01.Nov.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: Aurora Mystica
'Amiga Cammy' has written "Aurora Mystica" in E for the Amiga Tool Jam: after starting it, a picture opens and random quotes are displayed. MUI is required. (dr)
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01.Nov.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: Colour Mapper
'LateBit' has written "Colour Mapper" for the Amiga Tool Jam: a tool for the Workbench that can reduce the number of colours in an image. It is aimed at programmers who create their graphics for Amiga games under Windows, for example with software like Pro Motion NG, and then export them. Currently, only iff images with 256 colours can be exported here. (dr)
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31.Oct.2023
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for October
For the month of October 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)
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31.Oct.2023
PixorraGames
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Platform game: Agonman V0.99
Agonman is a platform game inspired by a picture by Edwin van den Heuvel and the Psygnosis game Agony and is supposed to be a homage to the game studio (YouTube video). It was created with the Game Construction Kit RedPill in 16 colours. A version with 32 colours is in the pipeline. (dr)
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31.Oct.2023
Christian Zigotzky (E-Mail)
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Linux: Kernel 6.6 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.6, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests.
Download: linux-image-6.6-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (60 MB) (dr)
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31.Oct.2023
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.27
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.98, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
The new version 0.9.27 now has extensive documentation in both AmigaGuide and HTML format. Likewise, some corrections and optimisations have been made. The changes:
- Remap action trigger added to modify certain frames of the animation.
- Added a level string for each level, right now it is only like a comment for levels.
- When creating the WHDLoad package now you are asked about the slave to use.
- Multiple fixes when changing from level to level in the editor, palette and copper.
- Now you can set the minimum amount of Chip or Fast memory for your game.
- Optimization for loading levels, also reducing the possible glitches when changing level.
- Optimization in scroll routines.
- Changed ptplayer routine to the E-Penguin one.
- Added option to remove cross in the animation menu.
- Pressing fire during text printing speed up the printing.
- Mouse button can be used to close dialogs.
- Fix for dialogs when no scroll is used.
- Fix in use of gradient image for copper background.
- Fix in Answer Question trigger.
- Fix when merging image palette and sprite palette.
- Fix in instantiate attached trigger not getting the right side.
- Fix in the editor when changing to static no non static.
- Fix in turn back not being triggered.
- Fix for QR code in the main screen to find online documentation.
(dr)
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30.Oct.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: WhiteboardAGA
For the Amiga Tool Jam, Alys Medi Jones has released WhiteboardAGA for AmigaOS 3 using Hollywood: a whiteboard on which you can draw and write freely. The tool requires the AGA chipset and 4 MB RAM, the codesets.library V6.21 and the Plananarama-Plugin for Hollywood. (dr)
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30.Oct.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: SORThodontist
'Fab Dynamic' has written "SORThodontist" in E for the Amiga Tool Jam, which is used to sort lists consisting of one item per line according to personal preferences. To do this, click on the file whose contents are to be sorted and then double-click on it while holding down the Shift key to start the tool. "SORThodontist" was tested under AmigaOS 2.1 as well as 3.1.
The author has added some examples to the archive, such as the best Amiga adventure games or the best cinema films of the 80s. (dr)
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30.Oct.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: AmiAuthenticator v1.0.2 (update)
AmiAuthenticator was also written for the Amiga Tool Jam and is a 2FA (two-factor authentication) code generator for the Amiga that is compatible with many websites that use 2FA. It generates TOTP (Time based one time passwords) codes with SHA1 or SHA256. Similar (non-Amiga) applications are Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator and FreeOTP. These codes can be used to secure access to various websites, e.g. GitHub, LastPass, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram.
Depending on preference or installed GUI, the tool can be started as a MUI-, ReAction- or Gadtools-based version. All versions require at least Kickstart/Workbench 2.0. Since a UTC time source is needed, it is important that the system clock is set accurately and it is preferable to have a real-time clock installed or to synchronise the system with the internet. The source code is available on GitHub.
Update: (31.10.2023, 21:00, dr)
Version 1.02 released:
- fixed invalid memory access error on first startup causing a crash for some users
- the items saving was completely broken and was saving blank string
Direct download: AmiAuthenticator-1.0.2.lha (75 KB) (dr)
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30.Oct.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: DrawerGenie
For the Amiga Tool Jam, which ends tomorrow, numerous contributions have been submitted recently, which we would like to present briefly in individual messages.
Originally running under the working title "Drawer Helper" (amiga-news.de reported), Rob 'daedalus2097' Cranley has released the commodity "DrawerGenie" for AmigaOS 3.5 or higher. DrawerGenie allows you to add simple toolbars to the Workbench drawer windows. These provide some simple DOpus-like Workbench functions, such as defining a target window and sending selected files to it, copying and pasting files, switching view modes, sorting files, handling archives and more. File operations show a progress bar, are asynchronous and can be cancelled.
