25.Oct.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz Pre-Release 3.9.7
A few moments ago, Pre-Release 3.9.7 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been released. Changes:
new:
- environmentlib: added command to check, move and clear the vbr (works only with 68010+)
- added the possibility to the debugger to move the vbr (only on 68010+ systems)
- added documentation for AsmExit (Docs/Blitzlibs/SYSTEM1.guide)
changed:
- compiler directives "SYNTAX" and "OPTIMIZE" are now capitalized tokens
- operand sizes for assembler instructions (.b, .w, .l) can now be entered capitalized (.B, .W, .L)
- the compiler understands now shift-operators "<<" and ">>"
- the compiler now allows ROL/ROR instructions to be used in basic code, e.g. test.w = $F0 ROL 2
- rewrote loading of source files other than "ab3"
fixed:
- crash when moving lines to top via ALT+CURSOR up/down
- crash when trying to copy a single line selection, if it had been selected from right to left
- holding SHIFT-CURSOR up/down did not work continously, just once
- the vbr-chcking of the debugger did not work correctly
- fixed bug in function to display standard (not tokenized) text
- crash when loading text files other than ".ab3"
- crash when undeleteing a line
- autoindent of cursor did not work
(dr)
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25.Oct.2022
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.1.1
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.1.1 of the firmware was released today. Changes:
- Add support for FAT filesystem without partition table
- RP2040: Fix reading very last SD card sector
(dr)
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25.Oct.2022
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Video: Lets Make a Halloween Game in AMOS
In his latest video, Robert Smith explains how to program a fun Halloween themed puzzle game in AMOS. (dr)
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25.Oct.2022
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Linux: "Pale Moon" browser V31.2.0
After Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky recently compiled version 40.0 of the Artic Fox browser for Linux PowerPC (32 bit), which is based on the Pale Moon browser (amiga-news.de reported), he could now compile version 31.2.0 of the "Pale Moon" browser for Linux PowerPC (32 bit), which was released in August 2022, and make it available for the AmigaOne Linux distributions MintPPC, Debian Sid, Fienix, and Void. He also recommends installing the Palefill add-on to improve compatibility with many websites such as GitHub.
Downloads:
palemoon-31.2.0.linux-powerpc-gtk2.void.tar.gz (Browser, 55 MB)
palefill-1.23.xpi (Add-On, 50 KB) (dr)
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25.Oct.2022
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Module player: NostalgicPlayer 1.8.0 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows. Besides numerous improvements, version 1.8.0 now includes a ProWizard agent that can convert numerous formats. (dr)
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25.Oct.2022
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Bitmap graphics program: GrafX2 V2.8
Artur Jarosik has updated his port of the DPaint and Brilliance-inspired, SDL-based pixel graphics program GrafX2. This version 2.8 includes the following changes:
Port improvements:
- Window mode by default
- Better path handling
Amigaspezifische Änderungen:
- Amiga icon (in .info files) loading
- Amiga Extra Half Bright palette support
A graphics card is required. (dr)
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25.Oct.2022
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Action adventure: Demo version of "SNAKY - The Mysterious World" available
Yoz Montana is developing a new action adventure called "SNAKY - The Mysterious World" (YouTube video). As part of an "Early Access" promotion, you can support this and other game developments of the studio by buying the demo version for the equivalent of about five Euros or more. An Amiga with 030 processor and AGA are required. (dr)
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24.Oct.2022
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Trading simulation with RPG elements: download version of 'Aquabyss' available
The trading simulation 'Aquabyss' (screenshots, video), which was released at Amiga 37 a week ago, is now also available in the developer's web shop for just under 30 euros . The one-week delay was caused by problems with payment provider Paypal, which have not yet been completely resolved.
Payments can be made by traditional bankwire or manual PayPal payments. In both cases, the e-mail address used for registration in the shop must be specified as the intended purpose. If PayPal is used as the payment method, the amount due must be entered manually when paying. After the purchase, you have to look up the information 'ID' and 'Key' required for playing in the provider's shop, the programmer tried to illustrate the process with a simple sketch.
