16.Dec.2024
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Game remake: Extreme Violence 2 V0.10
'pixelplop' is currently developing a successor to the shareware game Extreme Violence, released by Simon Green in 1993, for this year's AmiGameJam. The new game supports four instead of just two players (a-news.de bamiga-news.de reported). In the current version 0.10, several new features have been added and changes have been made since our last report.
A summary of the changes:
- Fixed potential crash when in Frontend on some systems.
- Fixed crash on exit.
- Fixed Loading Screen and Frontend Menus running too fast.
- Fixed big graphical glitches when the map preview scrolls on and off.
- A lot of restructuring to try and make the game more system friendly
- If a player gets several kills in quick succession an announcer will say "EXTREME"!
- AI Bots should be able to correct themselves if they get stuck going around in circles for a while.
- 1 line fix that stops the game crashing if there are no AI players!!!
- AI will attempt to dodge incoming bullets.
- Improvements to the AI path finding.
- Players should no longer be able to get walled in when level generates.
- Enabling the Extra Joysticks should not crash the game when temporarily re-enabling the system.
- Radar dots are now the correct colours for all players in horizontal split.
- Option to turn on/off permanent blood splats.
- Option to turn on/off spectating other players until after all human players are out.
Extreme Violence 2 requires an Amiga with an OCS chipset and 1 MB Chip RAM and can be downloaded in return for a voluntary donation (longplay of v0.9 of the Author himself). (nba)
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16.Dec.2024
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Audio player: UADE-Plugin 0.12.3 for Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS)
"audacious-uade" is a plugin for the audio player Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS), which allows the use of the Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator as an input filter. Numerous bugs have been fixed in the new version 0.12.3. (dr)
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16.Dec.2024
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MOD player: rePlayer v0.16.8 for Windows
The new version 0.16.8 of rePlayer, Arnaud Nenys' versatile audio player for Windows (amiga-news.de reported), offers Amiga fans and music enthusiasts a wealth of convenient features and some major updates. The tool, originally developed to play Amiga music modules without any problems, allows to play modern standards such as MP3 or OGG, and is now also able to handle the XMP format. (dr)
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15.Dec.2024
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Epsilon's World: Amiga games from 2024
For his blog, 'Epsilon' has set out to present Amiga games from all years, although this list will not and cannot necessarily be complete. Starting from the back, he first presents games from the year 2024 at the title link. All games were tested by him on real hardware - an Amiga 500 or 1200 - and under FS-UAE.
Presented are Dungeonette, Tiny Pixel Adventure, Roguecraft, Cecconoid, AMI H.E.R.O., Dr. Dangerous - Secrets of the Temple of Xol'Tan, Tale of Evil, Neon World, Riviera '79, Pooyan, Donkey Kong 500, Battle Squadron 2, Fast Food 2, Glubble, Spheroid, Ami Robbo 2 and The Lost Pixel. (snx)
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15.Dec.2024
Martina Hřebcová
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Appraisal: Sam460 - PCIe pioneer (czech)
In her latest article, Martina 'sailor' Hřebcová pays tribute to the Sam460 mainboard at the title link as the first for Amiga operating systems that had a PCI Express slot. She goes on to describe in particular the use of AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Linux on it. (snx)
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15.Dec.2024
Roland Heyder (ANF)
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Windows/Linux/Mac OS: AmigaBASIC Music demo adapted for QB64-PE
Roland 'RhoSigma' Heyder writes (translation): "Yesterday version 4.0.0 of the programming language QB64-PE (Phoenix Edition) was released [a QuickBASIC reimplementation for Windows, Linux and Mac OS; editor's note], on which, among others, I have been actively working for about three years.
In this new version, the typical Amiga sound capabilities have now been reproduced for the first time, such as multi-voice (4 channels), the possibility of synchronization with SOUND STOP and SOUND RESUME as well as the creation of own waveforms with WAVE.
