01.Mar.2024
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.3
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Version 1.16.3 of the Greaseweazle Tools provide the following changes:
- FDI: Fix import of FDI image files
- gw read, write: --dd option renamed to --densel
- --dd remains valid for now
- gw write: Option --gen-tg43 generates 8-inch /TG43 signal on pin 2
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01.Mar.2024
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Mailbox: AmiExpress 5.6.1
AmiExpress is a rewrite by Darren Coles of the original Joe Hodge/LightSpeed Technologies mailbox program in Amiga E. It is open source and includes most of the features of the previous version as well as new features and bug fixes. Version 5.6.1 offers some fixes to resolve issues when running on 68000, support for conf NDIRS setting in the configuration editor and the option to move mail messages to another conference.
Direct download: Amix561.lha (1,1 MB) (dr)
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01.Mar.2024
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Video tutorial: Further screen commands in AMOS
Following on from his last two videos about screen commands and especially the "Screen Copy" command, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows more screen commands in the current part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, in particular how to scroll a screen, or rather part of a screen. As always, the source file for the programme shown in the video can be downloaded free of charge from his website. (dr)
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01.Mar.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.8
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. Changes in version 5.6.8:
Bugfixes
- GUI Hardware sprite checkbox wouldn't enable when needed
- some RTG options were not changed on-the-fly
- fix mouse drift when using RTG hardware sprite
- absolute mouse movement did not scale correctly in single line mode
- fix offset for button indicators in ControllerMap GUI
- Fix absolute mouse positioning for RTG modes as well
- Fixed crash when using Restart after previous updates
- Fixed crash/freeze when trying to access FloppyDriveBridge devices under macOS
- Ensure changes in virtual mouse and magic mouse are applied immediately
- Removed some buggy Fast copper experimental code
Improvements
- When emulating, disable RTG settings that cannot be changed on-the-fly
- added always on top options to Misc panel in GUI, fixed navigation
- Partial merge of GFX updates from Preview
- improve WHDBooter prefs changes
- implement floppydatapullup option
- more WHDBooter improvements
(dr)
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29.Feb.2024
Jeroen Knoester
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SFX-Engine: Audio Mixer 3.6
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A500) (amiga-news.de reported). Version 3.6 has several new features, such as a high quality mixing option that exchanges CPU time for higher quality sound, a plugin system so that effects can be added to samples that are being played (such as pitch changes), the ability to loop from any point in the sample rather than only the start and more. (dr)
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28.Feb.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.21
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.21 his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. Detailed changes:
- Added an option to block loading of any external assets (images, css, etc) used in HTML emails. When enabled, Iris will only show images attached to the email itself. External content may still be loaded using context menu
- Double-clicking a message in Drafts will now open it in Edit mode
- Right mouse click on the messages list selects the clicked email
- Added a help bubble to the messages list
- Extended the AREXX WRITE command
- It's now possible to create and send calendar invitations in emails
- Updated WebKit & co
(dr)
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28.Feb.2024
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.5 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.4 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. This update introduces a reworked settings UI, possibility to fine-tune browser settings per 1st component of a URL path as well as fixes of reported crashes.
Update: (01.03.2024, 20:50, dr)
Meanwhile version 7.5 is available which fixes reported crashes and HLS Live video playback (live Youtube streams on mobile frontend). (dr)
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28.Feb.2024
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Demo party: Ticket sales for Revision 2024 launched
Ticket sales have now started for the Revision demo party (amiga-news.de reported), which traditionally takes place on the Easter weekend in Saarbrücken, Germany. (dr)
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28.Feb.2024
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Video series: Restoration of an Amiga 4000
In a six-part video series, the YouTube channel "Retronaut" shows how an Amiga 4000, which was part of a whole conglomerate of items used by a commercial television station in the British Midlands in the 1990s and which no longer worked, is brought back to life. (dr)
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28.Feb.2024
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AROS: "Irritating bug of the month" February fixed / Poll for March
In the "Irritating bug of the month" poll for February, the addition of an easy way to enable tethering in the network settings was chosen. AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has added this feature, which will be available in the next update.
The "Irritating bug of the month" survey for March has also begun. Please vote. (dr)
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27.Feb.2024
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Preview video: Dungeon Crawler "The Cthulhu Project"
At the end of last year, we introduced Maurice Doerr's dungeon crawler "The Cthulhu Project". In another preview video, he now shows interactions with computer-controlled characters (NPCs) for the first time. (dr)
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27.Feb.2024
Cameron Armstrong (Mail)
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AI assistant for Amiga development: "Amiga Guru"
Cameron Armstrong, author of the chat program AmigaGPT (amiga-news.de reported), has created a custom GPT based on the Amiga documentation so that it is much more accurate for Amiga development than the standard ChatGPT.
Since ChatGPT sometimes knows quite little about Amiga development (and therefore often gives wrong, albeit convincing, answers), he has created a custom GPT tailored to Amiga development.
It has been trained on the entire contents of all current editions of the official reference manuals, some third-party Amiga development books and all current documentation autodocs for AmigaOS 3.2 and 4.1.
Chatting with custom GPTs requires a ChatGPT Plus subscription. (dr)
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26.Feb.2024
Puni/Void (ANF)
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Diskmagazine: Voting on Amiga demoscene charts for Versus #10
Issue 10 of Versus, the disk magazine of the demo groups Nukleus and Void with the Amiga demoscene charts, is in preparation and the voting has started. At the title link you can name your favorites for AmigaOS (OCS/ECS) and AmigaOS 4, whereby not all fields in the corresponding tables have to be filled in. (snx)
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26.Feb.2024
ANF
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.7
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has released version 1.7 of his audio editor "Rave". The program requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 and the Enhancer-Core classes from A-EON Technology.
Die Änderungen in der Version 1.7:
- The program now keeps a list of recently opened files, and has an associated item in the Project menu for quickly opening these files again
- Reworked the file requester, which now features a more flexible Access Panel with a user-definable Favourites section
- Another addition to the file requester is the Browsing History pop-up for selecting recently used paths
- Fixed a playback-related bug that would make Rave unresponsive, waiting for a signal that never arrives
- Updated documentation
Download: rave.lha (3 MB) (snx)
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26.Feb.2024
Amitopia (ANF)
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.6
AmiFox, first released a year ago, displays modern web pages on an Amiga or under AROS by downloading and displaying the pages converted to images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server").
New features of version 0.6 include the ability to set the preferred language so that Google and other sites do not always appear in Finnish (the public AmiFox server is located in Finland), and a history of the websites visited. (snx)
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26.Feb.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 155 (Italian/English) - 10th anniversary
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about the games Roach Motel and Spheroid as well as the program PageSetter 3. (snx)
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25.Feb.2024
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Aminet uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to Aminet:
SonosController_AROS.lha comm/misc 2.6M x86 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_MOS.lha comm/misc 2.6M MOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3.lha comm/misc 2.2M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3fp... comm/misc 2.1M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS4.lha comm/misc 3.0M OS4 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_WOS.lha comm/misc 2.5M WOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
amigassh.lha comm/net 32K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga
AmiGemini.lha comm/net 342K AOS Gemini/Spartan/Gopher/Finger/...