When sales started a week ago, the developer warned against playing the game on Vampire cards because they were simply "not 100% Amiga compatible". He is now retracting that statement (German, registration required). Users of the Apollo Discord channel apparently figured out that the problem was caused by the illegal workbench distribution 'Coffin OS': After disabling some (unspecified) commodities, the game works fine on the FPGA hardware. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Oct.2022
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Print / PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 16
The sixteenth issue of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" is available. The current issue contains the following topics:
- We feature the masters of adventure point-and-click games, Lucasfilm Games in our six-page cover special.
- A new Amiga laptop solution for taking miggy software out and about!
- Ben Vost was one of Amiga Format's most passionate and dedicated editors - he was also the last! We catch up with Ben in an exclusive interview.
- 3D Amiga rendering artist Paul Kitching captures our hearts with his amazing scenes and backstory.
- Classic Amiga gaming with reviews and articles on DreamWeb, Sink Or Swim, Stardust and Lemmings 2 The Tribes.
- Hollywood v9 programming language and suite of development tools is reviewed.
- Get your WHDLoad game emulation rig working properly with our setup tutorial.
- Blackpool Play Expo show report.
- AmigaRemix joins us to discuss his passion for mods and remixing chiptune music.
- One of the best image processing systems on the Amiga is put through its paces as we test ImageFX.
- Amiga Addict regulars including user groups, news, readers letters and Stoo Cambridge of Sensible Software fame.
Amiga Addict can be ordered as print edition or as a PDF download, each as a single issue or as a subscription. (dr)
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23.Oct.2022
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Amiwest: A-EON, Amigakit and ExecSG presentations
Traditionally, representatives of the AmigaOS 4/AmigaOne camp are attending AmiWest to give presentations about the current state of affairs and announce the next releases being worked on. This year, Trevor Dickinson and Matthew Leaman from A-EON/Amigakit were videoconferencing into the show while Steven Solie from the ExecSG team gave a presentation on site. We have briefly summarized the most important points from both presentations; the associated slides can be found at the end of this news item. A recording of the entire first day of AmiWest - including the presentations discussed here - is already available online.
A-EON's next PPC motherboard 'A1222 plus' (originally: 'Tabor') is scheduled to be shipped to end customers early next year. Dickinson considers Enrico Vidale's (ACube) statement from Amiga 37, that endusers might receive their boards in January "typical Italian optimism", he believes delivery in February or March to be more likely. The final price hasn't been decided yet - but they're trying to stay as close as possible to the original goal of offering the cheapest possible entry-level system. However, global bottlenecks in electronic components and the resulting higher prices have increased production costs significantly. Initially, 200 motherboards are to be produced, of which 100 are reserved for participants in the Early Adopter program.
Due to a shortage of P5020 CPUs, the X5000 motherboards currently being shipped by A-EON are already equipped with a P5040 quad-core processor. The price for these machine is therefore a bit higher, but the final pricing is set by the respective dealer. Said dealers would also take care of bundling the hardware with a properly licensed AmigaOS 4 (editor's note: A-EON no longer has OS4 licenses itself).
Version 2.3 of the in-house software bundle Enhancer Software will be a free an update for existing customers, it will contain "new components" in addition to an update of the 3D driver system Nova. A new version of 'Enhancer Core' will be released in October. The latter is a free compilation of the most important libraries and system modules from the enhancer package, which is intended to ensure better acceptance of the corresponding components by third-party developers and users.
A-EON's attempt to establish an operating system that has no ties to Hyperion is apparently called "Enhancer Software V54" currently and is described as a "self-booting distribution that requires an AmigaOS 4.1 license". The project now also has its own TCP stack: A PPC port of AmiTCP that also supports DHCP. However, according to Dickinson, publishing the distribution will require "6 to 9 months" of additional development time.
Novabridge, which supplements Nova with the old Warp 3D interfaces and thus makes old applications run on systems with modern graphics cards not supported by Warp 3D, was originally planned as an exclusive component of Enhancer Software V54. But due to significant interest from customers, it will also be sold separately via the in-house app store AMIStore. A price or a release date were not announced.
The second and third parts of the book series From Vultures to Vampires, originally planned as a single volume and now expanded into a trilogy, have now also been completed. Dickinson expects the second part to be released "early next year", the digital release will probably come first. The last volume will then be published shortly thereafter, that book's layout is still being worked.
Dickinson has now received a video showing the current state of the LibreOffice port from the responsible programmer Hans-Jörg Frieden, which he will publish as part of his next blog entry. The AmigaOS 4 implementation has been "completely revised" again, the betatesting will start "soon".
