09.Aug.2023
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Event: Exhibitor list of Amiga38
It's almost two months away: Amiga38 will take place in Mönchengladbach on 6 and 7 October. The exhibitors have now been published:
(dr)
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08.Aug.2023
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Video series "Taborized": Atomic Bomberman Remake + VoxelNoid adapted to A1222+
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of adapting his games to the Tabor board (amiga-news.de reported). After "Battle Squadron Enhanced" and "Tower 57" he finished Atomic Bomberman Remake and VoxelNoid.
The respective executables will be made available free of charge. (dr)
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08.Aug.2023
Frédéric Cordier (Mail)
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Programming language: Third public alpha version of "Amos Professional Unity"
By means of his "Amos Professional Unity" project, Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier is in the process of adding new features - such as AGA support - to the classic BASIC compiler AMOS Professional (YouTube video on AGA sprites). Now he has published the third public alpha version (V0.4) on his GitHub page with the following changes:
- Removed non kept extra commands for Custom Screens modes. Rebuild all the Custom Screens system.
- Added space in file 'configuration/APUnity_Editor_Config.s' for eXtensions registration system
- Added new command : GFXMODE = get saga c2p screen mode( Width, Height, Depth, Scanmode ) [AmosProUnity.lib/L_L_GetSagaC2PScreenModeEx]
- Added new command : GFXMODE = get saga c2p screen mode( Width, Height, Depth ) [AmosProUnity.lib/L_GetSagaC2PScreenMode]
- Started new command : open custom screen ScreenID, Width, Height, GFXMODE
- Added SAGA CPU/GFX Detection at startup to open SAGA library version when available.
- Added SAGA Chunky screen support in copper list.
- Reverted Aga/sprites.s file to previous version due to a bug in Aga Sprites.
- Reverted Compiler_Shell.AMOS to Original fixed a compiler crash
- Fix AMOSProUnity_Support.Lib functions set fixed a compiler crash
- Fix AMOSProUnity_SpecialFX.Lib functions set fixed a compiler crash
- Now Amos Professional Unity examples can be compiled without crash
- Upgrade compiler to compile with AGAP Sprites/Bobs/Icons banks
- Fixed issue with Get Bob/Sprite/Icon palette to now handle fully RGB24 bits colors
- Update Header.s bank load to handle AGAP color mode ( 256 colors AGA ) from Bank that are inside executable (Bob/Sprite/Icon)
- update Header.s also fix Get Bob/Sprite/Icon Palette commands when program is compiled.
- Update CompExt.s compiler extension for squashed programs to handle AGAP color mode (Bob/Sprite/Icon)
We had first reported on Frédéric Cordier's submissions at the end of 2019, at that time still operating under the name "Amos Professional X". We took this publication as an opportunity to ask him for a summary of his efforts to date, which he kindly provided immediately:
"The Amos Professional Unity is a project I work on in my spare time, together with my other project for the Amiga called "Grimoire" (amiga-news.de reported).
Even though I don't often report about changes or news, I do a lot of work in the background (e.g. compiler problems), because the compiler source code is not documented and is a bit more complex than Amos Professional itself. A few key points about the project:
- Amos Professional Source code was completely reorganized to fit the requirements of AGA support upgrade times ago.
- Source code is available publicly on GitHub
- Many changes were done to achieve support for AGA Chipsets that makes Amos Professional Unity being not compatible with older Amos Professional extensions that uses internal Amos Professional structures (the structures evoled,for example to support 8 bitplanes max instead of previously 6, 256 colors instead of previously 32, etc.)
- Amos professional now have a good AGA support. It will be improved, but it is already interesting for AGA video game creation.
And these features are already supported by "Amos Professional Unity"
- Support lowres AGA graphics up to 256 colors and HAM8 using 24 bits colors support
- Support hires AGA graphics up to 256 colors and Ham8 using 24 bits colors support
- Interlaced is supported for the two above resolutions (lowres and hires)
- Bobs and icons also support up to 256 colors using 24 bits colors support
- Create/Load/Save Sprites/Bobs/Icons banks with AGA colors up to 256 colors is supported.
