06.Oct.2022
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Preview video: Beat'em Up 'Metro Siege'
In the latest preview video of the side-scrolling beat'em up Metro Siege (amiga-news.de reported) the developers show the latest changes and also give a first glimpse of an action platformer in development called "Scorpion Boy", which is written with the Scorpion Engine. (dr)
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06.Oct.2022
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Rogue-like game: Roguecraft announced
Budger Punch has so far released games for the Commodore 64, including Rogue64. As in Roguelike games, you have to go through a cube-shaped tentacle-terror maze in search of treasures and glory. Now one of the developers, Ricki Sickenger, has announced an Amiga version of it with improved graphics and adapted features:
As he explains to us, "Roguecraft will not be a 1:1 conversion of Rogue64. It will contain a lot of the same gameplay, but with some of the enhancements we wanted to have in the C64 version, and some new things that use the Amiga capabilities."
It was their first Amiga game, he said. He and his fellow used to be active in the Amiga demo scene, and they wanted to make an Amiga game to relive the joy of developing on this great machine. The game is announced for early next year. (dr)
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06.Oct.2022
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Video: Short tutorial for AMOS Pro
In another part of his series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported) the retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains how to open windows. (dr)
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05.Oct.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Billy Frontier ported
After Cro-Mag Rally and Otto Matic, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has now compiled a third game for Linux PowerPC (32-bit), Billy Frontier, which had just been ported to AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). The game should work under the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Linux distributions Fienix, Void PPC 32-bit and MintPPC.
Download: BillyFrontier_1.1.0-linux-powerpc.tar.gz (80 MB). (dr)
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05.Oct.2022
George Sokianos
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AmigaOS 4.1: Software Development Kit V54.16 released
Press release: October 5, 2022
Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a very substantial and comprehensive update of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for AmigaOS 4.1 54.16.
New functionality includes but is not limited to:
- the inclusion of different versions of the GCC compiler starting from the old 6.4.0, to 8.4.0, 10.3.0 and 11.2.0 which can be selected during installation including the option to install multiple versions
- the addition of a tool added to set the default gcc version
- SPE optimized binaries can be generated by using GCC 6.4 for maximum performance on systems equipped with an SPE
- vbcc compiler is once more included in the SDK, configured to work “out of the box”
- Simplegit and Subversion are now included
- Profyler 1.1 added and Hieronymus updated to 0.50 version
- Updated the include headers and the autodoc documentation
- Added extended documentation for all the GCC versions included
- AmiSSL 5.3 SDK is included
- Latest AutoDocViewer 1.4 is included
- newlib and clib updated to the latest versions
- ExecSG SDK updated to the latest version
- Many code examples were updated to reflect the newest changes, removing obsolete API calls
- Updated the "AmigaOS 4.1 SDK.pdf" with new sections and format
- Many more tools were updated to their respective latest versions
Hyperion Entertainment wishes to extend its special thanks and appreciation to George Sokianos as well as the AmigaOS 4.x development team for making this happen!
If you want to support our efforts further, please head over to our AmigaOS merchandise store. (dr)
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05.Oct.2022
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Fourth beta version of TinyGL
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen had offered a bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link, which has been successfully funded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has released the fourth public beta version of his TinyGL update.
Among other things, shaders on the Radeon R500 graphics card are now supported, various shader-related bug fixes and optimizations have been made, and the ShaderBoy tool for testing and playing around with shaders has been included. (dr)
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05.Oct.2022
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Feature test in AMOS: Minigame None Of Us
The group 'ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP', known among other things for the fantasy shooter Project Quest, which is currently in development, has today released a minigame called "None Of Us", which is intended to test how to obscure the player's opponents with light and shadow in AMOS Pro (YouTube video). It is explicitly not a game under development.
An Amiga with ECS chip, 2MB chip RAM and a fast CPU are required. (dr)
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05.Oct.2022
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.14
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.
Changes of the new version 0.9.14:
- Added condition Contains Tile that checks all tiles colliding with a big object.
- In AGA black borders hidin copper are back.
- Compatibility with Kickstart 1.3 is back.
- Added Collisions in the profiler screen.
- Levels can be exported in TMJ format in order to be used in Tiled.
- When using level properties music, the music will not restart if it is the same as before.
- Level properties screen layout has changes in preparation of some new cool features.
- WHDLoad slave names changed to make them easier to understand.
- Fix in Level Properties screen.
- Fixes when building projects.
- Fixes for some gfx gliches.
- Some small optimizations.
(dr)
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05.Oct.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Kernel 6.0 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Right after the release of the final Linux kernel 6.0, which is the successor of version 5.19, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered it for download in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum. There you can also find a screenshot showing the Fienix distribution using the current kernel. (dr)
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04.Oct.2022
Claude Schwarz
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PiStorm32: lite variant announced
Claude Schwarz' PiStorm connects a Raspberry Pi to the CPU socket of an Amiga via adapter and uses the British single-board computer to emulate a fast m68k processor. The variant for the Amiga 1200 is called "PiStorm32".
