02.Mar.2023
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IRC client: AmIRC 3.9 for AmigaOS 3/MorphOS
An update to version 3.9 has been released for the AmIRC development maintained by Nicolas 'Henes' Sallin and Harry 'Piru' Sintonen: the MorphOS version now uses the openssl3.library. (dr)
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02.Mar.2023
Amitopia (ANF)
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.2 released
AmiFox is a kind of web browser for original Amigas. Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has been reporting about its development since mid-February and after a short beta test phase version 0.2 is now generally available.
The principle of this browser is to outsource the actual rendering via WRP (Web Rendering Proxy), so that the finished rendering is sent back to the Amiga just as an image. In return, however, it is possible to display modern web pages containing CSS and Javascript. Interactions with the web page are then reported back to the server.
The underlying WRP was adapted to provide more functions and security/privacy. (snx)
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02.Mar.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: HGui 1.7 at GitHub
Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's HGui is a GUI system for Hollywood which, in contrast to the Amiga-specific MUI Royale, is in principle available for all platforms supported by Hollywood (amiga-news.de reported) - even if there are still limitations on Android so far.
The toolkit created with Hollywood only needs the Includes provided in the archive, plugins are not required. The current version 1.7 has now been published on GitHub including the source code, donations to the author via Patreon are welcome. (snx)
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02.Mar.2023
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS Distribution: New version of Aros Vision
Olaf Schönweiß has uploaded a new version of his distribution Aros Vision (screenshot, video). Besides updates of included programs and partially updated system files, the visual appearance has been revised; among other things by replacing icons. Newly added were AmigaAMP and LimpidClock. (snx)
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02.Mar.2023
David Brunet (ANF)
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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.
- January/February 2023 news
- Old articles from AmigaDP 5 to 8:
- Review of MultiDOS 1.12
- Review of FontViewer 1.2
- News: The end of the Fred Fish collection
- Review of Delitracker 1.30
- Tutorial: Optimization of the Workbench 2.x/3.x with public domain tools
- File: AMOS 1.3 problems and errors
- Review of RGE 2.1
- Review of MFR 2.0
- Interview with François Lionet
- Review of Necromancer 0.3
- Review of DiskPrint 3.5
- Interview with Nikola Tomic (Amiga musician)
- Interview with Damiano Gerli (video game journalist)
- Review of Infinity Music Player 3.360
- Review of Cro-Mag Rally 3.0.0
- File: Light Shock Software
- File: Amiga Games List (update)
- Point of view: The development of Rave (part 5)
- Tutorial: FTP server configuration on MorphOS
- Tutorial: LightWave - Create a perfect Boing Ball
- DIY: Creating a 4-bit processor - Part 1: Logic and combinatorial circuits
- DIY: Installing a Replay FPGA Arcade board in a Morex Cubid case
- Special quiz about the year 2022 on Amiga
(snx)
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01.Mar.2023
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Video player: Amos Video Player
The group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP", known among other things for the fantasy shooter Project Quest, which is currently in development, or the mini-game None of Us, updated their "AMOS Video Player", which has been in development since 2020, a few days ago and fixed some bugs
According to the developers, it is "a very simple video player that runs on any Amiga." The playback and encoding target is fixed at 320x256 25 fps, but changeable in the source code (2 colours up to HAM6 is possible, but then much slower). The loading time is not parallel to the playback time due to the non-optimised code, so the result is terrible on real hardware, but looks pretty good under WinUAE. Everybody is invited to play with the source code. (dr)
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01.Mar.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.9
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. Today version 1.9 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
- HFE: Support reading and writing HFEv3 image files
- For example: gw convert Game.ipf Game.hfe::version=3
- Useful for running converted IPFs on FlashFloppy Goteks
- MSA: Read & write Atari ST MSA image files
- D88: Remove hard-coded track double-stepping
- TSC Flex: Add diskdef disk definitions
- Various bug fixes
(dr)
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01.Mar.2023
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Linux: Distribution Finiex 6.0.1 for AmigaOne X1000/5000
The creator and maintainer of the Fienix distribution, Casey Cullen, has announced the availability of the new version 6.0.1 in a post on the Hyperion forums and has provided an installer for the new version for the first time. Features:
- Built-in support for streaming media to DLNA devices like Chromecast, game consoles, and DLNA-compliant smart TVs
- Built-in support to stream to ROAP devices like Apple Airport Express
- Built-in support for streaming to Bluetooth speakers (and Fienix supports USB Bluetooth adapters)
- Improved printer support and graphical printer configuration
- New, streamlined theme for cleaner interface, new wallpapers and a Fienix screensaver
- Support for GTK 4
- Fienix Companion is much more robust and stable and includes new Fienix Network Mechanic, and the Curated App Suite has been updated
- Almost all QT and KDE frameworks packages have been rebuilt from source to improve stability
- QT packages upgraded to version 5.15.4 and KDE frameworks packages upgraded to version 5.98
- Improved menu functionality for QT/KDE applications ("sticky" menus can be closed by pressing Esc key)
- Improvements in theme consistency for QT/KDE applications
- Improvements in theme consistency for Java desktop applications
- KDEConnect in Fienix 6.0.1 provides integration with both iOS and Android devices (previously only Android devices were supported)
- Eolie, a web browser based on WebKit (the same browser engine as Apple's Safari browser), provides great performance!
