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11.Sep.2024
heise.de Newsticker (ANF) Heise article on Andy Warhol's Amiga graphics (German)
As reported some weeks ago, one of the two art prints with Debbie Harry's portrait is for sale. Now Heise has also published an article about Andy Warhol's work with the Amiga at the title link - and adds that a sales price of 26 million dollars is being speculated for the picture including the signed floppy disk. (snx)

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11.Sep.2024

Image editor: PyDPainter 2.0.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS
The image editor PyDPainter (new YouTube video of version 2.0) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as easy to use as possible (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.0.1 fixes the following bugs:

Anim files from PPaint missing last two frames
Unable to draw when magnified when changing frames
Anim save issues with palette and blank frames
Smear mode crash

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10.Sep.2024

MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.34
Just under a week ago, Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek released version 1.34 of his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. The changes in detail:

Fixed a crash during update check on some configurations
Fixed a crash when editing a message in a locally mapped folder
Fixed not to duplicate messages when editing a message in locally mapped folder or local storage
Increased mail filter string length limit
Updated WebKit and associated libraries
Shows a popup window w/ progress bar when downloading an update

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09.Sep.2024
Amigaworld.de (ANF) Amigaworld.de: Alternative riser cards for the A604n memory expansion
Press release: AMIGAworld is pleased to announce the availability of two alternative riser cards for the A604n memory expansion for the Amiga 600 from Individual Computers (photo).

These new riser cards are designed for WiFi (PicoWyfy) and USB (Subway/Freeway/RapidRoad) expansions, which can be used in the Amiga 600 by simply plugging them in without a cable. The cards can be ordered for private use as a DIY project at the title link. (snx)

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09.Sep.2024

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.42
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill (YouTube video) is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.

The biggest addition of version 0.9.42 is the possibility to add UI bars to the objects, this way you can display Health, Energy, Stamina etc. This could be very useful for RPG and strategy games, but also for other kind of games:

Alle changes:

UI Bar is a new type of object that allows to show energy&health bars above the game objects. They can be attached to the object they need to represent.
A project example ex_UIBar has been added to show the usage of this new object type.
Added action trigger Follow Me to allow an object request the camera focus.
Camera triggers have been moved to the Input&Canera cathegory in the editor.
Camera follow now has a parameter to specify if the camera should move immediatly to the targetted object.
Set Parent trigger now allows to target a non static object. In this case it will attach to the first that it finds.
Fix in the slope code that was introduced after some optimizations.
Fix for slope peaks, where the character could move downwards in the level.
Fix for HUD not being aligned with the main display when using a reduced screen width.
Fix for CD32 buttons mapping to Fire 1 and Fire 2.
Fix for custom font when used in the HUD.
Fix for a one pixel stripe in the left of the screen where the background sprite layer would be visible
Fix in FX layer
Some unused code was removed

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09.Sep.2024 Preview video: Amiga port of arcade classic Elevator playable
In addition to an Amiga port of Galaga, Jean-François 'jotd' Fabre is also working on a conversion of Taito's arcade classic Elevator Action (amiga-news.de reported). The video now published under the title link shows that, apart from a few graphic errors and inaccuracies, the game logic works completely. (dr)

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09.Sep.2024
Fabio Falcucci (Mail)

Developer log: First map of the game "The Gate" completed
At the beginning of October last year , we introduced the AMOS game "The Gate" by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts. The developer reports on his progress on Patreon, but has kindly summarised the current status for us:

"I spent the last 2 weeks working on the first map (Mastodon screenshot) and I have also fixed several bugs I saw only during the map testing phase. I also added some missing functionalities to the engine to make easier for me to create and handle the game contents, here is a list of the most important things:

I've completed the 5 door types available in the game, If I need to I can add more types, nothing is hard coded anymore.
I've optimized the game especially using graphics blocks to clear areas instead of using the slow drawing commands (BAR for example).
I've started to work on a game editor: the initial idea was that this would helped me to create the game contents faster, but I soon realized that this would take up a lot of my time and I was anxious to see if the engine worked well, so for now I will continue to create the content manually.
Terminals and dialogues are using a scripting language created from scratch by me, it supports strings and numeric variables, but they were local to the currently executed script. I needed some persistent space to store stuff so I implemented Map Variables (which are reset every time the map is loaded, but I can share values between map-scripts) and Global Variables (which are reset at the game beginning and can share data between script on different maps).
In the Terminal scripting language I also added a JUMPSUB/RETURN pair of commands to recycle repetitive code sections and make the scripts smaller.
I've adjusted all the graphics I have to make it proportional with the character's size, I've enlarged all of them manually to make pixel perfect (at my best).
I fixed a nasty bug in my script parser: empty lines was causing dead loops blocking the program flow.
Dialogue definitions now supports actors declaration, this means that dialogs executed by triggers can be between several actors (and not just 2!).
Some bugs related to the secondary weapons/devices are fixed, as well as the damage computation of the hit enemies.

I'm very happy because when I finished the first map and started testing it, everything worked as intended: Dialogues followed the programmed branching, triggers worked, animations worked and most importantly, the terminal simulator worked too!

I am happy about everyone who supports my work on Patreon." (dr)

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08.Sep.2024

Aminet uploads until 07.09.2024
The following files have been added until 07.09.2024 to Aminet:

Amidon_OS3.zip           comm/net   1.8M  68k A Mastodon client for Amiga
amigassh.lha             comm/net   107K  68k SSH2 for the Amiga
complex-cyboman6.zip     demo/aga   36K   68k Intro - 3rd at 68k Inside 2024
satellite-naomi.lha      demo/aga   25M   68k 2nd place at Xenium 2024
Artstate-PartyPack18.adf demo/disk  880K  68k Demopack April 7th 2024
Artstate-PartyPack19.adf demo/disk  880K  68k Demopack May 20th 2024
Artstate-PartyPack20.adf demo/disk  880K  68k Demopack May 27th 2024
Artstate-PartyPack22.adf demo/disk  880K  68k Demopack July 7th 2024
Artstate-PartyPack23.adf demo/disk  880K  68k Demopack August 28th 2024
AST-Party_Pack_17.zip    demo/disk  807K  68k Demopack April 1st 2024
DanbosAtBBQ.adf          demo/disk  880K  68k OCS/ECS demo 2nd at Shadow Pa...
gtn-cockbusters.adf      demo/disk  880K  68k 1st place at Xenium 2024
lastminuteman-cosmico... demo/euro  220K  68k 1st in the @Party 2024 OCS/ECS
saxtorptrading-partyp... demo/euro  240K  68k OCS/ECS demo from Reunion (.s...
ALittleBlue.lha          demo/intro 40K   68k Intro from High Coast Hack 2024
dotsdotsdots.zip         demo/intro 19K   68k OCS/ECS intro August 2024
titan-20.zip             demo/intro 38K   68k AGA intro August 2024 - Evoke
boom_party_2025_invit... demo/misc  162K  68k 4th place at Xenium 2024
gtn-thelostpixellersv... demo/slide 654K  68k 3rd place at Xenium 2024
chiperia11.zip           demo/sound 383K  68k OCS/ECS Musicdisk
nah-diversity.zip        demo/sound 32M   68k 5th place at Xenium 2024
asm-kurs_ram_jam.zip     dev/asm    6.1M      Assembly course, German
CVBasic.lha              dev/cross  396K  68k BASIC compiler for Colecovisi...
F1GP2024Carset.lha       game/data  10K       2024 Carset for F1GP
level2silhouette.lha     game/jump  512K  68k Level 2 of Platformer Silhoue...
silhouette-threat-AGA... game/jump  438K  68k Level 1 of Platformer Silhoue...
untangle.lha             game/wb    29K   68k Untangle set of dots joined b...
FlashMandelVE.lha        gfx/fract  27M   68k FlashMandel "Vamped Edition" ...
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   7.9M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   8.2M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   8.5M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Pletter.lha              util/arc   39K   68k Compressor for MSX/ColecoVisi...
AmiSSL-5.17-OS3.lha      util/libs  3.7M  68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.17-OS4.lha      util/libs  3.4M  OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.17-SDK.lha      util/libs  2.3M  AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmigaGPT.lha             util/misc  221K  AOS App for chatting to ChatGPT
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  22M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
FindIconsBy.lha          util/wb    11K   68k Search for icons by tooltype/...

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08.Sep.2024

OS4Depot uploads until 07.09.2024
The following files have been added until 07.09.2024 to OS4Depot:

amissl-sdk.lha           dev/mis 2Mb   4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 8Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amissl.lha               lib/mis 3Mb   4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
amigagpt.lha             net/cha 221kb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
deark.lha                uti/arc 6Mb   4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
snoopy.lha               uti/fil 95kb  4.1 SnoopDos like utility for OS4
amitranslate.lha         uti/tex 5Mb   4.0 Translate text with DeepL
yt.lha                   vid/mis 870kb 4.1 YouTube URL Extractor script

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08.Sep.2024

AROS Archives uploads until 07.09.2024
The following files have been added until 07.09.2024 to AROS Archives:

standardmagicwb.lha          gra/ico 2Mb   Collection of MagicWB Icons

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08.Sep.2024

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.09.2024
Die folgenden Pakete wurden bis zum 07.09.2024 dem MorphOS-Storage hinzugefügt:

untangle_1.0.lha              A logic puzzle, where t...
CardsMakingKit_2.10.lha       A little kit to make yo...
MCE_15.20.lha                 Multi-game Character Ed...
VirtualGP2_1.06.lha           Virtual Grand Prix 2 Full
pletter_0.5c1.lha             Compressor for MSX/Cole...
AmiTranslate_0.4.lha          A DeepL interface for A...
Iris_1.34.lha                 Iris, the MorphOS email...

