19.Feb.2023
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Puzzle game: Connect 1.2
In the puzzle game "Connect" (screenshots), you have to connect a series of ICs in such a way that each chip receives exactly the number of connections printed on its package. Developer Frank Röger has written about the now released version 1.2:
"Our visit to the Amiga Wintertreffen (Germany) brought some fun as well as some insights: Connect still has some minor bugs.
For example, we found that on a Recalbox (Raspberry Pi + emulation) Connect runs rather suboptimal. The problem is that the game controllers support more than one fire button, which leads to the joystick for the Amiga being configured as a 2-button joystick. We were not able to change this and had to live with it at the meeting. However, that doesn't mean we have to live with it forever and have summarily added support for the 2-button joystick. So now it shouldn't matter which fire button is pressed.
Next point of criticism was (once again) the installation routine. The moment Connect was installed into a subfolder, there was no longer an icon for the Connect folder. We were surprised that we didn't notice this during testing, but have corrected it with the new version. Thanks to Gothor for pointing this out!
The user Afebriwyn has taken the initiative and created a WHDLoad slave for Connect. The special thing about it is that you can run the game without graphic errors even with loaded P96 drivers or very fast CPUs. Thanks to Afebriwyn for this work.
However, we have 2 notes about this:
1. If you use a 68060, you have to use NOMMU in the ToolTypes. The same applies to other CPUs, which are emulated by any FPGAs or the like. If you don't do this, the game will abort with an error message at startup.
2. Because the slave is provided by a third party developer LogicalByte does not support the slave. If you encounter any problems, please contact the e-mail address given in the readme. Thank you for your understanding.
We wish you a lot of fun!" (dr)
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19.Feb.2023
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Aminet uploads until 18.02.2023
The following files have been added until 18.02.2023 to Aminet:
Void-Dreams39.zip demo/misc 698K 68k Demopack - February 2023
Void-FB14-AmigaOS4.zip demo/sound 4.6M OS4 Musicdisk with mods from GERP...
Void-FB14-Classic.lha demo/sound 2.5M 68k Musicdisk with mods from GERP...
libogg.lha dev/lib 325K OS4 Library for handling OGG files
libvorbis.lha dev/lib 1.0M OS4 Libraries for handling Ogg Vo...
TilesSlide.lha game/actio 81K 68k Align 3-4 tiles of the same c...
Space_Travel.lha game/misc 59K MOS C port of Ken Thompson's Spac...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.5M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 386K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
avalanche.lha util/arc 84K AOS ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
avalanche_de.lha util/arc 8K German catalog for Avalanche ...
Avalanche_FR.lha util/arc 7K French catalog for Avalanche ...
avalanche_guide_de.lha util/arc 7K German translation of Avalanc...
ChangeExp.lha util/misc 2K 68k Change Expansion-Devices, esp...
FlipSide_v2.2.lha util/misc 16K 68k Switch screens via the Mouse-...
SniffEmu.lha util/sys 12K 68k check if system is running in...
AnalogClock.lha util/time 40K 68k Resizeable analog transparent...
StartWin.lha util/wb 104K 68k Two bugged workbench launchba...
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19.Feb.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 18.02.2023
The following files have been added until 18.02.2023 to OS4Depot:
libogg.lha dev/lib 325kb 4.0 Library for handling OGG files
libvorbis.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 Libraries for handling Ogg Vorbi...
drally.lha gam/dri 3Mb 4.1 AmigaOS4/SDL2 Port of Open Sourc...
amystromwifiswitch.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 Control and query the myStrom Wi...
(snx)
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19.Feb.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 18.02.2023
The following files have been added until 18.02.2023 to AROS Archives:
chocolatekeen.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 427kb Game engine for Commander Keen (...
beastieworker.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 1Mb OpenGL sokoban game in 3d (10 le...
lunapaint.i386-aros.zip gra/edi 756kb Updated Lunapaint with better da...
animplayer.i386-aros.zip vid/mis 2Mb Anim player with playlist support
(snx)
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19.Feb.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.02.2023
The following files have been added until 18.02.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.3GI... Emulation FinalBurn Neo, an Emula...
dRally.lha Games/Race Open Source Engine / De...
Fallout2-ce_1.2_R2.lha Games/RPG Open source Fallout 2
Image2PDF_1.4.lha Graphics/Convert Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG...
