07.Aug.2022
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Two new OmniPort multiport adapters for Amiga 1200
Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to offer two new versions of the OmniPort multiport adapter for the Amiga 1200 (amiga-news.de reported).
On the one hand, it is a version for the Vampire 2 accelerator and
on the other hand, one for the ScanPlus Scandoubler or for the BVision
graphics card.
The multiport adapters route all available interfaces of the mentioned
hardware cleanly out via the expansion port of the Amiga 1200.
Vampire 2 Version
With this version, the HDMI and the network port of the Vampire 2
to the outside. The required network module is already installed on the
OmniPort available. In addition, two USB ports can be connected to the
outside if a USB card is available.
ScanPlus/BVision Version
With this version, the VGA port of the ScanPlus/BVision is connected to the
outside In addition, two USB ports can be led to the outside if a USB card
is present.
Matching cables are partly standard and partly optional
present. (dr)
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07.Aug.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Update of ignition-OpenDocument plugin
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. In version 0.36 the handling of text attributes was bug fixed. (dr)
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07.Aug.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.84
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import.
In version 1.84, UTF characters are now converted to Amiga characters, for example umlauts. And CSV entries can also be categorized without purpose. (dr)
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07.Aug.2022
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Evoke demo party: Demo "Talking Heads" by Spreadpoint
This weekend the demo party 'Evoke' is taking place in Cologne (amiga-news.de reported). The demo group 'Spreadpoint' has now published their 'Talking Heads' 64kB intro contest entry for 'Alternative Platforms' on YouTube. (dr)
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07.Aug.2022
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Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: Introduction of two entries
At the beginning of June, indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen had started the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, which will run until September 1, 2022 (amiga-news.de reported).
We would like to introduce two contributions of 'pixelplop': "Deathmine" and "Capacitor's Revenge". Both were written with Blitz Basic 2.10 installed under WinUAE. The developer had learned Blitz Basic on the Amiga in the early 90's and after a 25 year break now found his way back to it.
"Deathmine" (YouTube video) is basically a platform game, with an original idea: the player must escape from the mine as quickly as possible before his oil lamp runs out. Each time you die, you leave a light source in the place where you died, and you return to the last checkpoint. You have an infinite number of lives, but each death costs the player time. As the player, you can only see as far as the lamp in your hand or the stationary ones attached to the walls illuminate the environment. The development is in a relatively early stage.
More complete is "Capacitor's Revenge" (YouTube video). It's a remake of Transistor's Revenge, a shoot'em-up game that came out in 1983 for the BBC Micro Computer. A conversion of this game had been planned by him for a long time: here the player takes on the role of a microchip, in his conversion that of the 68000 processor of an Amiga 500+, which is attacked by electrical components such as resistors and capacitors. One defends oneself by sending electrical impulses along the conductive paths on which the enemies approach. When an enemy reaches the chip, it is destroyed and a life is lost. (dr)
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06.Aug.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 30 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming 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 reported). Now episode 30 was published. (dr)
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06.Aug.2022
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Farming simulation: Fourth beta version of Farmiga released (update)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). A few moments ago, the fourth beta version (06.08.2022) was released. Changes:
- A farmer has been added to the game who needs to be provided with food and drink. His age and state of contentment are shown in the picture.
- The aim of the game is for the farmer to survive four ages (young, middle-aged, old and grandfather). Then he retires. If the farmer's health declines, his sad face is shown on the photo, and if his health declines completely, the game is lost.
- Additional cultivation of coffee and tea, which can be sold or drunk by the farmer. Coffee or tea with sugar quenches much of the peasants' thirst.
- New mill and cooking sounds.
- Full game time of 8 tax periods.
Hardware requirements: 1,5MB ChipRAM bzw. 1MB Chip + 0,5MB FastRAM.
Update: (12:04, 08.08.22, dr)
The developer uploaded a new adf file today, which now actually contains the sounds of the mill and the cooker. (dr)
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06.Aug.2022
MorphZone
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MorphOS: TinyGL update V2202-08-05
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen has offered a Bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link which has been successfully financed (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released a first update of TinyGL which provides the following changes:
- Support for OpenGL "ARB" programs.