- AGA Sprites up to 64 pixels wide are also supported using 4 or 16 colors, and native Amos Professional sprites combination using 4 or 16 colors was improved to support AGA sprites width (you can setup a sprite up to 256 pixels wide with 16 colors using all 8 sprites for example).
- AGA Sprites are only low resolution sprites. Hires resolution is not yet added.
- Native commands like "Screen Open" are upgraded to support 256 Colors ( ex. Screen Open 0,320,200,256,lowres+laced )
- Native commands like "Colour" are upgraded to support 24 bits ( ex. Colour 1,Rgb24( 255,128, 0 ) )
- Amos Professional Unity compiled program can detect at running time if configuration run on ECS/OCS or AGA, and user can then create adaptative source code for video game ( The same compiled .exe can open ECS screen on ECS configuration and AGA screen on AGA configuration ).
"Amos Professional Unity" offers a range of new commands that were documented in the course of the releases of the first alpha version or second alpha version. Some commands are not yet documented because they are still in the development process:
- Create Rainbow Fx Bank BANK
- Set Rainbow Fx Color BANK, COLOR_INDEX
- Set Rainbow Fx Color Line BANK, YLINE, RGB24ColorValue
- Apply Rainbow Fx To Screen BANK : Apply to current screen
- Remove Rainbow Fx From Screen
- = Get Rainbow Fx Color Line( BANK, YLINE )
An other extension (Special FX) was also added to the project. It is a mix between my old AmosPro_Personal.lib and new commands. It bring some new commands to Amos Professional Unity (not documented on the website), and more will come in the future:
- Set Ntsc : Push to 60Hz mode
- Set Pal : Push to 50Hz mode
- = Right Click()
- = Fire( 1,BUTTONID ) : Where button ID can be 2 or 3
- Ehb : Can be used to open screen using 64 Half Brite colors (ECS)
- Ham6 : Can be used to open screen using Ham6 ( 4096 colors ) screens (ECS)
- Create Memblock BANK, SIZE_IN_BYTES : Create a memory block, this command set is inspired from Dark BASIC v1 & Professional )
- = Memblock Exist( BANK )
- = Get Memblock Size( BANK )
- Write Memblock Long BANK, POSITION_IN_BYTES, 32BITSVALE : Write a 32 Bits value at POSITION_IN_BYTES of the memblock BANK
- = Memblock Long( BANK, POSITION ) : Will return the 32 Bits value stored at POSITION in the memblock BANK
- Write Memblock WordBANK, POSITION_IN_BYTES, 16BITSVALE : Write a 16 Bits value at POSITION_IN_BYTES of the memblock BANK
- = Memblock Word( BANK, POSITION ) : Will return the 16 Bits value stored at POSITION in the memblock BANK
- Write Memblock ByteBANK, POSITION_IN_BYTES, 32BITSVALE : Write a 8 Bits value at POSITION_IN_BYTES of the memblock BANK
- = Memblock Byte( BANK, POSITION ) : Will return the 8 Bits value stored at POSITION in the memblock BANK
- Reserve F Icon BANK, SIZE : Create a custom icons bank, not blitter, CPU drawing one for fasts CPU and FastRam. Icon size is Width/Heigth same
Set Current F Icon Bank BANK : Allow to have multiple Fast Icons banks
- = Get Current F Icon Bank() : Will return the current bank used for Fast Icons
- Get F Icon ICON, X, Y : Grab an icon ICON from the current screen
- Paste Icon ICON, X, Y(, TRANSPARENCY ) : Will draw an icon at X,Y coordinates. X is multiple of 16 pixels.
- = Get Fie Size( FileName$ )
- Create Playfield from sprite HEIGHT, YSTART : Create a background playfield using sprites
- Remove Sprite Playfield : Remove the background playfield
There are some known issues and limitations. One known issue for example is that compiler must be improved to allow compilation of source code containing Sprites/Icons banks in it. Currently, banks must not be included in .AMOS when compiling.
