27.Oct.2024
spillhistorie.no (ANF)
|
Interview with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson
At the title link Jon Håvard Gundersen has conducted another interview for the Norwegian site Spillhistorie, this time with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson. The Swede is known for numerous demos and music disks for the Amiga and the C64 and probably above all for the conversion of Commodore hardware into musical instruments (amiga-news.de reported). (snx)
[News message: 27. Oct. 2024, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
27.Oct.2024
|
Proof of concept: Image display without RAM
With his proof of concept "Amiga CPU Blit Read-Only" 'nicodex' shows how to display an image on the Amiga without write access to the RAM. His ROM requires a PAL Amiga with a 68000 or 68010 processor clocked at 7 MHz. (snx)
[News message: 27. Oct. 2024, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
27.Oct.2024
Look Behind You (ANF)
|
Pre-order sale: Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual - AmigaDOS as a printed book
Press release: The "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: AmigaDOS" by Thomas Richter will be published in a strictly limited print run - a project that does not pursue any commercial purpose, but aims to offer the PDF reference manual created by Thomas 'ThoR' Richter as a high-quality, printed book at an affordable price.
Interested buyers can pre-order the English-language paperback book (exp. 392 pages) until 18 November 2024 - the print run is strictly limited and there will be no reprints. The price is ¤29.90 plus shipping (worldwide delivery is offered). Delivery is scheduled around Christmas time.
For the serious programmer who wants to take full advantage of the Amiga's impressive features, the "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: AmigaDOS" is an indispensable source of information on how to use the AmigaDOS file system, how to interact and implement handlers and file systems and how to make productive use of the AmigaDOS Shell. This volume covers the latest version of Amiga's operating system.
Preorder and further information at the title link. (snx)
[News message: 27. Oct. 2024, 06:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
27.Oct.2024
|
Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer Red Alert 1.7.2
Artur Jarosik's port of "Command & Conquer: Red Alert", designed for Amigas with powerful turbo cards such as PiStorm/Emu68, Apollo/Vampire V4 or Warp1260, is now available in version 1.7.2.
The new features since version 1.5 include bug fixes, a reduction of the CPU load during video playback, accelerated movement of the map when the right mouse button is pressed and an SDL-less CGX/AGA variant. (snx)
[News message: 27. Oct. 2024, 06:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
27.Oct.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
|
Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 171 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 171 (November/December 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content includes interviews with Simon Phipps, Carlo Pastore and Achim Pankalla, several reviews, e.g. of ignition and X-bEnCh, and various specials, for example about MacroSystem, usergroups and the history of the demo scene.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
[News message: 27. Oct. 2024, 06:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
26.Oct.2024
ALB-Blog
|
ePub reader: Legadon v0.2 for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released Legadon, a simple ePub reader for all Amiga systems (YouTube video), which makes reading e-books on the Amiga possible for the first time. (dr)
[News message: 26. Oct. 2024, 20:08] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
26.Oct.2024
|
Platform game: 2tinycowboys now with single-player mode (update)
2tinycowboys (YouTube video) is a game developed with the Scorpion Engine for the Amiga 500, in which two players compete against each other on a single screen in arcade platformer style. Since our last news item, numerous changes and improvements have been made, including the addition of a single-player mode.
Update: (14:16, 28.10.24, dr)
With version 28 released yesterday, some bugs have been fixed. It is now possible to start a single player mode with both characters. (dr)
[News message: 26. Oct. 2024, 09:32] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
26.Oct.2024
|
Dungeon Crawler: Halloween X released
After a demo version (amiga-news.de reported), Sami Vehmaa has now released the full version of his dungeon crawler "Halloween X" (neues Twitch video), which can currently be purchased for around 4.60 euros. A fast AGA Amiga and AmigaOS3.x are required.
