02.Oct.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.10.2022
The following files have been added until 01.10.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
Re2c_3.0.lha Development/GeekGadgets Scanner generator f. re...
SSA-1_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion SSA-1_1.1.lha
Willy_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Dandanator_1.0.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Dandanator_1.0.lha
DKTr-Speech_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion DKTr-Speech_1.1.lha
MirageImager_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Nova_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
TMPI-Speech_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Amdrum_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion ACEpansion plugin for A...
WormWars_9.3.lha Games/Action Advanced snake game by ...
DevilutionX_1.4.1r2.lha Games/Adventure Diablo build for modern...
LiteXL_2.0.3r3.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
Vim_9.0.583.lha Text/Edit A highly configurable t...
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02.Oct.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.10.2022
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 01.10.2022:
- 2022-10-01 improved: Turrican 2 (Factor 5/Rainbow Arts) 3-button joystick support (Info)
- 2022-10-01 improved: The Quest For The Time Bird / Auf der Suche nach dem Vogel der Zeit / La quête de l'oiseau du temps (Infogrames) support for Italian version added (Info)
- 2022-10-01 improved: Obitus (Psygnosis) fixed 68000 problems, hints added (Info)
- 2022-09-28 improved: Joe & Mac (Caveman Ninja) (Data East) interrupts fixed, manual protection correctly removed (Info)
- 2022-09-27 improved: Venom Wing (Thalamus/SoftEyes) rewritten, 68000 quitkey, ssp relocated, load/save to external file, uses less chip memory, new install script (Info)
- 2022-09-27 improved: Tip Off (ANCO) rewritten, fixed freeze on title screen, keyboard fixed, manual added, new install script (Info)
- 2022-09-27 improved: Purple Saturn Day (Exxos) fixed to run on NTSC, fixed some random crashes (Info)
- 2022-09-27 fixed: Ooops Up (Demonware) crash of second version on 68000 fixed (Info)
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02.Oct.2022
Erik Hogan (Twitter)
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Preview video: Shoot'em Up Hyperblaster (Inviyya 2)
At the end of last year, we reported about Michael 'Tigerskunk' Borrmann's announcement to write a successor for his shoot'em up 'Inviyya', released in spring 2021. Now he has published a new preview video of the Amiga 1200/Amiga 4000/CD32 version. As he wrote, "collisions are off, it's still a bit glitchy, no sound at the moment, but you can see where this is heading to". He is going to demonstrate the game at Amiga37. (dr)
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02.Oct.2022
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MP3 player: Reel Deck V0.60
After Atris, his Tetris clone for RTG Amigas, and AB_Template, his programming assistance for AmiBlitz 3, Sami Vehmaa has now released another project: Reel Deck is an MP3 player for Amigas with graphics card written in AmiBlitz 3 (YouTube video). You also need a fast CPU, AmigaOS3.x, AHI and at least 20 MB FastRAM. Reel Deck costs 3 Euro. (dr)
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01.Oct.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Cro-Mag Rally released
Two days ago we reported about Roman 'kas1e' Kargin's port of the racing game Cro-Mag Rally for AmigaOS 4. In the process, he and the original developer also solved some big endian issues. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky could now compile the game for Linux PowerPC (32-bit) and thus make it available for the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Linux distributions Void PPC 32-bit and MintPPC.
Download: CroMagRally_3.0.0_linux-powerpc.tar.gz (123 MB). (dr)
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01.Oct.2022
Puni / AmigaOldskooler (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of September
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published an illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of hardware and software for AmigaOS 4 in the month of September. (dr)
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01.Oct.2022
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.4
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
A few moments ago, version 5.4 has been released. Changes:
Bugfixes
- whdbooter settings were not all parsed correctly
- Fix CD audio not resuming after unminimize
- 32bit to 64bit clock counter missing update
- fixed macOS compile errors regarding uaeserial
- always use mouse 0 for mice, until SDL2 supports > 1 system mouse
- settings from XML db were not always parsed correctly
- fixed flickering in native modes when Fast copper was enabled
- copy all prefs when doing a hard reset
- Fixed some memory leaks
- Hard reset CPU startup was not identical to initial power up
- WHDbooter game paths with commas would not work
Improvements
- implemented Screenshot to file custom event
- Added the possibility to compile with a version of GCC older than 8.0
- P96 - Implement all previously implemented blitter operations
- Save also MSM6242B RTC model control registers to RTC file
- added uaeserial implementation from dev
- merged OpenGL experimental version from dev
- Make sure hardware emulated RTG boards don't have barrier at the start of VRAM space to fully support JIT direct
- merged CIA rewrite from dev
- Optimize compiler code generation for 'strlen()'
- Fix disk read handling when attempting to read from non-selected drive
- use double fields line mode by default
- brought statusline drawing closer to WinUAE method
Chors
- moved variable closer to scope
- minor sync from dev branch
- removed obsolete variables
WIP
- merge diffs from dev into master
- bring custom chip emulation closer to WinUAE
- synced gfxboard.h with dev
(dr)
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01.Oct.2022
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DIY project: ATX power adapter for Amiga 500 tower project
'wiretap-retro' has developed an adapter for its Amiga-500 tower project, which is attached to the motherboard or another suitable place in the case via two spacers. It allows the connection of a standard ATX power supply and provides a 4-pin molex connector (for the Amiga 500 power connector) and 3 standard fan connectors for 12V fans. The project is open source and can be modified as desired. (dr)
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01.Oct.2022
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Block-oriented copying: Device Streams 2.0.0
Roc Vallès i Domènech has updated the Amiga tool "Device-Streams" for block-oriented copying, similar to UNIX command dd, which was originally developed and released by Christian E. Hopps in 1993. AmigaOS 2.04+ is required. Changes:
- Cleaned up code.
