02.Jan.2023
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RTG Solitaire: "Solitare match" V0.89
At the beginning of December, Sami Vehmaa had published a demo version of his graphics card Solitaire conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo version contains five levels. With this update, the paid version now has 75 levels. Besides, the game engine was improved. (dr)
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02.Jan.2023
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Dock: QDock V1.49
At the end of October, Sami Vehmaa published the first version of his start bar "QDock" (amiga-news.de reported), which he continues to develop (YouTube video). This update fixes several minor bugs. The tool is currently available for 1 Euro or more. The originally high CPU requirements have been lowered so that the dock can also be used with a 68030 processor when the reflections are deactivated or with a 68060 when activated. In addition, AmigaOS 3.2 (the author could not test under AmigaOS 3.1), graphics card and 22 MB RAM are required. (dr)
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02.Jan.2023
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Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.5
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as well as Linux (amiga-news.de reported). Under Windows it is possible to use it by the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which has been generally available for Windows 10 and 11 in the Microsoft Store since the end of November (amiga-news.de reported). The new version is based on the recently released version 20221221-1 of the ABI v11 developer branch and provides minor bug fixes and changes (latest YouTube video). (dr)
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02.Jan.2023
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Aracade-Spiel: "Green Beret" update
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine and won third place at AmiGameJam (amiga-news.de reported).
With this update, the developer wishes all a happy new year. Changes:
- added 2 selectable difficulty levels (Normal and Arcade), because people asked for a less brutal experience.
- "Normal" has a lifebar (which is not a "heresy", since the Japanese version of Contra Hard Corps (Mega Drive) does that too).
- "Arcade" is the same difficulty as previous versions (no lifebar, 1 hit = dead).
- some minor improvements here and there, such as a little flag marking a "save point/spawn point" reached.
(dr)
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02.Jan.2023
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Linux: Browser Artic Fox V40.1
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled version 40.1 of the web browser Artic Fox (screenshot) for Linux PowerPC (32 Bit). Basically it runs under the Linux PowerPC distributions Void PPC, MintPPC, Fienix and Ubuntu 10.04 (which are also available for AmigaOne X1000 and 5000. Mainly, the browser is meant for older resp. slow systems (e.g. G3 with Ubuntu 10.04) because it is using an older version of the Goanna engine which has a good performance on slower systems. As a result, certain pages like GitHub cannot be fully displayed.
Download: arcticfox-40.1.linux-powerpc.tar.bz2 (37 MB) (dr)
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02.Jan.2023
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Action game: Elf Spirit Hunters released
For the TOY BOX JAM 4, the developer Erik 'earok' Hogan has written the action game "Elf Spirit Hunters" using his Scorpion Engine and released it today. It is inspired by David Crane's Ghostbusters game.
The player's task is to rid the world of the last remaining Halloween ghosts shortly before Christmas. To do this, you have to buy elves as helpers in the shop as well as chests in which the ghosts are trapped.
An Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM is required. (dr)
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01.Jan.2023
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: Update for Heretic II in development
According to Roman 'kas1e' Kargin, Steffen Häuser is working on updates for the games published by Hyerion Entertainment such as Heretic II and Quake II for AmigaOS 4. He had already worked on the beta test for the original version (amiga-news.de reported). Kargin has now published a first preview video for Heretic II. Among other things, the new version should support HD modes like 1920x1080. In addition, all movies will be scaled and filtered so that there will no longer be 320×240 windows as in the original Warp OS version. (dr)
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01.Jan.2023
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement
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.
- Novembre/December 2022 news.
- Old articles from AmigaDP 1 to 4: Review of DirWork 1.43, Review of NewZap 3.30, Review of PC-Task 1.10, Demo: Black & White Slide 2, Review of AppServer 301, Review of TurboQuantum, Review of VCLI 3.0, Demo: The Intruder, Review of ABackup 1.40, Review of MED 3.20, Review of Equality, Comparative: File search tools on AmigaOS 1.x/2.x, Demo: Optimus Maximus, Review of Magnetic Pages 1.3, etc.
