• muzzle flash is now integrated into the player ships, so no hard gaps here anymore. Made it procedurally during loading so that the respective assets can still be easily edited.
• blinking hitbox on player ships (maybe I'll put that a few pixels down)
• new pseudo-ground enemy mode. The spiders at the beginning of the test-level use that mode. Physically such enemies are drawn on playfield 2 (so they can have their own palette without touching PF1), but they don't cast a shadow and the player-sprites appear on top of them, even though stuff on PF2 has the highest priority. Useful for hords of small ground enemies like tanks or so.
• blockable enemy lasers. Those are big growing laser-streaks which can be blocked by using the fat laser weapon mode. Similarities to Dodonpachi Resurrection are purely coincidential ;)
• player-shots vs enemies collision system now supports some flags to adjust the vulnerability to the player's weapons. So e.g. an enemy can be made very vulnerable to the spread-shot and less vulnerable to the fat laser.
• flicker shadows (stable shadows still available in the video options). For two reasons: 1. it gives the gfx artist more freedom regarding the ground palettes because unavoidable brightness "errors" become less noticable. 2. Performance, of course. Most of the time stable shadows aren't a problem, but sometimes they may be. And in such cases I prefer flicker-shadows like in Dodonpachi over cutting down the action.
• The test-boss has 30 colors now, not just 15.
• volumes for all types of sounds adjustable (before it was just the bonus sound volume)
• prepared for 2-channel music by only using channels 2/3 for sfx (unless music is disabled, then all 4 channels are used for sfx). Concrete sfx channel and priority also depend on whether 2 players are active.
• lots of fixes :-)

• 12.7: The ReserveMemSpace function in PCI-Configuration could hang forever if a bridge does not support access to the low memory PCI area and reservation failed.
• 12.7: In case address space allocation for a BAR fails, the corresponding device is disabled, excluded from further reservations and removed from the listed device list now.
• 12.7: Translation between 68K addresses and PCI addresses is now aware of the memory region reserved by ReserveMemSpace and maps addresses below the reservation limit through, regardless whether any BAR actually uses the region.
• 12.3: lspci sources included the wrong header, is BSD-only, should be which is POSIX.
• 12.3: Fixed a defect in the mediator emulation setup.
• 12.2: The "lspci" program accepts now an additional argument, namely "NUMERIC". If set, then it does not attempt to resolve the PCI vendor and device ID to human-readable numbers but rather prints their hex values.
• 12.2: Dynamic PCI initialization through external segments was augmented. Init functions receive now one additional argument in a1, and may return a (non-NULL) pointer. Initially, Init functions are called with this argument set to NULL, and receive in register a0 a pointer to a RDArgs structure for command line parsing. If they return a non-NULL pointer and not a small number as error code, they are called *once again* the PCI environment is completely setup. They then receive NULL as RDArgs in a0, but its own (previous) return code in a1 to complete a potential initialization of a device.

• Added the ability to define keyboard shortcuts for switching between virtual desktops, switching to the next and previous desktop, and hiding the window with virtual desktop buttons
• Added the ability to precisely (pixel-perfect) position the window with virtual desktop buttons on the Workbench screen.
• Added an option to start GoVD in hidden mode.
• Added support for the screennotify library, allowing changes to the Workbench screen resolution without shutting down GoVD (optionally, works if the screennotify.library is present in the system)
• From this version, GoVD functions as a commodity, enabling management through the system's Exchange tool.
• Changed the demo version functionality - now the program operates without any limitations but only for 20 minutes.
• Restart GoVD from the configuration tool.

• Fixed bad path in source level debugging information, when the initial source file and an include file were based on the same "compile directory".
• Get rid of C99-round() dependency.
• Fixed empty strings, which were broken in V2.0. They should not generate any data.
• When position-independant code is requested (-pic option) the assembler defaults to relocatable mode (to be able to detect violations).
• Allow 64-bit (or more) expressions with absolute label addresses.
• 6502: Additionally allow BRK with an immediate 8-bit operand.
• 6502: Operand prefix character '?' can be used to select the Memory/Bank-ID where the referenced symbol resides. Requires the use of VOBJ and vlink.
• mot-syntax: A double colon after the label also exports RS symbols now.
• madmac-syntax: New directives: ifdef and ifndef (just for convenience, they are no official MadMac directives!).
• madmac-syntax: Fix problem with print-directive when string is empty.
• oldstyle-syntax: Fixed usage of '$' as current-PC symbol for Z80, which was broken since V2.0.
• oldstyle-syntax: Fixed definition of structure offset labels, which should be referenceable by structname.offsetname. Broken since V2.0.
• hunk-output: Fixed output generated by Databss directives (like DX in mot-syntax). Broken in V2.0.
• hunk-output: -linedebug: do not generate multiple entries per line.

