07.Nov.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Porting WebKit started
According to George 'walkero' Sokianos in his recent Ko-Fi blog entry, he has frozen most of his projects to devote himself entirely to porting WebKit to AmigaOS 4. The goal, he said, is to provide WebKit as a dynamic or static library that can be used in any kind of application such as a new web browser or email client.
Since this involves a mountain of tasks that is almost impossible to keep track of, he has gathered a small team around him and divided the tasks into small intermediate steps.
The starting point was the WebKitty port used by the Wayfarer browser under MorphOS, which was created by Jacek Piszczek, because in his opinion MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 are very similar as operating systems. He has created a fork of WebKitty and set up a project so that everyone can take a look at the progress and status of the port. They are also using the repository's wiki pages to document as much as possible.
He said he wants to work hard on this and see where it leads. If nothing tangible comes out of it, at least the efforts will be documented and someone else can continue the work at some point. (dr)
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07.Nov.2022
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Dungeon Crawler: "Black Dawn Technomage" (AGA) released
"Black Dawn: Technomage" (video) is the sequel to Black Dawn Rebirth, developed by the same team, and now available. The game requires an AGA Amiga and can be purchased for at least about 11,40 Euro. (dr)
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07.Nov.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: HiRes set of mouse pointers
On Amiga-Look (amiga-news.de reported),'levellord' has released "a modern hires set of pointer presets for Amiga 4.1 operating system loosely based on a DMZ-White and Quintom pointers for Linux. Pointers are optimized for 1080p and there are three different sizes of 18px, 20px and 24px all in red, white and black base colors with white/black outlines." (dr)
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07.Nov.2022
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Puzzle game: Connect 1.1
In the puzzle game "Connect" (screenshots), you have to connect a series of ICs in such a way that each chip receives exactly the number of connections printed on its package. Now version 1.1 is available providing the following changes:
- Works now with loaded P96-driver (except in combination with PiStorm)
- Removed some graphics issues on very fast machines
- Added in the "creator" the option to create CSV-files instead of Ascii-files. They can be loaded into a spreadsheet
- Speed up the board generation
- The installer was fully rewritten and now includes a "Close"-button
- Recognizes an existing installation and update the game files only (without the highscore!)
(cg)
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06.Nov.2022
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Dock: QDock V1.17
Sami Vehmaa had released the first version of his start bar "QDock" almost two weeks ago (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 1.17, as the developer writes to us, "has gone trough a big transformation and is now working more like it was intended." A new YouTube video explains the changes: among other things, there is now a second row with space for another 25 icons. Likewise, drives can be added to the dock.
The tool is available for three Euros or more and is primarily intended for emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. It requires AmigaOS 3.2 (3.1 might work as well, but not tested), graphics board and 22 MB RAM. (dr)
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06.Nov.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.6
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). A few moments ago, version 1.6.6 has been released. Changes:
- Make cpptools a recommendation, not dependency
- Fix section regex to handle multiple digits
- Terminal PATH env case sensitive
- Parse frames-interp output by whitespace
- Update libSDL2 dylib version
- Source links in disassembly broken for non-windows
- Upgrade libSDL2_ttf dylib
(dr)
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06.Nov.2022
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Aminet uploads until 05.11.2022
The following files have been added until 05.11.2022 to Aminet:
CloudDav_1.8.lha comm/net 751K MOS A WebDav client
enc_sulaco-ok.lha demo/misc 6.8M WOS Amiga demo released at abstra...
COP.lha dev/debug 165K 68k Low Level Debugger
HWP_XLSX.lha dev/hwood 1.5M Create and edit XLSX documents
pforth.zip dev/lang 420K MOS Portable ANS-like Forth writt...
libflac.lha dev/lib 2.0M OS4 Free Lossless Audio Codec
NoClick.lha disk/misc 8K Multiplatform NoClick enabler
anaiis.lha driver/oth 205K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.22
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 255K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
Epson_Colour_46.lha driver/pri 46K OS4 24 bit Epson Stylus Driver fo...
