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Archive 09/2022

`23.Sep.2022` Twitter	Review: MorphOS audio player bePlayer 1.4 David Brunet has published a review of the MorphOS multi-format audio player bePlayer by French developer Bruno Peloille on his Obligement news page. The original article is in French, but machine translations are provided. (dr) [News message: 23. Sep. 2022, 08:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2022` Ko-Fi	AmigaOS 4: Code analysis with Cpppcheck V2.8r1 At the end of July, the AmigaOS 4 developer George 'walkero' Sokianos had already published the code analysis tool "Flawfinder", which searches for potential security holes in source files. Now he has ported Cppcheck, a program for static code analysis for the programming languages C and C++. A GUI is not available, the tool must be operated via the shell. (dr) [News message: 23. Sep. 2022, 06:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Sep.2022` (ANF)	Harvey 'Harv' Laser (AmigaZone, Amiga Companion) passed away Harvey 'Harv' Laser was a US based Amiga journalist who published thousands of articles in various Amiga publications. He also established the commercial, Amiga-only online service 'AmigaZone' and maintained it for several decades. Laser passed away after a heart attack on July 5, 2022. Mike Battilana, who knew Laser for a long time, posted a short obituary in the 'Remembering our Friends' section of the Amiga Forever website. (cg) [News message: 22. Sep. 2022, 15:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Sep.2022`	Unofficial successor: "It Returned From The Desert" for Windows Tim Rachor's "It returned from the desert" (YouTube video of the early prototype) is supposed to be an unofficial successor of the Amiga game It came from the desert and is supposed to be released for Windows, maybe also for Linux and possibly Android if there is enough demand. The game is written in Unity and is not supposed to be a sequel or remake, but an independent game. The gameplay is to be modernized a bit, offering fewer dead ends, thus avoiding tough trial&error. And the combat mini-game is to be replaced by tactical, turn-based combat - while retaining the great atmosphere and exciting story of the original. As Tim writes to us, he spent endless hours sitting at a friend's house as a kid enjoying this game. Even then, however, the many dead ends frustrated him, so he wanted to make it better with his game: more beginner-friendly, respectively fairer. The goal is to finish the game in the course of this year. And if someone should find a way to port the finished game to the Amiga, he would be happy to give his permission, provided that the quality is maintained. But he has neither the know-how nor the time to do it himself. (dr) [News message: 22. Sep. 2022, 10:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Sep.2022`	Business simulation: Unofficial update for Dynatech Dynatech is an economic simulation game by Magic Bytes from 1993 for AGA-Amigas: raw materials and open spaces on Earth are exhausted, and the supply of mankind is to be secured through the discovery and development of alien planets. As the boss of "Dynatech", a gigantic corporation for the production of conveyor systems, building complexes and storage facilities, it is the player's task to get hold of transport orders and to enter the business with raw materials and refineries (taken from Amiga Games 11/92). 30 years after the release of this game, a user has now released an unofficial update that primarily transfers the German localization into English. Besides numerous minor bug fixes, however, the "Dynatech 30th Anniversary Edition" also fixes a problem with the AGA version of the game, which caused the original version to render with half the intended color precision bit depth. Likewise, the update features carefully redesigned graphics and user interface. (dr) [News message: 22. Sep. 2022, 09:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Sep.2022`	AmigaOS 4: New versions of newlib.library and string.gadget class Via AmiUpdate two updated system files are availble: string.gadget lass 53.24 and Kickstart module newlib.library 53.80. Changes: string.gadget V53.24 Rewrote the SHK_PASSWORD handling in the GM_RENDER method in a way that does not require temporarily replacing the buffer in si->Buffer (fixes a race condition when STRINGA_TextVal is read). No longer temporarily writes an 'n' character to the end of the buffer, which should fix some nasty race conditions when accessing the buffer. Fixed the text cursor sometimes being rendered with a wrong width when placed at the end of the string. This bug was a side effect of changes made in the previous release. newlib.library.kmod V53.80 (excerpt) Fixed the clock() function which was comparing time values using different different epochs, as well as time zones if the local time zone did not happen to be GMT. Replaced GetSysTime() in rusage() and clock() with GetUpTime() which is guaranteed to be monotonically increasing. Fixed a bug in setstate() that would cause the long word in front of the previous state buffer to be overwritten instead of the the first long word in the buffer. Made always include as it is needed for SIZE_MAX, for now at least. Added the previously missing asnprintf(), vasnprintf(), _asnprintf_r() and vasnprintf_r() functions to shared object and small data builds of libc. Disabled .__newlib_version section and linker warnings for shared object build of libc. Updated libauto.a to the latest version with VBCC support. mongetpcs() now uses the locally opened elf.library interface instead of relying on a global IElf interface existing. (dr) [News message: 21. Sep. 2022, 20:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Sep.2022`	AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonHD V5 (update) At the end of October 2018, RadeonHD driver version 3.6 came out with the release of the "Enhancer Software Graphics Upgrade", as a supplement to the Enhancer 1.x package, which later also became part of Enhancer Software 2.0. With version 2.1 of Enhancer, version 3.7 of the graphics card driver was released. Finally, version 2.2 of the Enhancer software was released recently, which did not include a new RadeonHD driver, but did include an updated version (1.11) of the va.library. The Video Acceleration Library was developed to support hardware video decoding on Radeon Polaris (RX) cards. Apparently, hardware acceleration for both Polaris RX cards and RadeonHD cards was already integrated in this version, but for the latter case, version 5 of the RadeonHD graphics card drivers was required, which was not yet available at that time (see AmigaKit's contribution on Amigans). Among other things, this resulted in the media player Emotion from Entwickler-X now crashing, because the software loaded the new va.library but did not find version 5 of the RadeonHD driver. This could only be solved by deactivating or reverting to the old version. After purchasing it under the title link for 50 Euro at AmigaKit (still not available on AmiStore), now this driver is available as version 5.14 via the Updater tool, device-specific for the SAM 460 and the two AmigaOne computers, X1000 and X5000 and brings the driver up to the same feature set as the RadeonRX driver. Most important changes: Dropped support for all graphics cards older than Southern Islands switched to a new code-base for the core added Dynamic Power Management (DPM) added UVD (hardware accelerated video decoding) support added GART support A bunch of miscellaneous fixes and improvements Suitable graphics cards can be found via the RadeonHD driver compatibility page. The RadeonHD v5 driver works also fine without the Enhancer Software. But it is required for hardware accelerated video decoding. Update: (24.09.2022, 07:38, dr) According to AmigaKit in a press release, the new RadeonHD driver can be directly purchased on A-EON's website until he will be made available on AmiStore. (dr) [News message: 21. Sep. 2022, 13:58] [Comments: 2 - 27. Sep. 2022, 20:19] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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