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Archive 09/2022

`02.Sep.2022`	Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.13 RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial. Version 0.9.13 released today provides the following changes: When editing the level the collision map can be displayed on top of the map with the Show Tile Cols checkbox. Games not using hud will consume less Chip memory. When editing text, non ASCII characters will be converted to the closest ASCII character. Reduced screen width is used correctly in triggers and camera. Added Condition trigger On Landed that detects when an objects hits the ground. Audio files path tries to correct itself if the file is not found. Added trigger Play Sound Random to play from a range of sounds. Added action trigger Stop CD32 that stops the CD audio. Loading a level now stops the CD audio if playing. Adjusted lower limit for map width values. Optimization in memory copy operations. Fix in collisions when moving very fast to the left. Fix for copper palette from a file not being exported to the Build. (dr) [News message: 02. Sep. 2022, 20:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Sep.2022`	Accelerator board: Buffee developers test TF1200 In her latest blog entry, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported), reports that due to the existence of a TF1200 by Stephen Leary they are able to test Buffee on the Amiga 1200 as well. Already 2021 she had announced in a tweet that the TerribleFire turbo card supports the Buffee project. (dr) [News message: 02. Sep. 2022, 06:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Sep.2022`	AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 7 Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas. The goal is to make it POSIX compliant and also fix any C++ problems that exist with newer compilers (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday he has released the seventh beta version with the following changes: Added new open source pthread library (and removed the old one) Fixed ncurses/termios problem Fixed non-blocking stdin when used with socket and poll Changed DOS library requirements to v52 instead of v54 Added misc folder to SDK installation and package that contain terminfo entries Fixed a bug in spawnv function was causing a bad exe filename and a memory leak Added flock function. Fixed a problem on record_locking was not allocating memory correctly Added stdio_ext functions (except __freadptr) More bug fixes and improvements (dr) [News message: 02. Sep. 2022, 05:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Sep.2022`	Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.3 Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported) The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Yesterday version 1.3 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes: gw: New formats ibm.800 and ibm.2880 gw: New image format *.MGT (dr) [News message: 02. Sep. 2022, 05:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Sep.2022` David Brunet (ANF)	New articles on Obligement website The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information. July/August 2022 news News: The big Commodore brand heist Old Joystick articles 49 to 54: News: Aladdin - Disney and Virgin amaze us, Report: Hollywood in the digital age, Review of Elfmania, Interview with Sid Meier, Review of The Ultimate Pinball Quest, News: Team 17 - team spirit, games for everyone, Interview with David Lester, Review of James Pond 3: Operation Starfi5h, Review of Sexual Fantasies, Report: European Computer Trade Show of April 1994, Review of Arcade Pool, Review of Disposable Hero [CD32], etc. Interview with Daniel Jedlicka (musician and developer on AmigaOS 4) Interview with Anthony Rosbottom (graphic designer) Review: AmiKit XE 11.8.0 for Windows Hardware: Furia S628 File: Hidden messages and Easter eggs in AmigaOS File: The history of Trecision (first part) Tutorial: Presentation and use of Reggae Point of view: The development of Rave (part four) DIY: Reducing the size of an HxC SD and adding a small LCD screen Special quiz on Amiga video game characters (act 2) (dr) [News message: 02. Sep. 2022, 05:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Sep.2022`	Demo scene: "Nano Gems" offers selection of the best intros The "Nano Gems" page, a subpage of the demo platform Demozoo, gives a curated selection of the best small intros from the demo scene. It aims to give a quick overview of what kind of small intros exist in different size categories and platforms. The intros are sorted by date and alphabet, which in no way reflects a ranking. The productions in this list are curated and suggested by members of the "Sizecoding Discord". Additional productions may be suggested. The "Oldschool" category also includes four Amiga demos: Fluid Fire (1 Kb) 1Klång (1 kB) Cube-O-Bootic (1 kB) Hotbleeps (128 kB) (dr) [News message: 02. Sep. 2022, 05:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Sep.2022` Reddit	Newspaper: Guardian article with Amiga 500 picture In the Guardian article "Why Japan’s war on disks could prove to be another flop" published today, a picture of an Amiga 500 opens the report about Japan’s Minister of Digital Affairs, Taro Kono, who after abolishing the fax now wants to banish the floppy disk as well - but meets resistance from bureaucrats in the process. (dr) [News message: 01. Sep. 2022, 16:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Sep.2022`	Emulator: QEMU 7.1.0 released QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software without the need of hardware virtualization. So it is possible to emulate Amiga operating systems like AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who gives lots of tips and info on a dedicated webseite (see also our Excursion of Amiga operating systems on non-native hardware). According to Zoltan Balaton, the now released version 7.1.0 (changelog) fixes a potential incomplete DMA on the Sam460ex, which only affected AmigaOS 4. (dr) [News message: 01. Sep. 2022, 11:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Sep.2022`	THEA500 Mini: Pandory500 firmware V2 "Pandory500" is a "cross-loading" firmware for the THEA500 mini that allows many other emulators and programs to run (YouTube video). It is installed in the form of a WHDLOAD package and exploits a hidden feature of the Amiberry emulator to run native code. It runs completely from the USB stick and is 100% removable. Among other things, version 2 now supports firmware 1.1.1 and more gamepads than the original firmware. More free memory is also available. (dr) [News message: 01. Sep. 2022, 08:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Sep.2022` Puni / AmigaOldskooler (ANF)	AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of month August The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published an illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of hardware and software for AmigaOS 4 in the month of August. (dr) [News message: 01. Sep. 2022, 06:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Sep.2022`	Self-made project: Parallel port to SPI adapter The goal of this project initiated by Niklas Ekström is to develop a cheap and easy to build SPI adapter that can be connected to the parallel port of an Amiga. In addition, the performance of the adapter should be as fast as possible. There exists many SPI peripherals that can be connected to this adapter. The SPI adapter comes with a source code library, spi-lib, that is used to perform reads and writes to the SPI peripheral. For each kind of SPI peripheral, however, a separate driver needs to be written that uses spi-lib, and exposes the functionality of the SPI peripheral to the operating system using some suitable interface. In the directory examples/spisd an example of how an SD card module can be connected to the SPI adapter, and a driver is provided that lets AmigaOS mount the SPI card as a file system. Version 2.1, released yesterday, fixes a bug in the SD card device driver of version v2.0, which did not work correctly with the Amiga 3000 or 4000. (dr) [News message: 01. Sep. 2022, 06:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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