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha game/misc 8.0M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM
ScummVM_RTG.lha game/misc 8.0M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM
nblood.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Blood Amiga Port
Nova.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 11K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
SnesMUI.lha misc/emu 2.5M MOS MUI interface for Snes9x emul...
uae086-exe.lha misc/emu 551K 68k E-UAE_0.8.6 for Amiga 68k OS
uae088exe-beta1.lha misc/emu 560K 68k E-UAE_0.8.8 Beta1 for Amiga 6...
X-Mass.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 69K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
LN4Lv8.lha mods/misc 4.5M 4ch LN4 Lv8 track by HKvalhe
ptripper.lha mus/misc 18K 68k Protracker module ripper
AmigaAMP3.lha mus/play 1.9M OS4 Multi format audio player wit...
AmigaAMP3-68k.lha mus/play 407K 68k MPEG audio player with GUI
gwimport.lha util/conv 5K 68k GeoWriteImport
drawing_dt.lha util/dtype 380K OS4 Vector superclass + DR2D/SVG ...
WarpTIFFdt.lha util/dtype 562K TIFF and BigTIFF image dataty...
WarpWebPdt.lha util/dtype 298K WebP image datatype V45.4
AmiSSL-5.5-OS3.lha util/libs 3.3M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.5-OS4.lha util/libs 3.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.5-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
DisLib.lha util/libs 19K 68k A library based MC68K disasse...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.1M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 2.4M 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
newmeter.lha util/wb 27K 68k Shows free RAM and storage as...
Palette.lha util/wb 34K 68k Change WB-Color(s) in realtime
(snx)
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06.Nov.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.11.2022
The following files have been added until 05.11.2022 to OS4Depot:
warptiffdt.lha dat/ima 562kb 4.0 TIFF and BigTIFF image datatype ...
warpwebpdt.lha dat/ima 298kb 4.0 WebP image datatype V45.4
libflac.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 Free Lossless Audio Codec
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
epson_colour_46.lha dri/pri 46kb 4.1 24 bit Epson Stylus Driver for W...
scummvm.lha gam/mis 105Mb 4.1 Run supported classic adventure/...
scummvm-src.zip gam/mis 169Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
hwp_xlsx.lha lib/hol 1Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin to create and e...
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
noclick.lha uti/mis 8kb 4.0 Multiplatform NoClick enabler
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06.Nov.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.11.2022
The following files have been added until 05.11.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
HWP_XLSX_1.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... Create and edit XLSX do...
Nova_1.2.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
SnesMUI_0.2.lha Emulation SnesMUI is a MUI based ...
ScummVM_2.6.1.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
VirtualVoodooJob_2.0.lha Games/Misc This black magic tool i...
AmiSSL_5.5-68k.lha Network/SSL OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
CloudDav_1.8.lha Network/Streaming A WebDav client
PastePass_1.10_beta.lha System/Utilities A simple passwordmanage...
