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Archive 02/2023

`13.Feb.2023`	Video: Chemical Free Retrobrighting Alternatives In his latest video, Robert Smith uses theoretical considerations and practical experiments to address the question of how to brighten up yellowed keyboards and cases of retro computers without the usual hydrogen peroxide. He has found two successful alternatives. (dr) [News message: 13. Feb. 2023, 20:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Feb.2023` Heiko Schlomka (e-mail)	Article on Amiga use in film productions by Digital Domain Befores & Afters is a (primarily online) magazine on visual effects and animation. At the title link, it dedicates a current article to the use of the Amiga in the film industry - to be more precise, it is simply a reproduction of memories of Digital Domain graphic artist Sean Cunningham, which he published as a comment on the YouTube channel of Retro Recipes after an Amiga 4000 apparently used for the films "Apollo 13" and "Titanic" turned up three years ago. (snx) [News message: 13. Feb. 2023, 15:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2023`	AmigaOS 4: Status of Qt 6.2.0 In October 2021, developer Alfkil Wennermark had published a first preview of a text editor created with Qt6 (amiga-news.de reported). Now he shows in a current YouTube video how he edits text in this editor and then exports it to a pdf file. The special thing about it: Until now, there was only a static link version of Qt6, which means that all library objects are collected in the executable file at build time. In the dynamic link now, they use shared objects that are all loaded and linked at runtime. Since most complex programs from other platforms need dynamic links (shared objects) for their build systems to work, this is another development step regarding the creation of such programs for AmigaOS 4. (dr) [News message: 12. Feb. 2023, 15:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2023`	Aminet uploads until 11.02.2023 The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to Aminet: fe.lha dev/lang 45K MOS A tiny, embeddable language TinyInvaders.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k SPACE INVADERS poor clone in ... LazyMines_FR.lha game/think 6K French catalog for LazyMines 3.x RPNScientific.lha misc/math 2.7M x86 RPN scientific and programmer... AmigaKlangSamples.lha mods/smpl 664K Samples & Instruments for Ami... UADE_MMV8.lha mus/play 15K 68k MusicMakerV8 players for UADE NAFCYI1991S1-B28.zip text/bfont 2.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts) NAFCYI1991S1-28.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts) cabextract.lha util/arc 54K 68k Extract MS Cabinet (.CAB) arc... cabextract_MOS.lha util/arc 51K MOS Extract MS Cabinet (.CAB) arc... cabextract_OS4.lha util/arc 44K OS4 Extract MS Cabinet (.CAB) arc... deark.lha util/arc 2.9M 68k Extract data from various fil... MousePressed.lha util/batch 8K 68k Check if mouse buttons are pr... Image2PDF.lha util/conv 8.9M ALL convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF AmiSSL-5.7-OS3.lha util/libs 3.3M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li... AmiSSL-5.7-OS4.lha util/libs 3.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li... AmiSSL-5.7-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li... eflashutil.lha util/misc 41K 68k GUI for eFlasher utility for ... VATestprogram.zip util/misc 3.9M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram AnalogClock.lha util/time 39K 68k Resizeable analog transparent... (snx) [News message: 12. Feb. 2023, 09:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2023`	OS4Depot uploads until 11.02.2023 The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to OS4Depot: void-fb14.zip dem/mus 5Mb 4.0 A music-pack by Void cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 This is a SDK to make your decks... afnews.lha net/new 1Mb 4.0 Amiga Future Everywhere AmigaOS 4 afa-viewer.lha uti/arc 4Mb 4.1 Browse AmigaFuture Archive-DVD deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil... cabextract.lha uti/fil 44kb 4.0 Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.CAB)... (snx) [News message: 12. Feb. 2023, 09:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2023`	AROS Archives uploads until 11.02.2023 The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to AROS Archives: cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 2Mb This is a SDK to make your decks... image2pdf.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 9Mb convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF rpnscientific.i-386-aros.lha uti/sci 3Mb RPN Scientific and Programmer Ca... (snx) [News message: 12. Feb. 2023, 09:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2023`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.02.2023 The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: Fallout2_manual_FR.pdf Documentation/Games Fallout2_manual_FR.pdf Fallout2_manual_EN.pdf Documentation/Games Fallout2_manual_EN.pdf fheroes2_1.0.1.