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`08.Aug.2023` Frédéric Cordier (Mail)	Programming language: Third public alpha version of "Amos Professional Unity" By means of his "Amos Professional Unity" project, Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier is in the process of adding new features - such as AGA support - to the classic BASIC compiler AMOS Professional (YouTube video on AGA sprites). Now he has published the third public alpha version (V0.4) on his GitHub page with the following changes: Removed non kept extra commands for Custom Screens modes. Rebuild all the Custom Screens system. Added space in file 'configuration/APUnity_Editor_Config.s' for eXtensions registration system Added new command : GFXMODE = get saga c2p screen mode( Width, Height, Depth, Scanmode ) [AmosProUnity.lib/L_L_GetSagaC2PScreenModeEx] Added new command : GFXMODE = get saga c2p screen mode( Width, Height, Depth ) [AmosProUnity.lib/L_GetSagaC2PScreenMode] Started new command : open custom screen ScreenID, Width, Height, GFXMODE Added SAGA CPU/GFX Detection at startup to open SAGA library version when available. Added SAGA Chunky screen support in copper list. Reverted Aga/sprites.s file to previous version due to a bug in Aga Sprites. Reverted Compiler_Shell.AMOS to Original fixed a compiler crash Fix AMOSProUnity_Support.Lib functions set fixed a compiler crash Fix AMOSProUnity_SpecialFX.Lib functions set fixed a compiler crash Now Amos Professional Unity examples can be compiled without crash Upgrade compiler to compile with AGAP Sprites/Bobs/Icons banks Fixed issue with Get Bob/Sprite/Icon palette to now handle fully RGB24 bits colors Update Header.s bank load to handle AGAP color mode ( 256 colors AGA ) from Bank that are inside executable (Bob/Sprite/Icon) update Header.s also fix Get Bob/Sprite/Icon Palette commands when program is compiled. Update CompExt.s compiler extension for squashed programs to handle AGAP color mode (Bob/Sprite/Icon) We had first reported on Frédéric Cordier's submissions at the end of 2019, at that time still operating under the name "Amos Professional X". We took this publication as an opportunity to ask him for a summary of his efforts to date, which he kindly provided immediately: "The Amos Professional Unity is a project I work on in my spare time, together with my other project for the Amiga called "Grimoire" (amiga-news.de reported). Even though I don't often report about changes or news, I do a lot of work in the background (e.g. compiler problems), because the compiler source code is not documented and is a bit more complex than Amos Professional itself. A few key points about the project: Amos Professional Source code was completely reorganized to fit the requirements of AGA support upgrade times ago. Source code is available publicly on GitHub Many changes were done to achieve support for AGA Chipsets that makes Amos Professional Unity being not compatible with older Amos Professional extensions that uses internal Amos Professional structures (the structures evoled,for example to support 8 bitplanes max instead of previously 6, 256 colors instead of previously 32, etc.) Amos professional now have a good AGA support. It will be improved, but it is already interesting for AGA video game creation. And these features are already supported by "Amos Professional Unity" Support lowres AGA graphics up to 256 colors and HAM8 using 24 bits colors support Support hires AGA graphics up to 256 colors and Ham8 using 24 bits colors support Interlaced is supported for the two above resolutions (lowres and hires) Bobs and icons also support up to 256 colors using 24 bits colors support Create/Load/Save Sprites/Bobs/Icons banks with AGA colors up to 256 colors is supported. AGA Sprites up to 64 pixels wide are also supported using 4 or 16 colors, and native Amos Professional sprites combination using 4 or 16 colors was improved to support AGA sprites width (you can setup a sprite up to 256 pixels wide with 16 colors using all 8 sprites for example). AGA Sprites are only low resolution sprites. Hires resolution is not yet added. Native commands like "Screen Open" are upgraded to support 256 Colors ( ex. Screen Open 0,320,200,256,lowres+laced ) Native commands like "Colour" are upgraded to support 24 bits ( ex. Colour 1,Rgb24( 255,128, 0 ) ) Amos Professional Unity compiled program can detect at running time if configuration run on ECS/OCS or AGA, and user can then create adaptative source code for video game ( The same compiled .exe can open ECS screen on ECS configuration and AGA screen on AGA configuration ). "Amos Professional Unity" offers a range of new commands that were documented in the course of the releases of the first alpha version or second alpha version. Some commands are not yet documented because they are still in the development process: Create Rainbow Fx Bank BANK Set Rainbow Fx Color BANK, COLOR_INDEX Set Rainbow Fx Color Line BANK, YLINE, RGB24ColorValue Apply Rainbow Fx To Screen BANK : Apply to current screen Remove Rainbow Fx From Screen = Get Rainbow Fx Color Line( BANK, YLINE ) An other extension (Special FX) was also added to the project. It is a mix between my old AmosPro_Personal.lib and new commands. It bring some new commands to Amos Professional Unity (not documented on the