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14.Aug.2022



Image processing: RNOEffects 1.4 for all Amiga systems
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has updated RNOEffects from his family of RNO applications. RNOEffects is a simple image processing program with a focus on good batch conversion options and alpha channel based effects (YouTube video). It was available in previous versions for MorphOS, OS4 and AROS, and the new version now also supports 68k and WarpOS configurations. The changes:
  • Images can be saved as AmigaOS, NewIcons, GlowIcons, OS4, PNG, and DualPNG
  • icons with configurable properties that include icon type, tooltypes,
  • selected image, default tool, stack, position, drawer properties, etc.
  • Added the "Freehand" drawing mode
  • Added the "Opacity map" effect for creating and inserting B&W opacity map images of alpha channels
  • Added the "ARexx" effect to launch ARexx scripts within the program
  • Added an example ARexx script
  • Better text editing/importing/exporting options for the text drawing effect
  • Draw and crop effects can be positioned with the mouse
  • Re-designed the line effect and added an arrowhead option
  • Added buttons and keys to load next and previous pictures in the directory
  • Added the undo levels setting
  • Added the redo option
  • Removed overlapping keyboard shortcuts for copy/cut/paste operations
  • Fixed pathless file arguments
  • Safer error handling
  • Other changes and fixes
Downloads: (dr)

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14.Aug.2022
Stefan Reinauer


ReA4091: Video and pre-order for the reconstruction of the Fast SCSI2 controller
During the Vintage Computer Festival East, which took place from April 22 to 24 at the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall Township in the USA (see also the video talk of former Commodore employees), Stefan Reinauer gave a talk about the project of rebuilding the Fast SCSI2 controller A4091, which he and Chris Hooper successfully accomplished. The project, christened "ReA4091", lasted four months and was accomplished with the help of an original copy purchased at an eBay auction.

The YouTube video, which has been available since the end of April and was recorded by Robert Bernardo, has been edited again by him and now has a much better sound quality (see title link).

As Stefan Reinauer explained to amiga-news.de, they are "still busy building cards and debugging". In parallel, the open source driver is being written, which will replace the original ROM. Currently, 30 cards are being built. On the corresponding project page you can not only find more information, but you can also express your interest in building a card. The price is about 225 Euro (without shipping). (dr)

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14.Aug.2022



Aminet uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to Aminet:
DFT_IDFT_DWT_FFT.zip     dev/src    147K  68k DFT, IDFT, DWT and FFT for A1...
PyPlayer.zip             dev/src    1.1M  68k Audio Player for Python 1.4.0...
CCOS-disk-utils.lha      disk/misc  73K   MOS Manipulate GRiD OS floppy images
Sensei.lha               driver/oth 35K   68k Displays I2C Sensor informati...
dynAMIte_v24.lha         game/2play 2.0M  68k Internet (only) Bomberman/Dyn...
RescueLander.lha         game/actio 45K   68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  3.6M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
StefADV2.lha             game/text  65K   68k 2nd little italian text adven...
WhatIFF1.06.lha          mags/misc  55K       What IFF? #1.06-August-2022
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.5M  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
emutos.lha               misc/emu   338K      EmuTOS - Amiga version
NAFCYI1991S1-B01.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip     text/bfont 2.6M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-01.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip      text/pfont 1.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
avalanche_ger.lha        util/arc   11K       german catalog for Avalanche
(snx)

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14.Aug.2022



OS4Depot uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to OS4Depot:
kittymusicraft.librar... dev/lib 67kb  4.1 Reimplementation of the MusiCraf...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb   4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
blobwarsattrition.lha    gam/act 2Mb   4.1 A 2D mission and and objective-b...
amosextension.library... lib/mis 375kb 4.1 AmosExtension.library load AMOS ...
(snx)

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14.Aug.2022



AROS Archives uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to AROS Archives:
whatiff1.06.lha              doc/mis 55kb  Magazine on amigaguide format
myman.i386-aros.zip          gam/mis 3Mb   A Pacman style game, done with t...
games.tar                    gra/ico 350kb Collection of Drawer Icons Goril...
icone_drawer.tar             gra/ico 170kb Collection of Drawer Icons Goril...
(snx)