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio... (snx) [News message: 12. Feb. 2023, 09:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2023`	WHDLoad: Neue Pakete bis 11.02.2023 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 11.02.2023: 2023-02-07 new: Rocket Attack (Softgang) done by Psygore (Info) 2023-02-07 improved: Magica (Andy Noble) made 68000 compatible (Info, Image) 2023-02-06 improved: Walker (DMA Design/Psygnosis) fixed potential crash on Terrible Fire hardware (Info) 2023-02-06 new: Regent (Linel) done by JOTD (Info) 2023-02-06 new: Magica (Andy Noble) done by DJ Mike (Info, Image) (snx) [News message: 12. Feb. 2023, 09:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2023` Amiga Future (website)	AmigaRemix: Further files added AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Test Drive 2 The Duel Intro Live Performance LedStorm Ambient Cover Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 The Sentinel Intro cover Cybernoid 2 (Reboot 2023) Rise Up Hard Turrican - Tower of M.O.R.G.U.L. (Extended remix) Twintris Song 2 (Intense REMiX) (snx) [News message: 12. Feb. 2023, 09:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2023`	Report: Amiga PowerPC hardware in Mini-ITX format (Czech) Martina Hřebcová Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware. Now she has published a series of articles dealing with Amiga PowerPC hardware in Mini-ITX size or smaller: Part 1: Micro A1-C Part 2: Sam440ep Part 3: Efika 5200b In a concluding fourth part, she compares the three boards, adds the Mac Mini G4 for this purpose and makes recommendations as to which board is best for which operating system in her opinion. (dr) [News message: 12. Feb. 2023, 07:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2023`	Top-Down action game: "Mighty Mike" for MorphOS and Linux A few days ago, the developer 'jorio' published version 3.0.2 of the top-down action game "Mighty Mike" for Windows, Mac and Linux (64 bit), originally published by "Pangea Software", including the source code, on itch.io. Analogous to "Otto Matic", 'BeWorld' has now compiled it for MorphOS and Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky for Linux PPC 32-Bit (direct download, 8 MB). (dr) [News message: 12. Feb. 2023, 06:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2023`	Jump'n Run: Maria Renard's Revenge released "Maria Renard's Revenge" (video) is a Jump'n Run inspired by Castlevania which was developed using the Scorpion Engine. Today the final version has been released. An Amiga 1200 or an Amiga CD32 with 1 MB FastRam are required. (dr) [News message: 12. Feb. 2023, 05:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2023`	ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.11 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 Chris Young has released version 1.11 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2, but has also been tested under AmigaOS 4. Since it uses a new window.class, it might not work with older OS3 versions. Changes: Improve window handling: Can now open new window from the GUI Can select to ask/hide/quit when last window closed (NB: CONFIRMQUIT tooltype no longer used) Can now specify an archive on the command line Download: avalanche.lha (84 Kb) (dr) [News message: 11. Feb. 2023, 21:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2023`	Turn-based strategy: Intro update for "Settle the World" Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released an intro update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" - see detailed introduction on amiga-news.de - which now tells the background story with a slideshow (YouTube video). Compared to the version from the beginning of December (amiga-news.de reported), there are also a number of improvements that make "Settle the World" even more playable: Pioneers can build mines on hills or mountains to increase the iron yield In the cities, once a certain number of inhabitants has been reached, you can see exactly what needs have to be met for the inhabitants to move up to the next class (a lot of time and work went into this) There are now master carpenters to speed up the construction of buildings Intermediate images for special events more small animations, especially on water (CPU >= 68030) Cities now have their own view radius Horses multiply faster in cities ...and many more little things Thus, it is now much easier to reach a large working class city and easier for the player to understand what is needed to do so. As the developer writes to us, there are still no natives or computer opponents, but some work in this direction has already been initiated with this update. A Quick Start Guide in PDF format should also make it even easier to get started with the game. "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: 11. Feb. 2023, 06:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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