To test these new possibilities, we ported the old AmigaBASIC demo "Music" (included on the Extras 1.3 disk for example) from 1985 to QB64-PE - or actually just took it and tried it out, the necessary changes were negligible. So this old Amiga demo shines in new splendor after 39 years." (snx)
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14.Dec.2024
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Programming Course: Amiga 500 Programming - Completing a Simple Game
In the ninth part of Michael Martin's course on hardware-related A500 programming, the sample project is completed: "Completing a Simple Game" covers topics such as joystick polling and display updates. (cg)
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14.Dec.2024
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.4 for X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.4, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled a version for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The new kernel fixes bugs around DRM. (cg)
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14.Dec.2024
Look Behind You (ANF)
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Developer documentation: "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: AmigaDOS" available
Press release: Great news for Amiga fans and dedicated programmers: Thomas Richter's "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: AmigaDOS" has been shipped from the printer earlier than planned and will be sent to all customers who pre-ordered it starting Tuesday, 17 December 2024.
The 400-page English-language reference book in US Letter format of the original reference manuals is the ultimate source of information for programmers who want to fully exploit the potential of the Amiga operating system. It covers the latest features of the AmigaDOS file system, the implementation of handlers, the productive use of the AmigaDOS shell and much more.
There are no plans to reprint the book, so if you order now you will get one of the last copies of the print edition. If you get your order in quickly, you should be able to have the book in time for Christmas.
Price: ¤29.90 (plus shipping)
Contents of this book: This volume provides a long missing addendum to the AMIGA ROM Kernel Reference Manual Series and adds a comprehensive description of the AmigaDOS system component. The AmigaDOS Reference Manual presents a detailed description of the central I/O and process subsystem of AmigaOS. This volume covers the latest version of Amiga's operating system. It includes:
- An introduction into elementary components of AmigaDOS such as files and locks
- AmigaDOS handlers and file systems, and how to interface them
- Pattern matching and recursive directory scanning
- A discussion of the AmigaDOS Process management
- A complete breakdown of the Fast File System disk structure
- Direct packet communication and a comprehensive documentation of DosPackets
- A detailed description of the AmigaDOS executable and link file structure
- The documentationof the AmigaDOS ROM Shell, including a tutorial and source code for implementing custom shells
- The AmigaDOS startup mechanism
(cg)
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14.Dec.2024
English Amiga Board (ANF)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 2.7 (x86)
The "AROS One" distribution, based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.7 for x86 computers. A DVD ISO file and a USB flash (“VHD”) image are available for download. The VHD image can be used as a hard disk in virtual machines such as VMware, VirtualBox and QEmu. An archive to update existing installations of AROS One 2.6 to the latest edition is also provided.
AORS One 2.7, according to the publisher "undoubtedly the most stable version of AROS x86 ever released" includes the following changes:
Update AROS One Core
- Camdusbmidi.class
- IconDrawerList.mui
- IconList.mui
- IconVolumeList.mui
- i8042.hidd
- pc105_s
- pcnet32.device
- rtl8139.device
- ahci.device
- ram-handler
- camd.library
- crt.library
- debug.library
- muimaster.library
- stdlib.library
- workbench.library
- Update Catalogs
- Wanderer
- WBRename (Wanderer)
- DiskInfo (Wanderer)
