12.Mar.2023
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AROS: Web browser AmiFox in development
AmiFox is a kind of web browser which outsources the actual rendering via WRP (Web Rendering Proxy), so that the finished rendering is sent back to the Amiga just as an image (amiga-news.de reported). Now there have been single enquiries as to whether a conversion for AROS is also possible, whereupon developer Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow created a first internal beta version and reported on it both in his blog entry published yesterday and in a YouTube video. (dr)
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12.Mar.2023
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Aminet uploads until 11.03.2023
The following files have been added until 11.03.2023 to Aminet:
SteMarRegAMOSSources.lha dev/amos 358K 68k 8 AMOS sources+exes by Stefan...
libflac.lha dev/lib 1.5M OS4 Free Lossless Audio Codec
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 3.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
Native.lha driver/mon 4K 68k Native chip set driver for P96
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 8K 2023 Carset for F1GP
PETSCIIRobots-SDL.lha game/misc 658K MOS PETSCII Robots (Portable vers...
optipng_a68k.lha gfx/misc 124K 68k Advanced PNG optimizer
WhatIFF2.09.lha mags/misc 2.8M What IFF? #2.09-March-2023
SamplesMaster.lha mus/edit 83K 68k Creates IFF and RAW samples (...
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mus/misc 172K Some samples created by Sampl...
mhimdev.lha mus/play 12K 68k MHI driver for mpeg.device
AnnotateHollywoodSynt... text/edit 12K Hollywood Syntax for Annotate
Vim_9.0-ppc-amigaos.lha text/edit 15M OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_9.0-ppc-morphos.lha text/edit 14M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
BoardsLib.lha util/libs 77K 68k provides detailed info about ...
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 66K 68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 99K 68k Identify hardware and more
AmiKick.zip util/misc 51K Check Kickstart images under ...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 3.6M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
cranker-mos.lha util/pack 373K MOS Amiga executable and data cru...
StartWin.lha util/wb 104K 68k Two bugged workbench launchba...
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12.Mar.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 11.03.2023
The following files have been added until 11.03.2023 to OS4Depot:
vsp.lha aud/pla 2Mb 4.0 A JukeBox multiformat player
thewidowii-ecard.lha dem/mis 5Mb 4.0 This is e-Card with the advertis...
libflac.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 Free Lossless Audio Codec
terri-fried.lha gam/mis 3Mb 4.1 Everyone is dead except for... a...
vim_mui.lha uti/tex 15Mb 4.1 The ubiquitous text editor
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12.Mar.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 11.03.2023
The following files have been added until 11.03.2023 to AROS Archives:
vsp.lha aud/pla 2Mb A JukeBox multiformat player
thewidowii-ecard.lha dem/mis 5Mb This is e-Card with the advertis...
bofh.i386-aros.zip gam/act 991kb Defuse bombs in this top-down sh...
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12.Mar.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 11.03.2023
The following files have been added until 11.03.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
VintageSongPlayer_2.50... Audio/Players A different, funny and ...
Centurion.lha Emulation/Misc Centurion CPU6 based mi...
cranker_0.66.lha Files/Crunch Amiga executable and da...
SDLPoP_1.23.lha Games/Adventure SDLPoP is an open-sourc...
TheWidowII-eCard.lha Games/Adventure The Widow II: Evil's Re...
PETSCIIRobots-SDL.lha Games/Misc Attack of the PETSCII R...
dRally.lha Games/Race Open Source Engine / De...
anarch.lha Games/Shoot3D extremely small, comple...
Vanilla-RA_1.0.lha Games/Strategy Version 1.0 of a port o...
AmiSSL_5.7-68k.lha Network/SSL OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
Vim_9.0.1378.lha Text/Edit A highly configurable t...
