03.Jun.2024
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Video: Scorpion Engine game of a user
We recently reported on various ways of familiarising yourself with the Scorpion Engine game construction kit using tutorials. Now the user 'M1CK' has published a short video that shows how someone like him, who has no programming experience, can use it to create a game.
This example is mainly intended as an experiment and should not be explored further. First and foremost, it should show whether he can actually use the engine and how to add some of the features typically found in a 2D platformer. (dr)
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03.Jun.2024
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 3.1
At the beginning of 2022, the developer 'jasonsbeer' published revision 2.2 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in the ATX form factor, "Amiga-2000-ATX". After revision 3.0 in the middle of last year, he has now published revision 3.1 with the following changes:
- Various fixes
- Changed SRAM back to +5V part
- Added copper pours to top and bottom layer
- Updated to KiCAD 8.0
(dr)
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02.Jun.2024
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Amiga Kit: Final Writer 7 pre-installed on A600GS
Press release:
Final Writer has been in put back into active development over recent years (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 7 will soon will make it's debut pre-installed on the A600GS computer.
Final Writer is a famous word processor for the Amiga computer originally developed by SoftWood in the mid 1990s. It rapidly developed a significant loyal fan base amongst the Amiga community.
In 2015 it was purchased by Timothy Deters and put back into development after a 20 year hiatus. A large investment of work has been carried out implementing a new spell checker compatible with Open Office dictionaries, RTG fixes, FTP, IPP PDF and Turboprint printing.
AmigaKit Ltd and Timothy Deters are pleased to announce that a special edition of Final Writer 7 will be
pre-installed on the A600GS alongside it's other updated applications of OctaMED 8, PPaint 7.4 and
Directory Opus 4.
Final Writer can be started from AmiBench, the desktop environment and will open on a 1080P screen.
Final Writer 7 Special Edition is fully functional with the exception of the Spell Checker module which will be
offered to A600GS users as an optional paid upgrade.
Matthew Leaman, MD of AmigaKit Ltd commented on the collaboration: "We are very pleased to work with
Timothy bundling the brand new edition of Final Writer on the A600GS low cost hardware platform. Final
Writer is popular and much loved Amiga word processor. A significant amount of hard work has gone into
bringing this application back to our community to the credit of Timothy and his developers. New versions
of Final Writer complementing OctaMED and Personal Paint represents the renewal of Amiga applications."
Timothy Deters, owner of Final Writer added: "I'm happy to have come to an agreement with AmigaKit to
include Final Writer with their system. I’d like to thank the developers who worked on this project and have
been instrumental to its completion."
The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024. (dr)
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02.Jun.2024
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Emulator: WinUAE 5.3.0
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.3.0. Changes:
New emulated RTG boards
- CyberVision/BlizzardVision PPC. 2D only, 3D is not implemented. (Permedia 2)
- GVP EGS 110/24. (INMOS G364)
- Graffity. (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428)
- Merlin, includes support for configurable serial number used by ProBench (Tseng ET4000W32)
- oMniBus (Tseng ET4000AX or ET4000W32)
- Rainbow III (INMOS G360)
- Visiona (INMOS G300)
New features/updates
- Prometheus FireStorm PCI bridge emulation
- Release raw input devices when GUI is open (except during input Test/Remap) or when debugger window is active. Allows Windows shortcut keys like Win+E to work without need to unfocus the window.
- Added Misc panel option to disable default on screen keyboard gamepad button 4 mapping.
- Some uae-configuration (and other similar) debugging logging messages automatically opened the console window. Now only entering debugger will open it.
- Added “Always on (Fixed only)” sound filter option. This enables A500 fixed filter but never enables “led filter”. (A1200 does not have fixed filter, only “led” filter)
- Replaced old Windows 2000 compatible Windows clipboard handling with newer, simpler and more reliable method introduced in Vista.
- Allow also 68020+ CPUs to fetch instruction words from custom chipset space. Only if more compatible is set. If some program really wants to do something weird like execute code located in AGA palette registers.
- Lightpen/gun cursor in any edge of screen: lightpen/gun not pointing at the screen = position can’t be read by the program.
- Statefile shortcut keys now select current config file name as a base statefile name (for example, if “test1.uae” config file is loaded, SHIFT+END+0 will save statefile as “test1.uss”. Quickstart mode config still uses original default “default.uss”)
- Both “SaveImage” (automatically created ext adf when write-enabling non-writable image like ipf) file extension variants are now detected automatically when checking if file exists. Paths panel SaveImage mode option now only affects generated file name when new saveimage is created.