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08.Sep.2024

WHDLoad: New installers until 07.09.2024
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 07.09.2024:

2024-09-07 improved: A320 Airbus: Edition USA (Thalion Software) more icons added (Info)
2024-09-07 improved: A320 Airbus Vol. 2 (Rainer Bopf Software) more icons added (Info)
2024-09-07 improved: A320 Airbus (Thalion Software) more icons added (Info)
2024-09-03 fixed: Doody (W.G.S.S.) startup crash on some setups fixed (Info, Image)
2024-09-02 new: Digital Noize 2 (The Evil Forces) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
2024-09-02 new: Celtic Heart (Night Owl Design) done by DJ Mike (Info, Image)
2024-09-02 new: Doody (W.G.S.S.) done by DJ Mike (Info, Image)
2024-09-01 new: Moments (Old Bulls) done by paraj (Info, Image)
2024-09-01 new: Mnemonics (Haujobb) done by paraj (Info, Image)

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08.Sep.2024
Holger Ahrens (ANF) Video: The year 2038 problem hits the Amiga - but not until 2046 (German)
The world will end on January 19, 2038 - at least if relevant 32-bit systems are still using the "UNIX timestamp" format then to measure time by every second. Similar to the Bismarck quote about Mecklenburg, the end of the world will not take place on the Amiga until 2046, though. (More precisely, its time calculation ends on January 19, 2046 at 03:14:07, amiga-news.de reported.)

At the title link, Holger Ahrens takes up the topic on his info portal on the year 2038 problem. In the video, Dennis Pauler from the retro channel Virtual Dimension explains the reason for this - namely that the Amiga only starts counting time on January 1, 1978. But as soon as all the bits are used up, trouble can no longer be avoided: Anything from minor glitches to constant Guru Meditations could then happen. Due to the complexity, a permanent and comprehensive solution to the problem is not to be expected. (snx)

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08.Sep.2024
AmiKit (ANF) Workbench distribution: AmiKit 12.6
The Workbench distribution AmiKit is now available in version 12.6 for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, PiStorm and Raspberry Pi - but not for Vampire.

Changes consist of updates of files and emulation; furthermore the Make060 command and two demos have been added. (snx)

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08.Sep.2024
Amigasystem (ANF)

AROS distribution: AROS One 2.6 (x86)
The "AROS One" distribution based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0 is now available in version 2.6 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings can also be found. The VHD image can be used as a hard disk in virtual machines such as VMware, VirtualBox and QEmu.

If you have already installed the previous version, you can now update your system as an alternative to a new installation. To do this, the "Aros-One 2.5-Fix" file must first be executed to remove files that are no longer required.

Changes:

Update AROS One Core:

IconList.mui
i8042.hidd
crt.library
debug.library
Keymaps Spanish
muimaster.library
Catalog Dutch (Icons)
Wanderer
New Buttons ArosPDF

Update AROS One OS System:

New Icon Bar AmiStart (Glow Icons)
New splash (Grub)
New Backdrops AROS One
New Descriptors Datatypes
New Def_Icons
SMB2-Start
New Play-List Radio (Music 60s 70s 80s 90s 00s 10s)
Script Empty .Recycled (Also Empty Folders)
Script Show .Recycled
Script Hide .Recycled
Update DOpus4 Config
Update SMB2 Docs
Set clock on AmiStart

Update AROS One Apps:

PintorWeb 5.0
VindentiumPicta 3.5
iConecta 5.25
Vintage Song Player 2.60
Omanko 1.25
WitchCleaner 3.20
Image2PDF 2.7
Crono 3.0
FIGlet 2.2.5
SFSobject 1.6
DeleteIcons 1.0
Leeko (Demo Scene)
Micery (Demo Scene)
AnimWebConv KeyCode
AROSDebugView (A viewer for debug messages)
RapaGUI 2.2

Update AROS One Games:

BlackjuanPoker KeyCode (unblock the adult mode)
Caveman

(snx)

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08.Sep.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF) Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 170 / raffle
The English and German issue 170 (September/October 2024) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.

Content of the current issue includes interviews with Jennifer Diane Reitz and 'Tigerskunk', previews of Krogharr and The Lost Pixel as well as a workshop about HAM games. Furthermore there is a raffle with prizes by Look Behind You. Also non-readers of the magazine can take part, one has just to send an e-mail. (snx)

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07.Sep.2024 Video tutorial: Using the AMOS command "Get bob"
In another video in his series of tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how to use the Get bob command to grab images from AMOS screen to use as Bobs in a program. This is an alternative to using the Object Editor built into AMOS Pro. The source code for the program in this video is available for free on his website. (dr)

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06.Sep.2024 Amiga-MOD tracker in Javascript: Bassoontracker 0.5.0
Bassoontracker is a classic 4-channel MOD tracker written in Javascript and therefore runs under the title link directly in the web browser - including the possibility to load, edit and save existing MOD files (YouTube video of version 0.5.0).

The current version now supports playlists and favourites. You can create links for your favourite songs. And there are now also tooltips to make your work easier. Minor improvements to the user interface and the program round off the changes. (dr)

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06.Sep.2024
Howard Price

Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.8 for Windows, Linux and macOS
"Aira Force" is a tool for the reverse engineering of Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It enables the disassembly and examination of binary files (YouTube video of version 0.8).

Thanks to the major update to version 0.8, Aira Force now also functions as a 68000 source level debugger. The 68000 command emulation has also been improved and very simple Amiga hardware emulation (chip, fast and slow RAM and ROM) has been introduced. Complete changelog:

Add: Add Pointer dialogue
Add: Crash log file AiraForceLog.txt written on internal error
Add: Syntax highlighting works with internally generated disassembly
Add: Source-level debugging of Amiga load modules
Add: Source-level debugging of raw binaries
Add: Source Code windows, with basic navigation features and Ctrl+G popup
Add: Debug Symbols window
Add: Debugger can be used independently of Analyser
Add: RAM reset behaviours: Leave, clear, randomise
Add: 68000 execption generation and processing
Add: 68000 interrupt support (not hooked up to Amiga yet sorry)
Add: Load Amiga ROM
Add: Amiga ROM overlay (OVL)
Add: Fast RAM, Slow RAM and ROM address ranges
Add: Very basic Amiga playfield hardware (DIWSTRT/STOP, BPLCON0, BPLxPT, COLORxx)
Add: End-of-frame Amiga video image generation
Add: Emulator video window displaying end-of-frame generated video image
Add: Latest vasm and vlink executables for all platforms
Add: "Select config TEXT area" to disassembly window context menu
Add: Amiga window link to hardware register docs
Improve: Labels can be added at any address
Improve: Disassembly export options (lowercase, formatting, export from RAM)
Improve: Status window displays binary diff count
Improve: Expose ira -compat=b and -compat=i options
Improve: Serialise find options
Improve: Analyser code region detection
Improve: 68000 instruction emulation (passes all 680x0 SingleStepTests)
Improve: 68000 emulator fetches directly from memory
Improve: Memory window shows all regions
Improve: Internal 68000/010 instruction disassembly
Improve: CPU Window UI improvements
Improve: Find searches source code
Improve: Logging of access to unimplemented hardware registers
Improve: Inform user when HUNK_OVERLAY encountered (not supported)
Fix: Pointers can be defined in data and immediate operands
Fix: Slowdown when there are many potential data actions
Fix: Disassembly Window scrolling crash
Fix: Offset jump tables when relocating ira config
Fix: Workaround label name generator crash caused by duplicate ira labels
Fix: Instruction Window branch destination calculation bug
Fix: Default window docking for windows with dynamic names
Fix: Amiga modules are debugged in user mode by default

(dr)

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05.Sep.2024 Program for DeepL use: AmiTranslate 0.4
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's program AmiTranslate (video) is an interface for the translation service DeepL with additional PDF and UTF-8 text storage and is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.

The new version 0.4 contains a number of small but useful adjustments: if you previously pasted or copied texts using the right mouse button or a key combination, you can now also do this using buttons at the bottom of the window. Equally practical: the "Clear" button can be used to delete all texts in the windows. Finally, you can use the "Switch" button to swap the input and output language.

In addition to an SSL-secured Internet connection (OpenSSL3 on MorphOS or AmiSSL on the other systems), the programme also requires the MUI class texteditor.mcc. (dr)

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04.Sep.2024

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.17 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.17 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version 3.3.2 (3.9.2024) of OpenSSL. The changes in detail:

Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.3.2 (3.9.2024) version which includes these moderate and low severity bug fixes and mitigations:
- ixed possible denial of service in X.509 name checks.
- Fixed possible buffer overread in SSL_select_next_proto().
Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html dated 2.7.2024.
Refactored the OpenSSL locking and mutex routines to remove the unnecessary duplication of code.

Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.17-OS3.lha (3,7 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.17-OS4.lha (3,4 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.17-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)

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04.Sep.2024
Bill Borsari (ANF) Event: AmiWest 2024
This year's AmiWest in Sacramento will take place from October 25-27. As Bill 'tekmage' Borsari reports in the official event blog, there are almost 40 tables this year, and David Haynie, Trevor Dickinson, Bill Panagouleas and Doug Compton are named as well-known participants.

