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`22.Mar.2022` Artur Jarosik (Patreon)	Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V0.95 Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first part of the realtime strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga and named it "Vanilla Conquer" (amiga-news.de reported). Today he has released version 0.95 with the following changes: Fixed flying vehicles Fixed rockets, turrets and other bullets Fixed music playback bug Fixed: If we played Commando, after saving, he was a normal soldier Disabled debug The game is primarily intended for Amigas upgraded with an Apollo accelerator board, especially the V4 series. However, as the author explained to us, it could be playable on a 68060 processor with a graphics card with the music and sound effects turned off. However, the version now available should play the sound correctly on Amigas without V4 accelerator cards. If you want to support the author, you can do so on his Patreon page. (dr) [News message: 22. Mar. 2022, 19:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Mar.2022`	8/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2022-03-13 Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now. The update V2022-03-13, released a few days ago, corrects an issue with Copper WAITs that caused a reasonable proportion of PAL Amiga titles to display incorrectly at the bottom of the screen. Furthermore, the update adds support for Amiga fast RAM, and allows user selection of the quantity of chip RAM. (dr) [News message: 22. Mar. 2022, 04:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Mar.2022` Christian Zigotzky (Mail)	Linux: Kernel 5.17 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 The final Linux kernel 5.17 has been released. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The image can be downloaded in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum. Among other things, the XFS file system and the 9P protocol are now supported. (dr) [News message: 22. Mar. 2022, 04:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Mar.2022` Twitter	Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.6.1 for Windows/Mac/Linux An update to version 11.6.1 has been released for the workbench distribution AmiKit, which is intended for emulators. In addition to an emulator AmigaOS 3.x and the Kickstart ROMs are required. With the new version it is now also possible to use AmigaOS 3.2. However, an earlier AmigaOS version or Amiga Forever is still required for the initial installation. The changes in detail: NEW: AmigaOS 3.2.1 works with AmiKit now! Use MorpheuZ to install it (at your own risk) on top of your current AmigaOS version used in AmiKit. ADDED: AmiKit Dark VisualPrefs theme for AmigaOS 3.2 UPDATED: AmiKit Morpheuz 11.6.2 by Jan Zahurancik UPDATED: AmiKit VisualPrefs themes for FullHD resolution (and AmigaOS 3.2 too) UPDATED: AmiKitReset 11.6.1 UPDATED: VisualPrefs 1.5n by Massimo Tantignone UPDATED: WinUAE 4.9.1 German translation by BlackByte FIXED: Slow I/O operations of 64-bit WinUAE. A 32-bit executable is used instead. FIXED: A possible endless loop of AmiKit AddDown script FIXED: A potential WinUAE misconfiguration where mouse wheel movement was interpreted as LeftAlt keypress. (dr) [News message: 21. Mar. 2022, 06:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Mar.2022`	MorphOS: Screensaver ModernArt Blanker 3.3 ModernArt Blanker is a screensaver that, according to the author, "draws psychedelic shapes like circles, triangles, squares and stars all over the screen producing multicoloured pieces of random modern art". Since our last news about version 3.0, some bugs have been fixed and numerous changes have been made. Among other things, it is now possible to adjust the movement speed, change the palette between monochrome, summer, autumn, winter, spring and night or a random selection of them. Furthermore, there is now a real installation script. (dr) [News message: 21. Mar. 2022, 06:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Mar.2022` goto80	Diskmag: aSCIIeXPRESS #001 The new ASCII discmag aSCIIeXPRESS by 'Up Rough' and 'Divine Stylers' presents a collection of ASCII art from the last months with a casual soundtrack. It can be downloaded under the title link either as a dms file or watched on YouTube. (dr) [News message: 21. Mar. 2022, 05:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Mar.2022` (ANF)	Graphic designer Celal Kandemiroglu passed away GamesWirtschaft (German) has reported that graphic designer and artist Celal Kandemiroglu has passed away in