Amos Professional Unity is provided with some examples that show the uses of AGA Chipset and the Special FX commands sets. This simply mean you can already create AGA video games using Amos Professional Unity and compiles them as executables." (dr)
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07.Aug.2023
Smith (Mail)
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Video: Status update on DrawBridge for MiSTer
Since last year Robert Smith has been working on a realisation of his "DrawBridge" project - standard PC disk drives can be used to read and write Amiga disks - for the FPGA Amiga clone MISTer (amiga-news.de reported). In his latest video he summarises the current state of development. (dr)
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06.Aug.2023
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Dungeon Crawler: The Last Dungeon V0.7c
As a contribution to AmiGameJam 2022, 'PixelPlop' had released a first, playable, but still incomplete version of "The Last Dungeon" (YouTube video). Now he has made available a first update that fixes some bugs. (dr)
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06.Aug.2023
Amigans (Forum)
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Video: Emulator E-UAE for AmigaOS4
UAE (abbreviation for Unix Amiga Emulator or Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator) is a software emulator that can be used to run Amiga programs on various operating systems. For Windows, a special variant called WinUAE was developed on the basis of UAE. Based on WinUAE, E-UAE was developed to make its special functions usable on other operating systems. The version ported and available on AmigaOS 4 dates from 2015 (amiga-news.de reported).
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has created an extensive video about E-UAE under AmigaOS 4, in which he describes the basics and the development. He also explains how the changes made to the source code since 2015 affect it by compiling a current version and showing this using the example of the emulation of AmigaOS 3.2.2.1. (dr)
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06.Aug.2023
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Aminet uploads until 05.08.2023
The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to Aminet:
ignition.lha biz/spread 5.0M OS4 a modern spreadsheet
ignition-src.lha biz/spread 1.2M OS4 Sourcecode ignition 1.22
fastbasic.lha dev/cross 1.4M MOS Compiler for the Atari 8-bit ...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.5M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
PreludeSoftwareBundle... driver/aud 116K 68k Software bundle for Prelude s...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 238K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.23
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 269K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
labyrinth64.lha game/misc 137K 68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L...
AcesUp.lha game/think 2.9M 68k Aces Up solitaire card game
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.9M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
ANSI-Draw_v097.lha text/edit 75K 68k Advanced ANSI character&graph...
words10.lha text/misc 6K 68k extreme fast wordcounter
deark.lha util/arc 4.0M 68k Extracting data from various ...
lhasa.lha util/arc 4.2M MOS Free Software LHA implementat...
mkatr.lha util/conv 47K MOS ATR disk image creation tool
AmiSSL-5.10-OS3.lha util/libs 3.4M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.10-OS4.lha util/libs 3.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.10-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
Add_UKBankHolidays.lha util/time 1K Lil Calender UK Bank Holiday ...
gidatario.lha util/time 229K 68k GI Datario
LilCalendar.lha util/time 3.4M 68k Versatile calender and remind...
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06.Aug.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.08.2023
The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
siliconmotion502_chip... dri/vid 14kb 4.1 SiliconMotion 502 video driver
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
scummvm.lha gam/mis 109Mb 4.1 Run supported classic adventure/...
scummvm-src.zip gam/mis 178Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
blues.lha gam/pla 3Mb 4.1 Blues Brothers games recreation
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
mediavault_script.lha net/mis 24kb 4.0 Choose player or download stream...
ignition.lha off/spr 5Mb 4.1 A modern spreadsheet
ignition-src.lha off/spr 1Mb 4.0 A modern spreadsheet (source)
deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
set_get_ts.lha uti/scr 25kb 4.0 obtain time in scripts
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06.Aug.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.08.2023
The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to AROS Archives:
acesup.i386-aros.lha gam/car 3Mb solitaire card game
watercolor_cubic_themes_0... gra/the 460kb Watercolor Cubic Window Themes
lilcalendar.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 3Mb Calender scheduling and reminder...
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06.Aug.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.08.2023
The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Flite_1.2.lha Audio/Misc Speech synthesis engine
Python_3.2_v2.02r176.lha Dependencies/Python Python_3.2_v2.02r176.lha
Python_3.4-draft.lha Dependencies/Python Python_3.4-draft.lha
FastBasic_4.6.lha Development/Cross Compiler for the Atari ...
mkatr_1.3.lha Emulation/Misc ATR disk image creation...
AmiArcadia_30.0.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Deark_1.6.5.lha Files/Archive Extracting data from va...
