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`23.Jul.2022`	Kickstarter campaign: Production of 'Tank Mouse' starts soon The Polish designer Lukas Remis had successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign for the re-release of the wireless Commodore Maus 1352 ((amiga-news.de reported)). A few days ago the developer announced in a status update that the production of the Tank Mouse as well as of the chipset of the mouse will start soon. The preparation would take about 45 days, and another 25 days the production of the first test batch. After testing and quality-checking the first units, the production will be started - and that part should take only around 3 weeks. But there are some problems regarding the DB9 adapter: due to COVID and supply shortages, prices of some components went up twice or even more. Therefore, it cannot be manufactured the way it was originally planned and other solutions must be found. (dr) [News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 17:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jul.2022`	8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2022-07-23 (update) Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now. Two weeks ago, the latest version V2022-07-08 was released. Since our last news item the following changes have been added: a regression in the previous release resolved, which caused the Acorn Electron and Vic-20 not to boot correctly improved the 68000: the results of ABCD, SBCD and NBCD are now more accurate; timing corrections have been made to CMPA.l, CLR.b, CLR.w, DIVU/S, NEGX.b, NEGX.w, NEG.b, NEG.w, NOT.w, NOT.b, MOVE to SR/CCR, MULU/S, TRAP, TRAPV, CHK and TAS; improved the 65816: to correct an error in (d), y addressing calculation; to correct a flag error in 16-bit BIT; and to improve timing to a variety of other instructions. resolved a bug that prevented the Apple IIe and Enhanced IIe from detecting an attached disk drive fixed an issue that caused the Amstrad CPCs to start with an unpredictable amount of RAM more accurately observes the Amiga left and right screen margins Update: (24.07.2022, 04:20, dr) A few moments ago, version V2022-07-23 was released with the following changes: corrects an error in Amiga HAM output that transposed red and blue channel modifications improves Amiga sprite display: for programs that use both DMA and direct sprite accesses, and with regard to playfield interactions rejigs the macOS binding to try to reduce CPU load and avoid a potential audio-ending race condition. Though it is now worse at scheduling across multiple CPU cores so there might be further swings of the pendulum yet to come. (dr) [News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 13:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jul.2022`	m68k assembly: 'Amiga Assembly' plugin V1.6.0 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. At the beginning of July, Paul Raingeard has released version 1.6.0. Changes: Use of external debugger Conditional breakpoints Log points Custom registers in variables list, including named sub-fields for specific bit ranges Additional formats for variables, including signed and size variants Label offset annotations for address registers On GitHub the author provides a detailed wiki. (dr) [News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 10:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jul.2022`	Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.1 / Firmware 1.2 Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported). The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Changes of Greaseweazle Tools 1.1: New IMG formats: pc98.dd, pc98.hd IBM FM, MFM: Fix bugs in raw track decoder gw info: Report MCU information (type, speed, SRAM) Changes of Greaseweazle Firmware 1.2: Support AT32F403A MCU on F1 and V4 boards Send MCU info to host (reported by gw info) The Greaseweazle is available from various retailers. (dr) [News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 08:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jul.2022` jPV^RNO (Mail)	RNO applications: RNOPDF 1.6 and RNOArchive 1.1 Developer 'jPV^RNO' has updated two of his RNO applications: PDF viewer RNOPDF (MorphOS, OS3 (68k + WOS), OS4, Win, Mac) has been updated to version 1.6, providing the following changes: Fixed the search requester behaviour Fixed a window positioning issue on OS3 versions Better OpenURL implementation Added a French catalog Added a German catalog Made the source code a bit more readable RNOArchive is a graphical archive manager which can can extract, modify, and create archives based on the XAD system. RNOArchive also can create ZIP files. Version 1.1 (MorphOS, AROS, OS3 (68k), OS4) provides the following changes: Fixed an issue with directory extraction, which could lead to extraction of unselected files The progress bar is updated when unarchiving single dirs or full archives Added a work-around for adding whole directories without selecting anything Fixed an ARexx port issue Other minor fixes (dr) [News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 06:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jul.2022` Daniel Jedlicka (Mail)	AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.2 For about a year, Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has been introducing the audio editor 'Rave' in status updates on his blog. Version 1.1 he finally released in June (amiga-news.de reported). The screenshot of version 1.2 presented below shows the most important new function: files can now be auditioned ("previewed") from the file requester before they will be opened. Rave requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 as well as A-EON's Enhancer Core. (dr) [News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 06:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jul.2022`	Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.4.3 Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Including version 1.4.3 which was released yesterday, the following changes have been added since our last news item: savestate profiler: enable "cycle exact" before launching .uss file fixes missing shrinkler terminal output Shrinkler: fixed progress output (only went to 10% instead of 100%) fixed DMA display for blitter (Channel D was missing, Channel B and C incorrectly had Line & Fill attribution) added more DMA events (CPU Blitter Steal, CPU Blitter Stolen, Copper Skip) fix Makefile for users with git sh in their path symbols for Kickstart 1.2, 1.3, 2.04, 2.05, 3.0, 3.1 (no FPU support) working for debugging (e.g. you can set a breakpoint to 'WaitBlit' or 'AllocMem') and profiling fix debugger not working when kickstart symbols not found (broken since 1.3.8) symbols for Kickstart 1.3 [exec 34.2] (GDB only, dos.library missing) fixed crash in assembly view use VSCode built-in memory viewer for Amiga: View Memory use VSCode built-in memory viewer (click the binary icon beside a variable in the debug view) fix crash in WinUAE when requesting a memory dump (dr) [News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 06:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Jul.2022`	Hardware: 'PiStation ITX' available At the end of June, we reported about the announcement of the shop 8bits4ever to offer a board for a mini-ITX case for holding a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4. 'PiStation ITX' now is available for 80 Euro plus shipping. (dr) [News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 05:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Jul.2022` Amigaworld.net (forum)	Windows: Update for the arcade games Huenison and KOG (update) Simone Bevilacqua's game Huenison for AmigaOS 4 and Windows combines various game elements of early arcade games. The current update of the title, which was released in 2013, is intended to improve the recognition of control pads under Windows (the D-pads were occasionally recognised as thumbsticks), and the instructions have been supplemented. Update: (16:08, 21.07.22, snx) The same improvement has been applied to the arcade game KOG, which has been released by him 14 years ago. (snx) [News message: 21. Jul. 2022, 07:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2022`	Aminet uploads until 16.07.2022 The following files have been added until 16.07.2022 to Aminet: MUIbase-4.5.lha biz/dbase 7.7M Programmable relational datab... HomeBank_beta.lha biz/misc 109K 68k Free MUI personal accounts ma... PlanetR.lha demo/intro 187K 68k Planet R invitation to Revisi... evo.lha dev/e 639K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution Kwiz2.lha game/2play 72K 68k A Blockbusters-style quiz game ScummVM_AGA_060.lha game/misc 8.0M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM 1.9.0 ScummVM_RTG.lha game/misc 8.0M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM 1.9.0 AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.3M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands NoJob.mp3 mods/mpg 4.1M A motif made by Stefano Maria... hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 315K 68k Updated HippoPlayer nextvi.lha text/edit 173K MOS Next vi clone Avalanche_FR.lha util/arc 7K French catalog for Avalanche 1.6 AnalogClock.lha util/time 39K 68k Resizeable analog transparent... wet_update.lha util/wb 289K AOS Wet weather info patch to v6.9 (snx) [News message: 17. Jul. 2022, 09:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2022`	OS4Depot uploads until 16.07.2022 The following files have been added until 16.07.2022 to OS4Depot: seq.lha aud/mis 421kb 4.0 MIDI sequencer amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator powerpacker_library.lha lib/mis 40kb 4.0 recreation of powerpacker.librar... fonttester.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.0 Tool to test the fonts installed... ppmore2tool.lha uti/tex 16kb 4.0 Unpack powerpacked text files, a... wet_update.lha uti/wor 289kb 4.0 Wet weather software v6.9 patch amitube.lha vid/pla 1Mb 4.0 Direct stream and download YouTu... (snx) [News message: 17. Jul. 2022, 09:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2022`	AROS Archives uploads until 16.07.2022 The following files have been added until 16.07.2022 to AROS Archives: mirrormagic.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 1Mb A game like "Deflektor"... rnoeffects_icons.lha gra/ico 5kb Icon for program RNOEffects muibase-4.5.lha off/dat 8Mb Programmable relational database fonttester.lha uti/tex 2Mb Test the fonts installed in your... (snx) [News message: 17. Jul. 2022, 09:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2022`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.07.2022 The following files have been added until 16.07.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: Kulki_1.1.lha Games/Think Puzzle game AmiTube_1.2.lha Multimedia The first YouTube Clien... MUIbase_4.5.lha Office/Database Programmable relational... FontTester_1.20.lha Office/Show Font Tester (snx) [News message: 17. Jul. 2022, 09:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2022`	WHDLoad: New installers until 16.07.2022 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 16.07.2022: 2022-07-15 improved: Cadaver (Imageworks/Bitmap Brothers) use fast memory, joypad controls, sound/scrolling fixed, buttonwait support added (Info) 2022-07-13 fixed: Bar Games (Accolade) Air Hockey was broken, install script updated (Info) 2022-07-11 improved: Castle Master (Incentive Software/Domark) supports more versions, splash control added, speed regulation, 68000 quitkey (Info) 2022-07-11 improved: 7 Cities Of Gold (Ozark Softscape/Electronic Arts) fixed install script (Info) (snx) [News message: 17. Jul. 2022, 09:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2022` Amiga Future (website)	AmigaRemix: Further files added AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: Space Harrier (NAPAPBWPMIF Mix) A Prehistoric Tale - Main Theme (Live performance) Red Sector-Theme (Electric Revenge Live Performance) Beyond the Ice Palace Another World Intro Remix Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Nitrous Remix) Ninja Remix - Kabadachi Mix (snx) [News message: 17. Jul. 2022, 09:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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