18.Feb.2025
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Platformer: BOOM!
In recognition of AmigaBill's commitment to the Amiga community, Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen has released a small platform game in which he plays the protagonist. A demo version was already included on the cover disc of Amiga-Addict issue 25. The game has been written with the Scorpion Engine, the AGA chipset is required. (dr)
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18.Feb.2025
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Demoparty: A look back at MountainBytes 2025 (German)
Last weekend, the MountainBytes demo party 2025 took place in Switzerland. The "Amiga User Group Switzerland" took part for the first time with a specially created demo and wrote a German-language report about the event at the title link. The results were published on DEMOZOO, with the demo Spreadpoints by Spreadpoint standing out from an Amiga perspective, taking first place in the "Oldschool and Alternative Realtime" category. (dr)
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17.Feb.2025
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m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin v1.8.13 for Visual Studio Code
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. The stable version 1.8.13 fixes a bug which prevented the build task to work if filenames included spaces. On GitHub, a detailed documentation is available. (dr)
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17.Feb.2025
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Video player: Reducer tool of Amos Anim Player updated (update)
The "Amos Anim Player" from the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF audio sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported). Reducer is a stand-alone tool that does not require AMOS and reduces the data size. The updated version includes the following changes:
- Previous version of reducer used luma (greyscale) to filter out the difference between frames, 2025 version use chroma (RGB), so it gives a visualy much better result!!!
- Previous version doesn't work above 320x185 resolution, the new limit is 640x512
- does a better job correcting errors in HAM mode
- does a better job detecting/handleing small changes
- does a better job cleaning "residues" caused by slow movements
Update: (18.02.2025, 22:10, dr)
A video tutorial shows how to use it using an example. (dr)
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17.Feb.2025
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Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor 4.0.0
Under the title link you will find a modern web application for writing, executing and learning M68K assembler code, which uses the SvelteKit framework and the Rust programming language (amiga-news.de reported, source code on GitHub). The tool now supports not only 68k, but also MIPS architecture. All changes:
- Added MIPS assembler/simulator (mars)
- Added MIPS documentation
- Other improvements and bug fixes
- Migrated website to svelte 5
- Made the UI more generic over different languages
(dr)
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17.Feb.2025
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Preview video: Hyper Runner - Desert Road
"Hyper Runner" is an announced sci-fi racing game for AGA Amigas. The game was started in mid-2022 and only continued at the beginning of the year (amiga-news.de reported). Now another race track is being presented with the "Desert Road". (dr)
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17.Feb.2025
Rob Smith
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Video: The history of X-Copy
In his latest video, Rob Smith traces the history of the well-known copy program X-Copy, whose source code was published in 2011 (amiga-news.de reported). In this context, Christian Bartsch, who worked for the software company Cachet, which wrote the copy programme at the time, is also interviewed (see also the German c't interview with him). (dr)
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16.Feb.2025
AmigaKit (E-Mail)
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A600GS: Update 46.1.998 with German and Spanish localization
Today's software update 46.1.998 for the Orange Pi-based Amiga clone A600GS from AmigaKit now includes an ARM-native PNG datatype, version 7.2 of the word processing program Final Writer as well as German and Spanish language support.
Changes:
- A600GS:
- Add option to map RCTRL as RAMIGA key in Amibench et al.
- Add option to set alternate PAUSE MENU key (for keyboard lacking the default F12 key)
- German langauge support: translation contribution thanks to Philipp Lonke
- Spanish langauge support: translation contribution thanks to Javier De Las Rivas
- SystemV46:
- ARM Native Support: AK-PNG datatype converted to native ARM from 68K code giving up to double speed when decoding PNG files
- Programs:
- Update version of Final Writer to version 7.2
- AmiSSL has been updated to v5.19
(snx)
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16.Feb.2025
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Aminet uploads until 15.02.2025
The following files have been added until 15.02.2025 to Aminet:
ira.lha dev/asm 278K VAR MC680x0/851 reassembler
GeneraNumeroCasuale.lha dev/basic 23K OS3 Custom routine to gener...
Firemeter.zip driver/inp 22K OS3 Measures Joystick Autof...
G-WARS.lha game/shoot 7.9M OS3 Geometry Wars inspired ...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
PrayForGaza.lha mods/32bit 2.0M GEN 16bit 16ch Amiga Charit...
PrayForGaza.lha mods/8voic 562K GEN 16bit 16ch Amiga Charit...