- Added LDP-1450 laserdisc player OSD font emulation. Fixes laserdisc arcade game Platoon (Nova) previously missing “YOU’RE HIT!!” messages. (All OSD graphics are generated by Amiga except this message!)
Bugs fixes
- Fixed XT based Bridgeboards non-working floppy drive emulation, broke during 5.1 DraCo updates (wrong density detection)
- Serial port data receive was unreliable. Loopback serial port mode didn’t work in fast CPU modes.
- CD32 FMV video image size and positioning was weird in most scaled modes.
- Exclusive fullscreen and RTG resolution switch (RTG resolution switch to another RTG resolution without switch to native mode and back) didn’t change fullscreen resolution.
- Some ECS programmed modes (for example SuperPlus) had first visible line blanked.
- Fixed corruption in some “weird” programmed modes, introduced in 5.0 betas.
- Some hardware emulated RTG boards had flickering colors during horizontal panning (>8 bit modes only)
- Fixed ECS Denise superhires mode hires sprite pointer strange odd/even horizontal movement.
- Fixed pre-KS 1.2 HDF/directory filesystem boot. Broke long time ago.
- Multi-monitor active state was not fully reset when system was hard reset. (Multimonitor window was open -> hard reset -> window didn’t open anymore again)
- If x86 bridgeboard SVGA and also other hardware emulated RTG board was active and END+F9 was used to switch monitors: both monitors’ output was drawn in same window, causing corrupted graphics and possibly also crash if monitor sizes were too different.
- It was not possible to write and read ECS/AGA genlock transparency bit in color registers. Was broken long time ago.
- Delay ALG LDP seek complete status reply slightly. Fixes laserdisc arcade game Platoon (Nova) few second hangs.
- Los Justicieros (Zorton Brothers) laserdisc arcade game left holster hooked up correctly. (Was stuck active previously)
(dr)
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02.Jun.2024
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood goes LaTeX: hTeX 1.0 released
Press release: "Airsoft Softwair, the unstoppable coding machine, is back on your screen with a massive new Hollywood plugin release: hTeX. hTeX allows you to experience the wonderful world of LaTeX as it makes it possible to use the LaTeX markup language from Hollywood. This makes it possible to easily display mathematical formulas in your Hollywood scripts and Hollywood Designer projects. On top of that, you can also use more advanced LaTeX features like tables, boxes, and finetuned formatting. Finally, hTeX also allows you to export LaTeX formatted text as PDF documents, SVG images, and PNG images.
Using hTeX is very simple and convenient because the plugin directly interfaces with Hollywood's text library so you don't need to learn any new functions but you can just use the functions from Hollywood's text library. As soon as the hTeX plugin is installed, all functions from Hollywood's text library will automatically be able to handle text formatted in LaTeX. hTeX will make the text available to Hollywood as full vector text which means that it can be infinitely scaled, rotated, and transformed without any loss of quality.
Of course hTeX also supports our brand-new Hollywood Designer 7 which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. So after you've installed the hTeX plugin, Hollywood Designer 7 will automatically become a state-of-the-art editor for LaTeX, just take a look at what is possible when using hTeX together with Hollywood Designer 7:
The hTeX distribution comes with several examples as well as a comprehensive documentation to get you started quickly. And the best of all: hTeX is provided free of charge. Thus, please consider buying Hollywood to show your support for our massive development efforts. Note that Hollywood 10 or Hollywood Designer 7 are strictly required by hTeX.
The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal at the title link. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux, Mac OS and Windows are provided." (snx)
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02.Jun.2024
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Action adventure: June update of "Castlevania AGA"
Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). This now features a "proper" Simon Belmont, who was created especially for this version. There is now also a menu with a jukebox function, which allows you to listen to the different music. (dr)
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02.Jun.2024
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Aminet uploads until 01.06.2024
The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to Aminet:
MicroExcel_2.0a.lha biz/spread 1.6M MOS A Spreadsheed Editor
Void-FB15.lha demo/sound 640K 68k Musicdisk from 68k Inside 2024
transmittances.lha dev/amos 406K transmittances
PreludeSoftwareBundle... driver/aud 122K 68k Software bundle for Prelude s...
