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| 04.Dec.2022 |
Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 2.0 At the end of 2020, author Alain Fontanin resumed the development that had originally started in 1989 by releasing Version 1.2 (2019) of his text editor "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE). The author continues to work on his editor and has now released version 2.0 (2019) with the following changes:
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| 04.Dec.2022 |
Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.4 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. A few moments ago version 1.4 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
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| 04.Dec.2022 Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF) |
Hollywood: XML-Plugin 2.0 and APK Compiler 4.3 released Pressemitteilung: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0 of the XML plugin for Hollywood. This plugin, previously known as XML Parser, was one of the first Hollywood plugins and has now received a major update with many new features. The biggest new feature in version 2.0 of the Hollywood XML plugin is that you can now serialize Hollywood tables to XML documents with just a single function call. In the same way you can also deserialize XML documents to Hollywood tables with just a single function call. This is made possible by Hollywood 9's new serialization plugin interface which is why the XML plugin now requires at least Hollywood 9.0. Further new features include lots of new callbacks to handle advanced XML features like namespaces, entities, attlists, and more. Finally, the XML plugin now includes a comprehensive documentation that describes all features and contains many examples. The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin systemversions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided. Note that Hollywood 9 is strictly required by the XML plugin 2.0. Besides, Hollywood APK Compiler 4.3 has just been released. This fixes a major bug that was introduced in version 4.2 so everybody using version 4.2 should definitely update. The update is provided free of charge for all existing APK Compiler customers and can be downloaded in the restricted download section. (dr) [News message: 04. Dec. 2022, 14:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 04.Dec.2022 Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel |
Turn-based strategy: River update for "Settle the World" Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released a river update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" - see detailed introduction on amiga-news.de (YouTube developer video). Compared to the playable preview from the beginning of November (amiga-news.de reported) there are many improvements:
You can load "Save-Slot 1" in the game and see what a slightly advanced game state looks like. Furthermore, the developer recommends to save frequently and to use different save-slots, because the game still contains a lot of bugs. Some of these bugs - such as units that suddenly appear twice - could be solved by saving and reloading. Also the game music would sometimes run too fast and can then be turned off and on again via the game options. "Settle the World" is primarily intended as a duel between human opponents, but can also be played alone. The game requires 1 megabyte of ChipRAM and 4 megabytes of FastRAM, a hard disk and at least a 68020 processor. (dr) [News message: 04. Dec. 2022, 13:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 04.Dec.2022 |
Aminet uploads until 03.12.2022 The following files have been added until 03.12.2022 to Aminet: apccomm.lha comm/misc 196K 68k transfers files between Amiga... brainfuck.lha dev/lang 1K "Urban, it's coming home!" anaiis.lha driver/oth 208K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.22 F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 15K 2022 Carset for F1GP AMCommand.lha game/shoot 90K 68k Arcade Missile Command pcexhumed.lha game/shoot 674K 68k Exhumed / Powerslave Port AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.6M 68k Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.9M MOS Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul... AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands LN4Lv9.lha mods/misc 3.1M 4ch LN4 Lv9 MED track by HKvalhe SoftIEEE.lha util/libs 57K 68k math lib&881/882 FPU emulator... ScreenTime.lha util/time 66K 68k Screen clock, configurable wi...(snx) [News message: 04. Dec. 2022, 09:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 04.Dec.2022 |
OS4Depot uploads until 03.12.2022 The following files have been added until 03.12.2022 to OS4Depot: amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator hode.lha gam/pla 2Mb 4.1 One of best cinematic platform v... quickstarter.lha uti/wor 322kb 4.0 Quick program start menu(snx) [News message: 04. Dec. 2022, 09:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 04.Dec.2022 |
AROS Archives uploads until 03.12.2022 The following files have been added until 03.12.2022 to AROS Archives: portable.lha dev/lan 13Mb E Compiler aros_one_x86.zip uti/mis 232b Aros One x86(snx) [News message: 04. Dec. 2022, 09:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 04.Dec.2022 |
MorphOS-Storage uploads until 03.12.2022 The following files have been added until 03.12.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: Iris_1.5.lha Email New email client suppor... AmiArcadia_29.32.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... BootClock_1.30r1.lha Misc A little and easy progr... Wayfarer_4.5.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...(snx) [News message: 04. Dec. 2022, 09:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 04.Dec.2022 |
