05.May.2024
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AROS/x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch
In February, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz backported the version 20220318-1 of AROS/x86 for 32-bit systems for the original binary interface ABIv0. A first update is now available under the title link or on GitHub.
The archive only contains the revised components. These can be copied directly into an existing installation. (snx)
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05.May.2024
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Aminet uploads until 04.05.2024
The following files have been added until 04.05.2024 to Aminet:
MicroExcel_1.1a.lha biz/spread 1.5M MOS A Spreadsheed Editor
amigassh.lha comm/net 75K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga
BSDSocket-Extension.lha dev/amos 37K 68k Use bsdsocket.library in AMOS...
make-4.4.1.lha dev/c 88K 68k Port of GNU Make with SAS/C (...
TankX.lha game/2play 1.5M 68k 1-7 player tank combat (updat...
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
H2_Big_Data.lha game/shoot 1614M OS4 Install Multiplayer Data for ...
H2_Big_Data_Fix.lha game/shoot 1K OS4 Fix for Install Multiplayer D...
Q2_Modpack1_68k.lha game/shoot 31M Modpack 1 for Quake 2 68k (20...
Q2_Modpack2_68k.lha game/shoot 208M Modpack 2 for Quake 2 68k (20...
Q2_Modpack3_68k.lha game/shoot 168M Modpack 3 for Quake 2 68k (20...
Q2_Modpack4_68k.lha game/shoot 195M Modpack 4 for Quake 2 68k (20...
Q2_Modpack5_68k.lha game/shoot 256M Modpack 5 for Quake 2 68k (20...
Q2_Modpack6_68k.lha game/shoot 71M Modpack 6 for Quake 2 68k (20...
Q2_Modpack7_68k.lha game/shoot 3.7M Modpack 7 for 68k (2024 edition)
Zaero_Installer_68k.lha game/shoot 248K 68k Quake 2:Zaero for 68k
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 7.6M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 8.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 8.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
0mar.zip mods/crash 68K Loud & hard hitting 3/4 beat....
Ionized.zip mods/crash 19K Calm/classical to tech/tribal...
LN3Fire24.lha mods/misc 469K 16bit 4ch LN3 Fire Temple 24 ...
opus-tools-0.2_a68k.lha mus/edit 446K 68k Opus Audio Tools
amiget.lha util/cli 34K 68k Search for & download files f...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 665K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 839K OS4 Multipurpose utility
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 22M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
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05.May.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 04.05.2024
The following files have been added until 04.05.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
snes9x.zip emu/gam 133Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e...
hle-pokercard.lha gam/car 7Mb 4.0 Guess the next card to appear in...
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
reportplus.lha uti/mis 839kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
ifarchive_dl.lha uti/scr 4kb 4.1 Script to download (ScummVM) sup...
kt_scripts.lha uti/scr 252kb 4.1 Helper scipts for Odyssey, Simpl...
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05.May.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 04.05.2024
The following files have been added until 04.05.2024 to AROS Archives:
hle-pokercard.lha gam/car 7Mb Guess the next card to appear in...
wipeout_rewrite.i386-aros... gam/dri 574kb A re-implementation of the PSX g...
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05.May.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.05.2024
The following files have been added until 04.05.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_32.40.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
OpenFodder_1.8.lha Games/Action Open Fodder: An open so...
HLE-PokerCard_FE.lha Games/Card Hi-Low-Equal Poker Card
MCE_14.80.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
OpenTTD_14.0.lha Games/Strategy A clone of Transport Ty...
Iris_1.26.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email...
Wayfarer_8.0.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
Easy2Install_1.0b52.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
MicroExcel_1.1a.lha Office/Spreadsheet A Spreadsheed Editor
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05.May.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 168
The English and German issue 168 (May/June 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, besides interviews with David Pleasance as well as Steve Quartly and Paul Huxham (PhotoFolio), articles about the AmigaOS 3.2 manual (German), the Amiga 4000TX and the AmigaOne A1222 Plus. (snx)
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05.May.2024
Amigaland (website)
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Website: 25 years of Games That Weren't
Frank Gasking's website "Games That Weren't", which is dedicated to unpublished game projects for various platforms, looks back on its 25th anniversary at the title link. Originally started with the C64, there is also an Amiga spin-off created in 2005 by Adrian Simpson. (snx)
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04.May.2024
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AMOS Professional: BSD Socket Extension 1.1.4
With the BSD Socket Extension for AMOS Professional by John Bintz, AMOS programmes can easily access the Internet. Originally started by the author in 1998, version 1.1.4 fixes several crashes and a problem that prevented the extension from working properly on non-emulated Amigas. An update is strongly recommended. (dr)
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04.May.2024
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AROS: Review of April 2024
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of April at the title link. (dr)
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04.May.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.2 (2nd update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 8.0 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. Wayfarer is now based on the WebKit engine WebKitGTK 2.44.0, which was released at the beginning of April.
As the developer explains, it is becoming increasingly difficult to update WebKit and more work is required than for the upgrades of versions 5, 6 or 7. Anyone who appreciates the work of Jacek Piszczek is welcome to make a donation.
Update: (06:45, 05.05.24, snx)
Meanwhile version 8.1 is available, fixing crashes of its predecessor.
2nd update: (19:10, 05.05.24, snx)
Version 8.2 has now been released and is based on WebKitGTK 2.44.1, which has fixed further bugs that caused crashes. In addition, the so-called "lazy loading" of image files is now supported. This means that they are only loaded when they are needed, which can shorten the loading times of websites. (dr)
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04.May.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.26 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.25 his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. Detailed changes:
- Fixed overriding folder function in Folder Settings
- Fixed Insert Link appending http:// for some valid protocols like mailto
- Fixed issues related to viewing emails with Iris' install path containing special characters
Update: (04.05.2024, 20:00, dr)
Meanwhile version 1.26 is available. Changes:
- Fixed a regression when creating event invites
- Updated WebKit to 2.44.0
(dr)
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03.May.2024
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Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.3 for Windows, Mac and Linux
'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 0.6.3 among others provides bug fixes and an improved support of Windows XP.
The songs can be exported as audio files (.wav), VGM files and ZSM files (for Commander X16). An manual is available. (dr)
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03.May.2024
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Survival game: Zombie Survivor
Sami Vehmaa's latest project is a game called "Zombie Survival" for Amigas with a graphics card, in which you have to fend off an endless army of the undead (YouTube video). The game is in development and currently has a world with 99 levels. (dr)
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02.May.2024
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Platform game: Level 2 of the demo version of "Silhouette Threat" for AGA-Amigas
At the end of January, we introduced the platform game project "Silhouette Threat" for AGA-Amigas in detail. A few weeks later, a demo version with the first level was released (YouTube video). Now the developer 'lionagony', supported by his daughter who contributed graphics, has released the second level which, unlike the first, scrolls automatically (YouTube video). It also offers simulated parallax scrolling on 6 layers. The author is looking forward to constructive criticism in the comments. (dr)
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02.May.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 29
Issue 29 of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" is now available from the publisher. The cover story is the French games industry, and the magazine also includes reviews of "Final Fight Enhanced" and of the book "Demoscene: The Logo Art", a retrospective of the A500 expansion "Bodega Bay" and a tutorial on how to connect a Sony Vaio PCMCIA CD drive to an A600.
Amiga Addict is published monthly and is available as a single issue or as a subscription, either in printed form or as a PDF file. (nba)
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01.May.2024
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement 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 March/April 2024
- Old articles from Generation 4 13 to 15:
- File: Lovecraft
- Review of Chessmaster 2100
- Review of 89 La Révolution Française
- Review of Rick Dangerous
- Review of Black Magic
- Interview with Doug Glen
- Interview with Jean Baudlot
- Interview with Gary Gygax
- File: Lucasfilm, cinema and video games
- Review of 3D Pool
- Review of Wind Surf Willy
- Interview with Camilla Boeman (AmigaOS 68k developer)
- Interview with Frédéric Autechaud (former editor of ANews)
- Review of AmiFox 0.3 to 0.6
- Review of Simple Transfer
- Review of Amiga Boot Selector 0.4
- Review of IBrowse 3.0a
- The best of Byte from October to December 1986
- File: The Amiga in TV and movies (update)
- File: Utilities included in MorphOS
- File: A history of software piracy in Italy (1983-1993)
- DIY: Restoring an Amiga 2500UX
- Tutorial: Quick start guide for new A1222 users (update)
- Tutorial: Configuration of RoadShow 1.14/1.15 for a Freebox Revolution
- Point of view: Rave development (part 7)
- Programming: Animating an image in C and SDL2 on MorphOS
- Special quiz about Dave Haynie
(snx)
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01.May.2024
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Video from Amiga 30 event in California: Steve Jobs' fishing trip to Amiga 1983
As part of the Californian Amiga 30th birthday celebrations, Amiga investor and director Bill Hart told the story of Steve Jobs visiting the Amiga developers, who were in need of financial support in 1983. Jobs had money, so Amiga was interested in talking to him.
According to Hart, Jobs came in and made himself at home, putting his feet up on other people's desks as they demonstrated their technology. But it was a fishing expedition. On the way out, Jobs said, "I don't see anything here that would ever be a threat to the Macintosh."