For ExecSG - which Dickinson expressly presents as his personal property, not that of A-EON - project manager Steven Solie explains that there are currently two variants of the kernel: Firstly, a single-core variant, which has received numerous optimizations and improvements, and which he intends to publish as soon as possible. Agreements or negotiations with Trevor Dickinson and Hyperion are still necessary here in order to clarify the exact procedure. He wants to offer ExecSG for free for "as long as possible".
Secondly, a version of the kernel with multi-core support already exists. The operating system always runs on the first core, while other tasks are currently randomly assigned to one of the available cores - in later versions, a scheduler will of course always select the currently least utilized core. However, the multi-core variant of the kernel is still very prone to crashing and is difficult to debug. A demonstration of the multi-core kernel can be seen at A-EON's AmiWest booth, but Solie describes it as "not very exciting because it keeps crashing".
In addition to minor improvements to the kernel (refer to the slides below), work is currently being done on porting the multi-core variant to A1222 plus, after which an adaptation to the AmigaOne X1000 is being planned. Solie hopes that porting the multi-core kernel to the other systems will provide new insights, since other processors are used there.
In addition to working on the kernel, Solie is also responsible for firmware updates. The U-Boot versions for X5000 and A1222 plus not only received various bug fixes, but will now also correctly initialize the additional cores of the multi-core CPUs used in these machines. Firmware updates will be distributed "soon" via A-EON. Once they're installed, the respective computers will then be "multi-core ready".
The X1000 also requires a firmware update for multi-core support. According to Solie, the problem here was that the sourcecode for the 'CFE' firmware used in that particular machine was lost - fortunately it was found again in the meantime. However, the system is so old that it can no longer be compiled with current compilers - which is why Solie is currently trying to set up an older system with the help of a virtual machine, which will then hopefully produce executable binaries.
All slides of the A-EON/Amigakit presentation (Trevor Dickinson, Matthew Leaman)
All slides from the ExecSG presentation (Steven Solie)
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23.Oct.2022
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Aminet uploads until 22.10.2022
The following files have been added until 22.10.2022 to Aminet:
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 776K Hollywood 9.1 spanish catalog...
PyPlayer.zip dev/src 1.1M 68k Audio Player for Python 1.4.0...
device-streams.lha disk/misc 88K 68k blkcopy RDB part <> file/stre...
mhimasplayer.lha driver/aud 34K 68k MHI driver for MAS-Player (st...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 32M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
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...
NAFCYI1991S1-B25.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B26.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B27.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B28.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-25.zip text/pfont 1.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-26.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-27.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-28.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
deark.lha util/arc 3.2M 68k Extract data from various fil...
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 67K 68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 98K 68k Identify hardware and more
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 637K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 805K OS4 Multipurpose utility
Lupe.lha util/wb 388K 68k The magnifying glass program
SteMarRegDOSScripts.lha util/wb 11K 68k 7 AmigaDOS scripts by Stefano...
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23.Oct.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.10.2022
The following files have been added until 22.10.2022 to OS4Depot:
spotless.lha dev/deb 3Mb 4.1 Your favorite debugging tool
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 32Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 805kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
lupe.lha uti/wor 388kb 4.1 The magnifying glass program
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23.Oct.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.10.2022
The following files have been added until 22.10.2022 to AROS Archives:
cls.i386-aros.lha uti/mis 4kb CLear Screen command. just like IBM
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23.Oct.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.10.2022
The following files have been added until 22.10.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
Deark_1.6.3.lha Files/Archive Extracting data from va...
CloudDav_1.7.lha Network/Streaming A WebDav client
TinyGL-Update-2022-10-... System/Update This is the fifth publi...
