re-implementat...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
mediathek.lha net/mis 3Mb 4.0 Downloading Movies from differen...
dtconvert.lha uti/fil 48kb 4.1 File format conversion using dat...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 826kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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24.Sep.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 23.09.2023
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to AROS Archives:
pingus.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 15Mb Lead Pingus to the correct exit ...
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24.Sep.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.09.2023
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Morphobia_1.3.lha Demoscene/ENCORE MORPHOBIA by ENCORE
Kheshkhash_2.1.lha Demoscene/ENCORE A demo for MorphOS name...
Morphever_1.3.lha Demoscene/ENCORE Demo for MorphOS PowerPC
Morphiller_1.3.lha Demoscene/ENCORE Demo for MorphOS PowerPC
Play2CPC_1.0.lha Emulation/ACEpansion ACEpansion plugin for A...
SALTO.lha Emulation SALTO - Xerox Alto I/II...
MCE_14.20.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
SonicCD-RSDKv3_1.3.2.lha Games/Platform A Full Decompilation of...
Iris_1.18.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email...
Easy2Install_1.0b35.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
PolyOrga_1.21.lha Office/Organizer PolyOrga is a general-p...
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24.Sep.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.09.2023
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 23.09.2023:
- 2023-09-22 new: Tolteka (Ariolasoft) done by Psygore (Info)
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22.Sep.2023
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Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0 Release Candidate
A month ago, Developer Michal Schulz had released beta version 2.1 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Since then, many other improvements have been added. Changes of the release candidate of version 1.0:
BFxxx updated
The bitfield instructions operating on memory are not optimized to use as little memory accesses as possible. There are still corner cases which will do more traffic than necessary, but they are now very limited. The bitfield instructions will fetch byte/word/long word/quad word instead of always working on quad words.
Better write to CHIPSET registers
After a write to memory area belonging to Amiga chipset, a byte read from ROM is issued. This improves stability of some old games/demos which never assumed to be running on m68k which is that fast. A read from ROM gives Paula enough time to complete the interrupt acknowledgment properly.
IPL filter
Emu68 filters the IPL lines and recognizes an IPL change if and only if two subsequent IPL reads (which are roughly 400 nanoseconds away) give the same result. Improves many games or demos which suffered from spurious interrupts.
Write buffer removed
The write buffer was my experiment introduced quite long time ago - it featured a write combining to subsequent byte/word locations as long as they would finally result in a longword write cycle. It worked relatively well in most cases, but failed miserably in some others. Since this was just a dirty hack, it has been removed now.
CCR optimizer scan depth
The number of m68k opcodes which are scanned in-advance during m68k to arm translation for elimination of CCR flag updates is now adjustable. Use EmuControl version 1.3 for that (nightly build from 23. Sept. 2023 or newer).
The developer provides more detailed information on the changes in his new Patreon post. (dr)
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22.Sep.2023
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.4 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. Since version 2.1, simple editing of LhA/Zip archives also is possible (Zip requires zip.library - only under AmigaOS 4). The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2.1, but has also tested it under AmigaOS 4. Changes of version 2.4:
- Support Deark (needs enabling by tooltype)
- This is a "beta" feature, it may be unstable and due to a bug in Deark, it is not possible to extract to the root of any device.
- Add option to select modules (MODULES tooltype)
- Fixx password caching
- Also use T: as temp by default from CLI
Download: avalanche.lha (115 KB)
(dr)
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22.Sep.2023
Bill Borsari
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Event: AmiWest 2023 DevCon Survey
This year's 26th edition of Amiwest, which will be held from 12 to 15 October in Sacramento (California), will also feature a developer conference that focuses exclusively on programming topics and is aimed at both amateurs and professional programmers. Since places are limited, a survey is now being conducted to find out who would like to take part and how. (dr)
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22.Sep.2023
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Origins and evolution of texteditors Vi and Vim
Gustavo Pezzi is a university lecturer in computer science and mathematics and runs the educational platform Pikuma. At the beginning of August, the developer of the text editor Vim, Bram Moolenaar, passed away. Pezzi had already paid his last respects to the developer in his own way in August and wrote down the history of the text editor, which is closely linked to the Amiga and which is also available in current versions for AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS provided by Ola 'sodero' Söder. (dr)
[News message: 22. Sep. 2023, 09:33] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2023
Amigans (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: libegl_wrap 0.7.20 (beta)
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel is working on an EGL-OpenGL-Wrapper which is based on Warp 3D Nova/OpenGL-ES combination sold by A-EON. The wrapper is supposed to simplify porting modern OpenGL based games (Youtube video example for Prey 2006).
The new beta version 0.7.20 is now available. Changes:
- Now!! Support additional shaders glsl on your code (exemple: effects Scanline, CRT and others)
- Now!! all libraries are STATIC, IMPORTANT: don't forget to delete your old dynamic libraries
- New!! Added The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library 'Glew' includes and package for SDK
- Updated SDL1 and SDL2
- Now!! SDL2 as your prefs on ENVARC:egl_wrap/
- Updated Gl4ES
- Updated GUI
- 20% speedup on renderer EGL_Wrap
- Added new icons into the GUI
(dr)
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