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14.Aug.2022



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_29.04.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
SilverNightsCrusaders_... Games/Action              SilverNightsCrusaders_O...
SFFGPLNS_OpenBOR.lha      Games/Action              FINAL FIGHT LNS GOLD SU...
GoldenAxeMyth_OpenBOR.lha Games/Action              GoldenAxeMyth_OpenBOR.lha
ATaleOfVeangeance_Open... Games/Action              ATaleOfVeangeance_OpenB...
MCE_13.8.lha              Games/Editor              Multi-game Character Ed...
(snx)

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14.Aug.2022



WHDLoad: New installers until 13.08.2022
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 13.08.2022: (snx)

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14.Aug.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood: Plananarama 2.0 manual available in German
Helmut Haake and Dominic Widmer have translated the manual of the Plananarama plugin into German. It is available for download at the title link.

Plananarama is a plugin for Hollywood which allows to use Hollywood even on systems without a graphics card (OCS, ECS, AGA). Thanks to Airsoft Softwair's MetaDoc system, the translation is not only available as PDF file, but also in AmigaGuide, HTML and CHM format. (snx)

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13.Aug.2022
Ko-fi


AmigaOS 4: Platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" V1.22r1
The very busy AmigaOS 4 developer George 'walkero' Sokianos - among others aiostreams, Flawfinder, Lite XL or iGame - has ported the commercial platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" to AmigaOS 4 in the latest version of December 2019.

The port of the game developed by Parallel Realities does not include data files. These have to be purchased on the game's itch.io project page - but at a price to be determined by the user.

As the developer writes, the game requires SDL2 and a powerful Amiga including graphics card to play it on Full HD. He himself played the game on his AmigaOne X5000/40 with a RadeonRX 550. To achieve smooth gameplay, he had to set SDL2 to opengles2 and activate the batching mode. He recommends experimenting with these settings, depending on your own hardware.

A test on his microAmigaOne was less successful, because the small graphics memory (max. 32MB) ran out quite fast, so that the game was slowed down very much. He is open for suggestions and possibly tricks to change this.

Anyone who wants to support the author has the opportunity to do so on his Ko-fi website. The author returns 50% of the donations to the community at the end of each month by supporting projects or developers. (dr)

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13.Aug.2022



AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 5
As standard C librar, AmigaOS officially uses a variant of the Newlib C standard library implementation. A popular alternative C standard library implementation is called clib2 and it is included as an option with the standard Amiga SDK. The clib2 library is particular well suited for porting software from the Unix world (taken from AmigaOS-Wiki).

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. All warnings (except for a very few) generated by GCC 10 and higher have disappeared. As the developer further writes, all obsolete OS4 functions have been replaced by modern ones (except for StackSwap, for which he has not found a replacement).

Yesterday he released the fifth beta version with the following changes:
  • Implemented open() and opendir() and now it is possible to open a directory like open("T:") and use some functions on the returned fd
  • Changed some socket functions that now use open source code
  • Implemented new funcions
  • Fixed a memory leak on fstat
  • Removed test on check_abort_enabled prior call since it is already checked in the function
  • Moved rand* functions to prng folder
  • Implemented syslog (using files)
  • A lot of other fixes an improvements
(dr)

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13.Aug.2022



Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1
After five beta versions (amiga-news.de reported), developer Dirk Hoffmann has just released the official version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for macOS, thus ending the beta phase. The minimum system requirement for his emulator is macOS 10.15. (dr)

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13.Aug.2022



Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 14
'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 14 is now available. (dr)

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13.Aug.2022
Alain Fontanin


Anniversary advertising: 30 years of Cristaline mineral water with Amiga
The French mineral water brand "Cristaline" is celebrating its 30th birthday (history in French) and to mark the occasion has published a picture on its Facebook page showing a young girl playing with a Gameboy and an Amiga in the background. (dr)

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13.Aug.2022



Linux: Update of Open Sonic
Yesterday, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has released a new version of Open Sonic for Linux PowerPC (32-bit) and thus for AmigaOne X1000/X5000. The updated version provides bug fixed graphics and sounds.


alsa-oss and allegro4.4 required. For the installation, Christian listed the commands:

