05.May.2023
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Video tutorial: Detecting BOB collisions in AMOS
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains how to detect collisions between one or more Blitter Objects (BOBs). This is done by making use of the Make Mask and Bob Col(x) commands. (dr)
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04.May.2023
mnemo (discord)
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Event: Ticket information for Amiga38
As the organisers of Amiga38, which will take place on 7 October 2023, announce on their Facebook page, ticket sales for the event will start the Sunday after next, 14 May, at 18:00 GMT on the event homepage (currently still informing about Amiga37). (dr)
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04.May.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.11
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. Today version 1.11 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
- New disk formats:
- Macintosh GCR: mac.400, mac.800
- DEC: dec.rx01, dec.rx02
- MSX: msx.1d, msx.1dd, msx.2d, msx.2dd
- Osborne 1: occ1.sd, occ1.dd
- HFE: Support interface= and encoding= header bytes
- TRS-80: Support FA DAM mark for directory sectors
- Applesauce: Support decoding *.a2r Applesauce image files
(dr)
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04.May.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.05.04
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 2023.05.04:
- Improve debug logging
- Feature for generating image files
- Save debug log even when no SCSI requests are coming in
- Implement supply voltage monitoring
- Add windows line ending to log output
- SCSI2SD: Add support for lead-out track in CDROM READTOC
- SCSI2SD: Set Inquiry standard version based on EnableSCSI2 setting
- RP2040 Initiator mode: Fix error recovery after watchdog aborts command
- Add platform_poll() function
(dr)
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04.May.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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Mutation Software: Poll about the next release
At the title link Mutation Software has started a poll which game should be released next. (snx)
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03.May.2023
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MorphOS: FFMPEGGui 1.0
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy has written a graphical user-interface for FFmpeg called FFMPEGGui using Hollywood. The RapaGUI plugin is required (dr)
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03.May.2023
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AmigaOS 4: MilkyTracker 1.03 release 2
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has again compiled the source code of the MilkyTracker for AmigaOS 4 and linked it with his latest beta version of SDL 2.26.5. This should fix some problems like wrong colours under emulation environments such as QEMU. (dr)
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02.May.2023
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Competition: "Amiga Tool Jam" started
Yesterday, indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen launched the "Amiga Tool Jam": tools developed for the Amiga can be submitted in the categories "Utility", "Tool", "Commodity", "GUI interface", "Most Useless Tool" and "Other" until 31 October.
Entries must be written explicitly for the competition, updated or modified versions of an existing utility or tool are excluded. More detailed conditions under the title link. (dr)
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02.May.2023
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SFX-Engine: Audio Mixer 3.2
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A500) (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 3.2:
- fixes the XREF problem on vasm 1.9d (and presumably other assemblers)
- fixes several issues in the mixer.h file
(dr)
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02.May.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.
- March/April 2023 news.
- Old articles from Ami-GrafX 1 to 4 : Tutorial: Imagine 2 - Use of paths, Misc: Realization of a computer room in a college, Tutorial: Scenery Animator 4.0 - Mount St Helens, Tutorial: LightWave 3D - The diving suit, Misc: Realization of a 3D simulation of the LCI TV channel, Tutorial: Imagine 2 - The "Skin" function, Tutorial: Aladdin 4D - Getting started and managing your project, Misc: Realization of a local TV channel (C9 Info-Service), Tutorial: ProControl/MorphPlus - Virtual Rain, File: Kamel Ikhlef and CTV Productions, Tutorial: Art Department Pro - The alpha channel, Tutorial: Panorama - Amazon, etc.
- Interview with Kristi-Louise Herd (graphic designer of Fiendish Freddy).
- File: The history of Simulmondo (part one).
- File: How are displayed images of a PAL Amiga on a monitor ?
- File: The sad episode of Cannon Fodder's poppy.
- Hardware: TerribleFire 328/330.
- Point of view: The development of Rave (part six).
- Tutorial: Running two graphics cards in an AmigaOne X5000.
- DIY: Installing an Amiga 1200 in an Evo X500 case.
