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`24.Apr.2024` AmiKit (ANF)	Workbench distribution: AmiKit 12.5 The Workbench distribution AmiKit for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Vampire, PiStorm and Raspberry Pi is now available in version 12.5, called "Spring Update". Besides updates of system files and included programs, also new software has been added, e.g. a converter for HEIF images, the SONOS controller and various Hollywood plugins; the changelog can be found at the title link. (snx) [News message: 24. Apr. 2024, 20:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Apr.2024`	Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.38 RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial. All changes of updated version 0.9.38: Trigonometry functions are now intertal and mathtrans library is no longer needed. Mathtrans library is no longer copied when building games, diskfont is only copied if topaz is not used. Added a condition trigger CPU is to check the processor of the machine where the game is running. When building a game targeting A500 assign ENV: to RAM: is not executed. Optimization of math functions. Fix for tileset not being saved. Fix in basic_platformer project that made impossible completing the second stage. Fix for Default screen width being overwritten by the level one. Fix for Tiled Move action trigger when moving in diagonal. Small fixes. (nba) [News message: 23. Apr. 2024, 11:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Apr.2024`	Shoot'em Up: Game.X 1.2 Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has released version 1.2 of his port of the shoot'em up Game.X (YouTube video, amiga-news.de reported). It uses a newer and faster engine and saves the highscore in the game directory if the NVRAM is not available. The game requires an AGA Amiga and was originally released by Kugenuma Soft in 1990. (dr) [News message: 23. Apr. 2024, 06:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2024`	Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.3.0 for Windows NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2.3.0: The "Remove unknown modules" options did previously remove modules if a player could not be found or the module could not be loaded. This has been changed, so it will only be removed if a player cannot be found. Added a new Level Meter visualizer. This one shows the current level for the left and right speakers in dB. If a module is packed, it will now be shown in a separate line in Module Information Window together with which packers that are used. Updated SharpCompress to version 0.36.0. Updated mpg123 to version 1.32.6. Updated libsidplayfp to version 2.7.0. Added support to player the David Whittaker module Q-Ball. Renamed the AHX player to HivelyTracker + added support for HivelyTracker modules. Added these new module formats: SoundTracker 2.6, IceTracker, ProTracker IFF, SC68, Digital Mugician, Digital Mugician 2, SidMon 1.0, SidMon 2.0 and AMOS Music Bank. An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store. (dr) [News message: 22. Apr. 2024, 18:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2024`	Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.6 for all Amiga systems Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 2.6: updated guide file On MorphOS and AROS the guide file is now copied to the installation drawer On MorphOS the "Path" command in s:user-startup is now deactivated If wanted active, one needs to uncomment it manually, save it and then reboot the computer added possibility to scale images with all chosen formats added possibility to compress PDF docs when Ghostscript is installed the orientation of PDF docs can now be changed (not with ImageSize format) a print margin can be set now using commandline will now adapt the orientation automatically (not with ImageSize format) compiled single versions for the supported platforms removed applet from archive added a print function to print PDF documents (dr) [News message: 22. Apr. 2024, 16:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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