- Support for cube maps (R200 only for now. R300/R400/R500 will have cube map support added in the next update).
- Work has been done towards making TinyGL OpenGL 2.1 compliant.
- A much improved SDK, making it easier for developers to create and port OpenGL applications on MorphOS.
- Many bugs in both TinyGL and the drivers have been fixed.
You can find a more detailed description of the changes in the Readme file of the archive. (dr)
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05.Aug.2022
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2000, part 2
At the end of July, Epsilon reported in his blog 'Epsilon's World' on the restoration of his Amiga 2000. Today he has published part two, describing the installation of the 'Picasso IV' graphics card, a real-time clock and of Picasso 96. (dr)
[News message: 05. Aug. 2022, 18:43] [Comments: 0]
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05.Aug.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: M.A.C.E. Tower Defense
Entwickler X have released another game of this genre with "M.A.C.E. Tower Defense". Your mission this time is to defend your home planet against alien invaders as the "Military Alliance of Common Earth".
According to the archive name, Warp3D Nova is required, further details about the system requirements under AmigaOS 4 are not given. For Windows, a 2 GHz processor and 2 GB of RAM are mentioned. (snx)
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05.Aug.2022
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: Interface XXXI in Kiel (Germany) on 20.08.2022
On Saturday, August 20, 2022, retro-computing event "Interface" will take place again in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany, organized by Vintage Computer Club, Amiga-Club Schleswig-Holstein and Computer-Club Klausdorf. Registration by e-mail is recommended.
Details can be found in our german news-item. (snx)
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04.Aug.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Kernel 5.19 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Right after the release of the finalen Linux Kernel 5.19, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered it for download in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum where also a screenshot is available. (dr)
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03.Aug.2022
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.7 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young has released version 1.7 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2 (but it has also been tested under AmigaOS 4), because it uses a new window.class, so it might not work with older OS3 versions. Changes:
- Avalanche now registers as a commodity
- Added Tools menu item "Extract here" for quick extraction
- Fix initial state of "confirm quit" and "ignore fs" menu items
- Warning corrections
(dr)
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03.Aug.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Backbone game: Operacion Fallida
With "Operacion Fallida" José 'Jojo073' Gonzáles has published another game. As always, it was created using Backbone, which is at the expense of speed.
In the two levels of the current title, you have to fight your way as a soldier through a World War II bunker in which, until recently, dangerous alien technology was being researched. (snx)
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03.Aug.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Adventure interpreter ScummVM 2.6.0 (Update)
The adventure interpreter ScummVM supports nine additional games in version 2.6. Further changes include various bug fixes and a new graphical overview of the games in the launcher.
Update: (19:50, 03.08.22, snx)
Meanwhile also the MorphOS version is available at the ScummVM website. (snx)
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03.Aug.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Video: Downfall Amiga, after Commodore
With "Downfall Amiga, after Commodore" Ravi Abbott, who also writes for Amiga Addict, has created a documentary that deals with the decline of the Amiga. The video starts with the Amiga CDł˛ and then turns to the events around Escom and Gateway. (snx)
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02.Aug.2022
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How I rediscovered my floppy disks
What is, among many other nice things, the advantage of having a baby? You get to know your surroundings completely new! In our bookshelf in the living room, IKEA of course ;), there are two separate compartments on the bottom floor: one is filled with magazines, hiking maps and travel books, the other with my two Amiga floppy disk boxes and quite a few boxes.
Currently, my offspring has developed two preferences: to completely clear out both shelves :) He has a favorite with the hiking maps, which are unfolded with pleasure and meanwhile don't consist of only one piece, as well as with the floppy disk boxes. There are two of them: the Verbatim "Deluxe" version, which offers a small plastic cover for each disk (like boeder) and the Profex. Here is my complete collection:
Now I don't know if it's sacrilege to keep floppy disks not in professional plastic boxes and slipcases, but just in the original cardboard boxes, but it was the start for me to dig back into old memories.
Relatively vividly and well I can remember the various rummage boxes and walls in the local electronics store, in which the disks of various suppliers were presented. And every time the question: do I take the cheap no-name parts or do I treat myself to a box of the brand suppliers - as you can see from the colorful mixture, I then gladly reached for boeder & Co and treated myself to variety. Even in the 90s one was already on sustainability, see KAO. And the no-name boxes were semi-professionally glued together and thus used as a kind of big box.