• Define for each relocation type whether it is signed, unsigned or unknown, to provide better range checks.
• Make the range-checking work with sign-extended addresses (Example: m68k 16-bit absolute addressing).
• When an output section's memory region has not enough space the linker will look for the next matching output section.
• Linker script function KEEP() now really prevents garbage collection of sections.
• Sorting and exclusion functions for linker script section patterns: SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT(), SORT_BY_NAME(), SORT_BY_SIZE(), REVERSE(), EXCLUDE_FILE(), EXCLUDE_SECTION(). Supporting up to two sorting levels.
• The output section's bank size can be defined by (BANKSIZE=n) in the script, so input sections may not cross bank borders. In that case they will be aligned to the beginning of the next bank.
• Linker script MEMORY definitions now support an optional ID=n argument, where n defines an identification value which can be referenced by a VOBJ-specific relocation type (MEMID).
• Can find first executable code-section now, when no start symbol is present.
• Portable pattern matching routine, used for Windows and TOS, did case-insensitive string comparisons in the past.
• Absolute symbols are printed as a separate section into the map file.
• Support LINKONCE section flag.
• New options -symfile, -symfmt and -symctrl to output symbol/value pairs into a file using the given printf-format string.
• New options -obe and -ole to specify the endianess of octets within a target-byte (when it has more than 8 bits) when writing the contents of a section to a file system.
• New option -lineoffsets to output a separate file with source line offsets per section.
• New option -mattr to merge all sections with same attributes, when linking without a linker script.
• The target file formats rawbin1 and rawbin2 were replaced by a common rawbin format. rawbin2 is now -brawbin with -multifile option. The old target names are still supported for backwards compatibility.
• New target file formats "foenixpgx-c02", "foenixpgx-816", "foenixpgz-24" and "foenixpgz-32" for Foenix retro computers.
• New target file format "appleomf" can generate relocatable load-files for Apple IIgs computers.
• Merge options -mrel, -mtype and -mall also work with -r now, when creating a new relocatable object file.
• Linker script commands BYTE, SHORT, LONG, QUAD, SQUAD do now create 1, 2, 4 or 8 target-bytes and no longer 8, 16, 32, 64-bit values.
• Relocatable/Abs symbols with the same name have precedence before Common symbols and do not cause a multiple-definition error.
• Starting vlink without arguments only shows a short list of options now. For a detailed description use -h, which also includes target-specific options selected by -b.
• Fixed output section trimming in the linker script.
• Fix error message for unknown target file formats (-b).
• (ados/ehf) New option -kick1 makes sure the generated executable is comaptible with the Kickstart 1.x loader.
• (ados/ehf) Allow symbol redefinitions from pulled library units, as long as their target CPU differs (M68k/PPC WarpOS mixed binaries). This only worked for symbols from code sections, since V0.17.
• (elf) Fixed uninitialized .plt at end of text segment.
• (tos) Can use DRI object files and libraries as input now. HiSoft and SozobonX symbol name extensions are supported.
• (tos) TOS executable files do work as input and DRI objects as output (-r).
• (tos) Enable SozobonX symbol names with -tos-sozobonx.
• (tos) Disable the HiSoft symbol name extension in executables with -tos-stddri.
• (rawbin) Fixed missing byte in the ORIC tape header and automatically remove a ".tap" extension from the name stored there.
• (rawbin) IHEX supports architectures with more than 8 bits per byte. But note that the address is still incremented in 8-bit steps.
• (rawbin) Make sure the file size is even, when using a QDOS header.
• (rawbin) Fixed raw reloc table output (-q) for a relocation at offset 0.
• (rawbin) New options -fill, -coalesced and -multifile (previously rawbin2).
• (vobj) Supports -r option to output a relocatable VOBJ file. Option -vobj2 may be used to write that file in VOBJ v2 format.
• (vobj) -vobjcpu option selects the name of the target CPU.
• (vobj) Supports VOBJ v2 format (vasm -Fvobj -vobj2) and PPC non-standard relocations (EABI, MorphOS, AmigaOS).
• (xfile) Entry address is written to the header.
• (xfile) New option -x-high sets the high-address flag in the header.