(snx)
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19.Feb.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.02.2023
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 18.02.2023:
(snx)
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19.Feb.2023
Cizar via Discord/CS-Lab Warp#general (ANF)
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CS-Lab: Further Warp 1260 and/or Warp 1240 boards can be assembled
As Greg Donner reports at the title link, CS-Lab will soon receive 50 more FPGAs that were ordered a year ago. So the production of Warp 1260 and Warp 1240 turbo boards can be resumed. Potential buyers therefore can contact CS-Lab now or already send in processors for testing. (snx)
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19.Feb.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 161 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 161 (March/April 2023) have been published online meanwhile at the title link. Contents include an interview with Colin Vella and a review of AmiCygnix 1.7.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
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18.Feb.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Firmware 1.3
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 1.8 of the Greaseweazle firmware has been released providing the following changes:
- AT32F403A: Run this MCU at 216MHz in main firmware
- USB: Implement GET_STATUS(DEVICE) as required by USB spec
- This fixes repeated USB resets on some Linux hosts
- Blinky test: Fix serial baud rate (115200)
(dr)
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18.Feb.2023
TheoTheoderich
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Developer log: Single player mode in "Settle the World"?
A week ago, Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel published an intro update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). In the feedback, the wish was expressed to integrate a single-player mode including at least one computer opponent into the game.
In a recent developer log, the programmer now outlines how this could be implemented:
"To say it in front...this will not be easy.
Settle the World was an entry for BlitzBasic Jam 2022 and was supposed to be finished within six months.
It was designed as a purely local multiplayer game due to the tight time constraints of the competition.
Unfortunately, this ensures that visual feedback for players is actually stored everywhere in the programme code.
This means, for example, that a window appears when a unit has no more movement points, or a window appears when a Pioneer has no more tools, etc.
The calls to these information windows are built into the programme parts of the units and may of course not be called up during movements of computer-controlled units.
Either all program parts will now be rewritten for universal use by players and computer opponents, or the computer opponents will receive their own program parts, which will, however, massively increase the file size of Settle the World (and with it the Fast RAM requirement).
Unfortunately, I realised yesterday that many Statements and Functions cannot simply be rewritten for shared use.
That would be equivalent to a complete rewrite in many parts and so I won't be doing that.
It would probably lead to a mess in the code that I wouldn't understand after a few weeks and so I would stop the project.
Like dozens of projects on Amiga and PC in the last 20 years.
Settle the World should be saved from this "fate", however, because the game is really close to my heart!
So I will include the part of the computer opponents as additional program code, which is mostly separate from the actual code.
This won't be easy, I've never done anything like this before.
To get a feel for what work is needed, I just started over the last two days and marked one of the players as a computer opponent. This opponent doesn't start with loaded ships like the player, but directly with a first city.
So I wrote a function that determines a "perfect" position for a city.
The basis is the starting position of the respective player, i.e. the position where the player's ships normally spawn.
Now all fields in a radius of 12 fields are checked for a suitable position.
For this purpose, the surrounding fields of each land field are rated according to certain criteria.
How it works:
- Each type of terrain gets points for its relevance. Fertile farmland gets a lot of points, tundra or desert give no points. Bonus and river fields give extra points.
- There are three additional criteria:
- Does the checked position on the map have access to wheat, wood and/or ocean?
- If yes, the first field that fulfils one of these criteria gives extra points.
- If it is the first city of a player, access to the ocean gives a lot of extra points to make sure that the first city is built by the sea.
Then a city is built at the position with the most points.
After that a Pioneer is created at the position of this first city, placed into the city and used as a farmer on a field.
So far, this works quite reliably on all the maps I have tested.
However, it has already taken me two evenings...
