06.Nov.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.11.2022
The following files have been added until 05.11.2022 to OS4Depot:
warptiffdt.lha dat/ima 562kb 4.0 TIFF and BigTIFF image datatype ...
warpwebpdt.lha dat/ima 298kb 4.0 WebP image datatype V45.4
libflac.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 Free Lossless Audio Codec
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
epson_colour_46.lha dri/pri 46kb 4.1 24 bit Epson Stylus Driver for W...
scummvm.lha gam/mis 105Mb 4.1 Run supported classic adventure/...
scummvm-src.zip gam/mis 169Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
hwp_xlsx.lha lib/hol 1Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin to create and e...
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
noclick.lha uti/mis 8kb 4.0 Multiplatform NoClick enabler
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06.Nov.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.11.2022
The following files have been added until 05.11.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
HWP_XLSX_1.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... Create and edit XLSX do...
Nova_1.2.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
SnesMUI_0.2.lha Emulation SnesMUI is a MUI based ...
ScummVM_2.6.1.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
VirtualVoodooJob_2.0.lha Games/Misc This black magic tool i...
AmiSSL_5.5-68k.lha Network/SSL OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
CloudDav_1.8.lha Network/Streaming A WebDav client
PastePass_1.10_beta.lha System/Utilities A simple passwordmanage...
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06.Nov.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.11.2022
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 05.11.2022:
- 2022-11-05 improved: Hunter (Activision) using fast memory, demo fixed (Info)
- 2022-11-05 improved: Devil's Temple (Geezer Games) supports another version, hints and icons added (Info, Image)
- 2022-11-05 new: Bubble Ghost (ERE) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2022-11-05 fixed: Awesome (Psygnosis) QuitKey fixed (Info)
- 2022-11-03 improved: Spitting Image (Domark) imager fixed, 68000 quitkey, new install script (Info)
- 2022-11-03 improved: Running Man (Grandslam) 68000 quitkey, trainer and intro skip added, manual included (Info)
- 2022-11-03 improved: Passing Shot (Imageworks) supports another version, 68000 quitkey, new imager and install script, docs added (Info)
- 2022-11-03 improved: Colorbuster (Indian Software) made 68000 compatibÃle, new install script (Info)
- 2022-11-02 improved: Golden Axe (Virgin) joystick controls improved, more CD32 buttons added (Info)
- 2022-11-02 fixed: Shadow Warriors (Ocean) imager corrected (Info)
- 2022-11-02 improved: Lollypop (Rainbow Arts/Softgold) new imager, access fault fixed, stack relocated, less chip memory required, new install script (Info)
- 2022-10-31 improved: Epic (Ocean) caches enabled, uses fast memory, supports more versions, music fixed, added manual and solution (Info)
- 2022-10-31 improved: Quasar Wars (Light Designs) 68000 support, added 3-button joystick support (Info)
(snx)
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06.Nov.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Video: Not even scammers want to support AmigaOS
Fraudsters who pretend to be Microsoft support on the phone, for example, in order to get computer users to download and run malware, are one of the unpleasant side effects of the internet age. As an Amiga user, however, you are excluded even from this nowadays, as the video at the title link documents. (snx)
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06.Nov.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: 20th anniversary - XLSX plugin 1.0 released
Press release:On November 4th 2002, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released Hollywood 1.0 for 68k AmigaOS. Originally advertised as a multimedia authoring solution, nobody would have expected back then that this software would turn into a cross-platform programming language for lots of platforms with dozens of plugins for all kinds of tasks. Now, 20 years later, Hollywood is still going strong, receives regular updates and new plugins, and is used by many people around the globe. All of this would not have been possible without the continued support of many Hollywood enthusiasts in the past 20 years. Only the positive feedback we received right from the start made us continue developing Hollywood into what it is today.
As a little "thank you", we proudly present yet another plugin for Hollywood: XLSX. The XLSX plugin makes it possible to conveniently read and write XLSX documents from Hollywood scripts. It offers a wide variety of functions to set and get cell values, cell types, cell formulas, document/worksheet properties and several other attributes. It also offers an iterator function for a high performance iteration of a large number of cells.
On top of that, the XLSX plugin also supports the new serialization interface introduced in Hollywood 9 which means that scripts can conveniently serialize Hollywood tables to XLSX documents by just a single call to Hollywood's SerializeTable() function. In the same manner scripts can also deserialize whole XLSX documents into Hollywood tables by a single call to Hollywood's DeserializeTable() function. It just doesn't get any easier!
