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29.Oct.2023



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



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



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



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



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



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...
(snx)

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29.Oct.2023



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...
(snx)

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29.Oct.2023



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...
(snx)

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29.Oct.2023



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)


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)
(snx)

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29.Oct.2023
BBS Index (ANF)


Event: Video report from Amiga38 by BBS Index (German)
Another German video report from Amiga38, which took place October 6/7 in Mönchengladbach, Germany, has been released by BBS Index at the title link.

Interviews:
  • Simon Neumann (Alinea Computer)
  • R.J. Mical (Amiga developer)
  • Beth Richard (AmigaCD³² developer)
  • Kudrix (demoscene member)
  • Chris Hülsbeck (musician)
  • Hans Ippisch (video games icon)
  • Trevor Dickinson (A-EON)
  • Markus Tillmann (host)
Special Apperance: Ravenlordress/TLF (LeChuck/Guybrush Threepwood) (snx)

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29.Oct.2023
Robosaurus Spielothek (ANF)


Soundtrack of the Amiga38 report by Robosaurus Spielothek available
Dominic Ortmanns of Robosaurus Spielothek writes: "A few people had asked if one can get the song from the credits of my Amiga38 video somewhere. That is possible now! We have set up an extra page for it at the title link.

The song can be downloaded for free and listened to and used as you like. If someone likes it so much that they want to support the artist in upcoming developments, there's also a Paypal donation link there. Have fun with it!" (snx)

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29.Oct.2023



Browser extension: AGuide Viewer 0.3
AGuide Viewer is an open source reader for AmigaGuide documents implemented as a browser extension. It works with Firefox and Chromium on all platforms (amiga-news.de reported).
The project moved from GitHub to Sourceforge. Version 0.3 handles an exception that could occur when scanning a page to determine if it is an Amigaguide document. (dr)

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29.Oct.2023



Tool: Mnemosyne shows used harddisk space (update)
Mnemosyne is a tool for AmigaOS 3.x that shows how much space files and folders take up on the hard disk. It is supposed to help manage the space on the hard disk better. Mnemosyne is written in C and uses ReAction. ClassAct is required under AmigaOS 3.1 and 3.1.4.

Update: (30.10.2023, 21:40, dr)

Version 1.1.0 has been released. Changes:
  • Added -g flag to open a window for scans from the shell.
  • Using proper Semantic Versioning now.
  • Current version moving to 1.0.2 -> 1.1.0
  • Made Mnemosyne program from: 32.440B to 32.504B
  • New Guide images updated to fit the version
  • .guide finally has a proper icon now.
  • Fixed Duplications in scanning procedure code.
  • Prevent wrongful appending of file path.
(dr)

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28.Oct.2023



Floppy emulator: GoDrive600 and GoDrive1200
Already at Kickstart 01, DigitalRetroBay presented its floppy emulator GoDrive, which is available as GoDrive600 for the A600 and as GoDrive1200 for the A1200 or A500/A500+. The Flashfloppy firmware is used for operation in each case.

After installing the GoDrives (YouTube video on the 1200 installation), both the floppy drive and the floppy drive emulator can be used, but not both at the same time. (dr)

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28.Oct.2023



Rogue-like: Hop to the Top - Bunny's Revenge
As announced a few days ago, Robert Smith has released his game "Hop to the Top - Bunny's Revenge", as a follow-up to his Easter game "Hop to the Top!".


(dr)

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27.Oct.2023
MorphZone


MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.5
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.5 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. Changes:
  • Updated User-Agent code, Safari is now the default user-agent on new installs
  • Fixed a crash if ahi.device has failed to open
  • Fixed a problem with AdBlock code blocking all requests if loading of its data has failed
This should also fix problems with accessing the PayPal website.

Download: wayfarer.lha (35 MB) (dr)

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27.Oct.2023



Preview video: Platform game "Deathmine"
In the middle of last year, we reported on an early version of the game "Deathmine" as an entry for the Amiga Blitz Basic Jam. The developer 'pixelplop' has now converted the game into C/C++ code and plans to continue working on it. (dr)

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27.Oct.2023



SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.10.31 (update)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2023.10.26 which only applies to the ZuluSCSI RP2040:
  • Log disk information in Initiator mode
  • Fix out of SRAM compile time issue
  • Fix communication with Wi-Fi Desk Accessory
Update: (31.10.2023, 21:00, dr)

Version 2023.10.31 released:
  • Fix device type being ignored in zuluscsi.ini
(dr)

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26.Oct.2023



USB-C power supply: PowerShark to come in 2023
At the beginning of April, we reported on the announcement of the "PowerShark": a USB-C-based power supply for the keyboard case Amigas 500, 600 and 1200. As the developers now inform us in a short status update, the originally envisaged release target (3rd quarter 2023) has not been reached, but an important milestone has been reached with the receipt of a samples of the injection-moulded enclosure, which "require only a minor fix". Orders cannot yet be accepted, but the company is confident that the PowerShark will be released in 2023. (dr)

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26.Oct.2023



Demoparty: Results of the TRSAC
Last weekend, the last edition of the TRSAC demo party took place in Aarhus, Denmark. The organisers have now published various recordings and offer all entries of the various competitions for download. The results lists have also been published on Pouet.net. Here are the rankings of the amiga entries of the Oldskoolintro competition: (dr)

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