The main theme this year will be games. As a change compared to previous years, however, the developer conference “AmiWest DevCon” will no longer be held on site, but online due to the low number of participants, which is why the duration of the event has been shortened to three days. Speaking time is still available for any additional presentations, and tickets for the banquet can also still be purchased. (snx)

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04.Sep.2024
ANF Video: Nobody Knows How Many Amigas Commodore Sold
In his video at the title link 'Ahoy' tells about his research on how many Amigas have been sold in total by Commodore and Escom. His conclusion: It have been 4,91 million computers. (snx)

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04.Sep.2024
DaFreak (forum entry) Emulator: QEMU 9.1.0 (update)
QEMU is an open-source computer emulator and virtualizer. The emulation of complete computers also makes it possible to run operating systems such as AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS under QEMU that are tailored to a quite specific hardware platform. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who gives information about this on a dedicated website.

Changes in version 9.1 of QEMU seem to not include any refering to the emulation of Amiga systems, though.

Update: (21:20, 03.09.24, dr)

While we reported on the QEMU 9.1.0-rc4 version this morning, the final version 9.1 is now available. As always, a compiled version for Windows 64-bit is provided by Stefan Weil. (snx)

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04.Sep.2024

Logic game: Untangle v1.0
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so that no line intersects another (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.0 with the following changes:

New set of 150 levels.
Game state is saved after each solved level and at exit.
Windows positions and dimensions are remembered.
Nice time display in the level selector.
Short user manual in AmigaGuide format.
A few bugs and one crash fixed.

The game runs in a Workbench window, a standard Amiga 1200 is sufficient.

Download: untangle-1.0.lha (29 Kb) (dr)

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03.Sep.2024
(ANF) Worth a read: Cosy Computing - On the soulful qualities of home computers
In the blog post "Cosy Computing - On the soulful qualities of home computers" on datagubbe.se, Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson describes the homely atmosphere when using old home computers. He emphasizes the simpler technology and the absence of distractions that modern devices often bring. The article highlights how old computers, with their mechanical noises and the warmth of the hardware, convey a sense of coziness and security that modern devices do not offer. The text celebrates the nostalgic and relaxing experience of dealing with retro technology. You can read the full article at the title link. (nba)

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03.Sep.2024
David Brunet (ANF)

New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.

News for July/August 2024
Old articles from Génération 4 19 to 22: News: Sales Curve launches Storm, Review of Dragon's Lair: Escape From Singe's Castle, Interview: Janine Pitot, Review of Castle Master, Review of Jumping Jack'Son, News: Les 4 D'Or 1989, Review of Rock Star, Review of Tennis Cup, Review of Austerlitz, Test of John Lowe's Ultimate Darts, etc.
Interview with Kari-Pekka Koljonen (author of HippoPlayer)
Interview with Gary Carlston (head of Brøderbund)
Hardware: Amiga Mouse Pad
Review of AmiDream
The best of Byte from August 1987 to April 1989
File: The reasons for Escom's bankruptcy
File: Scrolling on the Amiga
Tutorial: CompactFlash AmigaOS under Linux with FS-UAE
Tutorial: Wi-Fi on Amiga 1200 (with Prism2 V2 and MiamiDX) (update)
Tutorial: Common GUI design problems
DIY: Repairing an Amiga 1000 (black screen, WCS memory)
DIY: Making your own Amiga arcade controller (improved model) (update)
Point of view: My VD0 story, the invention of the recoverable RAM disk
Point of view: Beyond BBS - Internet solutions for 8-bit Commodores and my plans in this area
Special quiz about The Secret Of Monkey Island

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03.Sep.2024 Preview video: Amiga port of arcade classic Elevator Action in development
After Jean-François 'jotd' Fabre had collected all his previous arcade ports at the end of May and released them for the CD32, he is now working on an Amiga port of Galaga as well as a conversion of Taito's arcade classic Elevator Action: as an agent, you have to take the lift down from the 30th floor, avoiding numerous enemy attackers and opening certain doors (YouTube video of the C64 conversion). (dr)

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03.Sep.2024 Scala MM conversion: Adventure 2 Remake
In preparation for the AmiGameJam 2024, 'grindercowboy' has brought an old classic back to life: he has realised his second text adventure "Adventure 2" using Scala MM, a software for presentations, lectures and video captions.

His first version only ran under Scala MM400, after some adjustments the game now also works with the previous version Scala MM300 (Verion 50.3), as it was delivered with the Magic Pack of the Amiga 1200. (dr)

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03.Sep.2024 Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer Red Alert v1.5
After Artur Jarosik had ported the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga in 2022 (amiga-news.de reported), he has now also released an Amiga port of the second part, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, which is also intended for Amigas with accelerator cards such as PiStorm/Emu68, Apollo/Vampire V4 or Warp1260. An AGA version is to follow. (dr)

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03.Sep.2024
PyDPainter

Image editor: PyDPainter 2.0.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS
The image editor PyDPainter (new YouTube video of version 2.0) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as easy to use as possible (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.0.0 offers some new features for the Amiga:

Animation

Load and save GIF and IFF ANIM5
Import and export a series of frames
Edit and copy per-frame color palettes
Easily edit per-frame animation rates
Animation toolbar with VCR controls

Additional Improvements

Import 24-bit and Amiga HAM images and convert to 256 colors
Amiga overscan screen support
Multicycle support for color cycling the colors in a custom brush
Many bugs fixed
Added a recovery mode (in case a bug isn't fixed yet)

(dr)

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02.Sep.2024 Radio Paralax: Impressions of the Retro Area at gamescom 2024
A video compilation of all the exhibitors, slot machines, consoles, retro computers and showcases in the Retro Area in Hall 10.2 at gamescom 2024 in Cologne has been provided by Radio Paralax on YouTube under the title link. The video gives an impression of the total area of several hundred square meters, where well over 200 ready-to-use game consoles, home computers, handhelds and arcade machines from over 50 years of video game history can be played, including well-known home computers and game consoles such as the Amiga, SNES, Megadrive, Nintendo 64, PlayStation etc., as well as various arcade and pinball machines. (nba)

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02.Sep.2024

Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.4 and 6.3.4
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. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.

The new versions 5.7.4 and 6.3.4 have now been released.

Amiberry v5.7.4 is recommended for ARM devices (like the Raspberry Pi) and Amiberry v6.3.4 for x86 and generally faster boards (ARM included). Both versions offer new features, bug fixes and improvements.

Improvements in the new versions:

Added VSync options from WinUAE in Display panel (#1368)
Make Paths panel textboxes read-only (fixes #1385)
add secondary check when loading cfg files, look in configs folder for filename (fixes #1388)
resample audio during Push operations (#1397)
fix inconsistency regarding default config name (fixes #1395)
GUI - Make read-only textboxes in WHDLoad panel show as such (fixes #1403)
updated FloppyBridge to v1.6.4
updated game controller DB to latest version
updated WHDLoad XML to latest version
improve help text in Misc panel (fixes #1408)
auto-select the first item in the Configs list (fixes #1391)
Log command line parameters on startup (fixes #1380)
harmonize buttons in HDD GUI panel
use string.empty() instead of comparing with ""
separate data from home directories, improve handling (fixes #1073)
Fix new paths logic for Flatpak also (#1073)
improve look of GUI Misc panel scrollbar (fixes #1412)
Cherry pick updates from v6.x

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02.Sep.2024 Rogue-like game: Roguecraft released, Soundtrack available
Badger Punch Games have released "Roguecraft", their "retro-inspired turn-based roguelike all about simplicity and fun" (YouTube video). Licensed and distributed by Thalamus Digital, the download version of the game is available for 72 hours at a 20% discount for the equivalent of around €7.20 as a thank you to the Amiga community. The Boxed Edition is currently sold out.

The soundtrack to the game can be purchased separately for the equivalent of around 1.80 euros. (dr)

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01.Sep.2024

Aminet uploads until 31.08.2024
The following files have been added until 31.08.2024 to Aminet:

gasm80.lha               dev/cross  70K   68k Generic assembler for Z80/6502
HWP_RapaGUI.lha          dev/hwood  7.3M  ALL Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo...
GISkyBallsAros.zip       game/board 369K  x86 GI Sky Balls
MCE.lha                  game/edit  4.1M  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  4.5M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  4.8M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
PolyNova3D.lha           gfx/3d     740K  68k Amiga port of PolyNova3D
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   7.9M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   8.2M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   8.5M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
CrescentMoon.lha         mods/8voic 2.2M      16bit 6ch Guitar Piano Ballad...
ACreeping.zip            mods/crash 5.1M      Lofi Melancholy Hiphop from 1...
NomadicHellstorm.zip     mods/crash 7.0M      Lofi Sludgecore from 1998 (+mp3)
Trespass00972.zip        mods/crash 14M       Slow Hypnotic Progressive med...
NAFCYI1991S1-B01.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B02.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B03.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B04.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B05.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B06.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B08.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B09.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B10.zip     text/bfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B11.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B12.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip     text/bfont 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B18.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B19.zip     text/bfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B20.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B24.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B25.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B26.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B27.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B28.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B29.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
ASE2019_2.07.lha         text/edit  210K  68k Text editor
CharacterMap.lha         text/misc  57K   68k Browse character set and copy...

