09.Jan.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 08.01.2022
The following files have been added until 08.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
wormwars.i386-aros.zip gam/act 700kb Advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade...
mplayer-1.0-v5.x86_64-v11... vid/pla 8Mb Multimedia player with MUI user ...
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09.Jan.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.01.2022
The following files have been added until 08.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
WormWars_9.25.lha Games/Action Advanced snake game by ...
ScummVM_2.5.1.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
MCE_13.4.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
ReportPlus_8.24.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
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09.Jan.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 08.01.2022
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 08.01.2022:
(snx)
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09.Jan.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Blitzremix
- Classic Tunes
- Grand Monster Slam (Menu)
- A Prehistoric Tale - Main Theme [Atari inspired version]
(snx)
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09.Jan.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Full version for download: Time
On the Amiga Future website the full version of the 2D adventure Time can be downloaded for free. Besides ADF and IPF disk images, also WHDLoad files in German, English and French are available. (snx)
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09.Jan.2022
BitFellas
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Intro competition: Nominees of 'Nano Awards 2022'
At the beginning of December, we reported on the intro competition The Nano Awards 2022. Now the nominations have been announced, without Amiga participation:
- Best Oldschool Tiny Intro
- Quarter Express, by ilmenit / agenda (256b, Atari XE/XL)
- Gleest, by Bfox (256b, ZX Spectrum)
- Metro, by Xeen / Agenda (256b, Atari XE/XL)
- VIFI Videoram Filler by Busy / BusySoft (256b, ZX Spectrum)
- Sapere Aude, by Ilmenit / agenda (256b, Commodore 64)
- Best Hi-End Tiny Intro
- Lightcrypt, by Gopher / Alcatraz (256b, DOS)
- Mems, by Digimind (256b, DOS)
- Sseraf, by Rrrola (256b, DOS)
- Blake32, by Superogue / Marquee Design (32b, DOS)
- Up up Down, by Sensenstahl (256b, DOS)
A video summary of the productions is available on the official website of the competition. (dr)
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09.Jan.2022
Retro Commodore
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PDF manual: 'ROM Kernel Reference Manual' for AmigaOS 3.2
The 'ROM Kernel Reference Manual' for AmigaOS 3.2, written by Camilla Boemann and Jason Stead, is updated continuously and is oriented to the 'Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals' from the 80s written by Robert Peck.
This book aims to represent all programming topics of the Amiga operating system since release 2 up to 3.2. The challenge is to cover features that are 30 years old as well as things that would only be added in the last few years. The authors write the following about this:
"This book is initially published as a PDF as it is more important to get the information out quickly than for it to be complete. Over time it will be improved and more information will be added. Thus initially you may find several topics lacking, but please keep an eye out for updates. This book is meant to help you expand your knowledge of programming the Amiga. It assumes you have previous experience with programming the Amiga, and it all but assumes you have all the books in the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual series. Like the books in that series a knowledge of the C programming language is not required, but will make it much easier to understand the material in this book." (dr)
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08.Jan.2022
IndieRetroNews
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New preview video: Remake of Rick Dangerous
Already at the end of last year a new preview video of the remake of the game 'Rick Dangeous', developed by 'Z-Team', was released, which is registered as an entry for the current AmiGameJam (amiga-news.de reported). The new video features some cut scenes, some corrections, dynamite, the beginning of the second level and background music. (dr)
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08.Jan.2022
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Philosophy: The Amiga as "a computer built to last 50 years"
In early 2021, engineer, writer and lecturer at the École Polytechnique de Louvain, Lionel Dricot, wrote an essay titled 'The computer built to last 50 years' in which he ponders how a long-lasting computer could be developed to save both one's finances, but also resources, and thus the planet.
Carl Svensson, well-known our readers by his ARexx-Tools 'RxEnv', Carl Svensson has now written a rebuttal: 'The Amiga as "a computer built to last 50 years"'. In it, he claims that the '50-year-old computer' already exists - in various forms and designs - and that we just need to find it in attics and restore it: the Amiga.
A computer that has been in use for around 30 years would literally stand for sustainability. Its longevity makes up for what it lacks in energy efficiency. (dr)
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08.Jan.2022
https://blog.alb42.de (ANF)
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AmiTube 0.7: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas (update)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video).
Now version 0.7 is available which among others allows you to download the original video from YouTube in different resolutions or as audio file. Detailed changes:
- New CDXL Option 320px and AGA colors
- direct download from youtube without conversation
- select resolution on direct download
- Update checking
- Download latest version
- Question before delete movie
The latest version always is available on the AmiTube website.
Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link.