WHDLoad: New installers until 03.12.2022 Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 03.12.2022:
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| 04.Dec.2022 ANF |
Analogue Pocket: Video shows Amiga core under development The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. According to a video at the title link, 'Ultra FP64' is working on the adaptation of an Amiga 500 core, which is currently still in the alpha stage. According to the developer on Twitter, he wants to release it as soon as he has added keyboard and mouse to the current joystick-only support, improved the speed and tidied up his program code. (snx) [News message: 04. Dec. 2022, 09:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 04.Dec.2022 ANF |
AROS distribution: AROS One 1.9 (x86) The distribution "AROS One", based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 1.9 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings can also be found. In addition to updates to the included programs and games, this version of AROS One features visual additions such as a new "white" set of drawer icons that can be switched between and the updated "blue" one, a new background image for walkers, and various design "themes". Changes in detail:
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| 04.Dec.2022 Puni (ANF) |
AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of November For the month of November 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx) [News message: 04. Dec. 2022, 09:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 04.Dec.2022 |
Advent Calendar: Door 4 - The Apollo team For the fourth door and thus for the second Advent, the Apollo team contributes an anecdote. Their approach of FPGA-based turbo cards for Amigas represented a new alternative in terms of upgrading aged hardware besides the accelerator boards carrying a real 680x0 processor. The history started with a presentation of a NatAmi developer board in 2008. Announced in 2011, there was a first stable running version of the Vampire 600 for the Amiga of the same name in 2013. In 2016, Vampire variants for the Amiga 500 and 2000 followed, all of which used the V2 Apollo core. In 2017, development work was already underway on the Apollo V4 FPGA accelerator board, including a standalone variant. The following versions are currently available:
The anecdote for the fourth door written by the Apollo team: "Back in the days of Silver core for V2, we used to put an Amiga video game character in the boot image. At that time, the war between the team TuKo "Simon the sorcerer is better than Monkey Island" and the team guibrush "Monkey Island is of course superior to Simon the sorcerer" already existed. A discussion in the team took place to decide which character between Simon and guibrush should be used for, I believe the Silver 5 release (I'm not sure anymore if it was the 5 of the 6). In the end, as it was TuKo who was doing the releases, he decided to put Simon, against any democratic decision. He was well punished, since this core was replaced in a few days by the next one because of a bug that made it unusable on several machines, which made it the core with the shortest lifespan in the history of the Vampire." (dr) [News message: 04. Dec. 2022, 08:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 04.Dec.2022 Dimitris Panokostas |
Mastodon client: Amidon in development After the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, one or the other Amiga and retro enthusiast is thinking about either using the microblogging service only to a limited extent or, as for example announced by Jan Beta, leaving it altogether: either to set up his own website like him or, as for example Jens Schönfeld is thinking about using the alternative service Mastodon as well. The author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, not only already has his account there, he is also developing a client for AmigaOS 3. Currently he is using Hollywood for this, but he is thinking about using C as an alternative. So far the biggest problem is that the HTMLview MUI class on OS3 is old and buggy and does not work with MUI versions higher than 3.9. If you would like to support the developer, then you can do that, for example, by buying him a coffee on his Ko-fi website. (dr) [News message: 04. Dec. 2022, 06:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 04.Dec.2022 |
Puzzle game: Wood Block Puzzle The Polish developer 'Tukinem' - known among others for his platform game Ami-Tower or the farming simulation Farmiga - has written a conversion of the game Wood Block Puzzle (online variant) for Amiga in BlitzBasic:
In terms of design, the game is reminiscent of Tetris: full horizontal or vertical lines must be formed by means of the wooden blocks so that they disappear. However, the blocks do not fall from above, but are grabbed from the bottom player edge, but can not be rotated. (dr) [News message: 04. Dec. 2022, 05:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 03.Dec.2022 |
