21.Nov.2019
Indie Retro News
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Tutorial: Game programming in assembler with modern tools
In his blog "Amiga Game Dev", Graeme Cowie (e.g. Bomb Jack Beer Edition) offers a tutorial about game programming in assembler. The tutorial is devided into single "episodes". So far four episodes have been published - he will publish new ones a week.
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21.Nov.2019
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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Elbox: Driver updates for Mediator (pci.library, MedConfig)
On October 31, Elbox has updated some drivers: The Mediator multimedia configuration tool MedConfig which "helps configuring all Mediator jumpers and all variables of Mediator drivers for the PCI cards" was updated to version 2.4 and is supposed to fix the stuttering audio output. Besides, version 13.9 of the pci.library was released.
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20.Nov.2019
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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Quiz: AskMeUp XXL 3.5 (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS), update
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 1600 questions in 15 categories. A demo version containing 100 questions is available for free. Changes of this version:
- New! In "Quiz" and "Survival" modes, you can now select the add-on(s) you want to play (enabled/disabled by [1], [2], ... keys and by a mouse click on AmigaOS 4/MorphOS).
- Game / Explosions now optimized and faster ("Survival" and "Cup" (The explosive confrontation) modes).
- About / "Google+" button replaced by a "Twitter" one.
- Recap / Survival / Now the "exploded" state of the avatar is displayed.
- Questions / Questions updated.
- Questions / Typos fixed.
- Translations / Some rare Spanish translations were missing: they are now translated. Muchas gracias Enrique.
- Translations / Italian translation improved.
- Specific. MorphOS / Graphic bugs could appear during the animation on the question: fixed.
- Specific. MorphOS / A black screen could appear between two screens: fixed.
- Specific. MorphOS / Cup / Animations optimized when selecting a theme of questions.
- Specific. MorphOS / Compilation with GCC 4.4.5 (previously 2.95.3) and the lastest SDK 3.14.
- Specific. Windows / Recap / The rank was not correctly displayed: fixed.
- Available add-on: Girls band: Two new avatars, Maria Bella and Acid Jaimie (free).
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20.Nov.2019
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AMOS Professional X: Adapting AMOS to AGA
For quite some time the source codes of the BASIC development environment "Amos Professional" has been available on Github. Frédéric Cordier (e.g. game engine AmiDark) has taken on the task of developeing it further and adding new functions. On Amiga Impact he has described the progresses he made so far:
He has started his work on it a month ago and first he has implemented Dual Playfields (16 colours) under AGA (video), then he has added support for LORES screen solution with 256 colours (video) and extended the corresponding LoadIff method (video). Bobx also already works with 256 colours (video). As nhe next step he is going to add support for higher screen solutions.
In the download section of Cordier's Github repository an executable version of AMOS Pro is available but it seems to be an older version. The developer has not said when he will upload a first beta or alpha release.
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18.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Working with ADF files: GoADF! 2.0
The shareware programm (7 Euro) "GoADF!" can read and write ADF files and, among others, can mount them as virtual drives. This latest version also supports the formats DMS, ADZ and HFE.
- v2.0: add support for DMS files
- v2.0: add support for ADZ files
- v2.0: add support for HFE files
- v2.0: new module to convert images from HFE/ADZ/ADF/DMS to ADF/ADZ
- v2.0: sorting lists in all listviews
- v2.0: new configuration options
- v1.2.1: new module to create ADF files "Disk to ADF"
- v1.2.1: new option to verify disk writing
- v1.2.1: new options to configure screen (remove tooltypes from v1.1) and fonts
- v1.2.1: new option to configure work directories
- v1.2.1: new button "Refresh dir" in main window
- v1.2.1: new window for dates view (from reqtools to gadtools window)
- v1.2.1: add support for the tool field in project icons of ADF files
- v1.2.1: bug in write ADF routine fixed
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18.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Run'n Gun: The Ninja Zombie Killer (AGA)
In 'The Ninja Zombie Killer' (video) you do not finish a level by getting to the exit but surviving zombie waves. The game was written with the construction kit RedPill, requires an AGA Amiga and supports two fire buttons.
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17.Nov.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.11.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 16th, 2019:
Crono.lha biz/misc 2.4M OS4 Generator of printable annual...
TransLocale.lha dev/hwood 2.0M OS4 Localize your Hollywood program
Flacapella_de.lha disk/cdrom 2K Unofficial German catalog for...
MaxReplayTest.lha driver/aud 10K 68k Determine Paula's max. replay...