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01.Sep.2024

OS4Depot uploads until 31.08.2024
The following files have been added until 31.08.2024 to OS4Depot:

amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 8Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
cardsmakingkit.lha       gam/uti 3Mb   4.0 This is a SDK to make your decks...
mce.lha                  gam/uti 5Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
hwp_rapagui.lha          lib/hol 7Mb   4.0 Hollywood plugin for GUI creation
sdl2.lha                 lib/mis 7Mb   4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
amigagpt.lha             net/cha 221kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT

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01.Sep.2024

AROS Archives uploads until 31.08.2024
The following files have been added until 31.08.2024 to AROS Archives:

giskyballsaros.zip           gam/mis 369kb Game of skill
cardsmakingkit.lha           gam/uti 3Mb   This is a SDK to make your decks...

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01.Sep.2024

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 31.08.2024
The following files have been added until 31.08.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:

RapaGUI_2.2.lha               A cross-platform GUI to...
gasm80.lha                    Generic Z80 assembler
dethrace_0.7.1.1.lha          Reverse engineering the...
AmiArcadia_33.20.lha          A Signetics-based machi...

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01.Sep.2024

WHDLoad: New installers until 31.08.2024
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 31.08.2024:

2024-08-30 new: Sexy Droids (Magic Bytes) done by Wepl (Info)
2024-08-30 improved: Tech (Gainstar/The Omega Team) added checksums to imager, updated kickemu (Info)
2024-08-28 improved: Blades of Steel (Konami) support for original version added, unused code removed, correct sources included (Info)
2024-08-27 fixed: Tubular Worlds (Dongleware) saving hiscores fixed (Info)
2024-08-27 improved: Mikro Mortal Tennis (Skywards Software) supports another version (Info)
2024-08-26 improved: A320 Airbus: Edition USA (Thalion Software) 68000 quitkey (Info)
2024-08-26 improved: A320 Airbus Vol. 2 (Rainer Bopf Software) 68000 quitkey (Info)
2024-08-26 improved: A320 Airbus (Thalion Software) added support for Edition Europa, 68000 quitkey (Info)
2024-08-25 new: Rectangle (Turtle Byte) done by DJ Mike (Info)
2024-08-25 new: A320 Airbus Vol. 2 (Rainer Bopf Software) done by RACE (Info)

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01.Sep.2024
Seiya (ANF) PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 161 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.

Amiga-related, the current issue is about Black Hornet. (snx)

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01.Sep.2024
Scene World Podcast (ANF) Scene World Podcast Episode #196 - Metro Siege
In the 196th edition of the Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Alex Brown, coder in the team working on the game "Metro Siege", which is intended to run on a vanilla Amiga 500 and to be played online with multiple players - the demo version requires at least 1 MB of RAM, though. The interview starts at minute 37:05. (snx)

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31.Aug.2024
Paweł Tukatsch Platform game: Collector's Edition of Electro Man
At the beginning of December last year, Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch released his Amiga port of the game Electro Man for AGA Amigas, originally published in 1992 by the Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported). Now the game can be purchased as a Collector's Edition from the Polish shop Retronics. For 38 euros (plus shipping) you get a slipcase with two 3.5" discs, a map of the levels printed on a canvas and a manual. (dr)

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31.Aug.2024

Chat software: AmigaGPT v1.6.2 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 (update)
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes of version 1.6.1:

Default to speech disabled
Fix crash when trying to close speech system when it failed to initialise

Update: (14:09, 01.09.24, dr)

Version 1.6.2 was released today, which increases the maximum OpenAI API key size to 256 characters.

Download v1.6.2: AmigaGPT.lha (221 KB) (dr)

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30.Aug.2024 Video: AmiKit 12 on a Raspberry Pi 5
Under the title link, Amiga Bill talks to AmiKit developer Ján Zahurančík about his workbench distribution AmiKit 12 and shows how it runs on a Raspberry Pi 5. He also gives tips and tricks and talks about the development of the distribution. (dr)

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30.Aug.2024

Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.8
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.8 was released:

Bug fixes
Performance improvements
Speed up initialization on 68000 systems
Lideflash improvements - prompt the user before doing anything & reboot if necessary

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29.Aug.2024 Preview video: Extreme Violence 2 v0.2
pixelplop' is in the process of writing a successor to the shareware game Extreme Violence, published by Simon Green in 1993, as an entry for this year's AmiGameJam. In the original version, two players tried to eliminate each other in a labyrinth. In the successor, four players will now be able to compete against each other. (dr)

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29.Aug.2024
itch.io Text-based strategy game: HAMmurabi V1.01
Hamurabi is a text-based strategy game in which you "take on the role of the Sumerian king for ten years, deciding how much land to buy, how much wheat to feed your subjects and how much wheat to sow." A previous version was published in 1968 for the newly invented programming language FOCAL, before it was ported to BASIC in 1973 and thus became known to a wider public (Wikipedia).

Phil Spilsbury has published the original source code on GitHub, as it was printed in the book "BASIC Computer Games" in 1978. If you want to get a first impression, you can test the version ported to HTML5 by Chris Ainsley in 2019 in your browser.

At the beginning of 2020, 'Dr Guru' published a version adapted to Amiga Kick Pascal in the Amiga-Dresden forum (German), the source code of which is still accessible.

Now 'lifeschool' has also taken on the game as a contribution to AmiGameJam 2024 and, in addition to the original version from 1978 (with or without language), has published a conversion he created with HAM background images and a few additional questions to answer. The game runs on any OCS/ECS Amiga with KS 3.0+, 0.5 MB chip and 1 MB Fast-Ram. (dr)

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29.Aug.2024
Amigans (Forum) AmigaOS 4: AmigaOne Daily Driver Blog #1
In his latest blog entry Back to winter down-under, Trevor Dickinson reports on a meeting with Ryan Dixon, a long-time Amiga enthusiast and recently active AmigaOS 4 developer, member of the ExecSG team and beta tester for A-EON Technology's Enhancer software. In Dickinson's blog, Dixon already describes what he does on a daily basis with his two NextGen computers AmigaOne X1000 and X5000.

He has now started his own blog and describes his current use of various applications and tools and his reasons for using them in the first entry under the title link. Subsequent blogs will present newly discovered applications, tools or tips and their updates. (dr)

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28.Aug.2024 Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.7 for Windows, Mac and Linux (update)
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Amiga. Version 0.6.6 provides several improvements and fixes and can now import the formats .it (Impulse Tracker), .xm (Extended Module) and .s3m (Scream Tracker 3).

The songs can be exported as audio files (.wav), VGM files and ZSM files (for Commander X16). An manual is available.

Update: (17:49, 29.08.24, dr)

Version 0.6.7 was released today, which fixes a major bug in the previous version: the NES DPCM sample loop was not working properly. (dr)

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28.Aug.2024
Amigaworld.net (forum) US trademarks: New dates for "AmigaOne" trademark dispute
The dispute over the trademark "AmigaOne" at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO, amiga-news.de reported) had initially been suspended (PDF file), because any court decision in the main proceedings would make it easier to reach a final decision on certain trademark applications and the corresponding oppositions.

However, both sides, Amiga Corporation and Hyperion Entertainment, were required to provide regular updates to the USPTO on the status of that litigation - most recently, they were given 30 days to do so on March 28 of this year. However, as neither party felt compelled to do so, the trademark dispute was resumed by the USPTO on August 12 and the further course of action was set: the scheduled dates range from September 11, 2024 to January 14, 2026 (PDF file). (snx)

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28.Aug.2024
Siegfried Hübner (ANF) Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb supports EmuTOS
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or rather a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on vAmiga, an Amiga emulator for Mac OS.

Besides the AROS ROM, since August 18 also the Atari-TOS-compatible EmuTOS has been added as a selectable Kickstart alternative, so that .ST disk images can be used as well. (snx)

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27.Aug.2024
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Programming environment: MicroPython for the Amiga in development
MicroPython Amiga is a fork of the MicroPython project that brings this programming environment to the classic Amiga (with at least AmigaOS 3.1). The project is still under development, but can already be compiled and used.

Amiga-specific features:

This version should be considered as preliminary. Most of the tests are passing, but some are still failing.
Networking (tcp) is available but not SSL. Thus, bsdsocket.library is required.
Passing tests (some have been sightly modified for the Amiga) can be found in the tests directory: basics, cmdline, cpydiff, extmod, feature_check, float, frozen, import, internal_bench, io, micropython, misc, net_hosted, net_inet (without SSL), perf_bench, stress and unicode.
Neither viper nor native modes are supported (most of the viper tests are passing but some are crashing!).

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26.Aug.2024

AROS: First test version of Odyssey browser v2.0
At the beginning of August, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz released a first test version of the 64-bit browser Odyssey for AROS (amiga-news.de reported). In this next test version, the WebKit engine has been updated from August 2015 to February 2019 and versions for AROS 32 bit and AROS 64 bit have been released. There are currently the following limitations:

media player is disabled - no videos on YT for now
certificates path is hardcoded to system default path (ENV:SYS/Certificates/ca-bundle.crt)
disabling SSL check does not work
window must be kept active to process events
right-click (context menu) crashes browser
typing in search bar crashes browser
cookies do not work

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26.Aug.2024
Timothy Deters

AROS: Full version of word processor Final Writer 7.1
Following yesterday's release of demo versions for the first update of the Final Writer word processor since 1997, the full versions are now also available for the following systems for the equivalent of approx. 45 euros each:

AROS-68K (23.7 MB, English Manual 99.2 MB)
AROS ABIV1 64BIT (like above)
AROS-x86 ABIv0 (1,62 MB)

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25.Aug.2024
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF) Hollywood: GUI plugin RapaGUI 2.2
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is pleased to announce the immediate availability of RapaGUI 2.2. RapaGUI is one of the most popular Hollywood plugins as it can be used to create graphical user interfaces for a variety of systems (AmigaOS, Windows, macOS, Linux and even Android). RapaGUI always uses the native controls of the respective operating systems so that the GUIs do not feel like a foreign body. GUIs can be easily defined via XML files.