Void PPC
  • sudo xbps-install -S alsa-oss
  • sudo xbps-install -S allegro4
Debian (MintPPC)
  • apt install alsa-oss
  • apt install liballegro4.4
It also works on old Linux distributions like Ubuntu 10.04 PowerPC. (dr)

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12.Aug.2022



AmigaOS 4: Shader player Shaderjoy 1.23
Shaderjoy allows displaying and creating Shadertoy compatible fragment shaders. Fragment shaders, also called pixel shaders, are programs that are executed per fragment (pixel) on the GPU.The ogles2.library 3.2 and Warp3D Nova 1.86 are required. Today Juha "Capehill" Niemimaki has released version 1.23. Changes:
  • Start using stb_image_write.h to save PNG screenshot.
  • Add LOAD_PROJECT and SAVE_SCREENSHOT ARexx commands.
  • Make About window asynchronous.
  • Add BORDERLESS tooltype.
  • Remove support for ogles2.library versions older than 3.0
  • Disable vertical flipping of FBOs when ogles2.library version is greater than 3.1.
  • Remove workarounds for older library versions.
(dr)

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12.Aug.2022
Amiga.org (forum)


AmigaKit: ZuluSCSI Mini
ZuluSCSI is a file-based hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator (amiga-news.de reported). Besides the original, AmigaKit now also offers a "mini" variant, which can be plugged directly into devices with a DB25 SCSI connector. (snx)

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12.Aug.2022
Twitter


Preview video: Jump'n Run "L'Abbaye des Morts"
The developer 'UltraNarwhal', among others Duckstroma, has released a current snapshot of its extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead", which is currently in development (amiga-news.de reported). Like Duckstroma, the Jump'n Run is developed with the Scorpion Engine. (dr)

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12.Aug.2022
AmigaLove-Forum


Operating system: NetBSD 9.3
Version 9.3 of the free and open-source Unix-like operating system NetBSD has been released. Ports are also available for PPC (experimental) and 68k Amiga computers. For the 68k port, wsfb(4) based X11 using amidisplaycc(4) was enabled (global changes).

The project page for 68k Amigas also lists the requirements:
  • Amiga wit 68020 processor or higher with MMU
  • at least 24 MB FastRAM
  • at least 250 MB harddrive space
Further information on the PPC port. (dr)

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11.Aug.2022



Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: Introduction of the game "Settle the World"
At the beginning of June, indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen had started the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, which is running - deadline was extended - until November 1, 2022 (amiga-news.de reported).

In our first article we had introduced the two projects of 'pixelplop'. Today we are talking about "Settle the World" (YouTube video), developed by 'TheoTheoderich'. About his game he tells us the following:

Basically, the game is a turn-based building and trading game in which the goal is to colonize several islands and stay in power for a long period of time. The game is similar to the old DOS/Amiga game Colonization, but has a slightly different approach.

"Settle the World" is a pure multiplayer game without AI, which you play together with up to three other players, one after the other, on one (Amiga) computer. A single player mode is also planned, but it will be even more difficult because then there are no trading partners.

What is "Settle the World" about? The game begins roughly in time with the conquest of the new world. Background of the story:

Two (or up to four) experienced captains feel oppressed in their home country and want more freedom. Without further ado, they organize several ships and gather like-minded people around them to seek their happiness and freedom across the ocean.
he king, however, suspects that his best captains want to defect to his hostile neighboring countries and sends soldiers to arrest the captains and hang them as traitors. Thus, secretly and by night and fog, the group immediately decides to leave the kingdom, knowing full well that they can never return.

After weeks of hardship at sea, the ships reach uninhabited land. Immediately, a dispute breaks out about how to proceed. The group is unable to agree on a leader. Each of the captains involved asserts his claim to leadership. There are heated arguments, and to prevent bloodshed, the captains each decide to find a good place to settle with their ships on their own.

At this point, the gameplay begins:
In order to play at all, the game needs a map. This is calculated using Perlin noise and then provided with (more or less) randomly generated features (bonus fields, such as sheep, gold, wood, etc. and also shipwrecks or abandoned settlements where you can find something). The map is of course not yet revealed to the players!

The map generation takes between 20 and 30 minutes on an unaccelerated Amiga 500. Therefore there will be some included "presets" with appealing maps.

