08.Apr.2023
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Mastodon client: Amidon 1.1
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.1 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
- Implemented Profile view
- Updated Readme with more details on the requirements
- Added more icons (GlowIcon, MagicWB, 4-color)
- Eliminated the dependency on the MUI Hyperlink class, as it caused issues with some users and it's not part of the MUI 3.9 package.
- Redesigned the Login process, instead of a link to press on, you now have a copy/paste procedure with buttons to help you.
- Only open the Login window if a server name was provided. Otherwise the link would be empty and there wasn't much of a point.
- Fixed a crash when trying to save settings without having logged in first (Anonymous mode).
(dr)
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08.Apr.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.10
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Yesterday version 1.10 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
- New diskdef ibm.160
- gw erase: New option --revs=N
- gw read: Fix --retries=0
- MacOS: Explicitly search for CAPS library under /Library/Frameworks
- gw: Minor fixes to flux-to-bitcell conversion
- gw: Disallow abbreviated long option names
- SCP: Fix footer metadata format
(dr)
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08.Apr.2023
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Preview video: Super Metal Hero
At the beginning of 2020, Raster Wizards announced its game "Super Metal Hero". After development was initially frozen in favour of the game Hyper Runner, work on the Jump'N Run has been underway again for some time. A short new preview video shows another boss enemy. (dr)
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07.Apr.2023
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Crowdfunding: Illustrated book "Demoscene - The Logo Art
"Demoscene: the Logo Art" is to be an illustrated book in A4 format that will present demoscene logos from more than three decades on around 400 colour pages and provide background information on the corresponding pixel artists or scene groups. In order to produce the book, 20,000 euros in advance orders must be received by 24 April. A single copy costs 40 euros (plus shipping); there are discounts for larger orders. (cg)
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06.Apr.2023
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Amiga disks on PC: FloppyBridge 1.4
Using Robert Smith's plugin FloppyBridge (video on how it works), emulators like WinUAE and Amiberry can work in real time with real floppy disks. Today he has released version 1.4. Changes since our last news item:
Version 1.4
- Fixed issues with stalling mode not working properly, or not as expected
- Updated stalling mode to work better with diskspare device which seems to be very impatient! (writing is not recommended!)
- Updated the icons for the supported hardware and rendered them transparently
Version 1.3
- Fixed Greaseweazle Drive A/B not selectable properly
- Fixed issue with warning message about diskchange on Greaseweazle always re-appearing
- Fixed Greaseweazle Shugart support. (**Does not support disk change** - it will manually check for disks. A PC Drive is strongly recommended)
- Re-worked the profile listing dialog a little
(dr)
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06.Apr.2023
Amigans (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Shader player Shaderjoy 1.25
Shaderjoy allows displaying and creating Shadertoy compatible fragment shaders. Fragment shaders, also called pixel shaders, are programs that are executed per fragment (pixel) on the GPU.The ogles2.library 3.2 and Warp3D Nova 54.16 are required. Now Juha "Capehill" Niemimaki has released version 1.25. Changes:
- Add keyboard channel. Also remove some keyboard shortcuts to avoid conflicts.
- Add projects files (.sjp) for those example shaders that require textures.
- Replace text buttons with more compact images.
- Show busy pointer during shader compilation.
- Disable uninitialized variable check (in icon) due to glCompileShader issue with some shaders: future ogles2.library should fix this.
- Fix loading of arexx.class.
- Fix busy looping of ChannelWindows.
- Refactor some GUI code.
(dr)
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06.Apr.2023
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Programming: TLS library Crypto Ancienne 2.2
Crypto Ancienne by Cameron Kaiser is a TLS library compatible with pre-C99 C compilers and "geriatric architectures", according to the author. With version 2.2, AmigaOS is now also supported; Crypto Ancienne was tested with ADE with the compiler GCC 2.95.3 as well as the ixemul.library and ixnet.library under AmigaOS 3.9. (snx)
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06.Apr.2023
John Bintz (ANF)
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AMOS Professional: BSD Socket Extension 1.0.1
With the BSD Socket Extension for AMOS Professional by John Bintz AMOS programs can easily access the internet. Originally the author had started his project already in 1998. In several videos he presents this extension in detail.
Download: BSDSocket-Extension.lha (32 KB) (snx)
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05.Apr.2023
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Puzzler: Crazy Columns 1.06
Jochen Hoffer's 'Crazy Columns' (video) ist a clone of Saga's classic 'Columns'. it's been updated to version 1.06, which includes the following changes:
- fixed a gfx glitch when pausing the game in one player mode
- fixed: the samples used in the background tunes were compressed incorretly
- properly emptying the keyboard input buffer now, no more deadlock situations
- updated the includeed PTPlayer to version 6.3
(cg)
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05.Apr.2023
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Preview video: Amiga port of Breakthru
After the release of the Wonderboy port (amiga-news.de reported), 'acidbottle' now turns its attention to the next Amiga port of a game: Breakthru was released in 1986 by Data East and is a horizontal shoot'em up in which the player controls an armed military vehicle, making his way through enemy forces - consisting of soldiers, flamethrowers, helicopters, tanks, jeeps etc. - to ultimately recover a stolen fighter plane. - to ultimately recover a stolen fighter plane.