- Interview with Alfred Faust (BarsnPipes developper).
- Interview with Stoo Cambridge (Cannon Fodder/SWOS graphist).
- Hardware: X500 Evo.
- Hardare: Eclipsis.
- File: Amiga history (update of the year 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1985).
- File: Trecision history (3rd part).
- Tutorial: Installation of Warp3D Nova, Nova Bridge, MiniGL, OGLES2 and WarpOS Emu on AmigaOS 4.1.
- Tutorial: LightWave - Create a perfect Boing Ball.
- DIY: Use of the new LEDs on the Replay FPGA Arcade.
- Programming: Getting Started with Lua on MorphOS.
- Special quizz about Workbench.
(dr)
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01.Jan.2023
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: Version 6.9 of audio driver for Intel HD Audio
The AHI driver for AmigaOS 4 written by Harald Kanning supports PCIe cards with sound chips that meet the HD Audio specification (amiga-news.de reported). The archive also contains a simple "mixer" which can be used to control the volume. Now the developer has released an update to version 6.9 with the following changes:
- Added support for Sound Blaster Audigy FX (V2) (alc1220 based). This is the best card supported to date with a SNR of 120dB
- Added Install script
- Added Titlebar Docky
- Added workaround for AHI quirk that always selects a monitor input '0' and control monitor volume when you want to play a sound. This can potentially result in a lot of noise when playing sounds -> Added "Mute inputs" as monitor input 0
- Small speed improvements
AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 2 (the author has not tested it under previous versions) and AHI 6.6 are required. (dr)
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01.Jan.2023
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Aminet uploads until 31.12.2022
The following files have been added until 31.12.2022 to Aminet:
enc_sce_kheshkhash.lha demo/misc 22M MOS Kheshkhash by Encore & Scenic
ASMPro1.19.lha dev/asm 109K 68k ASM-Pro v1.19 (update)
pdp10-its-disassemble... dev/cross 7.1M MOS Tools for analysing PDP-10 IT...
vCPUComp.lha dev/cross 14K 68k Gigatron asm compiler
COP.lha dev/debug 166K 68k Low Level Debugger
libpng1639_a68k.lha dev/lib 1.5M 68k Lib for reading/writing PNG
PcmciaCD.lha driver/med 15K 68k ATAPI PCMCIA CD driver Sony Vaio
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha game/misc 7.9M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM
ScummVM_RTG.lha game/misc 8.0M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM
StefADV.lha game/text 52K 68k Little italian text adventure
invasionespaziale.lha game/wb 217K 68k Space Invasion 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...
LN4Brisbane.lha mods/misc 12M LN4Brisbane 4ch MED by HKvalhe
LN4Lv10.lha mods/misc 1.1M LN4 Lv10 4ch MED track by HKv...
SamplesCreator.lha mus/edit 44K 68k 8svx samples creation and saving
Tipografia_AROS.lha text/dtp 2.4M x86 Generator of printable signs ...
Tipografia_MorphOS.lha text/dtp 2.4M MOS Generate printable signs usin...
Tipografia_OS4.lha text/dtp 2.9M OS4 Generate printable signs usin...
DisLib.lha util/libs 19K 68k A library based MC68K disasse...
filesysbox_68k.lha util/libs 35K 68k A FUSE compatible file system...
StartBar-ITA.lha util/wb 164K 68k Italian version of StartBar
StartWin.lha util/wb 203K 68k Two bugged workbench launchba...