Bill Hart's remarks from 2015 were already published on YouTube at the time, but possibly received less attention on this side of the pond due to the local focus on the 30th anniversary celebrations in Neuss. His full talk can be found in another video together with the "Amiga History Panel" there; participants were RJ Mical, Carl Sassenrath, Andy Finkel, Dave Needle, Dale Luck and Ron Nicholson. (snx)
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30.Apr.2024
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Quake 2 now also available for AmigaOS 3.x as digital version
Press release: Alinea Computer is very pleased to be able to offer the version for AmigaOS 3.x (68k) as a digital download in addition to the Quake 2 version for AmigaOS 4. Steffen Häuser is responsible for the porting and has implemented numerous features that did not yet exist for any Quake 2 port for AmigaOS/68k.
In addition to supporting the various mission CDs and MODs, the soundtracks can also be played as OGG Vorbis files (for the Vampire V4 as AIFF files instead) and multiplayer/network gaming.
Please note that the data files of the PC version are required to run the 68k version of Quake 2. These can be purchased at a reasonable price via Steam, for example.
Free MODs and mission CDs will be available on Aminet in the next few days.
Here are all the features and system requirements at a glance:
Features
- 68040, 68060 and 68080 compiled version (selectable during installation)
- MiniGL and software renderer
- Full support for mission CDs "The Reckoning" and "Ground Zero"
- Ports to the unofficial mission CD "Zaero" and to about 50 multiplayer mods will be released on Aminet soon, these downloads require the new version of Quake 2, they do not work with other ports
- For Vampire users: The USB gamepad of the Vampire is supported
- For Vampire V4 users: Background music will be played via AIFF (the Ogg Vorbis music files of the Gog/Steam version of Quake 2 will be converted to AIFF format during the installation of the 080 version)
- For PiStorm users: background music is played via Ogg Vorbis (requires the Gog or Steam version of Quake 2, which includes the Ogg Vorbis files)
System requirements
- Software: AmigaOS 3.x and the data files from Steam, Gog or CD version
- Hardware: At least Vampire V2 or PiStorm Pi3 (currently not fast enough on a 68060, but possibly a future update will run fast enough on 100 MHz 060 systems)
- 1 GB free hard disc space
(snx)
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30.Apr.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for April 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)
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30.Apr.2024
IndieRetroNews
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Arcade shooter: Phoenix500 now also for AGA-Amigas
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has updated the arcade classic Phoenix500, released a few days ago for ECS-Amigas, with a version optimised for AGA systems. The top-down space shooter (YouTube video) now includes new graphics by Toni Galvez in its AGA mode. Phoenix500 can be downloaded from the website under the title link in return for a voluntary donation to the developers. (nba)
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30.Apr.2024
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TankX: Tank game returns after 30 years with new single-player mode
About 30 years ago, the tank game Tankkk was released, in which each k in the name stood for the number of tanks in the game. Until now, Tankkk could only be played with up to six players on one computer. Now, after almost three decades, developer K-P Koljonen has re-released the game, which has been renamed TankX. In the new version 1.1, computer-controlled tanks have been added so that TankX can now also be played solo against the Amiga.
The player can use processor-controlled tanks in battle, include a CPU teammate, play a human vs CPU team death match or have all tanks controlled by the CPU. There are three different CPU tank drivers to choose from:
- Scary: medium range radar, comes towards the opponent and shoots
- Wary: medium range radar, shoots once and then flees
- Lazy: long range radar, doesn't move, but shoots from a distance
In addition to the single-player mode, the new version also includes revisions to the menu, a pause mode, newly created and revised battlefields and new music tracks.
TankX runs on any Amiga with at least Kickstart 1.2, OCS, 68000 and 1 MB RAM. The LhA archive includes the 68k version and an ADF version for emulators and AmigaOS 3.2.
Download: TankX (1.5 MB) (nba)
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30.Apr.2024
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The Guardian: An ironic look back at the Amiga
'The Guardian', a renowned British daily newspaper, published a commentary in English on 26 April 2024 that takes a ironical look at the enduring love for the Amiga, which is classed as technically obsolete. Entitled ‘My Undying Love for the Painfully Uncool Amiga’, the article highlights the quirks and weaknesses of the once revolutionary computer platform.
The article humorously plays with the discrepancy between modern technology and the limited possibilities of the Amiga. It takes a critical, if humorous, look at the technical limitations and cultural idiosyncrasies that make the Amiga a rather uncool choice today, according to author Dominik Diamond. Despite the criticism, a certain affection resonates in the lines - a tribute to the important role the Amiga played in early computer and gaming culture.
For readers who appreciate a sharp-tongued commentary, the article offers an entertaining yet critical look at how and why some technologies stand the test of time - or not.
The full article can be found on The Guardian website at the title link. (nba)
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30.Apr.2024
Pixelwalker (ANF)
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Diskmag: Amiga Rulez #2 now also available in English
Almost a fortnight ago, the second issue of the disc magazine Amiga Rulez was published in German (amiga-news.de reported). The English edition has now also been available as of 28 April. In the current update version, the event section has been expanded and initial bugs have been fixed.
The magazine was written in AMOS and is available in ADF format (880 KB). It can be downloaded free of charge from amiga-rulez.de and from the Demoscene website Pouet under the title link. (nba)
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29.Apr.2024
Mikkel (Forum)
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Heise: Article about the Commodore insolvency 30 years ago today (German)
At the title link, Heise.de dedicates a German article to the company's history on the occasion of Commodore's insolvency 30 years ago today. Two concluding paragraphs also mention the Escom period and the THEA500 Mini.
Independent of the anniversary, also the Guardian has published a nostalgic article about the Amiga. (snx)
[News message: 29. Apr. 2024, 22:08] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2024
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Music tip: Appeal by SoDa7
The ChipChop 17 musicdisc was also released during this year's Revision demo party. 'SoDa7' also contributed a track for this: "Appeal". You can dance your way through the YouTube video he has now published. (dr)
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29.Apr.2024
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Demo: "V4driver" 1.06 for Apollo Vampire V4
In mid-January, Sami Vehmaa released "V4driver", his second demo after 30 years, which he wrote exclusively for the Apollo Vampire V4 (amiga-news.de reported). With this update to version 1.06, he has made some fine adjustments such as the parallax timing. The demo should now also run at 50 FPS (hold down the space bar to display FPS). (dr)
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29.Apr.2024
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Developer log: New graphics for the strategy game "Ecliptic"
At the beginning of April, a new demo version of the strategy game "Ecliptic", which is currently under development, was released (amiga-news.de reported). Now the author has published a detailed developer diary in which he explains how he creates new monsters and backgrounds for the second level and uses code examples to show how he inserts them into his game. There is also a corresponding YouTube video. (dr)
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28.Apr.2024
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Aminet uploads until 27.04.2024
The following files have been added until 27.04.2024 to Aminet:
expression_1.2.lha dev/hwood 24K MOS A hollywood plugin
formator_1.1.lha dev/hwood 14K MOS A hollywood plugin
ods_hwp_1.0.lha dev/hwood 51K MOS A hollywood plugin
turbocalc_1.1.lha dev/hwood 21K MOS A hollywood plugin
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
anaiis.lha driver/oth 240K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.24
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 268K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 46K 68k Massive release 1.24
anaiis_xmass.lha driver/oth 84K 68k xmass examine massstorage
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 4.7M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
amiget.lha util/cli 34K 68k search & download aminet from...
Image2PDF.lha util/conv 21M ALL convert images to PDF and more
Theme_List.lha util/dir 5.0M NGA list any OS4/AROS/MOS themes ...
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28.Apr.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 27.04.2024
The following files have been added until 27.04.2024 to OS4Depot:
faac.lha aud/con 76kb 4.1 Freeware Advanced Audio Coder
faad2.lha aud/con 217kb 4.1 FAAD2 AAC decoder
seq.lha aud/mis 416kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer
libfaac.lha dev/lib 123kb 4.1 Freeware Advanced Audio Coder li...
libfaad.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 Freeware Advanced Audio (AAC) De...
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
stream.lha uti/ben 51kb 4.0 STREAM is a Memory + floating-pt...
theme_list.lha uti/mis 5Mb 4.1 List any OS4/AROS/MOS themes in dir
image2pdf.lha uti/tex 21Mb 4.1 Convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
thumbnailmaker.lha vid/mis 16kb 4.1 Arexx script for ArtEffect, gene...
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28.Apr.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 27.04.2024
The following files have been added until 27.04.2024 to AROS Archives:
image2pdf.lha off/dtp 21Mb convert images file to PDF
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28.Apr.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 27.04.2024
The following files have been added until 27.04.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
Formator_1.1.lha Dependencies/Hollywood A hollywood plugin to c...
ods_1.0.lha Dependencies/Hollywood A hollywood plugin to O...
Expression_1.2.lha Dependencies/Hollywood A hollywood plugin to c...
snes9x_1.62.3.lha Emulation Snes9x - Portable Super...
MCE_14.70.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
Fallout2-ce_1.3.lha Games/RPG Open source Fallout 2
Image2PDF_2.6.lha Graphics/Convert Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG...
