09.Sep.2022
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Tutorial: Setting up a FTP server under MorphOS, connecting to devices
Amiga-News.de reports about news from the Amiga world, informs about developments, projects, news. However, our readers - the normal Amiga user as well as developers and programmers - have a wealth of experience and practical knowledge themselves, which can provide added value for everyone. Therefore we would like to make such knowledge more available to the general public. The MorphOS and AmigaOS 3 user 'emeck' has kindly taken the trouble to document how he sets up an FTP server under MorphOS in order to connect to the cell phone for data exchange, as in this case. But of course this is also possible from other devices like laptop or Raspberry Pi. Many thanks, 'emeck'.
"Now that floppies and even CDs/DVDs maybe not available to everyone, we can use several ways to tranfer data to/from our Amigas using networking. FTP is one of those ways, either by connecting to an FTP server or running it on our Amiga.
In this case, We will configure an FTP server under MorphOS, which is really simple to do thanks to OrangeFTP. Installation and usage is explained clearly in the program's guide but we'll add some screenshots here.
First we need to setup at least one user for connecting to the server. This is done in MOS setting. So we need to open Settings-->System-->Users. As you can see in the screenshot, I have already set up my default MOS user, which is the one I use to connect through FTP. Here you can set one for you.
The Home Dir is the Volume/Drawer you will have access when connecting with your FTP client. And the Login and Password is obviously the credentials you use for connecting.
You can add other users in the Users Tab. At first, it will be empty but clicking the Add New User button will let you fill in some fields for the new user as seen in the next screenshot:
In this case we have a user "ricardo" who is limited to browse the Download drawer in the Work: volume. Each user should have its unique User ID but all users defined here should have the same Group ID. So if we add here a new user like "tony", the Group ID must be 1000 too while the User ID could be 2. You can also configure an anonymous user that doesn't need a password to log in.
Next, after configuring the users, we need to configure the group in the Groups tab. This is also empty at firs too, but using the Add New Group button show again some fields for us to fill.
Here you have to add group called "ftp" and use the same Group ID you used to define our users (1000 in our example).Finally, add the names of the users, seperated spaces in case you want more than one.
Now we only need to run OrangeFTPd double clicking its icon or running it from the shell (in which case the gui won't open; you should pass the "-gui" option for that). So finally, we have our FTP server running!
As you see, we are not connected right now. We'll do it shortly. OrangeFTPd also has some settings we can change clicking the Config button, like the port it is using or the welcome message when connecting. Here are the default settings.
Now, for connecting with my Android phone I use AndFTP. Basicaly we need the login name, password, the IP of our Amiga and port number (21 by default for FTP).
Here you have the screenshots for the config I use for AndFTP on my phone (the same settings also work for connecting with Filezilla with my RPi or Debian laptop).
After configuring the client, now we can connect. OrangeFPd shows the current successfull connections. As you can see in the next screenshot, my MOS server has now 1 active connection.
So, this is a simple way to transfer data between my MorphOS system and my Linux/Windows/phone devices over my local network. FTP is not secure so if you want to access from outside your local network, you better user other protocol and security measures."
(dr)
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08.Sep.2022
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ADF tool for macOS: ADFMaster
'Matze1887' - among other things jump'n run Minky - has released a first version of his ADF tool "ADFMaster" for macOS. It is still under development, but already works for many tasks. For example, image files can be created simply by dragging and dropping.
The tool is available on itch.io starting at four Euros. (dr)
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08.Sep.2022
Twitter
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Hardware: AmigaONE X5000 complete systems available
As Alinea Computer announced in a recent Twitter message, AmigaOne X5000 complete systems are currently available from them and can be requested. (dr)
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08.Sep.2022
TheoTheoderich per Mail
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Trading game: Developer update of "Settle the World"
For the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, 'TheoTheoderich' is developing his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported).
Now he has reprogrammed the menu for his game and documented this with some, short YouTube videos.