- Removed SAS/C-isms and updated to build in modern toolchains.
- Use of 64bit offsets throughout.
- Safeguards added against 32bit overflow wraparound.
- Use dos.library for file I/O.
(dr)
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30.Sep.2022
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.0.9
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Today version 1.0.9 of the firmware was released. Changes:
- Full support for new ZuluSCSI hardware platform based on Raspberry Pi foundation's RP2040 microcontroller
- RP2040 bugfixes
- RP2040 SCSI initiator mode support
- RP2040: reduce boot delay by enabling cache during bootloader
Users of a blue ZuluSCSI V1.0/V1.1 board with firmware version 1.0.8 do not need to upgrade to version 1.0.9, as it does not contain any bug fixes or improvements over 1.0.8. (dr)
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30.Sep.2022
Amigans-Forum
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AmigaOS 4: Dungeon of Chess ported
Four months ago 'MrsRina' had written a simple chess game "Dungeon of Chess" in SDL2 and OpenGL 3 (YouTube video). Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has adapted this to AmigaOS 4, added background music and made some small corrections. The source files are included and offer, as he writes, a good way to get familiar with SDL programming. (dr)
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30.Sep.2022
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Video tutorial: Configuration of DrawBridge under WinUAE
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin FloppyBridge WinUAE is also officially supported since version 4.9.0 (amiga-news.de reported).
In his latest video Robert Smith takes you step by step through the setup of the FloppyBridge plugin in WinUAE. Starting with the installation of WinUAE followed by the configuration and explanation of all FloppyBridge options. (dr)
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29.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: free AMOS interpreter AMOS Kittens 0.9
Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand is working on an interpreter which can run AMOS source code under AmigaOS 4. As the developer wrote "on the Amos command this project tries to stay 99% compatible, a few command won't work as this project use a bit more modern chunky image format instead of the planar graphic format". (amiga-news.de reported). The source code is available on GitHub. Changes of version 0.9:
- Speed up "*skip_next_cmd(...)"
- Some changes were not committed before.
- Optimized Amos Kittens stack by removing state from the stack.
- Improvement I debugging.
- Token relocation for operator optimization.
- Math order operator optimization.
- Command Dir$ fixes.
- Fixed bug in Eof command
- Command "Resume Next" implemented.
- Command Input$(fd,length) fixed. (And some minor fixes.)
(dr)
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29.Sep.2022
Amigans-Forum
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AmigaOS 4: Racing game Cro-Mag Rally ported (update)
After his OpenGLES ports "Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast" and "Jedi Academy" (amiga-news.de reported), Roman 'kas1e' Kargin now has ported the racing game Cro-Mag Rally to AmigaOS 4 (YouTube video). The latest versions of OpenGLES2.library, Warp3Dnova.library and RadeonHD or RadeonRX graphics card drivers are required.
Update: (02.10.2022, 18:38, dr)
Meanwhile version 3.0.0.01 is available. Changes:
- added stack cookie of 1mb
- fixed missing bonuses/powerups on the race
- user data now saves as expected in root dir of game, and not in volume's root
(dr)
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29.Sep.2022
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Retro Trex Game Jam: DRex released
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', had organized the Retro Trex Game Jam. The goal was to create an identical or improved version of the well-known browser game Google T-Rex for a retro computer.