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06.Nov.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.11.2022
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 05.11.2022:
- 2022-11-05 improved: Hunter (Activision) using fast memory, demo fixed (Info)
- 2022-11-05 improved: Devil's Temple (Geezer Games) supports another version, hints and icons added (Info, Image)
- 2022-11-05 new: Bubble Ghost (ERE) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2022-11-05 fixed: Awesome (Psygnosis) QuitKey fixed (Info)
- 2022-11-03 improved: Spitting Image (Domark) imager fixed, 68000 quitkey, new install script (Info)
- 2022-11-03 improved: Running Man (Grandslam) 68000 quitkey, trainer and intro skip added, manual included (Info)
- 2022-11-03 improved: Passing Shot (Imageworks) supports another version, 68000 quitkey, new imager and install script, docs added (Info)
- 2022-11-03 improved: Colorbuster (Indian Software) made 68000 compatibÃle, new install script (Info)
- 2022-11-02 improved: Golden Axe (Virgin) joystick controls improved, more CD32 buttons added (Info)
- 2022-11-02 fixed: Shadow Warriors (Ocean) imager corrected (Info)
- 2022-11-02 improved: Lollypop (Rainbow Arts/Softgold) new imager, access fault fixed, stack relocated, less chip memory required, new install script (Info)
- 2022-10-31 improved: Epic (Ocean) caches enabled, uses fast memory, supports more versions, music fixed, added manual and solution (Info)
- 2022-10-31 improved: Quasar Wars (Light Designs) 68000 support, added 3-button joystick support (Info)
(snx)
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06.Nov.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Video: Not even scammers want to support AmigaOS
Fraudsters who pretend to be Microsoft support on the phone, for example, in order to get computer users to download and run malware, are one of the unpleasant side effects of the internet age. As an Amiga user, however, you are excluded even from this nowadays, as the video at the title link documents. (snx)
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06.Nov.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: 20th anniversary - XLSX plugin 1.0 released
Press release:On November 4th 2002, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released Hollywood 1.0 for 68k AmigaOS. Originally advertised as a multimedia authoring solution, nobody would have expected back then that this software would turn into a cross-platform programming language for lots of platforms with dozens of plugins for all kinds of tasks. Now, 20 years later, Hollywood is still going strong, receives regular updates and new plugins, and is used by many people around the globe. All of this would not have been possible without the continued support of many Hollywood enthusiasts in the past 20 years. Only the positive feedback we received right from the start made us continue developing Hollywood into what it is today.
As a little "thank you", we proudly present yet another plugin for Hollywood: XLSX. The XLSX plugin makes it possible to conveniently read and write XLSX documents from Hollywood scripts. It offers a wide variety of functions to set and get cell values, cell types, cell formulas, document/worksheet properties and several other attributes. It also offers an iterator function for a high performance iteration of a large number of cells.
On top of that, the XLSX plugin also supports the new serialization interface introduced in Hollywood 9 which means that scripts can conveniently serialize Hollywood tables to XLSX documents by just a single call to Hollywood's SerializeTable() function. In the same manner scripts can also deserialize whole XLSX documents into Hollywood tables by a single call to Hollywood's DeserializeTable() function. It just doesn't get any easier!
Of course, the XLSX plugin also comes with detailed documentation in various formats and integrates seamlessly in the Hollywood IDE, including live help. The XLSX plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to everybody for all the support in the past 20 years and here's to the next 20 years, cheers! (snx)
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06.Nov.2022
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Amiga37: Music title for download / Music video online
Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr writes: "Wow, how time has passed so quickly again! The Amiga37 event is now already three weeks ago... In this context I would like to point out that the official Amiga37 music title is available for free download for everyone who is interested.
Likewise, a video has now made it onto Youtube at the title link to introduce itself to the world, for the inclined listeners. :-)" (snx)
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05.Nov.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 159
The English and German issue 159 (November/December 2022) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes a report about the demo scene as well as reviews on Pagestream and the "Dynatech 30th Anniversary Edition". (cg)
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05.Nov.2022
a1k.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 3/4: Web browser IBrowse 2.5.7
The team of Oliver Roberts has released version 2.5.7 of the web browser IBrowse. Most important changes (detailed changelog) of this update:
- Reworked Brotli huffman decoder to avoid triggering a bug on the 68060 processor, which prevented pages from loading
- Tweaks to the loading of external modules
- JavaScript improvements
- Switched to GCC 11, with all warnings enabled, which identified numerous previously unknown bugs which have now been fixed
- Hundreds of minor internal changes
The update is available in the download section of the official website, AmigaOS 4 users can alternatively install via AmiUpdate.
Update: (06.11.2022, 14:45, cg)
Due to a couple of bugs that were discovered after IBrowse 2.5.7 was released, a hotfix update is now available for download (OS4 users may use AmiUpdate instead). Anybody who downloaded IBrowse 2.5.7 before 10:00 CET on 6th November is strongly advised to update their installation using the new update.
