09.Dec.2023
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch / Hardware list
AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the new version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems. He writes about it:
"This new version introduces close to 1000 changes made by several AROS developers, including improvements to hardware support and the Wanderer desktop, updates to several libraries as well as multiple bug fixes. The full changelog is listed on the corresponding GitHub website.
Additionally, for the first time, together with AROS community, we are publishing a list of recommended hardware. This list includes hardware that is well supported, easily obtainable second hand and will be re-tested for each future release to maintain compatibilty. If you are looking to purchase hardware for AROS, please check the list.
As we progress with future releases, more hardware will be added to give a user community a wider choice and a newer generation of hardware.
If you enjoy AROS and would like to get in touch with the wider AROS community, be sure to visit the new AROS community forum." (dr)
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09.Dec.2023
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Platform game: NinjFeratu 1.0
After the demo version made available last year (amiga-news.de reported), Amiten Games has now released the full version of the platformer NinjFeratu (YouTube video). An Amiga with 1MB Chip-Ram and 512 KB Fast-RAM is required. The game currently costs 9.90 Euros. (dr)
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09.Dec.2023
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Platform game: Capitan Trueno 1.2
"El Capitán Trueno" is a video game for 8-bit systems that was released in 1989 and is based on the comics of the same name that were published between 1956 and 1968. The Amiga port of the game was created using the RedPill game construction kit and requires at least a 68020 processor and 2 MB RAM (YouTube video). Version 1.2 mainly improves the jumping of the captain, so that you no longer have the feeling of flying across the screen. (dr)
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09.Dec.2023
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Game development: Color Palette Mixer 1.21 for Aseprite
"Prismatic Realms" has not only written a script for Aseprite that converts created graphics into an IFF/ILBM file (amiga-news.de reported), but also a second one under the title link that limits the colour selection to 4096. The current version 1.21 is a small bug fix to properly initialize the colour sliders to the current selected colour when the dialog opens. (dr)
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08.Dec.2023
commodore.news (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: Ami Tech-Gazette, issue 6
"Ami Tech-Gazette" by Eric Schwartz and Michael Barclay is a 16 page retro newsletter dominated by Amiga topics. The current issue contains another episode of the "Graphics Workshop", reviews of various recent ports of older Arcade games to the Amiga and a look at at Antic's former north American print magazine "Amiga Plus". (cg)
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07.Dec.2023
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X-Mas game: Turbo Santa 2023 Competition
In December 2021, Nivrig Games released the arcade action game "Turbo Santa" (our review of the game) and organised a high score competition one year later. This year, you can once again compete with others and win prizes: the best high scores in Endless and Normal mode submitted between 1 and 24 December 2023 can choose one of the following prizes:
- Rogue Declan - Collector's Edition box (Amiga or CD32)
- Rogue Declan - Budget Edition box (Amiga or CD32)
- Amiga Addict T-Shirt (Amiga Addict Magazine)
- Amiga Christmas Decorations, Amiga Warranty Labels, and a Mouse Mat (Retro32)
The remaining prizes will then again be offered to a random selection of players who have finished 2nd-10th until all prizes have been claimed. (dr)
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07.Dec.2023
Nivrig Games
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Rogue-like game: Physical edition of Rogue Declan can be ore-ordered
In co-operation with poly.play, Nivrig Games will also distribute its Rogue-like game "Rogue Declan" (amiga-news.de reported) in a boxed version, for which pre-orders can now be placed.
There are two editions, a Deluxe Collector's Edition and a Budget Edition, both of which are available as disc or CD32 versions. Both editions include physical media and a printed manual. The Collector's Editions include extras such as posters, stickers, keychains and digital bonus materials.
The boxes are in production and the expected shipping date for pre-orders is currently February 2024. (dr)
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07.Dec.2023
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40th anniversary of Turbo Pascal: An Amiga version was also planned
In an article on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the integrated development environment "Turbo Pascal", the author Blake Patterson found out that the Borland company had also announced an Amiga version, which never became reality. (dr)
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07.Dec.2023
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Website lists Christmas games: "Amiga Christmas Tree" update
To give Amiga users the opportunity to get into the Christmas spirit, 'Cammy' has set up its own website, which lists all Amiga games related to Christmas (amiga-news.de reported). So far, "Santa's Present Drop", "Santa's Present Drop 2" and "Santa Claus Christmas Season" have been added. She encourages Amiga users to report any missing games. (dr)
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07.Dec.2023
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Event: Kickstart 02, 29 to 30 June 2024 in Nottingham (UK)
After the premiere this year (amiga-news.de reported), there will be another event for Amiga fans in the UK next year: Kickstart 02 will take place in Nottingham from 29 to 30 June 2024. (dr)
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07.Dec.2023
BitFellas
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Intro competition: Nominations for the "Nano Awards 2024"
The "Nano Awards 2024" intro competition will honour the best demo productions of 2023 at Lovebyte 2024 on 9 February 2024. The Amiga productions from the "Oldschool" category:
The vote will run until 1 January 2024. (dr)
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07.Dec.2023
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Preview video: Shadow Dancer, demo version available
Mohammed Malik is about to implement one of his favourite games on the Amiga with the Scorpion Engine: Sega's Shadow Dancer (amiga-news.de reported). He has now published another preview video as well as a demo version. (dr)
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06.Dec.2023
ANF
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Video: Another Robin Hood port preview by Apollo team
The Apollo team is working on a port of the game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" (amiga-news.de reported). A video of the current beta version has been published at the title link.
