05.Sep.2023
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Image editor: PyDPainter 1.2.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS
The image editor PyDPainter (YouTube video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as easy to use as possible (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 1.2.1:
Issues fixed
- Frequent crashes after multiple undos
- Add variations on the Brush tool
- Smooth mode available in fill tools
- Cursor rendering problem on M1 Mac
- Coordinates indication request
- Color change / Remap
- Implement Tint drawmode
- File requestor Type button disabled when it shouldn't be
- Revert to last save
- Broken image link in plasma tutorial
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05.Sep.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.17, Contacts 1.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.17 his e-mail client Iris and version 1.0 of the contact manager Contacts for MorphOS. The all new Contacts application supports synchronizing contacts from CardDav services, including Google Contacts, iCloud Contacts or any other compatible service like Runbox, Synology, etc. When set up, Iris will link the email addresses to Contacts in order to display any configured photos and other details. Contacts are also used to provide better matches when filling out addresses in To/CC/BCC fields.
Contacts will automatically be installed in the same directory as Iris when you auto-update to 1.17. Detailed changes:
- Iris now comes with a brand new Contacts application
- In email viewer, the gray circle with sender's initials will show his photo if you have one configured in your contacts, including remote images from Google Contacts or iCloud contacts. Clicking on the circle will bring up the contact in Contacts application or show an Add Contact window
- Email address auto-complete will perform lookups of your contacts and prioritize the results
- Right clicking on an email in the address string will let you open the associated contact
- Added a workaround for broken servers that don't handle message ID messagesets correctly in IMAP FETCH command
- Fixes in the email autocomplete string class
- Implemented support for List-Unsubscribe MIME header
- HTML text editor tweaks
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04.Sep.2023
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Italian magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 15
The 15th issue of the Italian publication "Passione Amiga" - 48 pages in color, available as a PDF download or as a printed magazine - features the following topics:
- Videogiochi: Boxx, Rogue Declan Zero, Pengo500, Night/Shift, Pleiades 3D, Jack in the Pit, Holiday
- Recensioni: From Vultures to Vampires – volume 2, Chris Huelsbeck – The Piano Collection Volume II
- Anteprima Passione Amiga day 2023
- Speciale AmiGameJam 2022
- Tech: Alla ricerca del controller perduto, Prototipo scheda acceleratrice 68040 per Amiga 3000
- Tech: Amiga GCC, organizzazione dei progetti
- Corso di Blender, parte 7
- Interviste a: Andy Davidson e Michal Bergseth
- E inoltre: Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Scena Demo, Nuovi Talenti, La Posta dei Lettori
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04.Sep.2023
viddi (ANF)
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Action RPGs: Entire Gorluth saga available from itch.io
Recently the third part of the 'Tales of Gorluth' saga was made available via itch.io, now the first two installments of the series as well as the spin-off 'Heroes of Gorluth' can be found there as well. The very first 'Gorluth' game is available for free, the other parts can be purchased for 5,55 ¤. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.Sep.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 164
The English and German issue 164 (September/October 2023) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Starting with Amiga Future 163, the magazine now has 60 instead of 52 pages.
Content of the current issue:
- Interview Christian Wiegel (Settle The World) Part 2
- Show Report Retcon Gaming festival 2023
- Show Report Kickstart 01
- Amiga 38 preview
- Preview Castlevania AGA
- Preview Hamulet
- Preview Bulbmaster
- Review Night/Shift - A Cyberpunk Adventure
- Review Board game vs Amiga - Monopoly
- Review Absolute Zero
- Review Commodore: The Inside Story
- Review Amiblaster Deluxe
- Review TF 1260
- Special Trevors Soapbox
- Special A1222+ Part 1
- Special Demoscene
- Workshop Pagestream Part 2
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04.Sep.2023
Entwickler (ANF)
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Virtual Enemies Devlog #3 - Language system finished
The developers of the upcoming strategical Virtual Enemies have posted another entry to their developer's diary, this one describing the localisation of the game. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.Sep.2023
Willem Drijver (Apollo Team) (ANF)
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Apollo team working on a port of "Robin Hood: Legend of Sherwood"
Willem Drijver from the Apollo team informs us that the team is working on porting the Realtime Strategical Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood to the Apollo hardware. The game was published in 2002 for Windows and ported to MorphOS by e.p.i.c. / Runesoft in 2006. When approached by amiga-news.de, Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo team), who was involved in the MorphOS port back then, confirms that the team is in contact with the rightsholders and that the intention is to distribute the Apollo version of Robin Hood commercially.