(cg)
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05.Nov.2022
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MorphOS: GUI for Snes9x emulator - SnesMUI released
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has released a GUI named SnesMUI for the Snes9x emulator providing the following features:
- The most important emulation options are configurable within the GUI
- A custom arguments option to configure any other Command-Line options
- Shows preview and cover images of games if available
- Supports Zip archived ROM files
- Automatic detection of the emulator version
- Supports custom graphics in the GUI
(dr)
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05.Nov.2022
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Kung Fu action: "Devil's Temple" V3.4
About two weeks ago, Geezer Games had released "Devil's Temple (amiga-news.de reported). Now an update to version 3.4 is available which fixes some bugs. Changes:
- On ECS machines, enabling the cheat would break the menu display - fixed (Copper updated properly)
- Booting using Kickstart >= 2.0 on A500 would crash loading the executable - fixes (Probably Vasm Bug with odd addresses)
- Module audio timing issues - fixed
- Typos / Corrections in various places
- Sprite corruption issue in levels 5/9 - fixed
- Game could possibly not spawn some essential events if too many enemies were on screen (spawnImmediate routine created)
(dr)
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04.Nov.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.8
After two pre-releases, today version 3.9.8 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been released. Changes:
new:
- (compiler) can send his own log data to PED's log
- (compiler) added an error-requester in case the exepath is not set correctly (settings in Sourceproperties "ExePath")
- (compiler) current include is shown in compile status window
changed:
- (PED) rewritten Find and Replace-Routines in BASIC
- (PED) minor improvements to intellisense
- (project) moved some examples into other subfolders
fixed:
- (compiler) removed vbr-detection from code that starts compiled executable, as it is now inside the debugger
- (PED) fixed misspelled tooltype "USE_INTELLISENSE_COMMANDS"
- (PED) fixed bug in routine to set current dir that led to problems when AmiBlitz3 was located in a longer path
- (PED) fixed intellisense that did not work anymose
- (PED) fixed bug that localization was not turned of completely when tooltype was enabled
- (PED) fixed crash when loading old bb2 source file
- (PED) fixed bug in displaying a sourceline when scrolling out of the window
- (include) fixed bug in image_include that used a wrong Minterms in image_BlittPattern{} that led to wrong display with newer P96 versions
Download: AmiBlitz398.lha (11 MB) (dr)
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04.Nov.2022
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AROS: Further development of the emulator Janus-UAE 2
Blitter Studio, which is also responsible for the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has started to continue the development of the emulator Janus-UAE 2.
In contrast to version 1.x, which was based on Richard Drummond's emulator E-UAE V0.8.29 WIP4, is part of the AROS distribution Icaros Desktop, for example, and thus is based on the ABI-v0 developer branch, the original author Oliver Brunner had already started porting WinUAE 2 to AROS in 2011 with Janus-UAE 2, which uses the ABI-v1 branch. By the end of 2015, he had brought Janus-UAE 2 up to the level of WinUAE 3.2.0 and subsequently finished work on it.
The Amiberry developer 'MiDWaN' has now cloned the sources from SourceForge to a Github repository, including all his changes so far, among other things so that he has write permissions. His goal is to bring Janus-UAE 2 to the latest WinUAE and SDL 2 (instead of SDL 1). He also wants to add some features from Amiberry. (dr)
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04.Nov.2022
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Music tip: Protracker track "much"
'no9' has been working in the audio section for years and also occasionally composes music for games. On his YouTube channel, he also publishes his own compositions from time to time, like the piece "much" most recently. He uses the ProTracker 2 clone for Windows by Olav Sorensen for this. As 'no9' writes, he would have tried to use the original Amiga for it, but the constant data exchange between Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and Amiga would have been very time consuming, as there would sometimes be a lot of copying back and forth for sample data. The Amiga Protracker compatibility was mandatory for him, though. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
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Video: Often unknown Amiga operating systems
Ravi Abbott, known for his documentary "Downfall Amiga, after Commodore" (amiga-news.de reported), introduces often unknown Amiga operating systems for 68k Amigas, such as p.OS or UNIX. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
Twitter
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Workbench distribution: AKReal 9.1
AKReal can already works with 16 colours and is the inofficial adaption of the Workbench distribution AmiKit to real Amigas (video). After five years, the distribution was updated and now version 9.1 is available. The changes are listed in the changelog. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
OSNews
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Developer tool: GNU Make will drop support for AmigaOS (Update)
GNU Make is the implementation of the in the Unix world often used program make for the operating system GNU. It automatically builds executable programs and libraries from source code by reading files called Makefiles which specify how to derive the target program. (Wikipedia).
