19.Dec.2023
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DIY: Update of N2630 expansion board for Amiga 2000
At the beginning of November, developer Jason 'jasonsbeer' Neus released revision 4.0.1 of his evolution, called N2630, of the original Commodore A2630-Erweiterungskarte (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has pushed some updates to the Github repository: these changes improve performance by enabling burst support for the Zorro 3 RAM and removing the Gayle interface in favour of LIDE.device. As he writes, these updates are not required, but are strongly recommended.
Steps to upgrade:
(dr)
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19.Dec.2023
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CS-Lab: Accelerator board Warp 4060 in progress
As CS-Lab writes in a short entry under the title link, the Warp 4060 turbo card, which was actually announced for 2022, is still in progress: a few bugs still need to be fixed from the first prototype. (dr)
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18.Dec.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: World of Commodore - Video greetings from Babylon 5 actors
At the beginning of the month, this year's "World of Commodore" took place in Toronto, Canada. At this event, two of the Babylon 5 main actors, Bruce Boxleitner ("John Sheridan", video) und Claudia Christian ("Susan Ivanova", video), sent video messages in which they talked about their impressions of the computer technology of the time.
As we know, Amigas were used back then - thirty years ago - in contrast to the use of models, which was still common at the time. The visual effects for the Babylon 5 pilot were created by a studio called Foundation Imaging, founded by Ron Thornton and Paul Beigle-Bryant, which used a series of Commodore Amiga computers and NewTek video toaster technology. For its work on the pilot, Foundation Imaging won the 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects. (snx)
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18.Dec.2023
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Tetris port: Tetris1200 (beta version)
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has ported another game for the Amiga: This time Tetris by Atari Games. According to the author, music still has to be improved and the adf version currently crashes on an A1200/020. (dr)
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17.Dec.2023
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Aminet uploads until 16.12.2023
The following files have been added until 16.12.2023 to Aminet:
lubricator.lha comm/www 74K 68k GUI HTTP search/download + di...
dyn_kwadraty_4th_deg.lha dev/amos 4K example of least squares method
dynamic_bezier.lha dev/amos 2K example of bezier curves
dynamiczna_hiperbola.lha dev/amos 1K hyperbole targetted through t...
dynamiczne_kwadraty.lha dev/amos 2K example of least squares method
dynamiczne_wielomiany... dev/amos 2K example of targetted polynomial
suwane_punkty.lha dev/amos 1K Displays 14 points to be move...
HWP_APNG.lha dev/hwood 1.3M ALL Hollywood plugin for APNG anims
HWP_Plananarama.lha dev/hwood 462K 68k Run Hollywood scripts on plan...
GitDesktop.lha dev/misc 1.3M MOS Graphical git frontend
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
WormWars.lha game/actio 881K 68k Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 928K MOS Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake/Tron game
EDF_Special_0.04_BIN.lha game/misc 65M 68k E.D.F. Special DEMO v0.04 alpha
EDF_Special_0.04_NERO... game/misc 65M 68k E.D.F. Special DEMO v0.04 alpha
MirrorRedPill.lha game/misc 390K 68k Control two robots simultaneo...
StefADV.lha game/text 52K 68k Little italian text adventure
StefADV2.lha game/text 65K 68k 2nd little italian text adven...
mariaconv.lha gfx/conv 40K 68k Convert images to/from Maria'...
WhatIFF2.12.lha mags/misc 1.9M What IFF? #2.12-December-2023
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.9M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
SantaShoemaker.lha mods/8voic 207K Christmas Theme 16bit 6ch by ...
CompressionOS4.lha text/dtp 2.2M OS4 A PDF generator
XPDF-GUI_1.1.lha text/misc 11M MOS A GUI for XPDF Suite
AmiWeatherForecasts1.... util/app 41K 68k Weather forecasting application
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 15M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
AnalogClock.lha util/time 40K 68k Resizeable analog transparent...
Quick_1.1.lha util/wb 1.5M MOS A software launch manager
(snx)
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17.Dec.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 16.12.2023
The following files have been added until 16.12.2023 to OS4Depot:
nallepuh.lha aud/mis 504kb 4.1 Nalle Puh (Paula,CIAA,CIAB emula...
seq.lha aud/mis 425kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake/Tron game
woof.lha gam/fps 13Mb 4.1 A continuation of Lee Killough&#...
hwp_apng.lha lib/hol 1Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for APNG anims
hwp_plananarama.lha lib/hol 462kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for planar screen
compression.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.0 A PDF generator
ffmpeggui.lha vid/con 248kb 4.1 A GUI for the ffmpeg video conve...
simplesub.lha vid/mis 21Mb 4.1 Create, edit and encode .srt sub...
yt.lha vid/mis 830kb 4.1 YouTube URL Extractor script
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17.Dec.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 16.12.2023
The following files have been added until 16.12.2023 to AROS Archives:
apng_amiga.lha dev/lib 1Mb Library Plugin For Hollywood App...
xpdf-gui.i386-aros.zip off/dtp 7Mb Gui for XPDFTools Suite
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17.Dec.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.12.2023
The following files have been added until 16.12.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Quick_1.2.lha Ambient/Launchbar A software launch manager
APNG_1.3.lha Dependencies/Hollywood Hollywood plugin for AP...
