24.Aug.2023
One Joyful Day (ANF)
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Preview video: Real-time strategy game "AI Kills All Humans"
"One Joyful Day" is a new Game Studio making games for Modern Amigas and PC. The first game is called "AI Kills All Humans" and is a tactical Real-time strategy game, in which you play as an AI, which due to a slight change in code, is sending robots to kill all humans.
You however don't have direct control of your robots, but robots independently decide how to execute your commands, like a general telling troops to attack, but troops themselves decide how. Release is planned for the fourth quarter of 2023.
The developer has already gained experience with earlier releases such as Help My Cat! (YouTube video), "Ducks Of Apocalypse" (YouTube video) or Hollywood with Designer Tutorial (part 1, part 2). "AI Kills All Humans" (Steam link) is also being written with Hollywood. Versions for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS are planned. There may also be a version for AmigaOS 3, but due to the requirements it will probably only be playable in emulation. (dr)
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24.Aug.2023
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LinuxJedi-Blog: Making Amiga IFF thumbnails work in Linux
In his latest blog entry Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports how to correctly display thumbnails of Amiga IFF/ILBM files on Linux machines. (dr)
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24.Aug.2023
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Video: Disk Backup Station
In his latest video Robert Smith introduces his "Disk Backup Station" which he presented at the Kickstart 01. He will make or sell these for people, it's purely a one off, although there is the possibility that he may release all the design files for it in the future.
The backup station can backup floppy disks to ADF or SCP and uses three greaseweazle boards to control three floppy drives, and the user interface is controlled bu a few arcade buttons connected to an Arduino. (dr)
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23.Aug.2023
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Blog: "Rave" developer looks back at the beginnings of his computer passion
In a very personal entry on his blog Rear Window, Rave developer Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka wrote about the beginnings of his passion for computers and its relevance for the present. (dr)
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22.Aug.2023
itch.io
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Rogue-like game: Roguecraft V0.4.3
In October 2022, Budger Punch announced an Amiga version of their C64 game Rogue64 with improved graphics and adapted features (amiga-news.de reported). At the beginning of August a demo version was released for the AmiGameJam 2022 (YouTube video). Now a first update is available which among others fixes some bugs. The developers wrote:
"We have fixed issue with the game turning real-time when you tap the fire-button. We have added an instructions screen, and an (currently empty) Achievements screen. The spikes now work in the game. Be careful! The player now moves smoothly when there are not monsters in the room, to make backtracking less tedious.
We have also fixed some graphical glitches, and random memory writes that would corrupt the music. Hopefully this is good now, or at least a lot better!
There are other changes you will just have to find out yourselves. Have fun finding them!
We also want to say THANK YOU for all the awesome feedback and suggestions from all of you playing our game. It is so lovely so see the community embracing this hobby project, and want to help us make this a great game!" (dr)
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22.Aug.2023
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Mediathek V0.3 for all Amiga systems
In early August, we presented Jörg Renkert's Hollywood implementation of the MediathekView program for Amiga systems. Five days ago he updated to version 0.3. It would have been quick to write a report about it, but we wanted to test the program in more detail, especially with regard to streaming.
In addition to some adjustments and bug fixes, the information on a selected program is now no longer displayed on the bottom right-hand side, but on the left-hand side in a separate tab, which is automatically switched to when a program is selected.
In our first article, streaming did not work at all, although we were told by Edgar Schwan, among others, that it worked for him. So let's take another closer look. Jörg Renkert has clarified the usage again in his German instructions: next to the path to the preferred player, a "%u" must be appended, which transfers the link of the stream to the program.
One thing can be said in advance: Emotion is the only video player that could stream all videos. On the X5000, however, it only makes sense to use the low quality, as the picture and sound are no longer synchronized with the medium quality. Incidentally, ORF programs can neither be streamed nor downloaded. All fields are grayed out. There are two different MPlayer versions for AmigaOS 4 in the OS4Depot:
- Liveforit-MPlayerNG, based on MPlayer 1.1.1
- MickJT-MPlayer, based on MPlayer 1.3.0, in two versions:
The Liveforit-MPlayerNG for AmigaOS 4 cannot stream broadcasts any more than Fabien Coeurjoly's port of MPlayer 1.1.1 for MorphOS (the only one that runs without AltiVec and can therefore be used on the AmigaOne X5000).
