08.Feb.2022
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Shooter: Playable demo version of 'Cyberpunk Alien City'
Cyberpunk Alien City (video) is a mixture of Run'n Gun and Space Invaders: The player has to defend a city against attacking aliens. Various weapon systems, horizontal scrolling (dual playfield with four bitplanes each) and 50 frames per second are offered. The game runs on any Amiga with two megabytes of RAM, an A1200 with some Fast RAM is recommended. (cg)
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07.Feb.2022
Roland Wintgen (E-Mail)
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Conversion instructions: Joystick Competition Pro Extra USB on Amiga
At the title link, Michael Steil has updated his conversion instructions by which you can connect the Competition Pro Extra USB joystick with a standard DB9 connector to the Amiga - optionally even without giving up the USB interface. (snx)
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06.Feb.2022
Artur Jarosik
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Real-time strategy: Command & Conquer is ported to the Amiga
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness, besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. Now, as a contribution to the AmiGameJam, he has started to port the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga and named it "Vanilla Conquer".
The video published the day before yesterday shows the beta version of his game. As Artur Jarosik explained to us, the game is primarily intended for Amigas upgraded with an Apollo processor. However, it could also be playable on a 68060 processor with a grafics card with the music and sound effects turned off. Since the audio code is very resource hungry, it is explicitly written for V4 SAGA audio.
If you want to support the author, you can do so on his Patreon website. (dr)
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06.Feb.2022
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.6
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM.
This new version 0.9.6 provides many changes. Among other things, some games can now run on an Amiga with only 0.5MB chip RAM (Fast RAM still required). Also the loading of levels has been optimized and it is now much faster to switch between levels during the game. (dr)
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06.Feb.2022
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Aminet uploads until 05.02.2022
The following files have been added until 05.02.2022 to Aminet:
mrwolf.lha comm/tcp 32K OS4 Pool-friendly SNTP time sync ...
googoo1_2022.lha demo/sound 48K 68k Chip-music pack by Zenon
gcc3210.lha dev/gcc 3.8M Compiler for DSP3210 chips
MCE.lha game/edit 3.3M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.6M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 22M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
WhatIFF1.02.lha mags/misc 162K What IFF? #1.02 - January-2022
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 1.4M MOS Sega Genesis and MasterSystem...
MED.RainyDays.lha mods/techn 373K MED.RainyDays
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.7M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
MMV8_Player.lha mus/play 34K 68k MusicMaker V8 Player
Pacman_Joy_C4D.lha pix/3dobj 25M Pacman Greek Joystick C4D Object
amigangwallpaper.lha pix/back 13M AmigaNG Wallpapers
ASE2019_1.90.lha text/edit 169K 68k Text editor
AmiLion.lha util/app 6.1M 68k AmiLion, a Rabbit Hole App
CompareDirs_OS4.lha util/cli 417K OS4 Compare two dirs for diff. fi...
CompareDirsItaCat.lha util/cli 62K Italian catalog for CompareDi...
AFortune.lha util/shell 9.3M OS4 AFortune write random sentenc...
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...
(snx)
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06.Feb.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.02.2022
The following files have been added until 05.02.2022 to OS4Depot:
frozenat.lha dev/deb 4kb 4.0 find out where a program is hang...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
openurl.lha net/mis 531kb 4.0 Get that URL!
comparedirs.lha uti/fil 417kb 4.1 Compare two dirs for different f...
amigattext.lha uti/mis 3Mb 4.1 Shows German ARD/ZDF Teletext fr...
perciman.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Person Contact and Information M...
(snx)
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06.Feb.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.02.2022
The following files have been added until 05.02.2022 to AROS Archives:
perciman.i386-aros.lha off/mis 2Mb manage contact and other informa...
(snx)
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06.Feb.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.02.2022
The following files have been added until 05.02.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_2.0.20_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.2...
MCE_13.5.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
PerCIMan_0.7.4.lha Office/Organizer A program to manage con...