- Arctic Fox web browser has been upgraded to version 40.1
- Pale Moon browser 31.2 is now available
- VLC has been upgraded to version 3.0.18
- SFML has been patched in Fienix 6.0.1 to correctly play Ogg Vorbis sound format, unpatched it plays only static on big-endian systems
Further information as well as a detailed installation guide are available under the title link. (dr)
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01.Mar.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.6
As announced two days ago, Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has released version 1.6 of the audio editor "Rave" (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
- Import and export of raw files.
- Saving in the Ogg Vorbis format.
- Reworked the IFF-8SVX saver, which now also supports stereo.
- Saving WAV files is no longer limited to PCM: several other data formats and encodings can be selected in the WAV configuration window.
- Reworked the MP3 saver configuration window for better user control.
- When using the Save function, compressed files (MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis) are no longer overwritten silently, without giving the user a chance to review/adjust the compression parameters.
- Added a Save As button in the program toolbar.
- Added a Pause button in the transport bar.
- Linked with the latest versions of libogg and libvorbis for improved Ogg Vorbis support.
- Various other smaller improvements and fixes.
- Updated documentation.
Rave requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 as well as A-EON's Enhancer Core classes. You can support the developer on his Ko-fi page. (dr)
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28.Feb.2023
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 1.9 and web browser Wayfarer 4.9 (Update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.8 of his e-mail client Iris as well as version 4.9 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes include usage of the dedicated image viewer when editing e-mail attachments and workarounds for video playback, respectively.
Download:
iris.lha (21 MB)
wayfarer.lha (29 MB)
Update: (21:21, 01.03.23, snx)
Meanwhile version 1.9 of Iris is available which fixes a bug. (snx)
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28.Feb.2023
Mixel
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Jump'n Run: Demo version V1.5 of "Creeping Me Out Hex Night"
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes provides another demo version of his jump'n run 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night', created with the game construction kit Scorpion Engine. This new preview is functionally the same as version 1.4 apart from a few bug fixes, but there is now a separate AGA version with some optimisations and new backgrounds and effects.
As Dawes shows with examples, the ECS version sometimes has more colours on the screen than the AGA version, which in turn makes up for this with the greater depth in the background with the full-screen parallax.
You can support the developer via his Patreon page. (dr)
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27.Feb.2023
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Audio editor Rave: Preview to version 1.6
In his latest blog entry, Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka describes why he opted for a single programme module that handles loading and saving in all file formats in his audio editor Rave and gives a preview of what changes users can expect in the upcoming version 1.6. (dr)
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27.Feb.2023
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User report: The PiStorm32-lite, part 2
The first part of my report ended with the "BUPtest" giving an error message after switching on the Amiga 1200. When I plugged in the HDMI cable, I noticed that the large plug of the HDMI cable bent the card upwards by quite a bit. So I suspected that this might have caused contact problems.
After some research, I decided on an UltraThin HDMI cable:
This made it easy to connect the cable without much "bending":
However, the result of my efforts was sobering: after switching on, I was still greeted by the already familiar error message :( So, I kept asking around. What else could be the problem? Basically the contacts? Although they have been well protected by the Blizzard 1230 so far. Anyway, I disconnected and reconnected the PiStorm32 a few times. Try again! Error message persists!
Some users had reported that it only worked for them if the adapter card was not inserted all the way into the Trapdoor connection, but was pulled back two or three millimetres. I tried that too, but again no success. It didn't help, I had to bother Claude and Michal again. Claude offered to provide me with a test image that could be used to further isolate the problem. I accepted with thanks.