Drawer Helper was written in AmiBlitz, the source code is available on GitHub.
Direct download: DrawerGenie.lha (158 KB) (dr)
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29.Oct.2023
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8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal v2023-10-29
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.
Today, version v2023-10-29 was released. Changes:
- includes fixes to the sequence of addresses accessed by the Apple II for video generation, correcting broken instances of vapour lock;
- includes further build-system fixes that reintroduce support for macOS 10.13; and
- corrects address generation logic for the undocumented 6502 instructions SHS, SHX, SHY and SHA.
(dr)
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29.Oct.2023
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Weather data: AmiWeatherForecasts V1.1
AmiWeatherForecasts is a weather forecasting application that provides the latest weather information for any location. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather.
The weather forecast information is automatically updated every 15 minutes, but can be updated immediately if required via the menu Tool/Update. (dr)
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29.Oct.2023
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Tool: identify-library 43.2
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 43.2 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
- AmigaOS 3.2.2 wasn't detected if installed as module
- Added more manufacturers and boards
Downloads:
IdentifyDev.lha (67 kB)
IdentifyUsr.lha (100 kB) (dr)
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29.Oct.2023
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Italian Print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 16
The sixteenth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available as usual with 48 colour pages both as a booklet and as a PDF file, deals with the following topics:
- Videogames: Reshoot Proxima 3, C64 The Mystery Box, Boxx 2, Boxx 3, Bagman500, Beat Cancer and Empire Protector
- Reviews: Commodore Computers - Rarities, The Amiga Years
- Reportage Amiga Passion Day 2023
- Amiga 38 Reportage
- Hardware: Shaffle
- Tech: Amiga GCC - Amiga C
- Blender course, part 8
- AmigaOS 4.1 for the office
- Interview with Ján Zahurančík, AmiKit
- Plus: Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Demo Scene, New Talents, Readers' Mail
(dr)
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29.Oct.2023
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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). The current update adds the fourth level and improves the controls. (dr)
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29.Oct.2023
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Demo: "Castlevania AGA" now with 15 stages
Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally named "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). The game, now called "Castlevania AGA", has a total of 15 stages with many new enemies. (dr)
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29.Oct.2023
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Aminet uploads until 28.10.2023
The following files have been added until 28.10.2023 to Aminet:
girubrica.lha biz/dbase 267K 68k Digital address book
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/amos 38K 21 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/blitz 38K 21 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 113K 68k P96 Preferences Editor
Capitan_Trueno.lha game/actio 1.0M 68k El Capitan Trueno
Capitan_Trueno_WHDLOA... game/actio 1.0M 68k El Capitan Trueno
RescueLander.lha game/actio 59K 68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
pngcrush-m68k.lha gfx/misc 167K 68k An optimizer for PNG files
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
VampireLovers.lha mods/8voic 1.6M 16bit 8ch Jazz Waltz by HKvalhe
neatvi.lha text/edit 135K MOS Neat vi clone
neatroff.lha text/misc 164K MOS Neat troff clone
gimore.lha text/show 11K 68k Text Viewer
sysvars.lha util/boot 7K 68k Put system information in env...
tree-mos.lha util/dir 155K 68k Display a tree view of direct...
AmiSSL-5.12-OS3.lha util/libs 3.4M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.12-OS4.lha util/libs 3.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.12-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
Mnemosyne.lha util/misc 76K 68k Disk usage statistics+file/fo...
UHCGUI-Test.lha util/wb 90K 68k GUI frontend for the UHC-Tool...
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29.Oct.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 28.10.2023
The following files have been added until 28.10.2023 to OS4Depot:
nallepuh.lha aud/mis 428kb 4.1 Nalle Puh (Paula,CIAA,CIAB emula...
pt2_clone.lha aud/tra 13Mb 4.1 Ported clone of Protracker II
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
synergy_mm.lha net/ser 642b 4.1 Force Synergy to send mouse move...
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29.Oct.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.10.2023
The following files have been added until 28.10.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Tree_2.1.1.lha Files/Dir Display a tree view of ...
wipEout_1.0.2.lha Games/Race wipEout Rewrite - port ...
FPCMines_1.1.lha Games/Think A minesweeper clone for...
Wayfarer_6.5.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
Neatroff.lha Text/Misc An implementation of tr...
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29.Oct.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.10.2023
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 28.10.2023:
(snx)
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29.Oct.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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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:
- Unsuspected Puost
- Cadaver Main Theme Music (Remake)
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