- DIY: Icarus 1, building a tower for AROS.
- Programming: Articles from the GuruMed.net site.
- Special quiz about ACube Systems.
(dr)
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02.May.2023
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Update of Wallpaper-Pack
Sami Vehmaa has added to his first archive, consisting of eight wallpapers and a boot image, a second and thus ten new wallpapers in the form of PNG files in 1920x1080 format, all of which he offers for free download. (dr)
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01.May.2023
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Video: Building a levitating Amiga ball
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how to build a levitating Amiga boing ball using a 3D printer and various tools. (dr)
[News message: 01. May. 2023, 21:28] [Comments: 0]
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01.May.2023
Amigans (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Survey on the type of use (native hardware, emulation)
In a small survey under the title link Hans de Ruiter would like to know whether the respective AmigaOS 4 user uses the operating system on native hardware or under an emulation such as WinUAE or QEMU. Both types of use can also be specified. (dr)
[News message: 01. May. 2023, 14:03] [Comments: 0]
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01.May.2023
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MOD-Player: "Light Speed Player" 1.13
The "Light Speed Player" is, according to Arnaud Carré's description, the "fastest MOD player ever". The routine written in assembler is aimed at demo and game programmers who want to include background music in their works without losing significant CPU cycles. The efficiency of the player is achieved by a special file format into which the music pieces must be converted before playing. Since the first release, the author has added a lot of changes:
v1.13
- added -shrink option to optimize sample bank size (remove sample bytes that won't be replayed)
v1.12
- Fixed -setpos and -getpos output data size (thanks Platon42)
v1.11
- Now use -getpos argument to include data if you need LSP_MusicGetPos function
- Now use -setpos argument to include data if you need LSP_MusicSetPos function
- Fixed relocation bug in insane mode if you call LSP_MusicInit two times on same music
v1.10
- Added sequence timing optional information (-seqtiming) option & LSP_MusicGetPos & LSP_MusicSetPos
- Few changes in players API ( now LSP_MusicInit, LSP_MusicPlayTick, and different API for insane mode version)
- Insane mode is not generated by default ( use -insane to generate insane mode replayer )
v1.06
- Two times CIA interrupt fixed in LightSpeedPlayer_cia.asm
v1.05
- fix potential registers scratch in LightSpeedPlayer_cia.asm
- minor fix in LightSpeedPlayer.asm comments
v1.04
- full support of instrument without a note (rare protracker feature)
- support fx $e9 (re-trigger)
- fix 4 bytes offset bug with -nosampleoptim option
v1.03
- fix a rare replen bug when $F01 speed is used
v1.02
- fixed bug in $9xx fx (sample offset)
- added "-amigapreview" : generate a wav from LSP data (output simulated LSP Amiga player)
- added "-nosettempo" to remove $Fxx>$20 settempo support (for old mods compatibility)
v1.01
- fixed mod ending detection issue
- fixed very short samples issue
- fixed one frame delay when music loop in "insane" mode
- fixed bad player init if called two times in normal player
- added "-renderwav" option to debug any .mod parsing error (output PC player)
(dr)
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01.May.2023
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amigaworld.de: Rework of the Amiga 1200 multiport modules
The multiport modules with their various port additions for the Amiga 1200 by Matthias 'DJBase' Münch have been reworked and are available at PCBWay. More details about the revision are not available. (snx)
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30.Apr.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: hURL 2.0 for several data transfer protocols
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with a major update of hURL - the ultimate multi-protocol data transfer plugin for Hollywood which allows Hollywood scripts to transfer data using all kinds of different network protocols including full SSL support. Version 2.0 is a major update that has many new features. Here is a list of new features in hURL 2.0:
- support for more than 50 new curl options
- support for curl 8.0
- support for curl's mime and URL interfaces
- AmiSSL v5 support on 68k and AmigaOS 4
- MorphOS version uses the system-native openssl3.library instead of AmiSSL now
- AROS now supported (AmiSSL v4)
- macOS version supports the ARM64 platform now ("Apple Silicon")
- almost 100 pages of new documentation
- bug fixes and other improvements
hURL supports an incredibly wide range of transfer protocols, e.g. DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. As with all Hollywood plugins, hURL comes with extensive documentation in various formats like PDF (almost 400 pages!), HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM that contains detailed descriptions about all functions and methods offered by the plugin.