For this competition, Lorenzo di Gaetano released DRex (YouTube video), which was written in C with the help of the Planar Game Engine. The game runs on any Amiga with 1 MB RAM. An ADF file is available as well as a Workbench version. (dr)
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28.Sep.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.1
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today versions 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 were released. Changes:
- NEW: icons for .uss, .amigaprofile, .shrinklerstats, .objdump
- FIX: fix memory content for multi-frame captures (was wrong after frame 1)
- FIX: screen: center reference screenshot (probably still wrong)
- CHG: screen: zoom panel size, clipping
- NEW: screen: show bitplane pointers
- CHG: screen: improve performance by 40%
- NEW: screen: mouse click&drag to set time
- NEW: screen: Freeze frame to visualize drawing (+ Memory overlay)
- CHG: profiler: improve loading performance by >1000%
- CHG: profiler: multi-frame captures are now loaded in the background for faster startup time
- CHG: savestate: show progress bar during profiling
- NEW: Amiga: Clean Temp Files to delete .amigaprofile files from your temp path.
- FIX: the terminal didn't re-open once closed
- FIX: disassembly: fix divul, divsl, FPU, fmoveml (see 68k-dis.ts)
- FIX: #128 Can't use the image converter link
- FIX: #129 Screen and Resources tabs have no scroll bars so I can't see the bottom of a tall image
- FIX: improved behavior of jumping from assembly to source (still sometimes the source window disappears)
- NEW: update to latest WinUAE
- FIX: screen: freeze frame memory was wrong
- FIX: resource: possibly very slow performance when using Copper Palette
(dr)
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28.Sep.2022
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Debugging tool: PatchWork 1.0
More than ten years after the last version 0.17, Richard Körber has released version 1.0 of his debugging tool PatchWork today.
Similar to MuForce and Mungwall it ensures that calls to AmigaOS libraries are AutoDocs compliant. Illegal parameters (e.g. NULL where a pointer is expected) are reported. PatchWork helps to make program code more robust and future-proof.
The source code was previously closed. Richard Körner has checked and reformatted the files and made the project compilable with vbcc on Linux (and probably other systems). The source code is now open for everyone to contribute, study, etc. Changes:
- After 25 years, I guess PatchWork is finally due for a major version bump.
- Now built on Linux using vasm.
- Checks AmigaOS V40 calls. Actually, the only check that needed to be added was graphics.library/WriteChunkyPixels.
- DISPC is now the default behavior. Use the new option NODISPC to explicitly disable PC disassembly on PatchWork hits.
- Bugfix: intuition/SetPointer() hit output was incorrect (reported by @Hagbard-Celin). This bug was there since 1997.
- Correct library name is shown even if A6 is not pointing to the library base.
(dr)
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28.Sep.2022
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Boing Attitude: Second part of interview with Apollo team
At the end of march, the first part of an interview with the Apollo team was published, which originally was printed in issue 3 of the French magazine Boing. Now the second part is available on the homepage and was originally printed in issue 4. (dr)
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28.Sep.2022
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Obligement: Interview with Jérôme Senay (Boing Attitude)
On his Obligement website, David Brunet has published an interview with the publisher of the French magazine Boing and the quiz game AskMeUp XXL, Jérôme 'Glames' Senay. (dr)
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26.Sep.2022
Ko-fi
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Editor: Lite XL 2.0.3r3 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS released
At the end of last year, George 'walkereo' Sokianos released the first version v1.16.12.3 of his port of the editor 'Lite XL' (amiga-news.de reported) for AmigaOS 4 and in June an update to version 2.0.3r2 which also included a port for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.0.3r3 released today provides the following changes:
Added
- Added plugin for AmigaGuide files
- Added plugin for Hollywood files
Fixed
- Fixed non existing path crashes on OS4 and MorphOS
- Fixed editor refresh whenever init.lua is changed, no matter the working folder
- Fixed an issue when the user added a directory in the project that already existed
- Fixed locale issue on start for MorphOS. Now it should start just fine no matter what locale the user has on his system.
- Fixed "Find" on MorphOS that was not working (shortcut CTRL+F)
- If the user selects to change the project folder and inserts Sys: or any partition name, the included folders will be listed as suggestions
Changed
- Removed linking with unix on OS4 build
- Makefiles updated
(dr)
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26.Sep.2022
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Editor: MUI-Vim V9.0.583 for AmigaOS4 and MorphOS
MUI-Vim is a port of the editor Vim. This editor is intended for editing programs as well as plain text files. Multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, block operations and scripting are some of the features. Ola 'sodero' Söder has now ported
version 9.0.583 of VIM and released it for AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. (dr)
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