GitDesktop_0.11.31.lha Development/Tools A graphical git fronten...
WormWars_9.34.lha Games/Action Advanced snake game by ...
CircusLinux.lha Games/BrickBreaker Based on the Atari 2600...
Abombniball.lha Games/Think Based on a game of the ...
BootClock_1.50.lha Misc A little and easy progr...
Wayfarer_7.1.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
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17.Dec.2023
Amigasystem (ANF)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 2.3 (x86)
The distribution "AROS One" (Screenshot), which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.3 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings can also be found.
It is claimed to be the most stable AROS x86 version to date, with many bug fixes concerning Wanderer and hardware compatibility - the list of which has also been revised in the meantime. A clean installation of the distribution is recommended. A list of the new features can be found in the forum of AROSWorld. (snx)
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17.Dec.2023
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Platform game: NinjFeratu AGA V1.2
Following the version for ECS Amigas, Amiten Games has now also released an AGA version of NinjFeratu (YouTube video, Italian), which is currently available for at least 5.95 Euros. (dr)
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17.Dec.2023
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Point'n-Click adventure: Demo version of MonkeyEye
After Holiday and Beat Cancer, "MonkeyEye" is the third game from 'lifeschool22': a reminiscence of Monkey Island, which was created with CanDo V3. Basically, the developer wanted to find out whether it was possible to create a point'n'click adventure with CanDo. MonkeyEye is labelled as a demo version, as only 4 control panels work. Otherwise, the game would have slowed down considerably. In addition, according to the developer, the code still contains many errors, which is why it is included in the archive and everyone is invited to improve it. An Amiga with Kickstart 3.0 or higher is required. (dr)
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16.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Creating PDFs with "Compression" V0.20 (beta version)
In addition to the ignition spreadsheet and the LüttjeBookholler financial management software, Achim Pankalla is also working on a third project: similar to a DTP programme, Compression allows text and graphics to be set and the document, for example a manual, then output in PDF format. A German manual is included in the "Extra" folder, the tools ZIP and UnZIP are required. Changes since version 0.10:
- It is possible to set temp directory
- Better handling for text and graphic elements
- Many improvements in the user-interface
- Many little corrections
- PDF settings now available
- Filtering of loaded text files for editor
- Solved problems with spaces in file-path and scripts
- Now list of content are implemented
- Now CompressionOS4 supports spellchecking with iSpell
(dr)
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16.Dec.2023
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Shoot 'em Up: "Amiga E.D.F." V0.04 (alpha version with demo)
The developer 'S0Y' (among others Temptations port for the CD32) has taken a look at the Shoot 'em Up Earth Defense Force, originally released for the SNES, and tested if an implementation and continuation on Amiga-AGA computers would be possible (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has not only published a new video, but also an early alpha demo version on his website: a CD32 emulator is included in the archives, so that any AGA Amiga with FastRAM can run the game (CD/DVD drive required). (dr)
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16.Dec.2023
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Receiving disk images via HTTP and writing them on disk: Lubricator 2.3
"Lubricator" written by Timm 'bifat' Mueller loads disk images from the World Wide Web and writes them on an Amiga disk using an Amiga with only 1 MB RAM and without harddrive. New since version 2.0:
- Added READ argument for reading disks to files locally, requested by Henne/AC; improved determination of local filenames from URLs; host header did not provide port numbers, fixed in httpclient.library 4.3. Node.js proxy server examples added.
- Unpacking of archives could hang during icon creation, fixed; did not actually set the agent string to Lubricator, fixed with httpclient.library 4.1
- Added command-line UNPACK feature; can now download and unpack to a destination directory from command-line; command-line exits with WARN if a destination file or unpack directory already exists; fixed \\ and \" escaping in parser; reduced memory consumption for DMS unpacking; fixed minor quirks in documentation generator; improved error reporting and output in command-line disk writing; some cleanup in initialization and exception handling; tries to no longer overwrite a drawer icon provided by an archive
(dr)
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16.Dec.2023
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.5
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. This new version of Amiberry provides many new functions, especially in the area of I/O ports. MIDI devices are now supported with the help of the portmidi library. This library is now required.
