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05.Mar.2022



AmigaOS 4: Status update on audio editor 'Rave', part 3
In mid-April 2021, developer Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka first reported on the current development status of his audio editor "Rave" in his blog Rear Window. In the second part of his developer diary he told about further progress in the sample editing features and the improvement of the clipboard support.

The third part now reports about the integration of MP3 support, other new audio formats and what remains to be done until a first release. (dr)

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05.Mar.2022
Apollo-Forum


Apollo-Team: Icedrake accelerator board for A1200 available
As Gunnar von Boehn announced in the Apollo forum earlier this week, the Icedrake turbo card for A1200 can be ordered now for 570 Euros (incl. VAT). The specifications:
  • Apollo 68080 CPU
  • Performance is application dependent up to ~ 1000MHz 68030 / 500MHz 68040 / 250MHz 68060
  • 512 MB DDR3 Memory
  • FastKick
  • Super-AGA GFX Core : Truecolor DIGITAL VIDEO OUT
  • 3D Acceleration Unit
  • 2 FastIDE/DVD/CompactFlash Controllers
  • SDcard for data exchange
  • 2 USB-Ports (mouse/joypad with CD32 emulation)
  • RJ45 100BaseTX Ethernet 100MBit with DMA
  • plug for RTC modul
Current Limitations and state of the card:
  • PCMCIA devices are supported.
  • the A1200 mainboard IDEcontroller is currently not support, please connect your boot drive to the faster ICEDRAKE connector.
  • Amiga display promotion to DIGITAL-VIDEO. This is a new feature which works automatically - in some cases there can still be some glitches. The video promotion defaults to PAL, if you have an NTSC A1200 this can cause some artifacts. A software update to fix this is in the works.
(dr)

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05.Mar.2022
Reddit


THEA500 Mini: Mini Joypad and Mini Mouse separately available
Besides the possibility to get a new Commodore Maus 1352 by participating in the 'Tank Mouse' Kickstarter campaign (wireless), which was announced a few days ago, you can now also pre-order the 2-button USB mouse and 8-button USB gamepad (each with cable) included in the THEA500 Mini bundle separately: Both the Australian store JB Hi-Fi for about 26 Euros each, as well as Amazon (Mini Mouse, Mini Joypad for 25 Euro each) have them on sale (plus shipping). The articles will be available on April 8.

As this short scene from the YouTube video Unboxing THEA500 Mini® Prototype Serial #01 shows, the Mini Mouse seems to turn out a bit smaller than the original. (dr)

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05.Mar.2022
Reddit


Book pre-order: The Little Book of Sound Chips - Volume 2
Fusionretrobooks is currently accepting pre-orders for a printed edition of The Little Book of Sound Chips - Volume 2: The book costs about 18 Euros and will only be printed if about 7250 Euros in pre-orders have been collected. Currently about 4750 Euros have been received. Alternatively, the book is already available as a PDF or ePub edition for around 12 Euros.

The book presents not only facts and screenshots of games (all with QR codes and hyperlinks to YouTube), but reports among other things about the SID chip of the C64/C128, the Paula custom chip, in the Amiga responsible for the sound output, or APU of the NES and Famicom extensions like the VRC and Sunsoft chipset. (dr)

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05.Mar.2022
Prince (Mail)


Video tutorial: Episode 26 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 26 was published. (dr)

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05.Mar.2022



PDF Book: Mark R. Jones on his time at Ocean Software Ltd.
Mark R. Jones worked at Ocean Software Ltd in the 80's as a graphic designer for ZX Spectrum, Amstrad, Atari ST and Commodore Amiga computer games, including the Amiga game Rambo III. After 5 years, he has completed his book "LOAD DIJ DIJ" about growing up in the 70's and 80's, witnessing the home computer explosion first hand, and talking about his time at Ocean Software Ltd. (dr)

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04.Mar.2022
Seiya (ANF)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 131 (English/Italian)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. The game reviews of REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games on different computer systems with each other. In the latest edition, the magazine is celebrating its 8th birthday, it also features its first two reviews of contemporary games: 'Knightmare' (Amiga) and the 3D shooter 'Final Assault' released for Atari 8 bit computers. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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04.Mar.2022



Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #119 - Upgrading an Amiga 500 to ECS
In the 119th issue of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton is upgrading his Amiga 500 to a full ECS machine with 1 MB of CHIP RAM. (dr)

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04.Mar.2022



Motorola68k emulation: First beta version of Emu68 released (update)
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon page. Last week he has announced a first beta version of Emu68.