As OSNews now reports, support for OS/2 (EMX), Xenix, Cray and also AmigaOS will be removed in GNU Make starting with the upcoming version.
Update: (03.11.2022, 19:30, dr)
Obviously triggered by our article, discussions have developed especially in various Discord servers which have led to some "protest mails". The maintainer of GNU Make, Paul Smith, responded to one of the mails and asked to stop writing mails:
"While it's good that AmigaOS as an operating system is still under
active development, what I care about is whether anyone is maintaining *GNU make* on AmigaOS. I have not received a single patch for an AmigaOS problem with GNU make since 1996. I haven't received a single response from anyone on AmigaOS to any request for anyone to test a release candidate, or a new release, in I don't know how many releases....But if AmigaOS is not updating to newer versions of GNU make, then I don't want to maintain the (not insignificant amount of) special-case code currently existing to (not really) support it, in future releases. Fundamentally, for non-traditional operating systems it's not enough to just ask for it to be maintained. Someone has to volunteer to actively participate in the maintenance effort." (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
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Programming assistance: "AB_Template II" V0.58 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3
In contrast to "AB_Template" which is meant to support the development of games, "AB_Template II" is meant to help developing applications with AmiBlitz3. Here Sami Vehmaa published now the first version 0.58. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Video about history and usage of AmigaOne X1000 (Update)
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has published an extensive video about the AmigaOne X1000, which was officially announced by A-EON at the beginning of 2010. Kargin informs - with English subtitles and background music - about the history of the board, the installation in an unusual case, the installation of AmigaOS 4.1 and much more.
Update: (10.11.2022, 15:00, cg)
After the video had to be taken offline due to a copyright complaint, Kargin now provides an updated version with the disputed parts replaced with new footage. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Tutorial on installation of 3D graphics driver
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has published a detailed tutorial on Amigans.net in which he describes the correct installation of Warp3DNova, NovaBridge, MiniGL, Ogles2, and WarpOS-Emu so that everything that has to do with 3D runs best with RadeonHD or RadeonRX graphics cards. Eventually, you should be able to run games, applications and demos written for WarpOS or 68k. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
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DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 5)
'Drygol' is a member of the demoscene group Lamers and basically deals with retro computers in the form of restorations, upgrades etc. On his site Retrohax.net he not only offers various retro articles, but also runs a blog. Among other things he describes there his project 'Tesseract', the building of an Amiga 2000 from scratch with all maximum modifications. His project is based on the GitHub project of 'Floppie209', a replica of the Amiga2000 motherboard with Sprint layout. After the first four reports (1, 2, 3, 4) he published the fifth blog post of the series yesterday which amongst others is about adding a DVD drive. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
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Programming contest: AmiGameJam 2022 launched
After the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, which just ended with numerous entries, the next contest for game programmers is already starting: At this year's edition of the "AmiGameJam" the motto is "Sword and Sorcery". Those who want to participate must submit a newly developed game with this theme to the organizers by April 30 at the latest.