In addition, MIDI emulation in the form of MT-32 (using the munt library) is now also available. The library is included in Amiberry, but the required MT-32 ROMs are not.
In addition, support for the serial interface has been improved and support for the parallel interface has been added (initially only with VPAR), AHI playback has been corrected and much more. The changes in detail:
Bugfixes
- Fixed AHI playback, which wasn't working 100% until now
- Fixed incorrect A600HD ROM identifier, in WHDBooter
- Validate config after command line parsing.
- Fix FABS(-0)
- Do not close audio streams when audio settings change
- Fix AUDPER=1 unreliable interrupts
- Clear also blitter_cycle_exact when switching to JIT mode
- remove duplicate parsing of amiberry options
- Quickstart options and floppy drives
- Added missing memory bank deallocations.
- Fix 800% disk mode crash.
- Fixed crash when opening MIDI device
- Sync macOS icon with Linux one
- GUI would not update on all events in some places
- OpenGL option would fail on vkbd
Improvements
- Implemented physical MIDI and MIDI emulation (MT-32) support
- Improved serial port support
- Implemented support for virtual Parallel ports
- Implemented support for AMAX
- Implemented support for Arcadia platforms
- Implemented support for Casablanca platforms
- Keep a backup of config files when overwriting
- Scan for ROMs recursively
- The GUI colors and font are now configurable
- New command line option, -v or --version
- Added DBUS support, to control Amiberry from other applications
- Initialize Savestates on startup
- Do not check mousehack state if emulation is going to exit
- added P96 ModeChanged checks
- Do not detect monitor as changed if monitor is not attached to any graphics board.
- Do delayed insert also if disk was ejected first and then immediately new disk is inserted.
- Skip also CD32 fast CPU ROM patch if ROM is smaller than 512k
- bring sound/audio closer to preview status
- memory Chipmem noise implemented
- Improved newcpu handling of separate thread
(dr)
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15.Dec.2023
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Games for graphics card: Sky Tower and Börd updated
Sami Vehmaa has updated two of his arcade games written with AmiBlitz for owners of graphics cards (amiga-news.de reported):
Sky Tower can now be played with Christmas themes and is also now optimally playable under Apollo accelerator systems. The aim of this game is to stack parts of a tower with good timing (YouTube video).
Börd is a Flappy Bird clone and has now also been optimised for Apollo systems (YouTube video). (dr)
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14.Dec.2023
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Video: Kevin Saunders' review of the year
In a short video, graphic artist and designer Kevin Saunders looks back on the year 2023 and shows excerpts from his projects. (dr)
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14.Dec.2023
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THEA500 Mini: Firmware 1.2.1 released
Retro Games Ltd. has released the new firmware 1.2.1 for "THEA500 Mini", its replica of an Amiga 500. The changes:
- Adds additional game Time Bandit
- Adds support for custom controller configurations
- Corrects the speed of Amiga 500 WHDLoad games that could run too quickly
- Allows a second controller to be used with ADF files
- Fixes issue where a USB stick can appear corrupt after removing from THEA500 Mini
- Improves game action translations
- Minor bug fixes
There is also a detailed description of the changes.
(dr)
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14.Dec.2023
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AROS: "Irritating bug of the month" December fixed
In the poll for the "Irritating bug of the month" for December (amiga-news.de reported), the problem was chosen that Wanderer could not change the capitalisation of folder or file names without changing the name. AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has solved this problem: it should now be possible to change this under RAM, SFS and FAT.
(dr)
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14.Dec.2023
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MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.11.31
Rafał Zabdyr has released a third beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required. The following features have been added:
- publish branch
- open "home" page in web browser for GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket repositories
- open "create new issue" page in web browser for GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket repositories
- open "compare branch", "view branch", "create Pull Request" page in web browser for GitHub repositories
- publish branch
- checkout given commit
- configure global git options (user name, user email, default branch name)
- configure local (per repository) git options (user name, user email)
- copy author/hash/message of given commit to clipboard
- copy file path or file relative path to clipboard
- open new shell for given repository path
- open repository path via external editor -> Flow Studio
(dr)
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13.Dec.2023
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.1
One week after Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek released version 7.0 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS, the author has now provided an update that fixes some problems and bugs:
- Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.42.3
- Fixed a network thread deadlock when resuming downloads
- Changed the '+' button to always adds tabs at the end
- URL bar would stay empty when moving a tab to a new window, fixed
- Selection redraw issues fixed
- Added Save Screenshot to the Debug menu
- Worked around and fixed reported crashes
Download: wayfarer.lha (35 MB) (dr)
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