25.Sep.2022
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Floppy disk drive for WinUAE: Waffle
Based on Robert Smith's FloppyBridge, Retrogiovedi.it offers at the title link a floppy disk drive in Amiga-inspired design called Waffle for use with the emulator WinUAE, with which ADF files can be created or written. (snx)
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25.Sep.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Development tool: vlink 0.17a
Frank Wille has updated the portable linker vlink, which copes with a variety of binary formats and is part of the compiler package vbcc. (snx)
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24.Sep.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 32 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 32 was published. (dr)
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24.Sep.2022
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Kickstarter campaign: Update on DB9-to-USB adapter of "Tank Mouse"
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign for the re-release of the wireless Commodore Mouse 1352 (amiga-news.de reported).
In a recent status update, he now explains again why the adapter cannot be produced as originally planned: for example, the price of the main chip had jumped from about $1 to over $15, and even at that price it would not have been available in some cases.
He has now had a new adapter designed by Lotharek. A prototype has already been built.
However, this adapter will cost much more than originally estimated. The money raised would not be enough to cover the production of the mouse and adapter. Therefore, everyone who is interested in the adapter is asked for an additional payment of 16 Euros. He will soon prepare a survey for all supporters asking who would like to have the adapter and who would not. Those who decide against it will receive their tank mouse as soon as it is made. Otherwise, both will be sent when the mouse and adaper are finished. (dr)
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24.Sep.2022
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Amiga37: Information on exhibitors and its booths (update 5)
There are still three weeks to go until Amiga37 in Mönchengladbach. For all those who were able to get hold of a ticket, we asked some exhibitors what visitors can expect at the respective booths, if there are any special events planned etc.
AAA Technology: A-EON / Amiga Kit / Amedia Computer
- one of the main sponsors of the Amiga37
- are represented by Matthew Leaman for AmigaKit / A-EON from the UK and Laurent Zorawski and Franck Bednarski for Amedia Computer from France
- A-EON's Linux expert Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzy from Germany will also be at the stand, showing AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS on his X5000/40
- unless prevented by international travel restrictions, Trevor Dickinson will also travel from New Zealand
- a whole range of Classic and Next-Generation Amiga goodies will be for sale, including complete X5000/40 computers
- After an unavoidable two-year break, AAA Technology would like to thank Markus Tillmann and the entire Amiga 37 team for bringing back this awesome show
ACube Systems
- the production of the Sam460 is progressing
- there will be some news about the laptop
- ACube Systems is looking forward to spend some time with the Amiga community
Alinea Computer
- Presentation of exclusive new products at the booth
- all OmniPort and Amega 32 adapters available
- Adapters will be demonstrated on the Amiga 1200 or CD32 and questions will be answered
- many other articles from the shop availble
AmiKit / Amiberry
- A special limited edition of AmiKit for Raspberry Pi will be available (physical product)
- The latest version of Amiberry will be shown running in different environments (both for games and the full RTG desktop experience). You can experience some of the unique features implemented and ask the author any questions directly
- A Lightwave expert will be demonstrating a special render farm built using Amiberry and multiple Raspberry Pi devices.
- Interview wit author of Amiberry
Andy Brenner (MiSTer FPGA / Amiga Germany print magazine)
- Amiga Germany print magazine issues 1, 2, 3 and 4 available
- his MiSTer FPGA systems with the possibility to test the whole thing live. Possibly there are also devices for purchase on site.
- special highlight: exclusive Amiga Fan Watch named A-Watch will be produced in limited numbers and can be bought, according to today's status, for a special price at the fair.
ApolloTeam
- big booth with presentation of all hardware ever built by Apollo Computer: from Zorro Amiga GFX cards, to NATAMI, all Vampires - and all new cards including SALAMANDER and MANTICORE
- large sales booth with, among other things, a new ICEDRAKE batch of over 100 cards
- additionally there are 8 seats where visitors can play
- SPACE INVADER championship: up to four players in the team can play at the same time - and win prizes
- once a day there are live programming classes: together with Arne and Gunnar visitors can learn to program a complete small game in assembler with graphics and music. All questions will be answered, you can take the game and its sources with you.