• News from November/December 2024
• Old articles from Génération 4 26 to 31: News: Agony and other Art Magic projects, File: Never Ending Story 2, the film, the game, Review of Disc, Review of Great Courts 2, News: FNAC Logiciels, Report: Intertainment 1990, Review of Advanced Destroyer Simulator, Review of Loopz, Review of Speedball 2, News: Delphine Software, vive 1991! File: Total Recall, the film, the game, Review of Oriental Games, Review of Geisha, Review of Time Race, etc.
• Interview with Gilles Dridi (author of Arabic Console)
• Interview with Denis Lechevalier (Amiga games specialist)
• Interview with Matthew Leaman (head of AmigaKit)
• Review of GoADF! 3.1.2
• Comparison: Sam460LE versus A1222 Plus
• Hardware: RV300C
• The best of Byte from September 1990 to June 1991
• File: The history of Faery Tale Adventure
• File: Applications included in MorphOS
• Tutorial: Installing Odyssey 64 bits on AxRT Windows 11 (WSL2)
• DIY: Modifying a PC floppy drive to integrate it into an Amiga 500
• Programming: Assembler - Programming a sine scroll on the Amiga
• Special quiz on AmigaOS 3.2

• How often are specific news items retrieved?
• Are they retrieved by real users or by one of the many bots?
• What does a ranking of the news items look like in a continuous 14-day time frame?
• What are the most clicked news items in a year and how often were they accessed?
• There doesn't have to be a special way of analyzing the data retrospectively. A simple overview is sufficient for orientation.

( 12.3 days old)    AROS archives uploads until 14.12.2024
(  8.8 days old)    Programming course: A500 programming - Finishing the Shooting Gallery Project
(  7.3 days old)    Operating system-compliant Pac-Man implementation: 8th/9th part of the video series
(  8.4 days old)    Sensible World of Soccer: Teams of the 24/25 season
(  8.8 days old)    Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 172 - preview and excerpts
(  7.1 days old)    Dogfights in Asteroids style: Hyper Wings 1.666
( 15.9 days old)    Developer documentation: Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual - AmigaDOS
( 12.3 days old)    MorphOS-Storage uploads until 14.12.2024
( 15.9 days old)    Mark Sibly (Blitz Basic) deceased
( 12.3 days old)    Christmas game: Santas Present Drop 4
(  6.3 days old)    Assembler: ASM-Pro 1.21 released
(  8.4 days old)    Image collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive
( 14.5 days old)    MOD-Player: rePlayer V0.16.8 for Windows
( 15.9 days old)    AROS distribution: AROS One 2.7 (x86)
( 12.3 days old)    OS4Depot uploads until 14.12.2024
(  8.4 days old)    WHDLoad: New installers until 21.12.2024
( 11.1 days old)    Scene World Podcast episode #204 - ScummVM with Eugene Sandulenko
( 13.3 days old)    Demoparty: MountainBytes 2025 (Switzerland, 14.-16.02.)
( 13.3 days old)    Arcade-Game: Santatron 2024
( 12.3 days old)    Boing Attitude interview with Oliver Roberts now in English
(132.3 days old)    Retro Games: New Amiga "console" to be released in Q1 2025
( 15.0 days old)    Epsilon's World: Amiga games from 2024
( 15.0 days old)    Appreciation: Sam460 - The PCIe pioneer (Czech)
(  8.4 days old)    Video: Preview of Worms DC 1.5 levels by Eric W. Schwartz
(  1.8 days old)    SSL library: wolfSSL for Amiga HotHotHot!
(  7.1 days old)    Amiga emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 3.0b3
( 12.3 days old)    WHDLoad: New installers until 14.12.2024
( 14.5 days old)    Audio player: UADE plugin 0.12.3 for Audacious (Windows, Linux, Mac OS)
(  5.2 days old)    AROS: Bounty projects for EFI customization in planning
(  7.0 days old)    Train simulator: Trans-Pennine Express
(  8.4 days old)    Aminet uploads until 21.12.2024
(  7.0 days old)    Action game: Amiga Yoomp!
( 10.9 days old)    Sokoban variant: Ami Robbo 2, physical edition
( 13.9 days old)    Shooting game new edition: Extreme Violence 2 V0.10
(  1.4 days old)    Team 17: Martyn Brown deceased HotHotHot!
(  3.8 days old)    Video: Doom clone Grind 0.5 HotHotHot!
( 13.3 days old)    Game: Update for Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut
(  8.4 days old)    Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.0.2 with MorphOS version
(  3.9 days old)    Emulated Amiga: Field report on the A600GS HotHotHot!
(  8.7 days old)    Event: Amiga 40 on October 18/19 2025
( 11.0 days old)    Print magazine: ASM (Aktueller Software Markt), issue 12/24 (German)
(  2.5 days old)    Operating system for the Amiga: Third alpha version of Serena OS HotHotHot!
( 11.1 days old)    Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 11.2
(  3.8 days old)    Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.0-RC2 HotHotHot!
( 12.3 days old)    Aminet uploads until 14.12.2024
(  6.2 days old)    Merry christmas!
(  5.2 days old)    Workbench distribution: AmiKit 11 now freely available HotHotHot!
( 13.3 days old)    Case study: Using the Scorpion engine for porting Ghosts'n'Goblins to the Amiga
( 10.5 days old)    Trevor's Blog: Another one bites the Dust!
( 12.3 days old)    AmigaKit: Apparently modified A1200 mainboard planned HotHotHot!