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12.Mar.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 11.03.2023
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 11.03.2023:
- 2023-03-11 new: Twilight Zone (Shining 8) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2023-03-06 improved: Bubble Dizzy (Codemasters) supports another version, uses less memory, 68000er quitkey, trainers added, highscore saving, icons & manual added (Info)
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12.Mar.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:
- Physical Presence
- Mobyle
- Archipelagos
- Lizardking's Theme (Paid In Full)
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12.Mar.2023
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Text adventure: Memory Lane
The developer 'ComSha' has released a classic text adventure called "Memory Lane" in which you can explore a city and discover mysterious places. You have to collect various objects and interact with other citizens. The catch: they don't seem to be able to remember you.
Depending on the player's actions, six different endings to the game are possible. The developer created his text adventure during an internship, which he updated again on a larger scale a year later. (dr)
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12.Mar.2023
mithrendal (Mail)
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Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb - support for iPad Pro ProMotion displays
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
In the now updated version, developer 'mithrendal' has added support for Apple's iPad Pro with ProMotion display, according to the manufacturer a technology that delivers frame rates of up to 120Hz for smooth scrolling, greater responsiveness and smoother movements. In the previous version of vAmigaWeb, frame rates were limited to 30fps. In addition, the update offers iPadOS/iOS-16-specific bug fixes for muting, among other things. (dr)
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11.Mar.2023
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DIY: Parallel port to SPI adapter, SD card driver 2.2
The goal of this project initiated by Niklas Ekström is to develop a cheap and easy to build SPI adapter that can be connected to the parallel port of an Amiga. In addition, the performance of the adapter should be as fast as possible (amiga-news.de reported).
Today version 2.2 of the SD card driver has been released which now also supports large SD cards (> 2GB). (dr)
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11.Mar.2023
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Adventure: Geo's Quest "In Search of Queen Lorraine"
Paul Golian started writing his graphic adventure Geo's Quest "In Search of Queen Lorraine" in 2000, interrupted work on it in 2002 and was only able to continue it last year in retirement. The game is created in hand-drawn Low Res-32 colours and is intended to be a 9-chapter parody of the Commodore story, of which this game forms the first three.
It contains over 100 hand-drawn rooms and close-ups (numerous examples under the title link), dozens of animations, samples & mods (some by the author, some from the Amos PD Library). Included in the zip archive is a game manual that provides important information about the game and memory management. Required is an Amiga with 2 MB chip RAM, recommended is an Amiga with 68020 or faster processor. (dr)
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11.Mar.2023
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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 the mini boss "Krogz Mech". (dr)
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10.Mar.2023
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #22 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 22 (Winter/Spring) are several game reviews as well as articles on how transferring files from PC to Amiga and Amiga as a Linux terminal.
The magazine is available as printed issue for 11,73 Euro plus shipping (ca. 5 Euro), or as digital issue for 3,20 Euro. (dr)
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10.Mar.2023
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Preview video: Final Fight Enhanced
More than a year ago, 'Prototron' had published a first preview video of his improved implementation of Capcom's Final Fight written in machine language (amiga-news.de reported). Now that he has almost completely rewritten the game code, he published a new video a few days ago, which presents the 2-player mode as well as new music.
Unlike the first video, this version runs on an Amiga with a 68000 processor, ECS and 2MB chip RAM. As the author writes, there would also have been a version for Amigas with 1MB and OCS, but unlike the Megadrive and SNES, the Amiga would not have the hardware capability to flip a sprite horizontally. The extra memory would serve to store flipped sprites, resulting in smoother gameplay as it takes any unnecessary graphical load off the CPU. There would still be a lot to optimise - with four enemies on the screen it gets a bit sluggish - but progress would be made. (dr)
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09.Mar.2023
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RTG driver: P96 V3.3.3 released
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has released version 3.3.3 of his RTG driver P96, which can be bought or downloaded from the order history at iComp. As developer Thomas Richter writes, the major feature of this release is that it offers the emulation of planar bitplanes, even if the graphics card does not support them or if a program requests more than the maximum 4 bitplanes VGA offers. That should help to promote even more legacy applications to the graphics card. To do this, "ENV:Picasso96/EmulatePlanar" must be set to "Yes" and restarted. A detailed description of the changes can be found in the English section of the iComp support forum. (dr)
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09.Mar.2023
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MorphOS: Real-time strategy game Vanilla Conquer V1.0 (TinyGL-Version)
After Bruno "BeWorld" Peloille's SDL implementation of the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn, which has the open-source name "Vanilla Conquer" and is based on Artur Jarosik's release for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported), Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen has now ported the second part, the prequel Command & Conquer: Red Alert to MorphOS.