Players can build settlements and field improvements with pioneer units. Settlements serve the production of raw materials and their processing into finished goods. In contrast to "Colonization", the workers of a city are not its inhabitants at the same time. Inhabitants belong to a city. If the food supply is good, the number of inhabitants increases. Increasing population generates additional workers, who can be used on the fields or factory buildings of any own city.
If a city has certain important buildings and "luxury goods", the population can advance in three levels (settler/pioneer class --> worker class --> noble). With each class and a certain number of citizens, higher quality buildings or improved production facilities can be unlocked.




The goal of the whole game is to remain the head of the government for as long as possible. As soon as the first inhabitants of a city have reached the level of the worker class, the citizens demand the establishment of a republic. If you don't set up an electable government, the inhabitants become more dissatisfied with each round until they eventually send the player packing.

The satisfaction of the citizens depends on the ("luxury") buildings available in the cities, such as tavern, theater, marketplace, etc.. And above all according to the availability of ("luxury") goods. Here the settlers/pioneers have the least demand and aristocrats the highest. These satisfaction values are the basic values. In addition, there is how much the citizens trust the president (the players). Trust builds up very slowly, but can be destroyed quickly.




Free elections are held every four years. In each election, there is a competitor who runs against the president. The latter also gains the trust of the citizens with each round. If, for example, the delivery of goods to the city with the most aristocrats falters shortly before an election that was thought to be safe, this has a strong effect on their satisfaction and can be decisive for the election of the competitor. In such a case, it is possible to eliminate the competitor before the election. A new candidate then takes his place, but of course he does not yet enjoy the trust of the population.

Thus, it is still possible to turn the tide shortly before an election. However, eliminating an opposing candidate also has a strong effect on the population's trust in its own president.



Scouts can explore the surrounding area. Abandoned settlements and shipwrecks can be found all over the world. Bandits can be a problem: if they are not defeated, they can roam the land and become a danger to the transport of goods. This whole system is currently still under development. Sound effects or music are missing at the moment, but are planned.

The game is developed under WinUAE with AmiBlitz 3.8 and temporarily on a real Amiga 500+ with FireBird accelerator card. The developer has been working his way into AmiBlitz for about two years. The goal is that "Settle the World" works well on an A1200 with hard disk and 2 MB RAM. As he writes, currently many things are still programmed very simply in the game and therefore very slow. The graphics are all created with PPaint on the Amiga or in WinUAE itself. (dr)

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10.Aug.2022



ACube Systems: Production of Sam460LE boards finished by the end of September
In March, ACube Systems has anounced the begin of the production of the Sam460LE boards in a press release (amiga-news.de reported).

Today the company has announced, that by the end of the September the boards are supposed to be finished. Please read the original press release:

"Dear customers,

We would like to share with you an update about the production of the new Sam460LE. Well, to be short...the boards are expected to be ready by the end of September - yes, THIS September, just in time for AMIGA37 event (HINT: ACube will be present in Mönchengladbach, Germany...so connect the dots...).

We had to overcome many issues that slowed down the production, but now - finger crossed - we managed to fix them all.

Everything is progressing well and the factory will ship the boards at the end of September. We plan to start shipping to our customers shortly after.

Thanks again everyone for your patience and interest.

See you at Amiga37 in Germany!" (dr)

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09.Aug.2022



Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.0
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). A few moments ago version 1.5.0 has been released providing the following changes:
  • FIX: fixed WinUAE-crash in savestate profiler for non-68000 CPUs, and non-bogomem memory configs
  • FIX: savestate controls improved, debug output
  • FIX: screen/resource zoom window now clips to document
(dr)

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09.Aug.2022



AmigaOS 4.1: Enhancer Software 2.2
Six years after the release of the first version of the "Enhancer Software" (amiga-news.de reported) version 2.2 for AmigaOS 4.1 by A-EON Technology has been released today. Existing customers of version 2.x can get it for free via the updater tool. For first-time customers, the digital version is available from AmiStore for about 90 Euro and on CD from AmigaKit, among others, for also 90 Euros plus shipping.

The "Enhancer Software" adds and partially replaces system components in AmigaOS 4.1 to provide more functionality: from basic 2D graphics drivers to a modern 3D graphics subsystem, more advanced utilities, tools, classes and gadgets.