website), and more will come in the future: Set Ntsc : Push to 60Hz mode Set Pal : Push to 50Hz mode = Right Click() = Fire( 1,BUTTONID ) : Where button ID can be 2 or 3 Ehb : Can be used to open screen using 64 Half Brite colors (ECS) Ham6 : Can be used to open screen using Ham6 ( 4096 colors ) screens (ECS) Create Memblock BANK, SIZE_IN_BYTES : Create a memory block, this command set is inspired from Dark BASIC v1 & Professional ) = Memblock Exist( BANK ) = Get Memblock Size( BANK ) Write Memblock Long BANK, POSITION_IN_BYTES, 32BITSVALE : Write a 32 Bits value at POSITION_IN_BYTES of the memblock BANK = Memblock Long( BANK, POSITION ) : Will return the 32 Bits value stored at POSITION in the memblock BANK Write Memblock WordBANK, POSITION_IN_BYTES, 16BITSVALE : Write a 16 Bits value at POSITION_IN_BYTES of the memblock BANK = Memblock Word( BANK, POSITION ) : Will return the 16 Bits value stored at POSITION in the memblock BANK Write Memblock ByteBANK, POSITION_IN_BYTES, 32BITSVALE : Write a 8 Bits value at POSITION_IN_BYTES of the memblock BANK = Memblock Byte( BANK, POSITION ) : Will return the 8 Bits value stored at POSITION in the memblock BANK Reserve F Icon BANK, SIZE : Create a custom icons bank, not blitter, CPU drawing one for fasts CPU and FastRam. Icon size is Width/Heigth same Set Current F Icon Bank BANK : Allow to have multiple Fast Icons banks = Get Current F Icon Bank() : Will return the current bank used for Fast Icons Get F Icon ICON, X, Y : Grab an icon ICON from the current screen Paste Icon ICON, X, Y(, TRANSPARENCY ) : Will draw an icon at X,Y coordinates. X is multiple of 16 pixels. = Get Fie Size( FileName$ ) Create Playfield from sprite HEIGHT, YSTART : Create a background playfield using sprites Remove Sprite Playfield : Remove the background playfield There are some known issues and limitations. One known issue for example is that compiler must be improved to allow compilation of source code containing Sprites/Icons banks in it. Currently, banks must not be included in .AMOS when compiling. Amos Professional Unity is provided with some examples that show the uses of AGA Chipset and the Special FX commands sets. This simply mean you can already create AGA video games using Amos Professional Unity and compiles them as executables." (dr) [News message: 08. Aug. 2023, 09:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2023`	Dungeon Crawler: The Last Dungeon V0.7c As a contribution to AmiGameJam 2022, 'PixelPlop' had released a first, playable, but still incomplete version of "The Last Dungeon" (YouTube video). Now he has made available a first update that fixes some bugs. (dr) [News message: 06. Aug. 2023, 21:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2023`	Aminet uploads until 05.08.2023 The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to Aminet: ignition.lha biz/spread 5.0M OS4 a modern spreadsheet ignition-src.lha biz/spread 1.2M OS4 Sourcecode ignition 1.22 fastbasic.lha dev/cross 1.4M MOS Compiler for the Atari 8-bit ... REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.5M 68k Game Creator with AGA support PreludeSoftwareBundle... driver/aud 116K 68k Software bundle for Prelude s... anaiis.lha driver/oth 238K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.23 anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 269K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ... labyrinth64.lha game/misc 137K 68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L... AcesUp.lha game/think 2.9M 68k Aces Up solitaire card game AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.9M MOS Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul... AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands ANSI-Draw_v097.lha text/edit 75K 68k Advanced ANSI character&graph... words10.lha text/misc 6K 68k extreme fast wordcounter deark.lha util/arc 4.0M 68k Extracting data from various ... lhasa.lha util/arc 4.2M MOS Free Software LHA implementat... mkatr.lha util/conv 47K MOS ATR disk image creation tool AmiSSL-5.10-OS3.lha util/libs 3.4M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li... AmiSSL-5.10-OS4.lha util/libs 3.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li... AmiSSL-5.10-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li... Add_UKBankHolidays.lha util/time 1K Lil Calender UK Bank Holiday ... gidatario.lha util/time 229K 68k GI Datario LilCalendar.lha util/time 3.4M 68k Versatile calender and remind... (snx) [News message: 06. Aug. 2023, 11:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2023`	OS4Depot uploads until 05.08.2023 The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to OS4Depot: amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL siliconmotion502_chip... dri/vid 14kb 4.1 SiliconMotion 502 video driver amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator scummvm.lha gam/mis 109Mb 4.1 Run supported classic adventure/... scummvm-src.zip gam/mis 178Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source blues.lha gam/pla 3Mb 4.1 Blues Brothers games recreation amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library mediavault_script.lha net/mis 24kb 4.0 Choose player or download stream... ignition.lha off/spr 5Mb 4.1 A modern spreadsheet ignition-src.lha off/spr 1Mb 4.0 A modern spreadsheet (source) deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil... set_get_ts.lha uti/scr 25kb 4.0 obtain time in scripts (snx) [News message: 06. Aug. 2023, 11:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2023`	AROS Archives uploads until 05.08.2023 The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to AROS Archives: acesup.i386-aros.lha gam/car 3Mb solitaire card game watercolor_cubic_themes_0... gra/the 460kb Watercolor Cubic Window Themes lilcalendar.