BSDSocket-Extension.lha dev/amos 35K 68k Use bsdsocket.library in AMOS...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
escribed_ellipse.pdf docs/misc 107K ellipse targetted through 5 p...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 241K 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
RescueLander.lha game/actio 118K 68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
MCE.lha game/edit 4.0M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Chocolate_DOOM.lha game/shoot 2.5M 68k Amiga port of Chocolate DOOM
Pana_SX-KC600.lha mods/mpg 4.5M Music played by Panasonic SX-...
hippoplayerSource.lha mus/play 2.0M HippoPlayer source code
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 402K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
GF4RSID1.zip pix/misc 76K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID2.zip pix/misc 81K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID3.zip pix/misc 78K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID4.zip pix/misc 83K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID5.zip pix/misc 81K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID6.zip pix/misc 85K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID7.zip pix/misc 77K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID8.zip pix/misc 75K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID9.zip pix/misc 78K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSIDA.zip pix/misc 79K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDB.zip pix/misc 79K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDC.zip pix/misc 80K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDD.zip pix/misc 76K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
NAFCYI1991S1-B04.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B05.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B06.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B08.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B09.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B10.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B11.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B12.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip text/bfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip text/bfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B24.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B25.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-04.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-05.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-06.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-07.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-08.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-09.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-10.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-11.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-12.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-13.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip text/pfont 1.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-15.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-16.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-17.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-21.zip text/pfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-22.zip text/pfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-24.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-25.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
gcr1.1.lha util/cli 5K 68k Show console window resolutio...
HexSee_OS4.lha util/misc 399K OS4 Hex File Viewer (OS4 version)
iGame.lha util/misc 438K 68k Front-end for WHDLoad
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 662K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 834K OS4 Multipurpose utility
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 18M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
AppLauncher_sbar.lha util/wb 43K MOS Run apps from the screenbar
(snx)
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25.Feb.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to OS4Depot:
sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your...
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
amigemini.lha net/bro 342kb 4.0 Gemini/Spartan/Gopher/Finger/Nex...
rvncd.lha net/ser 115kb 4.1 Amiga VNC Server
hexsee.lha uti/fil 399kb 4.1 Hex File Viewer
igame.lha uti/mis 438kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
reportplus.lha uti/mis 834kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
amiupdate_dan.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 Danish catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_deu.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_fra.lha uti/wor 21kb 4.0 AmiUpdate French Catalog
amiupdate_ita.lha uti/wor 47kb 4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_spa.lha uti/wor 19kb 4.1 Spanish catalog files for AmiUpdate
wb2filer.lha uti/wor 48kb 4.0 Hack to run Filer when dbl-click...
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25.Feb.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to AROS Archives:
usbmidi.i386-aros.lha dri/aud 66kb MidiDriver with source
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25.Feb.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
AppLauncher_2.6.lha Ambient/Screenbar Run your apps from the ...
Protrekkr_2.6.5.lha Audio/Tracker A hybrid of modern day ...
SonosController_1.4.lha Devices/Speakers Control your Sonos spea...
iGame_2.4.6.lha Games/Launcher A frontend to launching...
Woof_14.0.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Woof! is a continuation...
Easy2Install_1.0b49.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
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25.Feb.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.02.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 24.02.2024:
- 2024-02-23 new: Spectral (The Black Lotus) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2024-02-21 new: Panacea (The Black Lotus) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2024-02-21 improved: Darkside (The Black Lotus) caches are enabled on 68020/030 without MMU system too now (Info, Image)
(snx)
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25.Feb.2024
Forum 64 (Webseite)
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DIY: "Joystick Reanimator" repairs micro switches using electric impulses
C64 fan 'GI-Joe' - a service technician in real life - has come across many faulty microswitches in his professional life. The silver-plated switching contacts of switches that only have to switch very low currents were often oxidized: the arcing that occurs at higher currents, which "cleans" the oxidizing contacts in a kind of self-cleaning function, does not occur at lower currents. Sooner or later, the electrical resistances become too high due to the oxidizing switching contacts, even though the switch switches mechanically perfectly.
To solve this problem with the microswitches built into many joysticks, GI-Joe invented the "Joystick Reanimator": A joystick that no longer works is connected to the device. When the stick is moved or a fire button is pressed, the associated switch is then activated with a current high enough to generate the "self-cleaning" arc. The circuit board also contains connection sockets for a multimeter so that the electrical resistances of the microswitches built into the joystick can be easily tested.
German and English instructions as well as all documents required for reproduction (including circuit diagram, assembly list and KiCad project files) are available for download. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Feb.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 167 - preview and excerpts
Previews and excerpts from Amiga Future 167 (March/April 2024) have been published on the magazine's website. Amongst other things, this issue features the following topics:
- Show report: Passione Amiga Day 2023
- Interview: Michael Kafke (ASM Game)
- Preview: Jari-Matti Rally
- Review: The last Dungeon
- Review: Adventure 1 & 2
- Review: Jack the Pit
- Review: Spheroid
- Review: Ami-H.E.R.O.
- Review: Stuntman Seymour
- Review: Board game vs Amiga: Darts
- Review: FS-UAE 3.1
- Review: Frotz
- Review: Santa´s Workout III - Silent Night
- Review: Denise – ITX Amiga 500
- Review: Super Delivery Boy: The Holiday Shift
- Review: Amiblaster Clockport Edition
- Review: Pi Storm #2
- Book Review: PHP 8 und MySQL
- Demoscene: Soil, Knight Chips
- Workshop: Dynamic websites with PHP
The staff asks all Amiga Future subscribers to check that they supplied both their current postal and e-mail addresses to the team. The Amiga Future gets packed and shipped a few days prior to its actual release date, so any changes or updates to the address should passed on to AF before we dispatch it. Bear in mind that requests to forward on mail usually do not cover magazines.
The team also asks that you check that your subscription fee(s) are paid - apparently, quite a few subscription fees are still not fully paid. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Feb.2024
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Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.4 for all Amiga systems
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga program for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.4, for the first time also for AROS and thus for all Amiga systems, written in the Hollywood 10.
As the author reports, he had set up AROS One 2.4 on his older "tinker PC", including a functioning network, and was finally able to test the AROS version of the Sonos controller. After implementing a workaround for a small Zune bug, everything now also works with AROS. The changes in the new version:
- NEW: first release for AROS x86
- NEW: ARexx command REINDEX to invoke re-indexing the Sonos music library
- NEW: include all icons in every distribution in new subdrawer "Icons"
- NEW: include additional icons by AMIGASYSTEM (thanks Carlos!)
- IMPROVED: reloading the browser with F5 will not loose the selected position and item anymore.
- FIXED: loading of data (playlists, queues, etc.) is no longer limited to 100 entries (bug introduced with 1.3).
- FIXED: if network is off the app won't crash on startup but show an error message.
- FIXED: possible crash when clicking the "looking for Sonos..." entry.
(dr)
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23.Feb.2024
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Power supply adaptor: STL files for 3D printing a 'PowerShark' case
On printables.com, 'Shred' has released designs for a 3D printable case for the USB power supply adaptor Powershark. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Feb.2024
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TCP networking on Kickstart 1.3: AmigaNOS tutorial
KA9Q aka "NOS" is an early TCP stack designed for Packet Radio or computers with serial connections. The existing Amiga port is compatible with Kickstart 1.3 and supports both SLIP as well as PPP.
