24.Sep.2024
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Experimental test: The Annotated Hacker Test
Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson regularly covers topics related to Amiga, development and retro culture in his blog at datagubbe.se. In his new post "The Annotated Hacker Test" under the title link, users can expect an amusing, nostalgic test that puts technical knowledge to the proof in a retro-inspired environment. The goal is to apply classic hacking techniques and answer questions about computers from the 80s and 90s. The test combines fun interactive puzzles related to the hacking scene and retro computing and is aimed at technology enthusiasts who want to test their knowledge in a fun way.
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[News message: 24. Sep. 2024, 13:17] [Comments: 0]
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23.Sep.2024
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Do-it-yourself: Amiga arcade game machine by the Belgian Amiga Club
The Belgian Amiga Club presents an arcade project on its website that recreates a real arcade experience on the Amiga platform. The project makes it possible to play classic Amiga games in a simulated arcade machine based on an iMac, and offers detailed information on setting up this home arcade system based on the Amiga. The aim is to preserve the charm and authenticity of the Amiga in a realistic arcade machine. All the components and STL files for DIY construction can be found on the website.
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[News message: 23. Sep. 2024, 20:15] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2024
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Aminet uploads until 21.09.2024
The following files have been added until 21.09.2024 to Aminet:
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22.Sep.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 21.09.2024
The following files have been added until 21.09.2024 to OS4Depot:
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22.Sep.2024
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AROS-Archives-Uploads bis 21.09.2024
The following files have been added until 21.09.2024 to AROS Archives:
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22.Sep.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 21.09.2024
The following files have been added until 21.09.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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22.Sep.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.09.2024
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 21.09.2024:
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22.Sep.2024
Mastodon (ANF)
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Buffered CF2IDE adapter for Amiga 600/1200
According to the Canadian supplier Retro Rewind they are selling the first buffered Compact Flash IDE adapter for the Amiga 600 and 1200. Buffering a total of 24 signals makes the system more stable. In addition, a converter prevents the hard disk LED from lighting up permanently on some CF cards.
Furthermore the connection of another drive via the 44-pin connector CN3 is supported, whereby the respective card is set as master or slave via the jumper J1.
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22.Sep.2024
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: SID plugin 2.0
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with version 2.0 of the SID plugin for Hollywood. Once this plugin is installed, Hollywood will "automagically" be able to play SID files just like any other audio file. Version 2.0 is a major update which now uses completely different SID core.
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[News message: 22. Sep. 2024, 07:59] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2024
newsletter (ANF)
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Game launcher: X-bEnCh 1.3 (public beta version)
Jim Neray's X-bEnCH is a graphical user interface with up to 640 colors (AGA; 128 on OCS/ECS computers) that can replace the Workbench for starting WHDLoad games and other applications and requires few resources; an integrated command line and the Xpl0rEr file manager are also available.
The hard disk can be searched automatically for WHDLoad games and other executable programs. For the latter, manual start scripts can be created with the internal scripting system "X-bEnCh Scripts". X-bEnCh runs on all Amigas.
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[News message: 22. Sep. 2024, 07:59] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2024
Nivrig (ANF)
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Event: Amiga Belfast 2024
On November 2nd Amiga users of Northern Ireland meet in Belfast. Who would like to bring his own computer along is asked to mention this on registration. Further information on the event is not available.
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[News message: 22. Sep. 2024, 07:58] [Comments: 0]
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21.Sep.2024
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SCALA-MM game conversion: Beyond a Steel Sky
After Adventure 2 Remake, 'Quantum Code Monk', formerly 'grindercowboy', has released a second game project for Scala MM: Beyond a Steel Sky is a conversion of the 2020 sequel of the same name to Beneath a Steel Sky as a point'n'click adventure game. This is also his contribution to AmiGameJam 2024. The first part of the game is available for download, the second (and final) part will follow soon. Scala or the Scala-MM-Player and 4 MB RAM are required.
