05.Jul.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 163
The English and German issue 163 (July/August 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.
Content of the current issue includes a preview of the ASM game, a review of the IceDrake turbo board and show reports. (snx)
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05.Jul.2023
ANF
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AmigaOS 4: Script for adjusting Browservice usage by Odyssey
In order to be able to visit more modern websites on AmigaOS 4 with the Odyssey web browser, Browservice can be used (amiga-news.de reported). However, it happens that lateral scroll bars constantly appear and disappear again.
George Sokianos has now provided a Javascript file at the title link which solves this problem by generating the images supplied by Browservice a few pixels narrower so that the scroll bars do not appear at all. Before importing the file into Odyssey, one does only have to adjust the IP address in line 12 using a text editor. (snx)
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05.Jul.2023
Patreon
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.2
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
New features in version 2023.2 include an optional sliced blitting mode for the Amiga, which greatly reduces the memory consumption of animations. (snx)
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03.Jul.2023
Nico Barbat (ANF)
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German translation of "Commodore: The Inside Story" available
The book "Commodore: The Inside Story" by David Pleasance is also available in German now. Details can be found in our German news-item. (snx)
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03.Jul.2023
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Videos of the Kickstart 01
Last weekend, after a break of several years, an event for Amiga fans took place again in Great Britain with the Kickstart 01 (amiga-news.de reported). A short walk around of the event organised by Ravi Abbott (interview with amiga-news.de) was recorded by AmigaNG, detailed live recordings can be found on the Twitch channel StudioFromTheSky. (dr)
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02.Jul.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.14
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Version 1.14 of the Greaseweazle Tools provide the following changes:
- Windows 64-bit: Install correct 64-bit version of CAPS/SPS IPF library
- Windows 32-bit: Install 32-bit versions of required MSVCR DLLs
- Now require Python 3.8 or later
- TD0: Support advanced compression blocks
(dr)
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02.Jul.2023
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Frogger clone: RANA
Already two years ago, Lorenzo Di Gaetano from the group Phaze101 wrote his Frogger clone RANA (Reckless Amphibian New Adventures) for the "Retroprogrammers Inside Gamedev Challenge" and published the source code on GitHub.
Since there was no finished binary so far, the idea arose in a forum discussion on Amiga-News.de to create one and make it available to the general public. With the kind permission of the author and the final implementation by Josef Wegner, the game is now available on Aminet (YouTube video). (dr)
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02.Jul.2023
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Aminet uploads until 01.07.2023
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to Aminet:
encore_morphiller.lha demo/misc 11M MOS Morphiller by Encore - demo f...
ssh2fs.i386-aros.lha disk/misc 94K x86 SSHv2 file system client
ssh2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha disk/misc 176K 68k SSHv2 file system client
worldcup.lha docs/misc 655K Statistics of World Cups 1930...
IndivisionAGAVampireP... driver/mon 1K 68k Patch for Indivision AGA sw f...
TONY.adf game/demo 880K 68k TONY playable demo
NightShift.lha game/role 16M 68k NIGHT/SHIFT: A Cypherpunk Adv...
imp3.lha mus/play 45K ALL Do stuff on Amiga!
IdentifyLib_FR.lha util/libs 21K French catalog and docs for i...
z_lib.i386-aros.lha util/libs 54K x86 Zlib core as a shared library
z_lib.m68k-amigaos.lha util/libs 91K 68k Zlib core as a shared library
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 206K 68k App for chatting to ChatGPT
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 12M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
gidatario.lha util/time 229K 68k GI Datario
(snx)
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02.Jul.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.07.2023
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to OS4Depot:
imp3.lha aud/pla 45kb 4.0 Do stuff on Amiga!
gluae.lha emu/uti 15kb 4.0 Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
silkraw.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.1 GUI for Dave Coffin's progr...
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
(snx)
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02.Jul.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.07.2023
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to AROS Archives:
worldcup.lha doc/mis 655kb Soccer World Cup statistics 1930...
z_lib.i386-aros.lha lib/mis 54kb Zlib core as a shared library
yam29p1-aros-i386.lha net/ema 3Mb Email Client 2016 Fixed Verson
yam29p1-aros-ppc.lha net/ema 4Mb Email Client 2016 Fixed Verson
ssh2fs.i386-aros.lha net/mis 94kb SSHv2 file system client
(snx)
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02.Jul.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.07.2023
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Morphiller_1.2.lha Demoscene/ENCORE Demo for MorphOS PowerPC
SilkRAW_2.0.lha Graphics/Misc GUI for Dave Coffin's p...
