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28.-30.06.24 • Alternatives Computer-Meeting 2024 • Wolfsburg (Germany)

26.Mar.2024



AmigaOS 4.1: ignition-OpenDocument plugin v0.39
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated to version 0.38. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. In the current version 0.39, numerous optimisations have increased the speed at which documents are read. (dr)

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25.Mar.2024
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PDF-Magazin: REV'n'GE 156 (italienisch/englisch)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in both an English translation and as the original Italian version. The REV'n'GE game reviews compare, where available, the conversions of classics between different platforms of the time. An attempt is also made to pick out lesser-known retro games.

The latest issue, focusing on naval simulations, now links directly to YouTube videos with recordings of the game being reviewed: If a corresponding video is available, it can be accessed by clicking on the "Trailer" icon at the top of the page. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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24.Mar.2024



Easter game: Bunny's "Boing Ball" Bounty
After "Hop to the Top!" last year, Robert Smith has also released a game for this year's Easter: in Bunny's "Boing Ball" Bounty, you (as a bunny) have to collect as many eggs as possible in the shortest possible time (YouTube-Video). The game requires 1MB of memory. (dr)

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24.Mar.2024



Aminet uploads until 23.03.2024
The following files have been added until 23.03.2024 to Aminet:
more ... (snx)

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24.Mar.2024



OS4Depot uploads until 23.03.2024
The following files have been added until 23.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
more ... (snx)

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24.Mar.2024



AROS Archives uploads until 23.03.2024
The following files have been added until 23.03.2024 to AROS Archives:
more ... (snx)

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24.Mar.2024



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.03.2024
The following files have been added until 23.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
more ... (snx)

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24.Mar.2024



WHDLoad: New installers until 23.03.2024
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 23.03.2024: more ... (snx)

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23.Mar.2024
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Creating and reading disk images: Disk Jockey 3 for macOS
Disk Jockey makes it easy to create and analyse disk images for retro computers and emulators. With the now released version 3 you can now also create empty DD and HD disc images (ADF images) as well as Hard Disk Files (HDF), as used by WinUAE. In addition to the Macintosh images, the contents of existing images in the above formats can now also be displayed.

Finally, Disk Jockey also offers the option of converting an existing image for Basilisk II into an image for BlueSCSI. (dr)

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23.Mar.2024



Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.4 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes of version 1.4.4: more ... (dr)

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22.Mar.2024



Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #169 - Amiga iBrowse 3.0a Review and Tutorial
In the 169th edition of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton focuses on the iBrowse 3.0a web browser. (snx)

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22.Mar.2024



Atari ST: EmuTOS 1.3 released
The Atari ST and TT compatible operating system EmuTOS is now available in version 1.3. EmuTOS can also be run on Amiga computers, Vampire turboboards or the THEA500Mini using ROM files based on it. (snx)

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22.Mar.2024
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Der Standard: Bobby Kotick, who wants to buy Tiktok, once interested in Amiga
The Austrian daily newspaper "Der Standard" reports on Robert 'Bobby' Kotick at the title link. The former Activision boss had put himself forward as a possible buyer should the US business of TikTok be sold.

In this context, the newspaper recalls that the entrepreneur had unsuccessfully tried to take over Commodore International in 1987 and modify the successful Amiga 500 model - namely by removing the drive and keyboard and turn it into a games console. His plans were thwarted by Commodore boss Irving Gould. (snx)

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21.Mar.2024



Emulator: WinFellow 0.5.11 RC-1
Release candiate 1 of version 0.5.11 of the Amiga emulator WinFellow has been released. The default display driver has been changed from DirectDraw to Direct3D 11, where supported. In addition, keyboard-initiated reset in Amiga Forever has been implemented. Besides, there are numerous bug fixes and code improvements. (dr)

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21.Mar.2024
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.8 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.7 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes:
  • fixed WebAnimations support
  • fixed several issues with the internal refresh loop
  • fixed taking screenshots of scrolled-down pages
  • file:// handling fixes
  • updated libxml2
Update: (23.03.2024, 08:02, dr)

Meanwhile version 7.8 (changelog) is available which fixes a regression in OpenURL support and improves handling of Open File and OpenURL to allow loading of files with non-ascii characters. (dr)

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21.Mar.2024



Article series: The history of software soundtrackers (parts 1-3)
30 years ago, Xavier Borderie had fun making music on his Amiga with the help of Protracker. This was the reason for him to take a look behind the scenes in a series of articles and write about those who made soundtracking possible:

Soundtracker origins, part 1: Where in the World is Karsten Obarski?
Here the author wants to find out when the way music is composed made the leap from a physical hardware product to a software product. Who was the first person to come up with the programming of this interface? Is it really Karsten Obarski, the father of The Ultimate Soundtracker?

