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10.Apr.2023



Jump'n Run: Boxx 4 released
The developer 'Lemming880' in cooperation with "Retroguru" has released the fourth part of his 'Boxx' series developed with the Scorpion Engine at the currently taking place Revision demo party (amiga-news.de reported). Features:
  • 14 finest Amiga chiptunes including Jukeboxx
  • Lots of old school pixels
  • 3 difficulty levels
  • Randomly generated screensavers
  • Cheats
A physical version will be available soon. The game was written for OCS Amigas, but runs also under ECS/AGA. (dr)

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10.Apr.2023
Ján Zahurančík (Mail)


Developer package: DevPack 1.2
The free "DevPack" by Dimitris Panokostas and Philipp Lonke is intended for Amiga users who want to develop their own software under AmigaOS. The new version 1.2 provides the following changes:
  • ADDED: AmigaRebol V2 by Carl Sassenrath - the cross platform script language (permission granted by email)
  • ADDED: Earok's Blitz Basic Tutorials (finally integrated ;-)) find it in Blitz Basic drawer
  • ADDED: EVO 3.5.1 by Darren Coles (permission granted by email)
  • ADDED: NDK for OS 3.2R4 (link only)
  • ADDED: M68k targets for vbcc with includes for proper work
  • UPDATED: AmiBlitz 3.9.9 by Sven Droege and supporters - the open source and enhanced Blitz Basic
  • UPDATED: REDPILL 0.9.17 by Zener - a Game Creator with AGA support
  • UPDATED: The latest vasm and vlink have been added to FreePascal too
  • FIXED: AmosPro installation repaired, now it should really work out of the box
  • FIXED: The Path commands from MakeItWork didn't work globally. If you open a shell, path was not added. The "Assign C: path: ADD" is now used that works just fine.
(dr)

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09.Apr.2023



Aminet uploads until 08.04.2023
The following files have been added until 08.04.2023 to Aminet:
BSDSocket-Extension.lha  dev/amos   32K   68k Use bsdsocket.library in AMOS...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   3.1M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
F1GP2023Carset.lha       game/data  8K        2023 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha                  game/edit  3.6M  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  3.9M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  4.2M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.7M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
NAFCYI1991S1-B01.zip     text/bfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B02.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B03.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B04.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B05.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B06.zip     text/bfont 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B08.zip     text/bfont 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B09.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B10.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B11.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B12.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip     text/bfont 2.6M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip     text/bfont 2.6M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B18.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B19.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B20.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B24.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B25.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B26.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B27.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B28.zip     text/bfont 2.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-01.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-02.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-03.zip      text/pfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-04.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-05.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-06.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-07.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-08.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-09.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-10.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-11.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-12.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-13.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip      text/pfont 1.6M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-15.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-16.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-17.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-18.zip      text/pfont 1.6M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-19.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-20.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-21.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-22.zip      text/pfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip      text/pfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-24.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-25.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-26.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-27.zip      text/pfont 1.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-28.zip      text/pfont 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
Avalanche_FR.lha         util/arc   7K        French catalog for Avalanche 2.1
uuid.lha                 util/libs  11K   68k UUID librariy and utilities
LilCalendar.lha          util/time  3.3M  68k Versatile calender and remind...
(snx)

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09.Apr.2023



AROS Archives uploads until 08.04.2023
The following files have been added until 08.04.2023 to AROS Archives:
lilcalendar.i386-aros.lha    uti/wor 3Mb   Calender scheduling and reminder...
(snx)

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09.Apr.2023



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.04.2023
The following files have been added until 08.04.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
LUA_MUI.lha               Development/LUA           LUA_MUI.lha
MCE_14.12.lha             Games/Editor              Multi-game Character Ed...
(snx)

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09.Apr.2023



WHDLoad: New installers until 08.04.2023
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 08.04.2023: (snx)

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09.Apr.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:
  • Pinball Fantasies - Stones 'n Bones (Haunted Remix)
  • Space Harrier Live Performance
  • Details Turrican 2 Final Fight Tyros Edition
(snx)