Version 2.2 contains mainly bug fixes, but also a few new features such as support for the arm64 platform of macOS. RapaGUI 2.2 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. (cg)

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25.Aug.2024
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AROS: Demo version of word processor Final Writer 7.1
Nine years after the initial announcements, the word processor Final Writer is now receiving its first update since 1997: The new rights holder Timothy "terminills" Deters is offering free demo versions for AROS-68K, AROS-x86-64 and AROS-x86 ABIv0 (registration required).

The most important new features in Final Writer 7.1 are:

New , MySpell-based real-time spell checker, compatible with OpenOffice dictionaries, for example. This function is not available in the demo version.
Native PDF export (libharu)
AmigaOS compliant localization
Printing via FTP/IPP
Updated support for RTF

It is not yet clear when the full version of Final Writer 7.1 will be available. Deters has held out the prospect of ports for AmigaOS and MorphOS in the past, but has always emphasized that the AROS version should be completed first. (cg)

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25.Aug.2024

GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.8 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.7 and 5.0.8 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools V1.19 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes:

Requires Greaseweazle 1.19
New image format: T98-Next (nfd) (Read only)
New disc formats: Epson QX-10: ".320", ".396", ".399", ".400", ".booter", ".logo"
New disc formats: "apple2.nofs.140"
Updated "diskdefs.cfg" (2024-08-20)
Read/Convert: Fixed SuperCardPro (SCP) disktypes
Read/Write/Convert: New option "--reverse"

(dr)

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25.Aug.2024

Platform game: Test version 5 of "Dr. Dangerous"
Inspired by the Amiga classic Rick Dangerous, hoogames has released another playable test version of "Dr Dangerous" (YouTube video), which was created with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 5 offers the following changes:

Ladder bug fixed (you can no longer go through the walls)
If you stand on the ladder you no longer die when you press the fire button
Level 8 a few changes
If you enter the level code and then complete a level and die, you stay in the level and don't have to repeat the previous level (it worked during testing)
Layers deleted in some levels
Fixed bug in level 5 (it's now easier to get over the platform - I played it all the way through and now there should be no more problems)
Level 8-12 balance in the game changed
Changed start screen level code to enter code (should be easier to understand now)
Changed in-game music (not the final version and there will be more music tracks in the game)
changed some codes
Changed memory allocation of some enemies (more space in memory and hopefully less problems)
New enemy added (bat)
Added level 15 and 16
Fixed some bugs
If you find a level code you get an extra life - so look for them all and write down the codes ;)

This version has not yet been tested on a real Amiga, but only on an emulator. The developer asks you to report any errors. (dr)

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25.Aug.2024

Logic game: Untangle V0.5
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so that no line intersects another.

The developer has set itself the following goals:

Game should be system friendly, working in a window on Workbench, using only documented APIs.
Minimum system version is 3.0.
RTG (graphic cards) should be supported out of the box. Without dedicated code paths and explicit opening of RTG libraries, if possible.
Would be nice if it works on MorphOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS using M68k emulation built into these operating systems.
Should be comfortably playable on stock A1200, stock A500 is not a Holy Grail, but why not.

The game is being developed on an Amiga 1200 with 68020 @ 28 MHz and 64 MB Fast RAM. It currently has over 100 levels, a highscore list and level selection. (dr)

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25.Aug.2024

Aminet uploads until 24.08.2024
The following files have been added until 24.08.2024 to Aminet:

amigassh.lha             comm/net   104K  68k SSH2 for the Amiga
CestinoGlobale.lha       dev/blitz  53K   68k Italian global trashcan WIP
CVBasic.lha              dev/cross  316K  68k BASIC compiler for Colecovisi...
Amifish.lha              game/board 1.9M  MOS GUI for stockfish chess engine
LadyRoulette.lha         game/board 273K  68k Semi-realistic Roulette game
Stockfish5-MorphOS.lha   game/board 780K  MOS Strong UCI chess engine
Explodead.zip            mods/crash 4.6M      Lofi Metal Hiphop from 1997 (...
Trespass00545.zip        mods/crash 6.5M      6 channel 8bit jungle med. (+...
WiredForDeath.zip        mods/crash 8.9M      8 channel 8bit jungle-ish. (+...
BootPicture.lha          util/boot  87K   68k Shows pictures, plays sound d...
A1060Diag.lha            util/misc  2K    68k Bridgeboard Diagnostic Tools
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  22M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
isomount.lha             util/rexx  44K       Mounting ipf,dms,adf,hdf,iso
AnalogClock.lha          util/time  41K   68k Resizeable analog transparent...
RapaTank.zip             util/wb    16K       RapaTank

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25.Aug.2024

OS4Depot uploads until 24.08.2024
The following files have been added until 24.08.2024 to OS4Depot:

spotless.lha             dev/deb 668kb 4.1 Your favorite debugging tool
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb   4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
baphometscreensaver.lha  uti/mis 12Mb  4.0 Portable Screen Saver
yt.lha                   vid/mis 869kb 4.1 YouTube URL Extractor script

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25.Aug.2024

AROS Archives uploads until 24.08.2024
The following files have been added until 24.08.2024 to AROS Archives:

leeko-i386-aros.zip          dem/sce 528kb A scene Demo from Fit demogroup
micery-i386-aros.zip         dem/sce 188kb A scene Demo from Fit demogroup
baphometscreensaver.lha      uti/mis 11Mb  Portable Screen Saver

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25.Aug.2024

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.08.2024
The following files have been added until 24.08.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:

Baphomet_1.0.lha          Ambient/Blankers          Baphomet_1.0.lha
WinAction-GUI_1.0.lha     Ambient/Utilities         A GUI for WinAction com...
CVBasic-0.6.0.lha         Development/Cross         BASIC compiler for Cole...
Amifish_1.0a.lha          Games/Think               Chess program compatibl...
Stockfish-5.lha           Games/Think               Strong UCI chess engine
DeepL_1.0.lha             Misc                      A small tool for online...
Wayfarer_8.11.lha         MorphOS-update            Wayfarer is the latest ...
YouTube-Extractor_3.0.lha Multimedia                YT.rexx is a script for...

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25.Aug.2024

WHDLoad: New installers until 24.08.2024
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 24.08.2024:

2024-08-22 fixed: Test Drive 2 (Black Monks) made 68000 compatible (Info)
2024-08-18 improved: F/A-18 Interceptor (Unit-A) added the original text message (Info)
2024-08-18 improved: Heimdall (Core Design) fixed saving, relocated decruncher, improved quitkey on 68000 (Info)
2024-08-18 improved: Arcade Fruit Machine (Zeppelin Games) supports another version, 68000er quitkey, trainer added, icons added (Info, Image)
2024-08-18 new: A320 Airbus: Edition USA (Thalion Software) done by RACE (Info)

(snx)

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25.Aug.2024

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 Intro Tyros Edition
Planets live performance

(snx)

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25.Aug.2024
ANF Video: AmiGameJam candidate Anguish as spiritual successor of Agony
Topic of this year's AmiGameJam, which runs until December 1, are sequels to Amiga games from the old days. With a video of the current state of development, Adrian Browne presents his candidate "Anguish" at the title link, which is to continue the game Agony, a horizontally scrolling shooter by Art & Magic from 1992.

The spiritual successor is created with Scorpion Engine, it is an AGA game with 64 colors. Two collaborators are contributing the actual programming and the music. (snx)

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25.Aug.2024
Mastodon (ANF) iOS app: 4champ 3.7.0 for accessing Amiga Music Preservation
The iOS program 4champ is a user interface for corresponding mobile devices to access the Amiga Music Preservation database. (snx)

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24.Aug.2024 Demoparty: Deadline 2024 (Berlin, 4.10.-6.10.)
The tenth anniversary edition of the Deadline Demo Party will take place from October 4-6 in Berlin and will feature classic demoscene competitions, seminars, fun competitions, retro computing, DJs and live sets and much more. Amiga entries can be submitted in the Oldschool Demo, 4K Executable Graphics and 256 Byte Intro competitions. (dr)

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24.Aug.2024
heckmeck!

Demoparty: Results of Evoke 2024
Last weekend this year's Evoke demoparty took place. In the competition "Alternative Platforms" the following Amiga productions ranked the following places:

4th place: Konrad Zuses Plankalkül by The Electronic Knights
6th place: Evokaetion by The Electronic Knights
9th place: titan 20th birthday 40k intro by Titan (YouTube video)
13th place: Dots Dots Dots by Delicious Amigans

But there are also other interesting contributions, for example Steffest's winning entry "Evoking Magic for Dummies" in the "Pixel Graphics Compo" competition (time-lapse video of the creation), which he drew with his own web-based image editor "DPaint.js" (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)

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23.Aug.2024 Shoot'em Up: Demo version of QuasaurusX
After "Holy Warrior" (amiga-news.de reported), the latest project from Amiten Games is the shoot'em up "QuasaurusX", a demo version of which has now been released (YouTube video). The player has the task of defending the X-19 sector, which is threatened by an enemy space fleet and has long been a bastion of peace and prosperity for mankind.