OBSTMUI.lha game/misc 22K 68k openBOR GUI (MUI)
OpenDUNE_AGA.lha game/strat 276K 68k Amiga AGA port of OpenDUNE
OpenDUNE_RTG.lha game/strat 277K 68k Amiga RTG port of OpenDUNE
potrace-mos.lha gfx/conv 834K MOS Transform bitmaps into vector...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 956K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 108K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 137K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.src.lha util/sys 1.4M Commodore Installer replacement
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17.Nov.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.11.2019
The following archive has been added to OS4Depot until November 16th, 2019:
crono.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.1 Generator of printable annual ca...
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17.Nov.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.11.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until November 16th, 2019:
modexplorer.lha aud/pla 7Mb Streaming mod file from aminet, ...
script_janus_task_prio.tgz emu/com 10kb run janus-uae with alternate task
dp-high-text-3.tgz gam/fps 191Mb darkplaces quake 900 Mb high tex...
dp-high-text-4.tgz gam/fps 191Mb darkplaces quake 900 Mb high tex...
amibrixx_aros.lha gam/puz 1Mb puzzle-game
artbaseinstall.zip gra/edi 55Mb Give your data a new look
janus_drawer.lha gra/ico 3kb ken's v4 drawer for janus-uae
crono.lha gra/mis 2Mb Generator of printable annual or...
comicon_aros.lha gra/vie 1Mb simply downloads the comic-strip...
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17.Nov.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 16.11.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until November 16th, 2019:
ModExplorer_2.0.lha Audio/Players A module player by J?rg.
MorphOS-SDK_3.14-20191... Development/SDK The MorphOS Development...
iConecta_3.20.lha Network/Wifi A little and easy tool ...
Potrace_1.16.lha Graphics/Convert Transform bitmaps into ...
LUA_MUI.lha Development/LUA LUA_MUI.lha
ComicOn_1.0.lha Graphics/Show ComicOn_1.0.lha
AmiBrixx_1.0.lha Games/Think AmiBrixx_1.0.lha
AGABlaster_0_9_65.lha Graphics/Show AGABlaster_0_9_65.lha
Drucken_mit_MorphOS_1.... Documentation/Tutorials Drucken_mit_MorphOS_1.2...
Printing_with_MorphOS_... Documentation/Tutorials Printing_with_MorphOS_1...
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17.Nov.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 16.11.2019
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until November 16th, 2019:
- 2019-11-13 improved: Wings of Fury (Brøderbund) made chip slave default, icons added (Info)
- 2019-11-13 updated: Off Shore Warrior (Titus) more icons included (Info)
- 2019-11-13 improved: Capital Punishment (ClickBoom) protection screen removed, cache modification removed, access faults fixed, trainer reworked and enhanced (Info)
- 2019-11-13 improved: Bobo (Infogrames) using files instead disk image, timing problems fixed, keyboard handling fixed (Info)
- 2019-11-13 improved: Oscar (Flair Software) underwater level fixed, trainer added (Info)
- 2019-11-13 improved: Liquid Kids (Ocean) added 2nd button and joypad controls (Info)
- 2019-11-11 improved: Operation Wolf (Ocean) access fault fixed, trainer enhanced, uses extra memory for extended game features (Info)
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17.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga 600: Extension board eX601
Under the title link Lotharek offers an extension board called eX601 for the Amiga 600 developed by the Furia developer Boris Krizma which provides 1 MB additional chip RAM, a realtime clock with battery, an extension socket for the Indivision ECS and two clock ports for e.g. the Rapid USB developed by Individual Computers.
The price is 39,48 Euro plus shipping from Poland.
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17.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: Amiberry 3.0
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based one-chip-systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the tinkerboard from ASUS. The changes of version 3.0 you can find on the corresponding GitHub site.
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17.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Raspberry Pi: Emu68 alpha version 0.1
For adventurous users Michal Schulz has released a very early work-in-progress version of his announced Motorola-68000 emulation for the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 together with two 68k test programmes.
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17.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench enhancement: BestWB 1.3 for AmigaOS 3.1.4
Similar to BetterWB, BestWB is a collection of Workbench tools for, in this case, AmigaOS 3.1.4 "without the unneeded bloat often associated with these kind of distros. It persues speed and usability and does not focus on eye candy."
New Features:
-TiTleShadow is a program that enables title bar font customization.
-AHI enables third party audio hardware under a unified interface.
Updates:
-IconLib46 46.4.513 -> 46.4.518
-ToolsMenu 1.9.1 -> 1.10.2
-TSGUI -> 2.6b21
-WBDock 2.13 -> 2.14
Bugfixes:
-Cleaned up the installation script.
-Improved some documentation.
-Removed DOSPrefs as its operation is both buggy and quite hackish.
Tweaks:
-MMULibs is now optional when going full install (Not in the Update).
-FullPalette can be easily toggled on or off quite easily.
