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`02.Dec.2023`	Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.3.1 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes: Fix pasting into chat input textbox (AmigaOS 3.2 and 4.1 only for now) Remove trailing newline from user messages Enclose all user lines in asterisks to make bold Fix memory leak that was present in downloading responses from OpenAI Direct download: AmigaGPT.lha (795 KB) (dr) [News message: 02. Dec. 2023, 14:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Dec.2023`	AmigaOS 4: Extended audio emulator "Nallepuh" 1.7 "Nallepuh" or "Nalle Puh" is the Swedish name for Winnie the Pooh and is a hack that intercepts some custom chip register accesses and converts them into AHI function calls. The project, originally started by Martin Blom and now continued by Kjetil Hvalstrand and Damian, initially only emulated the Paula chip, which is responsible for audio and disc control. With the resumption of development, the emulation of the Complex Interface Adapter (CIA-Chip), which manages serial, parallel, keyboard and other Amiga input and output activities, and the Blitter, an Amiga coprocessor with its own DMA channel, which is responsible for copying data and line drawing and can manipulate images, have also been added. The latter is based on Peter Gordon's Blitzen project: a blitter emulator for AmigaOS 4, which attempts to implement enough of the functionality of the classic Amiga blitter to allow more old programs to run on OS4 systems without the classic chipset. Blitzen has been integrated into the project by converting it into an Amiga library, libblitter.library. The following is currently being emulated: Ascending and descending copy operations with shift Descending mode fill operations with shift Line mode (not tested) End of DMA interrupt for apps using SetIntVector() The 68k "WaitBlit" function is patched to wait for the emulated blitter As Kjetil Hvalstrand tells us, the additions were necessary because some audio players use so-called "scanline synthesis" (see Marko Ciciliani's essay (PDF file) or the example FORMULA MINUS ONE): a translation of pixel data from a digital image or film into a graphic waveform. Basically, the Nallepuh project tries to support system-friendly 68k software by "hijacking" the exception handler and thus giving it a higher priority than the OS exception handler. The following software has currently been successfully tested: HippoPlayer Dpaint4 (starts, you can do simple drawings, most of the tools are broken) Payback (game sound now works) SamplitudeOpus Light 3.5 Myst playable demo (CGX) Symphonie Pro player (Some sound quality issues, 15bit playback not supported.) Symphonie Pro Editor (works partially can be unstable, some sound issues.) Electric Ocean - (use NewMode to set correct screen), Ignore DSI error, and it starts, crashes after. ASnake - Workbench game MiniArcanoid - Workbench game The ptreplay.library, powerpacker.library and reqtools.library are required. The author assumes that the problems can be solved with DPaint. There are many other interesting programmes and he is always happy to receive small unit tests: small programmes that test a function in the chipset. Bug report are highly appreciated. (dr) [News message: 02. Dec. 2023, 12:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Dec.2023`	Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.4 for all Amiga systems At the end of August, we reported on Bernd Assenmacher's PDF2JPG tool, which can be used to convert the images contained in PDFs into JPG images. As the author has developed further tools, Image2PDF (converts images into PDFs) and PDF2PDF (converts PDFs into copy-protected PDFs), there was a request in the subsequent comments to the news article to bundle these tools into one. This has been realised with the present Image2PDF version 2.4, which is available for AmigaOS 3, 4, AROS and MorphOS. The author has kindly provided us with a few explanations of the new version: "The new version can do even more, such as "PDF2Image" (i.e. convert PDF not only into JPG or PDF format, but also into other formats such as PNG, BMP, GIF or ILBM/IFF). PDF2Image" also includes options such as "scaling" and "PDF2JPG" allows you to set the compression quality of the JPG image. As another feature I have added an image scaling function "Image2NewSize", which can scale images to the desired resolution while maintaining the aspect ratio. (The result is of course highly dependent on the source image used). All other functions known from "Image2PDF V2.3" are of course still available. With "Image2PDF", you can now also scale the images at the same time by setting "ImageSize" as the format. I am already working on "Image2PDF V2.5", where the whole thing should be a bit more intuitive and where a function for converting images into other image formats will be added. The beta versions can be downloaded from my my website and tried out. I am well aware that there are good tools that offer such functions, but since "Image2PDF" is all about images and PDFs, I try to include as much as possible. I hope that