05.Sep.2021
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PDF viewer: RNOPDF for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS
From his family of RNO-applications (e.g. the FTP(S) client RNOXFER or the DTP application RNOPublisher), the developer 'jPV^RNO' has updated the PDF viewer 'RNOPDF' to version 1.4. Detailed changes:
- Exported images can be sharpened
- Improved exporting to custom sizes
- Added the WINSIZE tooltype/argument
- Localization support
- Fixed pathless file arguments
- Other small fixes
RNOPDF is available for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS as well as for Windows and Mac.
The RNOPDF version for non-RTG Amigas will be not updated since it is a separate branch and still includes the changes.
On our request, the author told that now he is going to update für RNOXfer which basically already is finished. He is about to write a tutorial since many features users demand have been implemeted yet. In any case the ext version of RNOXfer will support SFTP.
The suthor appreciate any kind of feedback and support.
(dr)
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05.Sep.2021
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SDL port for MorphOS: OpenTyrian
Tyrian is a vertically scrolling shoot-'em-up developed by Eclipse Software and published by Epic MegaGames in 1995. The game was originally released as shareware for PC-compatible DOS, with graphics created on an Amiga 1200 (see Wikipedia entry). 'BeWorld' has released an SDL implementation of the open source port 'OpenTyrian' for MorphOS.
On an AmigaOne X5000/20 the port runs fine. The SDL libraries are required. (dr)
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05.Sep.2021
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Aminet uploads until 04.09.2021
The following files have been added until 04.09.2021 to Aminet:
MCC_BetterString-11.3... dev/mui 316K MOS BetterString custom class for...
MCC_NList-0.128.lha dev/mui 2.0M MOS NList custom classes for MUI
MCC_TextEditor-15.56.lha dev/mui 875K MOS TextEditor custom class for MUI
MCC_TheBar-26.22.lha dev/mui 1.6M MOS Next Generation Toolbar MUI C...
P96PipDemo.lha dev/src 7K P96 Picture-in-Picture demo src
MCE.lha game/edit 3.3M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.6M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
catchit.lha game/wb 232K 68k CatchIt Game
scopagame.lha game/wb 339K 68k Italian card game
sequencememory.lha game/wb 190K 68k memory game
Sketch_de.lha gfx/edit 2K Unofficial German catalog for...
RNOPDF.lha gfx/show 5.7M MOS Compact PDF viewer
RNOPDF_OS3.lha gfx/show 15M WOS Compact PDF viewer
RNOPDF_OS4.lha gfx/show 6.5M OS4 Compact PDF viewer
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.9M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
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...
MirageImager.ACEpansi... misc/emu 18K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
MultiPlay.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 22K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
Nova.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 12K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
SSA-1.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 16K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 152K 68k Updated HippoPlayer, a module...
PicDTBench.lha util/dtype 25K MOS Benchmark picture.datatype im...
Fast.lha util/misc 24K 68k File Splitter
ViNCEd.lha util/shell 840K 68k ViNCEd, the CON: with ^Z & TA...
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05.Sep.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 04.09.2021
The following files have been added until 04.09.2021 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
thewidow.lzx gam/adv 19Mb 4.0 Game Terror Paranormal Adventure
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
rnopdf.lha gra/vie 6Mb 4.1 Compact PDF viewer
mcc_betterstring.lha lib/mui 316kb 4.0 BetterString custom class for MUI
mcc_nlist.lha lib/mui 2Mb 4.0 NList custom classes for MUI
mcc_texteditor.lha lib/mui 875kb 4.0 TextEditor custom class for MUI
mcc_thebar.lha lib/mui 2Mb 4.0 The MUI Toolbar custom class
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 11Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
backitallup.lha uti/arc 26kb 4.0 HD to HD Mirror Backup Program
picdtbench.lha uti/ben 25kb 4.0 Benchmark picture.datatype image...
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05.Sep.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 04.09.2021
The following files have been added until 04.09.2021 to AROS Archives:
thewidow.lzx gam/mis 18Mb Game Terror Paranormal Adventure
paperback_aros.zip gra/ray 3Mb Realtime rendered paper boxes
mcc_betterstring-11.36.lha lib/mui 316kb Mui Custom Class
mcc_nlist-0.128.lha lib/mui 2Mb Mui Custom Class
mcc_texteditor-15.56.lha lib/mui 875kb Mui Custom Class
mcc_thebar-26.22.lha lib/mui 2Mb Mui Custom Class
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05.Sep.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.09.2021
The following files have been added until 04.09.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
MirageImager_1.0.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
MultiPlay_1.0.lha Emulation/ACEpansion ACEpansion plugin for A...
Nova_1.0.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
OpenBor_7142_010921.lha Emulation OpenBOR is the ultimate...
ACE_1.24.lha Emulation The acidulous CPC/CPC+ ...
ShadowsOfDeath_OpenBOR... Games/Action Complete and final vers...
TheWidow_FinalVersion2... Games/Adventure The Widow the point and...
MCE_13.3.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
OpenTyrian_2.2_SDL2.lha Games/Shoot 2D An open-source port of ...
Woof_6.3.1.lha Games/Shoot 3D Woof! is a continuation...
RNOPDF_1.4.lha Office/Show A compact PDF viewer.
PicDTBench_1.1.lha System/Benchmark Benchmark picture.datat...
MCC_TheBar_26.22.lha System/MUI Classes Next Generation Toolbar...
MCC_NList_0.128.lha System/MUI Classes NList custom classes fo...
MCC_BetterString_11.36... System/MUI Classes BetterString custom cla...
MCC_TextEditor_15.56.lha System/MUI Classes TextEditor custom class...
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05.Sep.2021
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmiKit XE: Preconfigured front end AmiLion 1.2
AmiLion is a front end with wallpaper backgrounds for the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE, written in Hollywood for quickly accessing Rabbit Hole programs like Firefox, VLC or Steam as well as website links like Aminet, Wikipedia or YouTube.
Besides Windows 10, version 1.2 now also fully supports Raspberry Pi. Further changes are an Amiga games page, an icon to shutdown the Windows PC or Raspberry Pi, respectively, new wallpapers and updated guides. (snx)
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02.Sep.2021
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.47
After 21 years in June the developer Kari-Pekka Koljonen had released the first update of his Amiga-MOD player HippoPlayer as new beta version. Two days ago on GitHub he has released the source code of the new version 2.47 and simultaneosly on Aminet the corresponding executable file. In this version new exotic music formats are supported, favorite modules feature added, enhanced kickstart 1.3
support and some fixes provided. Check out the details below. Detailed changes:
- New fixes:
- Fixed two serious crash bugs introduced in v2.46b. When starting to play the next module (especially by double clicking) Hippo could get confused
and crash. These problems were very likely to happen especially on OS 3.2.
- Tooltip fixes for buttons *Del*, *Pr*. Also increase tooltip delay a little bit.
- Fix the case where HiP is given modules without absolute path via command line or via icon launch (eg. *DefIcons*), and the added files can't be opened. Now works.