MicroExcel_1.1.lha Office/Spreadsheet A Spreadsheed Editor
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28.Apr.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 27.04.2024
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 27.04.2024:
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28.Apr.2024
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- In the Forest (Midnight Resistance)
- Concerto for Lasers and Enemies (Tyros 3 edition)
- Outrun - Magical Sound Shower (Fast Track Remix)
- Vixen Megablast
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28.Apr.2024
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Do it yourself: HD floppy drive - Herr Doktor Diskettenlaufwerk (Amiga-HDDLW)
"Herr Doktor Diskettenlaufwerk" describes the conversion of a 1.44 MB PC floppy disk drive into a corresponding HD drive for the Amiga. It is described for two models, the MPF920-E from Sony and the FD-235HF from TEAC. After the conversion, the speed of the motor is halved, as is typical for the Amiga, when an HD diskette is detected, otherwise it remains unchanged. (snx)
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28.Apr.2024
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A simple AmigaOS GUI in assembler
At the beginning of October last year, Edwin van den Oosterkamp kindly wrote a tutorial for us based on his book "Classic AmigaOS Programming - An introduction" on how to create a GUI in C and thus demonstrated an introduction to C programming. Now he has published a similar example source code on his website, which shows this GUI creation in assembler. This article is not so much a tutorial as an accompanying text to the assembler source code, which has also been made available on the download page. (dr)
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27.Apr.2024
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A-EON announces new version of Personal Paint for A600GS
Press rekease: Cardiff, 27 April 2024
A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce further development of Personal Paint. Latest version 7.4 will be pre-installed on the forthcoming A600GS Computer.
A-EON Technology purchased rights to Personal Paint from Cloanto in 2014 (amiga-news.de reported) which has led to notable development over the last decade for both Classic Amiga systems and Next Generation systems.
Personal Paint has a rich record of being bundled with home computers over the years. In 1996 PPaint 6.4 was part of the Escom's Amiga 1200 Magic Pack. Even more recently in 2016, PPaint 7.3 was bundled with A-EON's powerful X5000 computer system. In 2024 the tradition continues with a new
version 7.4 being pre-installed on the forthcoming A600GS.
A-EON's latest update to this famous paint package accelerates 1080P and larger high resolution screens. 1080P is the resolution that most HDMI televisions operate at and the default screen mode of the A600GS. The drawing tools at this resolution would ordinarily be very slow. However they have now been significantly accelerated by using ARM native code.
The latest Personal Paint 7.4 from A-EON is ready-to-run on the A600GS and will bring a nostalgic paint package experience to modern 1080P televisions.
Matthew Leaman, MD of A-EON remarked: "Personal Paint originated on Classic Amiga systems which are these days becoming rarer, more expensive and requiring on going maintenance. This fact alone does not help to expand the future use of Personal Paint outside the Amiga community. As one of A-EON most important applications, Personal Paint can now have a new lease of life on low cost ARM hardware platform such as the A600GS. We are excited by the development possibilities that this provides for this famous application. We hope we can reach a wider audience, expanding the user base and ensure the application's longevity for many years to come."
Trevor Dickinson, A-EON’s co-founder added: "Personal Paint became the leading easy-to-use Amiga program for bitmapped graphics and animation and was one of the first to support AGA and RTG. We developed updated versions for both 68K and PowerPC, and it's great to see the ARM accelerated version
joining the family."
Personal Paint 7.4 will be launched in Q2/2024 on the A600GS computer system. (dr)
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27.Apr.2024
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AROS: "Irritating bug of the month" April fixed / Poll for May
In the poll for the "Irritating bug of the month" for April, two tasks were selected: in Wanderer, deletion should be allowed by pressing the Del key (#116) and DiskInfo should display the correct FAT instead of the wrong OFS (#105). Both tasks were solved and the corresponding archives (#105 and #116) were made available.
The poll for the "Irritating bug of the month" May has been started. (dr)
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26.Apr.2024
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USB-Stack: ANAIIS 1.24
ANAIIS ("Another Native Amiga IO Interface Stack") written by Gilles Pelletier is an USB stack which also runs on a 68000 processor. This can be used, for example, to operate the Subway 2021 from Alinea Computer. Changes in version 1.24:
- Fix Massive for most usb keys
- Fix hub with more than 4 ports
- Add LoadRDBFS option for massive (crashy thing)
- Wood dragon version
- StartDrivers changes
- remove c.o for massive (bug with output, keeping the cli open with WB1.3)
- CDFS/AmiCDFS
- CD/DVD
For future development steps, Gilles Pelletier mentions, among other things, the optimisation of the graphic interface and the improvement of speed and reactivity. (nba)
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26.Apr.2024
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Video tutorials: Run command and IFF screens in AMOS
In two more videos of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows on the one hand how to call other AMOS programs from existing AMOS programs by using the Run command (YouTube video), and on the other hand how to use an IFF file as a screen (YouTube video). (dr)
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25.Apr.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 157 (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, which is dedicated to flight simulators, is about "Knight of the Sky" and "Duck Hunt". (snx)
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25.Apr.2024
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Survey: Future focus of Kea Sigma Delta's work
Hans De Ruiter's (for example FTP server ZitaFTP) company Kea Sigma Delta has written several books on programming, produced videos and spent most of his time developing his own stuff. In the future, he would like to do more justice to his own slogan "We enjoy creating awesome stuff using software & electronics, and helping others to do the same" and intends to create a membership programme.
For that, he is asking for information in advance about what interested parties need and what their current level of knowledge is. He has published a short survey for this purpose. As he tells us, an "Amiga corner" is also planned based on the response so far. (dr)
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25.Apr.2024
Balaton
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Emulator: QEMU 9.0.0 released
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualiser. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software. It is therefore also possible to emulate Amiga operating systems such as AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who has set up a dedicated website with lots of tips and information.
According to him, the new version 9.0.0 contains improvements of the Sam460ex emulation (faster, support of short drive options like -cdrom & -drive media=..., SFS fixed) and Pegasos2 IRQ fixes. A ready to use binary for Windows 64 bit has already been made available. (dr)
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24.Apr.2024
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit 12.5
The Workbench distribution AmiKit for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Vampire, PiStorm and Raspberry Pi is now available in version 12.5, called "Spring Update".
Besides updates of system files and included programs, also new software has been added, e.g. a converter for HEIF images, the SONOS controller and various Hollywood plugins; the changelog can be found at the title link. (snx)
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24.Apr.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Mini review of Heretic 2
The adaptation of the third-person shooter "Heretic 2", originally released in 1998 for the PC and two years later also for the Amiga, to AmigaOS 4, which was released this year, was subjected to a short review by Pavel 'pavlor' Dohnal at the title link.
His positive assessment is that the game runs fast and relatively stable (tested on a Pegasos 2), supports various graphics standards (software rendering, MiniGL, GL4ES) and can also be played with music without a physical CD in the drive.
Apart from the costs, the disadvantage is that some configuration work is required initially (adapting the keyboard layout, setting up MiniGL and the CD unit to be used). Graphic errors were also noticed at certain screen resolutions, but after contacting the author he expects these to be rectified quickly. (snx)
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24.Apr.2024
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Demo scene: How the Backslide demo was created
At this year's Revision demo party, Backslide to Arcanum by Cosmic Orbs took 3rd place among the Amiga demos. Interest attracted that a large bitmap image rotated effortlessly at 50 Hz in full overscan and 1×1 resolution, moving across the screen and changing size arbitrarily.
At the title link, 'Jobbo' from Cosmic Orbs explains how he went about it. (snx)
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23.Apr.2024
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.38
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 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.
All changes of updated version 0.9.38:
- Trigonometry functions are now intertal and mathtrans library is no longer needed.
- Mathtrans library is no longer copied when building games, diskfont is only copied if topaz is not used.
- Added a condition trigger CPU is to check the processor of the machine where the game is running.
- When building a game targeting A500 assign ENV: to RAM: is not executed.
- Optimization of math functions.
- Fix for tileset not being saved.
- Fix in basic_platformer project that made impossible completing the second stage.
- Fix for Default screen width being overwritten by the level one.
- Fix for Tiled Move action trigger when moving in diagonal.
- Small fixes.
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23.Apr.2024
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Arcade port: Phoenix500
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has converted another arcade classic for the Amiga: Phoenix500 is a top-down space shooter (YouTube video) that has been remade for ECS Amigas. (dr)
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23.Apr.2024
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Shoot'em Up: Game.X 1.2
Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has released version 1.2 of his port of the shoot'em up Game.X (YouTube video, amiga-news.de reported). It uses a newer and faster engine and saves the highscore in the game directory if the NVRAM is not available.
The game requires an AGA Amiga and was originally released by Kugenuma Soft in 1990. (dr)
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22.Apr.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 168, preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 168 (May/June 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content of this issue, which features four additional pages, includes interviews with David Pleasance as well as Steve Quartly and Paul Huxham of PhotoFolio, reviews of the AmigaOne A1222 Plus and the (German) AmigaOS 3.2 book as well as an article about parallax scrolling on the Amiga.
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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22.Apr.2024
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Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.3.0 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2.3.0:
- The "Remove unknown modules" options did previously remove modules if a player could not be found or the module could not be loaded. This has been changed, so it will only be removed if a player cannot be found.
- Added a new Level Meter visualizer. This one shows the current level for the left and right speakers in dB.
- If a module is packed, it will now be shown in a separate line in Module Information Window together with which packers that are used.
- Updated SharpCompress to version 0.36.0.
- Updated mpg123 to version 1.32.6.
- Updated libsidplayfp to version 2.7.0.
- Added support to player the David Whittaker module Q-Ball.
- Renamed the AHX player to HivelyTracker + added support for HivelyTracker modules.
- Added these new module formats: SoundTracker 2.6, IceTracker, ProTracker IFF, SC68, Digital Mugician, Digital Mugician 2, SidMon 1.0, SidMon 2.0 and AMOS Music Bank.
