25.Jan.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 23 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. Now the episode 23 was published, which is about sprites and its collision detection. (dr)
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24.Jan.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Tile-matching puzzle game 'Freegemas'
Based on the original by Jose Tomas Tocino, developer 'IamSONIC' has ported the tile-matching puzzle game Freegemas to AmigaOS 4, adding a low CPU mode (useful for ~800 MHz systems) and Tooltype support.
With the help of PatchCompositeTags the game runs under WinUAE without problems. (dr)
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24.Jan.2022
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AmiTube: Setting up a docker server
In his latest blog post with accompanying YouTube video, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow describes how to set up your own AmiTube server using a docker container. (dr)
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24.Jan.2022
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Platformer: Status update on 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night'
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes continues to work on his jump'n run Creeping Me Out: Hex Night, created with the Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine. Following his Winter update, the developer reports in today's entry on how he's improving much of the current project from its unofficial predecessor, Zombie Holiday (OSX), and has also released a new preview video of the frog boss. (dr)
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23.Jan.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: Iconic 1.0 released
Press release:: In 2022 Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood, the cross-platform multimedia application layer. To kick off the celebrations we are proud to present a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: Iconic. Iconic is the ultimate icon loader and saver plugin for Hollywood. It will make all your icon dreams come true because it can load and save icons in pretty much all of the most common icon formats. The following formats are currently supported:
- AmigaOS 1.x style icons
- AmigaOS 2.x/3.x style icons
- AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 icons (aka GlowIcons)
- AmigaOS 4.x Icons
- macOS Icons (*.icns-Format)
- MagicWB icons
- MorphOS/PowerIcons icons (PNG)
- NewIcons
- Windows icons (*.ico-Format)
Of course, Iconic also supports loading and saving of the metadata found in the Amiga icon formats like tooltypes, icon position, drawer view mode, icon type and so on. Thanks to Hollywood 9's new support for palette images it is also possible to load the icon palette, set a transparent pen and access the raw palette pens used in the icon image data. Of course, Iconic doesn't only support palette-based icon images but also icons that contain true colour images with alpha channel. Several of the icon formats listed above also support palette and true colour images within the same icon file and several different icon sizes within the same icon file. All of this is supported by Iconic as well!
This is why Iconic is the ultimate icon plugin for Hollywood and a must-have for every Hollywood user. The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided. Note that Hollywood 9 is strictly required by Iconic.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood we also offer a special 20 euros discount on the full version of Hollywood for a limited time only. This is the perfect chance for all people who don't own Hollywood yet to grab their own copy and to explore the wonderful world of Hollywood and be fascinated by the gigantic functionality of this unique piece of software and all of the plugins that come with it! (dr)
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23.Jan.2022
Olaf Schönweiß (comment)
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AROS: Update 6 of 68k distribution Aros Vision
Since our previous news-item, Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision two times. New are some Shell commands, GUIs for searching, splitting and joining files, extended support for packers, two additional window-related commodities, updated ROMs, a bugfixed reqtools.library, VirusZ III and a number of small improvements.
Furthermore there is a short description of the window options.
For first-time installation it is recommended to copy the libraries bullet.library and rexxsyslib.library from AmigaOS 3.1 to Libs: and the command rexxmast to C: and to use the Installer 43.3 by Amiga Technologies (Aminet) for installation. WHDLoad is pre-installed using AROS ROMs; for full support, you will need original Kickstart ROMs (description). (snx)
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23.Jan.2022
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Aminet uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to Aminet:
apccomm.lha comm/misc 196K 68k transfers files between Amiga...
asm3210.lha dev/asm 156K Cross assembler for DSP3210 c...
Profyler.lha dev/debug 1.1M OS4 Software performance profiler...
regina-doc.pdf dev/lang 1.3M Alternative REXX interpreter doc
DFT_DWT_FFT.zip dev/src 95K 68k DFT, DWT and FFT for an A1200...
pi400_keymap_esp.lha driver/inp 5K Raspberry Pi400 spanish keymap
TilesSlide.lha game/actio 81K 68k Align 3-4 tiles of the same c...
bsaog.lha game/shoot 799K 68k Blake Stone Aliens of Gold
bsps.lha game/shoot 205K 68k Blake Stone Planet Strike
jfduke3d.lha game/shoot 1.3M 68k JFDuke3D Amiga Port
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
mame030_0.26a.lha misc/emu 326K 68k Multiple Arcade Machine Emula...
mame040_0.26a.lha misc/emu 326K 68k Multiple Arcade Machine Emula...