Lhasa_0.4.0.lha Files/Archive A Free Software LHA imp...
uif2iso_0.1.2.lha Files/Convert UIF to ISO converter
ScummVM_2.7.1.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
Aliens-versus-Predator... Games/Shoot3D Aliens versus Predator ...
VidentiumPicta_2.60.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
CDXL-Player_1.1.lha Multimedia CDXL player with source...
VAMP_3.10.lha Multimedia A Multimedia Player pro...
Easy2Install_1.0b27.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
ScreamBar_1.2.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Screenbar module plug-i...
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06.Aug.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.08.2023
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 05.08.2023:
- 2023-08-05 fixed: Nexus 7 (Andromeda) added a flush cache to avoid a crash under 060 before clusters part (Info, Image)
- 2023-08-05 improved: Sword (Serio-Comic) no more 68020 required for the kickstart 3.1, 2nd button to jump supported (Info)
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06.Aug.2023
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for July
For the month of January 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)
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06.Aug.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Events calendar
Amiga Future announces that it now also enters events in its calendar at the title link. Additions can be made via form by people registered there or otherwise also by e-mail. (snx)
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06.Aug.2023
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Video tutorial: Episode 35 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 35 was published. (dr)
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05.Aug.2023
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Floppy disk images: Disc Image Manager V1.46.4 for Linux, macOS and Windows
Gerald J Holdsworth's Disc Image Manager is an application used to load a retro disc image, read the catalogue and output any required files. In addition, it will also add files to the image, delete, and rename files and directories. On the Amiga side, reading and writing of AmigaDOS disks and hard disks with OFS and FFS formatting are supported (not fully tested with FFS). Support for directory cache and international characters is still missing (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.46.4:
New or improved features
- Font size on the BBC Basic Viewer can be changed.
- Added the ability to use the mouse scroll wheel on a hex dump.
- Can now read Acorn ROM FS images.
- When reading UEF images, each CFS header is checked to be valid before reading.
- Can now create blank Acorn ROM FS images.
- Can now add files to Acorn ROM FS images.
- Can now delete files from Acorn ROM FS images.
- Some minor code changes (creation of new images).
- Command line parsing has been completely removed and replaced by a command line console.
- Attributes are now validated before applying.
- CSV output now includes the option for MD5, per file.
- Button added to allow loading of multiple images and outputting a CSV of each file.
Bug fixes
- OS dark mode: most of the controls do not react to the change from light mode to dark mode. The changing of the font colour sometimes made them hard to see with the tiling selected.
- The Hex Dump dialogue was not scaling correctly with Hi-DPI setups.
- Not all BASIC files are terminated with 0xFF. This fooled the BASIC detector in the Hex Dump viewer.
- If the creation of a new image fails, the application still thought that there was an image open.
- When renaming a file, or editing the load or execution addresses, pressing the BackSpace key would attempt to delete the file, instead of deleting the text.
- It was possible to remove the 'D' attribute of a directory, or add one to a file.
- If the last line in a hex dump text output was less than 16 bytes, then the position of the ASCII representation would not line up with the columns above.
- MS-DOS 6.22 failed to properly read a floppy image created by the application. Changed a few settings in the header when formatting a new image.
- Fixed some quote placement errors in the CSV output.
The author also provides a detailed PDF manual. (dr)
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05.Aug.2023
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Competition: Voting for the AmiGameJam 2022
For about 15 days, there is still the possibility to vote for the nine entries of the AmiGameJam 2022 or to give up to five points per game. The votes of the community will count for 25% of the final score, the remaining 75% will be determined by the three-member jury. (dr)
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05.Aug.2023
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Tool: identify library 43.1
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 43.1 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
- Added more manufacturers and boards
- AmigaOS 3.9 wasn't detected under certain circumstances
- Fixed a crash on ACT Apollo A620 detection
Downloads:
IdentifyDev.lha (67 kB)
IdentifyUsr.lha (100 kB) (dr)
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05.Aug.2023
ko-fi
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AmigaOS 4.1: "Blues Brothers" games and "Prehistorik 2" ported
Titus Software Titus Software was a French software publisher and developer that also released numerous games for the Amiga. Among them were The Blues Brothers and
Prehistorik. On GitHub, the developer 'cyxx' had published a new version of the engine on which the games "The Blues Brothers", "Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure" and "Prehistorik 2" are based and which now offers, among other things, configurable screen size and unlimited lives.