Turkey at the age of 69. Readers of Amiga Joker, PC Joker and PC Player magazines will be familiar with his cover artwork, which Celâl Kandemiroğlu created in the 1990s. He also worked for the German game companies Ascon / Ascaron, Factor 5, Greenwood Entertainment, Koch Media, Magic Bytes, Rainbow Arts, Reline, Starbyte and Thalion and created the graphics for the game X-Out, for example (see entry at MobyGames). (dr) [News message: 21. Mar. 2022, 05:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Mar.2022` AmigaLove	Self-made project: MP3 player for parallel port The "Amiga MAS Player Pro2+" by Marcel Jähne is based on the MAS player developed by Dirk Conrad and is an MP3 player hardware for the parallel port of the Amiga. It plays any kind of MP3 files and MP3 radio streams without loading the processor. The MAS-Player is a small module that does the job of decoding music compressed in MPEG and providing the data as an analog signal. It has an audio output for connection to the stereo system, a DB25 connector for connection to the parallel port and a USB port for 5V power supply. This short video shows the function test on the Amiga 1000. (dr) [News message: 20. Mar. 2022, 19:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Mar.2022` Commodore-News	Minimig: Revision 1.8 (update) In 2005 we reported on the start of the Minimig project by Dutch electrical engineer Dennis van Weeren: the reimplementation of the one Amiga 500 in an FPGA. Based on this approach there were other projects like the Mist, which uses its own hardware but for the Amiga core (with AGA support) an adaptation of the Minimig, the MiSTer, an adaptation of MiST to a more powerful FPGA or even the Apollo core. But the Minimig project itself also continues: After publishing the project's source code and schematics on July 25, 2007, the MiniMig.ca site has been taking care of the project since mid-2021. So with the Revision 1.3 every board got 4 MB RAM by default. Likewise, the SD connector and the 3.5 mm audio jack were replaced and termination resistors for FPGA RAM and FPGA CPU were added. In mid-February the site released Revision 1.8: The board has 4MB of SRAM divided into 2MB of CHIP, 512KB of ROM and 1.5MB of Slow. In addition, for the first time a real MC68000 CPU (CMOS and NMOS) could be run and PiStorm could deliver over 800MIPS performance to this board. Update: (22.03.2022, 05:08, dr) Inspired by the comments of our readers, we have asked the developer Ranko Rodic again: Since he is still in the process of changing the hardware, he postpones the release of the Gerber files until version 2. Likewise, he gives an outlook on future development: At the moment I am working with Renee Cousins (Buffee project) on Minimig FPGA core. At this time Renee successfully integrated stock Gary chip into the core. This will make a significant difference for the bus control. The goal is to make sure Minimig is 100% real Amiga. Soon we will be able to run accelerator cards like TerribleFire 530 with additional RAM and HDD controllers on the board. At the moment only accelerator card that works well is PiStorm. Replace outdated Spartan 3 with something modern and cost effective. With the larger FPGA chip we will be able to support AGA and 32-bit architecture. Replace old SRAM with DDR. 128MB IC will do Make sure the board is mini ITX compliant Add floppy disk support and 34pin header. Make sure Minimig can drive real Amiga FDD Move from PS/2 to USB Add real HDD header to the board Add ethernet/wireless Before moving forward we will use REV 8 to make sure FPGA core is up to date and 100% compatible with A600 class Amiga. After I will replace old ICs and make sure hardware improvements are in place. As a spinoff I am hoping to move forward with chipset ICs. It would be awesome if we can recreate every custom chip as a FPGA/CPLD. We are making some progress. (dr) [News message: 20. Mar. 2022, 14:39] [Comments: 1 - 22. Mar. 2022, 05:36] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Mar.2022`	Aminet uploads until 19.03.2022 The following files have been added until 19.03.2022 to Aminet: ZitaFTPServer.lha comm/tcp 19M OS4 A fast and secure FTP(S) server. just-for-fun.lha demo/misc 4.6M MOS Oldschool Demo in SDL2 by PuR... void-planetr.lha demo/misc 126K 68k Invitation to Revision 2022 StarDriveSCSI.lha driver/med 51K 68k Microbotics StarDrive SCSI dr... prism2v2.lha driver/net 404K OS4 Driver for 11Mbps wireless ne... bsaog.lha game/shoot 810K 68k Blake Stone Aliens of Gold bsps.lha game/shoot 217K 68k Blake Stone Planet Strike Chocolate_DOOM.lha game/shoot 2.5M 