I installed it, started it and what do you think? It worked!!!! There is no such thing. So it was clear: my hardware is OK!
But what was the reason then?
On his test image, Claude used the latest stable version of Emu68, while I used the nightly build that was current at the time of the test. Claude says that for normal users he would always recommend the stable version, as nightly builds do not always run stably and may also require modified firmware. And while we were pondering the reasons, he sent me a picture that lists the versions of Emu68:
Well, three guesses which version I used for testing... the one from 24 January. OK, I was unlucky, but at least I didn't do anything fundamentally wrong. And it finally worked! :)
The next step was now to set up the P96 driver, but here I would like to refer to the Setting up P96 tutorial already linked in the first part. Just a few notes on this: tutorial already linked in the first part. Just a few notes on this:
If one has only one monitor, as I do, the test button in the prefs programme "Picasso96Mode" is useless. Through the unselfish help of the user 'katzazakis', after numerous unsuccessful tests of the screen resolution, I remembered (again) that I have to change the input on the monitor from VGA to HDMI in order to be able to see the test picture. It is impossible to do this during the short display time of the test picture. Here, it is better to use the "Edit" mode, which cannot be terminated automatically but only by active action and additionally offers the options to change resolution and screen size by means of arrow keys or additional CTRL and Shift keys:
By the way, you should not be confused by the displayed refresh rates, which obviously do not represent real values. For my Philips Brilliance 241B in 16:9 format, a frequency of 60 Hz is recommended, but this is never displayed or reached in the settings programmes. I finally decided on a resolution of 960 x 540 as standard and created three colour profiles for it. Additionally, for surfing with IBrowse and the mail client YAM, the resolution 1366 x 768. The test images worked. Now reboot and finally try a new screen resolution. It worked, here they are:
I use the "HiColour" version for a start. A comparison of old and new:
In the pictures, the difference doesn't seem that big. But in real life I can only say:
Wow! Great! The efforts were worth it. After almost 30 years, I can display the Workbench in high resolution with my Amiga 1200! It's amazing! What you can't see, however, is that the RTG resolution has once again increased the speed at which windows and folders open. I must admit, it feels like a modern PC. And by the way, as you can notice in the Chip RAM display above, there are now even 2 MB available.
However, one must bear in mind that not all programmes and tools support this high-resolution display. Like Sysinfo, for example, for which I have to switch back to VGA mode on the screen - after another brief pause: has it crashed? ;) - I have to switch back to VGA mode on the screen:
To be honest, I can do rather less with such information, I need practical values. Here are a few figures for solving the respective task:
Task Blizzard 1230 PiStorm32-lite
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Unarchiving the 3:06 Min 30 Sec
latest YAM
Nightly Build
Starting YAM 2:41 Min 18 Sec (with icons)
Unarchivin 1:21 Min 9 Sec
AmiSSL 5.7
Visiting 24 Sec 3 Sec
Amiga-News.de
using IBrowse 2.5.8
(https)
By the way, the boot time has not changed (noticeably).
Is there anything that bothers you? Yes, currently you no longer have a real-time clock in the Amiga 1200 that stores the time (which was previously provided by the Blizzard 1230). For me, the time is reset to 2016 after every boot. According to PiStorm developer Claude Schwarz, an RTC driver for the Pi is coming though (which will also require an addition to the hardware). Otherwise, further tests will show how the various programmes, tools and demos run.
Conclusion: I am thrilled! If you put the effort and the costs in relation to the benefits, I have to say quite clearly: absolute recommendation. Definitely, if you work a lot with the Workbench and programmes from the hard disk, as I do. Working at this speed and with this screen resolution is a real pleasure! (dr)
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26.Feb.2023
itch.io
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Platform game: "Boxx" remake V0.5
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The latest update to version 0.5 includes the following changes:
- Upgraded to Scorpion Engine v2023.0
- faster responding menu: less loading screens
- player and boss shooting sounds changed to original
- music same volume
- Performance:
- A500 = 8% improvement on v0.4
- A1200 = 11% improvement on v0.4
An Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM is required.
(dr)
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26.Feb.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 10: Xcelicious available now
Press release: After 2 years of development, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 10: Xcelicious. Hollywood is a programming language that can be used to create a wide variety of programs, ranging from games and GUI-based applications for desktop systems to mobile apps for Android and iOS. Hollywood's special feature is its support for retro platforms (e.g. AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS) and modern operating systems (e.g. Windows, macOS, Linux) alike. It comes with a library of over 1000 commands and its functionality can be extended further through over 30 plugins which are available for free download.