In his tutorial, 'neongod' describes - in authentic 90's internet visual design - how he installed and configured AmigaNOS on his Amiga 500 and networked it to a Raspberry Pi using a serial cable. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Feb.2024
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Book: "68000 - The Flame Wars" available, sales discount
The German-French coproduction "68000: The Flame Wars" (initially: "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars") covers the competition between Amiga and Atari ST in the second half of the 1980ies combining factual and opinion-based approaches. Starting last June, the book could be preordered, now it is in stock and can be purchased regularly from the Germen publisher Microzeit.
The hardcover edition costs 44,90 Euro plus shipping, customers will also be supplied with a free PDF version. If you use the code "45 Years MC68000" when purchasing, you get a 4,90 Euro discount. The first 20 customers using this code will also be supplied with a free "Flame-Pack" (refer to "Perks" of the original crowdfunding campaign for details). (cg) (Translation: cg)
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22.Feb.2024
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Book: "AmigaOS 3.2 – Das Handbuch" available, English version announced
The German book "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" ("AmigaOS 3.2 - The Reference Manual") has been published by Look Behind You. It has 512 pages and is available both as a hardcover book and as a PDF file.
The official press release can be found in our corresponding German news-item. Also an English version of the book has been announced. (cg) (Translation: snx)
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22.Feb.2024
AmigaPortal.de (ANF)
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Coders wanted for an AGA remake of Cryos 'Dune'
Graphic designer 'barjack' is designing a remake of Cryo's classic adventure Dune for AGA based Amiga computers. The new version will preserve the original story, but expand it with new locations, characters and storylines. On top of that it is intended to look a lot better, given that it targets AGA and uses the full PAL resolution - a few example illustrations are supposed to showcase the improved visuals:
Several planned changes to the gameplay have been outlined so far:
- Battles will be fought in an isometric 3D environment, they will be turn based affairs inspired by tactical RPGs
- The resource management part of the game will be expanded with additional trade options
- 6 new characters from Frank Herbert's ScienceFiction novel that the original game is based on
- bigger playfield: the palace is mentioned as an example - it will contain 42 locations now, not just 11
- All locations and characters will feature their own illustrations, all groups will feature their own leader
Barjack has announced his project on amigafrance.com a few days ago, asking for interested coders - preferably native french speakers, to make communication easier. He states he has been contacted by three interested programmers so far, they will be supplied with detailed specifications of his design to see if they're interested to implement it.
Work on the design was started in mid 2023. If the final game will run on a stock A1200 or require a 68030 and some FastRAM is yet to be determined. The game will be distributed for free, but barjack would like to create a limited run of a physical edition. (cg)
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21.Feb.2024
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amiga-news.de: Server update on Friday evening
This Friday evening, amiga-news.de's server will be upgraded to a newer version of Debian Linux resulting in a short period of downtime for the website. Since the update was tested several times in a test environment, we're confident update will be painless and expect the job to take less than half an hour. (cg)
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20.Feb.2024
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Article on the advertising games of the 90s (German)
In a (German) GamersGlobal article at the title link, 'Nischenliebhaber' looks back at the advertising games of the 1990s. These include the games "BiFi 2 - Action in Hollywood", "Das Telekommando kehrt zurück", "Victor Loomes" and "Der rasende Reporter", which were also released for the Amiga. (snx)
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20.Feb.2024
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Accelerator: PiStorm16 for the Amiga 600 in development
At the title link Michal Schulz describes the PiStorm16 turbocard currently under development. In contrast to the classic PiStorm, an Efinix FPGA chip is used here as with the PiStorm32-lite. This means that no external devices are required for configuration, which is loaded as soon as the Emu68 emulation starts.
A first prototype is currently being manufactured, and separate connections for HDMI and network are planned for the future. (snx)
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19.Feb.2024
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Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.2.0. Changes:
New features/updates
- MacroSystem DraCo emulation. Full emulation except V-Lab Motion video board which is totally undocumented. Amiga clone without Amiga custom chips.
- Picmatic Marbella Vice light gun laser disc arcade game is now fully working.
- American Laser Games and PicMatic statefile support.
- Genlock emulation display positioning/scaling updates.
- Retina Z2 and Z3/Altais RTG board emulation. (NCR 77C22E+ and 77C32BLT SVGA chips)
- S3 Trio64 PCI RTG board.
- On screen led font is now configurable, settings in GUI Miscellaneous panel.
- A2410 updates (Latest Picasso96 driver with DMA mode enabled graphics corruption)
- All emulated RTG boards now autoswitch (Automatic switch between chipset mode and RTG mode). Previously only RTG boards that have built-in switcher and PCI RTG boards autoswitched.
- Do not emulate special cases in native chipset screen mode last and first line(s) unless Overscan mode is Overscan+ or higher. (For example OCS Denise top and bottom line mismatched blanking start and end)
- NTSC mode screen vertical positioning improved.
- Disk swapper insert/remove cursor position now works as expected. Same image can be inserted in multiple slots.
5.1.0 Bugs fixes
- Fast 68020+ mode interrupt timing fix. (Some games hung or had missing or badly playing sound)
- Copper timing was unreliable in non-CE modes (Mainly affected horizontally multiplexed sprites)
- Dark mode was not initialized if config file was started directly (for example from command line), without opening GUI. Some sub-dialogs didn’t support dark mode.
- Zero length disk DMA with enabled disk word sync never finished (some copy protections failed to work).
- Game Ports panel default config overrode button 4 with on screen keyboard enable/disable option even if it was already configured in Input panel.
Older bug fixes
- Any TV overscan option + NTSC mode: few pixel grapohics corruption was visible in right edge of screen.
- Many hardware emulated RTG boards had problems with horizontal panning.
- 68040 MMU emulation fix. (MOVEM restart didn’t work correctly in all situations and MOVES 68040-only special case bus fault behavior was wrong)
- CyberVision 64/3D and Picasso IV overlay fixes. P96PipDemo is now working correctly.
- Ateo Pixel 64 had BGR/RGB swapped colors in most color depths.
- UAE AHI ignored AHI volume slider setting.
- Fixed mouse cursor jumping randomly when in tablet mode and clicking mouse button(s).
- Game Ports panel input device type getting stuck or entering Test/Remap window crashing in some situations.
- Some config file and registry/ini paths were always written in absolute format even if WinUAE was configured to relative path mode.
- "AVI output enabled" (and few similar on/off buttons) button type changed, previously they worked unexpectedly in some situations, visible state was not always matching internal state.
- Some sub dialogs (for example Gameports input mapping autofire) had old style and no high DPI support.
- 256 color screenshot mode created wrong colors in some situations, usually when AGA and almost all palette entries were allocated.
- Changing some native display settings (Filter/Display panel) settings didn’t reset all required display parameters until full display reset (for example window was resized)
(dr)
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19.Feb.2024
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Video: Building a PlipBox adapter
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he builds his own PlipBox adapter for his Amiga 2000 in order to use it to get connected to the Internet. (dr)
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19.Feb.2024
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Blog: Restauration of an A1060 Sidecar, part 2
A few months ago, Richard Körber was very lucky to acquire an A1060 Sidecar on eBay and reports in a three-part series on how he restored it. In the first part he disassembled it, in the second part now available under the title link all the broken parts are repaired and the Sidecar is restored to its original condition. (dr)
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19.Feb.2024
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.6
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.6 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Some optimisation in list loading reduces the time needed more than 42%.