The game is currently not yet optimised, so that at least an (upgraded) Amiga 1200 is required. (dr)

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23.Aug.2024 Video: Installation of a MiSTer FPGA in a GameCube
Under the title link, Wolfgang Kierdorf shows how he installs a MiSTer FPGA in a GameCube with the help of just a few cables, two 3D-printed parts and a few standard PCBs and finally boots it into the Workbench. (dr)

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23.Aug.2024
itch.io Text adventure: "Adventure 3" V1.01
For the third and last part of his text adventure series (amiga-news.de reported), 'grindercowboy' has released a small update that fixes a bug with the rope. However, this means that the hammer in the rubbish bin no longer exists because the developer had reached the upper limit of possible items. (dr)

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23.Aug.2024 Video: Can the iPhone magnet damage the data on a disc?
In his latest video, Robert Smith explores the question of whether the magnets on the back of the iPhone, which act as part of the charging system, are strong enough to damage data on a disc. (dr)

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23.Aug.2024 Video tour of the "ZZAP! Live 2024"
Last Saturday, The Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England) hosted the second "ZZAP! Live" event, organised by Fusion Retro Books, the South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum (amiga-news.de reported). The YouTube channel "SpectrumNez" now shows the exhibitors and exhibits in a video tour under the title link. (dr)

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22.Aug.2024

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.19
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)

The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Version 1.19 of the Greaseweazle Tools provide the following changes:

gw read/write/convert: New option --reverse
- Reverses track data (eg side B of a floppy disk)
Windows 7/8: Fix device detection, broken since v1.18
IPF: Auto-detect write splice when not reported in image
New diskdefs: Epson QX-10, apple2.nofs.140
gw info, update: Better error report when GitHub rate limited
NFD: Initial import-only support for T98-Next floppy image files

(dr)

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21.Aug.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF) Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 170 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 170 (September/October 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content includes interviews with Jennifer Diane Reitz and 'Tigerskunk', previews of Krogharr and The Lost Pixel as well as a workshop about HAM games.

Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)

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21.Aug.2024 Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.224 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the current kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest kernels, such as Ubuntu 10.04, or if users have problems with the latest kernels. He has now released version 5.10.224, which adds a driver for the Ethernet PHY of the X5000 (issue 3) and supports the Network File System (NFS) in version 4. (dr)

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20.Aug.2024 MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.11
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released versions 8.10 and 8.11 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS in quick succession, which is now based on the latest, stable WebKitGTK version 2.44.3. In addition, a rare crash when pressing the back/forward buttons has been fixed and cURL has been updated. In addition, version 8.11 offers a small bonus: an HTML API is activated, which is required for Meta AI. This means that it is now possible to chat or generate images with the open source AI model Llama 3.1 under MorphOS. (dr)

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20.Aug.2024
itch.io

Survival game: Zombie Survivor V2.04 (update)
Sami Vehmaa continues to work on his current project "Zombie Survival", a game for Amigas with a graphics card in which you have to fight off an endless army of the undead. In addition to many new features and improvements, the jump to version 2.00 has also prepared support for DLC, additional downloadable content (in progress). The changes:

fps is set to 25
default weapon sword is carried
speed up zombies to match player speed
Zombies during stay tent / house is moving on
added coins to buy things
hole in ground image done
some tents offer work, you can accept/decline
you can buy food / weapons
added system for "offers" like job/deals
coin pickups
4x mapsize (a limit set, easy to expand)
Map editor upgraded to edit background tiles
Game upgraded to new map system
Added road/stone ground tiles
Bosses appear at locations and can re-appear
Added new groundtile with stones
Added new object, fire place for tents
Moved out tent/house settings to file, DLC friendly
tile gfx adjustment
added delivery jobs
added compass helper
added notification window

Update: (06:49, 23.08.24, dr)

Version 2.04 is now available, which for the first time also includes the previously announced additional downloadable content (DLC): undergrounds. While the game character had previously refused to jump into the hole in the ground, this is now possible and a new, "gigantic map" in a dark environment awaits the hero! There are candles to find to expand your view or tents to visit to get jobs. (dr)

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20.Aug.2024 Retro Games: New Amiga "console" to be released in Q1 2025
Retro Games Ltd, developer of the THEA500 Mini, has published a new schedule for the presentation of new products (YouTube video), which shows that the release of the "New Full Size Amiga Console" has been postponed from the fourth quarter of 2024 to the first quarter of 2025. It is speculated that this model will be a full-size desktop Amiga with a keyboard, as was previously the case with the re-released THEC64 Maxi.

Retro Games Ltd. has also announced another "New Full Size Console" (not Amiga-related) for the fourth quarter of 2024 and two new accessories for the second quarter of 2025. (nba)

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20.Aug.2024
Commodore International Historical Society Computer history: User manual for the Amiga 300
A user manual dated November 1991 for the computer designed as the Amiga 300 but ultimately named the Amiga 600 has appeared on Archive.org, contributed by Randell Jesup. Photos of this scanned manual can be seen on the Commodore International Historical Society page. This manual, entitled "Introducing the Amiga 300", provides an insight into the functions and compact design of the official successor to the Amiga 500. The sudden and secret renaming by Commodore's top management shortly before the market launch remains an interesting chapter in the history of the Amiga. The subject was taken up by ex-Commodore UK boss David Pleasance in his book "Commodore: The Inside Story" (30 untold stories about a computer giant) in the section "The Amiga 600 Debacle". (nba)

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20.Aug.2024 Fake company: Amiga Technologies UG registry has been deleted
Salvador Fernandez Gomez, a former employee in the support department at phase5, had made numerous entries of companies in recent years, including the registration of a large number of website domains and the registration of word marks such as Amiga Technologies or Kickstart, which were intended to suggest a claim to the rights of various current and former Amiga brands. After the "phase 5 digital products UG" registered by him has been deleted on November 4, 2022, the "Amiga Technologies UG", which was also founded by Salvador Fernandez Gomez, has been deleted on July 17, 2024. So far, the "Commodore Büromaschinen UG" and the "Concorde Media UG" remain, for which a deletion notice also exists. (nba)

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20.Aug.2024 Coding workshops: Amiga 500 programming at hardware level
Michael Martin shares detailed insights into his experimental programming projects for the Amiga 500 on his Bumbershoot Software Blog. Over the past few weeks, he has created a small, coherent series of practical courses in English. He explores advanced techniques of direct hardware programming and experiments with effects such as the Copper Bars.

In the first part of the blog series, Amiga 500: Drawing a Bitmap on the Bare Metal, Martin explains in precise detail how he can display a logo image directly on the Amiga hardware, bypassing higher-level libraries. The basics of the Copper are explained and a basic code for displaying the graphic is presented.

In Amiga 500: Mode Switching, Martin explores the use of the Copper chip in the Amiga 500 to achieve various display effects. He discusses how this technology enables dynamic changes in the video display that can manipulate the appearance of the screen in real time. The article goes into the technical details of setting up and manipulating the copper lists to switch display modes and enhance graphical output on the Amiga.

In Amiga 500: Alternate Graphics Memory Layouts, Michael Martin describes how he manipulated the graphics memory layout of the Amiga 500 to display more colors at the same time. He discusses technical adjustments and programming methods that make it possible to expand the initially limited color display and better utilize the Amiga 500's performance.

In Amiga 500: Completing The Display, Martin presents the implementation of an EGA palette display on the Amiga 500. He explains how he completed the hardware control to produce the desired display and considers this to be the preliminary end point of his work on graphics output, although he plans to explore further hardware functions.

In Amiga 500: Using Our Full Power, the aim is to fully utilize the power of the Amiga 500 by taking advantage of the capabilities of the blitter chip. Martin focuses on how the blitter, a specialized coprocessor for graphics operations, is used to accelerate graphics operations such as copying data blocks, which significantly increases the efficiency of certain program parts.

In Amiga 500: Bare-Metal Startup Code, Martin explains how to take full control of the computer. He uses the startup code from the book “Bare Metal Amiga Programming” by E. Th. van den Oosterkamp. This explains how to handle hardware interrupts and recognize key presses to gain deeper control over the system.

In the latest blog post, Amiga 500: Direct Keyboard Access, Martin discusses extending the code to display the EGA palette on the Amiga 500 to include the ability to control the program using keyboard inputs. He describes in detail the technical challenges and the necessary techniques required to implement this function, which goes beyond the previous mouse click controls.

The series provides a good insight into programming at the hardware level, with many practical examples and understandable explanations. (nba)

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20.Aug.2024 Classic remakes: Project X: Lightyears and X-OUT: Resurfaced
A small glimpse over the edge of the plate: the popular Amiga games "Project X" and "X-Out" are to be re-released in updated versions for current gaming platforms, with the help of renowned artists in the gaming industry.

"Project X: Lightyears" is to be a direct sequel to the classic shoot'em-up "Project X", which was developed and published by Team17 in 1992. The new edition will be musically accompanied by Allister Brimble, who is known for many soundtracks in the video game industry. The Kickstarter campaign to finance the project has already started.

X-Out, originally developed by Rainbow Arts for the Commodore 64 and also released for the Amiga in 1990, is also to be reissued, developed by ININ and Ziggurat (formerly Rainbow Arts): like the original, X-OUT: Resurfaced will be an underwater shoot'em-up, but with a completely new technical and gameplay design. The music will be provided by Chris Huelsbeck, graphics will be contributed by Ogan Kandemiroglu, who is continuing the visual legacy of his late brother Celal Kandemiroglu. In addition to the single-player mode, a local co-op mode for two players will also be offered.