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23.Oct.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.10.2022
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 22.10.2022:
- 2022-10-22 improved: Thunder Blade (Sega) imager fixed (Info)
- 2022-10-22 improved: Ambermoon (Thalion) added support for improved Ambermoon version 1.17 (Info)
- 2022-10-22 improved: Thunderhawk (Core Design) supports another version (Info)
- 2022-10-22 improved: Batman the Caped Crusader (Ocean) supports another version, fixed freeze on fast CPU (Info)
- 2022-10-22 updated: Streetfighter 2 (Capcom/U.S.Gold) imager fixed (Info)
- 2022-10-22 improved: Projectyle (Eldrich the Cat) splash window support, new imager, manual added, new icons and install script (Info, Image)
- 2022-10-22 improved: Oriental Games (MicroStyle/MicroProse) 68000 quitkey, new install script (Info)
- 2022-10-22 fixed: Castle Master 2 - The Crypt (Incentive/Domark) install script (Info)
- 2022-10-22 fixed: Cardiaxx (Electronic Zoo/Team 17) 'highs' file creation if trainer is used (Info)
- 2022-10-22 improved: Awesome (Psygnosis) 68000 quizkey (Info)
- 2022-10-20 improved: Night Breed (Action) (Ocean) supports another version, less chip memory required, trainer enhanced, 68000 quitkey, new install script (Info)
- 2022-10-20 improved: Castle Master 2 - The Crypt (Incentive/Domark) using fast memory, adjustable speed regulation, 68000 quitkey (Info)
- 2022-10-20 improved: Cardiaxx (Electronic Zoo/Team 17) imager updated, trainer improved, high score saving, new install script (Info)
- 2022-10-20 improved: Awesome (Psygnosis) 2nd button remap, int fixed, trainer added (Info)
(snx)
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23.Oct.2022
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Handheld console: Blaze Entertainment announces Amiga games
Evercade (Wikipedia entry) is an ARM-based handheld console from the British manufacturer Blaze Entertainment. According to Mike Battilana's announcement at Amiga37 (video), also Blaze now announces at the title link that they have entered into an agreement with Amiga Corporation to bring Amiga games from various publishers, which have not yet been named, to the Evercade starting next year. (snx)
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23.Oct.2022
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 159 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 159 (November/December 2022) have been published online meanwhile at the title link. Contents include Playfield as well as reviews of "Riamel - Black Prophecy" and the Freeway clockport version.
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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23.Oct.2022
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 10
The Italian magazine "Passione Amiga" is available in digital (3 Euro) or printed (7,50 Euro) form. Its current issue consists of 48 A4 color pages and includes the following topics:
- Videogames reviews: Athanor 2 AGA - The legend of the Birdmen, River Raid Reloaded, None of Us, Minky
- Books reviews: Darkage Software - the story, A Hobbyist's Guide to THEA500 Mini
- Reportage: Passione Amiga day 2022, Amiga 37
- Amiga CD³² special
- Blender course, part 2
- Uncompromising rendering
- AmigaOS 3.2.1 update guide
- Interviews with: Jon Hare (Sensible Software), Federico 'Wiz' Croci (Simulmondo)
- Plus: Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Demo scene, New Talents, MailBox
(snx)
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23.Oct.2022
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Updated MHI drivers for MAS-Player (standard/pro)
Thomas Wenzel writes (translated): Some time ago, in the course of the MHI revision, I also fixed a bug in the MAS player driver. At that time, however, I had only published the new driver in the developer archive mhi_dev.lha, which meant that it could hardly be found on Aminet and the old archives mhi_MASPro.lha and mhi_MASStd.lha still appeared in the search. Therefore, I have now uploaded the new drivers - both versions together - in the archive mhimasplayer.lha. (snx)
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23.Oct.2022
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APC&TCP: IncaMan & Emotiworld as boxed version available
APC&TCP offers the games IncaMan and Emotiworld (amiga-news.de reported) now also as boxed version, consisting of the floppy disk, a booklet and an A3 poster.
While IncaMan is about collecting diamonds, EmotiWorld is about collecting hearts. Both games require at least an Amiga 500 with 512 KB Chip- and as much Fast-RAM, the latter one also includes an AGA version. (snx)
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23.Oct.2022
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #150 - Floppy Totaal
In the 150th edition of the Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Niek Hilkmann and Thomas Walskaar from "Floppy Totaal", the authors of the recently mentioned book "Floppy Disk Fever". The interview starts at minute 19:08. (snx)
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22.Oct.2022
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Linux tutorial: Using the Fienix distribution on the X5000, part 1
Amiga-News.de editor Daniel Reimann has taken on the topic of Linux on his AmigaOne X5000 and reports:
Preface and introduction
When I bought my AmigaOne X5000, I did not intend to test Linux on it. I wanted to take a closer look at AmigaOS 4, which I only knew by playing around with WinUAE (see manual in the forum), and at MorphOS, which I got to know for the first time under QEMU (experience report) .