Advent Calendar: Door 3 - Joerg van de Loo For the third door of our advent calendar, developer Joerg van de Loo took a lot of time. His main Amiga-side project is the text editor BareED. Unlike other editors, BareED is a RAM-based and pixel-oriented (not character-oriented) text editor for the Amiga. This means it can display proportional fonts (characters can vary in width) and use real tabs. Also it supports syntax highlighting, which requires a fast CPU (68040 CPU or better). Furthermore he writes tools like RTF-Riddle for converting RTF files into the HTML5 format. Always worth reading and of great help for other developers are his comments to various software news on amiga-news.de. A big thank you for that at this point. His anecdote for the third door: Police - Friday, December 23, 1988 I arrived home late in the evening (at night!) after two weeks of work and immediately ask my girlfriend if she got the necessary cables to connect the monitor, because at the moment everything is only in black and white and also silently. At first, I had operated the Amiga on the TV, but now I am the proud owner of a 1084S monitor, but the accessory pack was not included... She denies it, and my mother agrees that they both tried everything to get these cables in a hurry, but it was impossible. Bummer. I call a friend, who I know is still sitting in front of his Amiga late at night. He has these cables, but he can't spare them. Again crap. He gives me a phone number of an Amiga hardware developer with a store in the area - I should try there. I can't sleep in today, it's the 24th of December - but not because I'm preparing for Christmas Eve, but because I can hardly sleep, as I'm racking my brains to find a way to connect the old 1084 S monitor to my A2000(B), because the right cables weren't included. I actually want to call the hardware developer at 7:00 am, but refrain from doing so until 9:00 am. A friendly woman's voice answers and I ask if they have these cables. She refers me to her son. He answers and points out that today is 24 December. Yes, yes, yes, I know. I ask if he has the cables he needs. "Of course," is his reply. My next question is when I could pick them up. He means on the 27th, his mother calls in and says they are closed until the beginning of January. Ouch. I'm about to hang up in frustration when he says he'll be in the shop for another hour. Hmmm, might well be a bit more than 40 kilometres - I could manage that. I agree to hurry and leave a little later. My Opel Manta with its tuned engine and balloon tyres (but without the foxtail and wiggly wiggly!) doesn't mind this rainy weather, and neither do I, because as a frequent driver who works in southern Germany, I have to cope with completely different weather conditions. Here on the Lower Rhine, however, the drivers are apparently already overwhelmed by this rain. I'm just overtaking and set the guide speed to something above that of motorways. At a junction with a stop sign, I make it a priority eight-way road. Three kilometres further on, a lorry turns left into my subordinate road, so I ignore the stop sign and turn right. The 70 zone is quickly behind me and then it's just straight ahead - so I have to overtake all the time. Then I am close to my destination and have to turn left. After fifty metres I stop on the right and take out the folding map (yep, there were no sat navs back then). I orientate myself - and it doesn't take long, because I've had a lot of practice at that. As I turn left, I suddenly see blue lights behind me - oh, police on duty - I'll just let them pass. So I put the indicator back and wait for the police car to pass me. 1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds - nothing. I look in the rear-view mirror - they are now right behind me! Do they want something from me? I am not aware of any guilt! A policeman gets out and immediately gets wet because of the rain. He knocks on the window and says "General vehicle inspection". Man, does this have to be now - I'm in a hurry. I open the window and he asks for my papers. I hand them over. He asks me if I know why they stopped me. I answer in the negative. He lectures me: excessive speed, inappropriate driving, running a stop sign twice and if they hadn't switched on the flashing lights, they would have lost the connection. Ouch. He asks me if I hadn't seen the blue light. I again answer in the negative. I suddenly realise that I am threatened with a driving licence suspension and a fine without the policeman having to point it out to me. I get out - and get wet too. I explain to the policeman why I am in such a hurry - workplace southern Germany, primary residence Lower Rhine, computer, monitor, no matching cables, Christmas, shops closed, black and white, no sound - and all because of the missing accessory pack - and that the shop where I bought this monitor would not be able to supply the missing accessory pack until the middle of next January. He tells me that this is no reason to disregard the traffic regulations. I point out that I can prove that I drive more than 110.000 kilometres a year and that I don't have any points in Flensburg (at that time this institution still existed), so that my current driving style would be an exception and I would realise that I had screwed up. He just says: "Wait here". He goes to the police car with the papers and gets in. A short time later he comes back and opens the instruction with: "I have consulted with my colleague. Since today is Christmas Eve and you are reasonable, do you agree to a warning fine of 20 DM?". I can't believe my luck! Of course, I agree! I have already mentally parted with my "rag". I pay the 20 DM and listen to his instructions - although we both get soaking wet. He hands me my papers and wishes me a good trip and a Merry Christmas - I wish him the same, and I mean it! They turn around and I continue my journey. Soaking wet, I press the bell of the private entrance. The mother of the hardware developer opens the door - and takes good care of me, handing me a towel to dry off. Then she leads me into the actual shop, which is closed today but where her son assembles electronic things. We get acquainted and he has already picked out the cables I need and laid them on the counter. As I look around, I discover floppy disk drives, memory cards and much more. We start talking and after a while, during which his mother interrupts us and urges us to leave, I leave the shop with the necessary cables and a 2 MB loaded 8 MB memory card as well as a second drive. I drive back, deeply relaxed and looking forward to the coming Christmas. (dr) [News message: 03. Dec. 2022, 14:24] [Comments: 1 - 03. Dec. 2022, 16:38] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 03.Dec.2022 |