Update: (04.03.2022, 17:05, dr)

After this beta version was already available within the nightly builds, but hardly obviously identifiable, the developer has just released a separate archive with a corresponding tag for the beta version at our suggestion. (dr)

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04.Mar.2022
Twitter (ANF)


FPGA accelerator board: "Multiport Modul" for Icedrake
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has designed a Multiport Modul for the FPGA-based A1200 turbo card Icedrake - successor of the well-known Vampire series - which relocates HDMI and network ports as well as the microSD slot to the rear expansion slot of the A1200 and thus makes them more easily accessible. The module has a modular design, and a USB port can be added via a small add-on board, for example. The ports required by the user are connected to the original ports on the accelerator board via short cables.

If you want to rebuild the hardware, you can order the boards from Münch's customer accounts at OSHPark or PCBWay. The boards were published under a Creative Commons license. (cg)

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04.Mar.2022



Cologne exhibition videos: Computer 95, 96 and 97
An Amiga fan has digitized his private videos from the Cologne computer exhibitions ('Computer') 95, 96 and 97 and published the result on Youtube. The 35 minute clip contains uncommented impressions from all three shows. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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03.Mar.2022
Hollywood forum


AmigaOS 4: Bugfixed Hollywood plugin hURL 1.2
In mid-November last year hURL 1.2 was released, the multiprotocol data transfer plugin for Hollywood with SSL support. As Andreas Falkenhahn reports in the Hollywood forum, the version for AmigaOS 4 had some debug outout, so he asks to download the plugin again. (dr)

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03.Mar.2022
aros exec


AROS: Shell command for AxRuntime
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as well as Linux. Examples videos show the AROS desktop Wanderer (MP4) and gmPlayer (MP4) under Linux (amiga-news.de reported).

In a post on aros exec, the developer now reports on the latest progress:
"I'm sharing with you results of my latest developments! So far it was possible to build an Amiga application as a Linux executable with AxRuntime. I already recompiled MPLayer and WookieChat so time ago and I'm actively using AROS MPlayer under Linux Mint as my media application. What was so far not possible however is to run an executable from within AxRuntime program itself. Think Shell - it is a command line program that allows you to run other programs, write scripts that run other programs, pipe output of one program to another and so on. Now, with the latest developments I've made a step towards enabling this where a program that is compiled to work with AxRuntime can be started from Linux but at the same time can be started from AROS Shell.

We are not yet fully there, more work is needed but it is functional enough to provide first preview builds. Since this is work in progress build, there is no new AxRuntime release yet. The AROS-Shell archive (direct download) packages together AROS-Shell with runtime so that it is fully independent and can be started without installing additional dependencies.

I'm open to feedback and I'm always available to help out if you want to try to compile your Amiga application to run natively on Linux using AxRuntime." (dr)

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02.Mar.2022
t3n.de


Apple patents 'Computer in an Input Device'
Apple had already applied for a patent for a "computer in an input device" in mid-2020, which was now published a few days ago. The basic idea is reminiscent of the concepts of e.g. the Atari ST, C64 and Amiga.



The patent application describes the computer in bullet-point summary as follows:
  • computing device includes an input component positioned at the external surface
  • a processing unit and a memory can be disposed within the internal volume
  • computing device has a singular input/output port which can be configured to receive both data and power. The singular input/ output port can be configured to output data from the processing unit.
  • the singular input/output port can include a USB-C port, a Thunderbolt 3 port, or a Lightning port
  • the computing device can include a track pad coupled to the enclosure
  • the computing device can be foldable about an axis
As justification, the company states that unlike in the past, where large and/or bulky computer components traditionally required correspondingly large housings, the demand for portable computing devices has driven the miniaturization of once bulky components. Consequently, further adaptation of case designs, shapes and configurations is desirable. (dr)

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02.Mar.2022



Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 0.39 / Firmware 1.1
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. Since our last message, numerous changes have been made to the Greaseweazle tools. Starting with version 0.34, the firmware is also provided separately. A new version 1.1 was released a few days ago. The Greaseweazle is available from various retailers. (dr)