GoldenCode (aka Daytona675x)
- will be at the show with an NG-Amiga (X5000 or A1222) and two A1200s to present old and new golden game projects: "There will be enough joysticks for proper gambling, even a fine "Souverän Soccer" Cup is planned. The one or other souvenir for inclined visitors will certainly also be available."
Lukas Remis
- the initiator of the "Tank Mouse" project (amiga-news.de reported) will attend Amiga37 "presenting first factory-made pieces of Tank Mouse."
MorphOS-Team
- Planned are presentations of the latest MorphOS version and applications on:
- diverse PPC Amiga Classic devices
- PowerBooks
- AmigaOne X5000/40
- Presentation of the just released latest version of PageStream
- MorphOS developers answer questions about various topics around MorphOS
RELEC
(dr)
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24.Sep.2022
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 4.2
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek hat released version 4.2 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. It is now based on WebKitGTK 2.36.8 and thus fixes fixes several bugs within WebKit. Additionally, cURL and other libraries have been updated.
Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB) (dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2022, 06:20] [Comments: 0]
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23.Sep.2022
Twitter
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Review: MorphOS audio player bePlayer 1.4
David Brunet has published a review of the MorphOS multi-format audio player bePlayer by French developer Bruno Peloille on his Obligement news page. The original article is in French, but machine translations are provided. (dr)
[News message: 23. Sep. 2022, 08:51] [Comments: 0]
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23.Sep.2022
Ko-Fi
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AmigaOS 4: Code analysis with Cpppcheck V2.8r1
At the end of July, the AmigaOS 4 developer George 'walkero' Sokianos had already published the code analysis tool "Flawfinder", which searches for potential security holes in source files. Now he has ported Cppcheck, a program for static code analysis for the programming languages C and C++. A GUI is not available, the tool must be operated via the shell. (dr)
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22.Sep.2022
(ANF)
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Harvey 'Harv' Laser (AmigaZone, Amiga Companion) passed away
Harvey 'Harv' Laser was a US based Amiga journalist who published thousands of articles in various Amiga publications. He also established the commercial, Amiga-only online service 'AmigaZone' and maintained it for several decades. Laser passed away after a heart attack on July 5, 2022. Mike Battilana, who knew Laser for a long time, posted a short obituary in the 'Remembering our Friends' section of the Amiga Forever website. (cg)
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22.Sep.2022
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Unofficial successor: "It Returned From The Desert" for Windows
Tim Rachor's "It returned from the desert" (YouTube video of the early prototype) is supposed to be an unofficial successor of the Amiga game It came from the desert and is supposed to be released for Windows, maybe also for Linux and possibly Android if there is enough demand.
The game is written in Unity and is not supposed to be a sequel or remake, but an independent game. The gameplay is to be modernized a bit, offering fewer dead ends, thus avoiding tough trial&error. And the combat mini-game is to be replaced by tactical, turn-based combat - while retaining the great atmosphere and exciting story of the original. As Tim writes to us, he spent endless hours sitting at a friend's house as a kid enjoying this game. Even then, however, the many dead ends frustrated him, so he wanted to make it better with his game: more beginner-friendly, respectively fairer.
The goal is to finish the game in the course of this year. And if someone should find a way to port the finished game to the Amiga, he would be happy to give his permission, provided that the quality is maintained. But he has neither the know-how nor the time to do it himself. (dr)
[News message: 22. Sep. 2022, 10:23] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2022
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Business simulation: Unofficial update for Dynatech
Dynatech is an economic simulation game by Magic Bytes from 1993 for AGA-Amigas: raw materials and open spaces on Earth are exhausted, and the supply of mankind is to be secured through the discovery and development of alien planets. As the boss of "Dynatech", a gigantic corporation for the production of conveyor systems, building complexes and storage facilities, it is the player's task to get hold of transport orders and to enter the business with raw materials and refineries (taken from Amiga Games 11/92).