many people will enjoy the tool and that it can help with tasks involving scans, images and PDFs. I would be delighted to receive feedback by e-mail. Everyone who writes to me will receive his/her personal key." (dr) [News message: 02. Dec. 2023, 10:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Dec.2023`	Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.4.0 (beta version) In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to write graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. With version 0.4.0 now released, his project has reached beta status: all planned features have been integrated. Now the author asks you to test ReBuild extensively and report any bugs to him. (dr) [News message: 02. Dec. 2023, 06:49] [Comments: 1 - 02. Dec. 2023, 12:30] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Dec.2023`	Platform game: Update for Amiga port of Electro Man Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch is porting the game Electro Man, originally published in 1992 by Polish programmers Maciej Msik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS, to AGA Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). This update adds the final eighth level. (dr) [News message: 01. Dec. 2023, 21:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Dec.2023`	Platform game: Abbey(s) of the Dead About two weeks ago, the developer 'UltraNarwhal' released a demo version of his extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead" (YouTube video) which is now followed by the full version, available for about three Euro. (dr) [News message: 01. Dec. 2023, 06:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Nov.2023`	Visual Novel: Mansion of Madness for Apollo V4 In mid-September, Sami Vehmaa released his first Visual Novel game, "Mansion of Madness" (YouTube video). He has now added a version for the Apollo V4 accelerator cards. (dr) [News message: 29. Nov. 2023, 11:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Nov.2023`	Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas: PED81C updated With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach to work on AGA Amigas with pseudo-native chunky screens without performing the known chunky-to-planar conversions when displaying 3D graphics or any other slowing down additional calculations by CPU or custom chips (Copper, Blitter) at all (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has added a Voxel engine to his project and demonstrates it in a YouTube video. Other changes: Fixed some palette values in a table in the documentation. Added formulas for calculating DIWSTRT, DIWSTOP, DIWHIGH, DDFSTRT and DDFSTOP to documentation. Replaced fixed values with the aforementioned formulas in the AMOS Professional source code example. (dr) [News message: 29. Nov. 2023, 09:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Nov.2023`	Mod player: HippoPlayer 2.59 Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.59. Changes: Fixes: Patternscope and AHX modules: Fix bug which caused track 0 sometimes not being displayed. Info window: Fix PSID song speed information sometimes showing wrong values. Prevent jam when receiving no results from recent stations search. Allow MS-DOS line changes in playlist/module program files. Info window: Allow mousewheel to work with scrolling the content. Commandline parameters: If started with "QUIT" and there is no existing HiP instance running, do not start a new one. Keep list on exit: when starting HiP with commandline/icon modules as parameters do not lose the kept list, instead append to the end. New features: Scopes: When paused display the paused contents instead of the Hippo gfx. MED/OctaMED: Display song length and channel count for multichannel modules. Patternscope now supports MED and OctaMED modules, up to 18 channels visible. "mini4" font is needed to display more than 8 channels as before. STIL support added for use with the High Voltage Sid Collection. PSID improvements with the updated playsid.library v1.6: SIDBlaster support upgraded by Erique, now faster and much less likely to cause jams. A 68020 should be enough for normal playback, previously a faster CPU was needed. reSID mode now supports playsid-style digisamples, as heard for example in tunes like "Skate Or Die" and "Arkanoid". "Prefs/Play-2/reSID boost" can be used to boost the volume in reSID mode. The library also now works on kickstart 1.3 in the original playback mode, no need to have a separate kick1.3 lib version. Improved configuration with environment variables, if not using with Hippo. MIDI file playback support: "Prefs/Play-2/MIDI mode" setting chooses which mode is active. Serial output mode using Alastair M. Robinson's "delimidi" player. This will use MIDI equipment connected to the serial port for playing. Paula/AHI output mode using either Timidity Amiga port by Philipp Grosswiler or GMPlay by Christian Buchner. Scopes, song end detection, AHI output supported. Console music playback support using the "vgm2wav" application (dr) [News message: 29. Nov. 2023, 06:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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