Update: (09.01.2022, 06:39, dr)
In his new blog entry, yesterday Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow pointed out that an (untested) guide published on the official AmiTube website now describes how to set up your own 'converter server'. (dr)
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07.Jan.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 154
The English and German editions of issue 154 (January/February 2022) of the rpint magazine Amiga Future have been published today and can be ordered from the staff or from Amiga dealers. This issue's topics include review of the Terrible Fire 1230, RGB-to-HDMI (RGB2HDMI) and 'The Shadows of Sergoth'. (cg)
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06.Jan.2022
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Preview video: 'Scourge of the Underkind'
At the end of 2020, we reported for the last time about "Scourge of the Underkind", which was actually announced for 2021 and which sees itself as a tribute to games like Gods, Chaos Engine and Alien Breed. On the project's Facebook page, there have been regular reports about the development status over the last year: at the end of September it was reported that the music was finished and the last level was started, while at the beginning of October the game instructions were proofread.
oday, a new preview video was released on YouTube, showing the first 13 minutes of the game, including the loading screen and intro. The authir pointed out that he "was using a bezel in WinUAE and a screen filter which has caused some noise in this video." The game would look much better for real.
There would still be a few small changes made to the game, but basically the finished version would be shown.
Additionally, an other video shows how the intro screen was drawn, with Scourge's music. (dr)
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06.Jan.2022
Discord
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Video documentary on Trackers: 'The Sound of 16-Bit'
Stuart Brow regularly posts documentary-style videos on his YouTube channel Ahoy about video games and their impact on culture. As a one-man team, he is responsible for all aspects of production: script, graphics, voiceover, gameplay recording, editing, and music.
In his last video documentary he takes the audience back to around 1984 - the dawn of 16-bit computing, and the emergence of a new style of computer music. And he also wrote:
"Ever since I did 'A Brief History of Graphics', I wanted to do a similar treatment for sound & music - but rather than attempt to cover everything in a single video, I thought it would be better to focus on a single topic. This time it's trackers - a format dear to me as it was my introduction to computer music."
And so his tracker time travel touches among other things also the Amiga programs "The Ultimate Soundtracker", "OctaMED Soundstudio" or "Digibooster".
Whereas he had previously financed his productions with advertising revenue, he now relies entirely on his audience and is happy to receive financial support on his Patreon page. (dr)
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03.Jan.2022
FS-UAE Webseite
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Emulation: FS-UAE & Launcher 3.1.66 for Windows
Frode Solheim's Amiga emulator FS-UAE makes the innovations from WinUAE available in a platform-independent UAE variant for Windows, Mac OS X and numerous Linux or BSD variants. The "FS-UAE Launcher" is responsible for the configuration and the start of the Amiga emulator. The maintenance update of the 3.1.x series already released in December for Windows (possibly the last one) contains the updated SDL version 2.0.18 as well as updated controller mappings. (dr)
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03.Jan.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 Beta 7
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new beta version of his Amiga emulator for macOS which is currently under development. The changes of beta version 7 are as follows:
- Features:
- Added support for remote connections. Three remote servers have been implemented:
- A serial port server emulating a null modem cable on the serial port of the Amiga.
- A retro shell server that allows the user to connect to retro shell via telnet.
- An experimental GDB server implementing parts of the GDB serial remote protocol.
- Compatibility:
- Writes to DMA pointer registers are sometimes dropped on a real Amiga. The old code for checking if a write has to be dropped didn’t work correctly in all cases.
- Bug fixes:
- In the video configuration panel, the color palette couldn’t be changed any more. This has been fixed.
- OCS detection failed in some scenarios.
- On startup, some CPU registers were initialised with wrong values.
- Code quality:
- The code has been migrated to Cmake and is now compatible with all three major C++ compilers (clang, gcc, msvc).
(dr)
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03.Jan.2022
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.31 for AmigaOS 3.9 released
Thomas Wenzel wrote:
Unfortunately, a piece of old code was left over in 3.30 when the MHI handling was revised. This leftover caused the playback not to recover after a dropout due to briefly high system load (e.g. CVPPC screen switching at very high resolution).
This should now be fixed in 3.31. There are no other changes. The PPC version is not affected and remains at version 3.30 for now.