The Amiga port will be available for OCS/ECS and AGA Amigas. Area 1 is almost finished, Area 2 and 3 are currently in progress. As the developer writes, "a couple of in game mechanics need refining and plenty bugs to iron out but is essentially fully functioning and playable." (dr)
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04.Apr.2023
Martina Hřebcová (Mail)
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Report: New CPU for AmigaOne XE (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her detailed reviews and analyses of PowerPC hardware and among others published three reports about her AmigaOne XE (1, 2, 3).
In the now published article, she describes how she swaps the original XPC7451 CPU, clocked at 800 MHz, for a 7455 CPU operating at 1420 MHz and subjects it to various comparative tests. (dr)
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04.Apr.2023
Mastodon
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Mastodon client: Amidon 1.0
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.0 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported. Requirements:
- AmigaOS 3.x
- AmiSSL 4
- MUI 3.9 or newer
- The following MUI classes:
- Hyperlink.mcc (available in the MUI 4.x and 5.x archives)
- TextEditor.mcc
- BetterString.mcc (required by TextEditor)
- HTMLview.mcc
- codesets.library
- 68020+ CPU
- 8MB RAM
- An internet connection and a TCP/IP stack running (cURL will check for bsdsocket.library on startup). AmiTCP 4, Roadshow or emulators with the bsdsocket.library option enabled will work.
- A web browser will be needed once, for the first time you authenticate your account.
As the developer tells us, the release also serves to be able to find and fix any previously undiscovered problems. He is already working on an update that will add some additional features based on the feedback.
The basic functions are available, but some things are not possible due to the current limitations of MUI in combination with Hollywood. For example, notifications are only displayed as plain text, not HTML. MUI Listviews could not contain complex objects, so some compromises had to be made.
The start-up time on a real Amiga could be improved: it is currently quite slow on a 68060 Amiga at 13 seconds. This and many other problems could be solved if he rewrote the programme in C/C++. But that is something for the future, depending on motivation and time.
Basically, he recommends using MUI 3.9, because HTMLview, the MUI class used to display HTML content in Amidon, has problems with some versions of MUI under AmigaOS 3.x. It does not display content with MUI 4 or 5, so at the moment the client only works properly with MUI 3.9. Basically HTMLview seems to have problems with the display of content behind HTTPS links (e.g. images). MUI 3.8 can also be used, but it has some problems with the display of content in the list views, which is why it is not recommended. (dr)
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03.Apr.2023
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Video tutorial: The AMOS commands Jleft, Jright, Jup and Jdown
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains the AMOS commands Jleft, Jright, Jup and Jdown which are required to control a character on the screen using a joystick. (dr)
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03.Apr.2023
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Platform game: Video tutorial and download for AMOS game "Hop to the Top!"
To mark the upcoming Easter, Robert Smith - we reported on his various projects such as DrawBridge - wanted to create a platform game in AMOS about rabbits and chocolate eggs that could be controlled with a joystick or keyboard.
In his video tutorial, Smith explains how he programmed or integrated the following steps for "Hop to the Top!":
- Double Buffering / Screen Swap
- Tile-Based Game Engine
- Smooth Vertical Scrolling
- Sprite Animation including AMAL (Amos Animation Language)
- Joystick and Keyboard Input
- Background Rainbow Effects (COPPER)
- Sound Samples
- Game Music
The game including source code can be downloaded free of charge via the video description. (dr)
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02.Apr.2023
Various (ANF)
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Hyperion/Cloanto litigation: judgment in the main lawsuit issued
Cloanto had sued Hyperion in
2017, initially to have a judge declare that the Italian company is the
rightful owner of the "Amiga" mark and that Hyperion neither has the right to
fight this trademark registration nor register similar marks like "AmigaOS"
or "AmigaOne" itself. The lawsuit was later merged with another one inititated by Hyperion, which
also added Amino, Itec and Amiga Inc. as additional parties to the litigation
and expanded the scope of the laswuit to cover issues of breach of contract,
trademark violations and alleged IP theft.
Mike Battilana of Cloanto had attempted to also have his 'C-A Acquisition
Corporation', the entity that acquired the Amiga copyrights
from Amiga Inc. in early 2019, added as another plaintiff to the above
lawsuit. The judge denied this
request, since the motion was filed way too late. A few days later, the
C-A Acquisition Corporation filed its own
lawsuit against Hyperion, but this case is currently frozen until the
main lawsuit has been resolved. Already in 2019, the judge declared that Cloanto lacked
standing to sue Hyperion for breach of the 2009 settlement agreement.