hURL 2.0 can be downloaded for free under the title link. (dr)
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30.Apr.2023
deadwood
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AROS x86_64: V20230430-1 of ABI-v11 developer branch
The AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz had given his stable branch of AROS for 64-bit Intel and AMD processors the code name 'ABIv11' to distinguish it from the in-progress ABIv1 version in the main AROS repository. It has now updated this to version "20230430-1". The new release includes improvements and fixes made since December 2022. Thus, for the first time, the developer also offers an alpha version of an ISO image of AROS, which can be tested in a virtual environment or on real hardware. Changes in detail:
Functionalities
- Implemented network driver for certain nVidia chipsets (Neil)
- Synchronize Zune configuration across all builds (deadwood)
- Restore build and functioning on pc-x86_64 AROS (deadwood)
- Make native kernel more reselient in case of early error (deadwood, Kalamatee)
- Added broadcom4400.device network driver (Neil)
- Synchronize on use of ISO-8859-2 for Polish across all builds (deadwood)
- First working version of nvme.device is available (Kalamatee)
- Implemented FORMAT64 and SEEK64 commands in ahci.device (Kalamatee)
- Stabilized handling of WARM reset, implemented missing shutdown handlers (Kalamatee)
- Requesters add scroll bars if too much text is shown (Kalamatee)
64-bit support:
- Correct size of fpos_t and ino_t C library types (deadwood)
ARM support:
- muimaster.library (bugs: MUI_Request not compiling) (deadwood)
- Restore build of armhf AROS (deadwood)
Updates:
- AROS build system (Kalamatee)
- ibz 1.2.13 (Kalamatee)
- libpng 1.6.39 / png.library v53.2 (Kalamatee)
- freetype 2.13.0 / freetype2.library v6.6 (Kalamatee)
- libudis86 (Kalamatee)
Functional fixes:
- Correctly handle __stdiowin when also using C library (deadwood)
- gl.library (bugs: race condition during initialization) (deadwood)
- hostgl.library (make it work with newer 64-bit hosts) (deadwood)
- exec.library (bugs: wrong disassembly due to wrong start address) (deadwood)
- ata.device (bugs: media insert/eject detection not working) (deadwood)
- muimaster.library (bugs: MUIA_String_Acknowledge not readable) (deadwood)
- png.datatype (bugs: 1-bit APLHA pngs not supported) (deadwood)
- fat-handler (bugs: partition check too strict) (deadwood)
- InstallAROS (bugs: not working with > 2GB RAM) (deadwood)
- dos.library (bugs: SFS not working with > 4GB RAM) (deadwood)
- C:Install-Grub2 (bugs: not working with > 4GB RAM) (deadwood)
- GCC (bugs: sometimes generates non-loadable executables) (deadwood)
- Kernel (bugs: wrong configuration of IRQ pins in IO-APIC, TaskReady list damaged) (deadwood)
- Area.mui (bugs: events sent when not expected to) (deadwood)
- pciusb.device (bugs: EeePC USB boot not working) (Neil)
- Register.mui (bugs: tab text cannot be formatted) (deadwood)
- String.mui, Area.mui, Cycle.mui (bugs: setting same value is causing notification) (deadwood)
- pciusb.device (bugs: too long boot delay on AspireOne ZG5) (Neil)
- ntfs-handler (bugs: accessing non existent entries) (Kalamatee)
- DiskInfo (recognize more filesystems) (Kalamatee)
- pciusb.device (workaround for MosChip MCS9990, detect addtional ports) (Kalamatee)
- Kernel (bugs: SSE registers not preserved during interrupt) (Kalamatee)
- timer.device (bugs: can issues interrupt after warm reboot) (Kalamatee)
- C:Decoration (bugs: wrong rendering of paletted pngs) (Kalamatee)
- i8042.hidd (bugs: regression in mouse detection) (deadwood)
- crt.library (bugs: wrong time returned by clock_gettime) (deadwood)
Stability fixes:
- graphics.library (bugs: boot driver not unregistered correctly) (deadwood)
- MultiView (bugs: crash in About window when using amigaguide.datatype) (deadwood)
- exec.library (bugs: crash when showing disassembly in alert requester) (deadwood)
- Prefs/ScreenMode (bugs: crash on certain drivers) (deadwood)
- acpica.library (deadwood)
(dr)
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30.Apr.2023
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Aminet uploads until 29.04.2023
The following files have been added until 29.04.2023 to Aminet:
Envoy_FR.lha comm/net 9K French catalog for Envoy 3
Roadshow_FR.lha comm/tcp 103K French catalogs for Roadshow
HippoPlayerIR.zip docs/hard 30K 68k Wirelessly controlled HippoPl...