The participants will again be divided into the two categories "OCS/AGA" and "AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS", voting will again be done by both the community and a group of official judges. The jurors and prizes will be announced as soon as last details are clarified. (cg)
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03.Nov.2022
Twitter (ANF)
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Tutorial: Wake on LAN Client under AmigaOS 3
Matthias Münch describes in a short tutorial how an Amiga can "wake up" other devices in the network from wait mode with the help of the Wake on LAN client hpwake. (cg)
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03.Nov.2022
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Playable previews: 'My Life Sucks' and 'My First Shooting Game'
Two more games developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam are not yet finished, but the developers already provide playable pre-release versions. To what extent the titles will be developed further is currently unclear.
My Life Sucks (video) was supposed to be a dungeon crawler in the style of Dungeon Master, with the difference that the player controls an autonomous vacuum cleaner whose AI has taken on a life of its own. The game is described by the developer as a "tech demo", as it was not finished in time for the contest deadline. They say it is solvable, but still has plenty of bugs. Main reason for the release them the disclosure of the source code for interested Blitz-Basic programmers.
My First Shooting Game is an "experimental project" according to the author - the vertical shooter is his first Amiga and Blitz Basic project. The game currently runs only on NTSC computers and must be controlled with the keyboard. It is distributed as source code, which has to be compiled by the user himself with Blitz Basic. (cg)
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Flip-Screen-Shooter: Shuriken
Phil Grenways 'Shuriken' (video) is a Berzerk-inspired flip-screen shooter with a ninja theme. The title was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, the Blitz Basic source code can be found on bitbucket.org. (cg)
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Simulated pub crawl: Weegie Nights
In 'Weegie Nights' (video) you have to wander through Glasgow by night and maintain the right alcohol level, in addition the consumption of food and alcoholic beverages as well as various "sources of income" want to be well organized. The title was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam and requires an Amiga with 2 Megabyte Chip RAM and a 68020 processor. (cg)
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03.Nov.2022
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Arcade clone: Megafrog
'Megafrog' (video) is a variant of the arcade classic Frogger, in which the playing field is significantly larger than the current screen section. The frog here can mutate into the titular Megafrog by eating a certain amount of dragonflies, which can then also attack cars. The gAME was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam and requires an Amiga whose processor is clocked with at least 14 Mhz. (cg)
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02.Nov.2022
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SimCity for animals: Microtopia
'Microtopia' (video) is described by the developer as a "prototype of a city-building simulation", in which a city for crows, beavers and moths is to be built on randomly generated maps. Numerous features that are still missing are to be added in later versions. The title was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam and requires an Amiga with one megabyte of RAM. The game also runs on a 68000 processor, but here it occasionally runs a bit halting. (cg)
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02.Nov.2022
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- September/October 2022 news.
- Old articles from Joystick 55 to 65:
- Interview with Jérôme Bonaldi and David Gonner
- Review of All New World Of Lemmings
- Review of Flink CD32
- Interview with Stéphane Picq
- File: And if piracy was essential
- Review of Pinball Illusions
- Review of Sim City 2000
- File: Music in video games
- Review of Alien Breed Tower Assault
- Review of Cannon Fodder 2
- News: Atried Concept my new name is Pearson
- Review of Fields Of Glory
- Review of Super Stardust, etc.
- Report: Amiga 37.
- Interview with Jérôme Senay (editor of Boing magazine).
- Interview with Matt Gray (musician).
- Review: Wrong Way Driver.
- Review: BePlayer 1.4.
- Hardware: Furia EC020.
- File: History of Trecision (part 2).
- Tutorial: Building an AmigaOS 4 cross compiler (Binutils 2.23.2 & GCC 8.3.0) on MSYS2.
- Tutorial: Installing MorphOS (update).
- DIY: Mounting an HxC SD and a floppy drive in an Amiga 600.
- Misc: Irving Gould's villa.
- Special quiz on MUI.
