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Archive 01/2023

`25.Jan.2023`	AROS: GUI for configuring SMB2/3-Shares As Paolo Besser, author of the AROS distribution Icaros Desktop writes in his latest blog entry, he has programmed a simple graphical tool for configuring shares in LUA for the new SMB2 handler in order to add new shares to the AROS environment. It is not intended to be a full-fledged manager, but it already performs the rather simple task of adding new device definition files to Devs:DOSDrivers. Unless a more comprehensive configuration tool is written by someone else, he will include it in the next Icaros versions. (dr) [News message: 25. Jan. 2023, 14:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jan.2023`	Emulator: WinUAE 4.10.1 Version 4.10.1 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released. Changes: WinUAE 4.10.0 bugs fixed Chipset emulation updates and bug fixes. Interlace filter mode saved invalid config in certain situations, causing crash when loaded. Also added validation to config loader that detects similar config errors. GDI mode RTG hardware cursor leaved garbage when it was in top/left corner of screen and it was not fully disabled when Amiga was reset. Serial port Ring Indicator signal fixed. If both printer and serial port was enabled, printer status was invalid. Older bugs fixed Input device’s Input panel custom configuration was lost if config was loaded and saved when custom configured input device was not connected. Game Ports panel custom input configuration was not automatically remapped to original input device if order or number of input devices changed. Game Ports panel “Default” game controller type didn’t fully switch to CD32 pad mode when CD32 hardware was configured. FM801 PCI sound card didn’t work in Voodoo 3 + Mediator configuration. PCI bridgeboard crash when accessing non-existing board’s IO/RAM space. Exclusive fullscreen Direct 3D 11 mode + Fullscreen GUI Misc panel option ticked and entering GUI: GUI window was not positioned correctly. Video recording after loading statefile recorded one empty and one corrupted frame when recording was started. New features/updates Added continuous screenshot mode to GUI. When ticked, screenshot is taken automatically every frame. Disabled move left/right joystick autoswitching mode. It was too easy to do it accidentally. Only buttons are supported. Clear Harddrives panel list when loading hardware-only config. Taking screenshot when DF0: is enabled but empty and CD drive is enabled but not empty: select CD image name. (Previously CD was ignored) (dr) [News message: 25. Jan. 2023, 10:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jan.2023` Alinea Computer	Alinea Computer: Power adapter for Subway USB cards available Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to present the final version of the new power adapter for the Subway USB and Subway 2021 USB card. First prototypes were already presented at the Amiga 37. In the meantime, the design was refined together with the Amiga community so that all customer wishes could be taken into account. The Subway Power Adapter is an extension for the Subway USB card series to provide USB devices with up to 800 mA of power. Power-hungry devices such as external 2.5 inch hard drives can now be operated with it. In addition, the power adapter can provide a remedy for power problems, for example when operating many clockport devices. The adapter can be ordered in the Alinea Computer shop under the title link for 19.95 Euros plus shipping. (dr) [News message: 24. Jan. 2023, 21:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jan.2023` itch.io	Programming assistance: "AB_Template" 0.63 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3 Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23, amiga-news.de reported). In version 0.63 he has added rotation and mirror function in the Deathstar template. (dr) [News message: 24. Jan. 2023, 06:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jan.2023` CUGI	Event: Review of the Amiga Ireland 2023 Amiga Ireland was held in Athlone on 13 and 14 January 2023. We asked the organisers for a summary, which has now kindly been made available to us. Many thanks! "Amiga Ireland 2023 has come to a close and the feedback seems to be very positive. The organizers sent their annual anonymous survey where the overall satisfaction rate is very high but with plenty of requests for future events. The positive feedback could well be in part due to the amount of time that Amiga users have been waiting to meet in Ireland. The 2021 event had to be made 100% online due to the pandemic and the 2022 event was deferred to 2023 due to uncertainty about what pandemic restrictions might be in place. The 2023 event took place in Athlone on January 13th & 14th in the Centre of Ireland and the schedule included speakers and guests including Ron Nicholson (recording of the speech