- Another relative vs. absolute path fix. When adding files so that the filerequester path is relative it could be that Hippo was not able to open the added files. That is, a file was added with path "Modules/DrAwesome/mod.bud peculiar" instead of "dh0:Modules/DrAwesome/mod.bud peculiar".
- The default unzip command in prefs was changed to *c:unzip >nil: -jo "%s"*, this allows opening zipped modules where the module is within a subdirectory. Previously such modules would not be found from the zip file.
- In Prefs the MPEGA settings were reported to display garbage at times, I wasn't able to reproduce this but some additional checks were added,
maybe they will help.
- New (very old) known bugs:
- VisualPrefs_ tool can be used to adjust window bottom and top border, and window and screen title bar heights. Hippo can get confused and displays some extra vertical space below the window title bar when these are adjusted.
- New supported music formats:
- Medley Sound and Future Player
- The author of these and the superb Imploder themes Paul van der Valk has recently passed away. His sound was truly unique!
- Future Player replayer adapted from Wanted Team EaglePlayer sources.
- Medley Sound replayer ripped from Imploder 4.
- Ben Daglish: Also adapted from EaglePlayer sources by Wanted Team.
- DeliTracker Custom:
- There are hundreds of these modules available, with varying quality. Many modules work fine but some behave badly. They may do illegal memory accesses or crash speactacularly. The same happens also when played with DeliTracker.
- One version of _Lemmings_ tries to do file accesses to load separate sample files, this is not supporte by Hippo and will probably crash.
- A few modules do not get recognized as the important bits are not close enough to the start of the file.
- Minor issue: Some modules display the subsong range in the titlebar so that the first song is #2 instead of #1.
- Beathoven Synthesizer
- Game Music Creator (Jumping Jack'Son!)
- Digital Mugician 1
- PumaTracker
- SidMon 2 (SidMon 1 is already supported)
- Delta Music 1 (Delta Music 2 is already supported)
- New features:
- Prefs_ option for toggling button tooltips on and off. By default it is on.
- Support for _gzipped_ archives. You need to have a working gzip-application in path. (This was once supported but was removed at some point.)
- Recursive subdirectory scan when adding modules is now supported on kickstart 1.3. Previously only the top level files of the selected directories were added. This has only worked on kickstart 2.0 or newer until now, due to the usage of a kickstart 2.0 DOS-library specific function. This function was reimplemented using available kick 1.3 methods.
- New ARexx commands *CHOOSEPREV* and *CHOOSENEXT*. These work similarly as when the user presses arrow up and down to choose a module in the list. *GET VERS* command returns the app version. *GET VOLU* returns the current volume setting.
- Favorite modules! You can now right click on a module to favorite it. Favorite modules are displayed in bold font. To view the favorites, there's a new button on top of the filebox slider gadget to click. It switches between normal listview and favorites view. Favorites are automatically saved after the user has been idle for a while, or when exiting the program, to file "S:HippoFavorites.prg". This is a normal module program file. To enable this feature toggle the _Favorite modules_ switch on the _General_ subpage in prefs. This feature probably doesn't make any sense if you are using floppies.
(dr)
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01.Sep.2021
Discord
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Atoms: A re-implementation of the Amiga game using web technologies
Already three years ago the programmer Thomas Pike reported on his website about the history and realization of his project: The re-implementation of the PD game 'Atoms' (YouTube video), originally released by Tom Kuhn, which was based on a Atari ST game, using web technologies. Say: The game can be played in the browser.
His re-implementation has some differences from the original: for example, the chain reactions and explosions are immediately visually visible. Likewise, in its implementation you can play against a computer opponent. On the other hand, the "elevator intromusic" present in the original is missing here.
After a three-year break, the author has found some time to implement the change suggested by a comment on his game: The creation of an alternative color scheme to allow people with red-green vision problems to enjoy the game. When asked by Amiga-News, the author told us that in principle he also had network support on the agenda, but that this would involve a considerable amount of work, so that a realization was rather unlikely. He does not exclude a realization of the music support, however, he is dependent on an mp3 file due to the limitations of the web technologies. However, he lacks both the original music file and a qualitatively adequate mp3 variant. Reason enough for us to start a short search. We found the required information and finally data in a blog entry of the website Computer Related Nonsense. Just as quickly, the author then added that music component to his implementation today.
Since HTML5 and CSS were used for its implementation, a modern browser is required to play. Consequently, all our tests to get the game running in a browser under AmigaOS 4.1 failed (IBrowse, NetSurf, Odyssey). Only under MorphOS with Wayfarer the game could be started successfully (OWB also failed).
The source code of the project is available on the associated GitHub page. (dr)
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01.Sep.2021
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.
- July/August 2021 news
- Old articles from Joystick 26 to 28:
- News: Teque Software, the shadow workers, Review of The Humans
- News: Immersion at Microïds, Interview with Archer Maclean
- News: Disney Software, Mickey for education
- Review of Indy Heat
- Review of Fighter Duel: Corsair vs Zero
- Interview with Noël Billy
- Review of Pacific Islands
- Review of Elvira 2
- News: Mirage, real productions
- Interview with Tony Barnes (Electronic Arts)
- Interview with the Motorola 68000 engineers (Jack Browne, Murray Goldman, Thomas Gunter, Van Shahan and Bill Walker)
- Interview with Chad Essley (graphist)
- Review of Zerosphere
- Review of Zod Engine
- File: What happened to Eyetech Group? (first part)
- File: Amiga history, years 1983-1993 (update)
- Point of view: Memories of demos
- Programming: Amiga C Manual
- Programming: First steps in programming with Hollywood on MorphOS
- Special quiz about Wordworth.
(snx)
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31.Aug.2021
Amigaimpact
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Single-Screen-Platformer: 'Inca Man' released
At the beginning of the year, Amiten (e.g. Cocoa Banana, Parallel Worlds 2) had announced a single-screen-platformer for Amigas called 'Inca Man' (video), which is now available and can be purchased for 12 Euro.
An Amiga mit 1MB Ram is required. The game offers single and two player mode and music and sfx in 30 levels. (dr)
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31.Aug.2021
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Linux: Kernel 5.14 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
The final version of the Linux kernel 5.14 has been released. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The image can be downloaded in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum. (dr)
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31.Aug.2021
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry v4.1.5-RC2
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. The latest changes of RC2 of version 4.1.5 are listed on the GitHub site. (dr)
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30.Aug.2021
Andreas Winkler (ANF)
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Webstore for different Amiga adapters
Andreas Winkler has established a little webstore for different Amiga adapters. He wrote:
"I recently set up a small webshop for my various Amiga products, which can be reached under the domain Taiwanrider.com. This step results from the increasingly complicated business and selling conditions on ebay.com, where my adapters are relatively popular. The webshop allows for a more straightforward and better focused selling environment.
Items for sale include my popular adapters for the Amiga 500's expansion port, flexible CPU relocators, and various floppy drive adapters.
