17.Apr.2022
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Aminet uploads until 16.04.2022
The following files have been added until 16.04.2022 to Aminet:
thttpd2.21b_working_p... comm/www 13M 68k THTTPd with PHP support + Big...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.3M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 7K 2022 Carset for F1GP
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
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 622K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
Gotcha199.lha game/think 55K 68k Pair two numbers to get the 1...
WhatIFF1.04.lha mags/misc 674K What IFF? #1.04-March-2022
unshield.lha util/arc 126K MOS Extract/list InstallShield Ca...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 664K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
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17.Apr.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 16.04.2022
The following files have been added until 16.04.2022 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
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17.Apr.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 16.04.2022
The following files have been added until 16.04.2022 to AROS Archives:
whatiff1.04.lha doc/mis 674kb AmigaGuide format Magazine Mar/A...
atomiks.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 772kb 1990)
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17.Apr.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.04.2022
The following files have been added until 16.04.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_28.5.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
unshield_1.5.1.lha Files/Archive Extract/list InstallShi...
ADiffView_2.2.lha Text/Compare A graphical file compar...
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17.Apr.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 16.04.2022
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 16.04.2022:
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17.Apr.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Amiga37 homepage online
On 15/16 October 2022 the Amiga37 will take place in Mönchengladbach, Germany (amiga-news.de reported). Now the corresponding homepage has been set up under the title link, but the list of participants is still empty and will be published bit by bit. Advance ticket sales are expected to start next week. (snx)
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17.Apr.2022
Hackster
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Open Source 3D printer: SLS4All
Every now and then we report on do-it-yourself projects such as making your own joystick using a 3D printer. Not bad, you might say, but what's the point if I don't have a 3D printer? Especially not one that is even remotely affordable!
While not amiga-inspired, Tomas Starek may have had similar thoughts when he started his DIY project of his own affordable 3D printer. However, as he tells us, he was so surprised by the positive reactions from around the world that he decided to document his 'Open Source' project thoroughly and comprehensibly.
He chose the SLS printing process for this. As the portal hackster.io reports, there are currently no consumer SLS 3D printers on the market. The process involves beaming a laser at a bed of powdered polymer, which thereby melts it and turns it into a solid. As with other forms of 3D printing, the layers build up to form a three-dimensional object. Compared to other processes, it offers the advantage of generating bridges and overhanging geometry, he said. The print chamber is 175 X 175 X 200 mm in size.
For control, Starek chose a combination of BigTreeTech 1.4 Turbo control board and Raspberry Pi 4B, both running Klipper firmware.
The main goal of his project is to use the most "affordable" (initially: cheap) parts possible. The should be able to create complex prints and be user-friendly. We asked the developer what costs should ultimately be expected by an interested user who wants to build the 3D printer himself: he estimates about 2500 euros. At a later date, he could also imagine selling the printer as a finished, commercial product or as a kit for assembly. For now, however, it is a matter of finishing the development of the printer. And the current status looks like this:
- DESIGN: Generic & Fusion 360 design 100%
- Hardware Parts fabrication and Build: Frame & Moving Parts 98%
- Electronic equipment installation: Laser, Galvo system, step motors, heaters 100%
- Firmware And Software development: FW customization & F-e development 75%
- Testing: Partial Tests, Complex testing, 3D printing 65%
- Documentation: F3D, DXF & STL files, GitHub Repos, etc... 50%
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16.Apr.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Jump'n Run: second playable demo of 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night'
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes provides another demo version of his jump'n run 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night', created with the game construction kit Scorpion Engine. According to the developer, this second preview "adds a lot of improvements since the last time (no new levels or anything, just tweaks, graphical improvements, etc)". The game requires 2 MB of Chip and 1 MB of Fast RAM, and (presumably) a 68020 processor. (cg)
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16.Apr.2022
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Hardware hack: A fifth audio channel for the Amiga
In an older blog entry, which can only be found in the web archive, a Norwegian describes how he uses the FBAS signal of his Amiga to output a fifth audio channel in addition to the four existing (stereo) channels. He uses the fact that bright and dark pixels are transmitted as different voltages on the video cable. A video demonstrates the principle in action. (cg)
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16.Apr.2022
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Modern decompressor for Amiga data compression formats: Ancient 2.0
Ancient' unpacks files compressed with Amiga "crunchers" like Powerpacker or similar. The program, written in portable C, supports a variety of known compression formats - among others all that the regular XPK distribution can unpack, as well as disk images in DiskMasher format ("DMS") and LhA archives. Source code and Windows executables can be found on Github, a MorphOS version has been published on im Aminet.
