22.Aug.2022
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New links on AmigaSource website
For 20 years now Scott Pistorino collects on his site AmigaSource all information around the Amiga. On October 19, 2001 he introduced his project on amiga-news.de. Beside several interviews with Ben Hermans or Fleecy Moss from 2002 there are numerous categories like software, hardware, demos etc. Because Pistorino changed to a new database some time ago, some articles are not yet available again.
A few days ago he published a new update with various links. He is also in the process of rebuilding the site and making all the previous links etc. accessible again. (dr)
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22.Aug.2022
S0Y (Mail)
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Preview video 3: Temptations port for CD32
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 has now begun the conversion of Temptations, a platform game originally published for MSX-1 in 1988. The basis for this, however, is a port for Android. With the author's permission, he uses graphics and music, but modifies some of them (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday he published a new video presenting the first level of the game including music from audio CD. (dr)
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21.Aug.2022
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Dossier: Hidden messages and easter eggs in AmigaOS
David Brunet has listed on his Obligement news page an overview of all the messages and easter eggs hidden in Kickstart or AmigaOS, starting from Kickstart 0.7/0.9 up to AmigaOS 4/U-Boot. The original article is in French, but machine translations are offered. (dr)
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21.Aug.2022
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Preview video: Sci-fi racing game "Hyper Runner"
The developer team of Raster Wizards - among others The Shadows of Sergoth or Super Metal Hero - had already announced a new sci-fi racing game "Hyper Runner" for the Amiga two months ago with the release of a first YouTube video. The second video released now shows static objects, more HUD elements (information displays) as well as hard and soft collisions. The game is written in Amiblitz 2 and is more than half finished. (dr)
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21.Aug.2022
Erik Hogan
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.6
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
A few moments ago he has relesaed version 2022.6. It features new demos for performance testing and falling stackable objects, major optimizations, improvements for text, performance scaling, and more.
You can support the developer on his Patreon website.
(dr)
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21.Aug.2022
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Aminet uploads until 20.08.2022
The following files have been added until 20.08.2022 to Aminet:
znn-tveye.lha demo/sound 621K 68k Old school demo for Assembly ...
cscope.lha dev/c 990K MOS Interactively examine a C pro...
vmsbackup.lha disk/bakup 42K MOS This program reads a VMS back...
JoyPortTest.lha driver/inp 7K 68k Test your joystick/CD32 joypa...
RescueLander.lha game/actio 45K 68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
MCE.lha game/edit 3.4M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.7M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
RNOEffects.lha gfx/edit 6.1M MOS Image processing program
RNOEffects_68k.lha gfx/edit 5.6M 68k Image processing program
RNOEffects_AROS.lha gfx/edit 3.2M x86 Image processing program
RNOEffects_OS4.lha gfx/edit 7.0M OS4 Image processing program
RNOEffects_WOS.lha gfx/edit 6.0M WOS Image processing program
WhatIFF1.06.lha mags/misc 55K What IFF? #1.06-August-2022
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
AmigaBreaks-90sDream.lha mods/misc 161K New track by Amiga Breaks - 9...
AmigaBreaks-InMyHead.lha mods/misc 243K New track by Amiga Breaks - I...
AmigaBreaks-MasagoBea... mods/misc 254K New track by Amiga Breaks - M...
AmigaBreaks-SonOfTron... mods/misc 521K New track by Amiga Breaks - S...
AmigaBreaks-SynthOfLi... mods/misc 222K New track by Amiga Breaks: Sy...
LN4Intro.lha mods/misc 515K 4ch LN4Intro by HKvalhe
LN4Lv1.lha mods/misc 716K 4ch LN4Lv1 by HKvalhe
LN4Lv2.lha mods/misc 378K 4ch LN4Lv2 by HKvalhe
LN4Lv3.mp3 mods/misc 7.3M 4ch LN4Lv3 by HKvalhe
LN4Lv4.lha mods/misc 2.6M 4ch LN4Lv4 by HKvalhe
LN4Lv5.mp3 mods/misc 7.4M 4ch LN4Lv5 by HKvalhe
LHArchiver.lha util/arc 4.6M create lha archives intuitively
MuRedox.lha util/boot 119K 68k MuLib based math speedup patc...