It's going to be a very, very lengthy project to integrate a computer opponent..." (dr)
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17.Feb.2023
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Unofficial successor: "It Returned From The Desert" for Windows
Tim Rachor's "It returned from the desert" (official release trailer) is an unofficial successor of the Amiga game It came from the desert for Windows (amiga-news.de reported), which now was released on Steam for 8,99 Euro. (dr)
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17.Feb.2023
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Video: Hidden developer messages
Piracy was rife on the Amiga, and almost every game was cracked by various scene groups. In his latest video, Kim Justice presents the messages and rants left in the code by developers for these crackers, which were sometimes angry but mostly hilarious. (dr)
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17.Feb.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.2.1
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.2.1 of the firmware has been released. Changes:
- Reinsert CD-ROM image when receiving Inquiry command
- Open image as read-only if attribute set
- RP2040: Reduce delay between phase signal changes
(dr)
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16.Feb.2023
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.9
A few moments ago, version 3.9.9 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been released. Changes:
changes in project::
- updated documentation
- updated examples drawer
- re-added serveral resident sourcefiles of BB2 for later improvement
- added disassembled source code for blitzlibs animlib, iffiolib, ilbmifflib
- added several StormWizard-demos made by @mdbergmann
changed:
- moved commands GetD0, PutD0, GetRegD0, PushD0 from wzlib to environlib (wzlib needs at least OS2 so use of these commands prevented the executable to be working with an older OS
- reduced memory consumption for string in PED
- changed scroll size to 1 character when scrolling left or right
- changed behaviour of marked blocks, they behave now like blocks in other editors
- removed dependency of fontlib for diskfontlib when using ROM-font, so diskfont.library is not needed anymore if topaz is used!
added:
- new function win windowslib: WindowIsOpen(win#) returns True if the window with given number is opened
fixed:
- fixed several broken OS-functioncalls in PED and compiler that could lead to a crash
- fixed crash of PED when source code contains TAB-characters
- fixed crash when using HELP-key on certain macro names
- fixed some display problems with cursor when blinking is turned off
- fixed some display problems when scrolling source from outside the window
- fixed seldom display problems with highlighting of statement names
- fixed multiple redraws of source window at resize of window
- fixed configuration: state of intellisense option was not parsed correctly
- fixed: if a source file was "saved as", the new filename was not shown in tab title
- fixed: crash when saving as plain text
Download: AmiBlitz399.lha (10 MB) (dr)
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16.Feb.2023
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Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.167 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to new kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest kernels, such as Ubuntu 10.04, or if users have problems with the latest kernels. The new version offers support for PCI-Express SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) host adapters.
Download: linux-image-5.10.167-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71 MB)
(dr)
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16.Feb.2023
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Video tutorial: The AMOS command "Limit Mouse"
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains, how you can limit your mouse movements on screen by using the AMOS "Limit Mouse" command. (dr)
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15.Feb.2023
BBSIndex
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Demoparty: MountainBytes 2023 (Switzerland)
After a six-year hiatus and another three years of involuntary postponements by Covid, from 24 to 26 February 2023, the "MountainBytes" demo party will take place in Cham, Switzerland, organized by Echtzeit - Digitale Kultur. In addition to various workshops and competitions (timetable), the nominees for The Meteoriks Award will be presented during a show on Friday. The award ceremony will then take place at the Revision demo party in Saarbrücken at the beginning of April. (dr)
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15.Feb.2023
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.56
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.56 which among others provides improved MP3 support and PSID playback. (dr)
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14.Feb.2023
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Blog: The Colorful Charm of Amiga Utility Disks
In his latest, richly illustrated blog entry, Carl Svensson looks at Amiga utility disks and their often creative CLI menus: Utility disks were especially popular in the demo scene, and included editors, crunchers, graphics tools, trackers for composing music, or tools for displaying or playing text, graphics and music files. To create a demo, you only needed a handful of these disks. (dr)
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14.Feb.2023
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Review: ZuluSCSI
Already in mid-January, 'Jaruzel' had reported in his blog about his experiences with the file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator ZuluSCSI. (dr)
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13.Feb.2023
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Video: Chemical Free Retrobrighting Alternatives
In his latest video, Robert Smith uses theoretical considerations and practical experiments to address the question of how to brighten up yellowed keyboards and cases of retro computers without the usual hydrogen peroxide. He has found two successful alternatives. (dr)
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13.Feb.2023
Heiko Schlomka (e-mail)
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Article on Amiga use in film productions by Digital Domain
Befores & Afters is a (primarily online) magazine on visual effects and animation. At the title link, it dedicates a current article to the use of the Amiga in the film industry - to be more precise, it is simply a reproduction of memories of Digital Domain graphic artist Sean Cunningham, which he published as a comment on the YouTube channel of Retro Recipes after an Amiga 4000 apparently used for the films "Apollo 13" and "Titanic" turned up three years ago. (snx)
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