04.Oct.2022
Claude Schwarz
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PiStorm32: lite variant announced
Claude Schwarz' PiStorm connects a Raspberry Pi to the CPU socket of an Amiga via adapter and uses the British single-board computer to emulate a fast m68k processor. The variant for the Amiga 1200 is called "PiStorm32".
Now the developer has announced a PiStorm32-lite variant in a Tweet from yesterday, which should mainly take into account the current component shortage problems and is supposed to become cheaper. As the developer explained to us, the goal is to run identical firmware on both models as far as possible. The project is still at the beginning. (dr)
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04.Oct.2022
Markus Tillmann
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Amiga37: Schedules published
The Amiga37 will take place on October 15 and 16, 2022 in Mönchengladbach (information about some exhibitors). Now Markus Tillmann has published the schedules for Saturday and Sunday:
(dr)
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03.Oct.2022
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Developer tool: vasm 1.9a
Frank Wille has updated his portable and retargetable assembler vasm to version 1.9a. AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS are supported. Changes:
- Reads the input from stdin when no source file name is given.
- Small performance improvements. Tuned hash table sizes. Reduced memory allocations and deallocations.
- Do not ignore the path from the main source when looking for a file.
- Can build low-memory version of vasm with minimal hash tables, by compiling with -DLOWMEM.
- Do not allow exporting equates which are based on imported symbols.
- Search for include files in the current work directory first, then in the compile directory.
- New option -maxpasses to adjust the maximum number of passes while resolving a section.
- New option -nocompdir to disable compile directory based include file lookup completely.
- New option -v to print version and copyright.
- m68k: -no-opt option really ovrrides all "opt o" and "opt a" directives from the source now.
- m68k: Fixed 68030/68851 PMOVE issue with TC and MMUSR, caused by a conflict with MOVEC control registers of the same name.
- m68k: New Apollo instructions DBcc.L and MOVE2.
- m68k: Fixed Apollo MOVE immediate addressing mode to vector register.
- m68k: Fixed Apollo SUBI banked instruction (one word missing).
- m68k: Added Apollo banking prefix support for MOVE.L Bn, and MOVE.L ,Bn.
- m68k: Apollo LSLQ and LSRQ default to a .W operation size when missing. The remaining AMMX instructions should be .Q.
- m68k: Make sure AMMX 64-bit constants are parsed with full precision.
- m68k: Added missing Apollo FMOVE addressing modes.
- 6502: Added support for the WDC 65816 and 65802 8/16 bits instruction set, including some new directives for selecting Accumulator and Index width.
- z80: Fix for GBZ80 "ld (c),a" and "ld a,(c)".
- mot-syntax: ASSERT directive.
- mot-syntax: macro arguments within <..> allow additional '>' characters inside a string without terminating the argument (vasm default mode only, not for Devpac-compatibility).
- std-syntax: New option -gas for stricter GNU-as compatibility.
- std-syntax: Supports one-digit temporary labels, where the nearest previous label may be referenced by Nb and the nearest following by Nf.
- oldstyle-syntax: New directives SYMDEPEND and NEEDS. They define a dependency of the current section from an external symbol, which must be resolved by the linker.
- oldstyle-syntax: Anonymous labels may be defined with a single ':' and referenced by ':+' or ':-'.
- hunk-output: Converts NONE-relocs to 8-bit ABS with a warning.
- hunk-output: Improved short-reloc output and work around AmigaOS LoadSeg() limitations/bugs.
- o65-output: Check bad addends for 8-bit relocations.
(dr)
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03.Oct.2022
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Sokoban conversion in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2
Our readers might know the Polish developer 'Tukinem' by his farm simulation 'Farmiga' which is in development (amiga-news.de reported). Last year he learned AMOS and his first game implemented with it was a Sokoban conversion of a 53 level game originally released for MS-DOS. Yesterday, he added a Sokoban prototype for it, which he wrote in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2. (dr)
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03.Oct.2022
Hollwood-Forum
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Hollwood application: Lyrics Jukebox
Ralf Gruner has written Hollywood, a music player that was originally intended to be the basis for a built-in device for historical jukebox wallboxes.
As the author writes, the program was originally only supposed to play music and text, and control would have been via the buttons on a wallbox. Instead, it now has a full GUI that is optimized for small touchscreens, but also works with large screens. The GUI elements are built entirely with Hollywood.
The program displays synchronized lyrics in parallel with the music playback, which must be in LRC format. Besides playing playlists or shuffling the files, it can also be used in jukebox style, offering the user the tracks in the form of jukebox title strips.