An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store. (dr)
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22.Apr.2024
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Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.6 for all Amiga systems
Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 2.6:
- updated guide file
- On MorphOS and AROS the guide file is now copied to the installation drawer
- On MorphOS the "Path" command in s:user-startup is now deactivated
If wanted active, one needs to uncomment it manually, save it
and then reboot the computer
- added possibility to scale images with all chosen formats
- added possibility to compress PDF docs when Ghostscript is installed
- the orientation of PDF docs can now be changed (not with ImageSize format)
- a print margin can be set now
- using commandline will now adapt the orientation automatically (not with
ImageSize format)
- compiled single versions for the supported platforms
- removed applet from archive
- added a print function to print PDF documents
(dr)
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21.Apr.2024
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Do it yourself: Scart adapter (also available to buy)
Finnish CBMretro store offers a Scart adapter for plugging into the RGB port of the Amiga for sale at the title link. Alternatively, you can build the adapter yourself, the documentation is open source. (snx)
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21.Apr.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.0 and 6.3.0 (preview)
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.
New versions have now been released: version 5.7.0 is recommended for RPI4 and version 6.3.0 (preview) for x86_64 or faster ARM boards. Both versions offer numerous new features, bug fixes and improvements. (dr)
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21.Apr.2024
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Aminet uploads until 20.04.2024
The following files have been added until 20.04.2024 to Aminet:
peak_filter.lha dev/amos 2K 2nd order osc filter
formator_1.0.lha dev/hwood 14K MOS A hollywood plugin
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
TankX.lha game/2play 1.4M 68k 1-7 player tank combat (updat...
StefADV2.lha game/text 67K 68k 2nd little italian text adven...
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 63K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 8.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
mame-v037b2-68k.lha misc/emu 2.1M 68k Multiple Arcade Machine Emula...
CoronerLab2.zip mods/crash 54K Hard hitting, evil tech mod. ...
Intuition.zip mods/crash 55K Short, Slow, Grungy, Melodic....
MurderWarpath.zip mods/crash 61K Aggressive Tribal Rock. 8 bit xm
MurderWarpath2.zip mods/crash 61K Aggressive Tribal Rock. 8 bit xm
LN3Water24.lha mods/misc 790K 16bit 4ch LN3 Water Temple 24...
sysvars.lha util/boot 16K 68k Put system information in env...
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 910K AOS App for chatting to ChatGPT
jl.lha util/misc 40K 68k JOST Launcher for kickstart 1.3
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 32M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
isomount.lha util/rexx 26K Mount ipf,img,iso,adf... on d...
(snx)
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OS4Depot uploads until 20.04.2024
The following files have been added until 20.04.2024 to OS4Depot:
wildmidi.lha aud/pla 32Mb 4.1 A simple software midi player
liba52.lha dev/lib 764kb 4.1 low-level interface to decode AC...
libharfbuzz.lha dev/lib 7Mb 4.1 HarfBuzz text shaping engine
libpng.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.1 Lib for handling PNG files
libsdl2_ttf.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.1 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL2
libcurl.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 The multiprotocol file transfer ...
libopenssl.lha dev/lib 15Mb 4.1 The open source toolkit for SSL/TLS
libz.lha dev/lib 255kb 4.1 libZ / zlib / z library (.a/.so)
amidisas.tar.bz2 dev/uti 23kb 4.0 Amiga ELF PPC Disassembler
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
bermudasyndrome.lha gam/act 3Mb 4.1 Bermuda Syndrome
doomrpg.lha gam/boa 3Mb 4.1 Turn-based role-playing game bas...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 910kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
curl.lha net/mis 734kb 4.1 Command line URL file transfer
(snx)
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AROS Archives uploads until 20.04.2024
The following files have been added until 20.04.2024 to AROS Archives:
origami.i386-aros.zip dem/int 1Mb Origami Intro by Faemiyah Demogroup
thefulcrum.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 9Mb Demo from Matrix
libdumb.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 985kb DUMB library (+src)
dosbox-kens.lha gra/ico 5kb unofficial kens icons for dosbox
mbx-kens-unofficial.lha gra/ico 8kb unofficial kens icons for mbx games
(snx)
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21.Apr.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 20.04.2024
The following files have been added until 20.04.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
Protrekkr_2.6.7.lha Audio/Tracker A hybrid of modern day ...
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21.Apr.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.04.2024
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 20.04.2024:
- 2024-04-14 improved: Turrican 3 (Factor 5/Rainbow Arts) custom options displayed in splash screen, CD32 buttons supported (Info)
- 2024-04-14 improved: Inviyya (Tigerskunk) supports another CD32 version (Info, Image)
(snx)
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21.Apr.2024
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Stardust Memories (Cosmic Carnage)
- Desert Rocks 2024 Edition Live Performance
(snx)
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21.Apr.2024
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Windows/Linux/Mac OS: Ami Sampler 0.7
As the name suggests, "Ami Sampler" is a VSTi 8-bit sampler that is intended to come close to its Amiga role models on other systems and thus combine this nostalgia with modern digital audio workstations. The range of functions therefore also includes replicas of the 4.4 kHz 6 dB/octave low-pass filter of the Amiga 500 and the 3.1 kHz 12 dB/octave low-pass filter of the Amigas 500 and 1200 as well as a "Paula switch".
The latter is inspired by the custom chip's limitation of only being able to pan hard left or hard right, which allows the Amiga to produce unique wide-sounding pads when multiple channels play the same sample as a chord. The Paula switch creates a similar affect by alternating the pan for each note played by the sample; almost like an autopan except the notes are sustained instead of shifting back and forth. When in "Paula mode", the channel pan control becomes a stereo width from -100 wide to +100 wide; when in Mono mode, "Paula" is disabled since the effect is for chords. (snx)
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21.Apr.2024
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THEA500 Mini: Pandory500 firmware V3
The alternative firmware "Pandory500" for THEA500 Mini, which is "sideloaded" and enables the use of emulators for other systems (amiga-news.de reported), is now available in version 3.
In addition to updates to included emulators, the new features include optimization in terms of speed and file size as well as, for example, remote access to the THEA500 Mini via SSH and SFTP. (snx)
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21.Apr.2024
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Video: Update on the development status of the Terrible Fire 4060 turboboard
At the title link Terrible Fire reports on the development status of the TF 4060, the long-awaited Amiga 4000 counterpart to the TF 1260 turbo card. The video shows revision 4 of the prototype, a fifth has already been ordered. The latter is intended for a beta test program. (snx)
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21.Apr.2024
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Gopher client: Gopherized
As the name suggests, Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's "Gopherized" is a client for the Gopher network protocol. As a special feature compared to other Amiga programs, it automatically scans the pages saved as bookmarks for updates.
After a test phase of this preliminary version, the final version 1.0 of this AMOS program will be published together with the source code. (snx)
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19.Apr.2024
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AmigaOS 4: cURL V8.7.1
Daniel Stenberg, initiator and main developer of cURL, a command line tool for transferring data with URLs, reported at the end of March in his blog about the release of versions 8.7.0 and 8.7.1. 'MickJT' has now ported this current version for AmigaOS 4. (dr)
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18.Apr.2024
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Event: "ZZAP! Live 2024" in Kenilworth (England)
On 17 August 2024, The Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England) will host the second "ZZAP! Live" event (amiga-news.de reported), organised by Fusion Retro Books, der South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum. All Commodore computer systems including the Amiga will be represented.
In addition to a number of guests, there will be games competitions throughout the day and a raffle in the evening. (dr)
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18.Apr.2024
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RIPPLE IDE: Firmware update for Zorro 2 IDE interface
Last week we informed you about the open source projects lide.device, a new IDE driver for the Amiga, and CIDER, an expansion card for the CDTV (amiga-news.de reported). Matt "LIV2" Harlum had developed RIPPLE IDE for his lide.device as a follow-up product. This is an IDE interface for Zorro-2-based Amiga models (A2000, A3000, A4000), which interested parties can build on their own using Gerber data and a parts list.
RIPPLE IDE in combination with lide.device work with Kickstart 1.3 or later, support drives up to 2 terabytes and ATAPI devices, offer an autoboot function and thus also boot from CD-ROM and ZIP/LS-120 drives.
The firmware update 18/04/24) was released today for RIPPLE DE, which fixes errors in the boot process and in the autoconfig function. (nba)
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18.Apr.2024
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Turn-based strategy: Update introduces free elections in "Settle the World"
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel's latest update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" introduces free elections: In the game, the population of cities can now vote every few years on whether the player should remain in power. Elections become available as soon as the inhabitants of a city have reached the worker class for the first time. If the player wins the election, he can continue playing, if he loses the vote, the game ends for him.
The integration of the new voting system is not yet complete and will be expanded with future updates. As the outcome of elections currently still depends too much on chance, the game does not yet end if the player loses an election. Details on the influence of the townspeople's happiness on their voting behavior and which other factors will influence the outcome of elections in the future can be found in Wiegel's developer diary.
(cg)
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17.Apr.2024
Frank Neumann (Mail)
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Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (v0.2)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world" (amiga-news.de reported). With this third early demo version, the first level has now 27 screens, including a boss at the end. There are also minor improvements here and there.
The next steps will be adding PowerUps for the player and moving back in the level when the player dies (at the moment the player is immediately respawned and the level just continues). The game should run on an Amiga 500.
Direct download: NeonWorld.adf.zip (99 KB) (dr)
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17.Apr.2024
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Tutorial: Building a ReAmiga 4000CR
At the title link and in a separate entry with the second part, John 'Chucky' Hertell describes step by step mounting the chips on a ReAmiga 4000CR circuit board, i.e. the cost-reduced version with the 68030 CPU mounted directly on the mainboard. (snx)
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17.Apr.2024
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Game: Quake 2 as download version for AmigaOS 4 available
Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to announce that it has taken over the distribution of Quake 2 for AmigaOS 4. The first Amiga version of Quake 2 was released in 2002 by Hyperion Entertainment and has been continued and greatly improved in this tradition.