Of course, the XLSX plugin also comes with detailed documentation in various formats and integrates seamlessly in the Hollywood IDE, including live help. The XLSX plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to everybody for all the support in the past 20 years and here's to the next 20 years, cheers! (snx)
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06.Nov.2022
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Amiga37: Music title for download / Music video online
Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr writes: "Wow, how time has passed so quickly again! The Amiga37 event is now already three weeks ago... In this context I would like to point out that the official Amiga37 music title is available for free download for everyone who is interested.
Likewise, a video has now made it onto Youtube at the title link to introduce itself to the world, for the inclined listeners. :-)" (snx)
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05.Nov.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 159
The English and German issue 159 (November/December 2022) 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 report about the demo scene as well as reviews on Pagestream and the "Dynatech 30th Anniversary Edition". (cg)
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05.Nov.2022
a1k.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 3/4: Web browser IBrowse 2.5.7
The team of Oliver Roberts has released version 2.5.7 of the web browser IBrowse. Most important changes (detailed changelog) of this update:
- Reworked Brotli huffman decoder to avoid triggering a bug on the 68060 processor, which prevented pages from loading
- Tweaks to the loading of external modules
- JavaScript improvements
- Switched to GCC 11, with all warnings enabled, which identified numerous previously unknown bugs which have now been fixed
- Hundreds of minor internal changes
The update is available in the download section of the official website, AmigaOS 4 users can alternatively install via AmiUpdate.
Update: (06.11.2022, 14:45, cg)
Due to a couple of bugs that were discovered after IBrowse 2.5.7 was released, a hotfix update is now available for download (OS4 users may use AmiUpdate instead). Anybody who downloaded IBrowse 2.5.7 before 10:00 CET on 6th November is strongly advised to update their installation using the new update.
(cg)
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05.Nov.2022
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MorphOS: GUI for Snes9x emulator - SnesMUI released
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has released a GUI named SnesMUI for the Snes9x emulator providing the following features:
- The most important emulation options are configurable within the GUI
- A custom arguments option to configure any other Command-Line options
- Shows preview and cover images of games if available
- Supports Zip archived ROM files
- Automatic detection of the emulator version
- Supports custom graphics in the GUI
(dr)
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05.Nov.2022
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Kung Fu action: "Devil's Temple" V3.4
About two weeks ago, Geezer Games had released "Devil's Temple (amiga-news.de reported). Now an update to version 3.4 is available which fixes some bugs. Changes:
- On ECS machines, enabling the cheat would break the menu display - fixed (Copper updated properly)
- Booting using Kickstart >= 2.0 on A500 would crash loading the executable - fixes (Probably Vasm Bug with odd addresses)
- Module audio timing issues - fixed
- Typos / Corrections in various places
- Sprite corruption issue in levels 5/9 - fixed
- Game could possibly not spawn some essential events if too many enemies were on screen (spawnImmediate routine created)
(dr)
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04.Nov.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.8
After two pre-releases, today version 3.9.8 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been released. Changes:
new:
- (compiler) can send his own log data to PED's log
- (compiler) added an error-requester in case the exepath is not set correctly (settings in Sourceproperties "ExePath")
- (compiler) current include is shown in compile status window
changed:
- (PED) rewritten Find and Replace-Routines in BASIC
- (PED) minor improvements to intellisense
- (project) moved some examples into other subfolders
fixed:
- (compiler) removed vbr-detection from code that starts compiled executable, as it is now inside the debugger
- (PED) fixed misspelled tooltype "USE_INTELLISENSE_COMMANDS"
- (PED) fixed bug in routine to set current dir that led to problems when AmiBlitz3 was located in a longer path
- (PED) fixed intellisense that did not work anymose
- (PED) fixed bug that localization was not turned of completely when tooltype was enabled
- (PED) fixed crash when loading old bb2 source file
- (PED) fixed bug in displaying a sourceline when scrolling out of the window
- (include) fixed bug in image_include that used a wrong Minterms in image_BlittPattern{} that led to wrong display with newer P96 versions
Download: AmiBlitz398.lha (11 MB) (dr)
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04.Nov.2022
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AROS: Further development of the emulator Janus-UAE 2
Blitter Studio, which is also responsible for the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has started to continue the development of the emulator Janus-UAE 2.
In contrast to version 1.x, which was based on Richard Drummond's emulator E-UAE V0.8.29 WIP4, is part of the AROS distribution Icaros Desktop, for example, and thus is based on the ABI-v0 developer branch, the original author Oliver Brunner had already started porting WinUAE 2 to AROS in 2011 with Janus-UAE 2, which uses the ABI-v1 branch. By the end of 2015, he had brought Janus-UAE 2 up to the level of WinUAE 3.2.0 and subsequently finished work on it.