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mus/misc 186K Some samples created by Sampl...
Next.lha text/show 147K 68k Viewer for text/guides/html/d...
avalanche.lha util/arc 31K 68k Simple ReAction GUI for xadma...
(snx)
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23.Jan.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to OS4Depot:
profyler.lha dev/deb 1Mb 4.1 Software performance profiler
exodus_patch.lha gam/str 70kb 4.0 Exodus: The Last War patch to fi...
deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
rawread.lha uti/mis 22kb 4.1 Reads raw blocks from a device
rawwrite.lha uti/mis 24kb 4.1 Writes raw blocks to a device
afortune.lha uti/she 9Mb 4.0 Write random sentences in shell
(snx)
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23.Jan.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
muibase-4.4.1.lha off/dat 8Mb Programmable relational database...
(snx)
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23.Jan.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
MilkyTracker_1.03.lha Audio/Tracker An XM/MOD tracker by th...
AmiArcadia_28.32.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
(snx)
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23.Jan.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.01.2022
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 22.01.2022:
- 2022-01-18 improved: Logo (Starbyte) supports another version, DMA wait inserted, slave is 68000 compatible now (Info)
- 2022-01-18 fixed: Gloom (Black Magic) install script copies gloomgame file too, slave doesn't lock if it can not find gloomgame (Info)
- 2022-01-18 improved: D.O.S. (Andromeda) graphics problems in greetings part fixed (Info, Image)
- 2022-01-17 improved: Street Rod 2 (California Dreams) access fault fixed (Info)
- 2022-01-16 improved: Harmagedon (Infect) possible freezes fixed, all line drawing routines fixed, lots of Bplcon0 color bit fixes, illegal copperlist enries fixed, access faults fixed (Info, Image)
(snx)
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22.Jan.2022
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Graphics card: Presale of ZZ9000 for ninth batch
In his online shop, Lukas F. Hartmann has updated the item describtion of the graphics card ZZ9000 which now says: "Parts for all cards sold so far (Batch 8) are in stock and production is in progress. We have reopened pre-sales for Batch 9 which we expect for a June 2022 shipping target. Before buying, please keep in mind that due to the global chip shortage, additional delays can happen. We will ship your card eventually, but patience is key."
He also reported yesterday on Twitter that the delivery of the first batch of the ZZ9000AX sound module is slightly delayed (mid/end-February) due to the complicated manufacturing of the ZZ9000->AX cable and the manufacturer's overload before the Spring Festival. (dr)
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22.Jan.2022
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Free motherboard design: Rämixx500 available in shops
The Rämixx500 is an open hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ motherboard, revision 8A.1 (amiga-news.de reported). Although the developer SukkoPera is already intensively working on the V2 of his project and thus further modifications (see also the Developer Blog), the V1 is still the last official release.
For that the developer has crossed out his warnings ("THIS BOARD IS UNTESTED!!! IT MIGHT NOT WORK AT ALL! It might kill your cat or burn your house down. You have been warned."), noting now that this version of the board has been tested and works well - "apart from a couple of very minor issues". However, he could not recommend using this version of the board, even if it worked. Instead, one should download the project documents and check them for errors.
If that is too much trouble for you, you can order already produced boards. Both the German pcb4diy.de and the Irish store Sordan offer the board for around 34 and 28 Euros, respectively, plus shipping. (dr)
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22.Jan.2022
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Motorola68k emulation: Status update on Emu68
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon page. In yesterday's entry he reports about video driver, SD card driver, EmuControl and bug fixes. Finally he has pointed out to some tutorials he has started writing:
(dr)
[News message: 22. Jan. 2022, 08:23] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2022
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: Software performance profiler 'Profyler' for developers
As the author Mike Steed wrote, Profyler "is a software performance profiler - or profiler for short - for AmigaOS 4. It allows the execution speed of the various functions that make up a program to be measured, facilitating optimization of the program to improve its performance.