Version 10.0 is a major update and comes with many new features. Here is a non-exhaustive list of what's new in Hollywood 10:
- Almost 100 new commands for lots of new programming fun!
- Text and font engine is now completely extensible by plugins
- Support for the macOS arm64 platform (Apple Silicon)
- Vector text objects are now supported
- Layers can now be grouped or merged
- Support for charspacing and linespacing
- Popup menus (aka context menus) are now supported
- New serialization modes for the JSON serializer
- Advanced console functions for creating TUIs
- Support for filesystem plugins
- Greatly improved joystick support
- Support for AmigaInput on AmigaOS 4
- MagicBeacon and Ranchero support
- Greatly improved plugin interface with user tags
- Custom vector brushes can now be used
- Advanced locale functions like date and number formatting
- Ready for at least three 10.0-exclusive plugins!
- Over 100 new pages of PDF documentation, 1272 pages altogether!
- Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood 10 is the ultimate Multimedia experience and a must-have for all creative people. Hollywood is available on CD and as a download version. Both versions include Hollywood for all supported platforms. Buying Hollywood gets you a single-user license for all 16 platforms supported by Hollywood. If you already own Hollywood, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. People who bought Hollywood 9 in 2023 can request a free upgrade.
Hollywood is the ultimate bridge between all the different AmigaOS compatible platforms and the other three modern desktop systems, Windows, macOS, and Linux! Additionally, Hollywood also supports the Android and iOS platforms. A truly unique feature is the ability to cross-compile native executables for many different platforms including: AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86, x64), macOS (x86, x64, arm64, ppc), Linux (x86, x64, ppc, arm), and Android/iOS with optionally available add-ons. You don't even have to own these platforms in order to compile executables for them. It's enough to run Hollywood on one of the supported platforms and then compile programs for all the others! Only Hollywood makes it possible. If you want to learn more about Hollywood, please visit the the official Hollywood portal at the title link which also has a forum for all questions concerning Hollywood.
All this makes Hollywood The Cross-Platform Multimedia Application Layer. Join the Multimedia revolution and get your personal copy of Hollywood 10: Xcelicious now! (snx)
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26.Feb.2023
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Aminet uploads until 25.02.2023
The following files have been added until 25.02.2023 to Aminet:
mrwolf.lha comm/tcp 32K OS4 Pool-friendly SNTP time sync ...
aweb_3_5_091.lha comm/www 2.6M 68k AWeb APL Lite 3.5.091
GQ2.lha game/role 8.8M 68k Point & Click Adventure
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...
cc1541.lha misc/emu 155K 68k Create Commodore 1541 floppy ...
Centurion.lha misc/emu 132K MOS Centurion CPU6 based minicomp...
AmyStromWiFiSwitch.lha misc/misc 7.4M ALL Control and query the myStrom...
tedplay.lha mus/play 869K MOS Commodore 264 family media pl...
cabextract.lha util/arc 54K 68k Extract MS Cabinet (.CAB) arc...
cabextract_OS4.lha util/arc 44K OS4 Extract MS Cabinet (.CAB) arc...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 3.9M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
ScreenTime.lha util/time 69K 68k Screen clock with calendar
Turkish_Packs.lha util/wb 47K Turkish Catalog packs some ap...
UserMenus.lha util/wb 2.8M 68k User defined menus for Wanderer
(snx)
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26.Feb.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.02.2023
The following files have been added until 25.02.2023 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
fallout2-ce.lha gam/rol 5Mb 4.1 Fallout2 Community Port for Amig...
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
mrwolf.lha net/mis 32kb 4.0 Pool-friendly SNTP time sync client
avalanche.lha uti/arc 84kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
avalanche_ita.lha uti/arc 6kb 4.0 Italian translation for Avalanche
deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
cabextract.lha uti/fil 44kb 4.0 Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.CAB)...
amystromwifiswitch.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 Control and query the myStrom Wi...
image2pdf.lha uti/tex 9Mb 4.0 Convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
animplayer.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 Anim player with playlist support
(snx)
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26.Feb.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.02.2023
The following files have been added until 25.02.2023 to AROS Archives:
gltron.i386-aros.zip gam/dri 6Mb a 3d lightcycle racing game usin...
