10.Aug.2021
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New edition of the Amiga 500: THEA500 Mini
In October 2020 Retro Games Ltd. had hinted at the replica of an Amiga 500 with a picture. Today, concrete details were announced: In early 2022, the replica of the Amiga 500, named THEA500 Mini and distributed by Koch Media, will be available for a recommended retail price of EUR¤129.99 (product video).
Not only the OSC and ECS chipset, but also the Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) are to be emulated. 25 games are to be included, of which the following have been listed so far: Alien Breed 3D, Another World, ATR: All Terrain Racing, Battle Chess, Cadaver, Kick Off 2, Pinball Dreams, Simon The Sorcerer, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, The Chaos Engine, Worms: The Director's Cut, Zool: Ninja Of The "Nth" Dimension. All other titles will be announced at a later date. However, it is also possible to load your own games using a USB stick and WHDLoad support. The games can be saved and continued at any time.
The following products are to be included in the scope of delivery:
- THEA500 Mini Computer
- 25 Games
- 2-Button-USB-Mouse in original design
- 8-Button-USB-Gamepad
- HDMI Cable
- USB-C power cable
- Quick Start Guide
THEA500 Mini will have the following specifications:
- Emulates A500, A600 & A1200 (ECS/OCS/AGA)
- Games can be saved and resumed at any time
- Own games can be added
- 720p HD resolution at 50 Hz (Europe) or 60 Hz (USA)
- Various scaling options and CRT filters
- Virtual keyboard and USB keyboard support
- upgradeable firmware
So far, there is no information about which hardware or software this replica is based on. (dr)
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10.Aug.2021
Amigablogs
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Game announcement: 'Menace' remake for Vampire
Kevin Saunders, graphic designer, artist and game designer for Amiga projects (among others Boss Machine and RESHOOT PROXIMA 3), has announced a remake of the game Menace for Vampire Amigas by presenting an animated end level boss. He also encourages Amiga users to support his work by becoming a Patreon. (dr)
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09.Aug.2021
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Platformer: Radical Moves
'ScattergoodStudios' has rereleased its game "Radical Rob" originally written in 1992 as Radical Moves. In this platform game, offering 99 levels, the player Rob "has to rid the world of evil fluffies, collect drink cans and work your way through each level." (YouTube-Video).
Rob has an unlimited supply of plasma bombs to clobber baddies with. Once hit, a meanie will remain stunned for a few seconds. This gives Rob enough time to run over them and finish them off.
The game can be purchased for at least about 2,50 Euro as adf file. (dr)
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08.Aug.2021
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AmiWest 2021: Registration of presentations
As already reported, this years's AmiWest will take place on 16. and 17. October 2021 in Holiday Inn Express in Sacramento, California. In its latest blog entry the organizers call all companies, users and developers to register planned presentations - online or on site - via eMail. (dr)
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08.Aug.2021
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Amiga disks on PC: Update to copy program A-Copy
A-Copy is a program for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows. It requires the ADF drive hardware, which uses a Teensy USB Development Board as an adapter between PC and floppy drive
In the latest version additional to minor bug fixes, Arne Urbaniak has updated the controller detections as well as finished the Bamcopy of ADFImage2Disk. As he reported, there are many suggestions and ideas he have received which he now examines. (dr)
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08.Aug.2021
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Update of Shoot'em Up 'Inviyya'
'Tigerskunk' has released an update for the digital version of his shoot'em up 'Inviyya' providing an additional level. For users who have already purchased the game the update is available after logging in. (dr)
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08.Aug.2021
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Preview video: Jump'n Run 'Boxx 4'
The developer 'Lemming880' is working on the fourth part of his 'Boxx' series developed with the Scorpion Engine. You can get some impressions of the third part on amigafrance.com. There you will also find download links for all previously released parts. In a YouTube preview video, 'Lemming880' shows a short walk through the first level of the fourth part of the series.
(dr)
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08.Aug.2021
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Aminet uploads until 07.08.2021
The following files have been added until 07.08.2021 to Aminet:
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 297K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
AxelPong.lha game/misc 264K 68k classic pong game revisited b...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
ASE2019_1.52.lha text/edit 134K 68k Text editor
Deark.lha util/arc 3.6M MOS Extract data from various fil...
UnRAR-6.02.lha util/arc 2.3M MOS UnRAR 6.02
JFIFdt44.lha util/dtype 877K 68k fast JFIF (JPEG) picture data...