Major changes in that version are:
- Tuning of Main Hourglass (divider for lesser important elements)
- Tuning of Main Refresh (disabled some fancy but costly effects)
- General cleanup of all individual element Hourglass & Refresh
- Moved all static UI elements to separate PiP layer
- Created “intelligent” refresh for UI so it refresh only when there are real Updates
- Dynamic Audio slot allocation for all Sounds incl. 2D stereo effect (volume + L/R panning)
- Deleted the complete Threaded Input routines (SDL) and recreated Input from scratch
- Replaced software blitted Mousepointer with hardware Amiga pointer (to be improved later)
(snx)
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06.Dec.2023
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for November
For the month of November '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.Dec.2023
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Dungeon Crawler: "The Cthulhu Project" (DevLog)
About three weeks ago, we introduced Maurice Doerr's dungeon crawler "The Cthulhu Project" and reported on the first part of his DevLog series. In this episode, he explains parts of his AMOS PRO code in general and loops in particular. (dr)
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05.Dec.2023
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.0 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. As the author writes, this is the seventh time Wayfarer has been upgraded to the latest stable WebKitGTK. At the same time, this release also marks the fourth anniversary of the project.
Version 7.0 has been the most challenging update so far: "Several new endian issues have crept into WebKit, with one of them causing an immediate crash when running JavaScript on big endian CPUs. The removal of some of the WinCairo port has also made it more difficult to maintain the MorphOS port. Many of the code paths that the MorphOS port is using aren't being used by the officially supported ports, which requires additional testing and bug fixing." Furthermore, support for the clipboard and the editor for saved passwords have been improved.
The developer appreciates every donation that supports the project.
Download: wayfarer.lha (35 MB) (dr)
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05.Dec.2023
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Video series: Turning an Amiga 600 into a Classic Gaming Console
In a three-part series, two episodes have been published so far ((part 1, part 2), Wolfgang Kierdorf shows on his YouTube channel "RETRO is the new black" how he transforms an Amiga 600 into a retro game console for 4 players. As he told us, this project actually came about by chance, as he didn't want to have a bare Amiga 600 board lying around. All the components used are linked in the second video.
A third part of the video series will be published next week, in which HDMI will be added. In the meantime, there is also a version for the Amiga 500 (same case, only wider and deeper), as some users had asked for it, and the MiSTer/Raspberry Pi. The whole thing was designed in TinkerCad. (dr)
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05.Dec.2023
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Game development: IFF/ILBM exporter v1.2 for Aseprite
Recently We introduced a script written by Prismatic Realms for the image editor Aseprite that converts graphics into an IFF/ILBM file. Version 1.2 has now been released with the following changes:
- Dialog button shortcuts have been added.
- Added a new checkbox option to export just the sprite's palette (CMAP). This is useful for Deluxe Paint users and Amiga game developers that work in Blitz Basic 2 and any other tools that allow you to load in an IFF palette file. The file essentially consists of just the IFF CMAP chunk.
- Miscellaneous code cleanup.
(dr)
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04.Dec.2023
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Video tutorial: Playing samples in AMOS
Following on from his last tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows in the current episode how to use samples on the Amiga in an AMOS programme. He also briefly explains how to use Audacity and SoundBox (Aminet link, key available) to get sample files in the right format on the Amiga. As always, source codes of his programmes can be downloaded from his website. (dr)
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03.Dec.2023
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Mastodon client: Amidon 1.3
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.3 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). This version fixes a bug, where Amidon's Settings window would stop responding if opened on a non-RTG screen.
Download: Amidon_v1.3_OS3.zip (1,83 MB) (dr)
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03.Dec.2023
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Aminet uploads until 02.12.2023
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to Aminet:
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
f1champ.lha docs/misc 74K Statistics of Formula One 195...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 46K 68k Massive release 1.23
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 85K 68k P96 Preferences Editor
Capitan_Trueno_v1.1.lha game/actio 1.0M 68k El Capitan Trueno
CapitanTrueno_v1.1_WH... game/actio 1.0M 68k El Capitan Trueno
LAbbayeDesMorts.adf game/actio 880K 68k L'Abbaye Des Morts
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 11K 2023 Carset for F1GP
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 55K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.9M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
ataruita.lha mods/midi 34K Urusei Yatsura GM italian song
mdx2wav.lha mus/misc 541K 68k Convert MDX music files to PC...
vgm2wav-gme.lha mus/misc 1.0M 68k Convert console music to WAV ...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 400K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
Image2PDF.lha util/conv 19M ALL convert images to PDF and vic...