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OS4Depot uploads until 31.12.2022
The following files have been added until 31.12.2022 to OS4Depot:
rave.lha aud/edi 3Mb 4.1 An editor for mono/stereo audio ...
modexplorerce.lha aud/pla 2Mb 4.0 Streaming mod file from Internet...
modexplorerng.lha aud/pla 3Mb 4.0 Streaming mod file from Internet
farewell_e-card.lha dem 5Mb 4.0 This is a demo with a farewell e...
hdaudio_ahi.lha dri/aud 242kb 4.1 Generic HD audio driver for Amig...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amibrixx.lha gam/puz 2Mb 4.0 Puzzle game for the Amiga computer
myblocktetris.lha gam/puz 92kb 4.0 A small tetris-like game
tipografia.lha gra/mis 3Mb 4.0 Generator of printable signs usi...
comicon.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Simply downloads the comic-strip
smb2fs.lha net/sam 123kb 4.1 Filesystem for accessing files u...
mcamiga.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 Midnight/Norton commander style ...
snoopdos_ita.lha uti/mis 19kb 4.0 Italian catalog file for SnoopDos
(snx)
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01.Jan.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 31.12.2022
The following files have been added until 31.12.2022 to AROS Archives:
farewell_e-card.lha dem 4Mb This is a demo with a farewell e...
comicon_aros.lha gra/vie 2Mb simply downloads the comic-strip...
tipografia.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 2Mb Generator of printable signs usi...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 31.12.2022
The following files have been added until 31.12.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
ModExplorerNG_3.82.zip Audio/Players A module player by Jörg.
ENCORE_SCENIC_Kheshkha... Demoscene/ENCORE A demo for MorphOS name...
Nanosaur2_2.1.0.lha Games/Action Pangea Software’s Nanos...
BillyFrontier_1.1.0.lha Games/Action Billy Frontier is an ar...
OttoMatic_4.0.0.lha Games/Adventure OttoMatic_4.0.0 for mod...
CroMagRally_3.0.0.lha Games/Race The wildest racing game...
Woof!_10.5.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Woof! is a continuation...
fheroes2_1.0.0.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
AmiBrixx_2.2.lha Games/Think A puzzle-game for the a...
ComicOn_1.4.lha Graphics/Show ComicOn downloads the s...
Farewell e-card.lha Misc Farewell e-Card from M...
Tipografia_1.2.lha Office/DTP Generate printable sign...
TinyGL-Update-2022-12-... System/Update This is the seventh pub...
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01.Jan.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 31.12.2022
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 31.12.2022:
- 2022-12-31 updated: Sink or Swim (Zeppelin Games/Odysseus Software) patch rewritten, real files used, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, interrupts fixed (Info, Image)
- 2022-12-29 improved: Bards Tale (Interplay) sound problems on fast machines fixed (Info)
- 2022-12-29 updated: Ski or Die (Electronic Arts) patch rewritten, files instead of disk image used, disk access disabled, 68000 quitkey support, keyboard routine fixed, fire button 2 support for Snowball Blast event added (Info)
- 2022-12-28 improved: Portal (Activision) now uses real files, fixed blitter issues, skip introduction (Info)
- 2022-12-28 improved: Desert Strike (Electronic Arts) fast memory support added, improved controls, better blitter fixes (Info)
- 2022-12-26 improved: Steel (Hewson) out of bounds blits fixed, access faults fixed (patch works on 68000 now) (Info)
- 2022-12-26 improved: Stardust (Bloodhouse) data directory path in slave corrected (Info)
- 2022-12-26 improved: Stardust (Bloodhouse) correct V1.6 slave included now (Info)
- 2022-12-26 improved: Stardust (Bloodhouse) possible crash after tunnel sequence fixed, minor graphics problems introduced in V1.5 fixed (Info)
- 2022-12-26 improved: Escape from Colditz (Digital Magic Software) chip memory requirements reduced, access fault fixed (Info)
- 2022-12-26 improved: Necronom (LineL) weapons can be selected with fire button 2, 68000 quitkey support (Info)
- 2022-12-25 improved: Space Ace (Ready Soft) supports another version (Info)
(snx)
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31.Dec.2022
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.5
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
A few moments ago, version 5.5 has been released. Changes:
Bugfixes
- Reverted CD32 autoloader to normal config
- added linefeed in logging errors from CDDA init
- CDDA and AHI wouldn't respect the selected SDL2 audio device
- CDDA audio would fail to init in some cases
- CD32 mode wasn't properly applied when using WHDLoad booter
- fixed passing string to write_log in Panel Paths
- Enumeration of Recording devices would write into sound device ID
- NVRAM path wasn't used in CD32/CDTV configs
- uaegfx blitter was accidentally disabled