Steffen Häuser is responsible for the port and has implemented numerous improvements. In addition to support for the various mission CDs and MODS, GL4ES/Warp3DNova support and playback of the soundtracks as OGG Vorbis have also been realised.
The AmigaOS 4 version of Quake 2 costs 14.95 Euro and is available for download at the title link. Please note that the data files of the PC version are required to run the AmigaOS 4 version of Quake 2. These can be purchased at a favourable price via Steam, for example.
Free MODS and Mission CDs are already available on Aminet.
Here are all the features and system requirements at a glance:
Features
- AmigaOS 4 native version
- GL4ES, MiniGL and Software Renderer
- Full support for Mission CDs The Reckoning and Ground Zero
- Ports to the unofficial mission CD Zaero and to about 50 multiplayer mods will be released soon on OS4Depot/Aminet, these downloads require the new version of Quake 2
- AmigaInput support
- CD Audio works again (the old version only worked with older CD drives). As an alternative to CD audio, Ogg Vorbis files can be played as a soundtrack; the music files from this version are already pre-installed during a Steam/Gog install
- The new installer now works with the PC CD of Quake 2 as well as with the Steam and Gog Classic versions. When using the Steam/Gog Classic installer, the two mission CDs are installed at the same time. We recommend using the Steam version for easy installation
- Alternatively to the .cin intros, the game now also supports .avi and .mpeg files (a script to convert the .ogv files of the Steam version is included on the ISO, if you want the higher resolution video files)
System requirements
- Software: AmigaOS 4.1 and the data files from Steam, Gog or CD version
- Hardware: At least 150 MHz PowerPC CPU, 32 MB RAM, graphics card, at least 1 GB free hard disc space; A1222 is currently not supported, but game can also be played on QEmu and UAE PPC
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16.Apr.2024
IndieRetroNews
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Grind: Progress in development of a new Doom clone
Grind is a first-person shooter (FPS) currently in development for the Amiga, which should even be able to run on small Amigas, appears extremely smooth in the preview videos shown and makes you want to try out more. The game is being developed with the so-called Dread Engine (amiga-news.de reported). Tsak, one of the developers of Grind, recently announced news in the EAB forum:
Grind has not only been enhanced with two new music tracks for menus and in-game, composed by Tsak and newly joined Christoffer Magdalus, but has also achieved key development milestones. These include improved particle effects for blood and explosions and the full implementation of the arsenal of weapons, with the secondary weapon being triggered with the right mouse button as known from other FPS shooters.
For those interested, a playable demo and further information are available on the Patreon page of Grind. For those who want to dig deeper into the development, the official Discord server offers a platform for discussions and updates directly from the developers. Grind will be commercially distributed after its completion. (nba)
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16.Apr.2024
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Emulation: BBoot bootloader v0.7 for QEMU
BBoot is a simple, minimal bootloader for loading AmigaOS on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, written by Amiga QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan (amiga-news.de reported). It replaces amigaboot.of on Pegasos2 and slb_v2 on AmigaOne and simplifies the booting of AmigaOS 4 under QEMU. A firmware ROM is no longer required.
The current Version 0.7 adds file name to error message to help finding wrong path and fixes a kernel bug in the Pegasos2 emulation, which should improve stability.
The developer has also provided a tutorial Booting AmigaOS 4.1 on QEMU with BBoot. (dr)
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16.Apr.2024
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Amiga on the big stage: Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding at the BRIT Awards
Scottish DJ Calvin Harris has been one of the driving forces in the world of electronic music for years. Back in 2017, the Scottish DJ revealed his enthusiasm for the Amiga and the music production of his albums on an Amiga 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). Now he brought his Amiga 1200, freshly upgraded by English Amiga specialist RetroPassion, live to the big stage: At this year's legendary BRIT Awards, which are comparable to the US Grammy Awards, Harris performed together with pop icon Ellie Goulding. His Amiga 1200 with OctaMED SoundStudio made for an unmistakable sound. A recording of the performance can be seen on YouTube and a "Behind the Scenes" clip on Instagram. (nba)
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16.Apr.2024
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WinFellow: Developers call for support in preserving old versions
WinFellow is one of the most popular Amiga emulators for Windows systems. In order to preserve the digital heritage, the developers are currently compiling an overview of all versions of Fellow for DOS and WinFellow that have ever been released. In addition to the option to download all old versions, a historical retrospective is also being created for documentation purposes. As the developers do not have access to all versions, they are asking users for help. If you hold Fellow versions that are listed as missing, please contact the developers so that the collection can be completed and thus permanently preserved. (nba)
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15.Apr.2024
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit for PiStorm using a Wi-Fi driver (alpha version)
Since October 2023, the AmiKit workbench distribution has also been available for the PiStorm and PiStorm-liteaccelerator boards (amiga-news.de reported), which use a Raspberry Pi minicomputer as a processor replacement. Emu68, the Motorola68K emulation developed by Michal Schulz, is also part of the AmiKit package.
Following the recent presentation of the alpha version of the Wi-Fi driver for Emu68k (amiga-news.de reported), there is now also a package with the Wi-Fi driver for AmiKit for PiStorm. Once the content of the package is copied to AmiKit: and the system restarted, a Network Wizard will appear. By selecting the WiFiPi, the Amiga will use the Wi-Fi module on Raspberry Pi itself to connect to the internet.
The alpha version of the driver package can be downloaded from the AmiKit website under the title link. (nba)
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15.Apr.2024
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CLI command: sysvars V0.12
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical frame rate (PAL/NTSC), Kickstart version and revision, version and revision of bsdsocket.library as well as whether the emulator UAE is used - and if so, in which version.
Version 0.12 provides the following changes:
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14.Apr.2024
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood Designer 7.0 released
Press release:20 years ago, on April 14th 2004, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released the very first version of Hollywood Designer, the ultimate multimedia authoring system for Hollywood. In the following years Hollywood Designer quickly became the must-have software for all users seriously interested in creating state-of-the-art multimedia applications, be it presentations, slide shows, games, or applications. Now, 20 years later, Airsoft Softwair is proud to present Hollywood Designer 7.0, an epic update with lots and lots of new features to properly celebrate the 20th birthday of this marvellous piece of software.
As already said, Designer 7.0 is a massive update that boasts lots of new features and improvements over the previous version. We do not want to bore you, so here are just some of them:
- Use the full power of Hollywood 10 which was specifically designed for Designer 7!
- Color emojis, CJK text and complex scripts are now supported (using the Pangomonium plugin)
- Multi-selection support for pages and objects in all listviews and the thumbnail viewer
- Operations can be applied to multiple objects and pages at the same time
- Now uses the Hollywood 10 graphics engine for maximum power!
- Objects can be combined into groups
- Many new action events to work with object groups
- Unlimited undo and redo levels
- Executables can also be exported for macOS and Linux/arm64
- Support for different font engines
- Graphics can be exported as palette images
- Radically reduced memory footprint, often reduced to just 25 % of Designer 6.0!
- Configurable dynamic memory modes
- Custom character spacing support
- Several new example projects are included
- Full support for Hollywood 10's plugin interface
- Lots of other new features, optimizations and bug fixes
Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. This is a feature that is totally unique in the Amiga world! We would like to emphasize that it is not only suited for personal use, but also for professional commercial customers. Ferrule Media, for instance, have created an info channel containing over 2000 unique slides in a single project with Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer was designed to handle these huge projects efficiently so that they can run 24 hours a day and 7 days a week without any visible memory fragmentation! Ferrule Media's info channel, created with Hollywood Designer, is running in dental clinics all over Norway.
Note that Hollywood Designer is no longer limited to "just" being an authoring software, it can now also be used as a flexible graphics editor because it supports many features of modern graphics editors like multiple layers with over 30 filter effects, vector graphics, image import/export in many formats, and text including support complex scripts such as CJK or right-to-left text and color emojis.
Hollywood Designer 7.0 is available as a CD and a download version. There are native versions of the program for AmigaOS 3.x (m68k), WarpOS (hybrid m68k/ppc), MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS 4 (ppc), and AROS (x86). If you already own a previous version of Hollywood Designer, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. People who bought Hollywood Designer 6.0 in 2024 can request a free upgrade. Also note that Hollywood Designer 7.0 has been specially crafted for Hollywood 10, so Hollywood 10 is absolutely required by Designer 7.0.
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14.Apr.2024
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Motorola68k emulation: First alpha version of WLAN driver for Emu68 (update)
Michal Schulz continues to work intensively on a WLAN driver for his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 (amiga-news.de reported) and has now released the first public alpha version.
The driver consists of two parts - the firmware files for the WiFi module itself and the SANA-II device. In the archive attached to the linked Patreon post, these can be found in the Firmware and Networks folders. The firmware files must be copied to the DEVS:Firmware folder (or simply copy the folder to DEVS) and the wifipi.device must be copied to DEVS:Networks.
Additionally, a tool is required that tells the driver which wireless network it should use. The tool is called WirelessManager and can be found, for example, in the prism2 driver from Neil Cafferkey. The manager must be copied to the C: directory. It is either started manually if required or called up in the user startup as follows:
;BEGIN WirelessManager
C:RUN <>NIL: C:WirelessManager wifipi.device
;END WirelessManager
Before the Amiga is restarted, the wireless.prefs file must be created. Use a text editor to write down the following lines and save them in ENVARC:SYS/:
network={
ssid="Your Network name"
key_mgmt=NONE
scan_ssid=1
}
The line "scan_ssid=1" is only important if the network has a hidden SSID. If not, this line can be omitted. Currently, the network is still unencrypted. As soon as Wireless Manager has established a connection, the network stack can be started.