Shipping is possible worldwide. However, there are currently some restrictions due to the international shipping situation. As soon as changes in shipping options are made by Taiwan Post, I will adjust this in the webshop." (dr)
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30.Aug.2021
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AmigaOS 4: FTP-Server ZitaFTP 1.25
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.25 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP' which now also is available for Windows. He wrote:
"Yes, it's been a long time coming, and it's finally here! I first hinted at there being a Windows version of ZitaFTP over a year ago. I'm a little nervous about releasing it (always am with new code), but it's ready to go out into the wild.
The Windows version already has a feature that the Amiga version doesn't: the UI runs in its own window; no external browser needed. This isn't possible on AmigaOS because it doesn't have a webview gadget (at least, not a modern one).
AmigaOS users, you haven't been forgotten. There's a new version out for you too. It has all of the fixes and enhancements made over the last few months (excluding the webview).
The biggest change that you'll notice, is a new "Submit Feedback" button in the lower right corner of the UI. It's also there in the SysTray/docky menu. Simply right-click on the ZitaFTP server icon in the SysTray (or dock, on AmigaOS), and select "Submit Feedback." Please use it if you find a bug, or have a suggestion on how to make ZitaFTP even better."
The new version can be tested 30 days for free. The author also has published a YouTube-Video in which he explains the changes in this version. (dr)
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29.Aug.2021
PPA
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Jackal: First demo version available
Recently NeesoGames had announced an Amiga port of Jackal, originally released in 1986 by Konami (amiga-news.de reported), which is supposed to provide "some graphical improvements on the Amiga (OCS-ECS)" and to become the entry for the AmiGameJam 2021.
Now a first, very early demo version of the game has been released which is developed with the Scorpion Engine. The following features still are impemented:
- Basic jeep movement
- Basic fire
- Secondary weapons
- Enemy soldiers
- Enemy vehicles
- estructible props (metal gate, roofs..)
- stage 1 music (wip) by Simone Bernacchia
As the developers wrote, "there are no player collisions (you're basically immortal), no POWs to rescue and no Boss fight yet." (dr)
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29.Aug.2021
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Aminet uploads until 28.08.2021
The following files have been added until 28.08.2021 to Aminet:
neatmail.lha comm/mail 59K MOS Neat mail client
AmiGemini.lha comm/net 63K 68k Gemini protocol browser
lost_octamed_files.lha demo/sound 520K 68k KONEY: LOST OCTAMED FILES
aqb.lha dev/basic 181K 68k Amiga QuickBasic Compiler
CDPlayerSDK.lha dev/c 4K Updated cdplayer.library SDK
amiga_sample_periods.txt docs/lists 1K sample freqs/periods used by ...
MuManual.lha docs/misc 940K mmu.lib: examples, includes, ...
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 388K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
MCE.lha game/edit 3.3M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
MirrorRedPill.lha game/misc 541K 68k Control two robots.
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
netbsdamiga92.hdf.gz misc/os 204M NetBSD/amiga 9.2 autoboot HDF
GoodFriends.lha mods/misc 2.6M 16bit 4ch Techno with VOICES!
neatvi.lha text/edit 102K MOS Neat vi clone
neateqn.lha text/misc 57K MOS Neat eqn clone
neatmkfn.lha text/misc 148K MOS Neat make font
neatpost.lha text/misc 71K MOS Neat PostScript postprocessor
neatrefer.lha text/misc 5K MOS Neat refer clone
neatroff.lha text/misc 163K MOS Neat troff clone
P96ScreenCx.lha util/cdity 8K 68k P96 Multi-Monitor Mouse Movement
AmiSSL-4.10.lha util/libs 5.9M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
MMULib.lha util/libs 745K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
Alltests.zip util/misc 283K 68k Automated Amiga Test Program
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 626K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 742K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 794K OS4 Multipurpose utility
Testprogram.zip util/misc 397K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
(snx)
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29.Aug.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 28.08.2021
The following files have been added until 28.08.2021 to OS4Depot:
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
reportplus.lha uti/mis 794kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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29.Aug.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.08.2021
The following files have been added until 28.08.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Iris_0.126.lha Email New email client suppor...
AmiArcadia_28.01.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
PrBoom-plus_2.6.1.lha Games/Shoot 3D PrBoom+ is a version of...
ReportPlus_8.23.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
Wayfarer_2.5.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
AmiSSL_4.10_68k.lha System/Library/SSL OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
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29.Aug.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Full Contact
- Turrican II Title - Hang Ten Mix
- Space Debris (Rock it mix)
- Crystal Hammer (2021 Rework)
- Shadow Of The Beast 2 - The Cell (Locked In Mix)
- l.f.f.
- Beat To The Pulp - Metal Tribute (2021)
(snx)
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28.Aug.2021
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New print magazine: 'ZZAP! Amiga' (English)
On the associated Patreon page a support campaign is currently running, where you can contribute to the publication of the new quarterly 'ZZAP! Amiga' magazine, which will cover the latest Amiga games and much more.
For a monthly contribution of 2,50 Euro you will get the latest issue in pdf format, for 5,50 or 6,50 Euro (plus 6 Euro shipping) you will get the digital and printed issue.
The issues will have 60 pages in A5 size and will be full color. There will be special A5 binders to keep them in, which will be available on the Fusionretrobooks website. Depending on the success of the magazine, it may be published bi-monthly, and next year there could also be an annual issue.
Plans are to launch the first issue of the new magazine in mid-September. Bullfrog-developer Glenn Corpes Glenn (Populous, Magic Carpet and Dungeon Keeper) will talk about his Amiga experiences, Francois Lionet will set up an AMOS programming corner and David Pleasance will have a regular Amiga anecdotes slot. (dr)
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27.Aug.2021
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Amiga QuickBasic Compiler
On GitHub the developer Günter Bartsch has released the source code as well a first Early Preview 0.7.0 alpha1 of his Amiga QuickBasic Compiler and descibes it as "an experiment in alternate history: what AmigaBASIC could have looked like, had it been developed further tailored to the Amiga OS."
Improvements over AmigaBASIC include:
- Advanced type system (including UDTs and Pointers, see below)
- Support for non-static functions and subs (enables recursion)
- Module support (similar to UNITs in TurboPascal, with full type safety and dependencies)
- Modern syntax inspired by FreeBASIC and VisualBASIC
- True native 68k compiler
(dr)
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26.Aug.2021
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 4.10 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 4.10 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL provides an update to the latest version 1.1.1l of OpenSSL. Changes:
- Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility to latest OpenSSL 1.1.1l (24.08.2021) version, which brings security and bug fixes, including:
- Fixed an SM2 Decryption Buffer Overflow (CVE-2021-3711).
- Fixed various read buffer overruns processing ASN.1 strings (CVE-2021-3712).