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02.Mar.2022
iComp


RTG driver: P96 V3.2.4 released
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) schreibt:
"The new version addresses all issues that have been reported in our support forum - and a few more. As usual, the update is free for everyone who purchased a copy of P96 in the past 12 months. Just log in and re-download the file from your order history. Changes in release 3.2.4:
  • Displaying native modes like DblPAL or productivity was broken in V3.2.3 - fixed.
  • The S3Virge blitter has trouble with blits of a certain size that are avoided by this new version.
  • Removed the manual MMU hack. Any MMU table modifications require now the availability of the mmu.library.
  • The previous release broke the VBlank interrupt of graphics and might have loaded the VerticalTotal hardware register with nonsensical values.
  • The S3Virge blitter has a bug and "freaks out" if one attempts to perform blits of particular widths. The Virge driver now adds a workaround by avoiding problematic bitmap widths.
  • The S3Virge blitter can process at most 4064 bytes per row. Before, the limit was set to 4095 bytes, causing wrong blits on some large screens.
  • BltMaskBitMapRastPort() did not work correctly if the target screen did not have the full depth, i.e. if a chunky mode was opened with a depth smaller than 8. This was another old bug left over from the 2.x release series.
  • BltMaskBitMapRastPort() did not use the right modulo for the mask if the source bitmap was interleaved and planar and the destination bitmap was chunky or direct color. The mask was used correctly for interleaved or non-interleaved planar to planar blits.
  • Users of the oMNiBus card beware! The card driver may use the TsengET4000W32 chip driver, even with earlier releases of the Tseng chip that do not include a blitter. In such cases, attempting to blit will fail or hang the system. To prevent usage of the (then non-present) blitter, set the tooltype NOBLITTER=Yes in the monitor icon of the oMNiBus monitor. Note that this is not a new restriction.
  • Quite a number of improvements have been performed on the Merlin and TsengET4000w32 drivers as listed below, however please note that the Merlin card has a couple of serious hardware issues that cannot be worked around completely in software and that this card may hang or crash the system, despite our best attempts to avoid such problems. Even the Merlin board/GAL updates will not completely eliminate all of these issues. You should replace the Merlin card with a more robust design. We therefore recommend to NOT make Merlin support your buying decision for the P96 software package:

    • Fixed a MuForce hit in the Merlin card driver.
    • Due to bad routing, the clock generator of the Merlin card cannot feed clock rates higher than 80Mhz into the chip, even if this clock is later on divided down in the Tseng chip. Thus, the default setting of the card now disables all settings of the clock generator that generates pixel clocks beyond this limit. If you really want to try higher clock frequencies (on your own risk), set the tool type OVERCLOCK=YES in the monitor icon.
    • Due to hardware design issues, the TsengET4000w32 chip may see false data on write requests to its registers, causing hangs or blitting defects on its screen. The new Tseng driver is now extra careful to verify that the correct data has been written for some particularly critical registers, though not for all registers. A particularly critical phase are mode changes, which should be avoided if possible.
    • Due to hardware issues, previous Tseng chip drivers may have hung the system while waiting for the completion of a blitter operation. The new driver attempts to work around this problem as much as possible.
    • The Merlin and Tseng drivers now disable the display while modifying some of the chip registers. This helps to minimize hardware hangs of the chip, but does not eliminate them completely. Again, this is a hardware design issue, not a driver issue.
    • The Merlin card driver no longer indicates to use a more aggressive MMU table mapping; instead, the most conservative setting is now default. Do not attempt to "fix" this mapping as the Tseng chip can map its blitter registers into the VGA memory area, and those hardware registers may not tolerate write reordering as imposed by more aggressive MMU table settings.
    • The Merlin card driver did not indicate the maximum mode width for all modes correctly. Due to limited size of its hardware registers, Hi-color modes cannot be wider than 1024 pixels, true-color modes cannot be wider than 684 pixels and true-alpha modes cannot be wider than 512 pixels.
    • To limit stability issues, the hardware interrupt of the Merlin card can now be turned off by adding the "INTERRUPT=No" tool type into the Merlin monitor icon.
    • The Merlin card no longer provides its own functions to copy planar data from chip memory to VGA card memory as the default version of the rtg.library provides this function already by exactly the same algorithm.
    • Due to hardware limitations, the Sprite generated by the Merlin card (actually, the RAM DAC on the card) is limited to 32x32 pixels for high-res sprites, and 16x16 pixels for "big" sprites (i.e. BIGSPRITE=Yes in the monitor driver). Thus, tall pointer images may be clipped at the bottom. There is nothing the driver can do against this limitation.
    • The TsengET4000w32 chip offers a memory overlay feature which is now accessible through the P96 "Pip" (Picture-in-Picture) interface. However, as the Tseng chip does not have an intergrated RAM DAC, this memory window is rather limited. The RBGMode (pixel mode, pixel organization) within the memory window MUST be identical to the RGB Mode of the screen, and it cannot be planar. That is, you can only have "chunky" memory windows on "chunky" screens, "hi-color" overlays on "hi-color" screens and "true-color" overlays on "true-color" screens. The memory window neither supports opacity, thus the memory window only appears if it is topmost on the screen and not overlapped or clipped. Otherwise, the driver turns the memory window off. There is a PIP demo program on Aminet including sources. Note that this demo program attempts to create a "hi-color" overlay, which - according to the above restrictions - only operates on a hi-color screen.
    • If you see strange defects when rendering text or icons with the Merlin card, try adding SYSTEM2SCREENBLITS=No to the tool types of the Merlin monitor icon. This prevents blitter usage in those cases where the host CPU delivers data manually without a source buffer on the card. Since data transfers to the Merlin card are particularly flakey, this may prevent already some issues.
    • If you still see screen corruptions on rendering, you may have to disable the Merlin blitter altogether. For that, add the tooltype NOBLITTER=Yes to the Merlin monitor icon."
(dr)

