22.Jul.2023
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.1
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
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[News message: 22. Jul. 2023, 14:34] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jul.2023
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Developer diary: "Settle the World" 07/23
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel continus working on his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). In his latest developer diary entry he reports about changes on the graphics system und of pathfinding. Christian would be happy about users who try out his current development version for a few hours and then report to him where there are problems, ambiguities or crashes.
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[News message: 21. Jul. 2023, 08:52] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jul.2023
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Video tutorial: Blitz Basic
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch another part of his Blitz Basic tutorial (amiga-news.de reported), "looking at some general Blitz stuff, 3rd-party libraries, AmiBlitz includes and more".
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[News message: 20. Jul. 2023, 12:05] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jul.2023
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Retrohax blog: Amiga 500 upgrade #1
As Retrohax.net writes, he had restored hundreds of retro machines to their original state over the past years (sometimes with minor modifications) and he was kind of tired of it, so the time had come to try something different.
So he decided to create a new series of posts in which he will try to describe upgrades and visual modifications of the 20 remaining unrestored Amiga 500s. Each of these Amiga 500s will be unique and described in a separate blog post. As soon as such an Amiga is completed and tested, he will start an eBay auction with it. This is post number 1 of 20.
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[News message: 20. Jul. 2023, 06:44] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jul.2023
GitHub
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.1
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:
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[News message: 20. Jul. 2023, 06:28] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jul.2023
Apollo-Forum
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FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update GOLD 2.17 "Bronto"
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series produced by Motorola which also provides a separate graphics driver called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards 600 V2, 500 V2+ and 1200 V2. Changes:
- Card supports now to run in one of 4 different speed mode. This allows for run old games e.g. in speed of A500 or A1200, to improve running old games that have problems running on faster CPUs.
- Support for new instruction EXTUB.L
This instruction is very useful for type conversion.
It is used by some GCC versions.
Supporting it does improve code density and improves performance.
- Support for new instruction EXTUW.L
This instruction is very useful for type conversion.
It is used by some GCC versions.
Supporting it does improve code density and improves performance.
- Support for enhanced instructions
BRA.s+ BSR.s+ BCC.s+
This instruction is supported by some compilers and assemblers.
This instruction improves code density and improves performance.
- Hardware optimized version of FPU instruction FDBcc.w
- Hardware optimized version of FPU instruction FDBcc.l
- several FPU Performance optimizations ported from V4-FPU to V2
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[News message: 19. Jul. 2023, 12:13] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jul.2023
Yawning Angel (E-Mail)
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Video tutorial: Writing a simple game in AMOS
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' had published a series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro over the past twelve months (amiga-news.de reported). Based on this, in the latest video he shows how to program a small, functional game and thus finishes his series for the time being.
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[News message: 19. Jul. 2023, 09:04] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jul.2023
Mastodon
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Platform game: Rastan demo v0.31
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. Now an Amiga port is in development and after a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) there are now also demo versions, which the developer still calls alpha versions. Changes in version 0.31:
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[News message: 19. Jul. 2023, 08:29] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jul.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Special issue of ASM (German)
German magazine ASM ("Aktueller Software-Markt", current software market) was published from March 1986 to February 1995. Now a special issue is available, which contains more than 30 reviews of current games for 8- and 16-bitters as well as numerous interviews:
On the one hand with a number of people involved at that time - Manfred Kleimann, Frank Brall, Martina Strack, Bendrik Muhs, Stefan Swiergiel, Klaus Segel, Stefan Bayer, Torsten Oppermann and Dirk Fuchser - and on the other hand also with Thomas Meiertoberens (Magic Bytes) and Steve Wilcox (Elite Systems), Roman Werner (Super Marble Boy), The Mojon Twins (Ramiro el Vampiro), Juan Manchon (Amigastore. eu), Andreas Magerl (APC&TCP) and Sebastian Bach (Polyplay).
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[News message: 19. Jul. 2023, 07:21] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jul.2023
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AmigaOS 4.1: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.86
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. Changes since our last news item:
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[News message: 18. Jul. 2023, 06:32] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jul.2023
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AmigaOS 4.1: ignition-OpenDocument plugin v0.38
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. Some improvements were made to prevent endless reading and the debug outputs were removed to speedup performance.
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[News message: 18. Jul. 2023, 06:16] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jul.2023
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Event: "ZZAP! Live" in Kenilworth (England)
On 12 August 2023 at The Holiday Inn in Kenilwort (England) the first "ZZAP! Live" event, organised by the South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum, among others. All Commodore computer systems including the Amiga will be represented.
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[News message: 18. Jul. 2023, 05:59] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jul.2023
Rafał Zabdyr (E-Mail)
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MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.9.19
Rafał Zabdyr has released a first beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS. "Git Desktop" (Aminet link) is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required.
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[News message: 17. Jul. 2023, 09:29] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jul.2023
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Arcade port: Pengo released
After the beta version (amiga-news.de reported) the developer Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has released the full version of the game "Pengo", originally published for Sega's arcade machines (video). As a red penguin, you have to fight off so-called Sno-Bees in a labyrinth of ice blocks.
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[News message: 17. Jul. 2023, 06:25] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2023
Eldee Stephens (E-Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: Guide for new A1222 users
In the course of the press release about the start of production of the A1222+ motherboards (amiga-news.de reported), A-EON also gave Eldee Stephens permission to make his guide for potential A1222 users public.
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[News message: 16. Jul. 2023, 20:16] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2023
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Start bar: WBDock2 V2.896
Today Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.896. Changes:
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[News message: 16. Jul. 2023, 16:56] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2023
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Aminet uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to Aminet:
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[News message: 16. Jul. 2023, 08:12] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to OS4Depot:
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16.Jul.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to AROS Archives:
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16.Jul.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 16. Jul. 2023, 08:12] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.07.2023
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 15.07.2023:
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[News message: 16. Jul. 2023, 08:12] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2023
Epsilon's World
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Blog "Vintage is The New Old" is discontinued
The blog "Vintage is the New Old" (ViTNO) - formerly known as "CommodoreBlog" and then as "Commodore is Awesome" - will stop all activities at the end of the month. The blog used to report on all facets of retro computing. The operator Paulo justifies his step with the fact that despite the numerous readers, the engagement and feedback on articles and actions is close to zero. In contrast, news published on ViTNO is very often used and commented on in other media (podcasts, websites, etc.) without the site being named as a source.
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[News message: 16. Jul. 2023, 07:10] [Comments: 0]
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