Protrekkr_AROS_i386.zip mus/edit 13M ARO Tracker/Synth hybrid Pr...
LHArchiver_MOS.lha util/arc 1.6M MOS create lha archives int...
LHArchiver_OS3.lha util/arc 1.4M OS3 create lha archives int...
LHArchiver_OS4.lha util/arc 1.9M OS4 create lha archives int...
LHArchiver_WOS.lha util/arc 1.7M WUP create lha archives int...
AmiSSL-v5-OS3.lha util/libs 3.8M OS3 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-OS4.lha util/libs 3.5M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
AmiSSL-v5-SDK.lha util/libs 2.4M VAR OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 68K OS3 Identify hardware and m...
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 102K OS3 Identify hardware and m...
xxd.lha util/misc 34K VAR Hex dump utility and vi...
CPU-A.lha util/moni 502K OS3 System Information Tool
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16.Feb.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.02.2025
The following files have been added until 15.02.2025 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 2Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
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16.Feb.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 15.02.2025
The following files have been added until 15.02.2025 to AROS Archives:
protrekkr.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 13Mb Tracker/Synth hybrid Program
protrekkr.x86_64-aros-v11... aud/tra 13Mb Tracker/Synth hybrid Program
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16.Feb.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.02.2025
The following files have been added until 15.02.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
Markdown-Viewer_1.0.lha Dependencies/Mimetypes Use cmark to read markd...
IRA-2.11.lha Development/ASM MC68000/10/20/30/40 rea...
xxd.lha Development/Misc Hex dump utility and vi...
LHArchiver_1.13.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
Znax_1.1.lha Games/Think Port of Znax by Papiosaur
System16-SpriteViewer_... Graphics/Show A quick and dirty Sega ...
Wayfarer_9.1.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
GetMimetype_1.0.lha System/Shell GetMimetype_1.0.lha
IconInfo_1.0.lha System/Shell IconInfo_1.0.lha
AmbientFind_1.0.lha System/Shell AmbientFind_1.0.lha
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16.Feb.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.02.2025
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 15.02.2025:
- 2025-02-12 new: Wizmo (Kingsoft) done by DJ Mike (Info)
- 2025-02-11 new: Grimblood (Maelstrom) done by paraj (Info)
- 2025-02-10 improved: Powermonger (Bullfrog) use fast RAM to speed up rendering, trainer, icons and docs added (Info)
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16.Feb.2025
Amiga Addict (ANF)
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 36
Issue 36 of the print/PDF magazine Amiga Addict is now available from the publisher addict.media and from UK newsagents. This issue is dedicated to the once largest UK Amiga dealer, Silica Systems, including interviews with former employees. (snx)
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16.Feb.2025
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Do it yourself: Adapter board A314 for an internal Raspberry Pi, version 1.2.3
The A314 is an FPGA-based adapter board by Niklas Ekström, with the help of which a Raspberry Pi can be connected to the expansion slot of the Amiga 500 (amiga-news.de reported), which also makes it possible to use its network connection, among other things.
The now released version 1.2.3 contains a workaround for a bug in the compiler vbcc, which caused the a314-cp.device not to work properly on a 68000 processor. (snx)
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16.Feb.2025
Karpour
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Copies of really old (Amiga) websites: archive95.net
archive95.net wants to make websites accessible again that are too old even for the Web Archive - the latter only started archiving public sites in 1996. For this purpose, commercial CDs from the years before 1996 are used, on which copies of existing websites were distributed in order to present them to offline customers. Since the "Amiga Plus Extra No. 5/97" is one of the CDs plundered so far, a search for "Amiga" also brings up various interesting hits: fan pages for the A/Box, press releases from Gateway or the old support pages from Newtek. (cg)
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15.Feb.2025
Acneproduction
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Mouse-controlled zombie shooter: Playable demo of "BDTZ"
BDTZ ("Better Dead Than Zed", video) is a mouse-controlled shooter in which the character has to be controlled from a bird's eye view through a zombie-infested maze of streets. Ammunition is scarce and shots attract more zombies.
The game is still in development, but two playable demos have already been released in the last two weeks. BDTZ should run on any Amiga with at least one megabyte of RAM.