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15.Apr.2022
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Easter Egg in AmigaOS 3.2.1 discovered
AmigaOS 3.2.1 contains an Easter Egg, that much had been hinted at by members of the team. A user has now discovered it: The disk image Update3.2.1.adf has a folder 'T', which contains a file called 'ed-backup'. This executable file is a small demo with bouncing boing balls and a small text scroller. The user who discovered the Easter Egg posted a small description of the process including a screenshot of the demo on os4welt.de (registration required). (cg) (Translation: cg)
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14.Apr.2022
Twitter
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Sound card ZZ9000AX: PDF manual and fixed axmp3 version
The ZZ9000AX is the sound module for the multifunctional Amiga expansion card ZZ9000. The delivery of the first batch began at the end of March (amiga-news.de reported).
Now the developer Lukas F. Hartmann has released both a PDF manual including schematics (direct download) and a new version of the axmp3 tool (direct download), which should reduce the risk of screen scribbling (Z3 only). Also, there would be sound output problems on some 68060 configurations. He would take care of this after his vacation next week. (dr)
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13.Apr.2022
Twitter
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Shoot'em Up: SkillGrid 1.2
About three years ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) released his abstract, vertical shoot'em up SkillGrid (amiga-news.de reported).
In the meantime, the second update has been released, which further improves the game and provides a special 'PRESS PLAY ON TAPE' variant: a special version whose soundtrack is the rockin' tongue-in-cheek song "Man with the Gun" by the Commodore 64 revival band PRESS PLAY ON TAPE. (dr)
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13.Apr.2022
OSnews
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Raspberry Pi: Development status of free firmware
'Raspberry Pi' computers require partially closed source software to boot - the so-called raspi-firmware package. But since its release 10 years ago, there have been efforts to make it bootable with open source software only. In a recent blog entry Gunnar Wolf describes how free firmware for the Raspberry is progressing. (dr)
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13.Apr.2022
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #20 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 20 (winter/spring) are game reviews on 'Shadowlands', 'Pacman', 'Incman', 'Dread' and 'Coco Banana' as well as the articles 'What is Amiga in 2022? Part 1' and 'A500 CPU replacement'.
The magazine is available in a printed edition inclusive Commodore 64/128 Coverdisk for 9,67 Euro (plus 5 Euro shipping), the price for the digital edition is 2,15 Euro. (dr)
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12.Apr.2022
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Programming Contest: Results of the BASIC 10Liner Contest 2022
The "BASIC 10Liner Contest" is a competition for self-written BASIC programs that have to consist of exactly 10 lines and has been organized since 2011 (amiga-news.de reported). Traditionally, the winners are announced during a live show, the "NOMAM" ("Not only marvelous Atari machinery"), an annual gathering of enthusiasts of the home computer era, which took place last weekend.
Even though there was no entry for Amiga-Basic this year, we don't want to withhold the first place winners in the individual categories from our interested readers and present them:
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12.Apr.2022
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Playable demo of a commercial Arcade game: Yoomp
Just like Jump!, 'Yoomp' is a conversion of a Atari 8 bit release from 2007. A playable preview for OCS Amigas has been released a while ago, the game is going to be distributed commercially by RGCD. Further information about the project can be found in a thread on ppa.pl (machine translation).
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11.Apr.2022
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Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 6
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euros) or printed (7.50 Euros) editions. The current issue has 36 colored pages (DIN A4) and covers the following topics:
- Videogiochi: Attack of the Petscii Robots, Jump!, Ermentrud, The Lone Ranger, Silverman y la Isla Esmeralda, Drag’n’drop Deluxe
- Parliamo con RetroGames Ltd a proposito di THEA500 Mini
- From Vultures to Vampires primo volume – edizione italiana
- Ian Hetherington (Psygnosis) e John Madden
- AmigaOS 4.1 su PegasosII
- Blender – transizioni audio e sottotitoli
- Interviste con: Mevlut Dinc (Vivid Image), Colin Vella
- E inoltre: Games news, Tech news, Scena demo, Nuovi Talenti, La Posta dei Lettori
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11.Apr.2022
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Scandoubler announcement: 'Medusa' converts video signals to VGA/DVI
The scandoubler Medusa accepts a composite, S-Video or RGB signal and converts it into proper VGA output, which is also converted into a digital signal available via a DVI-I connector. There is also an option to digitize an analog audio signal, combine it with the DVI output using an appropriate adapter and output the audio/video combination via HDMI.