7MezzoPlusAros.zip game/board 472K x86 Popular Italian Christmas game
GISequenceMemoryADF.zip game/board 304K 68k memory game
GISequenceMemoryAros.zip game/board 388K x86 Sequence Memory game
Jake_And_Peppy_V90.lha game/demo 28M 68k Playable demo: new Apollo V4/...
sequencememory.lha game/wb 193K 68k memory game
LN3Void24Prt2.lha mods/misc 3.5M 16bit 4ch LN3Void24Prt2 by HK...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 406K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 22M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
BaseConv.lha util/wb 63K 68k Convert numbers between bin/o...
(snx)
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02.Jun.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.06.2024
The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to OS4Depot:
cppcheck.lha dev/uti 4Mb 4.1 A static analysis tool for C/C++...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
a1222_abstract.lha gra/mis 12Mb 4.0 Abstract backdrop for AmigaOne A...
lm_calendarclock.lha uti/har 5Mb 4.0 Clock to control the time in fro...
(snx)
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02.Jun.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.06.2024
The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to AROS Archives:
vintagesongplayer.lha aud/pla 2Mb A JukeBox multiformat player
gisequencememory.i386-aro... gam/boa 388kb classic memory game
7mezzoplus.i386-aros.zip gam/car 472kb Popular Italian Christmas game
gipoker.i386-aros.zip gam/car 451kb video poker simulations bar mach...
videntiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb Videntium Picta is picture and a...
witchcleaner.lha net/ser 3Mb Clean temp data from OWB and tra...
omanko.lha uti/fil 2Mb Tool made to get the MD5 and CRC...
lm_calendarclock.lha uti/har 4Mb Clock to control the time in fro...
(snx)
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02.Jun.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.06.2024
The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
WitchCleaner_3.20.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
MicroExcel_2.0a.lha Office/Spreadsheet A Spreadsheed Editor
(snx)
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02.Jun.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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Programming competition: AmiGameJam 2024 launched
Following the 2022/2023 competition on the topic of "Sword and Sorcery", the next AmiGameJam has now been launched. In this year's edition, the task for the game programmers is: "The Sequel That Never Was". If you want to take part, you have to submit a sequel to a game from the old Amiga days to the organizers by December 1st at the latest.
The participants will as usual be divided into the two categories "OCS/AGA" and "RTG/Vampire/AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS", and voting will again be carried out by both the community and a group of celebrity judges. The judges and prizes will be announced later. (snx)
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02.Jun.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Full version of Insanity Fight online
In the download area of Amiga Future the full version of the game Insanity Fight has been published, including data disk, construction set, manual and source code. (snx)
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02.Jun.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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German Amiga Podcast: Issue 18
Issue 18 of the "German Amiga Podcasts" (GAP) reports from the Amiga Ruhrpott Convention event (ARC) 2024, which took place on May 25 in Duisburg, Germany. (snx)
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02.Jun.2024
Paulee Bow (ANF)
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Music: CD "Bleakwave" by Vogue Renege announced
As part of the "Kickstart 02" event in Nottingham on June 29/30, also Vogue Renege alias Paulee Alex Bow will be performing. The new CD "Bleakwave" is to be released there, and international sales as a physical and digital product will start a few days later.
It contains five songs:
(snx)
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02.Jun.2024
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Amiga-Emulator: Activity monitors and DMA bus visualisation for vAmigaWeb
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
In this update, the developer 'mithendal' has added an activity or load display for the individual Amiga chips Blitter, Copper and Paula and the CPU. This means that you can now see which games use certain Amiga coprocessors or chips in particular. In addition, pens such as the Apple Pencil are now supported. (dr)
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02.Jun.2024
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Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.7 (update)
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.6 was released:
- SCSI-2 Emulation - Fixes compatibility with ACDPlay, OptyCDPlay, OS 3.9 PlayCD etc
- Support masterless slave devices
- Fixup channel detection on Dicke Olga Accelerator
- Various ATAPI bug fixes and performance improvements
Update: (13:50, 02.06.24, dr)
Version 40.7 has just been released and is strongly recommended for all users of the previous version 40.6. (dr)
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02.Jun.2024
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Video: Review of Amiga 2000 accelerator board "Dicke Olga"
"Dicke Olga" is a 68030 turbo card for the Amiga 2000 and a hobbyist project. The YouTube channel "Retronaut" has now taken a look at the card under the title link. (dr)
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01.Jun.2024
Spadoni Carlo (ANF)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 2.5 (x86)
The "AROS One" distribution, which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0 (screenshot), is now available in version 2.5 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file (1.7 GB) or as a USB flash image (3.7 GB) under the title link, where you will also find video recordings (don't be confused by the old title, the download links on the page below the screenshot are correct). The VHD image can be used as a hard drive in virtual machines such as VMware, VirtualBox and QEmu.