In parallel with the current version 2.2, work has also already begun on the next version, V54, which will represent an even greater leap forward in development. Several components developed for it are already included in the present version 2.2. First and foremost is "Warp3D Nova V54". This upgrade reflects more than a year's worth of development work and provides important new features, speed improvements and bug fixes. It is an essential prerequisite for many new 3D game ports with full shader support, such as Doom3 (amiga-news.de reported). Also support for the soon to be released NovaBridge software has been added, which can be used to run old Warp3D games (amiga-news.de reported). This release will be chargeable. br>
The OpenGL ES library has been updated to version 3.3 and contains many rewritten and optimized parts which are also required for new 3D applications like SCUMMVM, SDL2 and GL4ES.

The RadeonRX 2D graphics driver has been updated to include GART- support, which provides additional 3D performance as well as many additional optimizations.

In addition, numerous programs, datatypes, classes, preferences, commodities and commands have been updated. In the past time the sense or nonsense of new versions for commands or classes was discussed and partly ignored by the users. As Matthew Leaman from A-EON explains to us, there is a basic distinction to be made:
"The classes are mandatory to install and are crucial for running the applications like X-Dock, MultiEdit, Multiviewer, Power Prefs, etc. They are extended versions of the AmigaOS 4.1 classes. For example, the Tabbed Gadget class supports draggable tabs, while Hyperion's Clicktab does not. The Toolbar Gadget class has many advanced features that the old Speedbar Gadget does not." Since there is no reliance on Hyperion's classes being updated and released regularly, "we developed our own gadget classes. We want to be able to develop our applications independently with the building blocks (classes) that give users the most functionality."

The commands included in AmigaOS 4 are from Commodore source code that is part of the third-party legal dispute. The next version of Enhancer Software V54 will be a self-booting distribution. It will require a set of native commands to achieve self-boot. As Matthew continues, "we have spent the last 3 years developing these commands from scratch. When we intiially released them, some bugs were found and we have since rapidly resolved every bug report that users have given us. We have got to a point now where these commands are mature and work well - with the added bonus of not being tainted by legal issues."
An added advantage, he continued saying, is "that the same command code base is now running for Classic Amiga's. The commands work very well with even Kickstart 3.0. They also offer many advanced features over the standard commands. So we have achieved development Commands set for both PPC and Classic which share the same code base and provide up to date features."
The changes in detail:

Classes
  • InfoWindow Class v53.15 (updated)
  • ListViewer Gadget v54.25 (updated)
  • MediaDeck Gadget v53.9 (updated)
  • Tabbed Gadget v54.455 (updated)
Commands
  • AddDatatypes v54.10 (updated)
  • AddBuffers v54.6 (updated)
  • Assign v54.7 (updated)
  • Copy v54.11 (updated)
  • Dir v54.5 (updated)
  • dt2ico v54.1 (added)
  • List v54.15 (updated)
  • MakeDir v54.11 (updated)
  • SystemReboot v54.1 (updated)
  • Version v54.15 (updated)
Commodities
  • Exchanger v54.4 (updated)
  • InfoWB v53.43 (updated)
Datatypes
  • AK-BMP v54.4 (updated)
  • AK-ILBM v54.16 (updated)
  • AK-JFIF v54.16 (updated)
  • Sound Datatype v54.14 (updated)
  • WAV Datatype v54.14 (updated)
Kickstart
  • RadeonRX v2.11 (updated)
Libraries
  • Datatypes Library v54.15 (updated)
  • OpenGL ES 2.0 Library v3.3 (updated)
  • RadeonHD_drv_video Library v1.11 (added)
  • RadeonRX_drv_video Library v1.11 (updated)
  • VA Library v1.11 (updated)
  • Warp2D Library 1.5 (updated)
  • Warp3D Nova Library v54.16 (updated)
  • Warp3D Nova GCN Library v54.16 (updated)
  • Warp3D Nova SI Library v54.16 (updated)
Preferences
  • Notifications v54.5 (updated)
  • Power v1.7 (updated)
  • Sound v53.33 (updated)
  • Time v53.22 (updated)
System
  • CLI v54.5 (updated)
  • Format v54.13 (updated)
  • NotificationServer v54.5 (updated)
Utilities
  • AmiDVD v1.53 (updated)
  • Archiver v53.26 (updated)
  • Calendar v53.31 (updated)
  • Clock v53.31 (updated)
  • InfoWindow v1.4 (updated)
  • MultiEdit v2.17 (updated)
  • MultiViewer v3.18 (updated)
  • TuneNet v2.18 (updated)
  • X-Dock v2.54 (updated)
(dr)

