30.Dec.2024
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Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995. According to the operator, quite a number of remarkable images were created during this period, which he believes should not be gathering dust on some hard drive, hidden in an extra level in a game that is never played, or on a PD collection disk that is almost unknown. These graphics should be accessible to all by presenting them on his website.
Somewhat deviating from its own credo and following on from a first set of images published in October 2023 (amiga-news.de reported), this year's works by Danish graphic designer Facet have now been added. (dr)
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29.Dec.2024
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Aminet uploads until 28.12.2024
The following files have been added until 28.12.2024 to Aminet:
TuneFinderMUI.lha comm/misc 63K OS3 Search+play online radi...
ASMPro1.21.lha dev/asm 110K OS3 ASM-Pro v1.21 (update)
ASMPro1.21src.lha dev/asm 791K GEN ASM-Pro v1.21 source co...
COP.lha dev/debug 167K OS3 Low Level Debugger
xmdump.lha dev/misc 554K OS3 Analyze AmigaDOS progra...
xircomce2.lha driver/net 90K VAR Driver for Xircom PCMCI...
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 89K OS3 P96 Preferences Editor
CosmicBlaster.lha game/shoot 779K OS3 Fast action shooter gam...
G-WARS.lha game/shoot 789K OS3 Geometry Wars inspired ...
aminesweeper.lha game/wb 38K OS3 A classic Minesweeper g...
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 64K OS3 Create your own backdro...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 37M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia ...
MPlayer-GUI.lha gfx/show 222K OS4 GUI for MPlayer for OS4
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
Mame106MiniMix1.1.lha misc/emu 6.7M OS3 MAME 0.106 MiniMix1.1
SantaZombie.lha mods/misc 2.5M GEN 16bit 4ch Metal Blues R...
AmiModRadio.lha mus/play 3.1M OS3 Play modules from Inter...
2D_ATcad_RTG720.png pix/misc 24K GEN ATcad_RTG - DXF einlese...
2D_ATcad_UAE720.png pix/misc 30K GEN ATcad_UAE - Plotfile re...
EsseEmmeErreVisPre.lha pix/theme 85K OS3 New buttons for VisualP...
NAFCYI1991S4-B01.zip text/bfont 1.0M GEN NAFCYI Winter 1991-92 (...
LHArchiver_MOS.lha util/arc 1.6M MOS create lha archives int...
LHArchiver_OS3.lha util/arc 1.4M OS3 create lha archives int...
LHArchiver_OS4.lha util/arc 1.9M OS4 create lha archives int...
IFF2rexx.lha util/conv 1K GEN Convert IFF data to rex...
Image2PDF_AK.lha util/conv 1.7M OS3 convert images to PDF a...
Image2PDF_AROS.lha util/conv 2.5M ARO convert images to PDF a...
Image2PDF_MOS.lha util/conv 6.6M MOS convert images to PDF a...
Image2PDF_OS3.lha util/conv 4.9M OS3 convert images to PDF a...
Image2PDF_OS4.lha util/conv 6.2M OS4 convert images to PDF a...
pccard.lha util/libs 56K OS3 Library to parse PCMCIA...
AllKeys.lha util/misc 86K OS4 Use ALL rawkeys incl. M...
PCCardInfo.lha util/misc 32K OS3 Display details about P...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.5M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
FreeSyriaMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Syria country for Morph...
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29.Dec.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 28.12.2024
The following files have been added until 28.12.2024 to OS4Depot:
xircomce2.lha dri/net 90kb 4.1 Driver for Xircom PC
lopan.lha gam/boa 536kb 4.1 A solitaire game similar to Mahjong
shisen-seki.lha gam/boa 36Mb 4.1 A classic Japanese logic game si...
scummvm.lha gam/mis 112Mb 4.1 Run supported classic adventure/...
scummvm-src.tar.xz gam/mis 210Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
puzzletiles.lha gam/puz 4Mb 4.1 Puzzle game working on any user&...