At the same time, he also updated the demo version. Version 1.06 offers bug fixes, a better user interface, adjusted difficulty levels and timing for traps, etc. (dr)
[News message: 26. Oct. 2024, 06:53] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
25.Oct.2024
Seiya (ANF)
|
PDF magazine: REV'n'GE! 163 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE! ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in both the Italian original and an English translation (right-hand side). The current issue 163 also contains three reviews of Amiga titles: the classic "Crystal Dragon", the new release "Dr. Dangerous" and the CDTV title "Gardenfax: Trees & Shrubs". (nba)
[News message: 25. Oct. 2024, 11:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
25.Oct.2024
|
Emulator: Denise v2.4
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64 (German YouTube video). Numerous amiga-specific changes have been made since our last report on version 2.21: among other things, emulation has been improved, especially the disk drive, and a 4-player adapter is now supported. Detailed changes:
Version 2.4
- support macOS Metal graphics driver with shaders
- added Cocoa as a keyboard driver for macOS (avoid the system dialog to allow input)
- added BSD UHID joypad driver, supported on FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
- reworked on-screen status messages
- separated(C64/Amiga) file dialog preview options and moved to Software UI
- improved openGL shader cache
- improved handling of shader UI
- added possibility to assign a different floppy sound profile for external drives
- Amiga: added new floppy sound profile
- Amiga: emulate Blitter<>Copper conflict
Version 2.3
- added RetroArch Shader support
- Amiga: improved emulation, especially the disk drive
- Amiga: emulated Bitplane <> Refresh conflicts
- Amiga: Final Fight Enhanced supported by temporary option to fake ECS Denise
- Amiga: written floppy disks are now saved in a second file (this does not apply to uncompressed ADF (don't worry, emulator asks if ADF can be changed)
- Amiga: added 4-player adapter
- Amiga: added copy protection dongle support
- fixed a bug not finishing Drag'n'Drop in Linux GTK
- fixed some OSX bugs/crashes [looking for tester]
- improved mouse capture handling for all OSes
- UI changes (volume slider has moved to status bar, added option to capture pointer by left mouse button)
- changed BuildSystem to CMAKE
- added Linux/BSD XCB input driver for keyboard/mouse
- improved GTK window resizing in some desktop environments
Version 2.2
- added D3D11 driver
- added italian translation (thanks to Luigi)
- added an option to rotate the screen (90°/180°/270°)
- added an option to force a single instance when opening another instance from frontend loader or file explorer
- fixed Amiga basic volume (louder)
- added a more easy way to set stereo separation (Audio -> DSP)
Denise is available cross platform for Windows 32/64 XP and higher, macOS (from version 10.9 on, Intel and Arm) and Linux (Ubuntu).
(dr)
[News message: 25. Oct. 2024, 09:03] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Oct.2024
|
PDF document: The Amiga 500 beginner's guide (German)
In a 46-page German PDF document, Patrick Schwedt has written both his personal Amiga story and, above all, lots of tips and hints for those who have bought an Amiga 500 for the first time or after a long time. There are chapters on drives, memory expansions, turbo cards, operating systems, mice and software, among other things. (dr)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2024, 22:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Oct.2024
Mastodon
|
Arananet: Accelerator Trinity 1240-60 can be pre-ordered
After four years of development and extensive testing, "best accelerator ever built for the Amiga A1200" has been finalised. The Trinity 1240-60 supports 68040-68060 CPUs and is compatible with all A1200 revisions. According to the developer, great care has been taken to optimise access to the chip memory, regardless of whether it is equipped with a 68040 or 68060 processor. It can now be pre-ordered for 369 euros.
According to the developers, numerous tests were carried out in which the Trinity was compared with the Blizzard 1260. The Trinity performed better in all the demos tested. The Trinity can be used with any MC68060/040 CPU (EC, LC or Full). When using a 68040 processor with 25MHz, please note that the Trinity automatically overclocks it to 33MHz. The use of a heat sink is recommended. The exact specifications:
- 128MB SDRAM Fast memory
- Optimized chip memory access at any CPU clock speed
- 68040/68060 compatible (via jumper)
- Onboard I2S 16-bit stereo sound card compatible with AHI
- Includes a 3.5mm jack Paula PassThrough
- Software interface for changing speed (MHz)
- Expansion connector for future upgrades
- Compatible with any A1200 motherboard revision
- Compatible with PCMCIA
- Compatible with Kickstart 3.1 (recommended 3.1.4 / 3.2)
- Black PCB color on this batch
- Fits in your old or new old stock A1200 case!!!
- A1100 friendly, of course.
(dr)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2024, 21:32] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Oct.2024
|
Blog: Different versions of Amiga Topaz font
In his latest article, Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, reports on his journey of discovery regarding the different Amiga Topaz fonts of the respective Kickstart ROMs: while browsing through Cloanto's collection of Kickstart ROMs and looking at the screenshots, he noticed that Topaz font of the Kickstart intermediate version 1.4 Alpha 18 was already a sans serif, but would not look quite like the 2.0 version of Topaz.
Incidentally, when trying to load the Workbench under Kickstart 1.4, he discovered that a green "Recoverable Alert" with a "Guru Meditation" message appeared. (dr)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2024, 04:13] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Oct.2024
|
Blog: Installing a TF1260
Under the title link, Didier Malenfant describes his findings and experiences with the installation of a TerribleFire 1260 turbo card (see also turbo card comparison (German)). The article will be continuously updated. (dr)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2024, 04:01] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
23.Oct.2024
|
Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.21
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks.