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle
- Added Italian installer translation
(dr)
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25.Aug.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Event: Amiga Future at Gamescom 2021
Also this year the print magazine Amiga Future joins the digital edition of Gamescom. The event takes place from August 25 to 27, 2021. (snx)
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25.Aug.2021
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 2.5
Today, version 2.5 of Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web browser Wayfarer has been released. Besides an update of OpenSSL to version 1.1.1l it fixes several bugs, especially two severe JavaScript memory leaks, which in some cases would leak more than 10 MB per page load.
Required are MorphOS 3.15 and 1 GB of RAM. A CPU with at least 1.5 GHz is recommended. For feedback to the author, besides the integrated crash report tool and e-mails to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu also the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used. (snx)
[News message: 25. Aug. 2021, 21:35] [Comments: 0]
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23.Aug.2021
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Tetris clone: Crazy Columns 1.02
Jochen Hoffer has released the full version 1.02 of his conversion of the Sega classic 'Columns' (Video) (amiga-news.de reported).
The new version now has an online highscore and animations and Sound FX. Additionally personalized backgrounds can be used.
Main features of the game:
- Choice of 1 and 2 players supported
- Can be played with keyboard or joystick
- Four different player modes to choose from
- Standard
- Time battle
- Crazy fill
- Bad Buddy
- In the game mode "Standard", you can choose between 5 difficulty levels
- Novice
- Normal
- Hard
- Extreme
- Impossible
System requirements:
- Simple Amiga 500 (68000@7MHz)
- OCS PAL Chipset
- 512kb ChipRam
- Kickstart 1.2
- Joystick optional
The game is availble for free on the website of the developers. His work can be supported by a little donation. (dr)
[News message: 23. Aug. 2021, 20:40] [Comments: 0]
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22.Aug.2021
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Lionheart Remake: Java port of Lionheart
Byron 3D Games Studio has released a Lionheart Java Remakeof Lionheart for its LionEngine. Source codes are available on GitHub for the LionEngine as well as for the game port. (dr)
[News message: 22. Aug. 2021, 09:30] [Comments: 0]
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22.Aug.2021
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Aminet uploads until 21.08.2021
The following files have been added until 21.08.2021 to Aminet:
Healthcare_1.02.lha biz/misc 253K MOS Displays data from Garmin dev...
SonosController_MOS.lha comm/misc 2.4M MOS Control your Sonos speakers
SonosController_OS4.lha comm/misc 2.9M OS4 Control your Sonos speakers
cbm6502asm.lha dev/cross 124K MOS The Commodore 6502ASM
OsGrind.lha dev/debug 30K 68k Configurable Os argument checker
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 313K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
Saga.lha game/board 393K 68k Conversion of TSR board game
Saga-AROS.zip game/board 405K x86 Conversion of TSR board game
SagaMOS.lha game/board 445K MOS Conversion of TSR boardgame
Saga-OS4.lha game/board 459K OS4 Conversion of TSR board game
F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 13K 2021 Carset for F1GP
gimine.lha game/wb 110K 68k classic game of mines
scopagame.lha game/wb 317K 68k Italian card game
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
MuMakeRanger.lha util/boot 117K 68k MuLib Ranger Memory faking
P96ScreenCx.lha util/cdity 8K 68k P96 Multi-Monitor Mouse Movement
ASCIIComposer.lha util/misc 66K 68k An utility to create ASCII-Ar...
SnoopDos.lha util/moni 134K 68k SnoopDos, the well known syst...
SnoopDos_Src.lha util/moni 257K SnoopDos 3.11 sources
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22.Aug.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 21.08.2021
The following files have been added until 21.08.2021 to OS4Depot:
sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control your Sonos speakers with...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
saga.lha gam/boa 459kb 4.0 Conversion of TSR board game
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22.Aug.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 21.08.2021
The following files have been added until 21.08.2021 to AROS Archives:
nmtm-demo.lha gam/adv 8Mb Point and click adventure game
saga.i386-aros.zip gam/boa 405kb Conversion of TSR board game
astralgame.lha gam/mis 3Mb A little tool to know your zodia...
unrar-6.02.lha uti/arc 2Mb Unpack RAR files
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22.Aug.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 21.08.2021
The following files have been added until 21.08.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
SonosController_1.0.lha Devices/Speakers Control your Sonos spea...
ShadowsOfDeath_OpenBOR... Games/Action Complete and final vers...
Saga_1.94.lha Games/Strategy Conversion of TSR board...
Healthcare_1.02.lha Misc Displays data from Garm...
WitchCleaner_2.05.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
Wayfarer_2.4.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
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22.Aug.2021
mntm research (ANF)
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ZZ9000AX: Audio module for ZZ9000 graphics card
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features (Ethernet, USB, SD cards; amiga-news.de reported). Now an audio expansion module for this card, called ZZ9000AX, can be pre-ordered at an introductory price. Delivery is expected in December.
Features:
- High fidelity Analog ADAU1701 audio codec with 28/56-Bit SigmaDSP® processor
- 16-bit (per channel) stereo sound output at 48000 Hz (DAT quality)
- Mix in and enhance Amiga Paula audio and/or analog CD Audio
- 16-bit stereo sampling
- 4x RCA connectors for line inputs and outputs
- AHI driver
- Add dynamic effects like graphic EQ or reverb and create your own DSP programs with free SigmaStudio software (on Windows)
- Active op-amp output filter stages
- 4-layer design with solid ground planes for optimal signal quality
- Open source drivers and firmware, PDF schematics
- Additional features and capabilities will be available via ZZ9000 firmware updates (for example MP3 decompression)
(snx)
[News message: 22. Aug. 2021, 07:31] [Comments: 0]
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22.Aug.2021
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Game: 1987 Rescue in Berlin
Besides Furtum Sacrum, "1987 Rescue in Berlin" is another point and click adventure created by José A. González using AMOS-based Graphic Adventure Creator. Your task is to retrieve a floppy disk containing sensitive data from a computer company after a plane crash (video).
Besides Spanish, the game also contains English, Czech and Italian translations and is available as boxed edition with a manual as well as free of charge as an ADF file. Orders can be placed by e-mail to the author at jojocreativo@gmail.com. (snx)
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22.Aug.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 152 - preview and excerpts / Note
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 152 (September/October 2021) have been published online now at the title link. Its content includes previews of the USB card Freeway and the game Dark Angel as well as the special "Trevor's soapbox".
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.
Note to subscribers: They are asked to check if their postal and e-mail addresses are current. Furthermore many subscription bills would be still unpaid at the moment. (snx)
[News message: 22. Aug. 2021, 06:49] [Comments: 0]
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21.Aug.2021
Amigaworld (Twitter)
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Deniser: Open Source replacement for Denise chip
On GitHub, Martin 'endofexclusive' Åberg has established a resposity called 'Deniser' for building and programming a Denise chip replacement.