Programming_Docs.txt docs/lists 4K Programming Manual URLs Listing.
TankMouse.lha driver/inp 13K 68k Scroll-wheel driver for TankM...
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 81K 68k P96 Preferences Editor
GunFight_OS3.lha game/2play 4.9M 68k 2 player western game
TilesSlide.lha game/actio 84K 68k Align 3-4 tiles of the same c...
TinyInvaders.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k SPACE INVADERS poor clone in ...
AcesUp.lha game/think 3.0M 68k Aces Up solitaire card game
AMICUBE.adf game/think 880K 68k Rubik's Cube for classic Amiga
AMICUBE_NTSC.adf game/think 880K 68k Rubik's Cube for classic Amiga
IntyColor.lha gfx/conv 73K 68k Converter from BMP to Intelli...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.6M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.9M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
Remus_FR.lha misc/os 10K French catalogs for Remus & R...
LN22023Collection.lha mods/misc 35M 4ch LN22023 MED Collection
LN2FinalBattleImprvd.lha mods/misc 125K 4ch LN2FinalBattleImprvd MED
LN2StreetLoaderTuned.lha mods/misc 127K 4ch LN2StreetLoaderTuned MED
SPlay.lha mus/play 18K 68k A quick 8SVX/ADPCM SamplePlayer
WHDArchiveExtractor.lha util/arc 7K 68k Automate WHDLoad find and ext...
Image2PDF.lha util/conv 10M ALL convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
IdentifyLib_FR.lha util/libs 21K French catalog and docs for i...
LilCalendar.lha util/time 3.4M 68k Versatile calender and remind...
(snx)
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30.Apr.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 29.04.2023
The following files have been added until 29.04.2023 to OS4Depot:
vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 246kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 240kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmppc_std.lha dev/cro 203kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
smb2fs.lha net/sam 127kb 4.1 Filesystem for accessing files u...
image2pdf.lha uti/tex 10Mb 4.0 Convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
(snx)
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30.Apr.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 29.04.2023
The following files have been added until 29.04.2023 to AROS Archives:
acesup.i386-aros.lha gam/car 3Mb solitaire card game
games_drawer_kensv4.lha gra/ico 247kb Drawer Games Icons Kens v4 Style
image2pdf.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 10Mb convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
lilcalendar.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 3Mb Calender scheduling and reminder...
(snx)
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30.Apr.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.04.2023
The following files have been added until 29.04.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
ISOtools.lha Files/Convert Couple of tools to conv...
uif2iso_0.1.2.lha Files/Convert UIF to ISO converter
ccd2iso_0.3.lha Files/Convert Convert CCD (CloneCD) f...
Block_2.05.lha Files/Tools Join and split files
Image2PDF_2.1.lha Graphics/Convert Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG...
IntyColor.lha Graphics/Convert Converter from BMP to I...
ImageCDConvert_1.0.lha GUI A GUI to convert CD images
LilCalendar_2.0.lha Office/Organizer Versatile calender and ...
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