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 37Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 2Mb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 2Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
scummvm-tools.lha uti/fil 4Mb 4.1 A collection of various tools fo...
scummvm-tools-src.tar.xz uti/fil 1Mb 4.1 ScummVM Tools Source
image2pdf.lha uti/tex 6Mb 4.1 Convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
mplayer-gui.lha vid/mis 222kb 4.1 GUI for MPlayer for OS4
yt.lha vid/mis 872kb 4.1 YouTube URL Extractor script
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29.Dec.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 28.12.2024
The following files have been added until 28.12.2024 to AROS Archives:
protrekkr-2.7.6.x86_64-ar... aud/tra 19Mb Advance Tracker Program
antedominum.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 2Mb Ante Dominum Intro by Traction
fiathomo.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 2Mb Fiat Homo Intro by Traction
ssri.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 2Mb SSRI Intro by Traction
stars.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 2Mb It's Full of Stars Intro by...
puzzletiles_aros.lha gam/puz 3Mb Puzzle game working on any user&...
zunepaint.x86_64-aros-v11... gra/edi 3Mb Bitmap Paint With Additional Effect
zunebrot.x86_64-aros-v11.tar gra/mis 500kb Little Fractal Program
zuneview.x86_64-aros-v11.tar gra/vie 3Mb Picture Viewer With Effect
iconecta.lha net/mis 3Mb A little and easy program to tes...
wgetgui.x86_64-aros-v11.zip net/mis 95kb Gui for Wget
zunecalc.x86_64-aros-v11.zip off/mis 44kb Simple Calculator
zunearc.x86-64-aros-v11.zip uti/arc 301kb a zune front end for archivers
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29.Dec.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.12.2024
The following files have been added until 28.12.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL2Wiki_0.8.lha Development/SDL2 An amigaguide document ...
LHArchiver_1.12.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
ScummVM_2.9.0.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
OpenGW_1.0.lha Games/Shoot2D Port of OpenGW by Papio...
OceanPop_2.00.lha Games/Think OceanPop - A relaxing m...
Shisen-Seki_0.2.1.lha Games/Think Port of Shisen-Seki by ...
Image2PDF_2.8.lha Graphics/Convert Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG...
AmigaGPT_2.0.2.lha Misc App for chatting to Cha...
Wayfarer_9.0.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
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29.Dec.2024
Reddit (Webseite)
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Team 17: Martyn Brown deceased
According to various forums, probably all based on a message on X, Martyn Brown, co-founder of game developer Team 17, has died at the age of 57.
British computer graphics veteran Shaun McClure reported on Facebook that Brown had been very ill for a long time following a series of strokes. The last time he spoke to him would have been via a voice emulator. (snx)
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29.Dec.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: 10th alpha version of PanelApp
For one and a half years, Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich has been working on his resumed project to revise the operating system's panels, which have remained virtually unchanged since MorphOS 1.4.
Public testing of the alpha versions is accompanied in the corresponding MorphZone thread. With its now published number 10, the point has been reached where Ambient itself needs to be revised, which is why future tests will no longer be possible with a generally available version of the MorphOS workbench.
Download: PanelApp.lha (271 KB) (snx)
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29.Dec.2024
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Diskmag: Amiga Rulez 24-03
The fourth issue of the diskette magazine "Amiga Rulez", which is published in German and English, offers various articles about the Amiga, interviews and game tests as well as, for the first time, a small competition this time. (snx)
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29.Dec.2024
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SSL library: wolfSSL for the Amiga
wolfSSL is an open source C library that is primarily intended to provide devices and applications in the embedded sector with an SSL solution. One of the developers involved has now adapted the library to the Amiga: He describes the implementation in a detailed blog, the source code is available on Github.
The author himself would like to try to implement the wolfSSL-based Secure Shell wolfSSH for the Amiga next. It is also possible - although not necessarily planned by him - to use it as a replacement for AmiSSL, to port other tools from the wolfSSL suite or to adapt it to one of the ARM cores in a ZZ9000 graphics card in order to relieve the 68k processor of the complex SSL calculations.
(cg)
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28.Dec.2024
EAB nba
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Network driver for PCMCIA cards from Xircom
Neil Cafferkey has developed a SANA-II-compatible network card driver for PCMCIA cards from the manufacturer Xircom, which can be used with an A600 or A1200. A list of compatible cards is included in the archive. (cg)
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28.Dec.2024
lifeschool
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Free memory log: Consumer 1.1
"Consumer" logs the free memory every few seconds, both in its own program window and in a text file in S:, the program requires at least Kickstart 3.0. New in version 1.1 are buttons for deleting the log file and the window contents. (cg)
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28.Dec.2024
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Minesweeper clone: Sapermania
"Sapermania" by the Master of Minefields author is a clone of the Windows classic "Minesweeper" written in AMOS.