Direct download: iGame-v2.4.6-20240218.lha (438 Kb) (dr)
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18.Feb.2024
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.54
After AmiUpdate was recently updated several times (amiga-news.de reported), another update has been released today with version 2.54. Changes:
- Changed the main list to include a "Last Changed" column. This now allows you to sort updates
according to date.
- Improved the log output for clarity when connecting to WWW realms and using login credentials.
- Prefs_Updates 53.18 (12.2.2024):
Missed yet another application interface conflict. Hopefully this should be it now.
(dr)
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18.Feb.2024
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Aminet uploads until 17.02.2024
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to Aminet:
ellipse.lha dev/amos 15K ellipse targetted 5 points
ellipse_exact.lha dev/amos 9K Precise solution of ellipse
escribed_ellipse.pdf docs/misc 94K ellipse targetted through 5 p...
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 372K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 662K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
ham_convert.zip gfx/conv 5.2M HAM graphic converter
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 5.0M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
WizzPlay.lha mus/play 8K 68k A tiny protracker player
morsconv.lha text/misc 10K 68k Modular Morse code generator
(snx)
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18.Feb.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.02.2024
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to OS4Depot:
resrc4.lha dev/mis 125kb 4.1 MC680x0 Disassembler
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wipeout.lha gam/dri 1Mb 4.1 Re-implementation of the 1995 PS...
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
luettjebookholler.lha off/mis 2Mb 4.1 Little Personal Finance program
amiupdate_dan.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 Danish catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_ita.lha uti/wor 47kb 4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
(snx)
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18.Feb.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 17.02.2024
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to AROS Archives:
ptk_v2.6.5.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 23Mb Tracker program with advance fea...
mididriver.zip dri/aud 49kb MidiDriver
(snx)
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18.Feb.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.02.2024
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
openxcom_1.0.lha Games/Strategy A free open-source reim...
(snx)
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18.Feb.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.02.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 17.02.2024:
(snx)
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18.Feb.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:
- Poormouth
- Shadow Fighter BGM09
(snx)
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18.Feb.2024
Simon Adolf (ANF)
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Event: Report and video from AmigaWinterTreffen in Großensee (Germany)
From February 9-11 2024 this year's "AmigaWinterTreffen" event took place in Großensee, Germany. A show report by Simon Adolf can be found in our German news-item, also there is a video on YouTube. (snx)
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18.Feb.2024
Amitopia (ANF)
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.5 with Itch.io downloads
AmiFox displays modern websites on an Amiga by downloading and displaying the pages converted into images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server").
New features of version 0.5 include the ability to download files directly from Itch.io and the display of the URL as a QR code, for example to continue surfing on a cell phone. The browser is available for AmigaOS and AROS (x86, x64, ARM). (snx)
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17.Feb.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.7
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. Changes in version 5.6.7:
Bugfixes
- Use path-type config file line save method.
- SX32Pro can support 128M RAM, fix memory mapping.
- "Warp mode reset" on the fly change wasn't recognized
- Fixed GUI->Chipset->Chipset Extra dropdown not being updated correctly
- Revert Vsync option effect: only affect internal emulation state
- Wnsure keyboard keys are released when pressing Alt-Tab
- Ignore Alt-Tab if used to release focus
Improvements
- History list paths now follow relative/absolute path mode.
- Merge updates from Preview branch
- Improve auto-crop accuracy
(dr)
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17.Feb.2024
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Demoparty: The nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards
This weekend, the demo party "MountainBytes 2024" will take place in Switzerland (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday evening, the nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards were determined, which will then be presented during Revision 2024, which takes place from 29 March to 1 April in Saarbrücken. Among the candidates are also some Amiga entries in three categories:
Best Midschool Production
Best Soundtrack
Outstanding Technical Achievement
(dr)
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17.Feb.2024
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Emulation: BBoot bootloader V0.6 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 0.6 solves problems when booting the AmigaOne machine with the latest QEMU 9 version.
As Balaton Zoltan kindly explains to us, this new version is currently only required for those users who compile QEMU themselves from the current Git master repository, from which version 9.0 will later emerge.
The developer has also provided a tutorial Booting AmigaOS 4.1 on QEMU with BBoot.
However, as Alinea, for example, has informed us, the AmigaOne version of AmigaOS 4 has not been available for some time despite ordering from Hyperion Entertainment. The company could not be reached for comment. (dr)
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17.Feb.2024
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AROS: Music program ProTrekkr v2.6.6 (update)
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 2.6.5 was released for AROS (and FreeBSD, macOS and Windows). Changes:
- Added handling for 512 midi patches via bank selection.
- Fixed a couple of bugs in the standalone replay.
- Added effects 3F & 40 to set the scale of the two 303 units.
- The file keyboards.txt was missing from the repository.
- Added effects 29, 2A & 2B to turn tracks compressor on/off, set compression threshold & ratio respectively.
- Fixed the audio bug on Intel Macs.
Download: ptk_v2.6.6_aros.zip (23 MB)
Update (21.02.2024, 06:05):
Version 2.6.6 is available and the download link above was adapted. Changes:
- Doesn't actualize UI from audio thread anymore (which fixed a few issues).
- Fixed the 303 units note off bug.
- Added a function to swap two instruments in the patterns.
- Refactored a lot of the code
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16.Feb.2024
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Platformer: Jump'n Bump (beta version)
Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of his port of the game Jump'n Bump using his Scorpion Engine, which essentially contains the core functions of the original game, but has not yet been extensively tested, so there may still be a few bugs here and there. New features:
- Title screen (eg, player select)
- Players at same height repel each other
- Butterflies
- Score screen, including breakdown of each player's kills vs other players
Still to come:
- Title screen text loop
- Performance mode build for smooth gameplay on A500
- Mega Drive conversion
- Maybe additional levels derived from the original game's map packs?
- AI and/or some form of single player mode
Download: jump_n_bump_LATEST.adf (dr)
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16.Feb.2024
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Tool: EmptyADF 1.0
After several beta versions, Darren 'dmcoles' Cole released the first stable version of "ReBuild" about a week ago, which should make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (amiga-news.de reported). Krzysztof Donat (bitplan) has now used ReBuild to create the EmptyADF tool, which can be used to generate empty ADF files. Main features:
- creating DD (880 KB) or HD (1.76 MB) disk images
- creating OFS or FFS disk images
- creating images with or without system bootblock
- creating disk images with your own label
- completing system disk dates:
- last root alteration date
- last disk alteration date
- filesystem creation date
He tested it under AmigaOS 3.2, but it should run on any Amiga with Kickstart 3.0+ and installed ReAction libraries. (dr)
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16.Feb.2024
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Twin-Stick-Shooter: Pre-Order of boxed editions of Cecconoid
At the end of 2022, the musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' - for example the Amiga port of Knightmare - began porting the game "Cecconoid", originally published by "Triple Eh?": "an 8-bit inspired, flick-screen, twin-stick-shooter, set in an alternate dimension where the pixels are still chunky, and the bad guys are black and white. Except for their dangly red bits..." (YouTube video).
