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14.Sep.2022

Text adventure: Pre-order of Collector's Edition of "Silk Dust"
In the middle of the last year, Davide Bucci had released the third part of his text adventures series called "Silk Dust" (amiga-news.de reported. "poly.play" now offers a collector's edition for 27 Euro plus shipping. It includes:

3.5" floppy disk
Cardboard box
MicroSD card including disk images and more
Compass in linen bag
8-page DIN A5 manual (English)
Stickers
Poster (Din A3)
Shrink-wrapped

The box will be available from 03. October 2022 and can be pre-ordered now. (dr)

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14.Sep.2022

AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.3
For more than a year Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka presented the audio editor 'Rave' developed by him in status updates on his blog, at the end of June he released the first version 1.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The now released version 1.3 includes the following changes:

Unlimited Undo, with an option to use the Extended Memory Objects framework.
Added support for WAV files containing IMA ADPCM-encoded data.
Faster processing, loading and saving of long samples thanks to optimizations in the sndeditor.gadget.
Fixed: The list of assigns in the file requester got improperly sorted under certain conditions.
Fixe: Applying Mute didn't change the project status to modified, so the Save function remained unavailable.
Fixed: Pasting mono data from the clipboard into a stereo project didn't work.
Fixed: Auditioning a right-channel selection always played left-channel data by mistake.
Fixed: The channel mixing code in Convert Channels was broken and produced some distortion.
Updated program documentation.

Rave requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 as well as A-EON's Enhancer Core. (dr)

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13.Sep.2022
Amiga.org (forum) AmigaKit: Switchless floppy boot selector
British dealer AmigaKit offers a switchless boot-selector for the Amiga 500 or 2000 floppy drives at the title link: Pressing Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga for five seconds makes DF1 the boot drive, while the original DF0 is switched off. Pressing the key again reverses this. (snx)

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13.Sep.2022

AmigaOS 4.1: Spreadsheet ignition 1.21
Achim Pankalla has released version 1.21 of his spreadsheet ignition, which requires at least AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6. The new version corrects bugs in some functions, now allows file suffixes with more than three characters and offers a revised manual.

The ods-addon has also been updated. The extension allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc, among others. Changes in ign-ods-addon 0.37:

now some more functions are converted
solve a problem with ms ods-files
corrects a failure in calculation of column and row size

A new addition is the xlsx-AddOn for reading MS Excel files. This is a first, early version of the extension, the integration in ignition must still be done manually. Here tested with a calendar file (left ignition, right Excel):

Achim Pankalla thanks all testers, bug reporters, translators and supporters. He welcomes any feedback via email, and also refers to the official ignition support forum (German) at os4welt.de for further information and discussion. (dr)

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13.Sep.2022
Hans de Ruiter

AmigaOS 4: FTP server 'ZitaFTP' 1.34
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.34 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:

"ZitaFTP Server v1.34 has just been released, and can be downloaded. This version marks a major milestone: it's no longer a pre-release.

No, this doesn't mean it's perfect. I have plenty more features and enhancements to add. ZitaFTP Server has matured to the point that the pre-release label can be removed. It's a solid product.

The ZitaFTP Server logo has been refreshed, and is looking nice. It's been incorporated into the installers too, so the generic banners are gone. In brief, here are the (cross-platform) enhancements and bug fixes:

UI sidebar menu now only shows the pages that a user has access to
Enabled Link-Time-Optimization (LTO) for release builds. This reduces the compiled binary size by removing unused library code (and other optimizations)
Fixed timer event removal to eliminate a SEGV fault on exit when the ACME autorenewal client is active
Fixed a potential hang in the event loop with slow tasks (such as ACME certificate renewal tasks)
Fixed thread pool so more than one thread can run at once

The AmigaOS version got some special attention this time round. Here's what AmigaOS users have to look forward to:

Added an AREXX port
Installer now has upgrade and maintenance modes when an existing installation is detected. Upgrading just got easier
Added AutoInstall script
Updated libcurl to use AmiSSL, and deleted the statically linked OpenSSL that was there only for libcurl (reduces the binary size by several megabytes)"

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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12.Sep.2022

Tetris clone for RTG Amigas: Atris
Yesterday, Sami Vehmaa - also AB_Template - has released a Tetris clone called Atris for Amigas with gfx board (YouTube video).

The game was written in AmiBlitz 3 and requires AmigaOS3.x, AHI, RTG 960x540 16-bit for full screen mode and 35MB RAM. The game can be also started from Workbench in 800x600x16, but then you cannot change to full screen mode. Atris can be purchased for at least 3 Euro on itch.io. (dr)

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