"Project X: Lightyears" will be available on platforms such as PC and possibly other current consoles, while "X-OUT: Resurfaced" will be released for PC, PS5, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch. Both games promise to reinterpret the spirit of their predecessors with today's technological possibilities and appeal to both old fans and new players.

For more information on "Project X: Lightyears", please visit the Kickstarter page for the project. Details on "X-OUT: Resurfaced" are available on the ININ Games website. (nba)

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19.Aug.2024

Platform game: Test version 4 of "Dr. Dangerous"
Inspired by the Amiga classic Rick Dangerous, hoogames has released another playable test version of "Dr Dangerous" (YouTube video), which was created with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 4 offers the following changes:

Home screen changed
In-game music can be switched on and off with the M button
New title music added
In-game music added
Story for the game (I hope you like it)
Added in-game music (not the final music)
Level 1-6 changed a little
Added some new graphics
Added end intro + story (is only for testing)
Level 12, 13, 14 added
SFX adjusted
loading times improved (thanks earok/Scorpion engine)
Fixed many bugs
Level 5 now playable (you couldn't go any further at the beginning)
adjusted some enemies (some of them look behind the player)
Intro removed the Game Ui
Colors adjusted
code blocks tidied up
added level codes from 1-14 (so write them down when you find them)
For each level code you find you get one life
Game UI changed
Amiga Workbench version LHA added (not tested)

(dr)

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19.Aug.2024

Music tips for the start of the week
Grazia Pizzuto is a church musician in Bonn and teaches piano and improvisation. She also runs a YouTube channel where she presents piano arrangements of game music, including Amiga games. Since our news item, she has published the following pieces:

Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann has also chosen a piece of Chris Hülsbeck's music for Turrican 2 for his new remix (amiga-news.de reported): The Wall (YouTube link).

And at the end of June 'no9' had already published a short track called Filteririum on his YouTube channel (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)

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18.Aug.2024

Aminet uploads until 17.08.2024
The following files have been added until 17.08.2024 to Aminet:

amigassh.lha             comm/net   103K  68k SSH2 for the Amiga
dizzytorrent2.lha        comm/tcp   650K  68k BitTorrent client with MUI/AREXX
ld80.lha                 dev/cross  63K   MOS L80 replacement linker
AmigaMicropython.lha     dev/misc   239K  68k Micropython for the Amiga cla...
c2plib.lha               dev/misc   186K  68k chunky2planar as an Amiga sha...
F1GP2024Carset.lha       game/data  9K        2024 Carset for F1GP
WhatIFF3.14.lha          mags/misc  3.7M      What IFF? #3.14-August-2024
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   7.9M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   8.2M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   8.5M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Mame106MiniMixBeta2.lha  misc/emu   5.2M      MAME 0.106 MiniMix Beta 2
Biochem.zip              mods/crash 6.2M      Heavy/dramatic/chip. 8 bit me...
Bloated.zip              mods/crash 172K      EDM with gutteral noises. 8 b...
Dementia.zip             mods/crash 75K       Moody/Progressive 8ch mod. 8 ...
hplague2.zip             mods/crash 100K      Angry Orchestral part 2 of 3....
hplague3.zip             mods/crash 110K      Moody Orchestral part 3 of 3....
n2depths.zip             mods/crash 52K       Old school jam with Leads. 8 ...
Necrocracy.zip           mods/crash 65K       Heavy and Melodic. 8 bit xm
NewHexico.zip            mods/crash 9.1M      8 channel western triphop. (+...
retrograde.zip           mods/crash 105K      Rocking Metal rhythms. 8 bit xm.
TheAbsoluteValue.zip     mods/crash 5.1M      6 channel med w/ moody beats....
TheCount.zip             mods/crash 4.5M      8 channel metal drumnbass. (+...
zapperng.lha             util/cdity 60K   68k Change the behaviour of the z...
AmigaGPT.lha             util/misc  109K  AOS App for chatting to ChatGPT
pfetch.lha               util/moni  21K       Pretty fetch for MorphOS

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OS4Depot uploads until 17.08.2024
The following files have been added until 17.08.2024 to OS4Depot:

arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb   4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 8Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amigagpt.lha             net/cha 221kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
zapperng.lha             uti/wor 60kb  4.0 Change the behaviour of the zoom...
yt.lha                   vid/mis 868kb 4.1 YouTube URL Extractor script

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AROS Archives uploads until 17.08.2024
The following files have been added until 17.08.2024 to AROS Archives:

sfsobject.i386-aros.zip      uti/mis 35kb  SFSobject AROS i386 ABIv0 version

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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.08.2024
The following files have been added until 17.08.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:

ZapperNG_1.3.lha          Ambient/Commodities       Change the behaviour of...
WinAction_1.5.lha         Ambient/Utilities         Perform an action to a ...
ld80_0.7.lha              Development/Cross         L80 replacement linker
AmiArcadia_33.10.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
Iris_1.33.lha             MorphOS-update            Iris, the MorphOS email...
YouTube-Extractor_2.9.lha Multimedia                YT.rexx is a script for...

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18.Aug.2024

WHDLoad: New installers until 17.08.2024
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 17.08.2024:

2024-08-15 fixed: Dyna Blaster (Hudson Soft) 'disable blue ghost in battle mode' option fixed (Info)
2024-08-15 fixed: Centerbase: Science-Fiction Simulation (reLINE) access fault removed (Info)
2024-08-14 fixed: Crazy Cars II (World of Wonders) made working on 68000, get rid of osemu (Info)
2024-08-13 fixed: Grand Prix Circuit (Bamiga Sector One) made working, added keyboard quit, new icons (Info)
2024-08-11 new: Aladdin's Magic Lamp (New Line Software) done by DJ Mike (Info)
2024-08-11 fixed: A320 Airbus (Thalion Software) made working on 68000/10 (Info)

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18.Aug.2024

AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:

Jester Medley

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18.Aug.2024
Commodore News (website) Crowdfunded book: Retro Gaming Library - Amiga Edition
The already fully financed project for printing of the book "Retro Gaming Library - Amiga Edition", which is still running for more than two weeks, promises over 400 pages in almost A4 size (8x10") with short reports and photos on over 300 selected Amiga games released from 1985 to 1997.

Depending on the prominence of the game, it is presented on either one or four pages. One or more screenshots, title screen and packaging are shown in each case. Including worldwide shipping, which is estimated at an average of 20 US dollars, the book costs the equivalent of around 51 euros, including an additional PDF version. (snx)

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17.Aug.2024
IntuitionBase AmigaOS 4: IntuitionBase updated
George 'walkereo' Sokianos has extensively updated the IntuitionBase website, which provides an overview of AmigaOS 4 compatible software and hardware: it is now based on what he considers to be one of the best CMS available, Drupal 10, which makes the site easier to manage and at the same time offers a high level of security.

A new section called "Featured Software" has been added: it lists the software that will help the end user to have the best experience with their new system, in an easily accessible way. All applications are logically categorised based on their use and have all the information about who created them, where to find them, how to buy them or how to support the developer. Furthermore, software and hardware lists are now searchable, and there is also a global search function.

Users are asked to write manuals or transfer some of their old manuals here. Entries in the new "Featured Software" section are welcome, as well as documents related to the AmigaOne systems, e.g. technical data sheets for the CPUs and hardware, hardware fixes etc. (dr)

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17.Aug.2024
itch.io Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor v14
Stefan Vogt has released another update to his text adventure with graphics, "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (amiga-news.de reported). This wil fix a bug in the game that affected all versions of the game. All users are recommended to install the update. (dr)

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16.Aug.2024 Video tutorial: Using speech in AMOS programs
In another video in his series of tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how to use speech in AMOS programs using the Say, Set Talk, Talk Misc and Talk Stop commands. (dr)

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16.Aug.2024
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.33
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.33 of his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. Changes:

Restored context menus over folder and message list title rows
Narrow view message list title row now has a sleeker menu for quicker access to sorting and filtering modes
Implemented the ability to add a custom button to the toolbar

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14.Aug.2024

Adventure: "Geo's Quest" box set
Paul Golian's graphic adventures Geo's Quest 2 - In Search of Queen Lorraine and Geo's Quest 3 - Gateway to Nowhere can now be purchased as a box set for 22 euros plus 18 euros shipping to Europe. The colour-printed box and glossy sleeve contain:

CD with both full games (GQ2 & GQ3) in PAL & NTSC and PDF's of each Manual
SD with both full games (GQ2 & GQ3) in PAL & NTSC and PDF's of each Manual
Color Glossy printed 9" x 6" Game Manuals for both Games
Color Glossy 9" x 17" Game Maps for both Games

Once Chapter 6 "There be Cows" is completed, (anticipated to be Early 2025) the Box Set purchaser will be emailed a zip of the Chapter along with a PDF of the Chapters Manual for free. (dr)

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13.Aug.2024 Amiga Kit: Super Skidmarks now pre-installed on the A600GS
The classic Amiga racing game "Super Skidmarks", developed by Chris Blackbourn, will now be pre-installed on the new A600GS from AmigaKit. Users who already own the A600GS system can add the game to the game menu via a free update.

Skidmarks was first released in 1993 and was well-known and popular for its top-down multiplayer races and graphical quality. Two years later, Super Skidmarks followed with new features, more tracks and new vehicle types, including such absurdities as cars with caravans or cows on wheels.