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16.Nov.2019
amigaworld (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Update for retro arcade game "Huenison"
The commcercial game 'Huenison' (trailer) combines diverse features of former arcade games. This update for the game, orginally released in 2013, provides diverse improvements for the graphical representation:
- Simplified and optimized CRT pixel modes
- Made 4x LCD pixel mode slightly brighter
- Added 6x pixel modes
- Added hardware-accelerated zooming for solid pixel modes to AmigaOS version
The author points out that purchasers of the CD version theoretically can update their (burned) media since they deliberately have been burned as multi session CDs. You can get further information from his announcement on amigaworld.net.
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16.Nov.2019
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Individual Computers: Pictures of cooling system of ACA1260
Individual Computers has published some first pictures of the announced 68040/68060-based accelerator board which show the cooling system of the board: Obviously the developers chose an active cooling, the fan would have been custom-made for Individual Computers.
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16.Nov.2019
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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ComicOn 1.0 (all Amiga systems)
ComicOn written with Hollywood downloads comic strips from websites and shows them. Several English strips like Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes or Peanuts are supported. ComicOn is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS and requires some additional Hollywood plugins which have to be installed before.
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16.Nov.2019
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Free USB adapter for input device: HID2AMI
Using HID2AMI different USB input devices ("HID", "Human Interface Devices") can be connected to the Amiga. The documentation for the board and the firmware of the adapter which is based on an ARM-micro-controller are available on Github. Occasionally the developer offers a small number of the product for sale. Documenations for printing a case with a 3D printer as well as a hardware compatibility list are also available.
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16.Nov.2019
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USB interface for reading and writing floppy disks on PC: Greaseweazle
After his Gotek firmware FlashFloppy, Keir Fraser has started another project for reading and writing floppy disks on PC: Similar to Kryoflux, 'Greaseweazle' reads the magnetic layers of the disks independently of the used disk format and saves as much information as possible in a so called "Flux Level Image" in the Supercard-Format (SCP) which enables reading and writing copy-protected disks.
Among others SCP disk images are supported by WinUAE and FS-UAE. Using external tools it is possible to convert them to IPF which is a more known format of the Software Preservation Society. You can also create ADF images - if the disk is not copy-protected.
Greaseweazle consists of a mikro controller board that costs only a few euros which is connected to a disks drive and then via USB to the PC. All required software is available on Github under a free license.
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15.Nov.2019
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Hardware extension: "A314" adds internal Raspberry Pi to A500
Niklas Ekström has developed a FPGA-based adapter board which allows you to connect a Raspberry Pi to the internal extension port of the Amiga 500. The Verilog source code, the source codes of the Amiga and Linux software as well as the design for the "A314" board are available at Github under a free license.
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The Raspberry Pi makes 0,5 or 1 MB of its main memory available to the A500 depending on the used Agnus revision as chip or slow RAM. Both computers access this memory for exchanging data. Additionally there is a communication channel which both systems can use for poiting out to incoming data. A battery backed real time clock the A314 emulates as well. What tasks the software is to handle :
- a314fs: is a file system that is mounted in AmigaDOS as a device, PI0:.
- pi: is a command that lets you invoke executables on the RPi from the AmigaDOS CLI. For example, if your current working directory is on PiDisk: and you run "pi vc hello.c -o hello", then the vc program (the VBCC cross-compiler) is executed on the RPi with the given arguments. It will cross-compile "hello.c" into the Amiga executable file "hello". The resulting binary is immediately accessible through the a314fs.
- PiAudio: lets the RPi stream audio samples directly to the shared chip memory, from where Paula plays those samples. PiAudio is integrated with ALSA on the RPi so that any program that plays audio through ALSA can be used, i.e. "pi mpg123 -a amiga song.mp3" plays song.mp3 using the program mpg123 to the Amiga.
- VideoPlayer: is a simple program that displays a sequence of images on the A500 by letting the RPi write bitplanes directly to the shared memory (this again requires that the A314 memory is chip memory, and not "ranger" memory).
- RemoteWB: works by moving the Workbench bitplanes over to the chip memory on the A314. This requires that the A500 has at least a 8372 Agnus. During drawing of each frame on the Amiga, the RPi reads those bitplanes, encodes them into a GIF image, and transmits that image to a web browser through a web socket. The web browser in turn, returns key presses and mouse movements back to the Amiga through the same web socket. In effect, this becomes a web browser based remote control application, comparable to VNC but with near zero performance impact on the Amiga CPU!
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In future Networking is planned either through a bsdsocket.library implementation that forwards socket operations to the RPi and executes those operations there (high degree of offloading), or a Sana II driver used with a full network stack (lesser, but still offloading).
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