Now Thalamus Digital, an independent video game developer and publisher, is offering the game for pre-order in various boxed versions, which should be available in April 2024. As the developer explained to us when asked, the game has now been finalised and the digital version should also be available when the physical versions start shipping. (dr)
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15.Feb.2024
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TCP/IP stack: Roadshow 1.15 released
Press release: "Slightly delayed by only 18 months (we are getting faster), the free Roadshow TCP/IP stack 1.15 update is now available to all customers.
This update is focused on improving installation and maintenance tasks, as well as making the installation documentation more useful and accessible. The single documentation file, still small in 2014, became increasingly unwieldy and has become a set of shorter files, each focused on one single aspect of Roadshow. By request, new documentation has been added which details all the files which will be installed for Roadshow.
The single installation script, which combined several tasks, became a set of scripts, each with its own task. The new update script will take care of upgrading an older Roadshow installation (versions 1.9-1.14) as well of upgrading a currently installed demo version to the commercial version.
New commands have been added to automatically find and install network device configuration files and fix errors & defects in the many configuration files Roadshow uses. You may no longer need to find and install the network device configuration files to match your network devices all by yourself.
By request, a 'compact' Roadshow installation disk image (1.76 MByte high-density) is available for the first time, containing a 'reduced' version of the full installation archive. The 'compact' installation is restricted to software built for all Amigas (68000 CPU or better) and omits the large reference documentation.
As before, bug fixes and smaller enhancements have been made, which are detailed in the installation documentation. Some of the bugs resisted detection for more than 20 years... Starting with this Roadshow version, all the commands (in particular ftp, wget and tcpdump) consistently work under Kickstart 2.04, assuming that sufficient memory is available.
The new Roadshow software development kit (SDK), version 1.8, is also available for download. It contains much more example source code than before, including source code for all the new Roadshow commands. The vbcc compiler is fully supported for the first time and the existing gcc compiler support has been significantly improved.
Our thanks go to the beta testers and forum members who helped to make this update possible and to spark the ideas which led to the creation of the new Roadshow commands, the 'compact' installation and the reworked installation documentation!
Roadshow ist available in three formats:
- as a digital download
- on CD-ROM
- on USB card (FAT32-formatted medium)
The CD-ROM and USB card versions include a digital download for Roadshow.
If you already bought the digital download, you can upgrade to the CD ROM or the USB card version for 4,90 ¤, plus shipping, in our online shop.
If you bought the CD-ROM version, you can 'upgrade' to the USB card version for 4,90 ¤, plus shipping, in our online shop. The same holds true if you bought the USB card version and wish to 'upgrade' to the CD-ROM version.
Careful: In order to order an upgrade, you need to do so with the same online shop account which you previously bought Roadshow with.
Roadshow update: To receive the free update from Roadshow, simply log into your account at snx)
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15.Feb.2024
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Event: 10th Alternative Computer Meeting in Wolfsburg (Germany)
The 10th meeting for alternative operating systems and computers in the Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Flechtorf near Wolfsburg, Germany, will take place from June 28 to 30, 2024. All fans of home computers and consoles from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, as well as their clones and successors, are welcome.
According to the organizers, the Alternative Computer Meeting will remain mainly an Amiga event. For years, regular guests have included Entwickler X, Alinea Computer, Frank Mariak and members of A1K.org, and also further developers like Daniel Müßener, Costel Mincea and Martin Schüler have been there already. (snx)
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14.Feb.2024
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Video tutorial: "Screen Copy" command in AMOS
Following on from his last video about screen commands, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at the screen commands "Screen Copy", "Screen Hide" and "Screen Show" in another part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro. As always, the source file for the program shown in the video can be downloaded free of charge from his website. (dr)
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14.Feb.2024
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Blog: Restauration of an A1060 Sidecar, part 1
The A1060 Sidecar is an expansion hardware device developed by Commodore and released in 1986 for the Amiga 1000 computer. It features a complete PC XT-clone system mounted in an expansion case which connected to the expansion bus on the right side of the Amiga 1000 computer.
A few months ago, Richard Körber was very lucky to acquire such a sidecar on eBay and reports on how he restores it in a three-part series. The first part is available at the title link. (dr)
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14.Feb.2024
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Platformer: Playable demo of "Silhouette Threat" for AGA Amigas
Three weeks ago, we introduced the platformer "Silhouette Threat", which 'psquaredish' is developing together with his daughter for AGA computers with the Scorpion Engine. Now he has released a playable demo version of the first level (YouTube video). (dr)
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13.Feb.2024
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AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.30.0 Release Candidate 2
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the second release candidate of version 2.30.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Changes:
- Add "dead key" support.
- Add checkkeys test program.
- Improve installer.
- Update documentation.
Download: SDL2.lha (7,0 MB) (dr)
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13.Feb.2024
ANF
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AROS distribution: AROS One 2.4 (x86)
The distribution "AROS One" (screenshot), which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.4 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings can also be found.
This is the most stable AROS x86 version to date, with many bug fixes relating to Wanderer and hardware compatibility, the list of which has since been further revised. Above all, however, the distribution has now been compiled with the C library, which makes porting and compiling easier for developers, but requires to be installed from scratch because it is no longer compatible with the old core and the old software included in the contrib archive. Thus own configurations of the included software must therefore be saved and reinstalled manually.
Changes:
- Update AROS One OS System:
- Update Descriptor Datatypes (Image File)
- Update Dopus4 Config
- Update ZuneARC (Fixated LZH Archive)
- New BootSound (Presets/BootSounds)
- Add Menu GRUB "Early Startup Control"
- Update OWB Config (fixed Fonts)
- Update AROS One Apps:
- Icondrop 1.1.0 (Creating DualPNG icons)
- SCANdal 1.4
- VorbisTools 1.4.0
- JCalc 0.4
- IconDropx86 1.2
- Image2PDF 2.5
- Potrace 1.16
- Dcraw 8.89
- Memeter 2.2
- WorldTime 1.31
- RNOEffects 2.0
- Demos Mindlapse
- Sacrificio Pagano 2.10
- MCC_Thebar 26.22
- Protrekkr 2.6.4
- Sonos Controller 1.3
- LoView 2024
- World Construction Set 2.031
- Update AROS One Games:
- Abbaye Des Morts
- WormWars
- AstralGame
Updates Core ABIv0:
- Functionalities:
- Introduce new C library, synchronized with 64-bit AROS (deadwood)
- Allow linux hosted AROS to work under WSL (Kalamatee)
- Better default mouse cursor image (JuanDoble07)
- Early Boot Menu made more functional (JuanDoble07, Kalamatee)
- Updates:
- AROS build system (deadwood)
- Italian and Polish translations (AMIGASYSTEM, subocz)
- Prefs/Boot 1.4 (deadwood)
- Functional fixes:
- Wanderer (bugs: #107) (deadwood)
- fat-handler (bugs: #107) (deadwood)
- intuition.library (bugs: no auto scroll up screen) (JuanDoble07)
- dos.library (bugs: NOMOUNT partitions are automounted, wrong path copying) (JuanDoble07, Ronnie Beck)
- exec.library (bugs: infinite crash loop) (deadwood)
- dos.library (bugs: #60) (deadwood)
- utility.library (bugs: #63) (deadwood)
- stdlib.library (bugs: wrong support for '*' in sscanf) (deadwood)
- Stability fixes:
- muimaster.library (deadwood)
- debug-handler (deadwood)
(snx)
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13.Feb.2024
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Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb V2.6
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
In this update mainly file usage was improved. Changes:
- import previously unmountable files on a disk (DD/HD 880KB/1.76MB), e.g. single files such as demo.lha (YouTube video), todos.txt, space_ship.iff, blitter_force.asm
- extended ADF files are recognized by header bytes regardless of its file extension
- select files from zip folders, improved zip file support
- upgraded to most recent vAmigaCore v2.6 for increased machine compatibility
(dr)
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13.Feb.2024
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Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (V0.1)
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). This second early demo version he calls "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) having more than 80 enemies in less than a minute playtime. The game should run on an Amiga 500.