Dec. 18   29 %
Dec. 19   23 %
Dec. 20   11 %
Dec. 21   12 %
Dec. 22    8 %
Dec. 23    7 %
Dec. 24    3 %
Dec. 25    2 %
Dec. 26    1 %
Dec. 27    1 %
Dec. 28    1 %
Dec. 29    1 %
Total:   100 %

85.18 %  bots
14.82 %  users

28.71 %  of users accessed the homepage
 2.18 %  of users used an Amiga browser

1. IBrowse/3.8 (Amiga; Amiga0S 3.2; Build 38.8 68K)
2. Mozilla/5.8 (Macintosh; PowerPC AmigaOS 4.2; Odyssey Web Browser; rv:1.23 r5) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) OWB/1.23 r5 Safari/538.1
3. Mozilla/5.8 (Macintosh; PowerPC MorphOS 3.18; Odyssey Web Browser; rv:1.26) AppleWebKit/538.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) OWB/1.26 Safari/538.18
4. IBrowse/3.8 (Amiga; AmigaOS 3.9; Build 38.8 68K)
5. OWB/3.32 (Amiga0S 4.1)

• July:
• Game data base LemonAmiga has been hacked (13)
• August:
• Operating system for the Amiga: Second alpha version of Serena OS (1)
• September:
• Video: Nobody Knows How Many Amigas Commodore Sold (10)
• October:
1. Interview: Matthew Leaman (Amiga Kit, A-EON) about the A600GS (3)
2. News from AmiWest 2024, AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 3 announced (7)
3. Hyperion continues to be managed by court-appointed administrator (9)
4. Block diagram from 1991: the Amiga 5000 (11)
5. Emu68: Imager Tool V1.0 released (12)
• November:
1. News from former Amiga partner: QNX SDP 8 free for non-commercial use (4)
2. Report: My Experiences with the Amiga A1222+ (5)
3. D520 video converter: another production run from Alinea Computer (6)
4. Ambermoon: How fingerprinting identified a press leak (8)
• December:
• AmigaKit: Apparently modified A1200 mainboard planned (2)

• Wav files can now easily imported, just load them and they will be converted using Wav28svx.
• When slicing sprites, more options are given to adapt the images to the current palette.
• In Game setup screen, Camera follow now hows the object name it is following.
• In Level Propertines now we can specify if a background image is a Cover. In this case the game will show the image with its number of colors and palette, independently of the game number of colors setup.
• Small change in audio handling.
• Print Text and Print Var triggers have been renamed to Stamp Text and Stamp Text.
• Added Print Text and Print var triggers that print text using a font sheet. This type of text is attached to the object and can be moved around.
• Fixes in profiler.
• Higher fetch modes can now be selected even if the game is ECS. If the machine where the game is running is AGA they will be used.
• Added Color Pulse trigger to allow a color 'pulse' from black to the color it has in the palette.
• In spritesheet screen if the filename is not found now text is displayed in red.
• Fix when creating objects, could bring issues when using many of them.
• More checks when handling objects to avoid weird issues.
• Excel font added, now it is the editor font.
• Fix for particles when using games with scroll.
• Small optimization in object processing.
• Ex_particles has been updated following the released game Cosmic Blaster (video).