Denise is the Amiga custom chip responsible for most of the graphic related tasks such as bitplane display, palette registers, smooth scrolling, hardware sprites, flexible screen object priority, collision detection and more. In the Amiga, Denise operates in concert with the Agnus and Paula. Schematic, BOM and more information can be found in a separate PDF file. Status of the project:
- Known to work:
- Schematic, PCB layout and BOM
- Use in Amiga A500 with ECS Agnus (PAL)
- Workbench, Deluxe Paint, demos
- Extra Half Brite (EHB) mode
- OCS features
- Things that probably work:
- Use in Amiga A1000, A2000 and A3000
- Use with OCS Agnus
- Collision detection
- Hold-and-modify (HAM) mode
- Genlock
- Known limitations:
- Some sprites appear above and below the display window.
- No NTSC
(dr)
[News message: 21. Aug. 2021, 09:28] [Comments: 0]
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20.Aug.2021
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RTG driver: P96 v3.1.1
In July Individual Computers updated its graphics cards driver P96 to version 3.1.0. Version 3.1.1 now fixes some bugs introduced with this version:
- the mouse pointer might have been "lost" in certain cases - fixed.
- RTG card's memory organization improved for higher blitter usage rate, increasing overall speed experience if enough memory is available.
- P96Mode now ghosts disabled modes and resolutions, which makes them easier to spot.
- If new settings are created, P96Mode now populates the available modes with VESA default values. It is no longer necessary to create them all manually. As soon as the modes are attached to a board, P96 checks the validity of them.
- Memory requirements of the planar boards are now checked against the planar memory size, which may be different from the chunky size.
- For the S3 Virge in 8-bit stream-processor enabled modes, the leftmost pixel column was missing; fixed.
(dr)
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20.Aug.2021
Hyperion Forum
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Linux: Running Void Linux on an AmigaOne X5000
In an entry in the Hyperion forum, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky explained how he installed the Linux distribution Void Linux on an AmigaOne X5000. (dr)
[News message: 20. Aug. 2021, 18:42] [Comments: 0]
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17.Aug.2021
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 2.4
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczeks has released version 2.4 of his web browser Wayfarer which introduces WebAudio playback support. Changes:
- Implemented Download As...
- WebAudio support for sample playback (while Google Translate text to speech works just fine, most online MOD players will be too slow)
- Implemented a Media flags popup
- Improved SSL certificate verification to avoid cases where a website wouldn't load due to cert not matching the hostname, but cert viewer window would assume the cert is fine and would not present buttons allowing to ignore/save cert
- Worked around an issue that prevented further popups from showing up if the main window was resized while a popup was up
- Reload button state wasn't properly refreshed when switching between tabs
- Fixed a crash and status bar issues when browsing page history for cached pages
- Certificate viewer may now be localized
(dr)
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17.Aug.2021
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AmigaOS 4: Status update on audio editor 'Rave', part 2
In April the developer Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka reported in his blog Rear Window about the latest level of development of his audio editor "Rave".
Now he has published part 2 telling among others about improved sample editing functions and clipboard support. (dr)
[News message: 17. Aug. 2021, 09:04] [Comments: 0]
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17.Aug.2021
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Developer log: This Week in PiStorm 2021-08-15
In his weekly column 'This week in PiStorm' the developer Andrew Hutchings summarizes the latest progresses on the 'PiStorm' project.
In his latest entry among others he has reported, that Claude Schwarz has started developing an Amiga 1200 version of PiStorm. It is supposed to be based on a Pi Compute Module 4.
Furthermore the support of the Emu68 emulator for PiStorm was continued. It "boots DiagROM and is mostly all the way to booting kickstart." (dr)
[News message: 17. Aug. 2021, 08:28] [Comments: 0]
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17.Aug.2021
Michael Rupp via Mail
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: SonosController 1.0
At the beginning of August we reported on Michael Rupp's first Amiga programm 'SonosController', written with Hollywood. After finishing the beta status, he has now released version 1.0 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. MUI 5.0 and AmiSSL 4 are required. (dr)
[News message: 17. Aug. 2021, 08:21] [Comments: 0]
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17.Aug.2021
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Accelerator board: Returning the Buffees for rework
In the middle of June the developers reported that a second batch of 60 beta Buffees was ordered which now arrived. They "managed to power them up."
However, new problems were found, as the developers further report:
"While we did manage to boot them up and verify that some of the issues we had with the alpha were fixed, we also managed to introduce a couple of more. And a third issue that doesn’t really hurt us too much, but it is a pain:
- 1. the GreenPAK was mounted wrong; in their infintie wisdom, Dialog chose to reverse the pinout between packages. Same number of pins. Completely different order. One is clockwise. One is counter clockwise. Oh my god. This is on me, I should have checked had I thought to, but I’ve never had a part where the pin outs reversed, so this is a new one for me. Oh well.
- 2. There are three power rails on the PMIC; AC, USB and BAT. The USB and AC can both take really high voltages, but have a minimum of 4.5V which worried me as these old 68000 machines aren’t getting any younger and neither are their power supplies. Getting a solid 5V is rare, so I chose to use the BAT rail instead which operated nicely down to about 2.7V. Except TI didn’t make this rail “default on” and needs a push button. What the hell? Anyway, easier fix than #1, just need to short PB_IN to PGOOD.
- 3. Parts are disappearing and one of them was the 16MB Flash. We had to go with an 8MB one or “not at all”. So … this will be interesting.
So, they’re off for some rework and hopefully we get them back by the end of next week. I have to say these shipping delays and parts shortages all on top of dealing with COVID and a new fourth wave is so stressful. But I digress. At least we’re still under-budget.
We’ve made excelent progress on Buffee despite all these set backs and have developed a new method of handing the weird world of the variable length 68000 instruction and it’s dasterdly sidekick, the extended addressing mode. This has been the one last issue with PJIT that I had yet to solve.
The current method was to bake in the complex decode logic into every instruction that uses it – and for an addressing mode that’s not nearly as often used as say register direct or simple load/store operations, it was eating up a huge amount of the code base, since the “inline” nature of PJIT meant copying the same 20-30 ARM instructions for each opcode. Not efficient! And not fast either, the instruction routinely had to dig back into 68K memory and to do that, it would need to compute the 68K program code since we don’t always track it and … well, it was a mess.
So of course the answer was staring me in the face all the time. Our old model shows all these NOP’s filling the operand-gaps between opcodes – so why not simply shuffle them around and have all the literals and extended addressing modes get handled BEFORE we execute the actual instruction. Most 68000 opcodes are a single word and PJIT must either compile these to a single, inline ARM instruction or branch to a subroutine to handle more complex operations. But there are many 68000 opcodes that take considerably more than one word and PJIT can handle these by having special operators for each word within the whole instruction." (dr)
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16.Aug.2021
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Games announcements: Morci, Kung Fu Master, Green Beret, Project Quest
Jump'n run 'Morci' (video) has been teased for a while, now it has also got a name. The title, realized with the Scorpion Engine, requires AGA and some Fast RAM.
Kung Fu Master (Videos: 1, 2) comes from the creators of Turbo Sprint and is supposed to be a conversion of the arcade classic of the same name.
'Green Beret' aka 'Rush'n Attack' is another arcade classic. The Amiga conversion is developed with the Scorpion Engine.