More specifically, Profyler is a deterministic profiler, which adds code to the program being profiled in order to implement the profiling functionality. It uses the -finstrument-functions feature of the GCC compiler, which means that it only works with C and C++ programs compiled with GCC. It also means that a program must be compiled and then linked with LibProfyle in order to be profiled; you can't profile a program that you can't compile."
(dr)
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21.Jan.2022
D4XX REMIX
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Game soundtrack: Jaguar XJ220 remix album released
After his Turrican remix album, Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann has released the Jaguar XJ220 remix album today. The remixed soundtrack, taken from the Amiga game of the same name, can be purchased as a digital album for 2 Euros (or more). (dr)
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21.Jan.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Full version for download: Oktalyzer 1.57
On the Amiga Future website the full version of Armin Sander's eight-track tracker Oktalyzer is available for free download. It is the latest release, version 1.57, published in 1991. (snx)
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20.Jan.2022
Twitter
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Shoot'em up: Fourht demo version of Jackal
NeesoGames has released the fourth demo version of its game Jackal, created with the Scorpion Engine. The shoot 'em up was also submitted as an entry for AmiGameJam 2021. Changes since third demo version:
- No loading times between the menu and briefing screen
- Intro waiting time reduced to 6 seconds
- Updated credits
- Big copter animated at mission start
- New type of vehicle bullets
- Regular POWs
- Powerup indicator
- Soldiers are thrown out of the jeep when it explodes
- Rescue copter flies away when all POWs are delivered
- Level 2 preview (playable to the end but no boss fight and some enemies are missing)
- Many bugfixes and improvements
(dr)
[News message: 20. Jan. 2022, 13:30] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jan.2022
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Overview: Bulletin board system of demo scene
Demozoo is a website dedicated to collecting and organizing the history of the demoscene. As the maintainers now announced, it was already started some time ago to catalog Bulletin board systems (BBS) with scene reference. The result is a list of over 7500 mailboxes, complete with sysops, affiliated groups, BBS intros, text ads, etc. The list continues to be updated.
These BBS can be browsed through an alphabetical list or searched by tags. In addition, you can display the locations on a world map. (dr)
[News message: 19. Jan. 2022, 06:25] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jan.2022
Richard Löwenstein (Mail)
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RESHOOT PROXIMA 3: Preview of Stage 1
In August last year we reported about a new preview video of the third part of the shoot'em up series RESHOOT PROXIMA 3, which is currently in development. Shortly before Christmas 'AmigaBill' invited the three developers of the game Richard Löwenstein, Martin Ahman and Kevin Saunders to its Twitch channel to present the prototype of Stage 1. This demonstration is also available as a Video (game start from minute 33).
As Richard Löwenstein explained to us when asked, a prototype of the first stage was shown, "still far from complete. There are quite a few attack waves missing, the boss is conspicuous by its complete absence." Likewise, exciting attack patterns, boss designs and fine-tuning of the music would still have to be tackled. On the other hand, 90% of the graphics for all five stages have been drawn, and the visual designs for all stages have been defined and technically implemented. (dr)
[News message: 18. Jan. 2022, 21:36] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jan.2022
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Retro gaming: Ziggurat Interactive acquires the rights to Rainbow-Arts games
Five years ago, Julian Eggebrecht, founder of the legendary development studio Factor 5, explained in interviews (German) that the games company had not only secured the name of the former German publisher Rainbow Arts from the THQ bankruptcy estate, but also the rights to the titles published by the Gütersloh-based company in the 1980s and 1990s. A short time later, Factor 5, which also went bankrupt in 2009, was re-established in Germany as a GmbH.
The retro publisher Ziggurat Interactive now announces in a press release that they have acquired the rights to over 80 titles from the Rainbow Arts catalog. Rendering Ranger R2 (SNES), Logical, Lollypop, X-Out, and M.U.D.S. are listed as examples. However, the best-known title published in Gütersloh is not mentioned: the "Turrican" series Factor 5 had still marketed in the fall of 2020 as limited new editions. (cg)
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