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
(snx)
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02.Jan.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.01.2022
The following files have been added until 01.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
muibase-4.4.lha off/dat 7Mb Programmable relational database...
sqlite-3.34.0-amiga.lha off/dat 20Mb SQL database engine
sacrificiopagano.lha uti/mis 5Mb Magic Tool
(snx)
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02.Jan.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.01.2022
The following files have been added until 01.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
PanelPop.lha Games/BrickBreaker A Panel de Pon / Tetris...
MCE_13.31.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
Pixy_1.0_AlphaRelease_... Graphics/Draw The next generation pix...
SacrificioPagano_1.70.lha Misc A special app to people...
SQLite_3.34.0.lha Office/Database SQL database engine
fxBlankers_1.1.lha System/Ambient/Blankers Effectful screenblanker...
(snx)
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02.Jan.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.01.2022
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 01.01.2022:
(snx)
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02.Jan.2022
ANF
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Windows: Alternative Amiga GUI available again (Update)
At the title link, tech magazine computerbase.de reports briefly on the project of its forum member 'Silvester72', who has written his own "Amiga Workbench" implementation for Windows 10 and 11 that can be either used as a separate application or as a replacement of the File Explorer.
Once another forum member pointed out, though, that Amiga and AmigaOS as well as the Boingball logo would still be registered trademarks, the author withdrew his program that had been available for free download before.
Update: (18:11, 03.01.22, snx)
Under its new name myWorkspace! the program is now available again. (snx)
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02.Jan.2022
ANF
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Video: De-yellowing of an Amiga 1000 (The 8-Bit Guy)
In preparation of his planned Amiga documentation, David 'The 8-Bit Guy' Murray restores an Amiga 1000 donated to him in a video at the title link. Since it is still working and technically in a good condition, the work consists basically just of cleaning and de-yellowing the case by peroxide and UV light. (snx)
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02.Jan.2022
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- November/December 2021 news
- Old articles from Joystick 33 to 36:
- News: Future successes of 1993 (part one and two)
- Interview with Dino Dini
- Review of Walker
- Review of Lemmings 2
- News: Psygnosis piles on the heroes
- Review of Best Of The Best
- Review of Historyline 1914-1918
- Interview with Johan Robson
- Review of Street Fighter 2
- Review of Piracy On The High Seas
- News: Body Blows and Super Frog
- Team 17's two future hits
- Interview with Geoff Heath and Ann Jacobs
- Review of Caesar, review of Coolworld
- Special quiz about the pseudonyms of the Amiga world
- Interview with David Pleasance and Colin Proudfoot (directors of Commodore UK)
- Interview with Amy Worthington (designer of Mr Beanbag)
- Interview with Graeme Boxall (co-founder of Renegade)
- Review of eNewsReader r2
- File: The Checkmate A1500 controversy
- File: Pinball games from 21th Century
- Point of view: The development of Rave (part 2)
- DIY: Project AmiPi - the quintessence of retro-computing in a pure vintage computer
- DIY: Development of the Arduino Amiga floppy drive, aka DrawBridge
- Tutorial: Setting up the Indivision AGA MK3
- Special quiz about the pseudonyms on the Amiga community
(snx)
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02.Jan.2022
Alain Fontanin (Mail)
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Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.80
By releasing version 1.2 (2019), at the end of the last year Alain Fontanin has resumed the development of his "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE) which originally started in 1989.
The author constantly develops his text editor further and now has released version 1.80 with the following changes:
- Possibility to cancel the closing of a document or even of ASE2019
- Fixed some 'hit enforcer'
- Ability to record and execute macros
- Improvement of the positioning of windows on large screens
- New ARexx functions: WakeDocument, SleepDocument, CloseAllDocuments and ExecuteMacro
(dr)
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02.Jan.2022
Daniel Müßener (Mail)
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Preview video 24: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported) which is supposed to run on unaccelerated Amiga 1200 and CD32 with 50 fps.
In his 24. preview video the author presents a lot of changes, among others:
- Highlight: Null modem support. The playing field is then shown from the perspective of the respective team. Of course, the serial link still runs at 50Hz on unaccelerated A1200.
- Optimization of player drawing by exploiting frame coherence: only what is not painted over anyway is erased.
- Turf distance shading now much smoother.
- Marking for active players, usually the figures closest to the ball, inside. Realized with hardware sprites. It wasn't easy, because all 5 existing ones are already in use elsewhere.
- simple player control (running and simple shooting), ball sticks to the player for now, real ball physics with correct acceleration, gravity and friction.
(dr)
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01.Jan.2022
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Amiga-News.de wishes a happy new year
Amiga-News.de wishes all readers a happy new year and thanks its readers for the continuing loyalty. (dr)
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31.Dec.2021
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.50
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, developer of the Amiga-MOD player HippoPlayer, has updated it to version 2.50. Changes:
- New fixes:
- There was a bug in the sample player (which also plays MP3) in AHI compatibility. It could hang when playback was stopped. This happened especially when using AHI with the Toccata driver. Should work now.
- Another different possible AHI related hang bug fixed which could happen when pausing playback.
- When the play mode was set to "List repeatedly" and the list was full of dividers (a.k.a. directories), Hippo could get stuck trying to find a module to be played. This should be fixed now.
- Possible hang/crash bug (related to a stray audio interrupt) fixed in Ben Daglish and Kris Hatlelid formats.
- New supported music formats:
- Impulse Tracker, using the "Impulse" deliplayer, written by the Delirium team for DeliTracker.
- Impulse plays IT formats v1.00 and v2.00. Newer formats are not supported.