Project Quest comes from the makers of the announced tactical shooter Project Horizon and uses its engine, but offers a fantasy setting. A demo version of the game is already available for download. The developers are asking for feedback on whether this side project should also be developed further. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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15.Aug.2021
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Web browser: IBrowse 2.5.5
Press release: IBrowse 2.5.5 is now available for download (OS4 users may use AmiUpdate instead). This is a maintenance release with an important fix for a crash bug introduced in 2.5.4, along with performance improvements, the addition of third-party cookie blocking and a few other fixes. The full list of changes follows:
- Updated Danish, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish catalog translations, by Niels Bache, Samir Hawamdeh, Kolbjørn Barmen, Mariusz Danilewicz, Javier de las Rivas and Pär Boberg respectively
- Tweaked the installer to work around the broken Version command in A-EON's Enhancer Software
- OS4: Fixed truncated multipart form submission, when any file upload elements were left blank (e.g. Gmail)
- Fixed problems with the accept/reject from this server buttons not always working correctly in cookie action requesters
- Added third-party and first-party cookie types to the information shown in cookie action requesters
- Added AmigaOS 3.2 detection
- Third-party cookies now detected and can be blocked using the security and/or URL prefs settings
- Resumed downloads in the download manager didn't show the size, but now show the total expected complete size
- Fixed corruption of auto resumed incomplete HTTP gzip encoded downloaded files
- Fixed
- Improved parsing speed of huge inline JavaScript sections
- Don't bother to copy inline JavaScript into a buffer, if JavaScript is disabled, improving performance
- Tweaked puddle size of one of the main memory pools, to improve performance
This is the fifth free update for registered users of IBrowse 2.5. IBrowse 2.1-2.4 and 1.x users may upgrade to IBrowse 2.5.5 via our store at discounted rates. (dr)
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15.Aug.2021
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Aminet uploads until 14.08.2021
The following files have been added until 14.08.2021 to Aminet:
AmiGemini.lha comm/net 60K 68k Gemini protocol browser
RawIO2Parallel.lha dev/debug 5K 68k Redirect debug output to para...
Parallel2Serial.lha docs/hard 6K Make the parallel port a seri...
Jake_and_Peppy_0.80B.lha game/demo 31M 68k Playable demo of new Apollo V...
labyrinth64.lha game/misc 135K 68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L...
gimine.lha game/wb 110K 68k classic game of mines
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...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
ToolsMenu.lha util/cdity 75K 68k Add tools to the Workbench To...
Iconverter.lha util/conv 115K 68k Convert WB 1/MagicWB icons to...
Iconverter_mos.lha util/conv 97K MOS Convert WB 1/MagicWB icons to...
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15.Aug.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 14.08.2021
The following files have been added until 14.08.2021 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
nmtm-demo.lha gam/adv 8Mb 4.0 Point and click adventure game
cookiemaster.lha net/bro 2Mb 4.1 Web browser (currently Odyssey) ...
witchcleaner.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 Clean temp data from OWB and IBr...
bibvision.lha uti/tex 388kb 4.1 Bible text viewer for OS4
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15.Aug.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 14.08.2021
The following files have been added until 14.08.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_27.81.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Deark_1.5.9.lha Files/Archive Extracting data from va...
UnRAR_6.02.lha Files/Archive UnRAR port for MorphOS,...
Iconverter_1.0.lha Files/Convert Convert WB 1/MagicWB ic...
ScummVM_2.3.0git.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
NMTM_demo.lha Games/Demo A game concept demo of ...
FResample_2.0.lha System/Library/Audio Fast altivec-capable re...
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14.Aug.2021
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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Developer package: DevPack 1.11
The free "DevPack" by Dimitris Panokostas and Philipp Lonke is intended for Amiga users who want to develop their own software under AmigaOS. The new version 1.11 contains updated versions of RedPill and vasm/vlink, also a link to the AmigaOS 3.2-NDK has been added. AmiPython 2.3.3 has been removed from the distribution because the author apparently did not agree with the distribution as part of DevPack. (cg) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 14. Aug. 2021, 22:39] [Comments: 0]
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14.Aug.2021
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Jetbrain IDEs: Plugin upgrades support for MC68000 syntax
Chris 'platon42' Hodges (USB stack Poseidon, among others) has released a plugin on Github for Jetbrains' integrated development environments (CLion and IntelliJ for Windows, Mac OS and Linux, among others) that retrofits support for m68k assembler. It equips the IDEs with syntax highlighting and refactoring capability for Motorola's instruction set. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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14.Aug.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine archive: Amiga Future Archive DVD #5
Press release: The Amiga Future Archive DVD #5 has been released. It is a pressed DVD9 with over 6 GByte of data. Even if it should be no problem in principle, make sure that your drive can read a DVD9. Of course you also need a PDF viewer.
On the Amiga Future Archive DVD #5 you can find the following issues of Amiga Future as PDF:
- Deutsch: Amiga Future Issue 11-142
- Englisch: Amiga Future Issue 67-142
Issues 11 to 26 have been scanned. Unfortunately, the quality here is not exactly perfect. All other issues are PDFs in very high quality. Issue 11 was the first German Amiga Future issue that was published. Issue 67 was the first English issue of Amiga Future. So there are over 20 years of Amiga Future history on the DVD.
There is no update possibility from previous version of the Amiga Future Archive DVD. Please have understanding for this.
(cg) (Translation: bb)
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14.Aug.2021
Pretty Old Pixel (ANF)
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Interview: Damon Slye (Dynamix)
The Pretty Old Pixel YouTube channel has conducted an interview with Damon Slye, one of the founders of Dynamix, who is responsible for countless classics, such as Mechwarrior, A-10 Tank Killer, Aces of the Pacific and Aces of the Deep. In the interview, Damon talks about how he got into computer game programming and goes into detail about individual games. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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10.Aug.2021
(ANF)
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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.
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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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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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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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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:
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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
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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
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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.
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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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Aminet uploads until 31.07.2021
The following files have been added until 31.07.2021 to Aminet:
Healthcare_1.0.lha biz/misc 240K MOS Displays data from Garmin dev...
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 305K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 13K 2021 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 3.2M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
BOOM_AGA.lha game/shoot 2.8M 68k Amiga port of BOOM (DOOM)
BOOM_RTG.lha game/shoot 2.8M 68k Amiga port of BOOM (DOOM)
giocodel15.lha game/wb 158K 68k classic, some 50 year old puz...
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...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
BetterPerson.lha mods/8voic 3.8M Better Person 7ch Slow Latin ...
amiditools.lha mus/midi 82K 68k Tools for MIDI processing
ToolsMenu_FR.lha util/cdity 6K French catalog for ToolsMenu ...
Iconverter_mos.lha util/conv 52K MOS Convert WB 1.x/MagicWB icons ...
ADiffView.lha util/misc 160K 68k graphical ASCII file compare/...