(snx)
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06.Feb.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.02.2022
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 05.02.2022:
- 2022-02-05 updated: Hawkeye (Thalamus) patch redone, new imager (game has to be reinstalled), access fault fixed, CD32 joypad support, high score load/save, more trainer options, source code included (Info)
- 2022-02-02 new: Lemmings - More! (AmigaJay) done by Psygore (Info)
- 2022-02-02 new: Knightmare (Konami) (Hoffman) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
(snx)
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06.Feb.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: internal keyboard adapter PS2toAmiga
Jari Tulilahti from Finland has published his project at the title link for using a PS/2 keyboard for the Amiga. The adapter, based on the ATTiny85 microcontroller, is placed within the keyboard. (snx)
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06.Feb.2022
Amiga WARP Organization (ANF)
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Amiga WARP calendar for 2022
As every year, also for 2022 Croatian Amiga WARP Organization published a calendar in English and Croatian language as PDF files. The calendar is made completely on Amiga with Amiga software. This year Amiga WARP Organization celebrate their 25th birthday.
Download:
WARP_Calendar_2022_ENG.pdf (2 MB)
WARP_Calendar_2022.pdf (2 MB) (snx)
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06.Feb.2022
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Scene World: Video interview with Andreas Escher (Rainbow Arts)
Scene World has published a video interview with Andreas Escher of Rainbow Arts. There the computer graphic artist (e.g. Turrican) tells that in the past he always drew the graphics for all platforms on the Amiga. (snx)
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06.Feb.2022
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Apollo-Team: Apollo V2 Accelerators Support Statement
Press release:
Dear V2 users,
Apollo V2-series have been an extremely successful and hugely loved Amiga accelerator since 2014.
Vast amounts of Amiga’s were resurrected from a lonely existence in the attic by “Vampirising” with the V2-600, V2-500 and V2-1200 cards featuring the powerful AMMX 68080 CPU.
Last year the Apollo Team declared the V2 accelerators End-of-Sale and introduced the new V4 range for Amiga 500/1000/2000 (Firebird), Amiga 1200 (Icedrake) and Amiga 4000 (Kraken) (amiga-news.de reported).
In this Support Statement we want to give full clarity to our Apollo Vampire V2 user base about the end of the Roadmap for the Apollo V2 accelerators.
Fixes:
Apollo Team has always been and will always be 100% focused on compatibility, giving our users the best Amiga experience.
We continue to collect, analyse and mitigate reported issues from our users, specifically any experiences in game & demo incompatibilities. The recent maintenance v2.15 ApolloCore release for all V2-series shows our commitment and loyalty to V2 community.
For the foreseeable future the Apollo Team will keep bringing new “maintenance” ApolloCore release to V2 accelerators.
Features:
The physical limits of the possibilities in the V2-Series FPGA have been reached. This means the current functionality will be frozen, including the support for targeted OS platforms.
In practice, this means there are no new features to be expected. The V2 range will NOT support any other OS than Amiga OS3.x. Users that want to experience all new developments in ApolloOS, including the ApolloBoot multi-OS solution running up to 10 operating systems, are encouraged to look at the new Apollo V4 accelerators.
We hope that this Support Statement gives the needed clarity on the remaining Roadmap for the V2 accelerators. Please give us your feedback or tips for bug-fixes on the Apollo Discord channel: v2-series. (dr)
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05.Feb.2022
Twitter
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Shoot'em up: Fifth demo version of Jackal
NeesoGames has released the fifth demo version (YouTube video) of its game a href="https://neesogames.itch.io/jackal-amiga-port">Jackal, created with the Scorpion Engine. The shoot 'em up was also submitted as an entry for AmiGameJam 2021. Changes since fourth demo version:
- Game Over screen and music
- Bomber plane dropping bombs (Level 2)
- Golden statues shoot missiles (Level 2)
- Level 2 boss fight
- Credits after level2 result screen (to complete the game loop)
- Bugfixes and improvements
(dr)
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05.Feb.2022
Discord
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Video interview with AmigaDOS creators
The YouTube channel The Digital Orphanage has done an interview with Dr Tim King and his wife Jessica about their important contribution to the release of the Amiga 1000 computer. Without the TRIPOS operating system, the release of the Amiga would have been significantly delayed. The interview was recorded on 1 October 2021. (dr)
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05.Feb.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 25 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. Now the episode 25 was published, which is also about sprites and its collision detection.
(dr)
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04.Feb.2022
Twitter
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Emulator: WinUAE 4.9.1
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been updated to version 4.9.1. Changes:
Bug fixes of version 4.9.0
- JIT indirect was unstable.
- JIT enabled + emulated (not uaegfx) RTG board corruption was possible in certain situations.
- Direct 3D 11 mode shader buffer leak.
- x86 AT bridgeboard (A2286 and A2386SX) boot crash.
- PCem RTG board 15 and 16-bit lores modes didn’t horizontally double correctly.