The next update will then carry the version number 3.32 for both architectures. (dr)
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02.Jan.2022
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AmigaOS 4: New version 53.15 of Updates preferences
Today the new version 53.15 of the update preconfiguration program for AmigaOS 4.1 was released. This fixed a bug which made it impossible to basically set a directory for the updates - saving caused a crash - and moreover in a readable way:
Likewise, you can now specify separately where the update archive should be permanently stored and which directory should be used to unpack it
In our test, in contrast to AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 2 Classic under WinUAE, a peculiarity occurred with the AmigaOne X5000: Here, a directory could be selected and saved using the 'Updates' tool in the 'Prefs' folder (left image). However, if you then start the AmiUpdate tool and choose the preferences from the menu, you get an incorrect display of the directory (right window):
It is only displayed incorrectly. The directory is still stored correctly. An initial assumption that a "_" in the directory name or a second directory level is the cause could not be confirmed. (dr)
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02.Jan.2022
A1K / Facebook (ANF)
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German Amiga Podcast: First issue published
By GAP, the "German Amiga Podcast", 'McFly' wants to start a series of own productions. The first issue that has been released yesterday looks back to major Amiga news in 2021. (snx)
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02.Jan.2022
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: Web browser Odyssey 1.23 r5 (update)
In the middle of 2020 Roman 'kas1e' Kargin had made available the last beta version of his AmigaOS 4 port of the Odyssey web browser. Now he has published the first release candidate (RC) for version 1.23 r5 and states the following:
"Rebuild was done with the latest GCC 11.1 and latest OS4 SDk (so new MUI, DOS, EXec, pthreads and co). As one of the positive results is the size of the binary start to be smaller on 3MB (60MB instead of 63MB). There is also a new YouTube script from MorphOS's devs (ASiegel), so to make accelerated video player works with changed youtube. To activate it, the following steps are required:
- Delete in your scripts Youtube Fullscreen Fix and Youtube HTML5 Converter. Restart Odyssey and add again but this time new scripts (so allowed sites and stuff will be new ones).
- Add to URL preferences http://youtube.com with spoof as Ipad 13.2.3. So it will always switch to the mobile version.
- Now on any video when you click on any part of the video, you will have in the right/bottom area gadget to expand the video: clicking on it will bring our accelerated media player back."
Changes of this version:
- Updated curl-ca-bundle.crt (https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem , 26 Oct 2021)
- Updated to Curl 7.80.0 (10th of November 2021)
- Updated to OpenSSL 1.1.1m (14-Dec-2021) (thanks MickJT for tips)
- Updated to SQLite 3.34.0 (2020-12-01) instead of old v3.7.5 (2011-02-01). Port done by Steffen Gutmann
- Updated to libFreeType2 2.11.1 (02-Dec-2021)
- Updated to libXML2 2.9.12 (13-May-2021)
- Updated to libWebP v1.2.2-rc1 (18-Dec-2021)
Update: (03.01.2022, 07:09, dr)
Meanwhile the official version 1.23 r5 was released on OS4Depot. (dr)
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02.Jan.2022
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Aminet uploads until 01.01.2022
The following files have been added until 01.01.2022 to Aminet:
MUIbase-4.4.lha biz/dbase 6.8M Programmable relational datab...
sqlite-3.34.0-amiga.lha biz/dbase 20M SQL database engine
2021XmasIntro.lha demo/intro 51K 68k Genuine Xmas 2021 Axel's Intro
aqb-0.8.1.lha dev/basic 314K 68k BASIC Compiler+IDE for Amiga ...
adfZ.lha disk/misc 2K 68k read / write ADF files from /...
newscripts_adf.lha disk/misc 31K new scripts for adf.device
Jake_and_Peppy_v0.85.lha game/demo 28M 68k Playable demo: new Apollo V4/...
MCE.lha game/edit 3.2M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
l-ile-tristam-demo.lha game/text 682K 68k text adventure in French (demo)
MegaSaperPL.lha game/think 653K 68k Minesweeper game clone
WhatIFF1.01.lha mags/misc 24K What IFF? #1.01 Dec 2021
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
SOS_change.lha mods/anaki 473K Spare Change - OctaMED module
SOS_control.lha mods/anaki 391K Outer Control - OctaMED module
SOS_itation.lha mods/anaki 247K Med It 8 On - OctaMED module
SOS_longneck.lha mods/anaki 370K Longneck - OctaMED module
SOS_nothing.lha mods/anaki 554K Nothing Left Outside - OctaME...
SOS_reality.lha mods/anaki 292K Escape From Reality - OctaMED...
SOS_u4er.lha mods/anaki 441K U 4 E R - OctaMED module
Amiga_Breaks_Vol.1.zip mods/techn 1.1M Amiga Breaks Vol.1 - OctaMED ...
StrangerBreaks.lha mods/techn 108K Stranger Breaks - OctaMED module
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 304K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
ASE2019_1.80.lha text/edit 167K 68k Text editor
UnZIP552.lha util/arc 145K 68k UnZip v5.52 final 68K version
ZIP232.lha util/arc 151K 68k Zip v2.32 archiver final 68K ...
fxblankers.lha util/blank 54K MOS Effectful screenblankers for ...
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 66K 68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 91K 68k Identify hardware and more
ACA500P_28MHz.lha util/moni 1K 68k AIBB 6.5 Module for ACA500Plu...
WH_RANDOM_AMIGA.zip util/shell 219K Random Number Gen, AMIGA-Shel...
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02.Jan.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.01.2022
The following files have been added until 01.01.2022 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
sacrificiopagano.lha gam/mis 5Mb 4.0 Magic Tool
scummvm.lha gam/mis 96Mb 4.1 Run supported classic adventure/...
scummvm-src.zip gam/mis 160Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
pixy.lha gra/edi 7Mb 4.0 Pixel editor new generation
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