amissl.i386-aros.zip lib 3Mb AmiSSL is a port of OpenSSL for ...
usermenus.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 3Mb User defined menus for Wanderer
animplayer.i386-aros.lha vid/mis 2Mb Anim player with playlist support
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26.Feb.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.02.2023
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 25.02.2023:
(snx)
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26.Feb.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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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:
- Stuck in Snow Chip (hyperunknown remix)
- 4mat´s l.f.f. 2023 remake
- Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road Medley
(snx)
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26.Feb.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 143 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about "Brides of Dracula" and "Operación Fallida". (snx)
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25.Feb.2023
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AmigaOne X5000: Why AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS tick differently
What is one of the advantages of an AmigaOne X5000? You can use AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS in parallel on it (and Linux). But what drives you crazy on a regular basis? The obviously out-of-sync clocks!
Naturally, at first one doubts one's own inability to use the two OS correctly. But if you ask around, even experienced developers feel the same way: If you set the clock correctly under AmigaOS 4 at the moment, at winter/standard time, it will show one hour later when you boot MorphOS afterwards. Conversely, after setting the correct time under MorphOS, the hour hand goes forward one hour. How?
The solution to the riddle was not only profoundly but also very helpfully led by the MorphOS developer Frank Mariak and the AmigaOS developer Olaf Barthel: As Mariak explains, "MorphOS sets the time in the RTC hardware clock to Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) - just like Linux and also MacOS. Everything that is then set in the operating system in terms of times is the local time, which is derived from UTC".
AmigaOS works differently, which is due to its history, to which Olaf Barthels explains: "In 1985/1986 one could not yet look far enough into the future. The operating system interfaces for reading and setting the current system time were not designed to take time zones into account back then.
So when you call up what time it is and what date is current, you always get back the "local time". When setting, it is the same (the local time is expected).
With AmigaOS4, it is assumed that the time information for files, etc. always represents the local time. The local time is then automatically changed if necessary. This time change issue has even been present in AmigaOS for a very long time (late 1980's/early 1990's)."
And Frank Mariak adds: "The problem also existed for a long time with MorphOS because of the legacy compatibility to AmigaOS, until with MorphOS 3.10 a usable, compatible way was found to store the time in UTC in the hardware, but still realise the possibility of the automatic summer/winter time change under MorphOS".
Conclusion: either you continue to set the clock manually in the future, or you use a possibility to automate this via Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. A simple but elegant option for this is the commodity Mr. Wolf: placed in the appropriate folder under Utilities and permanently integrated via WBStartup, the time is adjusted automatically when an internet connection is available. However, two things need to be taken into account:
Obviously, the network connection on the X5000 is activated a little later than the WBStartup programmes are started. Therefore, it is important to set a "DELAY", i.e. a delay of a few seconds. By the way, during testing it turned out that after the elapsed ten seconds the time was still not adjusted. When asked about this, the developer Chris Young checked this and found that in the previous version 2.1 - regardless of the delay set - at least 15 minutes had to elapse. However, this has been fixed in version 2.2, which he has just released, and the delay entered does indeed take effect in this way.
Secondly, it is important that the time is not stored in the hardware. Otherwise you will have the problem of the shifted time again. Therefore, only set "SAVE=SYSTEM". (dr)
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25.Feb.2023
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Video tutorials: Download of the source codes
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' has so far published a series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has published the corresponding source codes on his website as text and AMOS files and explains this in a current YouTube video. (dr)
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24.Feb.2023
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Video: Development of the MiniMig
The developer Ranko Rodic reported at the World of Commodore 2022 about the MiniMig project (amiga-news.de reported), of which he had published revision 1.91 at the end of 2022. (dr)
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24.Feb.2023
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Paint program: Multipaint 2023 for Windows/Linux/Mac
Multipaint is designed to be able to draw pictures with the colour limitations of some typical 8-bit and 16-bit computer platforms. In the now released version 2023, the Amiga mode is now also an official part of the painting programme (see also the corresponding blog entry on this):
n Amiga screen with variable size and 2-32 colours, adjustable palette with 16 levels each for red, green and blue. Multipaint can only handle larger bitmaps to a limited extent, so it is recommended to limit the size to the usual resolutions, e.g. 320 x 200 or 320 x 256.
There is an export for IFF files that can be loaded e.g. in Deluxe Paint, but currently no IFF import. (dr)
[News message: 24. Feb. 2023, 14:36] [Comments: 0]
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