- Remove interlace artifact option added 1 scanline offset to bitplanes and sprites.
- Custom chipset and programmed display mode updates and fixes.
Older bug fixes
- Mouse would start moving erratically if emulator has been running continuously more than 10 hours.
- Integer scaling only worked correctly if horizontal (lores, hires, superhires) and vertical resolution (non-doubled, doubled) matched.Filtered lores had wrong colors if host graphics mode was 16-bit.
- NTSC mode and software switch to PAL: display was incorrectly vertically stretched.
- Software YUV based filters had bad colors (32-bit only)
- Paula configured for 4us (GCR) mode but normal 2us MFM disk in drive: disk index reporting was unreliable.
Updates
- Programmed display mode improvements (positioning, blanking etc)
- uaegfx Picasso96 overlay now works correctly with screen dragging.
New features
- It is now possible to type (almost) normally in warp mode. Keyboard key (if non-qualifier key) presses are released immediately in warp mode.
- Epson printer emulation does not anymore print each page as a separate document.
- Added IDE scsi.device disable hack. Makes booting noticeably quicker on OS39 and newer KS versions if mainboard IDE is not needed.
- PCem Cirrus Logic SVGA emulation planar support enabled. Picasso96 supports 4bit/16 color planar mode.
- "Default" filter and integer scale filters now automatically double horizontal or vertically if horizontal and vertical resolutions are different (for example lores + vertical doubling)
(dr)
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04.Feb.2022
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 2.2
At the beginning of October, developer 'jasonsbeer' had announced revision 2.0 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX'. Now he has released revision 2.2 on his GitHub website, which adds a TICK header with three options for generating a TICK signal. (dr)
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04.Feb.2022
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Mini-game: Demo version of EmotiWorld
Although Amiten Games continues to devote most of their time to their main project CyberPunk Alien City, there is still time for smaller side projects: In the course of a Spanish-language AMOS tutorial on the use of tiles, a mini-game called EmotiWorld was created, which is currently available in a demo version 0.3 and already contains three levels (YouTube video). (dr)
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04.Feb.2022
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Unsatisfactory Software: Updates of tools
In the last few days Unsatisfactory Software has updated some of its tools:
FACTS is the first GUI-based clock synchronization program for the Amiga. It logs on to any NTP server and uses either the time of day, time (tcp/udp) or SNTP services to keep the Amiga clock accurate. The tool has been updated to version 5.10 for AmigaOS as of Kickstart 2.0.4, which includes improvements to keep NTP pool usage as well as a complete overhaul of the time calculation to improve accuracy.
Mr.Wolf is the official successor of the clock synchronisation program YoctoFacts (yfacts) for AmigaOS 4 and now offers an built-in SNTP client.
With Avalanche Unsatisfactory Software has released a simple, graphical ReAction GUI for the unarchiving system XAD. Version 1.3 of this has already been released, which now also allows multiple files to be selected. (dr)
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03.Feb.2022
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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7-bit: Firmware update for Wicher 1211
7-bit has released a firmware update for the Wicher 1211 memory expansion card for the Amiga 1200 today, which includes fixes for the RAM controller and adds an SPI controller to the ZorroII card chain. (dr)
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03.Feb.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Void-Update für den AmigaOne X1000/5000
In the corresponding post in the Hyperion forum from the end of last week Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky reports about a new image of the Linux distribution Void Linux for the AmigaOne X1000 and 5000. (dr)
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02.Feb.2022
Gunnar Kanold
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Programming contest: BASIC 10Liner Contest
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some sound or colorful lines by writing little BASIC programs.
The organizers wrote: "The BASIC 10Liner Contest started 2011 as a party fun at the NOMAM meeting in Northern Germany. NOMAM means 'Not only marvelous Atari machinery' and is an annual meeting from classic computer enthusiasts. The visitors of the meeting decided to hold a little contest: Write a program in 10 lines of BASIC on Atari Computers! We had loads of fun with programming the whole weekend. 2013 we decided to repeat the contest. This time only games were allowed. In 2014 we opened the 10Liner contest also for programmers who did not visit to the meeting. Owners of other 8 bit computer requested to open the contest for their machines. We met the wish and opened it for all 8 bit computers."