Sapermania is available free of charge or for a small donation, it runs on any PAL or NTSC Amiga with at least 512 KB chip RAM and Kickstart 1.2. (cg)
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28.Dec.2024
Cameron Armstrong
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.1.0 (update)
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool can be downloaded separately.
The new update adds support of proxy servers to AmigaGPT.
Update: (30.12.2024, 14:21, dr)
Version 2.1.1 has just been released, which contains a clearer error message if the AmiSSL version installed by the user is too old.
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2,1 MB) (nba)
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28.Dec.2024
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Operating system for the Amiga: Third alpha version of "Serena OS"
At the end of 2022, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. The developer has since renamed his project "Serena OS" (amiga-news.de reported) and released a third alpha version, which is available as a fully compiled ROM. Basically, all Amigas with a 68030 (or faster) processor are supported. The developer writes about the new version:
"The biggest change in this release is the introduction of the disk subsystem and significant improvements to the driver architecture. Booting off and working with double-density floppy disks is now supported.
The diskimage tool has also seen significant improvements: it now allows you to format an Amiga disk image (adf) with SerenaFS, list existing files, push files to a disk image, pull a file off a disk image, create directories, delete files, get and overwrite individual disk blocks and generate a diff of the disk blocks of two disk image files.
Thus you can now use the diskimage tool to create, list and manipulate SerenaFS formatted Amiga disk images on your host system.
Another significant enhancement is that Serena OS now supports a device filesystem (devfs). This filesystem is mounted at /System/Devices and lists all active drivers. An application may open a driver and use the read/write system calls to interact with it. Note however, that disk drivers are the only drivers in this release that actually support read/write operations from user space.
Serena OS implements a disk cache that caches data read from a (floppy) disk. Note that right now all writes are implemented as synchronous writes. The data is cached but the application is still forced to wait until the data has been written to disk. A future version will change this behavior such that an application will not have to wait for a write to finish.
Here is a more detailed list of changes since the previous release:
- more complete C library. Ie added qsort(), itoa() family of functions, etc
- many bug fixes across libc and the kernel
- a number of kernel optimizations
- significantly improved the reliability and performance of in-kernel dispatch queues
- worked out more details of the kernel driver architecture
- added support for disk drivers to the kernel
- added a disk cache to the kernel
- added a device filesystem to the kernel
- FileManager and FileHierarchy are now the kernel components that handle file operations and path resolution
- complete rework of the diskimage tool
- added support for building libtool, makerom and keymap on POSIX (Linux, macOS) systems
(dr)
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26.Dec.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.0-RC2
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems such as the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which comes with some newly developed features such as a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. The current Release Candidate 2 ("RC") of version 7.0.0 is not recommended for weaker systems, for which an update of "Amiberry-Lite" will be provided shortly. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Plattformer: Rastan demo 0.33
Rastan was released to the Arcades in 1987 by Taito. Version 0.33 of the Amiga port being developed with Scorpion is now available, in which level 1-1 has been revised: The background images are more closely based on those of the arcade machine, there are also proper "checkpoint" pictograms and the flow of the level has been improved. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Video: Doom clone "Grind" 0.5
The Doom clone "Grind" should run on any Amiga with at least one and a half megabytes of RAM and a hard disk. The "DevArena" level shown in the video was originally created as a test area for new enemies and functions and actually serves as a stress test for the grind engine. For this reason, at least an A1200 with Fast RAM is recommended for DevArena. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Game: Dogi Xmas Demo
Dogi Xmas Demo (video) by Amiten is a vertically scrolling platform game in which the player has to collect all the sweets and fruits to complete a level. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.6 LTS for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled Linux kernel 6.12.6, which comes with long-term support (“LTS”), for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. This version introduces support for EFI "GUID Partition Tables" (GPT). (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Video: Porting a ZX Spectrum BASIC game to AMOS
In a 43-minute video, a Youtuber shows how he turns a type-in listing from an old ZX Spectrum magazine into an Amiga game written in AMOS. The AMOS source code and all other game assets are available for download. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 3.0
vAmiga is an Amiga emulator for macOS 11 or newer. After several beta versions, the final version 3.0 is now available. Compared to the beta releases, the emulation of the PCI extension Prometheus has been added and a bug when switching between PAL and NTSC has been fixed. (cg)
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