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02.Mar.2022
David Brunet (ANF)


New article on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
  • January/February 2022 news.
  • Old articles from Joystick 37 to 40:
    • News: Journey to Mr MicroProse,
    • Interview with Martin Kenwright
    • Syndicate review
    • B-17 Flying Fortress review
    • News: Core Design already two years old and already big
    • Interview with Brett Sperry
    • A-Train review
    • Goal! review
    • News: The future successes of 1993 (part four)
    • Networking games
    • Trolls (AGA) review
    • News: Virgin Games still supports the Amiga
    • Interview with Brett Sperry
    • Interview with Tim Chaney
    • Body Blows review
    • Chuck Rock 2: Son Of Chuck review
    • etc.
  • Interview with Alain Fontanin (author of Amiga Source Editor).
  • Interview with Fabio Capone (founder of NAPS Team).
  • Classic Reflections - What happened to Scala, Inc. ?
  • Memory operation on Amiga OCS/ECS.
  • Official Amiga and commercialized clones (update)
  • Amiga Games List (update).
  • Hardware: Vampire 1200 V2.
  • DIY: Development of the Arduino Amiga floppy drive, aka DrawBridge (update).
  • Tutorial: How to build an AmigaOS4 cross compiler (Binutils 2.23.2 & GCC 8.3.0) on Cygwin.
  • Tutorial: Installation and use of MorphOS 3.x on QEMU 6.00.
  • Special quiz on the year 2021 on Amiga.
(cg)

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01.Mar.2022
Robert Smith


Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.7 / FloppyBridge 1.1
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin FloppyBridge, WinUAE is also officially supported since version 4.9.0.

DrawBridge has been updated to version 2.8.7 and uses a new algorithm for reading the hard disk, which ensures better compatibility with games under WinUAE. FloppyBridge version 1.1 also improves compatibility due to changes in PLL and "Rotation Extractor" handling. Robert Smith encourages retesting games that have not previously booted. Prior installation of DrawBridge firmware 1.9.24 is required. (dr)

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01.Mar.2022



Developer tools: vasm 1.9 and vlink 0.17
Frank Wille hat released updates for portable and retargetable assembler vasm and the corresponding portable linker vlink. AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS are supported. A list of the changes can be found on the respective websites. (dr)

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01.Mar.2022



Compiler: vbcc 0.9h
vbcc is a highly optimizing portable and retargetable ISO C compiler written by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific code). It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99).