Update AROS One Apps:
- OWB v2.1
- FastTracker2 Clone v1.66
- Protrekkr 2.7.5
- PixieView 1.10
- Acuario Final Version
- AmiTranslate v0.4
- ThemeEdit v0.4
- BeeBase v1.1
- Image2PDF 2.7
- SilkRAW v3.0
- IconSplitter
- Legadon v0.2
- VAMP v3.10
- AGet (Version UHC-Tools)
- Unshield v1.51
- GLFW v3.4
- RayLib 5.0
- Malibu.hwp v1.5
- Rapagui.hwp v2.2
- Sid.hwp v2.0
- Neandertaler (Demo Scene)
- Organica (Demo Scene)
Update AROS One OS System:
- Python v3.3.7
- SMB2 (Update Script)
- Amiga-Games (Emulation Games)
- Amiga-Games (Amibridge)
- New Transparent Versions of Pointers
- CAB-I (Descriptor Datatypes + Def_Icons)
- CAB-M (Descriptor Datatypes + Def_Icons)
- M4A (Descriptor Datatypes + Def_Icons)
- MKV (Descriptor Datatypes + Def_Icons)
- WEBM (Descriptor Datatypes + Def_Icons)
- AmiStart (Update Config)
- Aros One About (Update Theme)
- InstallAROS (Update Theme)
- ArosPDF (New Buttons)
- DOpus4 (Update Config)
- MPlayer (Update Theme)
- ZuneARC (Update Config)
- Set ScreenMode
- Config-Apparence (Update)
- Config-Wanderer (Update)
- Config-Zune (Update)
- Wanderer Themes (Update)
- New Config Folders (Skins-Apps, Patterns-Skin)
- WeatherBar (New Theme Prefs)
- WGetGUI (New Theme)
- DOSBox (Manual Multilanguage PDF version)
- aMP3ToWAV (New Theme Prefs)
- AROSAmp (New Theme Prefs)
- AyPlayer (New Theme Prefs)
- MeteMP3 (New Theme Prefs)
- ModExplorerCE (New Theme Prefs)
- ModExplorerNG (New Theme Prefs)
- RNOTunes (New Theme Prefs)
- ZAMP (New Theme Prefs)
- ZuPaPlayer (New Theme Prefs)(New Theme Prefs)
- VAMP (New Theme Prefs)
- AmiFox (New Theme Prefs)
- New Theme “Crystal”
- New Theme “ArosOne BlueWave”
Update AROS One Games:
- AmiFish
- BlackIvan (Update anf KeyReg)
- Blackjuan Poker (Update)
- Sqrxz 1-2-3-4 (4 Games)
- Soliton v2.2 (HQ PNG Graphics and Theme Prefs)
- LBreakout2 2.6.3 (Work Fine)
UPDATE CORE:
Functionalities:
- Implemented processing ARexx commands in Zune (deadwood)
- Updated to new pthread library from BSzili (deadwood)
- Simplify adding tethering in Prefs/Network (#115) (deadwood)
- Speed up boot using ahci.device (deadwood)
- Delete files with DEL key in Wanderer (#116) (deadwood)
Update:
- Use standard C library function names in SDK (deadwood)
- Sweedish keymap (Johan G)
Functional fixes:
- Wanderer (bugs: #125, #140, #25, #26) (deadwood)
- List.mui (bugs: memory leak) (deadwood)
- crt.library (bugs: multithreaded opening fds not safe) (deadwood)
- IconList.mui (bugs: #144) (deadwood)
- String.mui (bugs: does not support MIUA_Text_Contents) (deadwood)
- stdlib.library (bugs: wrong timezone in localtime_r()) (deadwood)
- camd.library, camdusbmidi.class (hitchhikr)
- ram-handler (bugs: #134) (deadwood)
- ahci.device (bugs: #135, unnecessary 60MB memory allocation) (deadwood)
- Wanderer (bugs: 105, offline volumes showing with "ghost" icons) (Kalamatee)
- rtl8139.device (bugs: no support for wrapped buffer) (stegerg)
Stability fixes:
- crt.library (bugs: calling atexit in CTOR set crashes program) (deadwood)
- crt.library (bugs: crash in free()) (deadwood)
- debug.library (bugs: buffer overrun) (deadwood)
- stdlib.library (bugs: some fields left uninitialized in gmtime_r) (deadwood)
(cg)
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14.Dec.2024
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Mark Sibly (Blitz Basic) passes away
Acid Software (u.a. Skidmarks, Guardian) announced on Facebook that Mark Sibly, the father of the Blitz Basic programming language, passed away earlier this month. Apparently, the New Zealander had been struggling with a number of health problems in recent years. (cg)
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14.Dec.2024
MorphZone
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.46
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.46 of his e-mail programme Iris for MorphOS, which fixes some bugs (changes). (dr)
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13.Dec.2024
EntwicklerX
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AmigaOS 4: Space shooter "Super Star Blast"
Press release: Super Star Blast has been available on PC and consoles for a while now. We are pleased to finally be able to release a version for AmigaOS 4 as well.