Last tuesday, judge Martinez issued a judgment in the
main litigation between Amino, Itec, Amiga Inc. and Cloanto on one side and
Hyperion on the other. Basically, he declared that none of the four
plaintiffs has any standing to sue Hyperion for any of the alleged violations
raised by them:
- In addition to Cloanto (see above), Amino, Itec and Amiga Inc. can't sue
for breach of contract, since they transferred "all rights [...] including
the right to sue [...] for past infringements" to the C-A Acquisition
Corporation.
- Cloanto's accusation that Hyperion changed copyright notices in their
AmigaOS releases to assign ownership to itself, might be a violation of
copyright - but thanks to a "Non-Aggression Clause" in the 2009
settlement agreement, only the C-A Acquisition Corpoation could hold Hyperion
responsible for that.
- The various alleged violations of trademark rights are considered moot,
partially because Hyperion withdrew its objections to the other parties'
marks and abandoned its own attempts to register trademarks in the US and
partially because the only party that could prosecute trademark violations is
C-A Acquisition Corporation.
If none of the parties object to this ruling, the case would end without
resolving any of the issues between Cloanto/C-A Acquisition and Hyperion.
Judge Martinez simply declared that only C-A Acquisition Corporation - renamed to Amiga Corporation in
the meantime - is entitled to sue Hyperion for breach of contract or violating
trademark rights or Amiga related copyright. Such a case already exists, but
has been stayed until the main litigation discussed here is resolved.
Approached by amiga-news.de, Mike Battilana didn't want to issue a statement
"yet". Hyperion posted a press release
on its website, referring to this judgment as a "sweeping victory".
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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02.Apr.2023
jPV^RNO (E-Mail)
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MorphOS: Article about making backup copies
The Finnish member 'jPV' of the demo group RNO, who is also MorphOS beta tester, has written an article for the article collection "MorphOS Library" of MorphZone at the title link about what to consider if you want to make backup copies of your MorphOS installation. (snx)
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02.Apr.2023
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Aminet uploads until 01.04.2023
The following files have been added until 01.04.2023 to Aminet:
Kp2023-TheNomad.lha demo/sound 685K 68k The Nomad, Music disk by Kp 0...
COP.lha dev/debug 167K 68k Low Level Debugger
libmikmod.i386-aros.lha dev/lib 1.0M x86 Portable sound library (music...
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
giominostage.lha game/wb 1.1M 68k GI Omino Stage Game
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.6M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.9M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmyStromWiFiSwitch.lha misc/misc 7.6M 68k Control and query the myStrom...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 391K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
ptplayer.lha mus/play 31K 68k ProTracker player w/ support ...
AppLhA.lha util/arc 29K 68k Tool for unpacking LhA- and L...
avalanche.lha util/arc 104K AOS ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
avalanche_de.lha util/arc 8K German catalog for Avalanche 2.1
avalanche_guide_de.lha util/arc 8K German translation of Avalanc...
MuFastZero.lha util/boot 158K 68k MuLib ZeroP. remapper, replac...
hasMMU.lha util/cli 24K 68k checks for a working MMU
ADiffView.lha util/misc 130K 68k Graphical ASCII file compare/...
(snx)
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02.Apr.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.04.2023
The following files have been added until 01.04.2023 to OS4Depot:
vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 246kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 240kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmppc_std.lha dev/cro 203kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
nvme_driver.lha dri/sto 24kb 4.1 Device driver for NVMe SSDs
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
animwebconverter.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.0 A web anim tool
avalanche.lha uti/arc 104kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
avalanche_ita.lha uti/arc 6kb 4.0 Italian translation for Avalanche
amystromwifiswitch.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 Control and query the myStrom Wi...
grimoriumpdf.lha uti/tex 4Mb 4.0 PDF viewer written in Hollywood
(snx)
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02.Apr.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.04.2023
The following files have been added until 01.04.2023 to AROS Archives:
rnotunes.i386-aros.lha aud/pla 9Mb Multi-format audio player
libmikmod.i386-aros.lha dev/lib 1002k Portable sound library (music mo...
animwebconverter.lha gra/con 2Mb Easy web tool to convert your ol...
grimoriumpdf.lha uti/tex 3Mb PDF viewer written in Hollywood
(snx)
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02.Apr.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.04.2023
The following files have been added until 01.04.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_29.37.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
MCE_14.12b.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
Image2PDF_2.0.lha Graphics/Convert Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG...
AnimWebConverter_5.10.lha Graphics/Tools A little and easy web t...
AmyStromWiFiSwitch_1.2... Misc Control and query the m...
GrimoriumPDF_2.40.lha Office/Show A program made with Hol...
SnoopDos_3.11_68k.lha System/Monitoring SnoopDos_3.11_68k.lha
ADiffView_2.3.lha Text/Compare A graphical file compar...
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02.Apr.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.04.2023
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 01.04.2023:
(snx)
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02.Apr.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: LUA-MUI - Using the scripting language for GUI and OS functions
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's LUA-MUI makes it possible under MorphOS to use the script language LUA (Wikipedia) also to make OS specific calls, i.e. concerning the graphical user interface, libraries and functions. Some examples are documented in the associated forum post of MorphZone.
Download: LUA_MUI.lha (69 KB) (snx)
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