The author actually released the program only for Linux and Windows, but added implementations for AmigaOS 3, 4, MOrphOS and AROS on request. These then however untested. The Hollywood plugins Avcodec and Svgimage are required. Screenshots and more info are available under the title link.
Download: Lyrics_Jukebox_0.9.60.7z (main archive, 5.3 MB)
Download: Lyrics_Jukebox_0.9.60_untested.zip (Amiga executables, 16 MB).
(dr)
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03.Oct.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Otto Matic ported
After Cro-Mag Rally, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has now compiled a second game for Linux PowerPC (32-bit), Otto Matic, which had just been ported to AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). The developer has tested the game under the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Linux distributions Void PPC 32-bit and MintPPC.
Download: OttoMatic_4.0.0-linux-powerpc.tar.gz (137 MB). (dr)
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02.Oct.2022
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AmigaOS 4: "Otto Matic" and "Billy Frontier" ported
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has ported two other games to AmigaOS 4:
Pangea Software's "Otto Matic" (YouTube video) was first released for Mac OS 9 and X in 2001 and was included with some Mac models of that time. Kargin further writes about it:
"The game was eventually ported to 32-bit Intel Macs, but it stopped working when macOS 10.15 discontinued 32-bit support. Pangea Software allowed Iliyas Jorio to update the original game to keep it running on today's major desktop platforms. This update aims to be faithful to the original. Elements of the presentation and handling were slightly updated. AmigaOS 4 port is based on Jorio's work and compiled with GCC 11.3.0 and latest GL4ES and SDL2. Video recorded on X5000 with RadeonRX 560 and all latest beta components."
"Billy Frontier" is also from Pangea Software and is an arcade-style action game with a "cowboys in space" theme (YouTube video). The player fights in duels, shootouts and brawls. The game was released in 2003 for PowerPC Macs, the port to AmigaOS 4 is also based on Iliyas Jorio's work.
Both games can be downloaded from OS4Depot. Downloads:
billyfrontier.lha (82 MB)
ottomatic.lha (144 MB)
(dr)
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02.Oct.2022
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Amega 32 adapter: Wireless Mega Drive gamepads are now supported
The Amega 32 is an adapter for the AmigaCD 32 to use SEGA Mega Drive gamepads (DB9) with 6 or 3 buttons (amiga-news.de reported).
Now Alinea Computer has updated the firmware of its Amega 32 adapter. Version 1.4.2 now also supports wireless Mega Drive gamepads in 6-button mode. All who want to update their adapter or want to update it themselves, please contact Alinea Computer. (dr)
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02.Oct.2022
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Tool: identify-library 40.1
At the end of last year, Richard Körber released the source code of his identify.library on GitHub. He also he took the opportunity to go through the source code again, reformatted it and translated the comments from German into English. The identify library is used to recognize Zorro cards by their manufacturer and product ID, provides information about the system (CPU, FPU, memory, clock frequency etc.) and to decode guru codes and function offsets. These functions can also be used via the included tools, as well as in ARexx and installer scripts.
Under the title link he now has released version 40.1 which includes more manufacturers and boards. Both a developer and user package are available. (dr)
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02.Oct.2022
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Aminet uploads until 01.10.2022
The following files have been added until 01.10.2022 to Aminet:
CloudDav_1.6.lha comm/net 501K MOS A WebDav client
Dzon_Demo_Compilation... demo/disk 880K 68k Dzon Demo Compilation Disk 1 ...
Dzon_Demo_Compilation... demo/disk 880K 68k Dzon Demo Compilation Disk 2 ...
tek-transhuman_pachin... demo/disk 2.0M 68k Transhuman / Pachinkoland - G...
wla_dx-mos.lha dev/cross 3.4M MOS 8-bit CPU Cross Macro Assembl...
OsGrind.lha dev/debug 30K 68k Configurable Os argument checker
PatchWork.lha dev/debug 48K 68k Validate library calls with A...
device-streams.lha disk/misc 87K 68k Copy block devices and stream...
device-streams_src.lha disk/misc 33K Copy block devices and stream...
WormWars.lha game/actio 897K 68k Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-AROS.zip game/actio 701K x86 Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 944K MOS Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake/Tron game
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 15K 2022 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 3.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.8M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.1M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Amdrum.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 8K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
MirageImager.ACEpansi... misc/emu 17K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
LN4Lv7.lha mods/misc 2.6M LN4Lv7 4ch MED track by HKvalhe
hippoplayerSource.lha mus/play 1.3M HippoPlayer source code
Vim_9.0-ppc-amigaos.lha text/edit 14M OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_9.0-ppc-morphos.lha text/edit 14M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
Reqtools-Wide.lha util/libs 44K 68k Double Width Reqtools
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 1.9M 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
UHCGUI-Current.lha util/wb 58K 68k GUI frontend for the UHC-Tool...