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[News message: 21. Sep. 2024, 07:17] [Comments: 0]
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20.Sep.2024
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga V3.0b2
Starting with version 2.6.1, developer Dirk Hoffmann made changes to the internal architecture of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS with the aim of porting the new emulator architecture of VirtualC64 v5.0 to vAmiga in order to enable features such as Run-Ahead (background article). Now he has released the second beta version of version 3, which, among others, introduces this feature. Changes compared to the first beta version:
- Inserting floppy disks failed to work for some file formats such as EXE files.
- Fixed a bug that routed some key events to the Amiga keyboard instead of RetroShell.
- The CIA panel occasionally reported idle times exceeding 100%.
The minimum system requirement for its emulator is macOS 11.0.
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[News message: 20. Sep. 2024, 15:51] [Comments: 0]
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19.Sep.2024
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Chat software: AmigaGPT v1.6.3 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. In version 1.6.3, a bug when receiving chat messages has been fixed.
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (221 KB)
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[News message: 19. Sep. 2024, 06:47] [Comments: 0]
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19.Sep.2024
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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild v1.2.0 for AmigaOS 3/4
In mid-November last year, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, which is intended to make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (for example EmptyADF). Although ReBuild is not optimised for AmigaOS 4, the designer runs without problems using 68k emulation. Changes of version 1.2.0:
- fix getfile readonly code not being generated when TRUE
- use macros setting was not fully applied to all object definitions
- fix os4 issues with penmap and bitmap gadgets
- rename 'name' fields to 'label'
- add identifier field for all gadgets
- add child labels for gradient slider and palette gadgets
- add support for checkable/toggle/mutual menu items
- add 'move into vlayout' and 'move into hlayout' menu options
- implement reopen function
- add hint text option to all gadgets
- rename incorrect window gadget help label
- set window gadget help to default to true
- window activate flag defaults to true
- adding new gadget now inserts after currently selected gadget instead of at the end
- add menu keyboard shortcuts
- add undo/redo capability
- save code preview and preview window positions to project file
- update project file format to v2
- add tooltype options for code previews and code preview window position
- settings saved to envarc:
- add realtime code preview window
- set selected item to root layout for new project
- make main window and code preview window remember their last positions
- add preview window width + height properties
- add link to vscroll to text field gadget
- add link to hscroll and link to vscroll to text editor gadget
- add link to slider gadget for integer gadget
- add horizontal scroll flag to texteditor
- throw an error on startup if neither textfield or texteditor gadgets are present
- all gadget types now have label property
- set preview window settings based on window definition
- re-arrange some gadget settings pages to try to better fit them in 640*256
- Add an edit button on main window
Michael Bergmann has created a detailed PDF tutorial for the tool, which can be downloaded from GitHub.
Download: Rebuild1.2.0.lha (183 KB)
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[News message: 19. Sep. 2024, 06:32] [Comments: 0]
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19.Sep.2024
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.36
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.36 of his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. With this version, GMail/Outlook/Yahoo mail authentication is performed in a browser window within Iris instead of launching Wayfarer. Several minor issues have also been fixed.
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[News message: 19. Sep. 2024, 06:17] [Comments: 0]
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18.Sep.2024
Michal Schulz
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Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 v1.03
Michal Schulz has released an update of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture focussing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Compared to version 1.0, Emu68 v1.03 offers the following changes:
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[News message: 18. Sep. 2024, 21:23] [Comments: 0]
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18.Sep.2024
'jPV'
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Video: "NetFS Revised" under MorphOS
On his YouTube channel 'JellyPowered', MorphOS developer 'jPV' has published a video showing the NetFS Revised developed by Philippe Rimauro in action. This network file system enables the mounting of drives between MorphOS and AmigaOS systems and thus allows the exchange of files between them while retaining protection bits. NetFS Revised also includes a tool to access ARexx ports remotely. The developer has also added a corresponding entry to the MorphOS library.
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[News message: 18. Sep. 2024, 06:58] [Comments: 0]
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