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Archive 03/2023

`18.Mar.2023` AmiKit (Twitter)	Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 12 for Raspberry Pi and Windows/Mac/Linux AmiKit has released version 12.0 of its Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for Raspberry Pi 4/400 (changes) as well as for Windows/Mac/Linux (changes). In addition to the specific changes, this upgrade brings an improved emulation engine with optimised configuration for better stability, performance and gaming experience. Likewise, AmiKit now offers a new white and dark look. There are three new theme presets. Epsilon's World introduces the new version of the Workbench distribution in detail in a recent blog entry. (dr) [News message: 18. Mar. 2023, 20:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2023` Amigafrance (Forum)	Preview video: Game "Loony Ledges" After his game Capacitor's Revenge (amiga-news.de reported), 'PixelPlop' is now porting a game he wrote a while ago on the PC but never released to the Amiga. The video shows a first state of the game, which is written in C. (dr) [News message: 18. Mar. 2023, 07:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2023`	AmigaOS 4: Email client Sylpheed 3.0.3r3 for AmiCygnix released In mid-2020 Edgar Schwan had released the first version 3.0.3 of the email client Sylpheed for AmiCygnix. Sylpheed is an e-mail program based on the GTK+-GUI-Toolkit. The design and the user-interface is similar to many well-known programs from the Windows world, e.g. Outlook Express (screenshot). The third candidate of version 3.0.3 provides the following changes: The second release of Sylpheed 3.0.3 had problems with SSL connections. The program has now been linked with OpenSSL 1.0.2o and should now work again. An update for a current version of OpenSSL is planned. All programs, including the tools of "bogofilter 1.2.5" and "compface 1.5.2", have been linked with the current libraries. Spell checker updated. (dr) [News message: 18. Mar. 2023, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2023`	Mastodon client: Video presentation to Amidon development status Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, is developing a Mastodon client for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). During the last meeting of the Commodore Users Europe he has presented the latest development status of Amidon. Currently the requirements are: AmigaOS 3.x 68020+ CPU MUI 3.9 minimum. Looks better with MUI 4.0 and 5.0 but HTMLview currently does not work under these versions. 8MB of RAM minimum (dr) [News message: 17. Mar. 2023, 20:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2023`	Game soundtrack: TETRIS - Extended Mix In addition to complete albums (for example Jaguar XJ220 Remix album), Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann releases single remixes: yesterday he has published the extended remix of the Tetris theme (YouTube-Video), on Bandcamp available for two euro (or more). (dr) [News message: 17. Mar. 2023, 08:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2023`	Maze game: Early version of Cube Sami Vehmaa is in the process of writing another game with AmiBlitz3 for fast Amigas with graphics cards or emulators: in "Cube" (YouTube video), the player has to find his way out of a kind of labyrinth. In the present early version 0.10, the demo version is identical to the commercial version. (dr) [News message: 17. Mar. 2023, 05:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2023`	AROS: Devlogs to AmiFox About a week ago we reported that Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow is also working on an AROS version of his browser AmiFox in addition to AmigaOS 3. In two new blog entries he now reports about the further development: thanks to a new version of the AmiSSL library AmiFox runs on AROS ABIv0 with encrypted https connections to the server. And he reported how he sets up an AREXX port under the MUI equivalent Zune so that AmiFox can work with one of his other programmes such as AmiTube or MUIMapparium (YouTube video). (dr) [News message: 17. Mar. 2023, 05:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Mar.2023`	MorphOS: Real-time strategy games Vanilla Conquer RA and TD V1.1 A week ago Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen released his port of the second part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer, Red Alert (RA), for MorphOS based on the open source project Vanilla Conquer. Now he has not only made version 1.1 available, which contains a bug fix for users playing on 4:3 or 5:4 monitors, but has also released version 1.1 of his port of the first part of the Vanilla Conquer project, Tiberian Dawn (TD). This now also offers TinyGL support and thus the same improvements as his RA port. (dr) [News message: 16. Mar. 2023, 05:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Mar.2023` Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)	Hollywood: Parallel Realities SDL2 Tutorials The SDL2 tutorials of Parallel Realities demonstrate how to program different game types with SDL2 (e.g. Shoot'em'up, Jump'n'run etc.) Hollywood user Dwayne Jarvis has now ported these tutorials for the RebelSDL plugin for Hollywood. The video linked under the title link shows how the shoot'em'up from the SDL2 tutorials runs on an X5000 with Hollywood. (dr) [News message: 16. Mar. 2023, 05:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Mar.2023` WhatIFF? (ANF)	AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 9 of "WhatIFF?" published "WhatIFF?" is an English Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is primarily intended for users who want to work creatively with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). Now issue 9 was published containing the following articles: Reviews BFG9060 Accelerator Card TerribleFire 1230 Accelerator Card A1200.net KeyCaps Amiga Case Badges AmiCygnix upate v1.7 for AmigaOS 4.1 SoundBox Aminet Goodies Game Reviews Tanks Furry Tutorials Watch YouTube Videos On Your Amiga Pt:2 ECS Users Creating Mods in OctaMED that are ProTracker Compatible LightWave 3.5 - 101 Creating a Star Field Prt 2 Brilliance - Essential Shortcuts Choosing a Joystick Articles ST-01: The Legacy Kickstarting Your Zen Interviews Andreas Maglerl (Amiga Future) Tony Horgan (CU Amiga) Douglas Compton (10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast) Christian Wiegel (Settle The World) Invents Corner Latest Updates Additional Content Cover Disk #1 - Settle The World Slideshow (dr) [News message: 16. Mar. 2023, 05:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Mar.2023`	m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin V1.8.1 for Visual Studio Code "Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. Today Paul Raingeard has released version 1.8.1 which now mark binaries as executable on macOS again and thus fixes a bug of the recently published version 1.8.0 (amiga-news.de reported). On GitHub a detailed documentation is available. (dr) [News message: 16. Mar. 2023, 05:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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