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02.Oct.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.10.2022
The following files have been added until 01.10.2022 to OS4Depot:
vlink.lha dev/cro 176kb 4.0 A portable linker, written in AN...
amoskittens.lha dev/lan 2Mb 4.1 Amos the kitten is amos basic in...
dungeonofchess.lha gam/boa 13Mb 4.1 Simple game written with usage o...
cromagrally.lha gam/dri 125Mb 4.1 Wildest racing game since man in...
devilutionx.lha gam/rol 11Mb 4.1 SDL Port of Diablo and Hellfire
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
libsfml.lha lib/mis 5Mb 4.1 Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
litexl.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
vim_mui.lha uti/tex 14Mb 4.1 The ubiquitous text editor
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02.Oct.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.10.2022
The following files have been added until 01.10.2022 to AROS Archives:
dosbox.i386-aros.lha emu/com 2Mb Dosbox a PC Emulator
wormwars.i386-aros.zip gam/act 701kb Advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade...
sdlscav-145.4.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 384kb Lode Runner clone
drawer-app.lha gra/ico 171kb Collection of Drawer Icons for A...
icongamegorillazdrawer.lha gra/ico 352kb Collection of Drawer Game Icons ...
arzip.i386-aros.zip uti/arc 153kb arZip zip file archiver
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02.Oct.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.10.2022
The following files have been added until 01.10.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
Re2c_3.0.lha Development/GeekGadgets Scanner generator f. re...
SSA-1_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion SSA-1_1.1.lha
Willy_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Dandanator_1.0.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Dandanator_1.0.lha
DKTr-Speech_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion DKTr-Speech_1.1.lha
MirageImager_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Nova_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
TMPI-Speech_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Amdrum_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion ACEpansion plugin for A...
WormWars_9.3.lha Games/Action Advanced snake game by ...
DevilutionX_1.4.1r2.lha Games/Adventure Diablo build for modern...
LiteXL_2.0.3r3.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
Vim_9.0.583.lha Text/Edit A highly configurable t...
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02.Oct.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.10.2022
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 01.10.2022:
- 2022-10-01 improved: Turrican 2 (Factor 5/Rainbow Arts) 3-button joystick support (Info)
- 2022-10-01 improved: The Quest For The Time Bird / Auf der Suche nach dem Vogel der Zeit / La quête de l'oiseau du temps (Infogrames) support for Italian version added (Info)
- 2022-10-01 improved: Obitus (Psygnosis) fixed 68000 problems, hints added (Info)
- 2022-09-28 improved: Joe & Mac (Caveman Ninja) (Data East) interrupts fixed, manual protection correctly removed (Info)
- 2022-09-27 improved: Venom Wing (Thalamus/SoftEyes) rewritten, 68000 quitkey, ssp relocated, load/save to external file, uses less chip memory, new install script (Info)
- 2022-09-27 improved: Tip Off (ANCO) rewritten, fixed freeze on title screen, keyboard fixed, manual added, new install script (Info)
- 2022-09-27 improved: Purple Saturn Day (Exxos) fixed to run on NTSC, fixed some random crashes (Info)
- 2022-09-27 fixed: Ooops Up (Demonware) crash of second version on 68000 fixed (Info)
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02.Oct.2022
Erik Hogan (Twitter)
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Preview video: Shoot'em Up Hyperblaster (Inviyya 2)
At the end of last year, we reported about Michael 'Tigerskunk' Borrmann's announcement to write a successor for his shoot'em up 'Inviyya', released in spring 2021. Now he has published a new preview video of the Amiga 1200/Amiga 4000/CD32 version. As he wrote, "collisions are off, it's still a bit glitchy, no sound at the moment, but you can see where this is heading to". He is going to demonstrate the game at Amiga37. (dr)
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02.Oct.2022
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MP3 player: Reel Deck V0.60
After Atris, his Tetris clone for RTG Amigas, and AB_Template, his programming assistance for AmiBlitz 3, Sami Vehmaa has now released another project: Reel Deck is an MP3 player for Amigas with graphics card written in AmiBlitz 3 (YouTube video). You also need a fast CPU, AmigaOS3.x, AHI and at least 20 MB FastRAM. Reel Deck costs 3 Euro. (dr)
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01.Oct.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Cro-Mag Rally released
Two days ago we reported about Roman 'kas1e' Kargin's port of the racing game Cro-Mag Rally for AmigaOS 4. In the process, he and the original developer also solved some big endian issues. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky could now compile the game for Linux PowerPC (32-bit) and thus make it available for the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Linux distributions Void PPC 32-bit and MintPPC.