- uaegfx masked and overlapping blit fix
- gfx_top_windowed/gfx_left_windowed replacement config entries
- When using Alt-Tab, the keys were not released when returning control
- When selecting a folder/file the contents were not always updated
- Fixed magicmouse without virtual mouse driver
- Changing HDD controller for Hardfile lost the path to the hardfile
- fixed glitches with File and Folder selectors
- Controller axes inverted status was not respected when reading their input
Improvements
- add support for UAE Zorro II RTG boards
- increase Savestate thumb size
- replace sdl2-config with pkgconf
- use 2MB Chip also, for A600 configs with Fast RAM
- major refactoring of whdload booter
- add more descriptive text when remapping controller buttons
- updated WHDLoad XML and GameControllers DB to latest versions
- ShowMessage now supports 3 lines. Added timestamp info when updating XML
- Added more configurable paths in GUI: NVRAM, Screenshots, Savestates
- added nvram and inputrecordings directories in repo
- updated WHDLoad XML to latest version
- cherry-picked various pieces from x86 branch
- cherry pick updates from x86 branch
Build System
- added RPI4 Manjaro separate build
- added inputrecordings and nvram directories in packaging
(dr)
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31.Dec.2022
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Blog: How authentic is the Amiga 1000 in "Stranger Things"?
Carl Svensson always reports in his blog in detail and philosophically profound about various Amiga topics. In his latest article he explores the question of how authentic the shown workbench pictures of the Amiga 1000 are, appearing in the series "Stranger Things" are (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)
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31.Dec.2022
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Video: Status update on BitBeamCannon projects
In a short video BitBeamCannon has informed about the current status of their projects (Metro Siege, DaemonClaw). (dr)
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31.Dec.2022
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Video: 25 popular demos
For all those who want to spend New Year's Eve comfortably at home, a little video tip: the YouTube channel "Casual Retro Gamer" (CRG) (among other things Building a new Amiga 2000) had asked a few weeks ago via its Twitter account what the users think are the most popular demos. The result is a list of 25 demos, which are shown in a video of about 1,5h length. More than half of them are Amiga demos (for example Enigma, Desert Dream or World of Commodore). (dr)
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31.Dec.2022
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 4.8 (2nd Update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 4.6 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS, which primarily fixes bugs but also improves image dragging alongside updated libraries (cURL, png, webp, sqlite).
Please note that the current openssl3.library is required.
Download: wayfarer.lha (29 MB)
Update: (09:09, 01.01.23, snx)
Meanwhile version 4.7 is available. This one doesn't require latest openssl3.library anymore, but optionally checks for updates of it. Also localization strings cosmetics are included.
2nd Update: (16:41, 03.01.23, dr)
The developer has released version 4.8, which provides a fix for cUrl if Socks Proxies are used. (snx)
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31.Dec.2022
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of December
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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31.Dec.2022
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Video review: Junior's Great Adventure
At the title link, Amigatronics has published a short review video of the game Junior's Great Adventure, which was released by Amigamers in spring.
The platform game, created with Backbone, is inspired by the silent movie era in terms of its sepia colours, fits on a single floppy disk and requires 1 MB of RAM as well as at least Kickstart 2.1. (snx)
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30.Dec.2022
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Rediscovered: Unfinished Blitz Basic 2 projects
Jake Birkett is the head of indie game developers Grey Alien Games, which has been releasing downloadable games for PC and Mac since 2004. These have included the popular Regency Solitaire, which combines a Jane Austen-style story with various solitaire levels and special powerups that you get by upgrading your ballroom. Or Ancient Enemy, a turn-based battle card game based on solitaire, or from last year T-Minus 30: a 30-minute city builder where you have to save as many people as possible by building rockets before the planet blows up.