on YouTube) and Nick Veitch, who took questions on their unique experiences in the industry. A new alpha version dual-stick DB9 game controller was unveiled by Abstraction who also talked about their experience porting Chaos Engine to other platforms. Amiga cosplayer Ravenlordess talked about her process for making life-size wearable versions of Turrican and other impressive creations based on Amiga games. Her Shadow of the Beast cosplay was admired at Amiga 37 in Germany by fans and former Psygnosis developers alike. Paulo D’Urso was interviewed about the Passione Amiga Day 2022 in Italy as well as their magazine Passione Amiga. The magazine theme continued with members of Amiga Addict magazine also participating in the event, including deputy editor Ian Griffiths, who donated some magazines to the raffle and introduced some gaming competitions at the Nivrig Games display. These included Dodgy Rocks and Turbo Tomato. In the latter, a new high score was achieved. The Creative Competition (amiga-news.de reported) returned this year with categories in pixel art and MOD. Some exceptional entries were enjoyed including 1st place winners in each category, which will receive €50 each. These were Black Magic by Punnik (MOD) and Winter Patrol by Critikill. The results will be posted on the "new" website for Amiga Ireland. Workshop hosts at the event included Lightwave 3D guru Muadib, Rob Smith Dev, Karl Jeacle who developed AmiGemini and talked about Amiga & The Small Web as well as Dimitris Panokostas. Dimitris maintains AmiBerry and have a workshop on animation using Deluxe Paint. His son, Erik, also managed to join the event program by coming 2nd place in the pixel art competition and winning €25 for his artwork, Sunset. The event organizers stressed that the event is primarily a social event and user group, so while the schedule may be more or less busy on a given year, the priority is meeting other users and enjoying the machines for what they are today. Also while the venue itself had technical issues of their own that delayed the organizers setup, it didn’t feature much in the survey responses so far, thankfully. The main sponsor this year is AmigaKit, who stepped in when price increases with 3rd parties put the location in question. The organizers are very grateful to AmigaKit for being the gold sponsor this year as well as A-Eon for being their silver sponsor. Game competitions included SWOS, Stunt Car Racer, Speedball 2, Turbo Tomato and others. Winners received trophies and will be listed on the Amiga Ireland website’s Hall of Fame at CUGI.ie) Also among awards was an ACA1221 tested at 28Mhz and with 64MB which was provided by Retro Ready. Rob Smith also donated an Arduino Floppy drive to the raffle. The organizers are still completing the update to CUGI.ie and will send prize money to competition winners in a couple of days. They extend their thanks to everyone who attended and made the atmosphere so enjoyable." (dr) [News message: 24. Jan. 2023, 05:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jan.2023`	DIY: N2630 expansion board for Amiga 2000 Parallel to his project of a replica of the A2000 motherboard in ATX form factor, "Amiga-2000-ATX" (amiga-news.de reported), the developer Jason 'jasonsbeer' Neus has started another one : The N2630 is a further development of the original Commodore A2630 expansion card, offering an Amiga 2000 a 50MHz Motorola 68030 CPU card with additional RAM and IDE device connector, and is installed in the CPU slot. The project documents now released are revision 3.0 and include the Gerber files, JLCPCB ordering information and JED files for each of the CPLDs. The developer gives the following features for the N2630: Motorola 68030 microprocessor running at 50MHz Motorola 68882 math coprocessor running up to 50MHz 4 or 8 megabytes of Zorro 2 Fast RAM 16 to 256 megabytes of Zorro 3 Fast RAM IDE port with 40-pin cable and CF card options (dr) [News message: 23. Jan. 2023, 06:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jan.2023`	DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 6) 'Drygol' is a member of the demoscene group Lamers and basically deals with retro computers in the form of restorations, upgrades etc. On his site Retrohax.net he not only offers various retro articles, but also runs a blog. Among other things he describes there his project 'Tesseract', the building of an Amiga 2000 from scratch with all maximum modifications. His project is based on the GitHub project of 'Floppie209', a replica of the Amiga2000 motherboard with Sprint layout. After the first five reports (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), today he has published part 6 which is about the repair of a defective Indivision ECS v2 and the installation of an FPU in the ACA1233n. (dr) [News message: 23. Jan. 2023, 05:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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