- Part 1: a first look at the new menu (Credits, Help, Game Options)
- Part 2: how to open a new game in basic mode
- Part 3: how to load a saved game
- Part 4: the revised world map, saving a game
- Part 5: a look at the overview maps (stock of goods in the cities, production and progress of production in the cities, locations and cargoes of all trading units, cities with unassigned colonists)
- Part 6: how to open a new game in expert mode, the map generation tool
Feedback is appreciated by the author. (dr)
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07.Sep.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Voting for the Community Award of the Amiga37
On October 15/16 the Amiga37 will take place in Mönchengladbach (amiga-news.de reported). It is now possible to vote for the award recipients of the "Community Award" under the title link. For this a registration via e-mail address is necessary (if not already done for the ticket purchase anyway).
You can choose between:
- 10MARC
- AgedCode
- AgentSmith
- Alf24de & Transi
- AmigaBill
- Amiga Future Team
- AmigaOS3.2 Developer Team
- Andreas Magerl
- Anthony & Nicola Caulfield
- Arne von Boehn
- Bartman
- bebbo
- ChuckyGang
- Dennis Pauler
- DigitalKeeper
- DJCook
- Edgar Schwan
- ElrondMcBong
- Frank H aus L
- halbvier
- hese
- Hoffman
- Jamie Morgan
- John Girvin
- juen
- kas1e
- Kefir
- Kevin Saunders
- Marvin Droogsma
- Matthias Münch
- mattymuc
- Matze
- McGeezer
- Michal Schulz
- midwan
- mntmn
- Muzza
- NovaCoder
- Oliver Roberts
- Paulee Alex Bow
- Paul Kitching
- phx
- PiStorm
- Pitt Rock
- spieleschreiber
- Steve Jones
- TerribleFire
- The AmigaGuru
- thorfdbg
- Tigerskunk
- Toni Wilen
- trixie
- Virgill
- walkero
(snx)
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07.Sep.2022
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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MPEG audio: MHI developer archive 1.2
As Thomas Wenzel wrote, MHI was developed by him and Paul Qureshi, with the help of Dirk Conrad, because current systems (mpega.library and the mpeg.device) do not offer the features modern applications such as AmigaAMP require. For the first time the first beta version of AmigaAMP v2.9 fully supported version 1.0 of MHI (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 1.2 contains:
- Enhancements to the specification to
- tell the application to support other formats beyond MPEG audio
- officially support extended sound control (5- or 10-band equalizer)
- a bug-fixed MAS player driver which now no longer overwrites the contents of some registers, especially A6, for certain functions. This bug was discovered by Szilárd Biró, who ports games to 68k and plays the music via MHI.
(dr)
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07.Sep.2022
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Event: Passione Amiga Day 2022 in Spoleto (Italy)
'Passione Amiga Day' is the meeting of Amiga users in Italy, organized by Passione Amiga, the printed magazine for Amiga enthusiasts and users in Italian, with commercial exhibitors, conferences with Italian and international guests and a flea market. It will take place in the historic center of the city of Spoleto on September 18, 2022 with free admission (amiga-news.de reported).
As the organizers now announce, several commercial exhibitors will participate, including the publishers of Zzap!, ACube Systems, Virtual Works, Retrogaming & Toys, und RetroGiovedě who will present the new version of Waffle: a device that allows to use Amiga disks under PC emulation. (dr)
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07.Sep.2022
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Pre-order: MiST 1.5 with metal case
Przemyslaw 'Lotharek' Krawczyk offers a MiST revision 1.5 including metal case for about 212 Euro plus shipping in a pre-order campaign, which runs until October 10. The MiST revision 1.5 will be produced if there are enough orders. In the revision 1.5 many technical changes were made to simplify the automatic assembly (PCB redesigned, power supply reworked) and the MiST now is equipped with 64MB DRAM.
"MiST" (GitHub page), originally developed by Till Harbaum, is an FPGA motherboard that is supposed to emulate different home computers or arcade machines by means of different "cores". Originally intended as a pure Atari ST clone and therefore - analogous to Minimig - named "MiniST", a Minimig core initially ran on the hardware. Since then the project is called "MiST" (aMIga/ST) (amiga-news.de reported).