Even if one or the other may not believe it, but a considerable part of the floppy disks was equipped with software from the Aminet. Of course, I ran a modem on my Amiga 1200! First a 28.8k modem, which drove me crazy, because I never managed to get a noise-free dial-up, and later finally a 56k modem. At that time, in the middle of the 90s, I was studying and where could I get fast and free - yes, at that time dial-up at home still cost something ;) - download software from the Aminet? Of course, in the computer cabinet there. It felt like there was a new version of Voyager and Co every week and you could hardly keep up...
Are floppy disks now just an outdated greeting from times long past? I have to admit, it's been a while since I put the last floppy disk into the 1200 (but that also has to do with the current "computer offspring"). On the one hand, of course, they consume a lot of space. For the little bit that's on there...On the other hand, it's very pleasant to have an antithesis to this "WLAN/streaming/'file-shuffling' world. And even if it might seem contradictory regarding the 'wild copy times' on the Amiga: doesn't such a disk better symbolize the efforts and value behind the development of the software? In any case my curiosity is aroused and I will rummage around in the boxes... (dr)
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01.Aug.2022
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.2
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Today version 1.2 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
- gw read, gw convert: Allow PLL parameters to be specified
- Try fallback conservative PLL on difficult tracks
- Kryoflux: Emit info block with Greaseweazle and frequency details
(dr)
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01.Aug.2022
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Video: Data exchange between Amiga and Electronic Organizer
The video channel AmigaLove shows in its latest video how the data exchange between an Electronic Organizer, in this case a Sharp Wizard OZ-8600, and an Amiga succeeds. More information about the background can be found in the corresponding article. (dr)
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01.Aug.2022
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Jump'n Run: Demo version of NinjFeratu
The busy developers of Amiten Games - among others 'EmotiWorld' and 'CyberPunk Alien City' (amiga-news.de reported) - are in the process of writing another Jump'n Run for Amigas called 'NinjFeratu' using their 'AmiGen' game engine (YouTube video). A demo version is now available, in which you can play the first three levels. As a vampire hunter you try to avenge the loss of your family. The game should run on all ECS-Amigas with 1MB chip ram. An Amiga 1200 is recommended, but not mandatory. (dr)
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01.Aug.2022
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R58 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 message, the generation of BASIC code has been further improved. A corresponding example code has been published as RPG demo and explained in a new YouTube video. Detailed changes
- Fixed paint bug - caused the program to freeze if clicking outside of image/grid area
- grenade constants for Amiga formats c/basic/pascal
- generates map code loader for basic (dims and loads map code into array)
- generate constants for modex dos lib lbm/pbm formats (c/pascal)
- when exporting RES Text Include files RM will add variables and assign width/height (image1.width = 16)
- Also with PUT image format RM will now build stub that creates an array and reads the image data. so now you can do put(0,0),Image1 and it will display your images without having to write the code.
- QB64 and Freebasic Raylib support. You can also use the RGB/RGBA data with _PutImage (not regular PUT) if you are using QB64.
(dr)
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01.Aug.2022
Puni - Gaming on AmigaOS 4 admin (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of July
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published a richly illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of hardware and software for AmigaOS 4 in the month of Jul. (dr)
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01.Aug.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.4.9 (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 version 1.4.6 and 1.4.7 have been released providing the following changes:
- NEW: memory viewer: track CPU data
- NEW: screen: show time, enable/disable display window, more pixel sources, DMACON, BPLCON
- NEW: show CPU registers in assembly view
Update: (01.08.2022, 17:03, dr)
Today, also versions 1.4.8 and 1.4.9 have been released:
- FIX: fix 2 seconds delay when starting WinUAE
- NEW: new debug functions debug_load, debug_save in gcc8_c_support.h
- NEW: fixed template project's TakeSystem/FreeSystem to be compatible with AROS
- NEW: Use AROS if no Kickstart ROM is configured
- CHG: update AROS ROM in WinUAE
(dr)
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