Direct download: NeonWorld.adf.zip (93 KB) (dr)
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12.Feb.2024
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Demoparty: Results of Lovebyte 2024 (update)
Last weekend, Lovebyte 2024 took place on Discord and Twitch (amiga-news.de reported). Three Amiga productions were among the first-placed ones in the various categories:
- 1st place for Glenz 1k by gigabates / Desire in the category "1k Intro Oldschool"
- 2nd place for strss by Losso / AttentionWhore in the category "512 Byte Intro Oldschool"
- 6th place for Tiny Squares by gigabates / Desire in the category "64 Byte Intro Oldschool"
Update: (13.02.2024, 22:01, dr)
Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, has explained on his website "heckmeck!" about the creation of the demo "strss". (dr)
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12.Feb.2024
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Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.3 (update)
ApolloExplorer is a simple file exchange programme that can be used to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga running an Apollo card and vice versa over the network. A server software runs in the background on the Amiga and allows a client running on a PC with Windows, Linux or MacOS to connect to the Amiga and browse the local hard drives. This is the first stable version, while previous ones were still considered as beta versions. Changes:
- A problem where certain Apollo Accelerator targeted distributions used an icon for the SD Card that didn't appear in the PC client browser has been fixed.
- Similarly, FAT filesystems (SD Cards are formated such) will get the default def_SD0.info icon if this available on the Amiga.
Update: (12.02.2024, 20:18, dr)
The developer has pointed out that his application should basically run on all Amigas that are equipped with sufficient CPU and RAM to run a web browser. For example, ApolloExplorer should work on PiStorm Amigas or 68030 Amigas. (dr)
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12.Feb.2024
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Blog: The Infocom logo
The blog "Zarf Updates" deals with the design and history of the Infocom logo in an article. (dr)
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Music: Piano arrangements of Amiga game music
Grazia Pizzuto is a church musician in Bonn and teaches piano and improvisation. She also runs a YouTube channel where she presents piano arrangements of game music, including Amiga games. She has recently published the following songs:
When asked how she came to arrange and play Amiga game music, Grazia kindly replied:
"I have never had an Amiga myself. It all started when my husband introduced me to Chris Hülsbeck's Piano Collection. These are sheet music and CD/mp3s that we had supported as a Kickstarter project. When I heard this music for the first time, it immediately appealed to me and since then I've always been looking for good music in (retro) computer games.
Several factors play a role in the selection of the pieces: First and foremost, I consider the recommendations/tips from my viewers. Another decisive factor is how much the pieces appeal to me personally. I also talk to my husband about how much a piece of music evokes nostalgia in him (he had a C64 and knew the Amiga from friends). Next, I check whether there is already sheet music available, for example on Musescore, or whether I have to arrange the piece myself.
For the Amiga songs I often work with MOD files in an MOD file tracker. If I have neither notes nor MODs, I often listen to the originals and then write the notes from what I hear. Of course, I also have a look at longplays to get an idea of the game. Occasionally I play one or two games on emulators (Vice, WinUAE, RetroArch) to get a feel for the gameplay."
Thank you very much, Grazia. We look forward to many more Amiga titles! (dr)
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11.Feb.2024
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.7
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 13.1 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE and GDB." (YouTube video). Changes of version 1.7.7:
- FIX: Resource bitmap colors red & blue swapped
- FIX: auto-reload .size.amigaprofile, .shrinklerstats if changed on disk
- CHG: changed shrinkler output name from a.exe.config.shrinkler to a.shrinkler_config.exe so you can use EXE2ADF on the resulting shrinkled file
- CHG: Makefile: don't strip symbol names (-s) in elf2hunk so Shrinkler can display nicer shrinklerstats
- FIX: fixed/optimized memclr
- NEW: ELF disassembly: move cursor with Shift to show accumulated cycle counts
- FIX: flashing document when Show Source has been disabled in Profiler Assembly view
(dr)
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11.Feb.2024
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Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.1
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the amiga version of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally released by Data East in 1986 (YouTube video). Following the release at the beginning of March, there is now a first update
- Tweaks to fire tank, flame vanishes immediately when destroyed.
- Fixed occasional crashing when helicopter is onscreen.
- Fixed scores now register if game beaten on 2nd loop.
- Fixed powerup properly deactivating after game over.
- Added sound effects.
(dr)
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11.Feb.2024
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AROS: CAMD MIDI driver (update)
In our (German) news item on the release of version 1.0 of the multimedia MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes for Amiga OS4.1, Alfred Faust stated: "Before I made the OS4.1 FE version, I worked intensively on the AROS version. Unfortunately, AROS lacks a usable MIDI transfer. Without this, BarsnPipes is NOT usable. I had tried very hard to write a CAMD driver for USB MIDI transmission. Unfortunately, this did not lead to the success I had hoped for."
In a thread on AROS World, help was sought in this regard, which Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has now provided using his CAMD-MIDI driver under the title link.
Regarding the installtion he has written:
- Delete any file present in the devs:midi directory (probably just "debugdriver")
- Copy the file "mididriver" into devs:midi directory.
- Reboot.
In the archive there are two tools:
- "ShowClusters" will show the midi ports of the driver.
- "MidiWatch" will monitor a given port as argument (usually mididriver.in.0 or mididriver.out.0).
Update: (16.02.2024, 06:18, dr)
A new version is available on Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet's website: it fixes a bug that caused AROS to crash. He has also added the shell commands MidiThru (forwards messages from one port to another) and MidiSendC (sends a middle C to a specific port).
Charlet also found out that there are two bugs in camdusbmidi.class.c that prevent the sending of multiple midi messages in the nParseMidiOut() function. A corrected version is now also included in the archive. The following must therefore be installed:
- Copy "mididriver" into devs:midi (and remove any file that may be there before).
- Replace "camdusbmidi.class" from SYS:Classes/USB with the one included in the archive.
- Reboot.
(dr)
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Aminet uploads until 10.02.2024
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to Aminet:
LuettjeBookholler.lha biz/misc 1.7M OS4 Little Personal Finance program
Leu.lha biz/spread 8.0M ALL Simple spreadsheet application
SonosController_MOS.lha comm/misc 2.5M MOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3.lha comm/misc 2.1M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3fp... comm/misc 2.0M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS4.lha comm/misc 2.9M OS4 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_WOS.lha comm/misc 2.4M WOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
strange_src.lha comm/www 204K source of strange'
Rebuild.lha dev/gui 158K 68k Amiga Reaction GUI Builder
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.3M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MahjongScore.lha game/misc 47K 68k Accounting of a Mahjong game ...