Now the developer has announced a PiStorm32-lite variant in a Tweet from yesterday, which should mainly take into account the current component shortage problems and is supposed to become cheaper. As the developer explained to us, the goal is to run identical firmware on both models as far as possible. The project is still at the beginning. (dr)
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04.Oct.2022
Markus Tillmann
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Amiga37: Schedules published
The Amiga37 will take place on October 15 and 16, 2022 in Mönchengladbach (information about some exhibitors). Now Markus Tillmann has published the schedules for Saturday and Sunday:
(dr)
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03.Oct.2022
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Developer tool: vasm 1.9a
Frank Wille has updated his portable and retargetable assembler vasm to version 1.9a. AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS are supported. Changes:
- Reads the input from stdin when no source file name is given.
- Small performance improvements. Tuned hash table sizes. Reduced memory allocations and deallocations.
- Do not ignore the path from the main source when looking for a file.
- Can build low-memory version of vasm with minimal hash tables, by compiling with -DLOWMEM.
- Do not allow exporting equates which are based on imported symbols.
- Search for include files in the current work directory first, then in the compile directory.
- New option -maxpasses to adjust the maximum number of passes while resolving a section.
- New option -nocompdir to disable compile directory based include file lookup completely.
- New option -v to print version and copyright.
- m68k: -no-opt option really ovrrides all "opt o" and "opt a" directives from the source now.
- m68k: Fixed 68030/68851 PMOVE issue with TC and MMUSR, caused by a conflict with MOVEC control registers of the same name.
- m68k: New Apollo instructions DBcc.L and MOVE2.
- m68k: Fixed Apollo MOVE immediate addressing mode to vector register.
- m68k: Fixed Apollo SUBI banked instruction (one word missing).
- m68k: Added Apollo banking prefix support for MOVE.L Bn, and MOVE.L ,Bn.
- m68k: Apollo LSLQ and LSRQ default to a .W operation size when missing. The remaining AMMX instructions should be .Q.
- m68k: Make sure AMMX 64-bit constants are parsed with full precision.
- m68k: Added missing Apollo FMOVE addressing modes.
- 6502: Added support for the WDC 65816 and 65802 8/16 bits instruction set, including some new directives for selecting Accumulator and Index width.
- z80: Fix for GBZ80 "ld (c),a" and "ld a,(c)".
- mot-syntax: ASSERT directive.
- mot-syntax: macro arguments within <..> allow additional '>' characters inside a string without terminating the argument (vasm default mode only, not for Devpac-compatibility).
- std-syntax: New option -gas for stricter GNU-as compatibility.
- std-syntax: Supports one-digit temporary labels, where the nearest previous label may be referenced by Nb and the nearest following by Nf.
- oldstyle-syntax: New directives SYMDEPEND and NEEDS. They define a dependency of the current section from an external symbol, which must be resolved by the linker.
- oldstyle-syntax: Anonymous labels may be defined with a single ':' and referenced by ':+' or ':-'.
- hunk-output: Converts NONE-relocs to 8-bit ABS with a warning.
- hunk-output: Improved short-reloc output and work around AmigaOS LoadSeg() limitations/bugs.
- o65-output: Check bad addends for 8-bit relocations.
(dr)
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03.Oct.2022
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Sokoban conversion in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2
Our readers might know the Polish developer 'Tukinem' by his farm simulation 'Farmiga' which is in development (amiga-news.de reported). Last year he learned AMOS and his first game implemented with it was a Sokoban conversion of a 53 level game originally released for MS-DOS. Yesterday, he added a Sokoban prototype for it, which he wrote in Ultimate Blitz Basic 2. (dr)
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03.Oct.2022
Hollwood-Forum
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Hollwood application: Lyrics Jukebox
Ralf Gruner has written Hollywood, a music player that was originally intended to be the basis for a built-in device for historical jukebox wallboxes.
As the author writes, the program was originally only supposed to play music and text, and control would have been via the buttons on a wallbox. Instead, it now has a full GUI that is optimized for small touchscreens, but also works with large screens. The GUI elements are built entirely with Hollywood.
The program displays synchronized lyrics in parallel with the music playback, which must be in LRC format. Besides playing playlists or shuffling the files, it can also be used in jukebox style, offering the user the tracks in the form of jukebox title strips.
The author actually released the program only for Linux and Windows, but added implementations for AmigaOS 3, 4, MOrphOS and AROS on request. These then however untested. The Hollywood plugins Avcodec and Svgimage are required. Screenshots and more info are available under the title link.
Download: Lyrics_Jukebox_0.9.60.7z (main archive, 5.3 MB)
Download: Lyrics_Jukebox_0.9.60_untested.zip (Amiga executables, 16 MB).
(dr)
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03.Oct.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Otto Matic ported
After Cro-Mag Rally, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has now compiled a second game for Linux PowerPC (32-bit), Otto Matic, which had just been ported to AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). The developer has tested the game under the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Linux distributions Void PPC 32-bit and MintPPC.