- Impulse supports pattern skip forwards and back, along with song end detection. Song position display is not supported.
- 32 channels are in use in all modules. This is due to the way IT modules work, channels are used dynamically according to whatever is needed at the moment.
- Modules can be played using the PS3M mixing engine or AHI.
- Stereo scope works with PS3M.
- Channel panning is not supported, each channel has a fixed stereo position.
- Requires 68020 or better.
- Impulse is not included in the HippoPlayer.group file, so Hippo will look for it in the following places: "PROGDIR:", "PROGDIR:eagleplayers", "eagleplayer2:eagleplayers". Here "PROGDIR:" is the directory where the Hippo binary is installed.
- Impulse can be found in the Aminet DeliTracker archive.
- New features:
- There is a new list mode which can be toggled by the button on top of the file slider: file browser. The list modes now are:
- Playlist (list icon)
- Favorites (heart icon)
- File browser (disk icon)
- File browser mode:
- In this mode the list displays contents of directories.
- Directories are entered by the "Play" button, return/enter key, or LMB double click. (Note that double click can be enabled/disabled in Prefs.)
- The topmost list item shows the name of the displayed directory. Activating it goes back to the parent directory.
- Files are filtered using the configured match pattern, see "Prefs/Loading/File Match Pattern" (kick2.0+ only).
- If you have enabled "Keep list on exit", Hippo will return to the directory where you left off if you were in the file browser mode when exiting.
- New keyboard shortcuts:
- List mode toggle: [SHIFT+M]
- Navigate to parent in file browser: [BACKSPACE]
- New ARexx commands (for HippoPlayerIR support):
- TOGGLEMODE: change between list modes
- FAVORITE: toggle chosen module favorite status
(dr)
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31.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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A570: 2 MB memory expansion for the external CD-ROM drive
The A570, a CD-ROM expansion for the Amiga 500, can itself be expanded by additional memory. Information on a corresponding 2 MB do-it-yourself PCB can be found at the title link. (snx)
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31.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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Floppy drive emulator: Gotek Flash Floppy
Files for an alternative do-it-yourself PCB to the classic Gotek - an emulator of floppy disk drives for the usage of ADF files - can be found at the title link. Oleg Mishin's board for external or internal mounting can be equipped with an 0.96" OLED display and with push buttons or a rotary encoder. (snx)
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31.Dec.2021
Amigablogs
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AROS: Text editor 'TwinsIDE 0.1' in progress
According to the developer 'serk118' under the title link, he has started developing a text editor called 'TwinsIDE' for AROS IDE. As he writes, the original plan was to either finish his work on porting AmiDE or to work on porting MurksIDE. But since the latter does not support syntax highlighting, he decided to write a text editor from scratch. (dr)
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30.Dec.2021
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: First public version of editor 'Lite XL' released
Recently George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, had announced that he is going to port the Linux editor Lite XL. Now he has released the first public version v1.16.12.3 of his port.
According to the author "LiteXL for AmigaOS 4 is still experimental and there are some known issues, but it is quite usable. It is recommended to use it on a fast AmigaOne, although it was tested on microAmiga1 and works pretty good, but slow."
Using an AmigaOne X5000, the editor could be started without problems (screenshots see above). Under WinUAE and AmigaOS 4.1 it runs with the help of the PatchCompositeTags, which gives the following result:
(dr)
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29.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Book: Interest in a German version of Commodore - The Inside Story? (Update)
Three years ago the English book "Commodore: The Inside Story" became available at retailers. There the former Commodore UK Managing Director David Pleasance describes the twelve years in which he worked for the company.
Currently he wants to find out interest in a German version of the book, translation would be done by Anton Preinsack. Sufficient demand given, a crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter would be started, with a price of 35 British Pounds for the hardcover book (almost 42 Euros currently). An e-book version would follow. If you are interested in it, please write an e-mail to email@davidpleasance.com with the subject "German Translation".
Update: (02.02.22, 09:01, snx)
In a posting to our comments section, Anton Preinsack points out that his German translation would be basically finished already and that an e-book version would be published in any case. (snx)
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29.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 129 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. (snx)
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29.Dec.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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AROS: Update of 68k distribution Aros Vision
Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision. Changes in this update without a version number include updated ROMs and datatypes as well as the new version of WHDLoad and its graphical interface iGame.
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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29.Dec.2021
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THEA500 Mini: Interview with Paul Andrews
The Blog BlitterWolf has published an interview with Paul Andrews, the managing director of RetroGames which is about the announced THEA500 Mini. Among other things, a "full sized version" is promised with the 'THEA500' if sales are satisfactory, similar to the approach taken with the THEC64 Mini and the THEC64. (dr)
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29.Dec.2021
Rob Smith
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Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS, part 4
Rob Smith, known for his project DrawBridge for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, has now released the last part of his YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). Here he is "focusing on improving performance, music, sound effects and the finishing touches such as showing your score, and the title screen". (dr)
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28.Dec.2021
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Database: MUIBase 4.4 for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS
Steffen Gutmann has released an update of his programmable relational database MUIBase for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS (and Windows and Linux).
New features in MUIBase 4.4:
- Date fields can have an optional calendar pop-up button for selecting a date more comfortably.
- A virtual list field can optionally control the table from which the list is generated from in a select-from-where query. This allows to change the currently displayed record in the table according to the selected row in the list.
- When a virtual list field is printed or exported to PDF, multi-line entries in the list are now supported correctly.
- MUIbase project files can now be opened directly with a double click on all platforms.
- Several bug fixes.
(dr)
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