This year the 11th Edition of BASIC 10 Liner Contest takes place. And also Amigas as 16 bit computers can partiticipate: In the category "Wild" those contributions can be sent in. You can get some inspiration from contributions of the previous years. Additional to many little games, two programs for the Amiga were also written: In 2018 Matteo Trevisan wrote an "Amiga BASIC Login" (fourth post) and in 2019 an "Amiga 500 Chatbot", listet as first post.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 26, 2022, 6 p.m. CET. Award ceremony: Saturday, April 9, 2022 at NOMAM. A detailed overview of the submitted programs can be found at bunsen.itch.io. (dr)
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02.Feb.2022
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Text viewer: NEXT 4.1
In 2002 Jürgen Klawitter reported us for the last time a new version of his text viewer NEXT (version 3.5), the last public version 4.0 was from May 31, 2011. But as the author writes, NEXT is much more than a pure text viewer: it is also Amigaguide replacement, HTML offline browser, DataTypes viewer, uncruncher, unpacker of archives, file converter, print utility and some more. This versatility is also the reason why the program was installed from the beginning on my Amiga 1200, integrated via ToolsMenu. Next also has a very powerful search function, which marks all occurrences of a searched term at the same time and allows searching with wildcards and in binary files.
As the author explains to us when asked, he has not been involved with programming and the Amiga since 2011 and has devoted himself to other hobbies. His Amiga hardware, an A3000 and a second floppy drive, were given away. Only a Zip drive, which was never used before, is in the depot. His turning away from the Amiga at that time had among other things to do with the fact that he couldn't read or use PDFs and other files that were common in the PC world.
The return to programming, Jürgen Klawitter continues, came in this winter of 2021/22, which also limited him in his leisure activities and caused boredom. So he came up with the idea to install WinUAE on his laptop:
"After this was successful, I tried out how much of my former programming knowledge was still left. Surprisingly much, actually everything was still there! Nevertheless, there were difficulties to understand the source code of the more extensive programs again. Next has about 20000 lines, Anno (calendar) and OMon (system monitor) about 6000 lines each.
Parts of it are quite complicated. I then started to implement small improvements, first with Anno, later with Next. With Next, I was particularly annoyed by the fact that I had not managed to get the converted text from docx files into a reasonable form. I finally found details of the format on the internet and a tag () that was responsible for the outline in paragraphs. That was the breakthrough."
NEXT formats loaded text before it is displayed. In the process, lines that are too long are wrapped at word boundaries and characters that cannot be displayed are replaced by spaces. Color, style, and print control sequences are preserved.
Finally, a small test shall show how Word files are loaded, for which the following example poem - written and saved in Word 2010 - shall serve us:
To load a Word document either UnZip is needed or the XAD system. For the use of the latter one goes either over the menu option "Use XAD" or creates itself a "next.prefs" text file under Prefs/Env-Archive with the contents "XAD". In this configuration file you can also define window dimensions, font and colors for the text display.
As Jürgen Klawitter writes, from files of the Microsoft word processors Word and Write (extensions .doc or .docx and .wri) the plain text is extracted and formatted. For Word documents with the extension .doc, references to footnotes and the footnotes themselves are numbered ([1],[2]...). The same applies to annotations, recognizable by the preceding "A"([A1],[A2]...). Since a docx file is always a zip archive, it takes two steps to get to the text: Next, after selecting a docx file, presents the contents in a small window. Each archive contains 10 or more xml files, which contain stylesheets, images, comments and footnotes, but only one of them contains the text:
By selecting "word/document.xml" you can now see the text:
As you can see, the conversion of .docx files results in pure continuous text, without styles. The information about them is in stylesheets, which are hidden in the other files. As the author writes, "taking stylesheets into account would require a disproportionate amount of extra work, which I do not want to do – if at all possible." (dr)
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02.Feb.2022
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AmiKit XE: Preconfigured front end AmiLion 1.3
AmiLion is a front end with wallpaper backgrounds for the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE, written in Hollywood for quickly accessing Rabbit Hole programs like Firefox, VLC or Steam as well as website links like Aminet, Wikipedia or YouTube. Besides Windows 10, the Raspberry Pi also is fully supported.
Changes of version 1.3 of the application, written by Vincent Perkins:
- Raspberry Version Completed (Amikit XE 11.7 or Amiberry 4.1.6 or Higher)
- LionGUI now working On RapaGUI 2.0
- Three New Wallpapers
- Taskbar Start Icon Added
- Beta Version Removed Due to being part of the Main App now
- Updated Source codes and guides
- Free Open sourced version
- Wallpapers Removed (Many will be made freely available on AmigaNG Website)
- Updated Guide
(dr)
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