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Archive 05/2022

05.May.2022 Mutation Software: First teaser for CyberPunks 2
Already at the end of last year Mutation Software announced the second part of their top-down shooter Cyberpunks (amiga-news.de reported). There is now a first teaser video for the game, which was originally supposed to be released in the third quarter of 2021, but is now announced for the fourth quarter of 2023. (dr)

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04.May.2022 MorphOS 3.17: openssl3.library hotfix
The MorphOS developer team has announced: "New vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.17. Three discovered issues, namely CVE-2022-1343, CVE-2022-1434 and CVE-2022-1473, were found to potentially affect MorphOS users.

A fixed OpenSSL library will be bundled with a future MorphOS release. Meanwhile, you can download (1,6 MB) and install the following replacement openssl3.library that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.17. To install it, copy the file to MOSSYS:Libs and reboot." (dr)

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04.May.2022
Erik Hogan (Mail)

Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.3
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.

A few moments ago he has relesaed version 2022.3 with the following changes:

Custom splash screens for Patreon backers.
Improved AGA support, including "GothicVania" triple parallax demo.
One click export to Win/Mac (FS-UAE), AmiBerry/A500 mini, Workbench.
Improved code and animation editing.

You can support the developer on his Patreon website. (dr)

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04.May.2022 Open Source: Talks of 'Open Hardware Summit'
On April 22, 2022, the Open Hardware Summit took place virtually: an annual conference organized by the Open Source Hardware Association about Open Source. The talks were recorded and can now be viewed retrospectively at the title link. (dr)

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04.May.2022
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.11
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).

Yesterday the new firmware version 1.11 was released with the following improvements/new features compared to version 1.10:

Improves/Fixes ZZ9000AX playback on many Amiga models through improved IRQ behavior (also improves Ethernet)
Fixes spurious missed ARM register writes, improving stability on all platforms
Fix 128MB mapping of framebuffer area on Z3
ZZ9000AX: improved resampling (linear interpolation on ARM)
ZZ9000AX: programmable DSP, automatic Butterworth low pass filter, mixer
ZZ9000AX: New Audio Mode with Panning Flag (has different volume level)
ZZ9000AX: Adjusted volume level for digital playback (to prevent clipping)
ZZTop: Shows if ZZ9000AX is detected
ZZTop: Slider for ZZ9000AX low pass filter
ZZTop: More tests in "Bus Test"
axmp3: Dynamic buffer location
ZZ9000AX and axmp3: Support for ENV:ZZ9K_INT2 setting to use INT2 instead of INT6 (via jumper J4)

(dr)

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04.May.2022
Harry (ANF) The Guardian: How Amiga computers reprogrammed modern music
The British newspaper 'The Guardian' describes in a long article how the Amiga influenced the electronic music scene in the early 90s and continues to do so today. (dr)

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03.May.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.6
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.6 of his MorphOS web browser Wayfarer. Besides bugfixes an Amazon Fire Stick user agent and a check for existing files on download have been added.

Changes:

Added code to skip redraws of web contents entirely when Wayfarer is on an invisible screen
Added an Amazon Fire Stick user agent to settings, works well with youtube.com/tv
Removed 'Skip All Frames' loop filter option
Fixed a possible crash in the MediaSource player
Checks if a file exists and asks to overwrite in Download As requester

Download: wayfarer3.6.lha (26 MB) (snx)

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03.May.2022

Last Minute Creations: Games 'GermZ' and 'Atarenium Falcon' released
Last Minute Creations', a Polish group of amiga game developers, has finally released two of their games that have been available in pre-release versions for quite some time:

In GermZ you have to try as a tiny organism not only to survive, but to infiltrate and take over other organisms (amiga-news.de reported):

Features:

single player campaign
multiplayer mode up to 4 players using joy1, joy2, WSAD, arrows controls
several maps to choose from
special cells with features expanding your tactics
in-game editor for creating own maps and campaigns

An Amiga 500 with 1MB CHIP RAM is required. The game can be downloaded as lha or adf file for a recommended price of three Euro. The source code is available on GitHub.

The second release, Atarenium Falcon, reminds at first glance a bit of the classic 'Space Taxi': With a spaceship, the player has to head for the exit already visible at the beginning of the level. However, gravity is not the problem but he has to choose the way in such a way that he collects enough coal (as fuel) and also floating capacitors and the like (amiga-news.de reported):

Again, an Amiga 500 with 1 MB chip-ram is sufficient and is also available for a recommended three Euros (more is possible, of course, but also less) as lha and adf archive. The source code is on GitHub. (dr)

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03.May.2022
RetroRGB Video interview: Neil und Richard from RMC
The website RetroRGB is comprehensively dedicated to the world of retro games. An interview with Neil and Richard from RMC, who not only run their own YouTube channel but also an interactive retro computer museum in England (amiga-news.de reported), has now been published there. (dr)

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03.May.2022 Motorola68k emulation: Bug-fixed FPU implementation of Emu68
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon website.

In today's entry he reports to have finally found the bug in the FPU implementation: a copy&paste error that remained hidden for over a year! To check to what extent this has influence on the FPU implementation, he played all Elude demos available on his hard disk: All demos now run without wobbles, all effects are now shown (YouTube video). Thus, "many FPU demanding things that were broken before are working now". All twelve Elude demos shown were played on his A600 with Emu68 and PiStorm.

In addition, has been able to eliminate another bug: ARM interrupts were passed through to M68k. Now, he reports, he can finally starts developing the WiFi driver. (dr)

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03.May.2022

AmigaOS 4: FTP server 'ZitaFTP' 1.32
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.32 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:

"ZitaFTP Server v1.32 is finished, and available for download. It's missing the big new feature I had planned because I couldn't get it finished in time, and didn't want to delay the smaller enhancements any further. The improvements are:

EPSV support - enables full internet accessibility through devices with Network Address Translation (NAT), such as your home router
IPv6 support - the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IP) NOTE: This is for Windows only, since AmigaOS currently lacks IPv6 support. Should that change, then IPv6 will be enabled for AmigaOS as well

The next version will have automated SSL certificate generation capability. I'll let you know when it's done, which should hopefully be in a few weeks time..."

A single license of 'ZitaFTP Server' costs around 47 Euros. The program can be tested free of charge for 30 days. (dr)

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