FResample.lha util/libs 88K MOS Fast altivec-capable resample...
Alltests.zip util/misc 14K 68k Automated Amiga Test Program
Testprogram.zip util/misc 385K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
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08.Aug.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 07.08.2021
The following files have been added until 07.08.2021 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
astralgame.lha gam/mis 3Mb 4.0 A little tool to know your zodia...
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08.Aug.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.08.2021
The following files have been added until 07.08.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_2.0.14_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.1...
SDLPoP_1.22.lha Games/Adventure SDLPoP is an open-sourc...
MCE_13.1.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
AstralGame_3.0.lha Games/Misc This esoteric app you c...
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08.Aug.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.08.2021
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 07.08.2021:
(snx)
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07.Aug.2021
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Raspberry Pi: Dev Diary on Emu68
Michal Schulz is working on his Motorola-68000 emulation for the Raspberry Pi (amiga-news.de reported). In two Dev Diary entries Emu68 meets PiStorm and A little bit more of PiStorming he has now reported on his latest efforts of get his emulation running on an A500 and a Raspberry Pi3. Furthermore he provides Nightly Builds on the corresponding GitHub website. (dr)
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07.Aug.2021
Amitopia
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UnRAR 6.02 for all Amiga systems
Marcin Labenski has ported the source code of UnRAR 6.0.7 to all Amiga systems and provides the following features:
- support all the basic unrar commands and switches, including listing, unpacking (all or selected items), printing and testing archive files
- support national characters in archive name, names of files and directories in the archive, passwords, comments and list files
- support restoring information about file modification date, owner and group
- support unpacking symbolic links and hard links stored in archives
- support unpacking multi-volume and SFX archives
- can read switches from configuration file s:rar.conf or RAR environment variable
- large files support (>4GiB) on MorphOS and AmigsOS4
- support AmigaOS localization via locale.library
As the author wrote, "there are no special requirements for MorphOS and AmigaOS4. It should work on any system provided that it has a relatively fresh version of the operating system (I test on MorphOS 3.12 and AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 1). AROS version requires i386 and ABI-v0. Classic AmigaOS version requires a system with:
- CPU Motorola 68000 - FPU is not required
- Kickstart 2.04 or higher
- ixemul V48 (http://aminet.net/package/util/libs/ixemul-48.0)
- 4MB RAM (UnRAR requires 2.6MB on its own)
Exact memory utilization depends on the size of compressed files. For instance my test archive with one 2.0GB file in it needs 32MB of RAM to unpack."
The source code of his port is available on GitHub. (dr)
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07.Aug.2021
amigaportal.cz
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Final Amiga port of 'Metal Gear' (MSX)
In February 2021 announced by a videos, musician, DJ and coder 'Hoffman' has released his final version of his Amiga port of 'Metal Gear', originally developed for MSX home computers. Version 1.1 fixes some bugs and compatibility issues and has the following features:
- Code ported from Z80 to 68000 assembly by Hoffman
- Gameplay adjusted to work at full 50hz/60hz
- No slow-downs or sprite flicker
- Multiple game modes
- English Remix Fan Translation
- Original European Version
- Original Japanese Version
- New Spanish Translation by Akira
- Enhanced Amiga Soundtrack and SFX by Hoffman
- Optional emulated MSX / PSG Music and SFX
- Full support for CD32 gamepad for keyboard-less gameplay
- Additional character graphics by Toni Galvez
- All new ending / credits section
- For any Amiga with 512kb Chip Ram + 512k Other Ram
- Bootable disk image for low spec Amigas
- WHDLoad installer by Psygore
The original ProTracker modules can be also downloaded from his website. About the history of his project he wrote:
"This project started out as a curiosity which got WAY out of hand. Back in November 2020, after 8 months of coronavirus lock-down, I found myself looking at a GitHub repo by Manual Pazos and wondering really just how hard would it be to port this to the Amiga. As a test, I looked at converting some of the tile graphics and within a couple of days built some tools in C# to deal with that. Next I moved onto the map / room data and quickly built a renderer on the Amiga which could draw every room from the game. By now I was done for, I couldn't stop, I had to see just how far I could take the project. Each completed step kept pushing me to do the next and now here we are, a complete and full port of Metal Gear running on all Amigas!
