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Archive 02/2025

`14.Feb.2025`	Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 4.0b3 (update) Dirk Hoffmann has released the second beta version 4.0 (amiga-news.de reported) of his Amiga emulator "vAmiga" for macOS with the following changes: Enhancements The emulator core natively supports the ADZ / HDZ format now. Media files can be saved in compressed form (ADZ / HDZ) in workspaces. gzip can be selected as snapshot compression format. Bug fixes "Insert..." from the df0 menu does no longer crash At least macOS 13.5 is required. Update: (16.02.2025, 12:10, dr) Meanwhile beta version 3 is available. Changes: Enhancements ASR (Adaptive Sample Rate) Resizable audio buffer Negative run-ahead frames ("run-behind") Bug fixes Fixed a hard-drive boot issue (dr) [News message: 14. Feb. 2025, 19:35] [Comments: 1 - 16. Feb. 2025, 12:15] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Feb.2025`	Sound editor: ProTrekkr 2.8.2 for AROS ProTrekkr is a tracker program that combines a software synthesizer with a traditional sample tracker. It can mainly be used to create electronic music (such as psytrance, trance, goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) for small intros, demos or games. Version 2.8.2 has now been released for AROS (and other systems). Changes: Patterns wouldn't scroll sometimes when starting to play, fixed. Note volume from channels (volume columns and effects 03) are now handled in the velocity sent to midi output. Changed LCTRL + F1 / F2 (Decrease / Increase editing step) to LCTRL + F2 / F4 due to Mac OS "interfering". Fixed Midi handling on Linux and Mac OS. Fixed the keyboard shortcuts on Mac OS. Typos in the manual: Transpose to 1 octave higher shortcuts are LCTRL + K and LCTRL + LSHIFT + K. Replaced pink noise with triangle waveform in synth. White noise is now twice as loud to be on par with other waveforms loudness. Added a function to hard sync OSC 1 to OSC 2. Inserting or deleting a track didn't modify the other patterns data. Fixed an ugly visual bug that occured when changing colors during playing. Added tracks header foreground color modifier. Sub oscillator can now be scaled from oscillator 1 by semitones. Maths combiner functions are also used for sub oscillator. Fixed various bugs here and there. VU meters are now displayed on a single line and a much less sensitive. Removed support for antediluvian NoiseTrekker 1/2 modules & instruments, they were only supported for salvage and conversion purposes. Saving a pattern without any currently selected block will save the entire pattern into the file. New logo ! Fixed Linux audio driver. Direct download: ptk_v2.8.2_aros_x86.zip (13 MB) (dr) [News message: 14. Feb. 2025, 06:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Feb.2025`	Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 1.05 Since our last news item, Sami Vehmaa has made some small improvements to his dungeon crawler "Bolminok's Kingdom", which requires an AGA Amiga with some Fast-RAM. For example, the STATUS window can now be opened by holding down the fire button. (dr) [News message: 14. Feb. 2025, 06:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Feb.2025` Richard Körber (Mail)	Tool: identify-library 44.3 (update) Richard Körber has released version 44.2 of the identify library. It collects all kinds of system parameters and provides the user with information on CPU, FPU, memory, clock frequency, etc., for example. Version 44.2 provides a few bug fixes, new boards and a few improvements to hardware detection: More CPU/FPU clock frequencies are detected Apollo 68080 is now detected inline/identify.h was missing (Rafal Zabdyr) Minimig Control Board was not detected (Gerald Schnabel) A2000 with PCMCIA expansion was detected as A600, fixed UAE/DraCo was not detected as emulator Added more boards Richard Körber has moved all his Amiga projects from GitHub to Codeberg. The source code on GitHub has been archived, so it is read-only, and will be deleted later this year. Codeberg is a non-profit organisation based in Berlin that offers Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects. Update: (18.02.2025, 21:10, dr) Version 44.3 is now available, which fixes a crash on Amiga model detection on some machines Download: IdentifyUsr.lha (102 KB) (dr) [News message: 14. Feb. 2025, 05:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2025`	PTDQ: Chunky-to-planar video system for AGA Amigas In chunky mode, all the bits that make up the color of a pixel are stored directly one after the other in memory. In bitplane mode, on the other hand, which is used by the Amiga's framebuffer, several black and white images ("planes", each with one bit per pixel) are stored independently of each other in memory. For 3D graphics, it is better to calculate these using a chunky framebuffer and then convert them into a bitplane framebuffer - the so-called chunky-to-planar conversion. PTDQ (Pixel Tetrads Dots / Quality) is a video system for AGA Amigas that uses a new method for this conversion. It is based