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08.Apr.2023



Mastodon client: Amidon 1.1
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.1 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
  • Implemented Profile view
  • Updated Readme with more details on the requirements
  • Added more icons (GlowIcon, MagicWB, 4-color)
  • Eliminated the dependency on the MUI Hyperlink class, as it caused issues with some users and it's not part of the MUI 3.9 package.
  • Redesigned the Login process, instead of a link to press on, you now have a copy/paste procedure with buttons to help you.
  • Only open the Login window if a server name was provided. Otherwise the link would be empty and there wasn't much of a point.
  • Fixed a crash when trying to save settings without having logged in first (Anonymous mode).
(dr)

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08.Apr.2023



Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.10
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. Yesterday version 1.10 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
  • New diskdef ibm.160
  • gw erase: New option --revs=N
  • gw read: Fix --retries=0
  • MacOS: Explicitly search for CAPS library under /Library/Frameworks
  • gw: Minor fixes to flux-to-bitcell conversion
  • gw: Disallow abbreviated long option names
  • SCP: Fix footer metadata format
(dr)

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08.Apr.2023



Preview video: Super Metal Hero
At the beginning of 2020, Raster Wizards announced its game "Super Metal Hero". After development was initially frozen in favour of the game Hyper Runner, work on the Jump'N Run has been underway again for some time. A short new preview video shows another boss enemy. (dr)

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07.Apr.2023



Crowdfunding: Illustrated book "Demoscene - The Logo Art
"Demoscene: the Logo Art" is to be an illustrated book in A4 format that will present demoscene logos from more than three decades on around 400 colour pages and provide background information on the corresponding pixel artists or scene groups. In order to produce the book, 20,000 euros in advance orders must be received by 24 April. A single copy costs 40 euros (plus shipping); there are discounts for larger orders. (cg)

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06.Apr.2023



Amiga disks on PC: FloppyBridge 1.4
Using Robert Smith's plugin FloppyBridge (video on how it works), emulators like WinUAE and Amiberry can work in real time with real floppy disks. Today he has released version 1.4. Changes since our last news item:

Version 1.4
  • Fixed issues with stalling mode not working properly, or not as expected
  • Updated stalling mode to work better with diskspare device which seems to be very impatient! (writing is not recommended!)
  • Updated the icons for the supported hardware and rendered them transparently
Version 1.3
  • Fixed Greaseweazle Drive A/B not selectable properly
  • Fixed issue with warning message about diskchange on Greaseweazle always re-appearing
  • Fixed Greaseweazle Shugart support. (**Does not support disk change** - it will manually check for disks. A PC Drive is strongly recommended)
  • Re-worked the profile listing dialog a little
(dr)

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06.Apr.2023
Amigans (Forum)


AmigaOS 4: Shader player Shaderjoy 1.25
Shaderjoy allows displaying and creating Shadertoy compatible fragment shaders. Fragment shaders, also called pixel shaders, are programs that are executed per fragment (pixel) on the GPU.The ogles2.library 3.2 and Warp3D Nova 54.16 are required. Now Juha "Capehill" Niemimaki has released version 1.25. Changes:
  • Add keyboard channel. Also remove some keyboard shortcuts to avoid conflicts.
  • Add projects files (.sjp) for those example shaders that require textures.
  • Replace text buttons with more compact images.
  • Show busy pointer during shader compilation.
  • Disable uninitialized variable check (in icon) due to glCompileShader issue with some shaders: future ogles2.library should fix this.
  • Fix loading of arexx.class.
  • Fix busy looping of ChannelWindows.
  • Refactor some GUI code.
(dr)

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06.Apr.2023



Programming: TLS library Crypto Ancienne 2.2
Crypto Ancienne by Cameron Kaiser is a TLS library compatible with pre-C99 C compilers and "geriatric architectures", according to the author. With version 2.2, AmigaOS is now also supported; Crypto Ancienne was tested with ADE with the compiler GCC 2.95.3 as well as the ixemul.library and ixnet.library under AmigaOS 3.9. (snx)

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06.Apr.2023
John Bintz (ANF)


AMOS Professional: BSD Socket Extension 1.0.1
With the BSD Socket Extension for AMOS Professional by John Bintz AMOS programs can easily access the internet. Originally the author had started his project already in 1998. In several videos he presents this extension in detail.