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09.Aug.2022



Aminet uploads until 06.08.2022
The following files have been added until 06.08.2022 to Aminet:
LuettjeBookholler.lha    biz/misc   1.7M  OS4 Little Personal Finance program
ign-addon-ods.lha        biz/spread 209K  OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
TilesScrollDemo.lha      dev/amos   206K  68k A simple tiles scroll demo
RescueLander.lha         game/actio 45K   68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
F1GP2022Carset.lha       game/data  14K       2022 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha                  game/edit  3.3M  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  3.8M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
rcross.lha               game/race  8.6M  68k RCross - RC car racing agains...
StefADV.lha              game/text  52K   68k Little italian text adventure
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.9M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.4M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
IntsyPX.lha              text/bfont 5K        A complete 8pt font. 
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B10.zip     text/bfont 2.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B19.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-07.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-10.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-19.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
avalanche.lha            util/arc   89K   AOS ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
patchas.lha              util/boot  21K   68k Fix a bug in AmigaStart
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  1.5M  68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
dintwm.lha               util/wb    27K   68k Dynamic Intuition Window Manager
perciman_68k.lha         util/wb    1.5M  68k manage contact and other info...
perciman_AROS.lha        util/wb    1.7M  x86 manage contact and other info...
perciman_MOS.lha         util/wb    1.6M  MOS manage contact and other info...
perciman_OS4.lha         util/wb    2.0M  OS4 manage contact and other info...
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09.Aug.2022



OS4Depot uploads until 06.08.2022
The following files have been added until 06.08.2022 to OS4Depot:
libpcre.lha              dev/lib 276kb 4.1 PCRE (Perl-compatible regular ex...
libpcre2.lha             dev/lib 263kb 4.0 PCRE2 (Perl-compatible regular e...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb   4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mednafen.lha             emu/gam 8Mb   4.1 Mednafen Emulator
scummvm.lha              gam/mis 101Mb 4.1 Run supported classic adventure/...
scummvm-src.zip          gam/mis 169Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
mce.lha                  gam/uti 4Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
speedtest-cli.lha        net/mis 157kb 4.1 Measure you system download and ...
luettjebookholler.lha    off/mis 2Mb   4.1 Little Personal Finance program
ign-addon-ods.lha        off/spr 209kb 4.1 Ignition addon for access ods-files
avalanche.lha            uti/arc 89kb  4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
avalanche_deu.lha        uti/arc 11kb  4.0 german catalog for avalanche 1.7
avalanche_ita.lha        uti/arc 5kb   4.0 Italian translation for Avalanche
scummvm-tools.lha        uti/fil 3Mb   4.1 A collection of various tools fo...
scummvm-tools-src.zip    uti/fil 2Mb   4.1 ScummVM Tools Source
perciman.lha             uti/wor 2Mb   4.0 Person Contact and Information M...
amitube.lha              vid/pla 1005k 4.0 Direct stream and download YouTu...
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09.Aug.2022



AROS Archives uploads until 06.08.2022
The following files have been added until 06.08.2022 to AROS Archives:
perciman.i386-aros.lha       off/mis 2Mb   manage contact and other informa...
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09.Aug.2022



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 06.08.2022
The following files have been added until 06.08.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
ScummVM_2.6.0.lha         Games/Adventure           2D Point-and-Click adve...
OpenMRac.lha              Games/Race                OpenMRac is a split-scr...
PerCIMan_0.7.5.lha        Office/Organizer          A program to manage con...
TinyGL-Update-2022-08-... System/Update             First public MorphOS Ti...
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09.Aug.2022



WHDLoad: New installers until 06.08.2022
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 06.08.2022: (snx)

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09.Aug.2022
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Virus Help Team: Amiga Virus Encyclopedia updated
Last week Virus Help Team made a major update of the Amiga Virus Encyclopedia. (snx)

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09.Aug.2022



AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 6 of 'WhatIFF?' published
WhatIFF? is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is mainly intended for users who want to be creative with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported).