Download: CroMagRally_3.0.0_linux-powerpc.tar.gz (123 MB). (dr)
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01.Oct.2022
Puni / AmigaOldskooler (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of September
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published an illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of hardware and software for AmigaOS 4 in the month of September. (dr)
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01.Oct.2022
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.4
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
A few moments ago, version 5.4 has been released. Changes:
Bugfixes
- whdbooter settings were not all parsed correctly
- Fix CD audio not resuming after unminimize
- 32bit to 64bit clock counter missing update
- fixed macOS compile errors regarding uaeserial
- always use mouse 0 for mice, until SDL2 supports > 1 system mouse
- settings from XML db were not always parsed correctly
- fixed flickering in native modes when Fast copper was enabled
- copy all prefs when doing a hard reset
- Fixed some memory leaks
- Hard reset CPU startup was not identical to initial power up
- WHDbooter game paths with commas would not work
Improvements
- implemented Screenshot to file custom event
- Added the possibility to compile with a version of GCC older than 8.0
- P96 - Implement all previously implemented blitter operations
- Save also MSM6242B RTC model control registers to RTC file
- added uaeserial implementation from dev
- merged OpenGL experimental version from dev
- Make sure hardware emulated RTG boards don't have barrier at the start of VRAM space to fully support JIT direct
- merged CIA rewrite from dev
- Optimize compiler code generation for 'strlen()'
- Fix disk read handling when attempting to read from non-selected drive
- use double fields line mode by default
- brought statusline drawing closer to WinUAE method
Chors
- moved variable closer to scope
- minor sync from dev branch
- removed obsolete variables
WIP
- merge diffs from dev into master
- bring custom chip emulation closer to WinUAE
- synced gfxboard.h with dev
(dr)
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01.Oct.2022
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DIY project: ATX power adapter for Amiga 500 tower project
'wiretap-retro' has developed an adapter for its Amiga-500 tower project, which is attached to the motherboard or another suitable place in the case via two spacers. It allows the connection of a standard ATX power supply and provides a 4-pin molex connector (for the Amiga 500 power connector) and 3 standard fan connectors for 12V fans. The project is open source and can be modified as desired. (dr)
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01.Oct.2022
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Block-oriented copying: Device Streams 2.0.0
Roc Vallès i Domènech has 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. AmigaOS 2.04+ is required. Changes:
- Cleaned up code.
- Removed SAS/C-isms and updated to build in modern toolchains.
- Use of 64bit offsets throughout.
- Safeguards added against 32bit overflow wraparound.
- Use dos.library for file I/O.
(dr)
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30.Sep.2022
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.0.9
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). Today version 1.0.9 of the firmware was released. Changes:
- Full support for new ZuluSCSI hardware platform based on Raspberry Pi foundation's RP2040 microcontroller
- RP2040 bugfixes
- RP2040 SCSI initiator mode support
- RP2040: reduce boot delay by enabling cache during bootloader
Users of a blue ZuluSCSI V1.0/V1.1 board with firmware version 1.0.8 do not need to upgrade to version 1.0.9, as it does not contain any bug fixes or improvements over 1.0.8. (dr)
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30.Sep.2022
Amigans-Forum
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AmigaOS 4: Dungeon of Chess ported
Four months ago 'MrsRina' had written a simple chess game "Dungeon of Chess" in SDL2 and OpenGL 3 (YouTube video). Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has adapted this to AmigaOS 4, added background music and made some small corrections. The source files are included and offer, as he writes, a good way to get familiar with SDL programming. (dr)
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30.Sep.2022
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Video tutorial: Configuration of DrawBridge under WinUAE
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin FloppyBridge WinUAE is also officially supported since version 4.9.0 (amiga-news.de reported).
In his latest video Robert Smith takes you step by step through the setup of the FloppyBridge plugin in WinUAE. Starting with the installation of WinUAE followed by the configuration and explanation of all FloppyBridge options. (dr)
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29.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: free AMOS interpreter AMOS Kittens 0.9
Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand is working on an interpreter which can run AMOS source code under AmigaOS 4. As the developer wrote "on the Amos command this project tries to stay 99% compatible, a few command won't work as this project use a bit more modern chunky image format instead of the planar graphic format". (amiga-news.de reported). The source code is available on GitHub. Changes of version 0.9:
- Speed up "*skip_next_cmd(...)"