Wayfarer_5.5.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
(snx)
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02.Jul.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.07.2023
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 01.07.2023:
- 2023-06-29 fixed: Star Command (SSI) the game will be loaded correctly, manual included (Info)
- 2023-06-29 fixed: Nevermind (Psyclapse) an access fault removed, some options added, QuitKey for 68000 (Info)
- 2023-06-27 fixed: Cobra (Bytec) access fault in SidMon replay routine patched (Info)
- 2023-06-25 improved: TFX (Digital Image Design) various performance optimizations (Info)
(snx)
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02.Jul.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 during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- May/June 2023 news
- Old artiles from Ami-GrafX 5 to 7:
- Comparison: Virtual landscape software
- Tutorial: Imagine - The modelling possibilities of the shape editor
- Tutorial: ClariSSA - Interfacing ClariSSA with other software
- Miscellaneous: Simulation of an ambulatory surgery clinic
- Tutorial: Volumm 4D - Trees and cut-out volumes
- Tutorial: Real 3D - Robotics
- File: Presentation of ASC Presta
- Interview with Yannick Buchy (Meta-MorphOS.fr, Amiga-Classic.org)
- Interview with Ravi Abbott (The Retro Hour, Amiga Addic)
- Review of MorphOS 3.18
- Review of Karateka
- File: Presentation and history of the Emerald Mine series
- File: The Copper
- File: The history of Simulmondo (second part)
- Tutorial: Making backup copies on MorphOS
- DIY: Icarus 1 - AROS One and Icaros Desktop
- DIY: Installing and configuring Wi-Fi on CD32
- Programming: Articles from GuruMed.net website
- Special quiz about Shadow Of The Beast
(snx)
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02.Jul.2023
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Lubricator 2.0: Receiving disk images via HTTP and writing them on disk
"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 in version 2.0:
- Parser bits rewritten in assembler
- Minor corrections in signal handling, verbose output, improved documentation
- AmigaGuide and Installer added
- some requests could be performed twice, corrected
- directories are now sorted to top in local facility
- now deletes __MACOSX garbage from archives automatically
(dr)
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02.Jul.2023
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RTG driver: Preferences editor "P96Prefs" 47.9 for P96
With "P96Prefs" Thomas Richter has written an improved, alternative preferences editor for the RTG driver P96 (amiga-news.de reported). Version 47.9, now available on Aminet, adds support of tooltypes that are supported as of P96 3.4.0, namely the RainbowII and the CBMs only graphics card, the A2410. AmigaOS 3.2 or higher is required. (dr)
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02.Jul.2023
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Developer tools: Amiga SDKs adapted to GCC compilers
Cameron 'Nightfox' Armstrong, who recently published AmigaGPT, offers SDKs of AmigaOS 3.2 NDK and AmigaOS 4.1 (V54.16) adapted to the GCC compiler based on Stefan 'Bebbo' Franke's Amiga GCC Development Kit. These contain additional adaptations of AmiSSL-SDK and the translator.library.
A Dockerfile is now also included with today's update to create an AmigaOS 3 & 4 compiler development environment with everything included. (dr)
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01.Jul.2023
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New cross compiler/assembler: Calypsi
"Calypsi" is a collection of compilers and assemblers that run under Windows, Linux and macOS and can generate code for various retro platforms - among others, 6502 and 68000 processors are supported. Although the project is hosted on Github, the source code is not freely available and the use of the tools is only permitted for private purposes.
A runtime library for Amiga programmes is delivered with the compiler, it is described by the author as "work in progress". The associated source codes are available, cooperation of other developers is explicitly welcome here. (cg)
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01.Jul.2023
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Preview video 31: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported). He has written about his 31. preview video:
"Lots of stuff has happened during the past months, the highlights being:
- about 30% wider goals!
- optional radar!
- no glued ball anymore, real dribbling!
Personally I always found SWOS or KickOff dribbling way too hard to master. Therefore my dribbling mechanics got some kind of twist, so that you get an unglued ball with the ease of use as if it was glued :) In a nutshell it works as follows:
Once you touch the ball, your player enters "dribbling mode".
In that mode it will more or less auto-follow the ball, unless you make something like a 180 deg turn or stop moving. If you change joystick direction from e.g. up to up-right, then this direction change will not be applied immediately. Instead your player will continue to run up until he hits the ball for the next dribbling short-kick - and at this precise moment your current joystick direction will actually be applied and you continue dribbling up-right.
Expanding the goal's width was a rather tedious task because I had to heavily mess around with the carefully tweaked sprite setup to somehow make one more hw-sprite available for the larger goals. The new radar made this even more complicated.
Eventually one of the corner-sticks is now made using sprite #5 - whose DMA-channel isn't working: due to horizontal soft-scrolling and 32bit fetch-mode, only the sprites 0 to 4 remain fully functional here. And the fact that we're in 64 pixel sprite mode doesn't make it better. But with some hackery #5 was tamed - luckily the corner-stick is just a stick ;)
Anyway, til the next time!" (dr)
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30.Jun.2023
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Tool for Reverse Engineering: Amiga extension for Ghidra 10.3.1
Ghidra is a free and open source reverse engineering tool (amiga-news.de reported).
Based on the work of Vladimir Kononovich and Martin Atkins, 'Bartman' has released an update for the Amiga extension supporting now the latest Ghidra version 10.3.1. It can load Amiga Hunk-Executables, Kickstart ROMs and WinUAE State File (.uss). (dr)
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30.Jun.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.07.01
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 2023.07.01:
- Improve CD-ROM image switching logic
- Increase MPC3000 InitPreDelay to 600ms, from 500ms (cb5fd0a)
- Fix bootloader size comparison
- RP2040 SDIO: Increase stopTransmission timeout
- ZuluSCSI GD32 V1.1: Fix PhyMode=2 (DMA_TIMER) with AHA2940UW
- ZuluSCSI GD32 V1.1 Fix PhyMode=1(PIO)
- Temporary fix for DMA_TIMER mode on ZuluSCSI v1.1
(dr)
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30.Jun.2023
MorphZone (forum)
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Demoscene: Morphiller from Encore wins at Decrunch party in Wroclaw
From June 23rd to 25th the demoparty "Decrunch" took place in Wroclaw, Poland. In the category "wild competition" the MorphOS demo "Morphiller" by Encore has won (video). The music titled "Revolution", found on the album "Fish and Chips", is by "XTD of Lamers".
Download: encore_morphiller.lha (11 MB) (snx)
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