Soundtracker origins, part 2: Welcome to Turrican, aah hahahaha
Karsten Obarski apparently got the inspiration for "The Ultimate Soundtracker" from a tool called SoundMonitor, which the developer and musician Chris Hülsbeck released for the Commodore 64 in 1986 - a year before Obarski's own Ultimate Soundtracker. Hülsbeck was 18 years old at the time. Was this the beginning of software trackers?

Soundtracker origins, part 3: Facing a stone mountain
The history of software sound trackers seems to go back even further: in the second of the series, Chris Hülsbeck told the author that he remembers using Steinberg's MIDI Multitrack Sequencer tool on the Commodore 64 computer, around the time he was writing his own tool, Soundmonitor.

Soundtracker Origins, interlude: The coders behind the Cambrian explosion
In this somewhat off-topic article, Xavier Borderie spoke to the developers of the various Soundtracker clones, including the developers of Protracker and NoiseTracker. (dr)

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21.Mar.2024
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Demoparty: Posadas Party 2024 (Posadas/ES, 28.6.-30.6.)
In the very south of Europe, the demoscene has been celebrating occasionally for many years, since 1995, at the Posadas party in the town of the same name north-east of Seville.

The Posadas has its origins in the Amiga demoscene, and this is also reflected in the current competitions: entries in the demo, intro and cracktro competitions are only permitted for Amiga OCS or Amiga AGA. The best-known release on the Posadas to date is most likely the 1995 demo Batman Vuelve by the Batman Group.

In addition to the competitions, there will also be two concerts this year by electro music artists KHROME and Narcisound.

According to the organisers, pre-sales for the party will begin in a few days. (nba)

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21.Mar.2024



Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.3.0 for Amigas with 68060 processor
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3: the latest version 2.0.1.01 is available for RTG-Amigas and AGA-Amigas with 68060 processor and is based on ScummVM 2.3.0 for the first time. (dr)

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21.Mar.2024



Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0
Developer Michal Schulz has released the first stable version 1.0 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Emu68 1.0 contains all the changes from 1.0 RC1, RC2 and RC3 plus some additional fixes and improvements. Starting with Emu68 1.0 all users are encouraged to use official releases only and do not use nightly builds unless really necessary.

About this release and the changes, Michal Schulz has written in detail on his Patreon website and also recommends this YouTube-Video by Tomaz. (dr)

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20.Mar.2024



Shoot 'em up: R-Squadron
Developer Monster's Legs has made a name for himself in the scene with games for the ZX Spectrum. Recently, he has released a previously unpublished shoot 'em up for the Amiga, which he designed as a 16-year-old in the 1990s: "R-Squadron" was created using the legendary SEUCK ("Shoot 'em up Construction Kit") and deals in a humorous style with resurrected arcade games from the 70s and 80s that attack the earth - and, of course, only the player can stop them!

R-Squadron can be downloaded free of charge in ADF format from the website at the title link. (nba)

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20.Mar.2024
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Demoparty: Outline 2024 (Ommen/NL, 9.5.-12.5.)
Since 2004, Outline has been an important part of the demo scene, attracting creatives from Benelux, Germany and other European countries. This year, the demoparty will take place during the extended weekend around Ascension Day, from 9 to 12 May 2024, in Ommen, Netherlands - tickets are still available.

Although the Outline is an Atari party at heart, all platforms are welcome, as the open competitions show: the demo, intro, graphics and music competitions are open to so-called oldskool and newskool systems, but with a focus on 8-bit computers and PCs. (nba)

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20.Mar.2024



Handheld console: "Amigo Tracker" 1.15 for PlayDate
PlayDate is a handheld games console released in 2022 by the US software developer and computer games publisher Panic Inc (Wikipedia). As the operating system is kept open, external developers can also write software for the console using Lua and C (and a simulator). At the end of January, Outgunned Games released a first version of his "Amigo Tracker": a retro player that can play 4-channel ProTracker modules.

Since then, he has corrected numerous errors and made improvements (dev log) and released Vresion 1.15 yesterday. (dr)

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