07.Jan.2025
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Documentary: Louis Castle talks about the history of Westwood Studios
The latest episode of the YouTube documentary series "Titans of the Industry" focuses on Louis Castle, co-founder of legendary developer studio Westwood Studios. The episode provides exciting insights into the creation of iconic games such as Dune 2, The Lion King, California Games and Command and Conquer.
Louis Castle talks about the beginnings of Westwood Studios, which was founded in 1985 as a porting studio for Amiga and Macintosh games, and how the studio developed into a real-time strategy giant of the 90s. With millions of copies of its titles sold, Westwood has had a lasting impact on the video game industry. This episode is a must for fans of classic games and those interested in retro gaming. (nba)
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07.Jan.2025
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SCSI for Raspberry Pi: SCSI2Pi 5 released as a pre-release
A new version of the SCSI2Pi emulation software is available as a pre-release. SCSI2Pi is an alternative to the well-known PiSCSI software for the PiSCSI/RaSCSI board, which brings SCSI technology to the Raspberry Pi. According to developer Uwe Seimet, the software offers optimised device emulation, higher transfer rates and numerous new functions, including tools for the SCSI initiator mode.
The software emulates several SCSI and SASI devices such as hard disks, CD-ROM drives, printers and network interfaces.It supports classic systems such as Amiga, Atari ST/TT/Falcon030, 68k Macs or Unix workstations and also offers a SCSI-to-USB bridge. Thanks to compatibility with the PiSCSI Web UI and the SCSI Control Android app, users can access advanced functionality.
With SCSI2Pi, users can seamlessly switch between PiSCSI and the new software by simply installing an optimised binary package – without complicated compilation steps.
The current version 4.1 of SCSI2Pi has been available since the beginning of December, and now version 5.0 has been released as a pre-release. It offers the following changes:
- New device type SCSG, with support for a SCSI-to-USB bridge. The bridge supports any SCSI command, not only those emulated by s2p. With some devices you can even burn DVDs.
- Extended streamer support, e.g. of SIMH-compatible tape image files, filemarks, spacing, variable block sizes, ...
- Tape dump/restore support. With s2pdump you can convert any tape into a SIMH-compatible image file and vice versa.
- s2p can create command scripts for s2pexec.
- The maximum number of data bytes to log can be configured with s2p and s2pexec.
- s2pexec and s2pdump now also support devices which are managed by the Linux SG driver. For these devices no Pi is required, i.e. you can use s2pexec and s2pdump on any Linux platform.
- s2psimh tool for the analysis and creation of SIMH-compatible image files. This tool runs on any Linux/BSD platform and on macOS.
- s2pformat tool for formatting floppy disks or other media, e.g. in USB drives. This tool runs on any Linux platform.
The software can be downloaded from the SCSI2Pi-website. All the latest source codes can also be found on the GitHub project page. (nba)
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06.Jan.2025
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy V5.1.1 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.1.1 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for Greaseweazle Tools V1.21 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes since our last news item:
- Fixes missing prefix in the diskdefs form spec selection
- Requires Greaseweazle 1.21
- Options: former location of "diskdefs.cfg" is now a folder select !
- Supports now the different "Diskdefs_.cfg" files (change options: "Diskdefs (folder)")
- Diskdefs (2024-10-23) added (change options: "Diskdefs (folder)")
- Read/Write: New disc formats: micropolis.*
- Sourcecode: Removed unused variables
(dr)
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06.Jan.2025
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Audio player: UADE-Plugin 0.12.4 for Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS)
"audacious-uade" is a plugin for the audio player Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS), which allows the use of the Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator as an input filter. In the new Version 0.12.4, support for Scream Tracker 2 has been added, among other things. (dr)
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06.Jan.2025
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Racing game: Carmageddon 1.02
A reverse engineering project brings the PC classic Carmageddon to the Classic Amiga: the conversion of Arcziii (video) is based on the original engine, was adapted for the 68k architecture and requires the original game data of Carmageddon (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 1.02 offers a 20% improved performance, fixed graphic errors of the workbench after closing and OS3.2 compatible icons. (dr)
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06.Jan.2025
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Dungeon Crawler: Custom maps for "The Shadows of Sergoth"
The dungeon crawler "The Shadows of Sergoth" was released in 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer 'quantumcodemonk' has, as he writes, created a few custom maps for the game "just for fun". The aim was to create something "a bit harder... a lot harder" and is asking for feedback in this regard. The original game is required. (dr)
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06.Jan.2025
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Browser extension: AGuide Viewer 0.6
AGuide Viewer is an open source reader for AmigaGuide documents implemented as a browser extension. It works with Firefox and Chromium on all platforms (amiga-news.de berichtete).