AmyTree2022.lha util/dir 127K 68k Tree FS Explorer, full version
MMULib.lha util/libs 750K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
HexSee_OS4.lha util/misc 1.6M OS4 Hex File Viewer (OS4 version)
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 1.5M 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 383K 68k MuLib aware 68060, 68040, 680...
ClockPort.lha util/time 16K 68k Manage battery clocks, multip...
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21.Aug.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 20.08.2022
The following files have been added until 20.08.2022 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
vanillaconquer-tiberi... gam/str 7Mb 4.1 Vanilla Conquer C&C Tiberian...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
rnoeffects.lha gra/edi 7Mb 4.1 Image processing program
shaderjoy.lha gra/vie 4Mb 4.1 Display fragment shaders
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 5Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
hexsee.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 Hex File Viewer
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21.Aug.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 20.08.2022
The following files have been added until 20.08.2022 to AROS Archives:
vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha dev/edi 12Mb The ubiquitous text editor
multiracer.i386-aros.tar gam/dri 9Mb OpenGL Driving Simulation
prboom.i386-aros.tar gam/fps 9Mb Advanced Engine for Doom, Doom I...
rnoeffects.i386-aros.lha gra/edi 3Mb Image processing program
iconclone.m68k-aros.zip uti/wor 35kb Drag-n-Drop Icons or use FileReq...
iconclone.x86-64-v11-aros... uti/wor 38kb Drag-n-Drop Icons or use FileReq...
iconclone.x86-aros.zip uti/wor 34kb Drag-n-Drop Icons or use FileReq...
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21.Aug.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 20.08.2022
The following files have been added until 20.08.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
cscope_15.9.lha Development/C Interactively examine a...
Iris_1.3.lha Email New email client suppor...
CCOS-disk-utils.lha Emulation/Misc Manipulate GRiD OS flop...
AmiArcadia_29.1.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
LHArchiver_1.4.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
VMSbackup_4.2.lha Files/Backup This program reads a VM...
GoldenAxeLegend_OpenBO... Games/Action GoldenAxeLegend_OpenBOR...
SOR2x_OpenBOR.lha Games/Action SOR2x_OpenBOR.lha
MCE_13.9.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
RNOEffects_1.4.lha Graphics/Tools Image processing program.
Starfield_1.0.lha System/Ambient/Blankers Starfield is a screen b...
Vim_8.2.4424.lha Text/Edit A highly configurable t...
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21.Aug.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.08.2022
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 20.08.2022:
(snx)
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20.Aug.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 15
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Episode 15 is now available. (dr)
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20.Aug.2022
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Video: Brief look at history of Commodore logos
The YouTube channel "Commodore History" has given a brief overview about the history of the logos used by Commodore: starting in 1958 as Commodore Portable Typewriter Company Limited to the creation of the famous "chicken lips" logo in 1965 when they were called Commodore Business Machines (Canada) Limited, to their demise in 1994 as Commodore International Limited. (dr)
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20.Aug.2022
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Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.133 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.
Download: linux-image-5.10.133-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71 MB) (dr)
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19.Aug.2022
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Blog Epsilon's World: Checkmate 1500 Mini with RPI4B and Greaseweazle
After restoring an Amiga 2000 (part 1, part 2), Epsilon has already started his next project: in his blog 'Epsilon's World' he now reports how he installs a Raspberry Pi 4 into a Checkmate A1500 mini case and then running it with AmiKit XE including a Greaseweazle V4 floppy drive solution. (dr)
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19.Aug.2022
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Music Tracker: MilkyTracker V1.03.01
MilkyTracker is an open source, cross-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. It attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the DOS application Fasttracker II, with special playback modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker 2.x/3.x compatibility.
