31.Dec.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.12.2023
The following files have been added until 30.12.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
MUI-Examples-1.1.lha Development/C MUI C Examples for MorphOS
Easy2Compile_1.2.lha Development/C A GUI to compile C sour...
LBreakoutHD_1.1.5.lha Games/BrickBreaker A scaleable 16:9 remake...
AstralGame_4.10.lha Games/Misc This esoteric app you c...
fheroes2_1.0.11.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
FFmpeg_6.1.0.lha Multimedia FFmpeg is a collection ...
Easy2Install_1.0b47.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
AIOstreams_1.7.7.lha Network/Streaming Stream online video fro...
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31.Dec.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.12.2023
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 30.12.2023:
(snx)
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31.Dec.2023
Frank Abbing (ANF)
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Game: Re-release of Weltendämmerung (german)
"Weltendämmerung" is a real-time strategy game by Frank Abbing (UAC Design, Risk implementation "Riskful"), which he had already written at the beginning of the 90s in AmigaE and Assembler (DevPac) as his first Amiga game, but only published in 2001. Now the author has made it available again as an ADF file on archive.org.
In the game, you take on the role of Robert Ungar. He must try to defeat the creatures of Dr. Coypu. In order to accomplish this task, he must succeed in getting an army of mutants under his control.
Download: Weltendaemmerung.adf (880 KB) (snx)
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31.Dec.2023
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for December
For the month of December 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)
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31.Dec.2023
Puni (ANF)
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Demoscene: Diskmagazine Versus #9 from 2019 as online edition
Issue 9 of Versus, the disk magazine from Nucleus and Void with Amiga demoscene charts, was released in 2019 and has been made accessible now by 'Browallia' as an online edition. (snx)
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31.Dec.2023
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Video: Transfer of the RGB signal from the Amiga to the PiStorm
Following a video published three weeks ago by PiStorm developer Claude Schwarz (amiga-news.de reported), Emu68 developer Michal Schulz now shows the RGB video pass-through from the Amiga to the Pi's HDMI output in more detailed preview. The pass-through is almost latency-free, works with the Pi's DMA engine and thus consumes 0% CPU time. He also provides further information in his new Patreon-Post. (dr)
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29.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Editor Lite XL 2.1.2r1
George 'walkero' Sokianos has just released version 2.1.2r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). He wrote:
"Today, Lite XL 2.1.2 was released for every system by the official development team, as they usually do after Christmas. So, it is the perfect time to release a new version for AmigaOS 4 as well.
During December, I was working to synchronise the code from the official repository with my personal one, making it compile and work on my system. I was also experimenting with a way to convert ISO text to Unicode, as a way to load correctly files that include characters with umlauts or from other languages, like Greek.
I was based on another plugin and the codesets library to do this conversion, which seems to work quite well. To enable it, the user needs to enable the codesets plugin, like any other plugin. After that, and when lite-xl is running, two new menu options are available to open and save a file with a specific encoding. By default, this new plugin reads the system encoding and uses that to open the files. Based on my tests, this is enough, but as it is an experimental plugin, I am curious to see how it works for others.
Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the typing in other encodings issue. I tracked it down to a specific SDL2 function that seems not to work when the keymap is changed. So, some specific event is not triggered, which is necessary for the print of the characters. It might be a limitation of the SDL2 itself. I will keep on looking into that.
The codesets plugin is only available for AmigaOS 4 for now. I am working on the MorphOS version. That's why I didn't release a new version of Lite XL for the MorphOS, which is in development.
The new release of Lite XL 2.1.2 got numerous performance improvements and fixes from the official team, which can be read on GitHub.
The AmigaOS4 version can be downloaded from my Git repository and soon from OS4Depot."
You can support the developer on ko-fi. (dr)
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29.Dec.2023
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Analogue Pocket: Amiga core V0.1.2
The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. Version 0.1.2 has now been published of the Amiga Core which adapts the mouse setting to the new firmware 2.0. (dr)
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29.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Santa's Workout 3 - Silent Night
After "Vector5 Games" released the first two parts only for the C64, the third part is now also available for the Amiga: in "Santa's Workout 3 - Silent Night" (YouTube video) the special feature is that the player, as Santa Claus, has to act extremely quietly so as not to wake the sleeping children. (dr)
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29.Dec.2023
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Platform game: "Super Delivery Boy - The Holiday Shift" 2023.1
The mini game "Super Delivery Boy - The Holiday Shift" (YouTube video) was updated again (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
- Rewritten and simplified most of the code
- Improved performance on low end machines
- More precise collision detection when delivering presents
- Some graphical improvements
- Bug fixes
(dr)
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28.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Web browser NetSurf 3.11
After around three and a half years various test builds an update of the NetSurf browser to version 3.11 was published today, together with a version for AmigaOS 4, provided by Chris Young under the title link. NetSurf 3.11 features improved page layout with CSS flex support. It also features many other optimisations and enhancements. Changes of the Amiga port:
- Added page theme option.