The reason, why I approached the topic Linux at all, were quite practical nature: neither AmigaOS 4, nor MorphOS offer at present a current writing program. And: even if you switch to one of the existing editors, you still can't print for a long time. At least not me with my Canon Pixma MP640, which has already many years on the hump, but unfortunately is not supported. My intention when buying the X5000 was to be able to use a computer that is as complete and suitable for everyday use as possible, without having to use the Windows laptop again for this or that application. Otherwise, the invested high sum would not have been justifiable in my opinion. In this respect, I see it as an absolute advantage to be able to run three different operating systems on the AmigaOne X5000 and thus to exhaust and combine all application possibilities.
Linux itself was and is completely new territory for me. That's why I was looking for a simple and uncomplicated way to try out the OS. So-called live installation images are a good way to do this: an image is created from an existing Linux installation on the hard disk, which is written back to a USB stick or SSD card using a tool and is bootable. No installation is necessary.
Four distributions are basically possible on the X5000 (and X1000): besides Fienix (versions 3 and 5.1), the independent distribution Void (Mate 1.26.0), there is also MintPPC (version 3 "Cindy") and Ubuntu Mate (version 16.04). As Linux and Amiga expert Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky - many thanks at this point for the great support - explains, the maintainer of Void PPC will discontinue this distribution at the end of the year. Mint PPC is currently not being developed further and some repositories of Ubuntu Mate have been removed, making it impossible to update. In his opinion, Fienix is therefore the only sensible and, above all, future-proof distribution for the AmigaOne. It is based on Debian Sid, but only includes packages from Debian that work. Additionally, some programs are added that Debian does not have, such as various web browsers, games etc.
Fienix
Therefore, I chose Fienix. I had been running version 3 successfully for a while, but for this article and of course for myself I wanted to use the latest available version 5.1. However, this turned out to be more difficult than I thought: to write the image back to a USB stick, a tool is needed. For Windows users like me the USB Image Tool is the first choice. In contrast to the image of version 3, the image of version 5.1 contained until a few days ago only the Fienix partition, but no boot sector and no boot partition. The mandatory boot partition had to be created by the user, but then the write back with the USB Image Tool in "Volume Mode" did not work. Alexander Beug, the developer of the tool, provided great support here, but in the end the problem could only be solved by asking the creator and maintainer of the Fienix distribution, Casey Cullen, to provide a complete image, which was done now. Many thanks, Casey!
So how exactly do we go about creating a USB stick with Fienix 5.1?
On the download page of the distribution select the appropriate computer system, in my case the AmigaOne X5000, which takes you to the U-Boot page. There download the archive ("fienix_5.1-spark-fulldisk.img.gz", 2.4 GB) and unpack it.
Only recently version 1.90 of the USB Image Tool was released, which we also download ("usbit.zip", 822 KB), unzip and start:
The "Device Mode" is already preset. By means of "Restore" we select the just unpacked image of the Fienix distribution:
If writing back the image has been successful, then two drives are available under Windows after completion:
- "FIENIX-BOOT" with the required files "cyrus-p5020.dtb", "uImage-5.10" and "uInitrd-5.10"
- and another drive which cannot be accessed
The "uImage" file contains the kernel. There is already version 6.0 available, which we download and copy the file "uImage-6.0" from the unpacked directory "X5000_and_QEMU_e5500" to the "FIENIX-BOOT" partition (and delete the old uImage file if necessary).
The "uInitrd" file contains the initial ramdisk. It is best to take it from the long-term kernel 5.10.149 archive. Done!
In the second part we will look at how to start Fienix.
(dr)
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21.Oct.2022
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Programming language: Amiga Blitz Basic 2 Visual Studio Code Ext. 0.8.0
At the end of August we reported on the merging of Youen Chéné's fork of the Visual Studio Code Extension created by 'MickGyver', which adds support for Amiga Blitz Basic 2 (and Amiblitz), and the first joint release of version 0.7.0. Today version 0.8.0 has been released, adding experimental support for CDTV and CD32 and fixing a bug that prevented the file from opening in the BB2 editor. (dr)
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21.Oct.2022
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Kung Fu action: "Devil's Temple" released
After numerous preview videos (amiga-news.de reported), Geezer Games has just released "Devil's Temple.