30 years after the release of this game, a user has now released an unofficial update that primarily transfers the German localization into English. Besides numerous minor bug fixes, however, the "Dynatech 30th Anniversary Edition" also fixes a problem with the AGA version of the game, which caused the original version to render with half the intended color precision bit depth. Likewise, the update features carefully redesigned graphics and user interface. (dr)
[News message: 22. Sep. 2022, 09:42] [Comments: 0]
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21.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4: New versions of newlib.library and string.gadget class
Via AmiUpdate two updated system files are availble: string.gadget lass 53.24 and Kickstart module newlib.library 53.80. Changes:
string.gadget V53.24
- Rewrote the SHK_PASSWORD handling in the GM_RENDER method in a way that does not require temporarily replacing the buffer in si->Buffer (fixes a race condition when STRINGA_TextVal is read).
- No longer temporarily writes an 'n' character to the end of the buffer, which should fix some nasty race conditions when accessing the buffer.
- Fixed the text cursor sometimes being rendered with a wrong width when placed at the end of the string. This bug was a side effect of changes made in the previous release.
newlib.library.kmod V53.80 (excerpt)
- Fixed the clock() function which was comparing time values using different different epochs, as well as time zones if the local time zone did not
happen to be GMT.
- Replaced GetSysTime() in rusage() and clock() with GetUpTime() which is guaranteed to be monotonically increasing.
- Fixed a bug in setstate() that would cause the long word in front of the previous state buffer to be overwritten instead of the the first long word in the buffer.
- Made always include as it is needed for SIZE_MAX, for now at least.
- Added the previously missing asnprintf(), vasnprintf(), _asnprintf_r() and vasnprintf_r() functions to shared object and small data builds of libc.
- Disabled .__newlib_version section and linker warnings for shared object build of libc.
- Updated libauto.a to the latest version with VBCC support.
- mongetpcs() now uses the locally opened elf.library interface instead of relying on a global IElf interface existing.
(dr)
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21.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonHD V5 (update)
At the end of October 2018, RadeonHD driver version 3.6 came out with the release of the "Enhancer Software Graphics Upgrade", as a supplement to the Enhancer 1.x package, which later also became part of Enhancer Software 2.0. With version 2.1 of Enhancer, version 3.7 of the graphics card driver was released.
Finally, version 2.2 of the Enhancer software was released recently, which did not include a new RadeonHD driver, but did include an updated version (1.11) of the va.library. The Video Acceleration Library was developed to support hardware video decoding on Radeon Polaris (RX) cards. Apparently, hardware acceleration for both Polaris RX cards and RadeonHD cards was already integrated in this version, but for the latter case, version 5 of the RadeonHD graphics card drivers was required, which was not yet available at that time (see AmigaKit's contribution on Amigans). Among other things, this resulted in the media player Emotion from Entwickler-X now crashing, because the software loaded the new va.library but did not find version 5 of the RadeonHD driver. This could only be solved by deactivating or reverting to the old version.
After purchasing it under the title link for 50 Euro at AmigaKit (still not available on AmiStore), now this driver is available as version 5.14 via the Updater tool, device-specific for the SAM 460 and the two AmigaOne computers, X1000 and X5000 and brings the driver up to the same feature set as the RadeonRX driver. Most important changes:
- Dropped support for all graphics cards older than Southern Islands
- switched to a new code-base for the core
- added Dynamic Power Management (DPM)
- added UVD (hardware accelerated video decoding) support
- added GART support
- A bunch of miscellaneous fixes and improvements
Suitable graphics cards can be found via the RadeonHD driver compatibility page.
The RadeonHD v5 driver works also fine without the Enhancer Software. But it is required for hardware accelerated video decoding.