As the author explains, version 0.6 adds the feature to render web links in the AmigaGuide magazine WhatIFF and a configurable theme: the page can now be rendered in OS3 style (gray background, beveled 3D-effect buttons) or using the browser's native web page settings. (dr)
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06.Jan.2025
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Christmas game: The Young Icefighter, Level 4
"The Young Icefighter" is a Christmas game for children created with the "Shoot'em Construction Kit", for which the developer's eight-year-old son drew most of the graphics (amiga-news.de reported). Now a bonus level and level 4 have been added. (dr)
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05.Jan.2025
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Aminet uploads until 04.01.2025
The following files have been added until 04.01.2025 to Aminet:
TuneFinderMUI.lha comm/misc 66K OS3 Search+play online radi...
screennotify-E.lha dev/e 1K OS3 Amiga E modules for scr...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 6.0M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
CDVDFS-1.10-AmigaOS.lha disk/cdrom 182K OS3 CD/DVD filesystem:ISO-9...
SFS.lha disk/misc 439K VAR Smart Filesystem
mhimasplayer.lha driver/aud 32K OS3 MHI driver for MAS-Play...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 255K OS3 ANAIIS USB Stack Releas...
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 259K OS3 ANAIIS USB Boot disk Re...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 82K OS3 Massive release 1.25
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake/Tron gam...
WormWars.lha game/actio 857K OS3 Advanced snake/Tron gam...
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 904K MOS Advanced snake/Tron gam...
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 346K OS4 Conversion of 3W board ...
Africa.lha game/board 297K OS3 Conversion of 3W board ...
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 398K MOS Conversion of 3W board ...
Saga-OS4.lha game/board 455K OS4 Conversion of TSR board...
Saga.lha game/board 388K OS3 Conversion of TSR board...
SagaMOS.lha game/board 433K MOS Conversion of TSR board...
F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 11K GEN 2024 Carset for F1GP
babeanoid_backs.lha game/misc 785K GEN BabeAnoid 2.0 babes bac...
PuzzleTiles_AROS.lha game/think 3.4M ARO Puzzle game working on ...
PuzzleTiles_MorphOS.lha game/think 3.3M MOS Puzzle game working on ...
PuzzleTiles_OS4.lha game/think 3.8M OS4 Puzzle game working on ...
ATcad-Turbo.zip gfx/edit 324K OS3 2D-CAD-Program
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 37M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia ...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 9.8M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 9.2M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 9.5M MOS Signetics-based machine...
illusion.lzh pix/anim 486K GEN motion illusion
ATcad_Turbo.png pix/misc 23K GEN ATcad-Turbo
NAFCYI1991S4-B02.zip text/bfont 1.6M GEN NAFCYI Winter 1991-92 (...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.9M OS3 free icon.library in op...
MMULib.lha util/libs 788K OS3 Library to ctrl the MC6...
GoVD.lha util/wb 28K OS3 Virtual Desktops for Wo...
StartWin.lha util/wb 105K OS3 Two bugged Workbench la...
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05.Jan.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 04.01.2025
The following files have been added until 04.01.2025 to OS4Depot:
vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 261kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 255kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmppc_std.lha dev/cro 216kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vlink.lha dev/cro 199kb 4.0 A portable linker, written in AN...
sfs.lha dri/fil 370kb 4.0 Smart Filesystem
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
xircomce2.lha dri/net 90kb 4.0 Driver for Xircom PCMCIA network...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 10Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake/Tron game
africa.lha gam/boa 346kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
saga.lha gam/boa 455kb 4.0 Conversion of TSR board game
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 37Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 2Mb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
amigen.lha off/dat 6Mb 4.0 Genealogist program
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05.Jan.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 04.01.2025
The following files have been added until 04.01.2025 to AROS Archives:
image2pdf.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 3Mb Convert images file to PDF
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05.Jan.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.01.2025
The following files have been added until 04.01.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
Frodo_4.5.lha Emulation Frodo - The free, porta...
fheroes2_1.1.5.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
PuzzleTiles_1.0.lha Games/Think Puzzle game working on ...
AmigaGPT_2.2.0.lha Misc App for chatting to Cha...
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05.Jan.2025
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Hyperion Entertainment: Timothy De Groote new director
After Hyperion Entertainment initially continued to be managed by a court-appointed administrator, the current register entry at the title link now lists Timothy De Groote again as director of the company. Anyway insolvency lawyer Bart De Moor remains responsible for Hyperion as the court-appointed liquidator. (snx)
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05.Jan.2025
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A600GS: Video update from Proteque on the development status
After his video from summer on image and music editing with the Orange Pi-based Amiga clone A600GS from AmigaKit, in which he still had to report on various problems, 'Proteque' has now followed up and taken a look at the current status of the system.