Marlon Beijer is in the process of porting the tracker to the Amiga platforms (OS3.x, OS4.x, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS) and adding new features. In the new version now available for AmigaOS 3 first, the "Vamped Edition" has been included. The features included herein had been added by Neoman from the Titan demo group and are:
- Native Amiga support, but still needs RTG (we support P96 and CGX)
- Native 4-channel 8-bit output support on Paula/Commodore
- Native 8-channel 16-bit output on Arne (Apollo-Core) (16 channels are planned with a future core)
- 16-bit PiP display on SAGA (Apollo-Core)
- GadTools based setup dialog to choose the resolution and audio settings
- Titan's Magic Toolbox
- MilkyPlay based console player
This means that SDL is no longer needed in the AmigaOS 3 version. The following is planned for the future:
AmigaOS 3
- Native AHI-driver for software mixing (this part was handled by SDL before)
- AGA 8-bit display via C2P
- OCS/ECS display (not decided enirely on route taken here yet)
- ASM optimization of drawing routines and primitives
- MIDI In/Out
AmigaOS 4, MorphOS
- The features we deem useful for PPC too will trickle down from M68K
- SDL-1.2 support removed, and both MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.x will utilize SDL-2.0 instead
- Fix these targets since they broke somewhere along the way
Allgemein
- MUI based replacement UI for a more native look and feel (probably performance improvements as well) (optional)
- MUI based music player, taking advantage of the music replayer of MilkyTracker
(dr)
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19.Aug.2022
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Preview video 5: Jump'n Run "L'Abbaye des Morts"
The developer 'UltraNarwhal', among others Duckstroma, has released another recent recording of its in development extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead" (amiga-news.de reported). Like Duckstroma, the Jump'n Run is written with the Scorpion Engine. (dr)
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19.Aug.2022
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Video review: BFG9060 accelerator board for Amiga 3000/4000
'Wrangler Amiga' tests in a YouTube video the accelerator board designed by Matthias Heinrichs for the Amiga A3000 and A4000(T) (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)
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19.Aug.2022
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Boot Selector for Amiga 600 / 1200 (update)
With a boot selector it is possible to use an externally connected floppy drive (or Gotek Floppy Drive Emulator) as boot floppy. This is made possible by making the Amiga believe that the external drive is DF0:. To avoid soldering and fiddling with wires, there are ready-made solutions of various kinds, but they basically all do the same thing: swap two address lines.
Gotek Retro has now designed its own solution for the Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200 respectively: According to Ed, "the traditional boot selectors for the old(er) generation Amiga's do not fit as they still used a CIA on a socket where they would be installed between the socket and the chip. The Amiga 600 and the Amiga 1200 have exchanged that socket version for an SMD version that requires much less space, but is also not easy to remove / replace.
The principle is very simple , you don't change the data lines ON the CIA itself but on a different location. The bootselector for the Amiga 1200 (And A600) consists of 2 interfaces , one internally between the internal floppy drive and the floppy cable, and the other one externally, connected to the floppy port on the back of your Amiga. The only thing you need to do is bring 2 wires from the internal interface to the external interface."