- Some changes were not committed before.
- Optimized Amos Kittens stack by removing state from the stack.
- Improvement I debugging.
- Token relocation for operator optimization.
- Math order operator optimization.
- Command Dir$ fixes.
- Fixed bug in Eof command
- Command "Resume Next" implemented.
- Command Input$(fd,length) fixed. (And some minor fixes.)
(dr)
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29.Sep.2022
Amigans-Forum
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AmigaOS 4: Racing game Cro-Mag Rally ported (update)
After his OpenGLES ports "Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast" and "Jedi Academy" (amiga-news.de reported), Roman 'kas1e' Kargin now has ported the racing game Cro-Mag Rally to AmigaOS 4 (YouTube video). The latest versions of OpenGLES2.library, Warp3Dnova.library and RadeonHD or RadeonRX graphics card drivers are required.
Update: (02.10.2022, 18:38, dr)
Meanwhile version 3.0.0.01 is available. Changes:
- added stack cookie of 1mb
- fixed missing bonuses/powerups on the race
- user data now saves as expected in root dir of game, and not in volume's root
(dr)
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29.Sep.2022
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Retro Trex Game Jam: DRex released
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', had organized the Retro Trex Game Jam. The goal was to create an identical or improved version of the well-known browser game Google T-Rex for a retro computer.
For this competition, Lorenzo di Gaetano released DRex (YouTube video), which was written in C with the help of the Planar Game Engine. The game runs on any Amiga with 1 MB RAM. An ADF file is available as well as a Workbench version. (dr)
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28.Sep.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.1
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today versions 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 were released. Changes:
- NEW: icons for .uss, .amigaprofile, .shrinklerstats, .objdump
- FIX: fix memory content for multi-frame captures (was wrong after frame 1)
- FIX: screen: center reference screenshot (probably still wrong)
- CHG: screen: zoom panel size, clipping
- NEW: screen: show bitplane pointers
- CHG: screen: improve performance by 40%
- NEW: screen: mouse click&drag to set time
- NEW: screen: Freeze frame to visualize drawing (+ Memory overlay)
- CHG: profiler: improve loading performance by >1000%
- CHG: profiler: multi-frame captures are now loaded in the background for faster startup time
- CHG: savestate: show progress bar during profiling
- NEW: Amiga: Clean Temp Files to delete .amigaprofile files from your temp path.
- FIX: the terminal didn't re-open once closed
- FIX: disassembly: fix divul, divsl, FPU, fmoveml (see 68k-dis.ts)
- FIX: #128 Can't use the image converter link
- FIX: #129 Screen and Resources tabs have no scroll bars so I can't see the bottom of a tall image
- FIX: improved behavior of jumping from assembly to source (still sometimes the source window disappears)
- NEW: update to latest WinUAE
- FIX: screen: freeze frame memory was wrong
- FIX: resource: possibly very slow performance when using Copper Palette
(dr)
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Debugging tool: PatchWork 1.0
More than ten years after the last version 0.17, Richard Körber has released version 1.0 of his debugging tool PatchWork today.
Similar to MuForce and Mungwall it ensures that calls to AmigaOS libraries are AutoDocs compliant. Illegal parameters (e.g. NULL where a pointer is expected) are reported. PatchWork helps to make program code more robust and future-proof.
The source code was previously closed. Richard Körner has checked and reformatted the files and made the project compilable with vbcc on Linux (and probably other systems). The source code is now open for everyone to contribute, study, etc. Changes:
- After 25 years, I guess PatchWork is finally due for a major version bump.
- Now built on Linux using vasm.
- Checks AmigaOS V40 calls. Actually, the only check that needed to be added was graphics.library/WriteChunkyPixels.
- DISPC is now the default behavior. Use the new option NODISPC to explicitly disable PC disassembly on PatchWork hits.
- Bugfix: intuition/SetPointer() hit output was incorrect (reported by @Hagbard-Celin). This bug was there since 1997.
- Correct library name is shown even if A6 is not pointing to the library base.
(dr)
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28.Sep.2022
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Boing Attitude: Second part of interview with Apollo team
At the end of march, the first part of an interview with the Apollo team was published, which originally was printed in issue 3 of the French magazine Boing. Now the second part is available on the homepage and was originally printed in issue 4. (dr)
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Obligement: Interview with Jérôme Senay (Boing Attitude)
On his Obligement website, David Brunet has published an interview with the publisher of the French magazine Boing and the quiz game AskMeUp XXL, Jérôme 'Glames' Senay. (dr)
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