- Improved bitmap handling.
- Improved and optimised Unicode handling.
- Stability improvements.
After initial tests on our part, the support for encrypted pages that had been lost in test builds is working again. Unfortunately, access to downloads from GitHub pages ("Assets") still does not work.
Officially, no conversion for AmigaOS 3 has (yet) been published, but the last test build from 28 December 2023, NetSurf-gcc-6637.lha (4,3 MB), should basically correspond to version 3.11. (dr)
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28.Dec.2023
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Java program: ham_convert 1.9.3
Sebastian Sieczko's java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats to the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.9.3. Changes:
- dded Oric mode (experimental). Oric was a British 8-bit computer powered by the 6502 cpu with 8-color graphics with no v-sync.
- Dynamic Hires: cancel option to abort conversion.
- rgbg_pal cli parameter can be used to select fixed rgbg ham pattern mode in ham6.
- Code cleanup.
(dr)
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27.Dec.2023
Gaming on AmigaOS 4 (ANF)
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Interview with Steffen Häuser (Heretic II port)
In addition to his monthly summaries of AmigaOS 4 news, 'Puni' has now also conducted an interview with Steffen 'TheMagicSN' Häuser, who is working on AmigaOS 4 ports of the games Heretic II and Sin, at the title link. (snx)
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27.Dec.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Review of December 2023
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS news for the month of December at the title link. (snx)
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27.Dec.2023
Nicola Morocutti (ANF)
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Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 17
The seventeenth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available with 50 color pages both as a booklet and digitally, deals with the following topics:
- Games Reviews: Crimbo, STAR WARS: Dark Forces, L’Abbaye des Morts, Death Rally, Emerald Caves, Rally Cross, Project Quest, Super Bagman, Hop to the top: Bunny’s Revenge
- Reviews: IBrowse 3.0, zTools
- Interview: A man called CLOANTO
- Hardware: Greaseweazle and Waffle
- Amiga GCC – Not only Amiga…
- Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Demo Scene, Back Chat
(snx)
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27.Dec.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 153 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about 1000cc Turbo and Frogger500. (snx)
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27.Dec.2023
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8/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2023-12-26
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. Changes:
- improves support for Apple II NIB images;
- thanks to @ryandesign corrects Apple II/II+/IIe floating bus issues;
- resolves a potential crash-at-startup for the Enterprise;
- resolves potential stuck-on drive motors on the Amiga;
- resolves some disk writing issues specific to the Enhanced Apple IIe;
- thanks again to @ryandesign also corrects an internal optimisation around Disk II write protection sensing, and an error to do with data bus loading
- adds emulation of the most basic form of IBM PC — an 8086 compatible with MDA or CGA graphics and a floppy drive.
(dr)
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27.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Santa and the Goblin
Havsoft' has also contributed a Christmas game: based on the Atari game Dragonfire and written in Blitz Basic 2, you have to help Father Christmas get his presents back by storming the castle and then collecting them (YouTube video) (dr)
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27.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Deck the Drones
'Amiga Cammy' decided on 23 December to write a Christmas game for my Amiga in the hope of finishing it by Christmas Day. It didn't quite work out, but she would like to share the first playable level with everyone and thus contribute to a successful Christmas. In this platform game (YouTube video), the player must retrieve the stolen Christmas presents from mysteriously reprogrammed delivery drones. (dr)
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26.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Videoplayer MPLayer 1.5RC2
A team of several developers has published a second release candidate of version 1.5 of the video player MPlayer for AmigaOS 4. This version is based on the official MPlayer 1.5 source code, merging code from LiveForIt-MPlayer, MickJT-MPlayer and Andrea Palmatè's MPlayer ports, with several additional changes and improvements. (dr)
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26.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Music tracker Protrekkr 2.6.3r1
Protrekkr (formerly marketed as "NoiseTrekker") is an SDL-based music programme that combines a software synthesiser with a traditional sample-based tracker. Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has now published a first release candidate for version 2.6.3, which is based on the official Protrekkr 2.6.3 source code and on the previous port (version 2.5.5) by Fredrik Wikström. (dr)
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