His conclusion: A lot has happened, updates are coming regularly and the A600GS now fulfills what he had previously expected. It would therefore be an inexpensive way to try out AmigaOS or to play a game with a real joystick and a real Amiga keyboard. (snx)
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05.Jan.2025
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Virus Help Team: 30th anniversary
Founded on January 1, 1995 and strengthened within six months by branches in Norway, the Netherlands and Canada, the Virus Help Team has shrunk to just two people today, Jan Andersen and Jan Nielsen, but thirty years later it is still active in helping Amiga users with virus problems and supporting the authors of anti-virus programs. (snx)
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04.Jan.2025
Cameron Armstrong
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.2.0 with ApolloOS-support
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool can be downloaded separately.
The new version now also supports ApolloOS (amiga-news.de reported). In addition, the following changes and bug fixes have been made:
- Image preview now works in MorphOS and in MUI 3 (AmigaGPT now has MCC_Guigfx as a prerequisite)
- Replace the chat output sections from MCC_TextEditor class to MCC_NFloattext for improved memory usage and compatibility with ApolloOS
- Improved encoding to and from UTF-8 with enhanced character lookalike remapping (AmigaGPT now has codesets.library as a prerequisite)
- Fix crash when the first data chunk received from OpenAI is smaller than the HTTP header
- Fix crash when OpenAI sends a blank content string
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2,1 MB) (nba)
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03.Jan.2025
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Video-Tutorial: AMOS program for extracting Hex colour codes
In another video of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains his self-written program for extracting the hexadecimal colour values of bobs in .abk files and hexadecimal colour codes from .iff files. The source code of the program is available free of charge on his Website. (dr)
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03.Jan.2025
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Bugfix for the MHI driver for MAS-player
Thomas Wenzel wrote: "There was a bug in the MHI driver for the MAS player that caused some of the RS232 handshake lines to become misaligned at startup. This has now been fixed: The driver now leaves the serial interface completely alone.
The error was noticed because there is a project that uses one of the RS232 lines to control an HDMI switch. Unfortunately, the switching status was always overwritten when the driver was started.
Happy New Year! :)" (cg)
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03.Jan.2025
Dante Mende (discord)
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Action-Adventure: CD32 update for Castlevania AGA
Dante Mende has released another update of his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure "Castlevania" and now also provides a CD32 version with CD music and some optimisations. (dr)
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02.Jan.2025
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Emulated Amiga: Amigakit announces A1200NG, special price for pre-orders
In a press release (PDF), Amigakit announces the "A1200NG", which, like the A600GS available since August, is apparently based on an ARM-based Orange Pi motherboard running a Linux-based Amiga emulator - hardware performance and software setup are therefore exactly the same as its little brother. The highlight of the A1200NG: The "breakout board", into which the Orange Pi is plugged and which extends it with various connections, has the exact dimensions of an Amiga 1200 board and is therefore installed in an original or reproduced A1200 keyboard housing.
Instead of a PCMCIA slot, the A1200NG features a CompactFlash slot, the connection for an external floppy disk drive is replaced by two USB ports. While there is still a composite video connector, there is currently "no driver support" for it. The A1200NG provides an HDMI signal by default, which is routed to the expansion slot below the A1200 floppy disk drive - a corresponding slot bracket is included with the purchase.
The A1200NG comes with an Amiga-compatible joystick port as standard, but the adjacent mouse/joystick port is located on an extra board which must be purchased separately. The parallel port and TV modulator have been omitted.
In addition to Bluetooth and WLAN, the A1200NG board also has connections for an original A1200 keyboard and a real Amiga floppy disk drive, but the use of USB keyboards and floppy disk drives (including Greaseweazle) is also possible.
Delivery is planned for the first quarter of 2025, but pre-orders are already being accepted. The motherboard is available for a special introductory price of around 163 euros until January 20, after which it will cost 192 euros. A plastic foil for insulation against a metal shielding plate (4.60 euros), a LED adapter (10.70 euros), a 2nd joystick connector (8.05 euros) or a larger micro SD card (128 instead of 64 GB, 8.30 euros) are available for an additional charge. Amigakit does not currently offer matching A1200 cases or keyboards. (cg)
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02.Jan.2025
Marcin Spoczynski (E-Mail)
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Internet radio: TuneFinderMUI 0.4
TuneFinderMUI searches for Internet radio stations and offers various filter options. Individual stations can be exported to a file
or played directly with AmigaAMP, even entire station lists can be can be saved as a playlist in PLS format - which is also supported by AmigaAMP.
The newly added MUI-based version is intended to complement the original, Intuition-based program released in November with one featuring a more modern user interface. In version 0.4 the user interface's layout was reorganized again. Tunefinder is written in C, the source code is available on Github. (cg)
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