Yesterday, version 0.9h was released, which contains numerous changes. Detailed documentation is available in the form of a pdf file on the homepage, as are the binaries for the individual target platforms.
  • New features

    • Compiler defaults to C99, use -c89 to forbid C99 extensions.
    • Several improved warnings/error messages.
    • New option -sec-per-obj puts all code functions and data objects in their own section, which may be removed by linker section garbage collection.
    • Simple implementation of -merge-strings.
    • Added -warnings-as-errors option.
    • Define macros __OPTSPEED__/__OPTSIZE__ depending on options.
    • Recognize builtin functions with __asm_ prefix.
    • Added -depobj option.
    • Added -force-statics and -prefer-statics.
    • New backends for 6502 and 6809.
    • Support for charset conversions (8-bit targets).
    • Code compressor (currently only for 6502).
    • Better out-of-the-box support for non-8-bit-based types.
    • Several improvements regarding the backend interface.
    • m68k: defines macro __SMALL_DATA__ with -sd option
    • m68k: added -vbcccall/__vbccargs
    • vc: new option -rmcfg-* to disable options from a config file
    • vc: frontend does Unix-path conversion also for -o
    • vclib: New 6502 targets: Atari, BBC, C64, Mega65, NES, Simulator, X16
    • vclib: New 6809 targets: OS-9, Simulator
    • vclib: __gmtoffset and __dstflag may be overwritten separately
    • vclib: strftime() supports ISO-8601 date format through %F
    • vclib: added strtof()
    • vclib: m68k-amigaos based on NDK 3.2
    • vclib: m68k-amigaos supports Roadshow additions and
    • vclib: m68k-amigaos adds reaction.lib for ReAction GUI support
    • vclib: m68k-amigaos UTC offset is automatically initialized when possible
    • vclib: m68k-amigaos configs use -amiga-softfloat (inlines) by default
    • vclib: m68k-atari small-data support and libraries
    • vclib: ppc-morphos support for (sysv,base)-ABI libraries
    • vclib: ppc-amigaos adapted to new SDK

  • Performance improvements

    • Improved function inlining / cross-module inlining.
    • Several improvements in register allocation.
    • Improved constant propagation.
    • New peephole optimizations.
    • New optimization and tuning options for constant initializations.
    • Improved recalculation of stack slots.
    • Slightly improved common subexpression elimination.
    • Range-optimizations and induction variable shortening.
    • Allow strength reduction for constant left-shifts.
    • Handling of volatile is improved.
    • Compile-time calculations of constant pointer values.
    • m68k: improved register allocation
    • m68k: improved Fastcall-ABI support
    • m68k: improved builtin libcalls
    • m68k: improved copying of (long) doubles in memory with the FPU
    • m68k: better use of scaled addressing modes
    • m68k: some FPU code improvements
    • m68k: fixed performance regression of internal memcpy
    • vclib: reworked assembler inlines

  • Bug fixes:

    • Lots of fixes in the compiler core and backends. Thanks for your reports!
    • vclib: bad assert.h in 0.9g: it must be possible to include the assert-macro multiple times (with and without NDEBUG defined)
    • vclib: m68k-amigaos protos declare device library bases with struct Device*.
    • vclib: m68k-amigaos ReAction classes must not be automatically opened with auto.lib but with reaction.lib.
    • vclib: m68k-amigaos adds missing InvertString() for amiga.lib
    • vclib: PPC 64-bit signed modulo fixed
    • vclib: fixed mktime(), tm_mday is 1-based, and recognize gmtoffset
    • vclib: fgetpos() has to return 0 on success
(dr)

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01.Mar.2022
Amigans


AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of February
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 February. (dr)

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28.Feb.2022
Amigans


Video: Amiga game classics under AmigaOS 4
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin shows in his latest YouTube video how some old great Amiga classic games (released around the 2000s) work natively (without UAE, but with Petunia) under today's AmigaOS4 and on today's AmigaOS4 hardware. This test was done with his beta version of AmigaOS4 with all beta drivers from AEON and beta components of the operating system from Hyperion. The hardware used is an AmigaONEX5000/020 with Radeon RX 560. (dr)