68k Amiga port of Chocolate DOOM ODAMEX_RTG.lha game/shoot 19M 68k Amiga port of Odamex (DOOM) MegaSaperPL.lha game/think 669K 68k Minesweeper game clone webptools122_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.4M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ... webptools122_aros.lha gfx/conv 3.0M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ... GF4RSIDB.zip pix/misc 82K Gradient Fonts f. RSI Demo Ma... TECO-64.lha text/edit 610K MOS TECO (Text Editor and COrrector) avalanche.lha util/arc 85K OS4 Simple ReAction GUI for xadma... UnRAR-6.11.lha util/arc 2.5M UnRAR 6.11 GoShell.lha util/shell 20K 68k tool for open Shell in full s... (snx) [News message: 20. Mar. 2022, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Mar.2022`	OS4Depot uploads until 19.03.2022 The following files have been added until 19.03.2022 to OS4Depot: analog-cheap-disk.lha dem/mus 685kb 4.1 AmigaOS4.x version of Analog Che... hieronymus.lha dev/deb 151kb 4.1 Statistical profiler arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... prism2.lha dri/net 404kb 4.0 Driver for 11Mbps wireless netwo... avalanche.lha uti/arc 85kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster unrar_ml.lha uti/arc 3Mb 4.1 Unpak RAR files checkas.lha uti/scr 8kb 4.0 Checks for assigns. (snx) [News message: 20. Mar. 2022, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Mar.2022`	AROS Archives uploads until 19.03.2022 The following files have been added until 19.03.2022 to AROS Archives: whatiff1.03.lha doc/mis 259kb Magazine in format amigaguide &q... webptools122_aros.lha lib/mis 3Mb encode/decode images in WebP format unrar-6.11.lha uti/arc 3Mb UnRAR for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS (snx) [News message: 20. Mar. 2022, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Mar.2022`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.03.2022 The following files have been added until 19.03.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: bePlayer_1.3.lha Audio/Players A simple music player u... GG.module_1.4.lha Communication/KwaKwa A plugin for KwaKwa ins... Kwakwa_1.9.lha Communication Multiprotocol, plugin b... just-for-fun.lha Demoscene A small demo to discove... SDL_2.0.20_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.2... UnRAR_6.11.lha Files/Archive UnRAR port for MorphOS,... PrBoom-plus_2.6.2_upda... Games/Shoot3D PrBoom+ is a version of... freegemas.lha Games/Think Freegemas is an open so... SuDokuL_1.12.lha Games/Think Sudoku game for Switch/... MineSweeperGui.lha Games/Think The Minesweeper game wi... AmiTube_1.0.lha Multimedia The first YouTube Clien... Wayfarer_3.1.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ... Odyssey_1.26-standalon... Network/Web Odyssey Web Browser is ... TECO-64_200.24.1.lha Text/Edit TECO (Text Editor and C... (snx) [News message: 20. Mar. 2022, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Mar.2022`	WHDLoad: New installers until 19.03.2022 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 19.03.2022: 2022-03-18 updated: Flower Power (Anarchy) patch redone, real files used to avoid OS swaps, line drawing routines fixed, memory requiremens changed to 512k chip and 512k fast, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info, Image) 2022-03-13 improved: Airball (Microdeal) trainer options added, demo can be skipped with space or fire, game can be started with space or fire (Info) (snx) [News message: 20. Mar. 2022, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Mar.2022` Amiga Future (website)	Emulator: vAmigaWeb 2.0 Beta 1 The Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb for web-browsers is based on vAmiga for Mac OS (amiga-news.de reported). Besides being updated to the current vAmiga core released a couple of days ago, it also contains a new GPU shader renderer. Furthermore there is automatic mapping of used Amiga screen space to host display now. (snx) [News message: 20. Mar. 2022, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Mar.2022` ANF	PDF magazine: 20th anniversary of kultboy.com (german) Michael Schmitzer's retro website about game reviews by past german computer magazines, kultboy.com, celebrates its 20th anniversary this weekend. For this reason, a PDF magazine of 42 pages has been created, designed like ASM magazine. It contains interviews with former ASM editors and a retro-podcaster, letters to the editor and, of course, game reviews. Download: kbm_3_2022.pdf (82 MB) (snx) [News message: 20. Mar. 2022, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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