Download: BSDSocket-Extension.lha (32 KB) (snx)

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05.Apr.2023



Puzzler: Crazy Columns 1.06
Jochen Hoffer's 'Crazy Columns' (video) ist a clone of Saga's classic 'Columns'. it's been updated to version 1.06, which includes the following changes:
  • fixed a gfx glitch when pausing the game in one player mode
  • fixed: the samples used in the background tunes were compressed incorretly
  • properly emptying the keyboard input buffer now, no more deadlock situations
  • updated the includeed PTPlayer to version 6.3
(cg)

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05.Apr.2023



Preview video: Amiga port of Breakthru
After the release of the Wonderboy port (amiga-news.de reported), 'acidbottle' now turns its attention to the next Amiga port of a game: Breakthru was released in 1986 by Data East and is a horizontal shoot'em up in which the player controls an armed military vehicle, making his way through enemy forces - consisting of soldiers, flamethrowers, helicopters, tanks, jeeps etc. - to ultimately recover a stolen fighter plane. - to ultimately recover a stolen fighter plane.

The Amiga port will be available for OCS/ECS and AGA Amigas. Area 1 is almost finished, Area 2 and 3 are currently in progress. As the developer writes, "a couple of in game mechanics need refining and plenty bugs to iron out but is essentially fully functioning and playable." (dr)

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04.Apr.2023
Martina Hřebcová (Mail)


Report: New CPU for AmigaOne XE (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her detailed reviews and analyses of PowerPC hardware and among others published three reports about her AmigaOne XE (1, 2, 3).
In the now published article, she describes how she swaps the original XPC7451 CPU, clocked at 800 MHz, for a 7455 CPU operating at 1420 MHz and subjects it to various comparative tests. (dr)

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04.Apr.2023
Mastodon


Mastodon client: Amidon 1.0
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.0 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported. Requirements:
  • AmigaOS 3.x
  • AmiSSL 4
  • MUI 3.9 or newer
  • The following MUI classes:
    • Hyperlink.mcc (available in the MUI 4.x and 5.x archives)
    • TextEditor.mcc
    • BetterString.mcc (required by TextEditor)
    • HTMLview.mcc
  • codesets.library
  • 68020+ CPU
  • 8MB RAM
  • An internet connection and a TCP/IP stack running (cURL will check for bsdsocket.library on startup). AmiTCP 4, Roadshow or emulators with the bsdsocket.library option enabled will work.
  • A web browser will be needed once, for the first time you authenticate your account.
As the developer tells us, the release also serves to be able to find and fix any previously undiscovered problems. He is already working on an update that will add some additional features based on the feedback.
The basic functions are available, but some things are not possible due to the current limitations of MUI in combination with Hollywood. For example, notifications are only displayed as plain text, not HTML. MUI Listviews could not contain complex objects, so some compromises had to be made.

The start-up time on a real Amiga could be improved: it is currently quite slow on a 68060 Amiga at 13 seconds. This and many other problems could be solved if he rewrote the programme in C/C++. But that is something for the future, depending on motivation and time.

Basically, he recommends using MUI 3.9, because HTMLview, the MUI class used to display HTML content in Amidon, has problems with some versions of MUI under AmigaOS 3.x. It does not display content with MUI 4 or 5, so at the moment the client only works properly with MUI 3.9. Basically HTMLview seems to have problems with the display of content behind HTTPS links (e.g. images). MUI 3.8 can also be used, but it has some problems with the display of content in the list views, which is why it is not recommended. (dr)

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03.Apr.2023



Video tutorial: The AMOS commands Jleft, Jright, Jup and Jdown
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 the AMOS commands Jleft, Jright, Jup and Jdown which are required to control a character on the screen using a joystick. (dr)

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03.Apr.2023



Platform game: Video tutorial and download for AMOS game "Hop to the Top!"
To mark the upcoming Easter, Robert Smith - we reported on his various projects such as DrawBridge - wanted to create a platform game in AMOS about rabbits and chocolate eggs that could be controlled with a joystick or keyboard.

In his video tutorial, Smith explains how he programmed or integrated the following steps for "Hop to the Top!":
  • Double Buffering / Screen Swap
  • Tile-Based Game Engine
  • Smooth Vertical Scrolling
  • Sprite Animation including AMAL (Amos Animation Language)
  • Joystick and Keyboard Input
  • Background Rainbow Effects (COPPER)
  • Sound Samples
  • Game Music
The game including source code can be downloaded free of charge via the video description. (dr)

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