Supported Systems:
- ST/STE (also on SCART 15KHz)
- Amiga 500/600/1200 (AGA CORE BETA core)
- C64 (partially - still in development)
- Atari 8bit (96%)
- Collecovision
- ZX81
- Atari 2600
- ZX Spectrum with AY, also with DIVMMC and ESXDOS
- SEGA GENESIS
- Apple
- MSX
- AMSTRAD CPC (BETA)
Hardware to be provided by the customer:
- USB keyboard
- micro USB phone charger for power supply
- SD card (1GB recommended)
- VGA monitor
- USB mouse
- PC speaker
(dr)
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06.Sep.2022
Boris Huhn (ANF)
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DTP: Pagestream 5.1.2 update for Windows and MorphOS
For users who had purchased a full version of the DTP application Pagestream 5 for said systems in the past, an update to version 5.1.2 was uploaded by Deron Kazmaier today. In addition, a demo version is also available for MorphOS, among other things, for which you must first indicate your interest with your name and mail address.
This MorphOS release contains significant contributions from MorphOS developer Frank Mariak to make version 5 working and more stable on MorphOS. (dr)
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06.Sep.2022
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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.5.1
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported).
A few moments ago, version 3.5.1 has been released. Changes:
- fix issue with short jump calculations being done incorrect in certain circumstances, causing crashes.
- fix casing of math ieee functions to match original E modules
- disable OPT POOL and OPT UTILLIB in legacy mode
- disable THISTASK, __POOL and UTILITYBASE in legacy mode
- reinstate [] in immediate list to previous E functionality (a blank 0 item list)
- fix optimisation issue where MOVE.B (A0),D0 and MOVE.W (A0),D0 followed by TST.L would be optimised incorrectly.
- fix issue with immediate lists, ListMax() could not be used as the max size was not populated.
- allow 0 length lists to be created eg List(0)
- add showhunk source
(dr)
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06.Sep.2022
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Tool for Reverse Engineering: Amiga extension for Ghidra (update)
Ghidra is a free and open source reverse engineering tool. This framework includes a suite of software analysis tools that enable users to analyze compiled code on a variety of platforms including Windows, macOS, and Linux. Capabilities include disassembly, assembly, decompilation, graphing, and scripting (GitHub page).
Based on the work of Vladimir Kononovich and Martin Atkins, 'Bartman' has released a first Amiga extension, which can load Amiga Hunk executables and Kickstart images, include NDK 3.9 symbols.
Update: (08.09.2022, 19:38, dr)
With the update 20220908 released today, now among others WinUAE state files (.uss) can be loaded. (dr)
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05.Sep.2022
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #132 - Amiga CDTV
Issue 132 of Douglas Compton's videocast 10MARC is about the Amiga CDTV. Another video reviews the FastATA MK-V harddisk controller by Elbox for the Amiga 1200 under AmigaOS 3.2.1. (snx)
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05.Sep.2022
Ko-Fi
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AmigaOS 4: The Battle for the Solar System - The Pandoran War
After George 'walkero' Sokianos ported the platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" to AmigaOS 4 the other day (amiga-news.de reported), he has now ported the shoot'em up "The Battle for the Solar System: The Pandoran War" by Stephen J Sweeney and Parallel Realities using SDL.
The required data files have to be downloaded from the page The Battle for the Solar System. After unpacking the file "tbftss-1.5.1.linux-x86_64.tar.gz" twice to a hard disk location of your choice, the data is available. Sokianos' archive is also unpacked there, prompts to overwrite some files must be confirmed. Additional information about the game can be found in the file README-OS4.md.
Those who want to support the author have the opportunity to do so on his Ko-fi website. 50% of the donations are returned to the community by the author at the end of each month by supporting projects or developers. (dr)
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05.Sep.2022
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Replacement keyboards for A500/A1200: Production of Kipper2k delays
At the end of May, we reported on a status update from the American retailer "Amiga On The Lake" regarding the Kipper2k replacement keyboards: there, it was reported that all pre-orders should be fulfilled by the end of June 2022, mid-July 2022 at the latest.
