29.Nov.2022
Craig Loewen
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WSL for Windows 10/11 generally available
As Microsoft explains in a developer book entry, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now generally available for Windows 10 and 11 in the Microsoft Store, having previously held "Preview" status. This means that it is now easier for users and developers to test the runtime environment for Linux, "AxRuntime", written by Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz, under Windows: for existing users, a simple upgrade is possible with wsl --update. If one uses the store version of WSL, one gets WSL updates much faster than before when WSL was a Windows component.
At a request of the WSL community, WSL in the Store will now be available on Windows 10 and Windows 11. This allows Windows 10 users to take advantage of the latest WSL features, including support for systemd and Linux GUI applications. (dr)
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28.Nov.2022
Andrew Hutchings (Twitter)
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DIY: V2.2 of RGBtoHDMI adapter for Amiga 2000
Developer Andrew Hutchings had summarized the development status regarding his version of the RGBtoHDMI adapter at the end of January 2022, which is based on the RGBtoHDMI project and is a further development of the
Amiga-VideoSlot-RGBtoHDMI adapter for the Amiga 2000 by 'Bloodmosher': The goal of the RGBtoHDMI project is to feed raw digital RGB data into a Raspberry Pi Zero, which then outputs it via HDMI to produce a pixel-perfect display of the image with low latency.
The now published version 2.2 of the design is smaller than the 2.1 version and has a protection fuse on it. Basically, version 2 of this board is easier to build and easier for the user to install than version 1. The Pi is on the back of the Amiga, so the HDMI port can be connected directly, and physical buttons are used instead of cables. The parts needed to assemble it yourself can be ordered for around 14 euros plus shipping on tindie. (dr)
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28.Nov.2022
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Platform game: Ami-Tower updated
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' (farm simulation "Farmiga") has ported Icy Tower in Blitz Basic 2 for the Amiga. The game principle is to let the main character climb a tower by jumping to different heights.
The still incomplete version we reported about at the beginning of November has now been completed by the developer, got some bug fixes and have been made and the full version has been released. The game requires a standard Amiga 500 with Kick 1.3 and 500 KB. (dr)
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28.Nov.2022
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Platform game: Super Delivery Boy 2022.2
The mini-game "Super Delivery Boy" again has been updated (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
- Reduced loading times between Menu/Credits and Game/GameOver
- Added quit option in main menu
- Adf is now Workbench friendly
- Added copper sky and snow fx to main menu
- Bug fixes
(dr)
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28.Nov.2022
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Odyssey script for GitHub websites updated
George 'walkero' Sokianos again has updated the script to correctly display GitHub websites with the browser Odyssey: Now you will find an URL under the assets of a release where nothing was visible. (dr)
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28.Nov.2022
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Blog: ZZ9000 and ZZ9000AX in an Amiga 2000
As usual, Epsilon reports in detail and with numerous pictures about Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 graphics card and the ZZ9000AX sound card available for it in the latest blog entry of his "Epsilon's World". (dr)
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28.Nov.2022
ujb (Kommentar)
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MorphOS: Email client Iris 1.5
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.5 of his email program Iris for MorphOS. The new version introduces support for auto-archiving attachments into a zip archive, including encrypting them with password. Changes:
- Attachments can now be automatically turned into a zip archive when writing email
- Zip attachments may be extracted right from Iris
- Fixed a warning / signal leak when viewing the Outgoing Messages folder
Download: iris.lha (21 MB) (dr)
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27.Nov.2022
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 4.4
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 4.4 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes:
- Massive performance gains in decoding of large file images
- Loading progress bar colour can now be configured in Interface settings
- Cherrypicked OffscreenCanvas fixes from latest WebKit sources
- Added handling of very long filenames when finalizing a download
- Fixed a bad free call in the media decoder
- Disabled some stray debug
Download: wayfarer.lha (29 MB) (dr)
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27.Nov.2022
Twitter
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Network solution: Amiga Explorer 10
Cloanto's Amiga Explorer allows access to an Amiga's files and drives from a Windows computer, supporting null modem cables, network or Bluetooth adapters to connect. New features in the now released version 10 include a new clipboard - bi-directional sharing of text in the clipboard has been added - and restored "Windows XP SP3" support. This is a free update for all previous versions. The full changelog can be seen under "Properties" on the Windows side. The Amiga update can be done via the Windows page or via Aminet. (dr)
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27.Nov.2022
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Announcement: The Amiga-News.de Advent Calendar 2022
Dear readers, each of us probably associates something different with the Advent season: for some, it starts as early as September, since from then on you can stock up on gingerbread and speculoos. Another may look forward to the Christmas markets. In recent years, there has been a nice trend that, in addition to the large and classic markets, there are also small artists' and neighborhood markets that give a hint of the secrecy of childhood.