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 3Mb Calender scheduling and reminder... (snx) [News message: 06. Aug. 2023, 11:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2023`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.08.2023 The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: Flite_1.2.lha Audio/Misc Speech synthesis engine Python_3.2_v2.02r176.lha Dependencies/Python Python_3.2_v2.02r176.lha Python_3.4-draft.lha Dependencies/Python Python_3.4-draft.lha FastBasic_4.6.lha Development/Cross Compiler for the Atari ... mkatr_1.3.lha Emulation/Misc ATR disk image creation... AmiArcadia_30.0.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... Deark_1.6.5.lha Files/Archive Extracting data from va... Lhasa_0.4.0.lha Files/Archive A Free Software LHA imp... uif2iso_0.1.2.lha Files/Convert UIF to ISO converter ScummVM_2.7.1.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve... Aliens-versus-Predator... Games/Shoot3D Aliens versus Predator ... VidentiumPicta_2.60.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra... CDXL-Player_1.1.lha Multimedia CDXL player with source... VAMP_3.10.lha Multimedia A Multimedia Player pro... Easy2Install_1.0b27.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do... ScreamBar_1.2.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Screenbar module plug-i... (snx) [News message: 06. Aug. 2023, 11:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2023`	WHDLoad: New installers until 05.08.2023 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 05.08.2023: 2023-08-05 fixed: Nexus 7 (Andromeda) added a flush cache to avoid a crash under 060 before clusters part (Info, Image) 2023-08-05 improved: Sword (Serio-Comic) no more 68020 required for the kickstart 3.1, 2nd button to jump supported (Info) (snx) [News message: 06. Aug. 2023, 11:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2023`	Floppy disk images: Disc Image Manager V1.46.4 for Linux, macOS and Windows Gerald J Holdsworth's Disc Image Manager is an application used to load a retro disc image, read the catalogue and output any required files. In addition, it will also add files to the image, delete, and rename files and directories. On the Amiga side, reading and writing of AmigaDOS disks and hard disks with OFS and FFS formatting are supported (not fully tested with FFS). Support for directory cache and international characters is still missing (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.46.4: New or improved features Font size on the BBC Basic Viewer can be changed. Added the ability to use the mouse scroll wheel on a hex dump. Can now read Acorn ROM FS images. When reading UEF images, each CFS header is checked to be valid before reading. Can now create blank Acorn ROM FS images. Can now add files to Acorn ROM FS images. Can now delete files from Acorn ROM FS images. Some minor code changes (creation of new images). Command line parsing has been completely removed and replaced by a command line console. Attributes are now validated before applying. CSV output now includes the option for MD5, per file. Button added to allow loading of multiple images and outputting a CSV of each file. Bug fixes OS dark mode: most of the controls do not react to the change from light mode to dark mode. The changing of the font colour sometimes made them hard to see with the tiling selected. The Hex Dump dialogue was not scaling correctly with Hi-DPI setups. Not all BASIC files are terminated with 0xFF. This fooled the BASIC detector in the Hex Dump viewer. If the creation of a new image fails, the application still thought that there was an image open. When renaming a file, or editing the load or execution addresses, pressing the BackSpace key would attempt to delete the file, instead of deleting the text. It was possible to remove the 'D' attribute of a directory, or add one to a file. If the last line in a hex dump text output was less than 16 bytes, then the position of the ASCII representation would not line up with the columns above. MS-DOS 6.22 failed to properly read a floppy image created by the application. Changed a few settings in the header when formatting a new image. Fixed some quote placement errors in the CSV output. The author also provides a detailed PDF manual. (dr) [News message: 05. Aug. 2023, 20:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2023`	Tool: identify library 43.1 A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 43.1 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes: Added more manufacturers and boards AmigaOS 3.9 wasn't detected under certain circumstances Fixed a crash on ACT Apollo A620 detection Downloads: IdentifyDev.lha (67 kB) IdentifyUsr.lha (100 kB) (dr) [News message: 05. Aug. 2023, 13:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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