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OS4Depot uploads until 31.07.2021
The following files have been added until 31.07.2021 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
cookiemaster.lha net/bro 2Mb 4.1 Web browser (currently Odyssey) ...
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AROS Archives uploads until 31.07.2021
The following files have been added until 31.07.2021 to AROS Archives:
68k_datatypes.zip aud 24kb new datatype for aros m68k
arlan.lha net/mis 223kb Simple "self-made" Gop...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 31.07.2021
The following files have been added until 31.07.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_27.72.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
ReportPlus_8.22.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
Healthcare_1.0.lha Misc Displays data from Garm...
ADiffView_2.0.lha Text/Compare A graphical file compar...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 31.07.2021
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 31.07.2021:
- 2021-07-31 improved: Ports Of Call (International Software Development) protection removed, reduced memory usage (Info)
- 2021-07-31 new: Mutant League Hockey (Ocean) done by JOTD (Info)
- 2021-07-31 improved: Center Court 2 (G. Fritsch) run with any diskfont.library, fixed typos (Info)
- 2021-07-29 improved: Superfrog (Team 17) added 3-button joystick support (Info)
- 2021-07-26 updated: Crystal Kingdom Dizzy (Code Masters) install script corrected (Info)
- 2021-07-25 improved: Ports Of Call (International Software Development) german version supported (Info)
- 2021-07-25 improved: Crystal Kingdom Dizzy (Code Masters) 2nd version supported, reduced chip mem to 512k, 68000 quitkey, 2nd button jump, faster loading, trainers added, sound effects and blitwaits fixed, RawDIC imager (Info)
- 2021-07-25 new: Center Court 2 (G. Fritsch) done by JOTD (Info)
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31.Jul.2021
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Commercial action game: Turbo Tomato Deluxe Collectors Edition
Today Bitmap Soft has released the commercial action game 'Turbo Tomato – Deluxe Collectors Edition' in which you have to try to remove mutated vegetables from the playground using bombs.
The Deluxe collector edition is available for about 29 Euro (plus shipping) and contains the following items:
- Glossy Big Box
- Turbo Tomato game on 3.5″ floppy diskette
- Full-Colour Instruction booklet
- Turbo Tomato Fridge Magnet
- Selection of Stickers
- Glossy A4 single-sided poster
- Digital download included
Features of the game:
- Fast one or two player co-op action
- 35+ levels across four distinct worlds
- 40+ enemy types and 4 bosses to battle
- Online global high score table
- Level code system
The game runs on any Amiga equipped with 1MB Chip RAM and Kickstart 2.0+ and supports harddrive and CD32 installation.
The game also is available for about 12 Euro as digital download. (dr)
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31.Jul.2021
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7-bit: Software update for 508i-Wicher cards
7-bit has released a software update to version 2.8b3 for its Wicher 508i cards which fixes a bug in AmigaOS3.2. (dr)
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31.Jul.2021
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Print-/PDF Magazine: Amiga Addict, Issue 7
Seventh issue of British magazine "Amiga Addict" is available for pre-ordering. The lead article is about Psygnosis, but there are also articles about the Vampire, a review of Turbo Tomato and a look at how comic books helped sell the Amiga back in the day. This issue has 60 pages and includes an exclusive demo. (dr)
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31.Jul.2021
Dante
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Top-Down-View-Shooter: New Preview video for 'AlarCity'
Already at the end of 2017 the developers of Pixelglass Games had announced the Top-Down-View-Shooter 'AlarCity'. John Tsakiris now has published a YouTube video "showcasing the transition from the original old 1.0 demo to the new design and direction." The game is being developed using the Scorpion Engine. (dr)
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31.Jul.2021
Amitopia
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MorphOS: Reading data of Garmin devices
Carsten Siegners Healthcare "reads data from Garmin devices (smart watches,
portable GPS devices and bicycle computers. This data are displayed in a diagram." The first public version 1.0 can read cardiogram (data of the heart), sport, user profile and device info from the hardware. The latest MorphOS-Version 3.15 is required. (dr)
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30.Jul.2021
Andre Ravalico (ANF)
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Videos: New channel CommoGuru (german)
At the title link, Andre 'Wollny' Ravalico has started a german YouTube channel called "CommoGuru". His aim are more in-depth reports compared to other videos about Commodore.
For now there are two videos of almost 45 minutes each about the Amiga CD³² and the Amiga 1200. Depending on reception, more will follow. (snx)
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30.Jul.2021
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ACube Systems: New online shop / Sam460cr boards still not available
Press release, 29. July 2021:
"ACube Systems it’s pleased to announce the opening of its new online store.
In the new store customers will find the current lineup of ACube hardware ranging from barebones motherboards to accessories. Everything you’ll need to enjoy your AmigaOS / MorphOS experience with the usual quality and reliability you expect from several years of experience.
Please note:
Registered users of the old shop have been automatically imported, but we highly recommend all users to check their accounts, especially the shipping address, and correct any errors they should see."
The new batch of Sam460cr boards, announced at the end of March, still are not available.
But at least all three motherboards listed in the section Sam motherboards have price labels:
All price quotations are inclusive AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition. As far as there are new information regarding the availability of the boards, we of course will inform our readers. (dr)
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29.Jul.2021
Patrick Nevian
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Tales of Gorluth III: Development status and survey
In January 2019 the third part of Tales of Gorluth Saga was announced. In April of the last year the developer Patrick Nevian (AMIworx) informed that the third part is being ported to the Scorpion Engine.
Now Nevian has asked all users who have pre-ordered the game how to proceed. The developer kindly allowed us to publish this mail:
"Dear Gorluth fans!
It´s been a while since my last update email. I told you about TOGIII being converted to the Scorpion Engine.
The advantages are obvious: 50 fps, better graphics, etc.
My Backbone version of TOGIII has been finished for a while now. Erik keeps improving Scorpion and the features are impressive. The implementation process will take some time, as Erik is working on more than one project.
Now my question to you: Do you still want to wait for the greatly improved Scorpion version, or do you want the unoptimized Backbone version?
I will discuss a deadline with Erik soon so that the Gorluth series can be completed one way or another. I´m looking forward to your feedback!"
He also invites all other users and potential purchasers of the game to give feedback. (dr)
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29.Jul.2021
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Emulator: QEMU 6.1 emulates Pegasos II
Two days ago, release candidate 1 of version 6.1 of the emulator QEMU has been published, including now the possibility to also emulate bplan's PowerPC mainboard Pegasos II.
Besides the AmigaOne X5000 and the already emulated mainboard Sam460ex, Pegasos II is the only further platform running MorphOS as well as AmigaOS 4.1, barring original Amiga computers with corresponding accelerator boards, which, despite internal maintenance, are not officially supported anymore since MorphOS 1.4.5. (snx)
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29.Jul.2021
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Lawsuit: Hyperion's response to Evert Carton's testimony
On June 25, 2021 Hyperion's co-founder and sole managing director during the settlement negotiations with Amiga Inc. in 2009, Evert Carton, was deposed by both parties' lawyers in the lawsuit of the plaintiffs Cloanto and the so-called Amiga parties vs. Hyperion Entertainment as defendant. On July 14, 2021 plaintiffs submitted a motion for leave to file regarding this deposition (amiga-news.de reported).