And what is this enthusiasm for computer game development based on? Exactly, before this time, Birkett was a passionate Amiga user and programmer.
So in the early 90s he wrote games on his Amigas 1200, which he still owns today, first in assembler, then in Blitz Basic 2, of which he only published one: as a fan of Solitaire under Windows 3.11 he wrote a corresponding implementation for the Amiga (YouTube video).
Besides that, there are quite a few gaming projects started. Recently, Birkett took the 80Mb 2.5" HDD out of the Amiga 1200 and used a 44-pin IDE-to-SATA adapter to plug it into his PC. As he tells us, at first his PC wouldn't boot when it was plugged in. So he told the BIOS to treat it as a hot-swap drive, then booted Windows and plugged it in, and WinUAE was able to recognise it and create a full image of it. He then used the hard disk image to examine all his old code and recompile it to create videos.
First, he turned his attention to games written in Blitz Basic 2, finding, among other things:
- "Oids" (an asteroids clone with a twist that you bounce off the edge of the screen): YouTube-Video
- Platform game: YouTube-Video
"Speed Grind" (a fast-paced vertically scrolling arcade game that is almost done. Only the levels still have to be put in the right order): YouTube-Video
Basically, he is thinking about finishing one or the other project now, even though he admits that he actually wants to spend his free time on other things due to the game development during the week.
Finally, he tells us that he used to make a lot of rave/trance music on his Amiga and he programmed demos with images that pulsed with the music. This example (warning, it has flashing lights) has a cheesy, fun track that works well with the fractal images he used. Each image has 32 colours and is split into 8 colours per Amiga sound channel, and when a note is triggered in each channel, the corresponding 8 colours are pulsed, giving quite an interesting effect!
We look forward to seeing (and reporting) what else Jake Birkett digs up! (dr)
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30.Dec.2022
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Motorola68k emulation: Nightly Build von Emu68 für PiStorm32-lite veröffentlicht
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon page. After the beta version 0.10 released at the beginning of March (amiga-news.de reported) he has now released a correspondingly adapted version of Emu68 as a nightly build for PiStorm32-lite (amiga-news.de reported) published the day before yesterday and reports about it in his current entry.
Download: Emu68-pistorm32lite-20221229-9b18f6.zip (3,6 MB) (dr)
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29.Dec.2022
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AmigaOS 4: SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.2
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsmb2 and allows remote access to files via the SMB2/3 protocols (amiga-news.de reported). Version 53.2, released today, includes the following changes:
- Added USER and PASSWORD arguments.
- Disabled CTRL-C signal checking in libc and ISocket->WaitSelect().
- Merged latest fixes from the libsmb2 github repo:
- convert system time to little endian in NTLMSSP code.
- convert destination path directory separators in rename function.
The newlib.library V53.40 or newer (or V53.30, included in AmigaOS 4.1 FE) and the filesysbox.library V54.4 or newer are required. (dr)
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29.Dec.2022
MorphZone
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MorphOS: ENCORE & SCENIC released KHESHKHASH demo
At the end of October, the game and demo developers from Encore (2D shooter Fortis, among others) released their demo Morphever. Before they now devote themselves to game development again and want to tackle some projects that have been put on hold, they have updated one of their older demos: KHESHKHASH was originally released in 2002 with demo group Scenic, which required an Amiga with PPC and 3D accelerator. Since it was difficult to find hardware capable of playing this demo with high resolution and acceptable frame rate, it was decided to recreate it for a wider range of current MorphOS hardware (YouTube video). (dr)
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29.Dec.2022
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68k hardware emulation: PiStorm32-lite with firmware released
Claude Schwarz' PiStorm connects a Raspberry Pi to the CPU socket of an Amiga using an adapter and uses the British single-board computer to emulate a fast m68k processor. The variant for the Amiga 1200 is called "PiStorm32". Yesterday the developer published on GitHub the repository for the PiStorm32-lite variant, which contains all hardware design and manufacturing files including ordering instructions for JLCPCB and the firmware. The lite variant is supposed to take into account the current difficult situation in the procurement of components and in principle be cheaper (amiga-news.de reported).