Chris Blackburn has also announced Epic Skidmarks, which will allow players to race in multiplayer races in a web browser, according to the New Zealand developer. (nba)

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13.Aug.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF) Print magazine: Issue 144 of Amiga Future readable online
The German and English issue 144 (May/June 2020) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine as well as a higher resolution PDF version can be purchased from the publisher. (nba)

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13.Aug.2024 Operating system for the Amiga: Second 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" and released a second alpha version, which is now available as a fully compiled ROM. Basically, all Amigas with a 68030 (or faster) processor are now supported. He has kindly provided us with the following comments on the new version:

"Version 0.2-alpha marks the first binary release of Serena OS. I think that the OS has now reached a point where you can actually play around and have fun with it, and where you may even be able to get something useful out of it.

Serena OS should run on any Amiga hardware with a 68030 or better processor. The kernel supports floating-point coprocessors like the 68882 too. However, the mathematical library libm is currently very incomplete.

The OS comes with a C99 compatible libc and an interactive shell. Please keep in mind that you are looking at an alpha version of the OS and that you are in fact witnessing the very early days of a new OS. Thus, there are bugs and incomplete features. However, the goal is to improve things as time progresses.

This version of the OS is distributed as a ROM image and the system boots from a disk image that is stored in ROM. This disk image is copied to a RAM disk at boot time. So it's possible to create files and directories. Just keep in mind that none of the things you create will survive a system restart.

People who feel adventures may build a version of the OS that boots from an ADF disk image. To do this, check out the project sources, comment out the BOOT_FROM_ROM:=1 line in the project Makefile and then build the project. This will give you an 880KB ADF file plus a new ROM image in the build/product folder which you can then load into an emulator.

Just keep in mind that right now the speed of the floppy disk is not great because there's no disk cache yet in the kernel and the floppy driver doesn't support writing to disks yet.

So how is Serena OS different from the original Amiga OS?

The most important difference is that Serena OS is far closer to the POSIX standard in terms of functionality and behavior than the original Amiga OS was. This is most noticeable (from the viewpoint of an app developer) in the sense that Serena OS does full resource tracking. This means that the OS automatically reclaims resources such as memory when an application terminates.

Another notable difference is that Serena OS is designed and built on modern ideas, development principles, practices and goals. For example, it implements pervasive preemptive concurrency in the form of virtual processors and dispatch queues rather than threads. Serena OS has completely moved beyond threads.

Additionally, the kernel is implemented using object-oriented design and implementation techniques, which makes it easier to create new drivers and file systems. There's also a stricter separation between kernel and user space in preparation for future virtual memory support.

Finally, the kernel and the user space portion of the OS are designed with 64bit processors and multiprocessor systems in mind. There's no specific support for multiprocessing in the system at this time. Though the system is designed and implemented in such a way that supporting this kind of hardware in the future is possible without having to introduce many changes to the system.

The Interactive Shell

Serena OS comes with an interactive shell that is very different from your typical Amiga OS or Unix shell: the shell implements a formally defined language. The advantage of this is that the language is easier to use and that its syntax doesn't follow arcane and incomprehensible rules that are a consequence of ad-hoc language design. Instead, the Serena shell language was designed with consistency and ease-of-use in mind.

This language, too, is based on modern design principles and practices: it is strongly typed, fully scoped, expression based and makes a clear distinction between mutable and immutable data. Expressions and commands may be freely mixed and even conditionals and loops are treated as expressions.

All that said, again, keep in mind that this is an alpha version of the shell that is still incomplete. Things like pipes and generic auto-capture of command results are things that are not yet supported. Nevertheless, it is possible to write shell scripts and do useful things, not just in the sense of juggling files around, but also in the sense that you can easily evaluate mathematical expressions right in the shell and shell scripts.

What's Next?

I've got many ideas lined up for the future of Serena OS. Though the next version will be primarily focused on fixing bugs, structural cleanups to enable the implementation of the next generation of features and full floppy disk support."

If you would like to test the ROM, it is best to use the profile for the Amiga 3000 under WinUAE and then set the path to the Serena ROM under ROM. If you enter the command 'list', you will see a few shell scripts as above, which act as a small "demo". (dr)

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12.Aug.2024
Mastodon Online chiptune and music module player: Pixeltune
Back in 2014, Tomás Pollak, a journalist, developer and musician, released a first version of Pixeltune: a web-based player for chiptune and video game music that builds on a large collection of music that has been carefully archived over the years and indexed for quick and easy access. The sound is generated directly from the original files by emulating the sound chips that were actually used to render these files in the good old days.

He started his project because he loves music and MIDI and nerdy chiptunes on the one hand, and because he's a big fan of the demo scene and tracker music on the other. They would all "bring fond memories from the early days of the Internet-- the era of guestbooks, webrings and beautifully ugly pages, when it was a crazy place filled with weird and cool stuff!"

But also, there's a secondary goal and that is preservation. A big chunk of the music you'll find was hosted on websites that no longer exist. He wants to help preserve the history of sequenced music, and to honor all the incredibly talented composers whose creations still blow our minds decades later.

Under the title link you can find more than 250 pieces of Amiga music. Playing tip: Xenex (xenextitle.mod)! (dr)

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12.Aug.2024 Puzzle game: AmiBrixx v2.3 for all Amiga systems
Jörg 'Evil' Renkert has released version 2.3 of his puzzle game AmiBrixx. The player's task is to eliminate the stones stacked on the board by clicking on groups of the same colour. In doing so, the tiles above fall down and form new groups. The game ends when no more groups can be eliminated (amiga-news.de reported).

The new version was released due to some server updates. Some minor bug fixes and speed improvements are also included. The author welcomes feedback and is open to suggestions and requests for improvement. (dr)

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11.Aug.2024

Aminet uploads until 10.08.2024
THe following files have been added until 10.08.2024 to Aminet:

mandel_and_julia.lha     dev/amos   7K        mandelbrot and julia
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   5.7M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
WhatIFF3.14.lha          mags/misc  3.7M      What IFF? #3.14-August-2024
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   8.2M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
RockMeBaby.lha           mods/misc  600K      16bit 4ch Blues Jazz Rock by ...
AmiModRadio.lha          mus/play   3.1M  68k Play modules from Internet so...
NAFCYI1991S1-01.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-02.zip      text/pfont 1.7M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-03.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-04.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-05.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-06.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-07.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-08.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-09.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-10.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-11.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-12.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-13.zip      text/pfont 1.7M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip      text/pfont 1.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-15.zip      text/pfont 1.7M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-16.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-17.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-18.zip      text/pfont 1.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-19.zip      text/pfont 1.6M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-20.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-21.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-22.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-24.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-25.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-26.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-27.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-28.zip      text/pfont 1.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-29.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
tree-mos.lha             util/dir   113K  MOS Display a tree view of direct...
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  23M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
WinAction.lha            util/shell 9K    MOS Perform an action to a window

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11.Aug.2024

OS4Depot uploads until 10.08.2024
THe following files have been added until 10.08.2024 to OS4Depot:

amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 8Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
visualboyadvance.lha     emu/gam 5Mb   4.1 GB/GBC/GBA Emulator
yt.lha                   vid/mis 830kb 4.1 YouTube URL Extractor script

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11.Aug.2024

AROS Archives uploads until 10.08.2024
THe following files have been added until 10.08.2024 to AROS Archives:

whatiff3.14.lha              doc/mis 4Mb   amigaguide magazine august 2014
chaotic-dungeon.i386-aros... gam/rol 2Mb   A roguelite dungeon crawler.

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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 10.08.2024
THe following files have been added until 10.08.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:

WinAction_1.4.lha         Ambient/Utilities         Perform an action to a ...
AmiArcadia_33.0.lha       Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
Tree_2.1.3.lha            Files/Dir                 Display a tree view of ...
CardsMakingKit_2.0.lha    Games/Card                A little kit to make yo...
Easy2Install_1.0b55.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...

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WHDLoad: New installers until 10.08.2024
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 10.08.2024:

2024-08-07 fixed: A320 Airbus (Thalion Software) avoid crash at startup (Info)
2024-08-06 new: A320 Airbus (Thalion Software) done by RACE (Info)
2024-08-04 improved: Steigar (Screen 7) supports another version, fixed sound effects (Info)

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11.Aug.2024
MorphZone (forum) MorphOS: Continued GMail support by Iris questionable
As Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek, author of the e-mail program Iris, reports in a forum post at title link, continued support for the American e-mail service GMail is questionable. Programs that are allowed to access this Google service are subject to certain requirements, including an annual security assessment.

This external audit would cost the programmer an additional 500 US dollars every year. Although currently evaluating options he does not believe that it is worth paying this much money per year just to keep frictionless GMail access in the app. (snx)

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11.Aug.2024
BitFellas (ANF) Paper: Trackers - The Rise, Bloom and Later Developments of a Paradigm
Markku Reunanen, a lecturer at Finland's Aalto University, has published a paper in English on tracker music programs at the title link, examining 60 trackers and interviewing six developers. As he summarizes, his findings would illustrate the close connection between trackers and computer hardware, the reasons why the authors wanted to develop such software and the gradual development of the paradigm. (snx)

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11.Aug.2024
Mastodon (ANF) Team Hoi: Old sketches of the game Hoi and collection of magazine reports
Metin Seven from the Dutch game development group Team Hoi has collected on Archive.org old computer magazine reports on their Amiga and PC games published between 1988 and 1997. Two years ago, he also published five ballpoint pen sketches of the 1992 game Hoi on LinkedIn.

A report on the development of Softeye/Team Hoi he had already published as a PDF file three years ago. (snx)

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