SudokuSolverE.lha game/misc 129K 68k Sudoku solver written in AmigaE
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 662K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
wcs.lha gfx/3d 3.2M 68k recompiled World Construction...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 660K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 765K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 832K OS4 Multipurpose utility
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 18M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
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OS4Depot uploads until 10.02.2024
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to OS4Depot:
sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your...
snes9x.zip emu/gam 128Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e...
leu.lha off/spr 8Mb 4.0 Simple spreadsheet application
reportplus.lha uti/mis 832kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
amiupdate_deu.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
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AROS Archives uploads until 10.02.2024
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to AROS Archives:
ptk_v2.6.4.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 23Mb Tracker program with advance fea...
acidwarp.i386-aros.zip dem/mis 168kb Colour cycling eye-candy
badapple.i386-aros.zip dem/mis 3Mb The famous Bad Apple animation w...
void-fb11-aros.i386-aros.zip dem/mus 4Mb Music-disk
void-fb8-aros.i386-aros.zip dem/mus 3Mb Music-disk
dosbox.i386-aros.zip emu/com 2Mb Dosbox a PC Emulator
boh.i386-aros.lha gam/act 28Mb game released upon humanitarian ...
jetpac.i386-aros.zip gam/act 1Mb Remake ZX Spectrum classic game
wcs.multi-aros.lha gra/ray 6Mb World Construction Set
mcc_thebar-26.22.zip lib/mui 2Mb Mui Custom Class
owb-1.26.i386-aros.zip net/bro 45Mb Odyssey Web Browser
wput-0.3.4c.i386-aros.zip net/ftp 58kb Wput is a command-line ftp-client.
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 10.02.2024
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
Protrekkr_2.6.4.lha Audio/Tracker A hybrid of modern day ...
SDL_2.30.0_Libraries.lha Dependencies/Library/SDL All Libraries SDL : SDL...
strange-src-0.22.lha Development/Sources source of strange'
SonosController_1.3.lha Devices/Speakers Control your Sonos spea...
MCE_14.60.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
SonicMania_1.0.1.lha Games/Platform A complete decompilatio...
fheroes2_1.0.12.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
ReportPlus_8.47.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
Wayfarer_7.3.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 10.02.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 10.02.2024:
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11.Feb.2024
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Event: AUGS meeting 2024 in Zurich (Switzerland)
The Amiga User Group Switzerland is hosting this year's meeting on March 16 and 17, 2024 at the Centrum Čechů a Slováků in Zurich.
Admission is free for visitors, but registration is mandatory for participation with hardware and subject to a stand fee for non-members of AUGS. Further information can be found at the title link. (snx)
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11.Feb.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.87
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. Now Achim Pankalla has released version 1.87. Changes:
- Bug: Report account-flow has not offer the last years, only last 12 month.
- Bug: Long catogory names are not shown in ignition tables.
- Changes: Now also the values are shown in ignition pie-graphics.
- Bug: Corrects some little bugs in ignition-sheets.
(dr)
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10.Feb.2024
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Blog: Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS
As Carl Svenssons writes in his blog entry "Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS", most consumer models of the Amiga series were shipped with heavily watered-down documentation. The Amiga 500 was an exception to this rule, but owners of later machines - such as the A1200 - may not have received any documentation for the command line portion of AmigaOS at all.
Furthermore, the normal end user had no access to the official developer documentation. His present essay is dedicated to hidden or even completely undocumented or unfinished features of AmigaDOS versions 2 and 3. (dr)
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10.Feb.2024
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Terrain models: World Construction Set 2.031 (Emerald-Berta), AmigaOS 3 and AROS
As can be read in the history of the development of their software products, Gary Huber of Questar Productions recognized the potential of the graphics capabilities of the personal computers of the time in the late 1980s and began researching and developing software for his Amiga computer to combine 3D terrain data and landscape/vegetation information into a computer-generated synthetic 3D view with colored trees (coniferous and deciduous), ground cover patterns, sky and haze.
Other software companies had developed similar software for the Amiga, including VistaPro from Virtual Reality Labs and the "Scenery Generator" (later "Scenery Animator") from Naturalgfx and Panorama. All included a basic method of automatically placing one or more types of vegetation based on local terrain criteria, usually using elevation and slope. However, none of the available commercial tools could handle large, detailed regions, making them unusable for commercial and industrial terrain mapping.
In 1992, Huber began developing algorithms and programs to meet the requirements he had predicted. Originally written in an advanced BASIC language and later rewritten in C for speed reasons. Chris Hanson joined Questar and Huber and helped develop the user interface, language conversion, optimization and graphics. The result, announced in August 1994, was World Construction Set 1 (WCS) for the Amiga with a host of advanced features (and a name inspired by the popular Electronic Arts audio tool of the time, "Deluxe Music Construction Set"). WCS V1 extended the land cover and vegetation placement techniques of earlier software to include the placement of so-called "ecosystems".
WCS V2 (video) for the Amiga was released in late 1995, followed by a Windows version in January 1996. Version 2 introduced oceans with waves and reflections, DEM buildings, realistic looking clouds, sun and moon, better vegetation and OpenGL support.
Both versions 1.25 and 2.04 are available as packed ADF files on the 3DNature.com website. The corresponding source files were published on GitHub some nine years ago. Alexander Fritsch began working on the source files containing the penultimate version 2.03 ("Emerald") in 2017. As he tells us, the project first had to be made gcc-compatible. The aim of his new compilation using Bebbo's gcc was and is to achieve the highest possible speed. This required very extensive tests with various compiler options and lengthy test calculations on a real Amiga, always under the same boundary conditions. As Bebbo also continued to work on gcc, it had to be tested again and again to see whether a new compiler version with new optimizations would bring a speed advantage. Since WCS as a complex program is also a test case for the compiler itself, Alexander reports, WCS also revealed errors in the compiler over time, especially with various optimizations and floating point calculations.