There is more to be said about the development process (like spending weeks building a fully dynamic Amiga sprite multiplexer only to throw it all away) but I think I'll save that for a series of blog posts. For now, I hope you enjoy this game as much as I've enjoyed, and endured, putting it
together."
Download: MetalGear-v1.1.zip (914 KB)
Download: MetalGear-mods.zip (914 KB) (dr)
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07.Aug.2021
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Accelerator board for A1200: Tsunami 1230
Additional to his 'A1100' project, Miguel Fides has built a new accelerator board for the A1200 called Tsunami 1230. According to the his own statement "most compatible acelerator for the A1200 since the Blizzard serie" can be plugged in without any modification of the A1200 case and has the following specifications:
- 68EC030 QFP CPU at 42MHZ.
- 64MByte FastRAM.
- 68882 FPU footprint ready and also selectable clock for overclocking the FPU.
- External expansion port for future upgrades (secret stuff, can’t tell)
- Clockport port (RTC only).
- Compatible with any A1200 motherboard revision.
- A1100 friendly of course.
A recently published YouTube video compares the Tsuanami 1230 with the Blizzard 1230 by means of benchmarks and games. This is a non-commercial project and you can express your interest for a first batch. (dr)
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06.Aug.2021
Amigans
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Memory game: MeMO 3.14
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has released an update of his memory game MeMO. His game is based on the classic memory card game but in his port two payers can simultaneously play for getting the best highscore. MeMO requires a 68020 processor and the ECS graphic chip. Changes of this release:
- Adapted to Amiga CD³²: added saving through nonvolatile.library when writing to disk fails; allowed pausing, aborting and name entering by means of the joypad; added CD ISO image to distro packages.
- Reworked controls (see manual).
- Added controls information to pause screen.
- Added cards numbers to the back of face down cards (which helps with matching cards).
- Straightened cards corners, to match better the overall sharp look of graphics.
- Fixed bug that caused the EXTRA JOYSTICK option to be highlighted shortly after returning from the "about" screen.
- Made several optimizations.
- Adapted to and built against latest custom framework (which makes startup and cleanup more robust and has a couple of bugfixes).
- Fixed/improved/added outer antialiasing of graphics on all cards (trying to stay faithful to the original design).
- Touched up a few cards.
- Reduced and partly eliminated bass notes clicking.
- Made various other minor changes.
- Improved manual.
(dr)
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04.Aug.2021
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Jump'n Run for Vampire V4: SonicVamped 1 and 2
'SonicVamped' is a port of the 2013 Android version of SEGA's Sonic The Hedgehog 1 & 2 to AmigaOS optimised for Vampire V4 computer. The games ported by Artur "Arti" Jarosik and "Quetzal" also run under Vampire V2 accelerator boards but not at full speed.
According to the developers the Amiga port features "many speed improvements including AMMX, direct SAGA draw with triple buffer and direct SAGA audio implementation. All of that made it possible to run at stable 60 fps gameplay on The Vampire V4.". A Vampire V4 Release 6 at least is required but a Release 7 - which still is not publicly available - for getting all the features is recommended.
For installation the Sonic 1 or 2 Unpack.bat must be executed on Windows 8 or 10 and then the SonicVamped folder copied to the SD/CF card. (dr)
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03.Aug.2021
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Controlling Sonos speakers (update)
Michael Rupp, well-known by his Workbench simulation TAWS now has started a new project: Learning the programming language Hollywood.
Specifically, he is currently developing an application for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS for controlling Sonos speaker.
The programm is called 'SonosController' and will have the following features:
- listing your speakers with the info of the currently playing song, with an icon that is downloaded from the speaker itself
- subscription of the speaker's UPnP events (that was probably the hardest one to crack, man-o-man), it means that the controller gets a notification if the Sonos system receives a command from some other controller (f.e. from your mobile or on some other computer) or directly from the speaker's buttons
- sending control commands:
- Play
- Pause
- Next
- Back
- Jump to time index
- Volume
- Mute
- Shuffle
- Repeat (everything, current song)
- Crossfade
- display of the current song's title, artist, and album on the selected speaker
- download and display of the album cover if possible (f.e. if embedded into the playing MP3 file)
- local cache for album covers for better performance
- local cache can be emptied in the Preferences dialog
- listing the selected speaker's current queue
- playing a song by clicking an entry in the queue
- listing the Sonos favourites incl. starting one
- listing the Sonos playlists incl. starting one (normal oder shuffled)
- listing TuneIn's saved radio stations incl. starting one
- listing TuneIn's saved radio shows incl. starting one
- browsing your music library incl. starting songs, albums, etc. (normal or shuffled)
- searching your music library by search string and search type (artist, album, composer, genre, song or imported playlist)
- the last x search strings are save, whereas x can be configured in the Preferences (0 - max. 50)
- saved search strings can be emptied in the Preferences dialog
According to the author, he "absolutely wanted to have an Amiga exclusive feature in it, something that the original Sonos app doesn't feature:
- Exporting playlists in M3U format. These can be put into your music library's "playlists" folder to be re-imported into Sonos, thus enabling you to kind of backup and restore your playlists.