Version 1.21 of the Greaseweazle Tools provides the following changes:
- micropolis: Codec for Micropolis hard-sectored MFM disks
- gw reset: By default do not reset configured "gw delays"
- Fix setup.py installation: Require bitarray earlier than v3
(dr)
[News message: 23. Oct. 2024, 22:26] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
23.Oct.2024
GitHub
|
Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.18 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.18 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version 3.4.0 (22.10.2024) of OpenSSL. Changes:
- Switched to OpenSSL 3.4, with full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.4.0 (22.10.2024) version, which includes new features, improvements and bug fixes.
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle, dated 24.9.2024.
Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.18-OS3.lha (3,8 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.18-OS4.lha (3,46 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.18-SDK.lha (2,4 MB) (dr)
[News message: 23. Oct. 2024, 21:37] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
22.Oct.2024
WinUAE Homepage
|
Emulator: WinUAE 5.3.1
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.3.1. Changes:
New features
- Added Picmatic Marbelle Vice and Tierras Salvajes 100Hz TV laser disc arcade game support.
Updates
- Implemented OpalVision undocumented automatic VRAM bank switch. King of Karate demo now have working scrolling background.
- Implemented Mediator 1200TX 2x4M PCI window mode.
- Serial port emulation updates: transmit speed is now more accurate, receive speed is throttled if data is arriving too quickly.
- CTRL+F12 windowed/fullscreen switch now remembers previous fullscreen mode (fullscreen or full-window) and it is stored between sessions in registr/ini.
Bug fixes
- Fixed GamePorts panel “Swap ports”.
- Some screen resolution/font combinations caused crash when on screen keyboard was opened.
- Fixed music glitch in James Pond 2 (non-AGA). Most likely also affected some other interrupt based music players too.
- Golem SCSI II HD controller configuration didn’t load correctly.
- Fixed SPRxPOS modification in last possible moment being missed causing sprite to be disabled. (Fixes Reshoot R background flickering)
- Fixed possible crash when AmigaOS 4 resets during boot and switches to PPC mode if directory filesystem emulation was in use.
- SCSI CD audio PLAY AUDIO TRACK/INDEX returned error if end track was higher than last track. SCSI spec allows it and it should not cause error.
- Prometheus Firestorm PCI bridge interrupt state bit was inverted.
(nba)
[News message: 22. Oct. 2024, 16:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
22.Oct.2024
|
Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 33
Issue 33 of the English-language magazine Amiga Addict is now available from the publisher addict.media and in British newsstands. In the cover story, the editorial team discusses the influence of the Amiga on virtual reality systems.
This issue also contains reviews of the new games Dr. Dangerous and Droid Special Edition and the classic games Donk, Deuteros and The Chaos Engine, a feature on the Dune II Remaster project, a story about games that should have been ported to the Amiga, a downloadable cover disk with Alien Fish Finger and much more.
Amiga Addict is published every six weeks and is available as a single issue or by subscription, in either printed or PDF format. (nba)
[News message: 22. Oct. 2024, 16:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
22.Oct.2024
EAB (Forum)
|
Videogames studies: Experimental action game "Squarez" now available
The recently released Squarez is a remake of the Flash game SQUARES 2 and was developed as part of the CHLudens research project (amiga-news.de reported). This abstract action game is controlled entirely by mouse and offers minimalist, rectangle-based graphics. The aim of the game is to catch grey rectangles while avoiding the yellow ones in various levels.
It is interesting to note that Squarez was designed as a research game to explore why abstract games were rare in the home computer era, even though 1970s art was increasingly moving in this direction. While video games have become increasingly realistic, this game questions the urge for hyperrealism and invites players to enjoy a visually reduced experience.
The game was developed using the so-called cryAEngine and is available to download as freeware. The source code and the "Processing" development tool are also provided. Squarez is an exciting example of how creative research and video games can go hand in hand. (nba)
[News message: 22. Oct. 2024, 16:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
22.Oct.2024
|
Developer log: Creation of demo "New Art" (1st place at Deadline 2024)
In a detailed article, Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, describes the creation of the demo New Art, which won first place in the "Three Dee" category (3D effect using red/cyan-coloured glasses) at this year's edition of Deadline (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)
[News message: 22. Oct. 2024, 06:25] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
21.Oct.2024
|
Blog: Comparison of Push-Over versions (Amiga, Atari ST, PC, Super Nintendo)
The "Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog" compares and reviews games "as unbiased as possible". The current article compares the Amiga, Atari ST, PC and Super Nintendo versions of the Ocean classic Push-Over. (dr)
[News message: 21. Oct. 2024, 20:53] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
| |
| Recent Discussions |
 |
|
|
|
| Latest Top-News |
|
|
|
|
| amiga-news.de |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