On July 28, 2021, Hyperion Entertainment submitted their response to the court, requesting that plaintiffs’ motion should be denied (PDF file). Besides lack of diligence - because plaintiffs failed to depose Evert Carton before filing their motion for summary judgement - and increased harm for Hyperion with regard to their business relationships if the summary judgement would be delayed by admission of the deposition, the application is also substantiated by Evert Carton's minor relationship to the Amiga market.
Evert Carton's deposition confirmed the well-known fact within the Amiga community that there had been no relation of Evert Carton to the Amiga market prior to his involvement in Hyperion Entertainment and that this company was originally founded by Ben Hermans and himself as a vehicle for each of them to pursue their own goals (page 80 of the PDF file of the deposition). Lack of knowledge regarding AmigaOS 3.x due to this could be found in the testimony when Evert Carton was asked regarding specific products by Commodore underlying disputed trademarks such as "Workbench" (p. 54), while nevertheless he was aware of other details, for example the programming languages used in the source code of the original operating system which had to be adapted for creating AmigaOS 4 (p. 82).
Thus Hyperion's lawyer emphasizes that - as admitted by Evert Carton - Ben Hermans was the drving force during negotiations with Amiga Inc. in 2009 (p. 153, p. 25) and that Evert Carton could not force himself to become interested in Amiga, despite trying (p. 133). Furthermore it is pointed out that he lost faith in the new project regarding the AmigaOne X5000 (p. 91/92) and started a business of his own in November 2009, i.e. just one month after signing the settlement agreement, to avoid his revenue being continuously consumed by Hyperion's Amiga activities anymore (p. 262).
Regarding the fact that, due to Ben Hermans' main occupation, Evert Carton was the sole director and owner of 97 % of Hyperion's shares during the time frame of the negotiations with Amiga Inc. taking place, the lawyer is bringing forward the argument that by the time the settlement agreement had actually been executed, the distribution of shares would already have been changed during alteration of the legal form of the company - resulting in him owning "the minority as the only shareholder who lacked knowledge or understanding of Amiga" (49 % vs. 48 % by Ben Hermans and 3 % by Timothy de Groote), and that he would have just signed the settlement agreement in 2009 for Hyperion "because he lived within 50 meters of a notary" (p. 132). Back then Hyperion's company address was at Evert Carton's place of residence (p. 145).
Since thus Hyperion's intentions in negotiations with Amiga Inc. in 2009 would have been basically identic to Ben Hermans' intentions - which would be also visible in lacking memory on which party had added certain phrases (p. 100) or why the term "software" was defined differently compared to the original contract from 2001 (p. 112), or in the fact that Evert Carton didn't read all pages of the book "Amiga DOS Manual" (p. 118) - admission of his testimony is considered futile in a situation of his word against that one of his former managing partner, so that the application for admission should be denied, also due to lack of diligence. (snx)
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28.Jul.2021
AmigaLove
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Iconverter: Old icons with a new look / Basics about AmigaOS icons
With 'Iconverter' (currently version 0.95) you can convert old icons as if they were created for today's more recent versions of AmigaOS. Iconverter converts AmigaOS 1.x and MagicWB icons into the format of NewIcons, using the color scale for which these icons were created. Theoretically this would also work for icons created under AmigaOS 2.0 to 3.1, but they are usually displayed correctly without conversion.
To get the converted icons displayed correctly, the NewIcons extension is needed under AmigaOS 3.0 and 3.1 or the new IconLib_46 created by Peter Keunecke. AmigaOS 3.1.4 and 3.2 do not need these extensions.
Iconverter is a shell or command line program written in Standard-C. Thus it should compile for all other systems that have a C compiler. About the background of the program the author Iljitsch van Beijnum writes:
"Workbench 1.0 to Workbench 1.3 used a four-color screen with the colors blue / white / black / orange. With the introduction of Workbench 2.0 this was changed to gray / black / white / blue-gray. This means that the WB 1.x icons look like a negative version of themselves. Also, the WB 1.x icons were designed for "640x200" or "640x256" screen resolutions. WB 2.0 and later icons were designed for higher screen resolutions (640x400 or 640x512), which means that WB 1.x icons look stretched on most newer systems."
In addition to adapting the icons to high-resolution screens, WB 2.0 also adds a 3D effect frame around each icon. From WB 2.0 it is also possible to change the number of colors on the Workbench screen, especially on AGA Amigas. There are about six generations of icons on the Amiga:
- 1. workbench 1.x icons created for medium resolutions (640x200 or 640x256) with a four-color blue/white/black/orange palette.
- Workbench 2.0 - 3.1 Icons created for higher resolutions (640x400 or 640x512) with a four-color gray/black/white/blue-gray palette. The system now draws a 3D frame around the icons.
- MagicWB icons. These can use eight colors and require a specific eight-color palette.
- NewIcons icons. NewIcons is an extension of the original icon file format and allows icons with up to 256 colors. The palette used by the icon is included and the system adjusts the colors of the icon to best display on any Workbench screen. NewIcons are limited to 93x93 pixels.
- 5. workbench 3.5 ColorIcons. These icons are encoded in an IFF format and are an extension of the original icon format. Like NewIcons, they can use up to 256 colors, but can be larger, 256x256 pixels maximum. (Sometimes they are also called "GlowIcons", since the GlowIcon style became popular with Workbench 3.5).
- 6. PNG-Icons.
NewIcons are supported by the NewIcons system, AmigaOS 3.1.4 and IconLib_46. AmigaOS 3.1.4 and IconLib_46 also support Workbench 3.5.
ColorIcons and IconLib_46 supports PNG icons.
Workbench 1.x icons look completely different on newer systems because a different palette is used and because they were designed for a different screen resolution. MagicWB icons only look correct if the MagicWB palette is used consistently. On an AmigaOS system version 3.0 or later with a workbench with more than eight colors, MagicWB symbols will tend to look strange and inconsistent because the system reassigns colors 4 - 7 as needed.
It is of course possible to use a tool (or under 3.1.4 a setting) to fix the colors 0 - 7 in the MagicWB palette. However, MagicWB colors 0 and 3 are somewhat darker than WB 2.0+ colors. Long story short, even with additional effort, it is not possible to get the three early generations of icons to look right on the same system at the same time. Iconverter solves this problem by converting these three types of icons into a NewIcon with the correct palette. The resulting icon files retain the original icon, so they look the same on systems that do not support the NewIcon extension.
There are two different versions of the iconverter: The version iconverter.ixemul requires the ixemul.library (version 48 or higher) and has the advantage that you can use the icon files with placeholders like #?.info. The regular version does not require the ixemul.library but does not recognize placeholders." (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 28. Jul. 2021, 07:09] [Comments: 0]
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