The boot selector is available in the store for 25 Euro plus shipping. (dr)
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19.Aug.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.3 (update)
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). Yesterday versions 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 have been released. Changes:
Version 1.5.1
- FIX: profiler: Custom registers at start of frame
- FIX: screen: display window when not set during frame
- FIX: DMA: ignore fake copper DMA after COPJMP
Version 1.5.2
- FIX: copper: don't crash when hovering over NO-OP instruction
- NEW: display BPL1MOD, BPL2MOD as signed values
- NEW: screen: support FMODE (AGA) for bitplanes
- NEW: profiler now shows 32 and 64 bit wide DMA transfers
- NEW: resources: support FMODE (AGA)
Version 1.5.3
- FIX: fix missing cycle timings in assembly view (was broken since 1.4.7)
- NEW: memory: switch between byte .B, word .W and longword .L display
- NEW: smooth scrolling for custom register/CPU opcode tooltip windows
- FIX: assembly: handle 0-cycle trace instructions
- FIX: kickstart symbols now include mathieeesingbas.library
- NEW: disassembler: support FPU (68881/68882/68040/68060)
- NEW: profiler: blitter-tooltip: show BLT*DAT if DMA for channel is disabled but is used in minterm
- CHG: BPL1MOD, BPL2MOD as decimals
Update: (20.08.2022, 21:09, dr)
Version 1.5.3 has been released today, changes added. (dr)
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18.Aug.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 158 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 158 (September/October 2022) have been published online now at the title link. Contents include reviews of Duckstroma and AmiBlitz as well as a preliminary report about the Amiga37 event.
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.Aug.2022
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Editor: MUI-Vim V8.2.4424 for AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS
MUI-Vim is a port of the editor Vim for AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS. This editor is intended for editing programs as well as plain text files. Multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, block operations and scripting are some of the features. Ola 'sodero' Söder has now ported VIM 8.2.4424, fixing the following bugs:
- AROS graphical glitch fixed
- MorphOS DOS script filetype detection fixed
(dr)
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18.Aug.2022
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AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 6
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas. The goal is to make it POSIX compliant and also fix any C++ problems that exist with newer compilers (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday he has released the sixth beta version with the following changes:
- Added scandir to dirent
- Fixed with some hacks termios functions and now ncurses works correctly
- Fixed a problem on CTRL-C that was not stopping the program anymore
- Some small internal changes
(dr)
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18.Aug.2022
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Programming help: Creating demos with AProcessing (video)
The very busy 'Phaze101' - among other things Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game or Assembler Coding Course - has started a new video series: together with its developer Alessio 'Ozzyboshi' Garzi, he explains AProcessing, assembler routines for creating Amiga demos. (dr)
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18.Aug.2022
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MorphOS: Starfield Blanker V1.0
Das #amigazeux team has released version 1.0 of the Starfield blanker. It draws a zooming, moving, rotating and spinning star field with and without warp speed like effects. TinyGL and at least MorphOS 2.0.0 are required. (dr)
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17.Aug.2022
Reddit
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Interview: Alfred Faust (BarsnPipes)
The news service tarnkappe.info has re-published an interview with BarsnPipes developer Alfred Faust from the year 2007. (dr)
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16.Aug.2022
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000
The Amiga 1000 is extremely popular right now: After Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports about the restoration, now Richard "Shred" Körber describes in two blog entries (part 1, part 2) his experiences which he made during the refurbishment of the Amiga 1000. (dr)
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16.Aug.2022
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Preview video 28: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported).
About his 28th preview video, the developer writes:
"This time you can see how the current CPU player plays against himself :) By the way, for the video the CPU player was artificially dumbed down, especially he shoots quite often much too firm. Without this little hack, the video would be a bit too boring, because the CPU player practically never provokes a throw-in or a corner by himself at the moment :P
The AI is already sufficient (there is still room for improvement, of course) to take care of the control of the team members that are not being controlled by the player himself in a human vs human match. Most importantly, the AI is also fast enough: we're still at 50 fps even in CPU vs CPU on a bare Amiga 1200.
Besides many details (e.g. the ball is now animated quite nicely) and many internal improvements, there is now also a neat free kick and throw-in system, which is based on Goal!: by means of a dotted line you can parameterize the direction, strength, height of the shot / throw..." (dr)
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16.Aug.2022
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R62 for Windows 10/11
Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).
Today version 1.2 R62 was released with the following changes:
- Mask Export option ABQ - Trans Mask &HE0
- Save IFF/BBM Amiga brushes - not compressed
- ILBM decompression bug fixed
- 256 color ILBM files were not being saved correctly - these are pc pbm format
(dr)
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