What works: open networks. Another function that is not yet correctly recognised by WirelessManager is 5GHz networks. These already work, but the WM reports the band and frequency incorrectly.
At the moment, the driver only supports unencrypted networks. Work on supporting WPA/WPA2/WPA3 is in full swing. Currently, a mix of approx. 42 MBit download and 40 MBit upload is achieved. This can still be improved.
The Wifi driver will be part of the next nightly build of the Emu68 tools.
Update (17.04.2024, 19:40):
In another Patreon post that has just been published, the developer points out once again that the driver currently only supports open networks and warns emphatically against opening networks without security precautions. In case of doubt, he recommends waiting until encrypted networks are also supported.
Apparently, there had already been some initial misuse by third parties during a test phase. (dr)
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14.Apr.2024
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Aminet uploads until 13.04.2024
The following files have been added until 13.04.2024 to Aminet:
amigassh.lha comm/net 33K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga
slre.lha dev/lib 17K 68k Super Light Regular Expressio...
GitDesktop.lha dev/misc 1.7M MOS Interface for Git repository ...
F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 8K 2024 Carset for F1GP
Temptations_DEMO_Fina... game/misc 466K 68k Temptations DEMO v1.0 Final
H2_Big_Data.lha game/shoot 1617M OS4 Install Multiplayer Data for ...
Q2_Modpack1.lha game/shoot 30M OS4 Modpack 1 for Quake 2 OS 4
Q2_Modpack2.lha game/shoot 162M OS4 Quake 2 Mod Pack 2
Q2_Modpack3.lha game/shoot 155M OS4 Quake 2 Mod Pack 3
Q2_Modpack4.lha game/shoot 135M OS4 Quake 2 Mod Pack 4
Q2_Modpack5.lha game/shoot 252M OS4 Quake 2 Mod Pack 5
Q2_Modpack6.lha game/shoot 67M OS4 Quake 2 Mod Pack 6
Q2_Modpack7.lha game/shoot 229M OS4 Quake 2 Mod Pack 7
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 35M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
2D_ATcad_RTG.lha gfx/misc 482K 68k 2D-CAD-Programm
2D_ATcad_UAE.lha gfx/misc 481K 68k 2D-CAD-Programm
WhatIFF3.13.lha mags/misc 24M What IFF? #3.13-April-2024
WhatIFF3.13.NoDemo.lha mags/misc 841K What IFF? #3.13-April-2024
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 7.6M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 7.9M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 8.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Willy.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 26K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
Abyss2.zip mods/crash 128K Long fade in, then dramatic. ...
clandestine2.zip mods/crash 107K Looping demo mod, converted t...
niknakremix2.zip mods/crash 85K Dark lofi techno. 8-bit xm, 1...
Silo2.zip mods/crash 42K Slow, heavy, moody hip hop. 8...
LN3Wind24.lha mods/misc 202K 16bit 4ch LN3 Wind Temple 24 ...
Protrekkr_AROS_i386.zip mus/edit 23M x86 Tracker/Synth hybrid Program
jl.lha util/misc 39K 68k JOST Launcher for kickstart 1.3
ViNCEd.lha util/shell 845K 68k ViNCEd, the CON: with ^Z & TA...
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OS4Depot uploads until 13.04.2024
The following files have been added until 13.04.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
dgen_sdl.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.1 Emulator of the Sega Genesis/Meg...
openfodder.lha gam/act 6Mb 4.1 An open source reimplementation ...
h2_extramaps.lha gam/fps 463Mb 4.1 Multiplayer Maps for Heretic II ...
q2_modpack1.lha gam/fps 30Mb 4.0 Modpack 1 for the 2024 released ...
zaero_installer.lha gam/fps 568kb 4.0 Installer and Port of the Quake ...
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 35Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 910kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
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AROS Archives uploads until 13.04.2024
The following files have been added until 13.04.2024 to AROS Archives:
protrekkr.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 23Mb Tracker/Synth hybrid Program
mbx.i386-aros.zip gam/act 8Mb Magical Broom Extreme (MBX) is a...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.04.2024
The following files have been added until 13.04.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
Protrekkr_2.6.7.lha Audio/Tracker A hybrid of modern day ...
GitDesktop_0.15.18.lha Development/Tools A graphical git fronten...
Willy_1.3.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
AmiArcadia_32.20.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
DoomRPG_0.2.2.lha Games/RPG Doom RPG Reverse Engine...
YouTube-Extractor_2.5.lha Multimedia YT.rexx is a script for...
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14.Apr.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 13.04.2024
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 13.04.2024:
- 2024-04-09 improved: Tornado (Digital Integration) new rendering code, show fps/use original rendering code/limit fps/auto start, analogue joystick fixes (Info)
- 2024-04-09 improved: Zener Drive (Altair) fix startup crashes on some configurations (Info, Image)
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14.Apr.2024
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Panza Kick Boxing - Interpol Crack Intro
- Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 End Tune
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14.Apr.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online
Further full versions of Amiga programs have been added to Amiga Future's download area:
- DiskPrint
- AdressMaster (ADM)
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14.Apr.2024
Carlos Peris
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.37
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 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 new version 0.9.37 offers optimisations and a lot of bug fixes as well as improved copper effects for ECS Amigas. Here is a before and after comparison:
The platform demo (YouTube video of an early version) has been reworked with new graphics and now looks like this
All changes:
- Big optimization in Trigonometry code, leading to a big boost in performance.
- Instantiate function has been optimized with some ASM magic.
- Basic_platformer example has been revamped with graphics from Surt.
- When building the game, now all game data is inside the data folder, no need
for the res folder anymore.
- ECS copper gradients have been improved, they are more smooth now like in
Turrican 2.
- When using Play now the current level is saved, just like you play start.
- Added new trigger Run From Editor, to check if the game is running from
editor or standalone.
- Distance to Target condition trigger was very unprecise, now it has been
improved a lot.
- Mouse input code now is only run when being used.
- Small improvements when using NTSC screens.
- In HUD screen when an element was partly outside the HUD was not drawn, now
it is, but drawing will be slower.
- Removed Topaz2 font.
- Topaz font is now the default one. When using Topaz font, there is no need to
have diskfont library available.
- Optimization in angular logic.
- Fix for a crash that occured when changing the level.
-Fix in loading levels code, that sometimes could led to the level being
erased.
-Fix for Camera Inc not working under certain circumstances.
-Fix when creating the screen that could leave glitches in the border of the
screen.
-Fix when scrolling down, sometimes left some line glitches.
-Fix in dialogs somethings messing the screen.
-Fix in copper backgrounds when using an image as the source for the palette.
-Some unused code has been removed.
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13.Apr.2024
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MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.15.18
Rafał Zabdyr has released another beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required.
The new version includes the following changes:
- improved "Status Bar" + configuration for it
- added option to "Scan Path for Local Repositories" in sub directories
- Pull /Push buttons shows number of behind/ahead commits
- improved "Bottom Panel" (Output Tab)
- added "Last Commit Monit"
- improved stash preview
- improved gitignore template selection (added preview)
- many other improvements
- many bug fixes
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Open source projects: IDE driver lide.device and CDTV extension CIDER
The Amiga community is full of projects that initially go largely unnoticed despite their innovative power. The "lide.device" along with the so-called "CIDER" board were both developed by New Zealander Matt "LIV2" Harlum.
Just about a year ago, in January 2023, Harlum presented the open source-based hardware project CIDER on GitHub in collaboration with Stefan Reinauer. The combined expansion card for the Amiga CDTV is plugged into the diagnostic interface and adds three innovative features to the machine. The centrepiece is an autoboot-capable IDE interface that is compatible with KickROM 1.3. The CDTV also gains 11.37 MB of additional Fast RAM memory and a practical, programmable Dual Kickstart Flash-ROM function. The board can be rebuilt for private use using the Gerber data provided if you have the appropriate skills and expertise.
Matt Harlum was looking for a suitable IDE driver for this CIDER board and decided against the existing solutions "scsi.device" and "oktapus.device" due to their limitations in terms of speed, compatibility with Kickstart 1.3, as found in CDTV, and the legal situation regarding redistribution. This led to the development of lide.device, which was also published as open source under the GPL 2.0 licence for the first time in July 2023. The current version 40.5 is dated 20 December 2023 and can be downloaded free of charge from GitHub.
The lide.device allows the use of drives up to 2 TB in size (when using a suitable file system, such as FFS from AmigaOS 3.2, SFS or PFS). The system can boot from various media such as CD, LS-120 or ZIP, an autoboot function is provided. The driver also supports a second IDE channel.
What is interesting about the lide driver is not only its functionality and its open source aspect, but also the fact that the driver is not only suitable for the CDTV and the CIDER originally designed for it. Matt Harlum developed the RIPPLE board with the aim of making the effort and innovation behind "lide.device" available to more than just a small number of CDTV owners. This board broadens the application possibilities of the driver and supports the two-channel IDE mode.
On the GitHub page of the lide.device under the title link, in addition to the source codes, three builds of the lide ROMs are also available for download, in addition to the CIDER version also a ROM for AT-Bus devices such as AT-Bus 2008 or AT-Bus Clone IDE Interface by Matze.
When asked by amiga-news.de, Matt Harlum explains: "Of course the board ends up looking similar to the Buddha (Buddha IDE, editor's note) but this is only because the form factor makes a lot of sense for a small, 2-channel IDE board - similar layouts have even been used for PCI IDE interfaces."