Update: (24.09.2022, 07:38, dr)
According to AmigaKit in a press release, the new RadeonHD driver can be directly purchased on A-EON's website until he will be made available on AmiStore. (dr)
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20.Sep.2022
Ko-Fi
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Platformer: "BlobWars: Attrition" 1.2.2r2 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
A month ago, the AmigaOS 4 developer George 'walkero' Sokianos - among others aiostreams, Flawfinder, Lite XL or iGame - had released the first version of his port of the commercial platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" to AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported).
The now updated version is also available for MorphOS for the first time and offers a lot of bug fixes, but especially an improvement of the performance. So the game should now be playable on not so powerful computers and SDL renderers, as long as you have a graphics card with some memory available. Unfortunately, it still wouldn't be playable on computers with 32 MB of graphics memory or less. Also, the debugging window that appears when the game starts has been removed.
The developer himself tested the MorphOS version on a PowerBook G4, where it "worked quite well". On his X5000 with the Radeon HD 6850, the game unfortunately only worked with a software renderer and was not playable due to a lack of suitable drivers.
Anyone who wants to support the author has the opportunity to do so on his Ko-fi website. The author returns 50% of the donations to the community at the end of each month by supporting projects or developers. (dr)
[News message: 20. Sep. 2022, 06:28] [Comments: 0]
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20.Sep.2022
Hans de Ruiter
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AmigaOS 4: FTP-Server 'ZitaFTP' 1.35
A week ago Hans de Ruiter had released version 1.34 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP' (amiga-news.de reported). Users reported here crashes at program start, which was due to a missing initialization of AmiSSL. The bug has been fixed and version 1.35 is available for existing users either via AmiUpdate or as download under the title link. (dr)
[News message: 20. Sep. 2022, 06:11] [Comments: 0]
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19.Sep.2022
Erik Hogan
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.7
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
A few moments ago he has relesaed version 2022.7. Changes:
- Mouse support, including support for two simultaneous mice
- Improved support for separating assets for different targets (to make it easier to have specific animations or levels for OCS, AGA etc)
- Further performance gains from improved 68K compilation
- Various bug fixes and feature additions
You can support the developer on his Patreon website. (dr)
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18.Sep.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 31 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 31 was published. (dr)
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18.Sep.2022
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Aminet uploads until 17.09.2022
The following files have been added until 17.09.2022 to Aminet:
ZitaFTPServer.lha comm/tcp 14M OS4 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
MCE.lha game/edit 3.4M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.7M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.0M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ADoom-1.4.1.lha game/shoot 184K 68k Amiga port of DOOM
DoomSndLibs.lha game/shoot 31K 68k New Sound & Music Libraries f...
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.9M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
dS-tpro.lha text/bfont 123K high res topaz font for squar...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 1.9M 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
ColorPicker.lha util/wb 8K 68k tool for get color from Workb...
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18.Sep.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.09.2022
The following files have been added until 17.09.2022 to OS4Depot:
rave.lha aud/edi 2Mb 4.1 An editor for mono/stereo audio ...
a1xe_hardware_fixes.zip doc/tut 796kb 4.0 Official Eyetech AmigaOne XE USB...
eaqne.lzx gam/adv 15Mb 4.0 Adventure point and click with d...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 14Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 212kb 4.1 Ignition addon for access ods-files
ign-addon-xlsx.lha off/spr 301kb 4.0 Ignition addon for access xlsx-f...
ignition.lha off/spr 5Mb 4.1 A modern spreadsheet
ignition-src.lha off/spr 1Mb 4.0 A modern spreadsheet (source)
yt.lha vid/mis 799kb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
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18.Sep.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 17.09.2022
The following files have been added until 17.09.2022 to AROS Archives:
murks_0.6.0_fix.lha dev/ide 1Mb Murks an Integrated Development ...
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18.Sep.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.09.2022
The following files have been added until 17.09.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
Protrekkr_2.6.3r2.lha Audio/Tracker A hybrid of modern day ...
AmiArcadia_29.11.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
ACE_1.25.lha Emulation The acidulous CPC/CPC+ ...
EAQNE_demo.lzx Games/Adventure Adventure point and cli...
MCE_14.0.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
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