But two things should be mandatory for everyone - with or without family offspring: an Advent calendar and storytelling. If the simple picture advent calendars or the ones filled with a chocolate figure, which are still known from earlier days, are enough or if it should be the variants filled with perfume, toys and technology, which have almost reached the realm of small furniture in terms of size and weight, is a matter of taste. With our Amiga-News.de advent calendar we want to take up this nice tradition of the calendar as well as the story telling.
We asked developers and programmers for a little anecdote. So from December 1st until Christmas we read in sometimes shorter, sometimes longer texts about their Amiga beginnings, first successes and experiences from their creative wealth and little incidents to smile or even to think about.
If you like, you can try to guess who is participating in our calendar by their initials. At this point, a big thank you to all who participated! (dr)
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27.Nov.2022
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Aminet uploads until 26.11.2022
The following files have been added until 26.11.2022 to Aminet:
AExplorer_Update.lha comm/net 131K 68k Cloanto Amiga Explorer Update
wla_dx_v10.4.lha dev/cross 7.0M 68k WLA DX - 8-bit CPU Cross Macr...
PortablE.lha dev/e 13M ALL E compiler, r6b (24.11.2022)
AVAGOMouse.lha docs/hard 540K 68k hack Dell mouse for Amiga w/ ...
f1champ.lha docs/misc 74K Statistics of Formula One 195...
nblood.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Blood Amiga Port
wcs.lha gfx/3d 1.9M 68k recompiled version of World C...
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...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
MultiMeedio.lha mus/play 32K Script to control many media ...
RNOInfoScreen.lha mus/play 12M ALL Music player front-end and in...
RNOTunes.lha mus/play 8.3M MOS Multi-format audio player
RNOTunes_68k.lha mus/play 8.0M 68k Multi-format audio player
RNOTunes_68k_FPU.lha mus/play 7.9M 68k Multi-format audio player
RNOTunes_AROS.lha mus/play 8.3M x86 Multi-format audio player
RNOTunes_OS4.lha mus/play 8.8M OS4 Multi-format audio player
RNOTunes_WOS.lha mus/play 8.6M WOS Multi-format audio player
sdop.lha text/misc 2.8M MOS DocBook XML to PostScript pro...
UHCGUI-Current.lha util/wb 58K 68k GUI frontend for the UHC-Tool...
(snx)
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27.Nov.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 26.11.2022
The following files have been added until 26.11.2022 to OS4Depot:
nallepuh.lha aud/mis 69kb 4.1 NallePUH (Paula emulation) for O...
rnoinfoscreen.lha aud/pla 12Mb 4.1 Music player front-end and info ...
rnotunes.lha aud/pla 9Mb 4.1 Multi-format audio player
spotless.lha dev/deb 3Mb 4.1 Your favorite debugging tool
portable.lha dev/lan 13Mb 4.1 E compiler, r6b (24.11.2022)
(snx)
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27.Nov.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 26.11.2022
The following files have been added until 26.11.2022 to AROS Archives:
rnoinfoscreen.i386-aros.lha aud/pla 12Mb Music player front-end and info ...
rnotunes.i386-aros.lha aud/pla 8Mb Multi-format audio player
(snx)
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27.Nov.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.11.2022
The following files have been added until 26.11.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
RNOInfoScreen_1.8.lha Audio/Players RNOInfoScreen works as ...
RNOTunes_1.0.lha Audio/Players RNOTunes is a GUI based...
MultiMeedio_1.4.lha Audio/Scripts A script to control man...
Chrysalis_3.17r3_Micro... Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
PortablE_r6b.lha Development/E PortablE is a recreatio...
SDL_2.26.0_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL2 : SD...
ncursesw_6.3.zip Development/Library ncursesw (ncurses with ...