Video: Building a new Amiga 2000 - part 1 The YouTube channel "Casual Retro Gamer" (CRG) is dedicated to repairing and building retro hardware (amiga-news.de reported). The recently launched video series shows how a new Amiga 2000 is assembled. The board used is the EATX form factor version reworked by developer 'jasonsbeer' (amiga-news.de reported). The chipset comes from a battery-damaged A500+. (dr) [News message: 03. Dec. 2022, 05:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 02.Dec.2022 MorphZone (Forum) |
MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 4.5 Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has just released version 4.5 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS including an updated libcURL to fix issues with HTTP/2 Download: wayfarer.lha (29 MB) (dr) [News message: 02. Dec. 2022, 19:46] [Comments: 1 - 03. Dec. 2022, 20:13] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||
| 02.Dec.2022 |
Advent Calendar: Door 2 - Daniel Jedlicka Behind the second door with the initials "DJ" of our advent calendar, Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has prepared a story for us. The AmigaOS 4 developer is best known for his recently developed audio editor Rave, but he has been involved in AmigaOS 4 for much longer: He wrote some articles for OS4 Coding (for example about programming screens), published the English dictionary WordNet (latest version 3.5) and has taken over the development of ADRipper since 2015 (latest version 1.13). In addition, he runs his blog Rear Window, where he not only publishes status updates on the development of his audio editor, but also far-reaching and very readable articles, for example recently about the Amiga37 or the question what motivates him as a developer. And here is his Advent Calendar anecdote: "It’s the 3rd of August, the year is 1990, I’m seventeen years old and I’m sitting on a tour bus. My father and I are going back from Nuremberg in Germany. But make no mistake, we didn’t go sightseeing; in fact, we couldn’t care less about the city’s history, landmarks and tourist attractions. The bus is fully loaded with all sorts of electronics. Eight months after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Western goods are still quite a rare sight in Czech shops. Tour operators are thriving because shopping trips like the one we’re returning from are extremely popular in the first year of freedom. The mood on the bus is upbeat. The most excited, and the loudest, is a group of hi-fi enthusiasts occupying the front seats: they just won’t stop their bickering about Sony, Panasonic and something called the Nakamichi Dragon. I don’t understand any of it. Our bus stops at the state border. After a few minutes, a young Czech customs officer climbs onboard and asks: "Has anybody got anything to declare?" His words are met with an awkward silence, the kind of silence that is supposed to mean "no". He looks at the flood of boxes protruding from luggage racks and bags half-blocking the aisle. The lie is so bold and obvious that the officer needs some time to process it. He steps off the bus, taking our tour guide with him. I can see them standing beside the vehicle and talking about something with a lot of agitation. The guide is gesticulating wildly. After a few minutes, the officer is back on the bus and we all know we’re in trouble. Row by row he moves along the aisle inspecting the cargo, and if a particular box looks too pricey to be dismissed, he commands the unlucky owner outside the bus, where other uniformed officers take it over. After a few minutes there’s already a small crowd. Through the window I can see them fumbling with passports, customs forms and banknotes. The bus is almost half-empty and my dad is sweating profusely. We didn't account for this! We spent all of our money in Germany, so how on Earth are we now going to pay the customs fee, possibly even a hefty fine for not declaring our goods? It’s sure as eggs that we’ll return empty-handed because what we’ve bought will be retained or confiscated. The officer approaches our seats. There’s no way we could pretend that the tall cardboard box painfully stuffed between me and dad doesn’t exist. The officer sets his eyes on me. I realize he’s practically my age, perhaps a little bit older, fresh out of school. He looks at the box and his thin lips read the word "Commodore" silently. He looks at me again. And then he moves on. My dad starts breathing heavily as if he's just had a heart attack. In about forty minutes the bus finally crosses the border. My Amiga story is about to begin." (dr) [News message: 02. Dec. 2022, 06:01] [Comments: 2 - 03. Dec. 2022, 11:22] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
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