Super Star Blast is a space shooter with challenging levels of increasing difficulty. All enemies must be shot down in order to complete a level and move on to the next. A scanner around the player shows approximately where the enemies are located. The player's ship can fly forwards to attack and backwards to fight enemies while retreating. Once a level has been successfully mastered, equipment can then be purchased to improve the ship, as well as additional shields and firepower or more ships.
Features:
- Massive challenging levels of increasing difficulty
- Enemies with unique flying and fire characteristics
- Upgrade center (agility, fire power, shield, ships)
- Single player campaign
- Simple and clean 3D space graphics
- Quality and performance Settings
- Warp3D Nova / OpenGLES Support (required!)
AmigaOS 4.1 F.E and a Warp3D Nova/OpenGLES compatible graphics card are required.
Notes: Due to the many different configurations, it is difficult to cover all problems. Just write us an e-mail and we will try to fix the bugs. Please try to use the various quality and performance settings to adapt the game to your hardware. The "FPS" setting shows you the current frame rate. You can also activate your own screen mode in the ToolTypes. If the setting is set in brackets, the Workbench resolution is used.
The game is available on AmiStore and on itch.io for about 19 euros and on Alinea for 19.95 euros. (dr)
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13.Dec.2024
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.12.12
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2024.12.12 provides the following changes:
- Fix ZuluSCSI v1.1plus firmware from not starting
- Fix USB mass storage for the Pico, Pico2, and the W's
- Remove 0x from the MAC string in the log
(dr)
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13.Dec.2024
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Event: Review of "Alkmaar Amiga Meetup"
Dave 'Skateman' Koelman, who among other things wrote the article Using two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000, describes in a current blog entry his impressions of the "Alkmaar Amiga Meetup" which took place at the end of November near Amsterdam (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)
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13.Dec.2024
Balaton
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Emulator: QEMU 9.2.0
QEMU is an open-source computer emulator and virtualizer. The emulation of complete computers also makes it possible to run operating systems such as AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS under QEMU that are tailored to a quite specific hardware platform. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who gives information about this on a dedicated website.
As he writes, IRQs on the Pegasos2-PCI.0(AGP) bus have been fixed with the new version. (dr)
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12.Dec.2024
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2000, part 3
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutching recently bought an Amiga 2000 for 350 pounds and is now documenting his attempts to repair the considerably upgraded computer (amiga-news.de reported). The third part is to get the hard disc up and running. (cg)
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12.Dec.2024
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Top-down shooter: Revenge Of The Grinch
"Revenge Of The Grinch" (video) is a shooter with simultaneous mouse and joystick control. The game developed by "Electric Black Sheep" (e.g. Star Dust Wars, Project Quest) runs on any Amiga with 1 megabyte of RAM, an A1200 is recommended. (cg)
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12.Dec.2024
spillhistorie.no (E-Mail)
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Interview: Rob Anderson ("Moonstone")
The blog "Spillhistory" spoke to programmer Rob Anderson, the developer of the 1991 action adventure Moonstone. (cg)
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11.Dec.2024
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Development tool: Amiga GCC updated
Stefan 'bebbo' Franke's GNU-C compiler compilation for the Amiga was updated two days ago. The "lilzöö" version mainly fixes problems and integrates the Poseidon USB SDK. (snx)
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11.Dec.2024
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Winterland level for Mega Lo Mania
Back in November last year Dom Cresswell created a Winterland level for the game Mega Lo Mania by using "AI" for the graphics and a level editor he had started in 2008 and not completed until 2023. The new level can be downloaded at the title link. (snx)