Medusa is said to be much cheaper than the no longer manufactured 'FrameMeister' used to be, plus it accepts resolutions bigger than traditional PAL/NTSC - like the ones used by the Atari ST. In contrast to the Open Source Scan Converter, it supports composite and S-Video signals and is claimed to be easier to configure. The new scandoubler is supposed to be available for purchase starting in May, some dealers already accept preorders (RetroLemon,
lotharek.pl). (cg) (Translation: cg)
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11.Apr.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: DrawBridge for MiSTer in development
Robert Smith's project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppy disks with a standard PC disk drive connected. After successfully implementing this project, the developer explores in his latest video the possibilities of transferring this to the FPGA Amiga clone MISTer as well. (dr)
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11.Apr.2022
Carlos Peris (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.8 with WHDLoad support
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, 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.
The new version 0.9.8 mainly offers some improvements when creating the build: now it is possible to generate automatically a WHDload package which could make distribution easier and also allows the game running on the new THEA500 Mini (see YouTube video). Also, you can choose to compress the game assets, making the build smaller, more suitable when distributing it via floppy. Besides that some minor improvements and a lot of fixes are included. Full Changelog:
- WHDLoad support when exporting the game, creating a lha package (LHA and WHDLoad required in C:)
- Check instructions in the readme file to run games on The A500 Mini
- All image and audio assets can now be compressed when exporting the game (Build button)
- New action trigger Orbitate Parent to have and object orbitate another one
- Spritesheets and tilesets can be deleted if no longer used
- Improved IFF ILBM compatibility for compressed graphics
- A bit of rollback to some chip memory optimizations to make the games more stable
- In level edit screen scrolls will scroll twice as fast for faster navigation
- All exe's are now compiled using latest Amiblitz3.9
- HUD texts are using color 1 by default to avoid using the same default background colors
- In tileset screen when the tile image file is not valid it will be shown in red
- Fix in Autoslice
- Fix for projects not using any tileSet
- Fix for some random crashes
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11.Apr.2022
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Aminet uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to Aminet:
Ghetto_Crew.lha demo/ecs 331K 68k Ocean Floor demo for GERP2022...
void-dreams37.zip demo/misc 537K 68k Demopack - April 2022
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 7K 2022 Carset for F1GP
Exult_RTG.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (Exult)
CitadelRemonstered.lha game/shoot 3.9M 68k Citadel Remonstered
Gotcha199.lha game/think 78K 68k Pair two numbers to get the 1...
Oz_Game.lha game/think 27K 68k Logic game based on David Par...
WhatIFF1.04.lha mags/misc 674K What IFF? #1.04-March-2022
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
pccard.lha util/libs 56K 68k Library to parse PCMCIA infor...
ADiffView.lha util/misc 122K 68k Graphical ASCII file compare/...
WHDLoadMenu.lha util/misc 483K 68k A WHDLoad frontend
Anno.lha util/time 327K 68k Reminder and calendar utility
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11.Apr.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
jasspa-memacs.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 JASSPA MicroEmacs under AmiCygni...
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11.Apr.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to AROS Archives:
nmtm.lzx gam/adv 26Mb Point and click adventure game
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11.Apr.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
MirrorCopy_2.5.lha Files/Tools A clone of MirrorCopy b...
Symmetrix_1.0.lha System/Ambient/Blankers Screen Blanker for MorphOS
Uptime_1.5a.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Display Uptime in scree...
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11.Apr.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.04.2022
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 09.04.2022:
- 2022-04-09 improved: SAS Combat Simulator (Code Masters) 68000 quitkey support, manual included (Info)
- 2022-04-09 improved: Legend of the Lost (Impressions) keyboard problems on 68000 machines fixed, manual included (Info)
- 2022-04-08 improved: Dan Dare 3 (Speed Buggy) keyboard problems on 68000 machines fixed, manual included (Info)
- 2022-04-07 improved: Data Storm (Visionary Design) added joypad controls & trainer, fixed keyboard, 68000 quitkey, added manual (Info)
- 2022-04-06 improved: Dungeon Master 2: The Legend of Skullkeep (Interplay) AGA flag removed, use less memory, trainers and solution added, install script updated (Info)
- 2022-04-05 improved: Operation Harrier (U.S.Gold) CD32 joypad support added, byte write to volume register fixed, default quitkey changed to Del, interrupts fixed (Info)
- 2022-04-04 improved: Last Ninja 3 (System 3) level code can be entered with CD32 joypad buttons (REVERSE/FORWARD), latest joypad reading code used (Info)
- 2022-04-04 improved: Lure of the Temptress (Virgin) fixed spurious delay/button click, restart now works (Info)
- 2022-04-04 new: Green Beret (Dante Retro Dev) done by JOTD (Info)
- 2022-04-04 improved: Desert Strike (Electronic Arts) support for 512k chip, sound fixed (Info)
- 2022-04-03 improved: Second Samurai (Psygnosis/Vivid Image) 68000/NoVBRMove quitkey support (Info)
- 2022-04-03 updated: Ninja Remix (System 3) patch redone, trainer options added, CD32 joypad support, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info)
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