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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28.Dec.2021
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4.1: DvPlayer V54.8 released
In early November, version 54.7 of the DvPlayer video and audio playback program distributed by A-EON Technology was released, supporting the new hardware video acceleration standard introduced with Enhancer Software V2. Now version 54.8 is available via the updater tool which "adds a workaround for a crash on exit that occurs when Odysseys version of avformat2.libary is in memory". (dr)
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28.Dec.2021
Bartos Lisowski (ANF)
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RTG driver: P96 V3.2.1 released
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) wrote:
"We've released P96 V3.2.0 in time for Christmas. Now some changes have now been implemented after lots of customers have used it in a large variety of configurations. Errors that were reported in our support forum have been addressed immediately. The update is already available in our shop system, so every new download is providing the latest version.
This time the list of changes is very extensive. The biggest changes have been in the area of blitter emulation, but even older cards could be persuaded via a software trick to use a hardware sprite as a mouse pointer, which brings noticeable speed gains. Perhaps the biggest change is that the ZZ9000 is supported with its dual-palette feature, so screen dragging is possible without color artifacts."
The detailed list of changes is available in the Support Forum. (dr)
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28.Dec.2021
Achim Kern (Mail)
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Action game: 'Balloons' for all Amiga systems
In mid-October we reported, that Achim Kern (among others 'SmartHome') and Mars Tank Attack) had announced an action game called 'Balloons' which now is available for all Amiga systems. It is a remake written in Hollywood 9 of the original Balloons game written by Enrique Mecklenburg Serkovic.
In 'Balloons' you have to shoot those very balloons at a fair, with the difficulty increasing from level to level: with more balloons, shorter time and limited number of shots. Likewise, in higher levels, certain sequences are given, such as three blue, two red, four green balloons.
The game is available for all platforms for which the Hollywood Player exists and thus for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, WarpOS and AROS. Special archives (with adapted icons) have been created by the author for AmigaOS 3 and 4. (dr)
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27.Dec.2021
Günter Bartsch (Mail)
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BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.1
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively.
After last week's release of version 0.8.0, which included a source level debugger, the author elaborates on the new version 0.8.1 (detailed changelog):
"I've been working on AQB a bit more after there was a lot of feedback on the different channels - starting of course
from the amiga-news forum to people making YouTube videos about AQB. I have now released a first update for the 0.8.x series - there are a few new commands and features, but there are also important bugfixes for AmigaOS 3.2 and RTG users.
This is also accompanied by editor improvements, most notably the editor now uses the text font set via preferences instead of stubbornly using its own / preset fonts. This is a side effect of the RTG renderer - the previous text renderer could only handle 8 bit wide fonts (still used with these on native screen), while the new RTG renderer can handle arbitrary fonts (but is slower on native
Amigas on planar screen is slower)." (dr)
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27.Dec.2021
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Boing Attitude: Interview with Mike Parent (Metro Siege)
At the end of October Boing Attitude had published the second issue of the French Amiga print magazine Boing (since the middle of December, the third issue is available). Among others an interview with Mike Parent was included, one of the developers of the beat'em up game Metro Siege (amiga-news.de reported). This interview Boing Attitude has made available in an English-language translation under the title link. (dr)
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27.Dec.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 5
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. The fifth episode among others is about variables, array structures and tables. (dr)
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