All these features already have been implemented and currently are bug fixed. In future versions the following features will be added:
- grouping / ungrouping of speakers
- integration of music services such as Spotify, etc.
- modifying the current queue, adding songs (or whole playlists), remove songs, change song order
- save a queue as a new playlist
- modifying playlists (change, rename, delete, etc.)
- sleep timer functionality
- alarms functionality
- Ringho notifications
Regarding his experience with Hollywood, Rupp told us:
"I got into the new syntax very quickly, especially because the documentation is simply exemplary and full of sample code. Also, you can find an example for practically every programming aspect in the provided sample projects. And if I had any questions, I was always helped promptly in the Hollywood forum, be it by Andreas himself or other Hollywood programmers.
Hollywood is a programming language and so programming knowledge is necessary. Using the Hollywood Designer, however, you can do one or the other without, but this is more comparable to Scala or PowerPoint and is not a programming toolbox in the sense.
However, if you want to learn programming, I can recommend Hollywood as a starting point, especially because of the excellent documentation. Or you can click together something simple in the designer (a small slideshow or so) and then look at the generated script and try to understand what is going on."
Update: (05:53, 10.08.21, dr)
Michael Rupp emphazies that he is looking for beta testers. If you have a MorphOS or AmigaOS4 system and a Sonos speaker, then please contact him via mail. (dr)
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03.Aug.2021
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Dev Diary: 'This week in PiStorm'
In his weekly column 'This week in PiStorm', the developer Andrew Hutchings gathers progresses and insights on the 'PiStorm' project.
In his latest entry among others he reported that the PiStorm-Wiki was updated and now includes a FAQ as well as a detailed software installation guide. (dr)
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02.Aug.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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From Vultures to Vampires: Shipping of book by Pleasance and Dickinson (vol. 1)
The first volume of "From Vultures to Vampires", a book by the former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and the A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson, is currently shipping to those crowdfunders who pledged for the e-book version. Printing of the real book is expected to be finished August 20.
For the Kindle variant, its manufacturer currently states September 6 as date of availability. Regarding prices, on his website David Pleasance mentions 15 (e-book, same amount as previously for crowdfunders) and 35 British Pounds, respectively (printed book, for crowdfunders it had been 30 Pounds; for volume two, the latter get a discount of 50 % on both variants). (snx)
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01.Aug.2021
Alain Fontanin
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Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.52 (update)
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 1.51 with the following changes:
- Compiled with SAS/C 6.58
- Use of the locale library for language-specific and country-specific properties (date and time) and catalogs for the localized version (english in the code, french and german as catalogs). The source file to generate the catalogs (ASE2019.cs with SimpleCat) is in the release
- Use of the gadtools library for menus and gadgets
- Reentrance mechanism, based on Arexx script to avoid having multiple instances of ASE2019 in memory
- Replacement of obsolete functions
- Ability to handle differents 'EOL' characters
- Significant improvement in the reading speed of a document
- Ability to create and manage document backups
- Improve configuration of ASE2019
- Improve tabs management : tab size from 1 to 10 and hard tabs
- Improve speed cancellation changes
- Integration of the Amiga clipboard
- First version (limited) of document comparison function
- Correction of the 'Delete content of the current line' function
- Correction of the 'Delete characters after cursor' function
- Correction of the 'Delete characters before cursor' function
- New functions 'Delete word before/after cursor'
- New configuration of the 'DEL' & 'BACKSPACE' keys;refer to 'Shortcuts' section, of the documentation for more information
- Removal of the 'Lorem Ipsum' function
- Correct version of the 'ASE2019.cs' localization file
Meanwhile version 1.52 is available which fixes a bug in the English menu.
Download: ASE2019_1.52.lha (134 KB) (dr)
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