Download: OttoMatic_4.0.0-linux-powerpc.tar.gz (137 MB). (dr)
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02.Oct.2022
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AmigaOS 4: "Otto Matic" and "Billy Frontier" ported
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has ported two other games to AmigaOS 4:
Pangea Software's "Otto Matic" (YouTube video) was first released for Mac OS 9 and X in 2001 and was included with some Mac models of that time. Kargin further writes about it:
"The game was eventually ported to 32-bit Intel Macs, but it stopped working when macOS 10.15 discontinued 32-bit support. Pangea Software allowed Iliyas Jorio to update the original game to keep it running on today's major desktop platforms. This update aims to be faithful to the original. Elements of the presentation and handling were slightly updated. AmigaOS 4 port is based on Jorio's work and compiled with GCC 11.3.0 and latest GL4ES and SDL2. Video recorded on X5000 with RadeonRX 560 and all latest beta components."
"Billy Frontier" is also from Pangea Software and is an arcade-style action game with a "cowboys in space" theme (YouTube video). The player fights in duels, shootouts and brawls. The game was released in 2003 for PowerPC Macs, the port to AmigaOS 4 is also based on Iliyas Jorio's work.
Both games can be downloaded from OS4Depot. Downloads:
billyfrontier.lha (82 MB)
ottomatic.lha (144 MB)
(dr)
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02.Oct.2022
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Amega 32 adapter: Wireless Mega Drive gamepads are now supported
The Amega 32 is an adapter for the AmigaCD 32 to use SEGA Mega Drive gamepads (DB9) with 6 or 3 buttons (amiga-news.de reported).
Now Alinea Computer has updated the firmware of its Amega 32 adapter. Version 1.4.2 now also supports wireless Mega Drive gamepads in 6-button mode. All who want to update their adapter or want to update it themselves, please contact Alinea Computer. (dr)
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02.Oct.2022
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Tool: identify-library 40.1
At the end of last year, Richard Körber released the source code of his identify.library on GitHub. He also he took the opportunity to go through the source code again, reformatted it and translated the comments from German into English. The identify library is used to recognize Zorro cards by their manufacturer and product ID, provides information about the system (CPU, FPU, memory, clock frequency etc.) and to decode guru codes and function offsets. These functions can also be used via the included tools, as well as in ARexx and installer scripts.
Under the title link he now has released version 40.1 which includes more manufacturers and boards. Both a developer and user package are available. (dr)
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02.Oct.2022
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Aminet uploads until 01.10.2022
The following files have been added until 01.10.2022 to Aminet:
CloudDav_1.6.lha comm/net 501K MOS A WebDav client
Dzon_Demo_Compilation... demo/disk 880K 68k Dzon Demo Compilation Disk 1 ...
Dzon_Demo_Compilation... demo/disk 880K 68k Dzon Demo Compilation Disk 2 ...
tek-transhuman_pachin... demo/disk 2.0M 68k Transhuman / Pachinkoland - G...
wla_dx-mos.lha dev/cross 3.4M MOS 8-bit CPU Cross Macro Assembl...
OsGrind.lha dev/debug 30K 68k Configurable Os argument checker
PatchWork.lha dev/debug 48K 68k Validate library calls with A...
device-streams.lha disk/misc 87K 68k Copy block devices and stream...
device-streams_src.lha disk/misc 33K Copy block devices and stream...
WormWars.lha game/actio 897K 68k Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-AROS.zip game/actio 701K x86 Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 944K MOS Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake/Tron game
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 15K 2022 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 3.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.8M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.1M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Amdrum.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 8K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
MirageImager.ACEpansi... misc/emu 17K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
LN4Lv7.lha mods/misc 2.6M LN4Lv7 4ch MED track by HKvalhe
hippoplayerSource.lha mus/play 1.3M HippoPlayer source code
Vim_9.0-ppc-amigaos.lha text/edit 14M OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_9.0-ppc-morphos.lha text/edit 14M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
Reqtools-Wide.lha util/libs 44K 68k Double Width Reqtools
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 1.9M 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
UHCGUI-Current.lha util/wb 58K 68k GUI frontend for the UHC-Tool...
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02.Oct.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.10.2022
The following files have been added until 01.10.2022 to OS4Depot:
vlink.lha dev/cro 176kb 4.0 A portable linker, written in AN...
amoskittens.lha dev/lan 2Mb 4.1 Amos the kitten is amos basic in...
dungeonofchess.lha gam/boa 13Mb 4.1 Simple game written with usage o...
cromagrally.lha gam/dri 125Mb 4.1 Wildest racing game since man in...
devilutionx.lha gam/rol 11Mb 4.1 SDL Port of Diablo and Hellfire
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
libsfml.lha lib/mis 5Mb 4.1 Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
litexl.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
vim_mui.lha uti/tex 14Mb 4.1 The ubiquitous text editor
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02.Oct.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.10.2022
The following files have been added until 01.10.2022 to AROS Archives:
dosbox.i386-aros.lha emu/com 2Mb Dosbox a PC Emulator
wormwars.i386-aros.zip gam/act 701kb Advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade...
sdlscav-145.4.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 384kb Lode Runner clone
drawer-app.lha gra/ico 171kb Collection of Drawer Icons for A...
icongamegorillazdrawer.lha gra/ico 352kb Collection of Drawer Game Icons ...
arzip.i386-aros.zip uti/arc 153kb arZip zip file archiver
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