(cg)
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Top-Down-Racer: Zebra 3
'Zebra 3' (video) is a top-down racer with four different courses. The title was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, Kickstart 2 and a "fast Amiga" are given as minimum requirements. (cg)
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Playable preview: Capacitor's Revenge
In the shooter 'Capacitor's Revenge' (video) you have to defend the Amiga's m68k processor against attacking capacitors (amiga-news.de reported). The title is being developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, the author now provides a first playable preview version. (cg)
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Platformer: Daredevil Dennis Remix
'Daredevil Dennis Remix' (video) is a conversion of the 8-bit title Daredevil Dennis for the Amiga, developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. The game features 25 with increasing difficulty. (cg)
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Vertical Scrolling Shoot'em Up: ACE Battle Over The Sea
The vertically scrolling shooter 'ACE Battle Over The Sea' (video) was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. The title, inspired by classics like 1942, offers four missions and runs on any Amiga with at least one megabyte of Chip RAM. The download is free, but if you wish you can give the author a small obolus during the download. (cg)
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Arena shooter: Blower
'Blower' (video) - developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam - is an arena shooter in which up to four human players use firearms and flamethrowers to get at each other. Computer-controlled "bots" are also available for training purposes, but the developer says they are "pretty dumb".
'Blower' runs on all Amigas with at least one megabyte of Chip RAM, it supports a parallel port adapter for connecting two additional joysticks and offers seven different levels, various bonus items. The download is free, but if you wish you can pay the author a small fee. (cg)
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02.Nov.2022
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MorphOS 3.17: openssl3.library November Hotfix
The MorphOS developer team has announced: "New vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.17. Two discovered issues, namely CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602, were found to potentially affect MorphOS users.
A fixed OpenSSL library will be bundled with a future MorphOS release. Meanwhile, you can download the following replacement openssl3.library that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.17. To install it, copy the file to MOSSYS:Libs and reboot." (dr)
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01.Nov.2022
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.5 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 5.5 and is now based on the latest OpenSSL 3.0.7, which was also released today. This fixes a security problem that has existed since OpenSSL 3.0.0 and is now classified as high: a buffer overflow could be triggered when checking X.509 certificates. Thus, all users who have installed a version 5 of AmiSSL (based on OpenSSL 3) are recommended to update. The changes:
- Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.0.7 (1.11.2022) version, which includes:
- Added RIPEMD160 to the default provider.
- Fixed regressions introduced in 3.0.6 version.
- Fixed two buffer overflows in punycode decoding functions. ([CVE-2022-3786]) and ([CVE-2022-3602])
- Improved and simplified random number seeding routines.
- The AMISSL_NO_STATIC_FUNCTIONS preprocessor symbol has been added to the SDK, mainly for use with VBCC
Download AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.5-OS3.lha (3,3 MB)
Download AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.5-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
Download SDK: AmiSSL-5.5-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)
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Point'n Click adventure: NEONnoir
The Point'n Click adventure 'NEONnoir' (Video) was developed with AmiBlitz for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. As a down-and-out private eye, the player has to track down a drug addicted daughter from a wealthy family.
'NEONnoir' requires at least an Amiga 1200 with a harddisk. The game can be downloaded for free, but users can name their own price before downloading. A walkthrough is offered on the official website and the game's BASIC sourcecode is available as well: Either as a LhA download from the official website, or in the author's Github repository. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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Turn based strategy: playable preview for "Settle the World" (update)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released a first playable preview of his turn-based building and trading game 'Settle the World' - refer to our extensive preview for more information. The author points out that this is an early development version and many gameplay elements are not implemented yet: For example, the happiness of your citizen currently has no effect at all on game progress.
'Settle the World' is primarily intended to be played with multiple human opponents, but it does include a single player campaign. The game requires 1 Megabyte ChipRAM and 4 Megabyte FastRAM, a harddisk and at least a 68020 CPU. A version that should run on Kickstart 1.x is provided as well, but is untested as of now.