Changes in version 2.5:
- Update AROS One OS System:
- Dopus4 now compresses archives to Zip
- Update Network Prefs Catalog Italian
- ClickToFront now initiated by the system
- Deleting Files and Folders via 'Del' Key
- Add on GRUB "EarlyStartup"
- Execute uCommander from EarlyStartup, just type uCommander
- GRUB Set to 640 x 480
- Add Catalogs OWB (Spain, France, Turkey, Czech)
- Clean Cache OWB (Script)
- Removed package archive Alternative icons can be downloaded from a separate archive
- SMB2-Start, new script for automatic sharing
- SMB2 Docs on the various Scripts (TXT e PDF)
- Zune settings recreated
- Update AROS One Apps:
- Screentest v1
- MidiDriver v1.0 AndTools
- Protrekkr v2.6.7
- SonosController v1.4
- Raylib v5
- GLFW v3.4
- Arrakis v1.0 Demoscene
- Nano v1.2 Demoscene
- Void-FB14 MusicDisk
- AmiFox v0.6
- ScummVM v1.9.1
- ResidualVM v0.3.1.1
- Magical Broom Extreme v1.0
- Origami v1.0 Demoscene
- The Fulcrum v1.0 Demoscene
- Image2PDF v2.6
- ThemeList v1.0
- Split & Build v1.5
- GMoreAros v1.0
- LoView 2.024
- WitchCleaner v3.20
- L.M. Calendar&Clock v1.0
- Update AROS One Games:
- BOH
- Scopa
- MBX
- XRick
- MadBomber
- Functionalities:
- Introduce new C library, synchronized with 64-bit AROS (deadwood)
- Allow linux hosted AROS to work under WSL (Kalamatee)
- Better default mouse cursor image (JuanDoble07)
- Early Boot Menu made more functional (JuanDoble07, Kalamatee)
- Simplify adding tethering in Prefs/Network (#115) (deadwood)
- Speed up boot using ahci.device (deadwood)
- Delete files with DEL key in Wanderer (#116) (deadwood)
- Updates:
- AROS build system (deadwood)
- Italian and Polish translations (AMIGASYSTEM, subocz)
- Prefs/Boot 1.4 (deadwood)
- Use standard C library function names in SDK (deadwood)
- Functional fixes:
- Wanderer (bugs: #107) (deadwood)
- fat-handler (bugs: #107) (deadwood)
- intuition.library (bugs: no auto scroll up screen) (JuanDoble07)
- dos.library (bugs: NOMOUNT partitions are automounted, wrong path copying) (JuanDoble07, Ronnie Beck)
- exec.library (bugs: infinite crash loop) (deadwood)
- dos.library (bugs: #60) (deadwood)
- utility.library (bugs: #63) (deadwood)
- stdlib.library (bugs: wrong support for '*' in sscanf) (deadwood)
- camd.library, camdusbmidi.class (hitchhikr)
- ram-handler (bugs: #134) (deadwood)
- ahci.device (bugs: #135, unnecessary 60MB memory allocation) (deadwood)
- Wanderer (bugs: 105, offline volumes showing with "ghost" icons) (Kalamatee)
- rtl8139.device (bugs: no support for wrapped buffer) (stegerg)
- Stability fixes:
- muimaster.library (deadwood)
- debug-handler (deadwood)
- crt.library (bugs: calling atexit in CTOR set crashes program) (deadwood)
(nba)
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31.May.2024
Jérôme Senay (Mail)
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Print magazine: Boing #8 (French)
"Boing" is a French print magazine by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL) for all Amiga systems on 52 A4 color pages.
The eighth issue includes a big article about MicroProse, the publisher of Civilisation, an interview with Frédéric Cordier, the author of AMOS Pro Unity, and numerous game reviews. (dr)
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30.May.2024
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AROS: Review of May 2024
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of May at the title link. (dr)
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30.May.2024
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Video: Interview with Eric Chahi (Another World)
At the title link Adrian Wallett of "Arcade Attack Retro Gaming Network" did an interview with Eric Chahi, the programmer and graphic artist of the game "Another World". (snx)
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