First I checked which version of MickJT-MPlayer was installed: of course the wrong one, the one for HD graphics cards...Perfect, error found, I thought. So I unpacked the RX version, read the readme (!): I found the note there that I also needed the older version for HD graphics cards (the full archive). Good, also unpacked. Then copied the (supposed) RX version to the disk in my existing directory and saw that the archives are otherwise no different. Started the media library again, selected the program, let MPLayer stream - error message again:
Can't be true... Should Edgar have swindled me? Of course not! ;) So out of desperation (or cleverness? ;) I chose another program and tried again. And what happened? I could suddenly hear sound! And read in the text of the output window that no window could be opened using the "comp_yuv2" driver. Why was that? And slowly it dawned on me: when unpacking the HD version of the MickJT player, I had probably overwritten the RX version...stupid mistake! So, I unpacked the RX archive again, and lo and behold: the application now had an "RX" at the end. So, I copied it over, selected the transmission, timidly pressed the "E" button, and?
There you go! :) To be on the safe side, I asked Daniel Westerberg again, who had uploaded the RX version. The only difference between the HD and RX version is actually only in the replacement of the graphics card driver used: the HD version from 2018 searches for the "RadeonHD.chip" at startup and refuses to open a window if it is not found or the corresponding graphics card is present. He simply replaced this "HD" with "RX" in the exe file.
When I tried it out further, however, I noticed that there are programs for which MickJT-MPlayer still refuses to play with the above error message. If you want to see an example: just enter the search term "Garten" and then select the BR program "Bauerngärten". It could not be the codec used, as both working and non-functioning programs used "libavformat version 57.25.100".
I contacted Edgar Schwan again and the clever fox found the reason: the "Bauerngärten" movie is on the server "https://cdn-storage.br.de". Edgar had tried to download it using the "wget" tool. The answer he got was:
'The certificate owner does not match the hostname "cdn-storage.br.de"'.
He then switched off the certificate check and called the following command in the shell:
wget --no-check-certificate
https://cdn-storage.br.de/MUJIuUOVBwQIbtCCBLzGiLC1uwQoNA4p_AQS/_-dS/_Akp5-Fd571S/d2cdb4c7-b7e3-4b0a-89ec-1a43bdf5d273_E.mp4
And: now it works! By the way, also with the LiveForIt-MPlayer! So if it is possible to deactivate this certificate check in the media library, you could then also use the LiveForIt-MPlayer and (presumably) also stream under MorphOS.
The only remaining question is why the DvPlayer cannot stream: as Hans de Ruiter (who gave the DvPlayer hardware acceleration) told us, in his opinion the libavformat library used should in principle be able to stream over the network. The use of this feature could be added in future versions of DvPlayer. (dr)
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22.Aug.2023
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Blog: Amiga 4000T Upgrade, part 2
In the second part of a richly illustrated series of articles (amiga-news.de reported), "Epsilon's World" describes how he equips his Amiga 4000T with, among other things, a scanner, IDE CD drive and the applications AmiTube and AGABlaster. (dr)
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21.Aug.2023
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Point'n click adventure with photos: Holiday V1.05b
The photo point'n click adventure Holiday (YouTube video) is also a contribution to the AmiGameJam (you can still cast your vote today only!).
The player arrives in a Spanish resort in 1988 and has the task of surviving the next 11 days. To do this, you move through the town by means of photographs and must use three special items that offer protection from the sun. A few screens contain instant death scenarios. (dr)
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21.Aug.2023
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Frogger clone: Frogger (beta version)
After Croaker, RANA and Megafrog, Frogger is the fourth recent attempt to adapt the classic game produced by Sega in 1981 and developed by Konami, in which you have to guide a frog safely across a busy road and then across a river, for the Amiga. Frogger (YouTube video) is to be a 1:1 conversion of the Konam game and is written in assembler, based on the original Z80 code. (dr)
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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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