George 'walkero' Sokianos has now ported this engine for AmigaOS 4.1 and published it both on his GitHub page and under the title link in the OS4Depot. The accompanying readme explains exactly how the additionally required data of the original games (demo or full version) have to be installed. (dr)
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04.Aug.2023
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Introduction: Mediathek V0.1 for all Amiga systems
For some time now Jörg Renkert (among others AmiBrixx or ModExplorer) has been working on an implementation of the programme MediathekView - a program searching the online media libraries of the German public television broadcasters - for the Amiga systems, based on Hollywood, and has now released a first version 0.1 (from left to right the versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS):
The programme ran very smoothly and flawlessly on our two test systems (Amiga 1200 with PiStorm-lite and AmigaOne X5000). After a search query, the results are displayed in the right half of the window. If you select an entry there, you get information about the file sizes for high, medium and low quality in the lower area and even lower information about the program itself. If you don't want to set everything up again for the same search each time you start it - keyword, channel, storage location, etc. - you can do this under a profile. - then you can save this under a profile. The only difference between the AmigaOS 3 and the other two versions: under AmigaOS 3 you have no possibility of sorting the result list, for example according to the length of the contributions.
When choosing the film quality, the high quality is ruled out for the test systems, as it cannot be played smoothly. Under AmigaOS 3, neither FroggerNG nor
RiVA could be persuaded to play the present mp4 format (low quality), but this may also be due to the inexperience of the operator. Under AmigaOS 4, the X5000 manages to play the low quality without problems using Emotion Mediaplayer and DVPlayer. The latter also masters the medium quality, whereas with Emotion Mediaplayer V1.9 sound and picture no longer run synchronously.
Mplayer under MorphOS, on the other hand - here, however, in version 1.1 - manages both quality levels without visible problems.
In addition to the download (D), you can copy the link to the clipboard (C) or transfer it to a previously selected video player (E). However, the latter did not work on any system. In principle, it would be advantageous if not only the pure title were saved, but also the correct mp4 file extension.
Mediathek by Jörg Renkert is without doubt one of the best (Hollywood) Amiga applications of recent times, for which one likes to boot up the Amiga computer again more often. Even in the early version 0.1 the programme makes a very mature impression and one can only guess how much time was invested in the project. Hats off! (dr)
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04.Aug.2023
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RTG driver: P96 V3.4.0 released
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has released version 3.4.0 of his RTG driver P96, which can be bought or downloaded from the order history at iComp. He wrote: "Highlights of this new release are emulation of EHB mode (64-colour mode of the Amiga chipset) and support of the RainbowII card, which is identical to the BSC Framemaster. Further, the Commodore A2410 board is supported - this card is also known as the "Tiga card". This driver is still in an early development phase, and it does not yet use DMA. Further, P96Prefs (amiga-news.de reported) and P96ScreenCX are now part of the package - the latter for multi-monitor operation with a native Amiga screen alongside the GFX card's output." Detailed changelog:
- Added emulation for Extra Half Bright mode. It is enabled along with planar emulation.
- Planar emulation is now disabled if the board does not support a chunky mode required for planar emulation. This should be really rare, though.
- Allocation of bitmaps failed in case the bitmap flags still contained the magic DPaint flag that CPU blitting is necessary.
- now prevents a crash in case a driver forgot to set the pixel clock of a mode to a non-zero value.
- The CVisionPPC card driver accepts now the MEMORYCLOCK tooltype which specifies the memory clock in MHz.
- The graphics.library functions ClearEOL() and ClearScreen() have been broken in all versions of Amiga OS, including AmigaOs 3.2.2. Luckely, they are rarely used (and should probably be avoided altogether). P96 now includes a re-implementation of the functions that should be safe.
- If GRANTDIRECTACCESS is set, P96 now disables the planar mode as it requires switching the Chain4 mode and thus modifies content under the feed of a potential user of the direct access. In such cases, the planar emulation can be used.