Devil's Temple features 10 stages of intense arcade kung fu action based on the classic Irem games Kung Fu Master and Vigilante. Over 300 frames of animation were packed into the game, and every cycle of performance was used on the Amiga A500. The game will adapt to upgrades, so additional chip ram will result in better music, AGA will provide additional colors and a greater variety of enemies in the game.
"Devil's Temple" can be purchased as a digital version for at least 19 pounds sterling, the equivalent of around 22 euros, on itch.io and is available as an adf, CD32.iso, hard disk, WHD and A500 mini file. A demo version is also available.
Furthermore, the game can be purchased as a boxed edition for the equivalent of around 40 Euros plus shipping. You can get an impression of the boxes under the news tab. (dr)
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21.Oct.2022
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Block-oriented copying: Device-Streams 2.2.0
At the beginning of October, Roc Vallès i Domènech had updated the Amiga tool "Device-Streams" for block-oriented copying, similar to UNIX command dd, which was originally developed and released by Christian E. Hopps in 1993 (amiga-news.de reported). In the meantime, versions 2.1.0 and 2.2.0 have been released adding support for Trackdisk 64 and NSD.
Download: device-streams.lha (88 kB) (dr)
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20.Oct.2022
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Event: AmiWest 2022 starts / Question submission
AmiWest 2022 starts today at the Holiday Inn Express in Sacramento, California, as a combined online and on-place event. The highlights should certainly include the question and answer session with Trevor Dickenson, Matthew Leaman and Steven Solie (A-EON). Interviews with David Pleasance, Jens Schönfeld, Hans De Ruiter and Jacek Piszczek are also planned, all of which will take place on Saturday and Sunday respectively (see schedule).
As in previous years, there will be a live stream via Youtube, which will again be hosted by Bill Borsari. He will also conduct the interviews and has invited the readers of Amiga-News.de to submit questions for the interviews in the comments section. (dr)
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20.Oct.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' explores if it is possible for an AMOS program to open and read from a Text file created in a text editor under Workbench, treating it as a Random Access file. (dr)
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19.Oct.2022
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.12.1 (update)
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday the new firmware version 1.12 was released with the following new features:
- MP3 streamed decoding support (via MHI)
- 10 band DSP EQ (via MHI)
- New p2d_rect implementation
- copy_rect_nomask fix
- NEOR minterm fix
- BlitPlanar2Direct() fix, enable BIF_BLITTER support
- Z2 RTG driver speedup by caching blitter registers
Update: (20.10.2022, 09:22, dr)
In the meantime version 1.12.1 is available, which fixes a slowdown bug of the Ethernet task. Many thanks to our reader 'TomSoniq'for the hint. (dr)
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19.Oct.2022
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Temptations port for CD32: First demo version available
The developer 'S0Y' is primarily dedicated to converting games to the Amiga platform using the game construction kit RedPill. After his Abu Simbel Profanation project, he had begun converting the Jump'n Run Temptations, originally published for MSX-1 in 1988. The basis for his conversion is a port for Android, which graphics he uses with the author's permission, but modifies some of them (amiga-news.de reported).
Today, the developer has not only released a new preview video, but also a first, early demo version of the first level. (dr)
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19.Oct.2022
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Jump'n Run: Minky V1.2
Minky (video) is a Jump'n Run in the style of Super Mario or Giana Sisters, which requires an Amiga 500 with one megabyte RAM (amiga-news.de reported). With the now released update to version 1.2, the sound should be heard on all ACA turbo cards. The author has also removed some code glitches. (dr)
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19.Oct.2022
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Fantasy shooter: Third level for "Project - Quest"
A third level for the fantasy shooter "Project - Quest", which is currently in development (amiga-news.de reported), has now been published under the title link (video). (dr)
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19.Oct.2022
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Tech-Demo: Update for "Street Fighter 2" port
"Street Fighter 2" is the attempt to recreate the well-known beat'm up on the Amiga using the Scorpion Engine in a better way. The author is not going to develop a full game but hopes to inspire other developers. The update for the playable demo version includes the following changes:
- Screen mode changed to EHB allowing perfect sprite coloring
- Background replaced with the SNES version (more accurate proportions)
- Added copper sky
- Optimized panels palettes
- Optimized sounds
(dr)
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