21.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5.0 for Vampire V2
Version 11.5.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit specially adapted for Vampire processor cards has just been released (amiga-news.de reported). The AmigaOS files, Kickstart ROMs and the Picasso96 graphics drivers are required. The update includes the following changes:
- ADDED: AmiBrixx 2.1 game by Joerg Renkert (AmiKit:Games)
- ADDED: AmigaAMP/Amplifier pop-up notifications of currently playing tracks or streams
- ADDED: Ask Your Amiga (AYA) 0.6 by ALB42 (AmiKit:Utilities)
- ADDED: Audio streams (m3u) are now recognized and being replayed in AmigaAMP
- ADDED: BackUp 1.91 by Daniel Westerberg from OnyxSoft (AmiKit:Tools)
- ADDED: HollyMan 9.1 - a Workbench Pacman clone by Andreas Falkenhahn
- ADDED: Kill 2.27 by Walter Dorwald (AmiKit:C)
- ADDED: MiniHex 1.1b by Daniel Westerberg (AmiKit:Tools)
- ADDED: NWait 1.0 by Allan Versaevel (AmiKit:C)
- ADDED: SCopy 1.08 by John Hendrikx (AmiKit:C)
- ADDED: twittAmiga 4.4.2 by Oliver Urbann
- ADDED: VirusZ III 1.04 by Georg Hormann and Dirk Stoecker (AmiKit:Utilities/EXPANSION)
- AMIKIT: Additional Downloads script 11.6.1
- AMIKIT: Dracula 11.5.0 with automated installation of AmigaOS 3.2.1 update
- AMIKIT: Live Update 1.9 by Daniel Westerberg from OnyxSoft
- AMIKIT: Updated Startup-LoadModule 11.5.0
- AMIKIT: Updated Startup-Vampire 11.5.0
- VAMPIRE: Super AGA drivers 2.9 for Vampire by Apollo
- VAMPIRE: i2c.library 40.0
- VAMPIRE: SD drivers 0.13
- VAMPIRE: VampireFlash 1.13
- VAMPIRE: VampireMap 1.13
- VAMPIRE: v4net.device 2.202
- VAMPIRE: vampiregfx.card 1.40 for V4 R8
- VAMPIRE: VControl 1.19
- VAMPIRE: On-demand support of the latest stable V4 core R8 (8691). Run Dracula > Vampire > Core Support or boot without the Startup-Sequence and enter "v4coresupport"
- VAMPIRE: AHI driver for ARNE (16-bit audio on V4) by Apollo
- UPDATED: ADiffView 2.2 by Uwe Rosner (with a code from M.Hertel)
- UPDATED: AmigaAMP 3.31 by Thomas Wenzel
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 4.12 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: Another World WHDLoad Slave 2.7 by Harry & JOTD
- UPDATED: Boards Library 3.55 by Torsten Bach, Thomas Barth and Marcus Gerards
- UPDATED: Cloud services (Drobox, GDrive) starting improved
- UPDATED: EvenMore 0.94 by Chris Perver
- UPDATED: guigfx.library 20.1 (FPU) by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: HippoPlayer 2.52 by Kari-Pekka Koljonen
- UPDATED: Hollywood Player 9.1 by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: hURL 1.2 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: iGame 2.1b2 (15-Mar-2021) by Emmanuel Vasilakis and Contributors
- UPDATED: Infinite Module Player (IMP) 3.380 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: JFIFdt44 44.17 by Henryk Richter and Gunther Nikl
- UPDATED: LoadModule 45.18 by Thomas Richter and Etienne Vogt
- UPDATED: MCC_BetterString 11.36 Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_NList 0.128 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TextEditor 15.56 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TheBar 26.22 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MUI 5.0 (20210831) by Stefan Stuntz, Thore Bockelman and Jens Maus
- UPDATED: MUIbase 4.4 by Steffen Gutmann
- UPDATED: MysticView 1.07 by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: PolybiosPDF 1.3 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: RapaGUI 2.1 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: RiVA MPEG-1 Player 0.56 by Stephen Fellner & Henryk Richter
- UPDATED: RNOPDF 1.4 by jPV^RNO
- UPDATED: SysinfoBoards 3.7 by Holger Hippenstiel
- UPDATED: Sysinfo 4.4 by Tobias 'Geijer' Geijersson and Nic Wilson
- UPDATED: SnoopDos 3.11 by Eddy Carroll, updated by Thomas Richter
- UPDATED: UnRAR 6.11 by Alexander Roshal, Amiga port by Marcin Labensk
- UPDATED: VirusZ Bootblocks (22-Apr-2022) by Virus Help Team
- UPDATED: VisualPrefs 1.5n by Massimo Tantignone
- UPDATED: xvs.library 33.46 by Georg Wittmann
- UPDATED: YAM 2.10dev (26-Jan-2021) with AmiSSL support by YAM Open Source Team
- UPDATED: WHDLoad 18.7 (build 6366, 15-Dec-2021) by Bert Jahn et al.