We will keep an eye on the further development of CIDER, lide.device and RIPPLE and report on progress for you as usual. (nba)
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13.Apr.2024
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.6 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
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 1.4.6 since our last news report:
- Send button no longer appears in top left corner after closing a generated image for Amiga 3.X
- Fixes the stack size calculation so it will no longer warn you that the stack size is too small if it really isn't
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (910 KB) (nba)
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12.Apr.2024
Passione Amiga & Amiga Documents (ANF)
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Trevor Dickinson has already acquired co-ownership of AmigaOS 4 in 2019
Amiga Documents, the documentation of the recent Amiga company history, which has been continuously expanded by an anonymous author for 15 years, has been supplemented by a completely new section: The article Hyperion Entertainment's Silent Puppeteer attempts to prove that Robert Trevor Dickinson of A-EON has been financing the legal disputes with which Ben Hermans (Hyperion) has been trying to secure ever more extensive rights to AmigaOS for a decade and a half.
Three new internal documents are made public for the first time: First the license agreement of March 2019 between Dickinson and Hyperion, in which the A-EON owner licenses ExecSG, which he already acquired in February 2017 according to the agreement, to Hyperion - for a price of 10 euros per copy of AmigaOS 4 sold. The price was determined as a share of the standard [AmigaOS 4] license fees of 60 euros and will be automatically corrected accordingly should Hyperion's pricing for AmigaOS 4 change.
In a second contract between Hyperion and Dickinson from August 2019, the latter acquires "co-ownership" of all components of AmigaOS 4 owned by Hyperion for EUR 47,500. He is also to be granted access to all source code immediately upon receipt of payment. However, Dickinson can only use his newly acquired rights if Hyperion ceases to exist or ends its business activities with regard to AmigaOS 4 - bankruptcy or liquidation are cited as examples.
(Editor's note: It is unclear to us which rights Dickinson actually acquired in August 2019. Hyperion only has a license to distribute the compiled binaries for the vast majority of AmigaOS 4 components. The only component known to us that is actually owned by Hyperion is the GUI toolkit "Reaction", which was acquired in May 2019.)
A secret agreement dated December 2010 between Ben Hermans, Robert Trevor Dickinson and the former A-EON financier Anthony Moorley is now also public. It appears to confirm the allegations of embezzlement that Dickinson has been making for a long time, most recently also publicly: Ben Hermans undertakes here to repay money that he owes A-EON - including (quote) "amounts that have been removed by him from the bank accounts of A-EON Technology without authority" - and to withdraw from the company.
Editor's note: In addition to publishing these new documents, the original article primarily attempts to prove Dickinson's long-standing financial support for Hyperion, especially during the two major court cases. The text was written by Nicola Morocutti and was originally published in the Italian print magazine Passione Amiga. Morocutti, who worked full-time for Mike Battilana in 2007/2008, formulates some of his statements here as if he were still employed by Hyperion's opponent and makes several unsubstantiated claims. We have therefore refrained from summarizing his statements on this topic, even though they correspond in several respects with the information we have received.
We have asked the parties involved for statements and will submit them later if necessary. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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12.Apr.2024
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AROS: Music program ProTrekkr v2.6.7
ProTrekkr is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can (mainly) be used to create electronic music (like psytrance, trance goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) targeting small sized intros, demos or games. Now version 2.6.7 was released for AROS (and FreeBSD, macOS and Windows). Changes:
- Fixed a crash when using rand functions on synth oscs & lfos under Linux.
- Added a replay routine for the PlayStation Vita.
- Fixed a crash when loading older NoiseTrekker modules.
- Startup splash screen is now optional.
Download: ptk_v2.6.7_aros.zip (23 MB) (dr)
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12.Apr.2024
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Music: Breakcore album "Get Out Of My House"
Mr. Roboto is a member of the Australian demo group System Of Sound. After releasing his best-of album Goat Cuts at the end of 2023, which covers the years from 2007 to 2023, a new album with three fresh tracks is now available on Bandcamp for around 60 cents, which the artist himself assigns to the Breakcore genre. He used an Amiga 600 and FS-UAE, which emulates the A1200/030. On the software side, OctaMED SoundStudio as well as ProTracker 2.3d and Hippoplayer were used to test whether the tracks were played correctly.
In the mid-90s, he bought his own A500 with A590 and began to familiarise himself more intensively with the operating system. He had been interested in punk rock since his early teens. He not only listened to it, but also played it himself. He recalls to us: "So in mid-highschool I was able to convince my parents that me having some guitar lessons might be a worthwhile investment, and after a few lessons my teacher suggested to me that my progress would really benefit from me getting myself a drum machine. And I thought to myself for one thing I am a young teenager with no job and limited income and for another, I do have a computer in my bedroom, and a copy of OctaMED version 5 which I got free on the cover of CU Amiga magazine, so I could just use that instead. And when one composes a drum beat and a bassline then logically one might find themselves with something that bears at least a passing resemblance to drum'n'bass music, which I did, despite having had no real exposure to the genre at this point in time."
His first collection of songs, which he released in limited numbers on burnt CDs, was at the end of 1998, when he used the then rare and expensive CD burner at his
secondary college to burn about two dozen copies: "I cannot recall the exact title of this collection, nor do I have a copy myself, it was rather, shall we say, "experimental" in style. Somebody might even have a copy of it buried deep in their personal collection, but otherwise I would have to say that these are lost to time. The next releases on CD would have come in 2001, when I purchased an 8x speed CD burner of my own. I was performing punk-jazz-electronic fusion with a group called The D.Z's and released a collection of the less awful bits from our many jam sessions on a CD entitled Music For Pleasure Classics - this collection of songs is also sadly lost to time. Also in that year, around the same time I released a collection of songs made with a friend on their Pentium II PC using Buzz under the group name Dead Punx. This collection of songs can be found online today on the System of Sound Bandcamp page..." (dr)
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11.Apr.2024
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Video: MorphOS 3.18 on a Power Macintosh G5
In his latest video, Chris Edwards shows how MorphOS 3.18 runs on a Power Macintosh G5 Dual Core (2.0), equipped with an ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition graphics card, on two screens.
By using this graphics card, you can run both MacOS and MorphOS on the computer, giving you access to the Mac's firmware, among other things. (dr)
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10.Apr.2024
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Practical report: Comparison between A1222 Plus and Sam460LE (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware. This time (automatic translation) she has compared currently available hardware for AmigaOS 4 under the title link: the A1222-Plus and Sam460LE board. In this article, she looks first at the theory; a further report with practical tests will follow. (dr)
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09.Apr.2024
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Retro Computer Festival 2024 to be held on 13 and 14 April in Paderborn
The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn is the largest computer museum worldwide and a vibrant venue for events. The 6,000 square metre exhibition space presents 5,000 years of the history, present and future of information technology, from the emergence of numbers and writing in 3,000 BC to the computer age of the 21st century.
On 13 and 14 April, the Retro Computer Festival 2024 will take place at the HNF, jointly organised by the HNF and the Dortmund Retro Computer Treffen. Retro computers spanning from the C64 and Ataris to the Amiga and many other long-forgotten hardware and software can be experienced live on this day. Over 50 exhibitors are expected, who will not only present their treasures, but will also be happy to exchange ideas with visitors and give tips on repairs. The main theme of this RCF is the graphical user interface, which was first available 50 years ago on the Xerox Alto. In addition to the exhibition, lectures and workshops will also be offered. Admission to the entire HNF is free on Saturday and Sunday. (nba)
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09.Apr.2024
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Temptations port for CD32 and AGA Amigas released
The developer 'S0Y' has released the final version of his conversion of the jump'n run Temptations (amiga-news.de reported), which originally was released in 1988 for MSX-1 (video of the sixth level). The digital (Spanish-language) full version of the game can be purchased directly from the developer for 5 Euros. A demo version is available on Im Aminet as a WHDLoad, in which you can test the first five levels for 60 seconds each. (dr)
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08.Apr.2024
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Hyperion has been managed by a receiver since last week (Update)
"Ben Hermans BV" (hereinafter: BHBV) is a private company with limited liability owned by Ben Hermans, which has held 97% of the shares in Hyperion since 2019 and acts as a 'director' of Hyperion on paper. In March, bankruptcy proceedings were initiated against BHBV for the second time. In the same month, Ben Hermans had already initiated the founding of a new company with the same name.
As BHBV has not published any statutory annual reports since 2021, it is currently unclear whether the company still holds the majority of shares in Hyperion. Ben Hermans has not responded to an inquiry from amiga-news.de; the appointed liquidator Charlotte Piers tells us she'll get back to us in the next few days with "a more detailed response".
Friday's edition of the Belgian Official Gazette (local copy) now contains the information that insolvency lawyer Bart De Moor has been appointed "voorlopig bewindvoerder" for Hyperion Entertainment. Machine translation tools turn "bewindvoerder" into "administrator" - but as native Dutch speakers tell us, a more accurate translation would be "receiver".
It is currently unclear who appointed De Moor as receiver - if he had been appointed by BHBV's liquidator, this would be a clear indication that Hyperion Entertainment is part of BHBV's bankruptcy estate. We have asked Bart De Moor for confirmation and will update this news item accordingly should he respond to our questions.