MorphOS_in_detail_1.1.pdf Documentation/MorphOS An old documentation ab...
VICE_2.4.lha Emulation Old version of VICE, an...
BootClock_1.30r1.lha Misc A little and easy progr...
Stellarium_0.8.2.lha Misc A MorphOS port of Stell...
PastePass_2.0.lha System/Utilities A simple passwordmanage...
Hexedit.zip Text/Edit View/edit files in hexa...
sdop_0.90.lha Text/Misc DocBook XML to PostScri...
(snx)
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27.Nov.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.11.2022
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 26.11.2022:
(snx)
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27.Nov.2022
Amiga.org (forum)
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Event: World of Commodore 2022 in Toronto (Canada)
Next weekend, on Decmber 3 and 4, the "World of Commodore" will take place in Toronto. Hosted by TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group) - founded in 1979 and, according to its own information, the oldest continuously active Commodore user group - the event can be attended not only on site but also virtually via Zoom.
Amiga-related speakers will be David Pleasance (formerly of Commodore UK) and Ranko Rodic (Minimig updates) as well as the YouTubers Amiga Bill and Dan Wood. (snx)
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27.Nov.2022
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 140 (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.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about "Superhero" and "Theatre of Death". (snx)
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27.Nov.2022
Jochen Wenz (ANF)
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ENTER: Computer and Retro Museum in Switzerland
For Commodore fans and lovers of nostalgic devices of all kinds, there is the ENTER museum in Solothurn, Switzerland. Besides record players, video recorders, tube radios and historic computers (including Swiss makes with 68k processors) of all brands, there are also various Amiga 1000s, 2000s and 3000s on display, as well as a lot of Commodore computers from the 70s and 80s.
Being not just behind glass, (almost) everything is hands-on. On a C64, for example, there is a rare music keyboard including cartridge. And in an archive for repair manuals, you can make copies. The "64er" magazine can be found there up to the year 1991. And for gamblers, there are various old slot machines and a pinball machine.
In the museum shop, you can also buy active and passive electronic components, but also old long-playing records, for example. Next year, the museum will move to a new building in the neighbouring village. (snx)
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26.Nov.2022
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Dock: QDock V1.27
At the end of October Sami Vehmaa had published the first version of his start bar "QDock" (amiga-news.de reported), which he constantly develops further (YouTube video). Since our last news item he has added a second row of icons and with the version V1.27 released today the menu function has been changed: if you hover the mouse pointer over an area, the menu pops up.
The tool is currently available for 1.50 Euro or more and is primarily intended for emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. 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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26.Nov.2022
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Password manager PastePass 2.0
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's PastePass is a password manager for MorphOS with an encrypted database, which pastes the user name and password on a corresponding keyboard shortcut. A password encryption utility is also included. With the pre-release version 1.9 from early November, the author had reworked the code, added many security checks and streamlined the entire GUI and program flow. Now he has released version 2.0 with the following changes:
- fixed date format in about window
- fixed loss of focus on main password
- fixed an issue where deleting the database could make it impossible to enter a newly created one
- reactivated OpenURL support (doubleclick on item)
- added missing locale strings
- changed the default save behavior, it will now only autosave on changing the master PW everything else will pop up a requester if try to quit without manually hitting the "Save" menu before
- fixed some minor typos and oddities
- added the SimpleCat ".cs" file for translator (hope thats the right one, been a while...)
- added French locale
- database gets set to "changed" on exiting settings so you will get reminded to save before quitting
Download: PastePass.lha (76 KB) (dr)
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26.Nov.2022
AmigaPage (Forum)
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AROS: Graphical user-interface for SoX in development
Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci - known among others for the brain game G.E.M.Z. or the GUI system HGUI - is working on a graphical user-interface for the CLI tool Sound eXchange (SoX), which can be used to convert sound files between different file formats and optionally apply different sound effects.
As he now writes in a second progress report, his interface is already usable and shows this with several screenshots available. You can support the author on his Patreon page. (dr)
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26.Nov.2022
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Video: Programming demos using "AProcessing" framework
In a six-episode video series so far, '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. (dr)
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26.Nov.2022
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8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2022-11-25
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now.