PiStorm32-lite is compatible with:
- PI3A
- PI3B
- PI4B
- PiZero2 (is to be tested in detail because of the small space around the HDMI connection)
Soon there will be another custom-made CM4 adapter for the PiStorm32-lite (amiga-news.de reported). The custom-made adapter will provide the best cooling in the limited space, as well as convenient access to all IOs (HDMI, USB, Ethernet) through the A1200 module slot near the joystick/mouse ports without modifications to the Amiga case.
As the developer explains to us, the Pistorm32-lite replaces CPU, gives the CPU Fast-RAM and provides, among other things, a virtual graphics card on the Zorro bus. This allows resolutions with Emu68 of up to 1920 x 1080 (PI3) or 4k (pi4). Emu68 is the associated JIT (just in time) compiler that translates the Amiga's Motorola machine code into ARM machine code in real time. AmigaOS runs completely unchanged on it. Everything else is then real AmigaOS drivers, written in 68k code, which talk to the Raspberry hardware.
Asked about the speed the Amiga can achieve with it, Schwarz said: with Emu68, a 68040 at 1.6GHz using a PI3 or about 3GHz using a Pi4. Or on a 68060 scale: a 68060 at 800MHz with Pi3 or 1.5GHz with a Pi.4.
Michal Schulz is continuously improving the RTG driver (amiga-news.de reported), but basically it already works very well. Currently, for example, it is already possible to play a 720p MPEG video smoothly with Riva.
The firmware, called "gateware", is an early first version written by him and Niklas Eckström. It functions very stably, but still needs to be further developed, in which users can contribute with their experiences and thus also follow the progress.
At the moment, the PiStorm is only available as a self-built version, but it is expected that the first prefabricated copies will soon be available for purchase. (dr)
[News message: 29. Dec. 2022, 06:26] [Comments: 1 - 28. Jan. 2023, 17:55]
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28.Dec.2022
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Video: Programming demos with "AProcessing" framework
With the seventh episode, the video series in which 'Prince' (founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', assembler coding course) talks in detail with developer and Resistance member Alessio 'OzzyBoshi' Garzi about his "AProcessing" framework for creating demos and intros is finished. (dr)
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28.Dec.2022
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Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.3 b1
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga.
Based on the latest version 2.3 b1 of vAmiga, the developer 'mithrendal' has also updated his application. Changes:
- can operate 4 floppy drives and 4 hard disks simultaneously i.e. df0-df3, dh0-dh3 for a classic professional amiga workstation environment
- supports extended ADF file format
- upgraded to latest vAmigaCore
(dr)
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27.Dec.2022
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MorphOS: Eighth beta version of TinyGL
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen had offered a bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link, which has been successfully funded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has released the eighth public beta version of his TinyGL update. Changes:
tinygl.library:
- Library version is now 53.7.
- Fixed multiple issues with GL_RGB5_A1 textures.
- Fixed a problem with ARB fragment programs that caused such programs that used non-consecutive texture image units to fail. For example a program that used texture unit 0 and texture unit 2, but not texture unit 1 would misrender.
- Fixed a problem with mipmapped cubemaps where such textures would get treated as 2D textures rather than cube map textures. This problem only affected textures which are mipmap complete.
r300.library:
- Library version is now 53.10.
- Added support for GL_RGB5_A1 textures.
As the developer wrote, "especially the texture solves a bunch of problems with various different games, both existing games and future game ports. Among the games now working again is Descent Freespace, for example." (dr)
[News message: 27. Dec. 2022, 08:42] [Comments: 0]
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