Update: (10.04.24, 16:45, cg)
Translation error: in several places, we had translated the German term "Konkursverwalter" to "liquidator" - this is a correct translation, but does not match the English term the native Dutch speakers mentioned in the news item used: They translated "voorlopig bewindvoerder" to "receiver". News item updated accordingly. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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07.Apr.2024
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Turn-based strategy game: New demo version of "Ecliptic"
Ecliptic is described by the author as "a mixture of turn based tactical combat and role playing" (amiga-news.de reported) being a visually reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s (YouTube video). The player's task is to regain control of a spaceship drifting in space and occupied by aliens. Now a second demo has been released for the game which still is in development.
More messages have been added to describe what is going on or what is expected of the player. Modal actions like selecting an item to use or viewing the map can now be cancelled by the icon or key that activated them. Work has also begun on adding further animations to the robot characters for using objects or attacking. As the author writes, the first level is as good as finished and he has started on the second level, "which will lean heavily into paying homage to Aliens".
The game requires 1MB RAM, recommended is an Amiga 1200 with HD and Fast RAM.
(dr)
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07.Apr.2024
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Aminet uploads until 06.04.2024
The following files have been added until 06.04.2024 to Aminet:
MicroExcel_1.0.lha biz/spread 1.5M MOS A Spreadsheed Editor
amos_rocket_science.lha dev/amos 327K examples of targetting
Butterfly.lha dev/c 569K MOS Animation of a picture in C a...
expression_1.1.lha dev/hwood 23K MOS A hollywood plugin
Kwiz2.lha game/2play 34K 68k A Blockbusters-style quiz game
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha game/misc 55M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 2.3...
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha game/misc 55M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.5...
D1X_Rebirth_AGA.lha game/shoot 3.5M 68k Amiga port of Descent (D1X-Re...
D1X_Rebirth_RTG.lha game/shoot 3.5M 68k Amiga port of Descent (D1X-Re...
WhatIFF3.13.lha mags/misc 24M What IFF? #3.13-April-2024
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 7.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 7.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
DOSBox_AGA.lha misc/emu 927K 68k Amiga port of DOSBox
DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 928K 68k Amiga port of DOSBox
CygnusEd_4_DE.lha text/edit 10K New German catalog for Cygnus...
morsconv.lha text/misc 11K 68k Modular Morse code generator
IconSync.lha util/misc 7K 68k Automates icon creation in WH...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 19M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
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OS4Depot uploads until 06.04.2024
The following files have been added until 06.04.2024 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
stackdump.lha uti/she 3kb 4.0 stackdump is a security demonstr...
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AROS Archives uploads until 06.04.2024
The following files have been added until 06.04.2024 to AROS Archives:
icaros_2.3_fix.lha dev/uti 102Mb Little fix for icaros v2.3
whatiff3.13.nodemo.lha doc/mis 841kb Amiga Guide Magazine
residualvm-0.3.1-1.i386-a... emu/mis 5Mb ResidualVM
scummvm-1.9.0-1.i386-aros... emu/mis 16Mb ScummVM
adoom3-1.5.3.i386-aros.zip gam/fps 10Mb ADoom3
residualvm-kens.lha gra/ico 3Mb Unofficial Kens Icons For Residu...
scummvm_kens.lha gra/ico 3kb Unofficial Kens Icons Drawer For...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 06.04.2024
The following files have been added until 06.04.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
Expression_1.1.lha Dependencies/Hollywood A hollywood plugin to c...
SDL_2.30.2_Libraries.lha Dependencies/Library/SDL All Libraries SDL : SDL...
AmiArcadia_32.0.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
ScummVM_2.8.1.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
MicroExcel_1.0.lha Office/Spreadsheet A Spreadsheed Editor
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.04.2024
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 06.04.2024:
- 2024-04-05 improved: After Burner 2 (WeeBee Games/Sega) patch is NTSC compatible now, debug key handling removed from keyboard interrupt (Info)
- 2024-04-04 improved: Turbo Out Run (U.S.Gold) support for 1 disk US version added, manual included, new install script (Info)
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07.Apr.2024
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Space Debris 2024
- Quodlibet
- Turrbedo (Turrican II + Albedo, Fusion Remix)
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07.Apr.2024
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Event: Further details on Kickstart UK show 2024 (Nottingham)
As reported in December, the second edition of Kickstart UK will take place in Nottingham on June 29-30, 2024. More information on the event is now available at the title link - 18 retailers, 10 community groups, 5 speakers and 5 performers will be attending. (snx)
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07.Apr.2024
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Anniversary: 10 years of Kultmags.com
Under the entry dated April 5, 2024, Klaus Sommer looks back on the tenth anniversary of his website kultmags.com at the title link. Kultmags preserves computer and video game magazines in German language of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s digitized for posterity with the permission of the rights holders. (snx)
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07.Apr.2024
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Game: Hack and Slay
In this simple Amiga conversion of the mailbox game "Hack and Slash", the aim is to explore five levels with a stick figure. AmigaOS 3.x and 1 MB RAM are required. (snx)
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06.Apr.2024
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Artikel: Sampling sound on the Amiga
An Amiga has stereo line-out connectors that allow it to play audio, but normally no audio inputs. In order to record sound with the Amiga, additional hardware had to be purchased. This article by Edwin van den Oosterkamp describes an example of such hardware, the "Sampling Cartridge" for the Amiga, which is also available as Open Source project. (dr)
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06.Apr.2024
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Do it yourself: Amiga 2000 5.25" front panel for PiStorm 2K
Klaus Kupferschmid's GitHub project at the title link is about a 5.25" front panel for the Amiga 2000 with openings for USB ports, switches and a MicroSD slot for usage of a PiStorm 2K together with the, originally external, keyboard switch A234. (snx)
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05.Apr.2024
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History of technology: The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disc
IEEE, an online magazine specialising in technology topics, has published a background report on the storage medium floppy disk and the company 3M that is well worth reading.
Floppy discs had an amazingly long life - it was only in January 2024 that the Japanese government announced that it would no longer require floppy disc copies of government applications. 3M got out of the data storage business some 28 years ago when it transferred its floppy disc production to an outsourced company called Imation. Imation still exists, under the name Glassbridge Enterprises, but with a much lower profile.
You can read the entire article in English under the title link. (nba)
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05.Apr.2024
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AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonHD V5.20 for Sam460
The RadeonHD driver software is a graphics driver for RadeonHD graphics cards for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). Version 5 only supports "Southern Islands" cards (HD7000 series), but offers hardware-accelerated video decoding (Enhancer Software 2.2 required). The new version 5.20 has now been released for the Sam460. The changes:
- Fixed a potential crash in the find card code when the card is already in
use
- Fixed an infinite loop in code to get PCIe speed capabilities, which would
trigger if the parent PCIe device isn't the root controller
- Disabled GART for the Sam460 again (was accidentally enabled)
- The usleep() threshold for using the timer device was broken a while ago.
FIXED
- Rewrote usleep() so it no longer needs to open/close the timer device
every time there's a longer delay (lowers overhead)
- Now skips attempting to initialize the card altogether if the card is
already in use
- Fixed a potential crash if initializing the driver failed
- Enabled the UVD interrupt (trap handler)
- Fixed interrupt handling for the Sam460. Caching on PCIe reads from VRAM
was causing the interrupt handler to read stale data, resulting in missed
interrupts which, in turn, causes a complete freeze. Added fallback and
workaround code
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04.Apr.2024
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.4 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.4 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes:
- Requires Greaseweazle 1.16.3
- Read: Added new template "Commodore C64 SingleSided 48-TPI floppy disks (35 tracks).inir" by Richard Verlinden
- Write: New option --gen-tg43 generates 8-inch /TG43 signal on pin 2
- Write: Added new template "CommodoreC64170kbSingleSided(35tracks).iniw" by Richard Verlinden
- Read: --dd option renamed to --densel
- Write: --dd option renamed to --densel
- Read: Fixed reported issue #5: File extension error when select EDSK format
- Convert: Fixed reported issue #5: File extension error when select EDSK format
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04.Apr.2024
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Casual puzzle game: Kondi Krush
"Kondi Krush" is a clone of the smartphone classic Candy Crush: On a playing field filled with sweets, the aim is to place at least three identical elements in a row and making them disappear from the playing field by swapping two pieces of sweet in each turn.
Kondi Krush versions are offered for a host of retro platforms: In addition to the Amiga port (Video), there are also conversions for Commodore 64, Commodore 16/Plus 4 and the Hungarian Videoton TC Computer.
Direct Download:
Executable: kondikrush-amiga (432 KB)
ADF image: kondikrush-amiga-adf (880 KB)
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04.Apr.2024
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Obligement: Interview with AmigaOS 3.2 developer Camilla Boemann
David Brunet has published on his Obligement website an interview with the Danish developer Camilla Boemann, who is part of the AmigaOS 3.2 team.
Besides the english version at the title link there is also a french one. (snx)
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04.Apr.2024
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Video tutorial: Extended Parallax scrolling in AMOS
Following on from his parallax scrolling tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at how to implement commands such as Double Buffer, Autoback, and Screen Swap in order to address some of the scrolling issues in the latest part of his tutorial series. (dr)
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04.Apr.2024
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Preview video: Pumpman v0.003
In addition to several other projects such as "Deathmine", 'PixelPlop' is also working on the game "Pumpman" (amiga-news.de reported), for which he has now published a new preview video. Changes:
- "Fake" vertical scrolling allowing for more floors.
- Increased the spacing between floors.
- Dithering pattern added to the background to help smooth the colour gradient.
- Added a bonus balloon that floats up between the floors.
- Added a trap door at the top so you can complete/exit the level.
- Status bar is now mostly functional.
- Redrew most of the gfx to add more detail.
- Added/changed some sfx.
- Bugfixes.
(dr)
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