Drijver has published a video showcasing the current state of the project, he describes the work done on the "experimental exercise" (Drijver) so far as follows:
"RHLOS is a great RPG game from SpellBound released in 2002 and intended for Pentium PCs (233Mhz/64Mb). Current stage of the project is that we have succeeded in getting the game somewhat up-and-running on V4. The FPS is obviously not on the level that we would like it to be, but basic gameplay is already possible...
For compiling we used the ApolloCrossDev setup for Linux which is another (beta) project from Apollo team. Graphics routines are changed from SDL based APIs to native Apollo Blit and Scroll routines, partly in Assembler. Sound routines are also rewritten and are now using Apollo Arne instead of SDL. There is still some work to be done on the mixer and effect routines, but we are confident to make that work also.
There is still a lot of work to be done to get RHLOS up to a level where it could be released in any form or shape. But we share this first results with you with the intention to raise interests within the Amiga (development) community. If you feel you have the skills and time to help us in this project, we are looking for you to join us! (please PM me on Discord @WillemDrijver)." (cg) (Translation: cg)
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03.Sep.2023
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Aminet uploads until 02.09.2023
The following files have been added until 02.09.2023 to Aminet:
DCAPSPhonk.lha demo/aga 768K 68k Dreamolers Phonk! (Revision 2...
DCAPSIntro64kB.lha demo/intro 123K 68k Dreamolers Intro64kB (Revisio...
ADV-ITA.lha dev/amos 130K Italian adventures creator
less-mos.lha dev/gg 1.3M 68k Viewer program similar to "more"
alt-intl.lha driver/inp 2K alt-intl keymap
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 10K 2023 Carset for F1GP
tfe-darkforces.lha game/shoot 3.3M 68k Dark Forces Amiga Port
GolfSolitaire.lha game/think 2.9M 68k Golf solitaire card game
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
CEB.lha misc/math 136K 68k Solves a 'Countdown' arithmet...
CrazyWorld.lha mods/misc 125K 4ch 16bit Punk Rock by HKvalhe
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mus/misc 235K Some samples created by Sampl...
PDF2JPG.lha util/conv 15M 68k convert PDF to JPG
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.8M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
iGame.lha util/misc 434K 68k Front-end for WHDLoad
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03.Sep.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.09.2023
The following files have been added until 02.09.2023 to OS4Depot:
libfdk-aac.lha dev/lib 14Mb 4.1 Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library
libspeex.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 A free codec for free speech
libxvidcore.lha dev/lib 1009k 4.1 MPEG-4 Simple and Advanced Simpl...
ahi-handler.lha dri/han 23kb 4.0 AHI-handler (AUDIO:)
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
libxml2.lha lib/xml 10Mb 4.1 The XML C parser and toolkit of ...