The Amiberry developer 'MiDWaN' has now cloned the sources from SourceForge to a Github repository, including all his changes so far, among other things so that he has write permissions. His goal is to bring Janus-UAE 2 to the latest WinUAE and SDL 2 (instead of SDL 1). He also wants to add some features from Amiberry. (dr)
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04.Nov.2022
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Music tip: Protracker track "much"
'no9' has been working in the audio section for years and also occasionally composes music for games. On his YouTube channel, he also publishes his own compositions from time to time, like the piece "much" most recently. He uses the ProTracker 2 clone for Windows by Olav Sorensen for this. As 'no9' writes, he would have tried to use the original Amiga for it, but the constant data exchange between Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and Amiga would have been very time consuming, as there would sometimes be a lot of copying back and forth for sample data. The Amiga Protracker compatibility was mandatory for him, though. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
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Video: Often unknown Amiga operating systems
Ravi Abbott, known for his documentary "Downfall Amiga, after Commodore" (amiga-news.de reported), introduces often unknown Amiga operating systems for 68k Amigas, such as p.OS or UNIX. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
Twitter
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Workbench distribution: AKReal 9.1
AKReal can already works with 16 colours and is the inofficial adaption of the Workbench distribution AmiKit to real Amigas (video). After five years, the distribution was updated and now version 9.1 is available. The changes are listed in the changelog. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
OSNews
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Developer tool: GNU Make will drop support for AmigaOS (Update)
GNU Make is the implementation of the in the Unix world often used program make for the operating system GNU. It automatically builds executable programs and libraries from source code by reading files called Makefiles which specify how to derive the target program. (Wikipedia).
As OSNews now reports, support for OS/2 (EMX), Xenix, Cray and also AmigaOS will be removed in GNU Make starting with the upcoming version.
Update: (03.11.2022, 19:30, dr)
Obviously triggered by our article, discussions have developed especially in various Discord servers which have led to some "protest mails". The maintainer of GNU Make, Paul Smith, responded to one of the mails and asked to stop writing mails:
"While it's good that AmigaOS as an operating system is still under
active development, what I care about is whether anyone is maintaining *GNU make* on AmigaOS. I have not received a single patch for an AmigaOS problem with GNU make since 1996. I haven't received a single response from anyone on AmigaOS to any request for anyone to test a release candidate, or a new release, in I don't know how many releases....But if AmigaOS is not updating to newer versions of GNU make, then I don't want to maintain the (not insignificant amount of) special-case code currently existing to (not really) support it, in future releases. Fundamentally, for non-traditional operating systems it's not enough to just ask for it to be maintained. Someone has to volunteer to actively participate in the maintenance effort." (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
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Programming assistance: "AB_Template II" V0.58 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3
In contrast to "AB_Template" which is meant to support the development of games, "AB_Template II" is meant to help developing applications with AmiBlitz3. Here Sami Vehmaa published now the first version 0.58. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Video about history and usage of AmigaOne X1000 (Update)
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has published an extensive video about the AmigaOne X1000, which was officially announced by A-EON at the beginning of 2010. Kargin informs - with English subtitles and background music - about the history of the board, the installation in an unusual case, the installation of AmigaOS 4.1 and much more.
Update: (10.11.2022, 15:00, cg)
After the video had to be taken offline due to a copyright complaint, Kargin now provides an updated version with the disputed parts replaced with new footage. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Tutorial on installation of 3D graphics driver
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has published a detailed tutorial on Amigans.net in which he describes the correct installation of Warp3DNova, NovaBridge, MiniGL, Ogles2, and WarpOS-Emu so that everything that has to do with 3D runs best with RadeonHD or RadeonRX graphics cards. Eventually, you should be able to run games, applications and demos written for WarpOS or 68k. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
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DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 5)
'Drygol' is a member of the demoscene group Lamers and basically deals with retro computers in the form of restorations, upgrades etc. On his site Retrohax.net he not only offers various retro articles, but also runs a blog. Among other things he describes there his project 'Tesseract', the building of an Amiga 2000 from scratch with all maximum modifications. His project is based on the GitHub project of 'Floppie209', a replica of the Amiga2000 motherboard with Sprint layout. After the first four reports (1, 2, 3, 4) he published the fifth blog post of the series yesterday which amongst others is about adding a DVD drive. (dr)
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03.Nov.2022
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Programming contest: AmiGameJam 2022 launched
After the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, which just ended with numerous entries, the next contest for game programmers is already starting: At this year's edition of the "AmiGameJam" the motto is "Sword and Sorcery". Those who want to participate must submit a newly developed game with this theme to the organizers by April 30 at the latest.
The participants will again be divided into the two categories "OCS/AGA" and "AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS", voting will again be done by both the community and a group of official judges. The jurors and prizes will be announced as soon as last details are clarified. (cg)
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