MMULib.lha util/libs 787K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 16M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
(snx)
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03.Dec.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.12.2023
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to OS4Depot:
nallepuh.lha aud/mis 494kb 4.1 Nalle Puh (Paula,CIAA,CIAB emula...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
xrick_sdl2.lha gam/pla 3Mb 4.1 Rick Dangerous SDL2 port
pintorweb.lha gra/mis 15Mb 4.0 An easy program to handling pict...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 795kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
omanko.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.0 web tool made to get the MD5 and...
image2pdf.lha uti/tex 19Mb 4.0 Convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
(snx)
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03.Dec.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.12.2023
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to AROS Archives:
f1champ.lha doc/mis 74kb Statistics of Formula One 1950-2023
pintorweb.lha gra/con 14Mb Handle your pictures to use on y...
iff_icon_data_decoder.zip gra/ico 175kb Iff Icon Data Decoder snippets a...
omanko.lha uti/fil 2Mb web tool made to get the MD5 and...
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03.Dec.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.12.2023
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
WitchCleaner_3.05.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
Omanko!_1.20.lha Files/Tools A tiny web tool made to...
AmiArcadia_30.60.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Image2PDF_2.4.lha Graphics/Convert Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG...
Easy2Install_1.0b46.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
PintorWeb_4.00.lha Graphics/Tools A little and easy web t...
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03.Dec.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.12.2023
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 02.12.2023:
- 2023-12-02 improved: Foundation's Waste (Exocet Software) supports another version, customs option added (Info)
- 2023-11-30 improved: S.D.I. (Cinemaware) supports another version (Info)
- 2023-11-30 fixed: Super Hang-On (Sega/Electric Dreams) highscore/laptimes incompatibility introduced with 1.7 update fixed (Info)
- 2023-11-30 improved: Wings of Death (Thalion/Eclipse) freeze on exit in NTSC mode fixed (Info)
- 2023-11-29 updated: Hellrun Machine (Amiga Fun) patch rewritten, editor is now supported, control problems fixed, blitter wait patches can be disabled with CUSTOM1, new install script, source code included (Info)
- 2023-11-26 improved: Time Bandit (Microdeal) supports another version (Info)
- 2023-11-26 improved: Alien Legion (Pegasus) install script updated (Info)
(snx)
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03.Dec.2023
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Apidya (Highscore)
- Urban Ferret (Afterburner Final Take Off)
(snx)
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03.Dec.2023
Sascha Kirschgens (ANF)
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Amiga38: Video of PiStorm panel held by Michal Schulz
At Amiga38 Michal Schulz gave a presentation about the Amiga extension PiStorm, which uses the minicomputer Raspberry Pi as an 68k emulator. You can find a video recording of it at the title link. (snx)
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03.Dec.2023
Sascha Kirschgens (ANF)
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Amiga Graphics Archive: Article on t3n.de (German)
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995 (amiga-news.de reported). Outside the Amiga media, it now also received an article yesterday at the title link on the site of the digital magazine t3n, which belongs to Heise. (snx)
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03.Dec.2023
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Emulation: BBoot boot loader v0.5 now supports AmigaOne in QEMU (update)
In our Simplified installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU published in mid-August and written by Rene Engel (in German), the bootloader "BBoot" written by QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan was already used, which can now load the AmigaOne as well as the Pegasos 2 model in version 0.5.
Balaton Zoltan wrote: "BBoot is replacing the second level boot loader (amigaboot.of on pegasos2 and slb_v2 on amigaone) and makes booting AmigaOS on QEMU simpler and without needing a firmware ROM. Because BBoot runs without firmware it does not load files from disk but expects an initrd with the kickstart files in zip format loaded in memory and boots from that. This not only allows BBoot to remain simple but may also be more convenient to work with in an emulated environment and boot faster. The initrd should be a zip archive of all boot files within a Kickstart directory that can be created with "zip -r Kickstart.zip Kickstart/" for example. BBoot will look for Kickstart/Kicklayout file in the zip and boot the first config (LABEL) found in it. Currently BBoot takes no input and does not provide a boot menu so other than 1st config defined in Kicklayout cannot be chosen, but one could have different zip files for different configs and choose on the QEMU command line by using different Kickstart.zip.
BBoot can also configure PCI devices that is normally done by the firmware. Linux and MorphOS don't need this as they scan and configure PCI devices themselves during boot but AmigaOS relies on the firmware to do this so BBoot implements this too. While configuring PCI, BBoot prints debug messages that can be useful to check how these devices are configured, which can help in debugging PCI pass through or even when using newer graphics cards on a real PegasosII as BBoot can also patch 64 bit BARs that the Pegasos2 version of AmigaOS kernel cannot handle."
Balaton Zoltan has published a little guide on how to use BBoot. At least QEMU 8.1 is needed for the -initrd option on Pegasos 2 and QEMU 8.2 for the AmigaOne machine. (dr)
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