(cg)
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15.Feb.2025
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Point'n Click Adventure: Operation Sirius for Amiga OS 1.3
"Operation Sirius" is a point'n click adventure game that the author Achim Kern created in 2012 using Hollywood for various Amiga platforms. However, he never finished or published the original, much older and Kickstart 1.3-compatible version. He has now made the current version of Operation Sirius AmigaOS 1.3 available for download: the game can be played until it arrives on SIRIUS. It takes up three floppy discs and requires 2 megabytes of Chip RAM. (cg)
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15.Feb.2025
Jan Beta
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amigastore.eu offers mechanical replacement keyboards for Amiga 1200
amigastore.eu now offers mechanical keyboards for the A1200, where each key has its own switch. The keyboards are developed by Sergiusz and produced by amigastore.eu, and they come in three variants, which differ in the switches used: linear switches or switches with tactile feedback - the latter are then available with or without an audible "click".
The provider does not provide any information on the keycaps used on the keyboards, which cost around 185 euros including tax. The key arrangement is European - narrow Enter key, additional key between "Y" and "Shift" - but a country-specific layout cannot be selected. The sample images show a British layout with two unlabeled keys. (cg)
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14.Feb.2025
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.0b3 (update)
Dirk Hoffmann has released the second beta version 4.0 (amiga-news.de reported) of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS with the following changes:
Enhancements
- The emulator core natively supports the ADZ / HDZ format now.
- Media files can be saved in compressed form (ADZ / HDZ) in workspaces.
- gzip can be selected as snapshot compression format.
Bug fixes
- "Insert..." from the df0 menu does no longer crash
At least macOS 13.5 is required.
Update: (16.02.2025, 12:10, dr)
Meanwhile beta version 3 is available. Changes:
Enhancements
- ASR (Adaptive Sample Rate)
- Resizable audio buffer
- Negative run-ahead frames ("run-behind")
Bug fixes
- Fixed a hard-drive boot issue
(dr)
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14.Feb.2025
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Sound editor: ProTrekkr 2.8.2 for AROS
ProTrekkr is a tracker program that combines a software synthesizer with a traditional sample tracker. It can mainly be used to create electronic music (such as psytrance, trance, goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) for small intros, demos or games. Version 2.8.2 has now been released for AROS (and other systems). Changes:
- Patterns wouldn't scroll sometimes when starting to play, fixed.
- Note volume from channels (volume columns and effects 03) are now handled in the velocity sent to midi output.
- Changed LCTRL + F1 / F2 (Decrease / Increase editing step) to LCTRL + F2 / F4 due to Mac OS "interfering".
- Fixed Midi handling on Linux and Mac OS.
- Fixed the keyboard shortcuts on Mac OS.
- Typos in the manual: Transpose to 1 octave higher shortcuts are LCTRL + K and LCTRL + LSHIFT + K.
- Replaced pink noise with triangle waveform in synth.
- White noise is now twice as loud to be on par with other waveforms loudness.
- Added a function to hard sync OSC 1 to OSC 2.
- Inserting or deleting a track didn't modify the other patterns data.
- Fixed an ugly visual bug that occured when changing colors during playing.
- Added tracks header foreground color modifier.
- Sub oscillator can now be scaled from oscillator 1 by semitones.
- Maths combiner functions are also used for sub oscillator.
- Fixed various bugs here and there.
- VU meters are now displayed on a single line and a much less sensitive.
- Removed support for antediluvian NoiseTrekker 1/2 modules & instruments, they were only supported for salvage and conversion purposes.
- Saving a pattern without any currently selected block will save the entire pattern into the file.
- New logo !
- Fixed Linux audio driver.
Direct download: ptk_v2.8.2_aros_x86.zip (13 MB) (dr)
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14.Feb.2025
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Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 1.05
Since our last news item, Sami Vehmaa has made some small improvements to his dungeon crawler "Bolminok's Kingdom", which requires an AGA Amiga with some Fast-RAM. For example, the STATUS window can now be opened by holding down the fire button. (dr)
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14.Feb.2025
Richard Körber (Mail)
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Tool: identify-library 44.3 (update)
Richard Körber has released version 44.2 of the identify library. It collects all kinds of system parameters and provides the user with information on CPU, FPU, memory, clock frequency, etc., for example. Version 44.2 provides a few bug fixes, new boards and a few improvements to hardware detection:
- More CPU/FPU clock frequencies are detected
- Apollo 68080 is now detected
- inline/identify.h was missing (Rafal Zabdyr)
- Minimig Control Board was not detected (Gerald Schnabel)
- A2000 with PCMCIA expansion was detected as A600, fixed
- UAE/DraCo was not detected as emulator
- Added more boards
Richard Körber has moved all his Amiga projects from GitHub to Codeberg. The source code on GitHub has been archived, so it is read-only, and will be deleted later this year. Codeberg is a non-profit organisation based in Berlin that offers Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects.