As was reported three days ago, there is a delay in the production of more keyboards for the last dozen pre-orders as well as for the regular sales stock. They would have completely underestimated the excessive lead times that would be involved in manufacturing the circuit boards. All the parts would be available in sufficient quantities to build the keyboards, except for the circuit boards. In order to reduce the delays, other sources and solutions would now be sought. (dr)
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04.Sep.2022
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Aminet uploads until 03.09.2022
The following files have been added until 03.09.2022 to Aminet:
DesignerSP.lha dev/hwood 1.2M HW Designer 6.0 spanish catal...
regina-doc.pdf dev/lang 1.3M Alternative REXX interpreter doc
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.7M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
spacecadetpinball-aos... game/actio 4.0M OS4 SpaceCadetPinball
Magazyn.lha game/think 191K 68k New Sokoban-type game with gf...
AmigaBreaks-AutumInKo... mods/misc 191K track by Amiga Breaks - Autum...
LN42022Philly.lha mods/misc 18M LN4 2022 Phillipines by HKvalhe
LN4Lv6.lha mods/misc 3.5M LN4Lv6 Plane Crash by HKvalhe
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 318K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
GF4RSID1.zip pix/misc 76K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID2.zip pix/misc 83K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID3.zip pix/misc 78K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID4.zip pix/misc 85K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID5.zip pix/misc 83K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID6.zip pix/misc 86K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID7.zip pix/misc 80K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID8.zip pix/misc 78K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID9.zip pix/misc 82K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSIDA.zip pix/misc 83K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDB.zip pix/misc 80K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDC.zip pix/misc 79K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
trackfoo_v0_14.lha util/cli 12K 68k Read or Write one track CLI tool
aes_v1_20_mos.lha util/crypt 19K MOS AES-256 ECB file encryption C...
aes_v1_20_os4.lha util/crypt 27K OS4 AES-256 ECB file encryption C...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 6.8M 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
(snx)
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04.Sep.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 03.09.2022
The following files have been added until 03.09.2022 to OS4Depot:
spacecadetpinball.lha gam/act 4Mb 4.1 SpaceCadetPinball ported to Amig...
augustus.lha gam/str 3Mb 4.1 Augustus -AmigaOS4 SDL2 port of ...
weather.lha net/mis 17kb 4.1 weather env vars for your titlebar
(snx)
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04.Sep.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 03.09.2022
The following files have been added until 03.09.2022 to AROS Archives:
regina-doc.lha doc/dev 1Mb The Regina Rexx Interpreter doc
redeclipse.i386-aros.tar gam/fps 133Mb FPS Game
(snx)
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04.Sep.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 03.09.2022
The following files have been added until 03.09.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_2.24.0_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL2 : SD...
Iris_1.4.lha Email New email client suppor...
AES_1.20.lha Files/Crypt AES-256 ECB file encryp...
Asterix-CaesarChalleng... Games/Action Asterix-CaesarChallenge...
Knights_and_Dragons_Op... Games/Action Knights and Dragons - T...
Wayfarer_4.0.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
(snx)
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04.Sep.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 158
The English and German issue 158 (September/October 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 Playfield 14 as well as reviews about Vanilla Conquer and Terrible Fire 330. (snx)
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04.Sep.2022
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Point'n Click adventure: AGA version of "Athanor 2 - Legend of the Birdmen"
We had reported about the announcement of the point'n click adventure game 'Athanor 2 - The Legend Of The Birdmen', originally developed for the Amstrad CPC, also about a first preview video. The release for OCS-Amigas itself including an interview with the author we mentioned in the article about the second issue of the French print magazine Boing.
The availability of an AGA version of the game has now been announced via YouTube video. As with the OCS version, orders and reservations can only be made by mail. The OCS version, of which 100 physical boxes were produced, cost 39 Euros including shipping in the EU. Some boxes of the AGA version are also available. With each box version the adf files are also provided. More info from the author.
- 320x200x256 colors
- redrawn all the places (60 screens)
- redrawn all the sprites, inventory objects, npc, GUI
- 3 minutes of soundscape added (made of 150KB of samples)
- 4 disk (instead of 3)
(dr)
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03.Sep.2022
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Programming assistance: "AB_Template" v0.34 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23, (amiga-news.de reported).
Now he has released version 0.34, providing a pinball game concept as well an updated slot machine example. (dr)
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