Now issue 6 is available providing these topics among others:

Reviews:
  • Amiga Lightwave 3D book
  • Infinity Music Player is on the
  • AmiSSL 5.1 for classic Amigas
  • TheA500 Mini
Tutorials:
  • ADF's with AmigaOS4.1
  • 5th eposide about LightWave 3.5
  • 5th episode about Brilliance
  • Pros and cons of using floppy disks Gotek drives
  • Installing an FPU onto an Amiga 1200 motherboard
  • Tutorial on ARexx
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09.Aug.2022
itch.io


Jump'n Run: Duckstroma V1.01 released
The Amiga version of Duckstroma was released at the end of June. Here, as duck Aura, you have the task of delivering eight floppy disks to a customer. To fend off all kinds of hostile enemies, you can jump on weak opponents and lay an egg to reach higher places (YouTube video). Version 1.01, which is now available, fixes a few bugs and also provides a manual. The game requires 1MB RAM and can be purchased for about 3 Euros (or more). (dr)

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08.Aug.2022



Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.1 beta5
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga.

In the current version the developer 'mithrendal' has integrated the latest vAmigaCore2.1b5. Likewise, it is now possible to load the old Snapshots game saves with a new vAmigaCore version. This has been solved by the fact that vAmigaWeb can now hold several versions of the vAmigaCore in parallel. Via the settings you can now reactivate vAmigaCore versions already installed in the past and continue playing the saved games. Detailed changes:
  • supports parallel installation of different versions of vAmigaCore; from now on old snapshots can be run by switching back to an older installed version of vAmigaCore
  • updated to latest vAmigaCore version v2.1.beta5
  • supports ECS denise (SuperHires modes)
  • improved memory managment ... support for hdfs with a size of 256Mb (e.g. classic_wb project)
  • introduced df0/dh0 eject buttons
  • fixed a severe bug where vAmigaWeb stopped accepting any adf or hdf file
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08.Aug.2022



Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R61 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).

Since our last news item, the author has focused on the Amiga, especially in the version 1.2 R61 released today, and among other things added Deluxe Paint ILBM/IFF format as well as support for Amiga QuickBasic (AQB). Detailed changelog:

R61
  • new Deluxe Paint ILBM/IFF format
  • new Amiga QuickBasic (AQB) support - right click over thumbnail view to select export options. use RES Text Export
  • fixed some issues with select tool - will not allow you to select out of work area bounds now!
  • fixed QuickPascal bug not outputting correct palette array constant
  • Added Overwrite file prompt - it would overwrite files without telling you they exist
  • Added prompt when selecting exit/close button - just in case you clicked on by accident
  • RES Text Include drop down list allows you to select various extensions (c,bas,h,pas,inc,bi)
  • grenade constants for Amiga formats c/basic/pascal
R60
  • R60 brings QB64/Freebasic RGB/RGBA formats - with auto loading into _NewImage/CreateImage variables
  • some bug fixes - I think i was generating basic labels for all the languages instead of just basic in RES Text Export - fixed!
  • Created QB64 as separate option now. Use this to use the RGB/RGBA formats, use QBasic\QuickBasic to use PUT for legacy screen modes (CGA/EGA/VGA)
  • Freebasic also has 2 options now. Freebasic QB mode - use this when in QB compatibility mode. Use Freebasic for RGB\RGBA modes
  • -Map Editor export options has QB64 and Freebasic as options now. This was done because Freebasic needs variables defined prior to use and no period "." in variable names when not in QB mode. So both modes of Freebasic use under scores to sperate fields. eg. Imagename_Width = 16
R59
  • Fixed Clip Scroll Issue when top left of work area is clipped and scrolled right
  • QB64/Freebasic export of RGBA now properly displays ImageName.Size variable, also added labels for images
  • QB64 users see example on how to load RGBA/RGB for _putimage using the the RayLib RGBA/RGB export options (you do not need RayLib for this)
  • Sprite import now allows JPG/BMP and ICO files. These are already part of Lazarus runtime anyway (zero cost feature)
(dr)

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