- FIXED: PAL screens were corrupted in OS3.2
- FIXED: Initialising of YAM theme works now
- FIXED: HippoPlayer uses the default AHI mode now (if enabled)
- REMOVED: Russian locale, catalogs and fonts
(dr)
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21.May.2022
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Custom chips: Replacement project of Buffee developers
As Renee Cousins, one of the developers of the turbo card project 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported), explained a few days ago, she has turned back to her original Amiga project dedicated to hard-to-find custom chips and their replacements. The first one is Gary and will be called 'Gary Zander'.
At the moment this board is 100% reliably tested on an Amiga 500 and only needs a bit more time during reboot. The lack of tri-state and open-drain pins on the Xilinx chip would be the reason not to release it now. The board would be produced and tested with these supplemented pins soon.
Following this, the replacement for the Agnus will be tackled, called 'Willoe'. Currently, 3D models of the board are being printed to ensure they fit into the PLCC socket. The rough functional scope of Willoe:
- 100 pin TQFP Lattice MachXO2 core (XO2-2000)
- Near instant-on (CPLD-like) functionality
- 16MB of 133MHz, 8-bit pSRAM for AGA+ bandwidth
- 1MB, 2MB Agnus and 2MB Alice compatibility
- Jumpered NTSC/PAL default modes (will also obey pin and software changes)
- Automatic 8372 and 8375 pin detection (universal socket compatibility)
- Many optional features to come
(dr)
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21.May.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.01
After several beta versions the developer Dirk Hoffmann had released the final version 2.0 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS ten days ago (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.01 was made available yesterday fixing two crash causes (DMA debugger, drive export menu).
The minimum system requirement is macOS 10.15.
(dr)
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19.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.7.0 for Windows/Mac/Linux
An update to version 11.7.0 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.
The changes primarily include updated Amiga programs:
- UPDATED: ADiffView 2.1 by Uwe Rosner (with a code from M.Hertel)
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 4.11 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: guigfx.library 20.1 (FPU) by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: HippoPlayer 2.52 by Kari-Pekka Koljonen
- UPDATED: Infinite Module Player (IMP) 3.379 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: JFIFdt44 44.17 by Henryk Richter and Gunther Nikl
- UPDATED: MCC_BetterString 11.36 Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_NList 0.128 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TextEditor 15.56 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TheBar 26.22 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MysticView 1.07 by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: RapaGUI 2.1 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: RNOPDF 1.4 by jPV^RNO
- UPDATED: SnoopDos 3.11 by Eddy Carroll, Thomas Richter et al.
- UPDATED: UnRAR 6.11 by Alexander Roshal, Amiga port by Marcin Labenski
- FIXED: Initialising of YAM theme works now
- FIXED: HippoPlayer uses the default AHI mode now (if enabled)
- FIXED: LoadModule was not updated last time
(dr)
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19.May.2022
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Development environment: Update on 'Grimoire' project
About a month ago we reported about Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier's new project of a software development solution for Amiga computers: Grimoire. In two recent blog entries he reports about the progress on the project:
With the first entry he opens his developer diary and lists all changes he has made to the project starting in January 2020 until today. The second entry reports specifically on his progress with 'screens':
- 'getBestScreenMode' can be returned for Planar and Saga Chunky modi.
- 'OpenScreen' can open bitplanes screens (up to 256 colors).
- working on ’primitive’ copper list support for full screen view with 1 screen. This will later be replaced by a more complex system that can handle more than one screen in view and grid effects.
(dr)
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18.May.2022
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Accelerator board project: Buffee partly Open Source again
At the end of March we reported that the turbo card project 'Buffee', originally started as Open Source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, is fully Closed Source. In a new blog entry from yesterday, the developers now announce that the source code for PJIT has been reopened and the private repository has been merged and closed. From now on there is only one repository for PJIT.
Closed Source on the other hand remains the firmware, which contains the boot loader, the PRU programs and the CPLD image, and the hardware design files. (dr)
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18.May.2022
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Video tutorial: Blitz Basic
The Irish Amiga user 'Daedalus2097' has started a tutorial series about Blitz Basic on Twitch. So far there have been two live streams, which you can watch again in retrospect at your leisure: part 1, part 2. AmiBlitz 3 was used as development environment. (dr)
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