Update: (05.11.2022, 14:05, dr)
The developer has published a short tutorial on YouTube on how to start his game. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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Games for RTG systems: Sky Tower, Last Space Raider, Dungeon Escape, Börd
Sami Vehmaa has written several Arcade games for Amiga systems that have a graphics card installed:
The games were written using AmiBlitz, they require a fast Amiga with a graphics card and AHI installed. Each game can be purchased for one Euro, the AmiBlitz sourcecode for each game is included in the download. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000, part 3
In the third part of his documentation about the restoration of an Amiga 1000 (amiga-news.de reported), Richard "Shred" Körber explains how he replaced the floppy drive with a Centuriontech "GOEX on pills" floppy simulator. (dr)
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MorphOS: Password manager PastePass 1.9
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's PastePass is a password manager for MorphOS.
Version 1.9 is a complete reimplementation using the cryptostorage.library. The code has been reworked, many security checks added, and the entire GUI and program flow streamlined. The author's initial tests went well, but he requests further testing and explicitly marks this release as a pre-release. The changes in detail:
- changed databas to use cryptostorage.library
- entries will always be part of a group
- a group can be protected by a 2nd password
- PassTool functionality has been intregated into PastePass, allowing you to store your password in a seperate databae which will be opened by the name you used for registering MorphOS
- added the option to set a default user name
Download: PastePass.lha (77 KB) (dr)
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Linux tutorial: Using the Fienix distribution on the X5000, part 2
In the first part of the instructions for using the Linux distribution "Fienix" on the X5000, Amiga-News.de editor Daniel Reimann reported how to prepare a USB stick under Windows for this purpose. Here now the continuation:
Starting Fienix
After the USB stick has been plugged into a free USB port, we can boot up the X5000. As soon as the Boing Ball starts spinning, it is best to press the "M" key twice. With the first press we get into the "AmigaOne Early Startup Control" menu...
...and with the second keystroke into the command line menu. Now, we the following line:
usb reset
Among other things, it is searched for storage media. I have the following (special?) case: my tower has several USB ports at the front, but only two can be used. In order to have one free for the USB stick, I have connected my Mac keyboard to the other one and my USB mouse to it. But I have to disconnect it before running "usb reset", otherwise it will be recognized as another storage medium. Now enter the following lines:
setenv bootargs root=LABEL=FIENIX-DISK
fatload usb 0:1 1000000 uImage-6.0
fatload usb 0:1 1c00000 cyrus-p5020.dtb
fatload usb 0:1 2000000 uInitrd-5.10
bootm 1000000 2000000 1c00000
The kernel is loaded and Fienix is started. After the input, several columns of numbers rattle across the screen, but finally the login window should appear:
Here's what we enter:
Username: fienix
Password: fienixPW
Looks good! Let's see if there is a tool for capturing screenshots. Yes, there it is, "Accessories"...:
Synaptic Package Manager
By default, no word processor is included. You have to install that, and of course many other software, via the package manager "Synaptic Package Manager". It can be found under "Administration":
Right-click on the first AbiWord entry and select "Mark for installation":
You will then be asked if you want to install any other package dependencies associated with it. We do, which also marks the two entries below:
Now go to "Apply" at the top and the packages will be installed. Before we reboot, we want to see if it worked and look under "Office" for the corresponding entry. Perfectly: "AbiWord" is listed:
After restarting, we test AbiWord briefly: works!
In the third part of the tutorial, we will look at how to make the printer ready for use and how to configure the Linux button in the "AmigaOne Early Startup Control" menu so that we can save ourselves typing the instructions in the future. (dr)
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Platformer: Ami-Tower
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' (farm simulation "Farmiga") has ported Icy Tower in Blitz Basic 2 to the Amiga. The game principle is to let the main character climb a tower by jumping to different heights.
The levels are created randomly. You can jump over two platforms and then have more points and bonus jumps. After every 50 platforms, the time to the end of the game is restored, so you have to jump up as quickly as possible.
The game requires a standard Amiga 500 with Kick 1.3 and 500 KB. The game is still in development, the end of the game and the game menu (options and highscore) are missing. (dr)
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