Update: (18.02.2025, 21:10, dr)
Version 44.3 is now available, which fixes a crash on Amiga model detection on some machines
Download: IdentifyUsr.lha (102 KB) (dr)
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12.Feb.2025
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PTDQ: Chunky-to-planar video system for AGA Amigas
In chunky mode, all the bits that make up the color of a pixel are stored directly one after the other in memory. In bitplane mode, on the other hand, which is used by the Amiga's framebuffer, several black and white images ("planes", each with one bit per pixel) are stored independently of each other in memory. For 3D graphics, it is better to calculate these using a chunky framebuffer and then convert them into a bitplane framebuffer - the so-called chunky-to-planar conversion.
PTDQ (Pixel Tetrads Dots / Quality) is a video system for AGA Amigas that uses a new method for this conversion. It is based on the same principle as a third method, PTDS (Pixel Tetrads Dots / Speed), which is already three years old. Both restrict the freedom of color selection (PTDS also limits the maximum number of colors from 256 to 81), but are faster than the traditional chunky-to-planar conversion method. With PTDQ, the color selection and quality remain limited, but less so than with PTDS. Details on the Pixel Tetrads Dots method can be found in the documentation contained in the archive. (snx)
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12.Feb.2025
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Demo scene: Use of an Amiga 1200 at the Gerp party in Sweden
With his illustrated report at the title link, Carl Svensson describes the use of an Amiga 1200 equipped with genlock, video recorder and small monitor, which was used at this year's Gerp party in Sweden (amiga-news.de reported) to manage all submitted Amiga compos, play back the A1200 compos and create new demos. (snx)
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12.Feb.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online
Further full versions of Amiga games have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Jonathan Train It, König Eduard, Mars Tank Attack, Nippon Safes Inc and Ts Imbiss. (snx)
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12.Feb.2025
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 2.32.0 release candidate 1
Version 2.32 of the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) multimedia library is about to be released for AmigaOS 4. Platform-specific changes of the first release candidate version include support for a fourth and fifth mouse button. (snx)
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11.Feb.2025
Oliver Roberts
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.19 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.19 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version 3.4.1 (11.2.2025) of OpenSSL. Detailed changes:
- Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.4.1 (11.2.2025) version which includes these high and low severity bug fixes and mitigations:
- Fixed RFC7250 handshakes with unauthenticated servers don't abort as expected. (CVE-2024-12797)
- Fixed timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computation. (CVE-2024-13176)
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle, dated 31.12.2024.
Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.19-OS3.lha (3,8 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.19-OS4.lha (3,5 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.19-SDK.lha (2,4 MB) (dr)
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11.Feb.2025
Golem.de (ANF)
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FSF to auction Stallman's Hall of Fame medal, Amiga 3000UX and more
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is celebrating its 40th anniversary and is holding an auction of special memorabilia to mark the occasion. According to a blog post by the FSF, the virtual auction will take place on 23 March 2025. Among the auction items are Richard Stallman's "Internet Hall of Fame" medal, the original Gnu drawing and an Amiga 3000UX, which was used in the FSF office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
About the FSF
The FSF, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its websites, located at www.fsf.org and www.gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA. (nba)
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11.Feb.2025
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ISOCD-Win: Creating Amiga ISO files using Windows
ISOCD-Win is a C#/.NET Windows replacement for the native Amiga ISOCD application. It creates bootable ISO image files which are compatible with the Amiga CD32 and CDTV. The initial version 1.3 was released last week, and version 1.3.1.2 is currently available. In addition to the executable code in the ZIP archive, the source codes are also freely available. (nba)
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11.Feb.2025
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 9.1
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has published version 9.1 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS, which is based on the stable WebKitGTK 2.46.6 (amiga-news.de reported). In addition, bug fixes were made for this update and several libraries were updated, including libcURL, libtasn, libpng16 and libwebp. (nba)
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11.Feb.2025
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HxC Floppy-Emulator: Software V2.16.10.2
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
- "config.script" loading/execution support fixed (utf path support and internal environment variables issues fixed).
- FAT/DOS Disk browser: It doesn't hide system and hidden files anymore.
- All Facebook and Twitter urls removed.
(nba)
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