Yesterday version V2022-11-25 was released. Changes:
- addresses flag errors in the 68000's shift operators, improving compatibility
- adds support for Apple II .HDV files, and adds a SCSI status indicator
- fixes a potential stuck-key problem with using the keyboard as a replacement joystick under macOS
(dr)
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25.Nov.2022
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Programming: Different methods for Dual Layer Graphics
In the latest entry of his "Amiga Tech" series, Dutchman Jeroen Knoester explores various methods for creating a dual-layer screen without using Dual Playfield mode (YouTube video). The associated program including assembler source code is available on his website and is intended for OCS/ECS Amigas, such as the Amiga 500, but according to him also works on AGA machines. (dr)
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25.Nov.2022
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Metacompiler: Portabl E r6b
Christopher Handley's metacompiler "Portabl E" works by translating your code written with the programming language Amiga E into C++, and then using GCC to compile it into an executable. This needs an installation of GCC. Another update fixes two bugs of the recently released version r6 (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
- Changed: AmigaOS4: Worked-around a bug in the latest OS4 SDK (54.16), which has problems compiling C++ code, unless you use GCC v6.4.0.
- BUG: Amiga: Fixed the installer still failing at "Copying executables..." in some cases.
(dr)
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24.Nov.2022
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Video: Short tutorial for AMOS Pro
In another part of his series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported) the retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains how to create menus for an AMOS program. (dr)
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24.Nov.2022
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Wireless Gamepad: Commotron Gamepad Turbo 2000 Super
Already at the Amiga37 (report), the new wireless Commotron gamepad for the Commodore 64 family, all Amigas and Ataris was introduced and presented. As a special feature, the fourth (fire) button got the jump function and is located directly below the fire buttons. The pad was tested with Turrican II on the C64 in the following video (YouTube video).
Features of the gamepad:
- 6 meters wireless distance
- 3 fire buttons
- 4 different auto fire speeds (3, 5, 8 and 13 CPS = Clicks Per Second)
- 1 UP button (Jump/Skip)
- Memory function (remembers last mapping and autofire settings)
- 9-pin joystick connector (D-Sub, DE9)
- Automatic sleep mode and fast reconnection
Four different designs are available: AMIGA GP001-AMI, Commodore GP002-C64, ATARI GP003-VCS & GP004-JR. The gamepad can be ordered either in the in-house store or from partners like Alinea or Poly.Play for about 39 Euro plus shipping. (dr)
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23.Nov.2022
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Report: The AmigaOne XE, third part (Czech)
In the first part, Martina Hřebcová had devoted herself to the AmigaOne XE in its entirety and subjected it to various tests. The second part dealt in detail with the use of various graphics cards and prepared test results and correlations.
The now available third part (machine translation) is a loose continuation of the two previous parts and deals with hardware interrupts in the AmigaOne XE. It is on the one hand an essay about the theoretical basics, on the other hand a tutorial how to correct a faulty U-Boot PCI initialization so that PCI cards can be used correctly using a PCI-to-PCI(e) bridge. (dr)
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23.Nov.2022
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AMOS: Several test games by Electric Black Sheep
Under the name "Projects in the attic" the game developer group Electric Black Sheep (among others minigame None of us or fantasy shooter Quest) has released a collection of games created with the programming language AMOS for testing purposes (YouTube video).
The programs contain elements that are either not yet finished or have not yet been used. One or the other detail could be used in the future, but would need to be worked on for that. Some projects also represent failed ideas, showing visual aspects and possibilities. The attached source code can be downloaded and is free for anyone to edit. Games:
- Chopter (Desert Strike)
- Dawn (Agony with a bat)
- Eclips (Stardust, with an owl)
- GameOfLife (Game of life simulator, with space and mouse you can draw into the simulated image)
- Harvest (you have to abduct animals with a UFO, and you can shoot at the pigeons flying in the opposite direction)
- Quest3D (Already published game in a "slightly" different form)
- StarDustWars2 (Star Dust Wars game with different engine behind)
- StarshipTroopers (Simple shooter)
- Walker (Walker, only one movable figure)
- PH-ScrollEngine (Displays Tome Map ...relatively fast)
- PH-ShadowEngine (...)
- PH-ShadowEngine+.zip (...)
(dr)
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