- The installer forgot to install the Cirrus5446 driver for the PicassoIV board.
- The S3Virge driver installed a maximum horizontal resolution of 1280 for everything beyond highcolor. This limit was increased to 1440 pixels.
- P96Prefs will no longer accept to create modes that the P96 core would refuse to create if they are beyond the bounds registered by the driver.
- P96 disables screen dragging on autoscroll screens because VGA chipsets cannot pan the dragged screen below the screen split positions. The current logic for determine autoscroll screens compared the bitmap width with the width of the video mode. This is not quite correct as bitmaps on some cards may be required to be wider than the mode width. On cards using VRAM, the line size must be a multiple of the VRAM shift register size.
- The CVision3D driver now also supports horizontal resolutions wider than 1280 pixels for high-color modes.
- P96 now supports even more graphics boards. This time, the RainbowII frame buffer and the CBM A2410 was added to the list of supported boards.
- The RainbowII is not very exiting as it only supports 32bit TrueColor in either PAL or NTSC, interlace or progressive, thus modes cannot be freely defined.
- RainbowII was also marketed as FrameMaster by BSC and Elaborate Bytes, the driver supports all three boards.
- The A2410 was CBM's only graphics board, originally designed by the University of Lowell. It is based on the TI TMS34010 chipset. The chip is an oddity as it does not provide direct access to its video RAM. Thus, its driver needs to play some tricks with the MMU and requires the mmu.library. The TMS34010 chip includes blitter functionalities the driver uses when possible, though still needs to render by the CPU itself into a "mirror framebuffer". Thus, everything will be pretty slow. Again, note that you *need* the mmu.library for the A2410.
- The physical dimensions of the monitor in millimeters can now be put into the monitor icon tooltypes as MONITORWIDTH and MONITORHEIGHT. This allows P96 to compute the resolution of all modes on the monitor. Note that the tooltypes are in millimeters, not in pixels.
- The P96 distribution includes now additonal contributions: The P96Prefs program is the new style preferences editor. It replaces the Picasso96Mode if the target operating system is Os 3.2 or better.
- P96Mode did not compute the monitor limit frequency correctly, fixed.
- P96Mode did not check whether the board type as indicated in the board is correct.
- In case more than one board was installed, P96Prefs could have shown a dummy resolution of 320x200 pixels that is only for internal use.
- P96Prefs disabled modes if the requested clock frequency differed too much from the actual clock frequency. This is no longer the case.
- Additonal contributions are the Native monitor driver and the P96ScreenCX commodity.
- Updated the installer script to also install contributions and localizations.
- Again, I want to thank Samir and Javier for updating the Italian and Spanish catalogs of P96Prefs, and most of all Thomas Richter for his continued work on P96.
(dr)
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03.Aug.2023
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Event: Interface XXXV in Kiel (Germany)
On Saturday, 2 September 2023, the retro computer event "Interface" will take place in Schwentinental near Kiel (Germany) for the 35th time. Organizers are as always the Vintage Computer Club (VCC), the Amiga Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH) and the Computer Club Klausdorf (CCK).
Registration by e-mail to interface@jugendhaus-klausdorf.de is recommended. Without registration there is no guarantee for a free place.
There are again two large rooms available. The café on the first floor (as a "workshop" for hardware projects, repairs, etc.) and the attic offer enough space for talking and playing games on the computers and consoles you have brought along. Power strips and network cables must be brought by the participants.
Official start is at 14 o'clock, from approx. 12 o'clock the organization team begins with the structure of the tables etc. The venue is the Jugendhaus Klausdorf, Dorfstraße 101 in 24222 Schwentinental (Klausdorf district). (snx)
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03.Aug.2023
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Rogue-like game: Rogue Declan Zero released
After several preview videos (amiga-news.de reported), Nivrig Games has now released the twin-stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero" (YouTube video) as a contribution to AmiGameJam 2022. A little play guide is also available. (dr)
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03.Aug.2023
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Video tutorial: Building a graphics editor in AMOS, part 2
In the second part of his video tutorial series on creating a simple graphics editor (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' fixes some bugs in the original code and adds Circle functionality. The source code as well as all other programs of the series can be downloaded for free from his website. (dr)
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