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28.Feb.2022
Discord


Video: How easy is it to make your own joystick using a 3D printer?
In his latest video, Robert Smith attempts to 3D print and build his own retro-style joystick for his Amiga. He takes you through all the steps from design to build in his tutorial. Below the video is all the information needed so anyone can build their own joystick. (dr)

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27.Feb.2022



Aminet uploads until 26.02.2022
The following files have been added until 26.02.2022 to Aminet:
wla_dx_v10.1.lha         dev/cross  7.0M  68k WLA DX - 8-bit CPU Cross Macr...
printer.hwp_1.0.lha      dev/hwood  5K    MOS Printer plugin for hollywood
anaiis.lha               driver/oth 182K  68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.22
Mattonite.lha            game/actio 976K  68k Arkanoid like PAL game almost...
scummvm-1.7.0-rtg.lha    game/misc  5.7M  68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 1.7.0
PPaintRUS.lha            gfx/ppaint 65K       Cloanto Personal Paint 7 RUSS...
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...
DOSBox_RTG.lha           misc/emu   931K  68k Amiga port of DOSBox
EndlessRoad.lha          mods/8voic 6.0M      Endless Road 5ch 16bit Soft Rock
MrR_head.lha             mods/anaki 258K      It's My Head - OctaMED module
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha  mus/misc   200K      Some samples created by Sampl...
AmiModRadio.lha          mus/play   2.8M  68k Play modules from Internet so...
SpeedPDF_1.1.lha         text/dtp   5.6M  MOS Fast PDF viewer
Vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha    text/edit  12M   x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-amigaos.lha  text/edit  14M   OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-morphos.lha  text/edit  13M   MOS The ubiquitous text editor
cbmconvert.i386-aros.lha util/conv  235K  x86 C64 archive converters
d64.i386-aros.lha        util/conv  368K  x86 Converts C64 data-set files t...
IdentifyLib_FR.lha       util/libs  11K       French catalogs for identify....
TestProgram.zip          util/misc  655K  68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
Classaction4_src.zip     util/wb    1.2M      Sourcecode of Classaction 4
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OS4Depot uploads until 26.02.2022
The following files have been added until 26.02.2022 to OS4Depot:
sdl_vice.lha             emu/com 27Mb  4.0 Versatile Commodore Emulator
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha                  gam/uti 4Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
iff-converter.lha        gra/con 498kb 4.0 Convert images into raw format.
sdl2.lha                 lib/mis 7Mb   4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
zitaftpserver.lha        net/ser 19Mb  4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
deepl.lha                uti/tex 2Mb   4.0 DeepL tool / incl. sourcecode
vim_mui.lha              uti/tex 14Mb  4.1 The ubiquitous text editor
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AROS Archives uploads until 26.02.2022
The following files have been added until 26.02.2022 to AROS Archives:
vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha        dev/edi 12Mb  The ubiquitous text editor
cbmconvert.i386-aros.lha     emu/uti 235kb C64 archive converters
d64.i386-aros.lha            emu/uti 368kb Converts C64 data-set files to A...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.02.2022
The following files have been added until 26.02.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
ECWolf_1.3.9999.lha       Games/Shoot3D             ECWolf is an advanced s...
HLE-Pokercard_2.0.lha     Games/Think               Hi-Low-Equal Poker Card
SpeedPDF_1.1.lha          Office/Show               A fast PDF viewer
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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.02.2022
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 26.02.2022: (snx)

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Apollo-Forum


Apollo V4: Ultimate Expansion Board
The developers 'Quetzal' and 'Owl' have developed a board in mini-ITX format that can accommodate an Apollo V4 standalone and offers a variety of additional features and inputs and outputs. A detailed description of the specifications can be found on the project page. Now a new video has been released showing the final prototype. The first boards are expected in mid-2022. (dr)

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Music: Amiga-DJ-Video
In this YouTube video, musician and DJ 'Fast Ram' presents the broader spectrum of old and new rave sound, which he mixes and plays using Amiga computers and software he developed himself. His equipment:
  • 2x Amiga 600 running PT-1210 v1.1 (DJ-Decks)
  • 1x Amiga 1200 running XSD v0.5b (Sample-Start)
  • 1x mixer, two hands, 100% Amiga tunes
Those who want to support the musician have the opportunity to do so on his Bandcamp page. (dr)

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