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11.Dec.2024
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Video series: The Amiga 1000 as a Workstation, part 9
Yesterday Thomas Cherryhomes published the ninth part of his video series on the Workstation suitability of the Amiga 1000 at that time. In it, he compares how an IBM PC/AT would have been used for scientific and engineering purposes by writing a heatmap program with the IBM C compiler. (snx)
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11.Dec.2024
Mastodon (ANF)
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Video: The Best Amiga Christmas Games
If you want to get into the Christmas spirit with Amiga nostalgia, you will find an almost half-hour video at the title link with scenes from the fifteen best Christmas-related games according to the creator. (snx)
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10.Dec.2024
Tino Mania
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Print magazine: Amiga Germany, issue 13
"Amiga Germany" has its origins in a Facebook group of the same name. The magazine, which is in A5 format, focuses on the game and demo scene on the Amiga. The thirteenth edition, which is around 60 pages long, can now be ordered for Euro 4.22 (plus shipping) and should be delivered before the end of this year.
The new edition includes the following topics, among others:
- Review of X-Out and facts and news about X-Out Resurfaced, including an interview with the developers
- Report: Germany – no land of video games?
- Reviews: puzzle and logic games, Lost Patrol, Payback, B.C. Kid, Dr. Dangerous and many more
- Box art story: Agony
- Christmas goodies
- free surprise trading card
(nba)
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10.Dec.2024
Amiga 40th Silicon Valley organizers team (ANF)
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Announcement: Amiga 40th Anniversary Event in Silicon Valley
A major event will be held in Silicon Valley in July 2025 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Amiga. Organised by the team behind the Amiga30th event, the event invites Amiga fans from around the world to celebrate the history and legacy of the Amiga. The event will include exhibits, a banquet and a presentation of rare artefacts from the collection of Amiga legend Dale Luck. Interested parties can sign up for a newsletter to receive updates. (nba)
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10.Dec.2024
Timo Paul (ANF)
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 15 of "WhatIFF?", new forum and merchandise
‘WhatIFF?’ is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format.The topics of the fifteenth issue include reviews of hardware (e.g. A600GS, RastPort PCMCIA and Electroware PSU) and software (e.g. IBrowse 3a and RogueCraft), tutorials (e.g. Basic Basic and setting up AmigaOS 3.2) and interviews (e.g. Grzegorz Kraszewsk (Untangle) and Krzysztof Donat (GoVD)). The new edition is expected to be available free of charge from Friday on the WhatIFF? website and on the Aminet.
The WhatIFF? makers are also offering a range of merchandise including t-shirts and stickers, which can be purchased from the website.
An English-language discussion forum has been set up for authors to exchange ideas, and is now also accessible to readers, to promote the exchange of ideas on topics in general and about WhatIFF? (nba)
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10.Dec.2024
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Reverse Engineering: Carmageddon for 68k-Amigas
A reverse engineering project brings the PC classic Carmageddon to the Classic Amiga. Thanks to Arcziii, who has already presented reverse engineerings of Red Alert and Wipeout, the martial racing game has been made executable on classic Amiga hardware. The adaptation is based on the original engine, has been engineered for the 68k architecture and requires the original Carmageddon game data, which can be obtained from the original game disc or from the gaming platform GOG (Good Old Games).
Carmageddon has been developed by Stainless Games and published by Interplay in 1997. The high-octane, controversial driving game, known for its uncompromising action and destruction, originally appeared for MS-DOS, Windows and Macintosh, and was later released for other platforms. (nba)
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10.Dec.2024
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI-Firmware 2024.12.09
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 2024.12.09 is a hotfix for ZuluSCSI V1.1/V1.2 only, which fixes a regression during firmware initialisation. (dr)
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