on the same principle as a third method, PTDS (Pixel Tetrads Dots / Speed), which is already three years old. Both restrict the freedom of color selection (PTDS also limits the maximum number of colors from 256 to 81), but are faster than the traditional chunky-to-planar conversion method. With PTDQ, the color selection and quality remain limited, but less so than with PTDS. Details on the Pixel Tetrads Dots method can be found in the documentation contained in the archive. (snx) [News message: 12. Feb. 2025, 11:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2025`	Demo scene: Use of an Amiga 1200 at the Gerp party in Sweden With his illustrated report at the title link, Carl Svensson describes the use of an Amiga 1200 equipped with genlock, video recorder and small monitor, which was used at this year's Gerp party in Sweden (amiga-news.de reported) to manage all submitted Amiga compos, play back the A1200 compos and create new demos. (snx) [News message: 12. Feb. 2025, 11:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2025` Andreas Magerl (ANF)	Amiga Future: New full versions online Further full versions of Amiga games have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Jonathan Train It, König Eduard, Mars Tank Attack, Nippon Safes Inc and Ts Imbiss. (snx) [News message: 12. Feb. 2025, 11:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2025`	AmigaOS 4: SDL 2.32.0 release candidate 1 Version 2.32 of the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) multimedia library is about to be released for AmigaOS 4. Platform-specific changes of the first release candidate version include support for a fourth and fifth mouse button. (snx) [News message: 12. Feb. 2025, 11:22] [Comments: 1 - 12. Feb. 2025, 15:24] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2025` Oliver Roberts	Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.19 (AmigaOS 3/4) Version 5.19 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version 3.4.1 (11.2.2025) of OpenSSL. Detailed changes: Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.4.1 (11.2.2025) version which includes these high and low severity bug fixes and mitigations: Fixed RFC7250 handshakes with unauthenticated servers don't abort as expected. (CVE-2024-12797) Fixed timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computation. (CVE-2024-13176) Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle, dated 31.12.2024. Downloads: AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.19-OS3.lha (3,8 MB) AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.19-OS4.lha (3,5 MB) SDK: AmiSSL-5.19-SDK.lha (2,4 MB) (dr) [News message: 11. Feb. 2025, 22:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2025` Golem.de (ANF)	FSF to auction Stallman's Hall of Fame medal, Amiga 3000UX and more The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is celebrating its 40th anniversary and is holding an auction of special memorabilia to mark the occasion. According to a blog post by the FSF, the virtual auction will take place on 23 March 2025. Among the auction items are Richard Stallman's "Internet Hall of Fame" medal, the original Gnu drawing and an Amiga 3000UX, which was used in the FSF office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). About the FSF The FSF, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its websites, located at www.fsf.org and www.gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA. (nba) [News message: 11. Feb. 2025, 22:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2025`	ISOCD-Win: Creating Amiga ISO files using Windows ISOCD-Win is a C#/.NET Windows replacement for the native Amiga ISOCD application. It creates bootable ISO image files which are compatible with the Amiga CD32 and CDTV. The initial version 1.3 was released last week, and version 1.3.1.2 is currently available. In addition to the executable code in the ZIP archive, the source codes are also freely available. (nba) [News message: 11. Feb. 2025, 10:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2025`	MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 9.1 Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has published version 9.1 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS, which is based on the stable WebKitGTK 2.46.6 (amiga-news.de reported). In addition, bug fixes were made for this update and several libraries were updated, including libcURL, libtasn, libpng16 and libwebp. (nba) [News message: 11. Feb. 2025, 09:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2025`	HxC Floppy-Emulator: Software V2.16.10.2 The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported). A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes: "config.script" loading/execution support fixed (utf path support and internal environment variables issues fixed). FAT/DOS Disk browser: It doesn't hide system and hidden files anymore. All Facebook and Twitter urls removed. (nba) [News message: 11. Feb. 2025, 09:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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