igame.lha uti/mis 434kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
pdf2jpg.lha uti/mis 15Mb 4.0 Convert PDF to JPG
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03.Sep.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.09.2023
The following files have been added until 02.09.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
LUA-MUI.lha Development/LUA LUA-MUI.lha
AmiArcadia_30.10.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
PDF2JPG_1.1.lha Office/Convert Convert PDF to JPG
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03.Sep.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.09.2023
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 02.09.2023:
- 2023-09-01 updated: Crayon Shinchan (Melon Dezign) patch rewritten, interrupt problems fixed, out of bounds blit fixed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, 68000 quitkey support, patch works with 0.5 MB chip memory now (Info, Image)
- 2023-08-31 updated: The Sword and the Rose (Code Masters) original game version is now supported, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info)
- 2023-08-31 fixed: Kingdoms of England (Incognito Software) protection track removal code fixed, game works without disk in drive now (Info)
- 2023-08-31 improved: Astro Marine Corps (Dinamic) new install script, all known versions should be supported now (Info)
- 2023-08-30 improved: Kingdoms of England (Incognito Software) slave assembled in release mode (no functional changes) (Info)
- 2023-08-30 new: Kingdoms of England (Incognito Software) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2023-08-29 fixed: Twintris (Digital Marketing) a blitwait added in game to avoid gfx bug on very fast amiga (Info)
- 2023-08-29 improved: Hole In One (Digitek) supports another version (Info)
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03.Sep.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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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:
- Syndicate Intro (F03s Junglist Remix)
- Stardust Memories
- B@TTL3 S&UDR0N - Title -TeChK0
- Battle Squadron - Etheral Aucoustic -End Game
- Street Fighter 2 Guiles Theme Rock Live Performance
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02.Sep.2023
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- News from July/August 2023
- Old articles from Génération 4 1 to 3:
- Story on software and graphics peripherals on the Amiga (1985-1987)
- Review of Space Quest 2
- News: What game publishers have in store for us
- Reviews of Western Games, Astérix And The Magic Carpet, Terrorpods, Tracker, Impact!
- Comparison: Console or computer? etc
- Interview with Jean-Philippe Derrien (computer graphics designer and former editor of Ami-GraphX)
- Interview with Phillip Nixon (graphist of Oscar)
- Review of Green Beret
- Hardware: RGB2HDMI for A500
- The best of Byte from August to October 1985
- Story: Andy Warhol and the Amiga
- Story: Behind the scenes of the development of Fire & Ice
- Story: The history of Genias
- Story: AAA - Advanced Amiga Architecture (update)
- Tutorial: Installation of AmigaOS 4.1 on QEMU 8.1
- Tutorial: Quick start guide for new A1222 users
- Tutorial: Using MIDI on MorphOS
- Special quiz for Amiga super beginners
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02.Sep.2023
viddi (ANF)
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Action-RPG: Digital distribution of "Tales of Gorluth III"
The Action RPG Tales of Gorluth III, which was published in December 2021, is now also available as a Download from itch.io. (cg)
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01.Sep.2023
GitHub
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.3
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.3 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:
- Fixed memory leaks
- Fixed the lists getting wrong values when overflow
Direct download: iGame-v2.4.3-20230901.lha (434 Kb) (dr)
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01.Sep.2023
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Video: "From Vultures to Vampires" from AmigaOS 4 view
In his latest video Roman 'kas1e' Kargin dedicates himself to the first two already published volumes of the three-part book series "From Vultures to Vampires" on Amiga history, written by former Commodore-UK manager David Pleasance and by A-EON-Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson (volume 1, (volume 2) and reports to what extent it is worth reading from the point of view of AmigaOS 4. (dr)
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01.Sep.2023
Amigaland.de
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Space game: Pleiades 3D
In "Pleiades 3D" you help Alice, a girl stranded in the Pleiades star cluster, find her way back to Earth (YouTube video). In the process, you have to navigate through space, collect powerful "ray stones" and unlock the engines of the Alcyone space station to bring her back home.
An Amiga 1200 with 4 MB RAM is required. (dr)
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01.Sep.2023
Hyperion-Entertainment-Forum
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Linux: Quake mods under Fienix
Casey Cullen, developer of the Linux PowerPC distribution Fienix, which is also available for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000, among others, has started a sub-project called "Quasco", with which one can play various Quake mods from within Fienix without having to have Quake itself installed. With Quasco, popular mods like Alkaline and Arcane Dimensions can be installed via Synaptic or apt. Cullen shows an example in a YouTube video using Alkaline. (dr)
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01.Sep.2023
Christian Zigotzky (E-Mail)
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Linux: Kernel 6.5 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.5, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests.
Download: linux-image-6.5-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (60 MB) (dr)
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01.Sep.2023
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for August
For the month of August '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.Aug.2023
itch.io
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Frogger clone: Frogger (beta version 2)
Frogger (YouTube video) is supposed to be a 1:1 conversion of the 1981 Konam game (amiga-news.de reported). Now a second beta version has been released with the following changes:
- a handful of sound fx
- Joystick on port 2 is supported
- removed some logical bugs
- Increased game stability on A600/A1200
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