Upon our request, the developer kindly explains to us that "the biggest part of this port is fixing the many, many big endian issues in the original project. Artur Jarosik opted to release his port using SDL and OpenAL. My port of Vanilla Conquer to MorphOS does not use SDL or OpenAL, but instead adds native support for MorphOS via TinyGL, CGX and AHI. It also contains an installer that lets you install game data either from original media, if you happen to own that, or via internet download.
The original game ran at a resolution of 640x400 on a 4:3 display and thus did not have square pixels. The TinyGL renderer will open a screen that matches your Ambient screen in resolution and use the GPU to stretch the image to fullscreen, while preserving the aspect ratio of the original game, giving you an experience that is as close to the original as possible. The fallback renderer has no stretching capability, so to play in fullscreen with a proper aspect ratio, you need to create a 640x400 8bpp display mode in MorphOS, and either use a 4:3 monitor or configure your monitor to stretch the image to 4:3, if it has that option.
The MorphOS port has a few additions that the original version of Vanilla Conquer does not have. When you're in a game, in the options menu, under visual settings, you can change the game to run in windowed mode, and if using the TinyGL renderer, you can switch between using a 15bpp screen or a 24bpp screen/texture. The 15bpp mode might sacrifice some palette resolution in some cases, but runs a lot faster than the 24bpp mode." (dr)
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09.Mar.2023
HunoPPC (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Public beta version 1.55 of "Doom 3" port
At the beginning of July last year (amiga-news.de reported) Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel released a first, non-public beta version of Dhewm3 for AmigaOS 4.1 - a Doom port based on the Doom 3 GPL source code. He has further optimised this so that the game can now be played at 30 frames per second on an AmigaOne X5000 with a resolution of 1920x1080 (YouTube video) and is now available for testing by the general public.
(dr)
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08.Mar.2023
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.17
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
The new version 0.9.17 offers seveal fixes, improvements and optimisations. (dr)
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08.Mar.2023
Amigans (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 9
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas. The goal is to make it POSIX compliant and also fix any C++ problems that exist with newer compilers (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday he has released the ninth beta version with the following changes:
- Added aio* POSIX functions with some minor limitations
- Fixed shared objects libraries (They needs a new elf.library)
- Added sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
- pthread moved into libc. libpthread however exists for compatibility reasons
- Some minor fixes
- Added more test programs
(dr)
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08.Mar.2023
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Boing Attitude: Interview with Barry Leitch
In its fifth issue of the print magazine BOING, Boing Attitude published an interview with the musician Barry Leitch, who is responsible for the music of Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, TFX, The Humans or Silkworm, among others. This interview is now generally available under the title link. (dr)
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07.Mar.2023
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Point'n Click adventure: Ring around the World
"Ring around the World" (video) by Simone Bevilacqua (KOG, Huenison, Blastaway, among others) is described by the author as a "short, open world, point'n'click adventure from the top view". The player wakes up on the shore of an unknown world and can only remember two things - one of the two memories is his drowning in a stormy sea.
"Ring around the World" requires a PAL Amiga with one megabyte of chip RAM and Kickstart 1.3, a hard disk is recommended. The game is free, the author asks players who like the title to "offer some support to somebody who is a victim of any kind of violence". (cg)
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