As a result, the new version of WCS now available on Aminet on a 25MHz 68040 Amiga only needs 4 hours instead of 5 hours for a "Canyon Sunset" example image. A nice result that would not have been possible without Bebbo's work, as Alexander says, and his gcc. An AROS version is also included in the archive. (dr)
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10.Feb.2024
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Podcast: The Retro Hour talked to Matthew Leaman (AmigaKit)
The podcast The Retro Hour spoke to Matthew Leaman, Managing Director of AmigaKit, about his latest project, the A600GS gaming computer, among other things. (dr)
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10.Feb.2024
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Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.208 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the current kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest kernels, such as Ubuntu 10.04, or if users have problems with the latest kernels. PowerPC-relevant changes:
- powerpc: update ppc_save_regs to save current r1 in pt_reg
- powerpc/ftrace: Fix stack teardown in ftrace_no_trace
- powerpc/ftrace: Create a dummy stackframe to fix stack unwind
- powerpc: Don't clobber f0/vs0 during fp|altivec register save
- powerpc/perf: Fix disabling BHRB and instruction sampling
- powerpc/pseries: fix potential memory leak in init_cpu_associativity()
- powerpc/imc-pmu: Use the correct spinlock initializer
- powerpc/xive: Fix endian conversion size
- powerpc/40x: Remove stale PTE_ATOMIC_UPDATES macro
- powerpc/mm: Fix boot crash with FLATMEM
- powerpc/64e: Fix wrong test in __ptep_test_and_clear_young()
- powerpc/8xx: Fix pte_access_permitted() for PAGE_NONE
- powerpc/watchpoints: Disable preemption in thread_change_pc()
- powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Update domain value check
- powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()
- powerpc/iommu: Fix notifiers being shared by PCI and VIO buses
- powerpc: Don't include lppaca.h in paca.h
- powerpc/perf: Convert fsl_emb notifier to state machine callbacks
- powerpc/fadump: reset dump area size if fadump memory reserve fails
- powerpc/kasan: Disable KCOV in KASAN code
- powerpc/rtas_flash: allow user copy to flash block cache objects
- powerpc/mm/altmap: Fix altmap boundary check
- drm/radeon: possible buffer overflow
- drm/radeon: Use RMW accessors for changing LNKCT
- drm/radeon: Fix integer overflow in radeon_cs_parser_init
- Support for Microsoft devices that are not fully compliant with HID standard (CONFIG_HID_MICROSOFT=y)
Download: linux-image-5.10.208-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71,5 MB) (dr)
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09.Feb.2024
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.53 (update 2)
AmiUpdate, the update programme for system components and programmes, was first updated to version 2.50 on 04/02/2024 and then, after some problems, to version 2.51. The changes:
AmiUpdate 2.50
- The http transfer routines did not consider a filename with spaces in it. All filenames
are now run through an encoder prior to the HTTP request being sent. This fixes issues like
the MUI update failing to download.
- update.library 53.19: Added more internal vectors.
- RebootDeamon 2.4:
- Reworked the source to avoid some duplication of code.
- Changed the timer.device handling to avoid memory leaks.
- Removed the pointless cancel button from the countdown requester.
- If update.library could not be loaded, it tried to open an intuition
requester for notification, but intuition had not been opened yet!
AmiUpdate 2.51
- Some internal changes, but nothing functional (unless I added some bugs, of course).
- It seems the http request headers did NOT include the version info in the User-Agent
field, which the server uses. I could have sworn it was included ages ago!
- Added better logging in the case of [405] errors.
- The status bar will now show correctly if no servers are selected.
- RebootDeamon 2.5: Seems there was a long standing bug which just popped up, which could lead to a crash
dealing with the time requests.
Update: (11.02.2024, 14:18, dr)
Meanwhile the author Simon Archer has released version 2.52, which currently cannot be downloaded from the program itself, but from "Downloads" under the title link. Many users had reported problems when they used the program iconified in the background. This now should be fixed. Changes:
- Unfortunately, trying to keep compatibility with OS 4.0 led to problems with the docky part
of application.library, as it always opens V2 of the library interface. As the program is
using the old V1 tags, this threw up an error reported by multiple users. As it is highly
unlikely anyone is still using 4.0, it should not be a problem a huge problem. My aplologies
to any 4.0 users, but now is the time to upgrade!.
- As the ongoing saga with connections to "amiupdate.net" is still ongoing, despite my best
efforts to resolve it, I have now added a simple NSLookup to AmiUpdate in order to put rest
to this issue once and for all. Accesses to "amiupdate.net" and "wwww.amiupdate.net" are now
registered on "my" lookup server and are now redirected to the correct place without any
intervention from the great wide internet.
Update 2: (13.02.2024, 22:01, dr)
And once again AmiUpdate has been updated, now to version 2.53. Users had tried to search for updates from within the prefs program, which caused errors. However, the new AmiUpdate V2.53 only updates the update prefs to version 53.17. The final version 53.18 can then be accessed via a separate update of the prefs program. (dr)
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09.Feb.2024
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Demoparty: Lovebyte 2024
This year's edition of the Lovebyte demo party will take place on Discord and Twitch from Friday to Sunday. In addition to various intro competitions, seminars, intro shows and many other events are also planned (timetable). (dr)
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09.Feb.2024
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Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor 1.2
Stefan Vogt has released another update to his text adventure with graphics, "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (amiga-news.de reported). It contains minor bug fixes and improvements as well as a comprehensive hint system in the game that does not spoil anything. (dr)
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09.Feb.2024
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Blog: Modding the Amiga boot hand
Alexander Grupe recently discovered the Amiga start screen redesigned by AndroidArts on X and wondered whether the standard screen designed by Sheryl Knowles could actually be changed or replaced. In a current article on his website heckmeck! he shows that it works and how it works. (dr)
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09.Feb.2024
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch and Odyssey Web Browser
Press release: This new version 20220318-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems introduces updates to a few libraries as well as multiple bugixes. If you are a developer, please take note of switch to new C library and update your SDK installation. The download of binary packages and full changelog is available on GitHub.
Additionally, with this release the list of recommended hardware has been extended with two inexpensive motherboards: ASUS P8Z68V LX and Gigabyte GA-MA770T UD3P.
As a reminder, the above list includes hardware that is well supported, easily obtainable second hand, cheap and will be re-tested for each future release to maintain compatibility.
And to make things ever better, Odyssey Web Browser for 32-bit x86 AROS has also been refreshed. It was last released in 2016 and this new version 1.26 brings re-compilation with newer SDK and a number of bugfixes. It requires this release of AROS base system to work.
If you enjoy AROS and would like to get in touch with wider AROS community, be sure to visit new AROS community forum. (dr)
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09.Feb.2024
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Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb runs on Apple Vision Pro
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
In a blog entry, the developer 'mithendal' has now published images that show that and how his emulator works with the Apple Vision Pro. (dr)
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08.Feb.2024
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.3
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.3 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Wayfarer now is based on the latest WebKit engine WebKitGTK 2.42.5, which was released three days ago. (dr)
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08.Feb.2024
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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild v1.0.0
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, which is intended to make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. After numerous beta versions, he has now released version 1.0.0.
Download: Rebuild1.0.0.lha (158 KB) (dr)
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08.Feb.2024
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Font: Topaz as TrueType font
When the Amiga 500 was launched in 1987, it had a complete graphical user interface, the Workbench. Many of the resources required for Workbench were stored in ROM, including the default user interface font, a monospaced, 8x8px font called Topaz. It's high contrast, consistently designed and quite compact. However, the problem is that it is a bitmap font with only one font size, and most modern operating systems only use TrueType and OpenType fonts with scaling. The original font also only supports the Latin-1 character set and therefore no non-Latin writing systems or common terminal characters such as boxes or blocks. Screwtape's "Topaz Unicode Project" attempts to solve these two problems.
(dr)
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08.Feb.2024
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3D Printing: Amiga case for Pi 400
NamicDesigns' has provided a 3D self-printing case based on the Amiga for the Pi 400 with "Amig400". (dr)
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08.Feb.2024
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AROS/MorphOS: Music program ProTrekkr V2.6.4 (update)
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 2.6.4 was released for AROS and MorphOS (and FreeBSD and Windows) which offers a slightly reworked manual as well as minor windows adaptions.
Download: ptk_v2.6.4_aros.zip (23 MB) (dr)
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07.Feb.2024
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Video: Upgrading a A2000 to 2MB Chip RAM and ECS
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he not only added 1MB of Chip RAM to his Amiga 2000, but also completed the upgrade to a full ECS system. (dr)
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07.Feb.2024
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AROS: Tutorial for working under Windows
Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a tutorial on how to work and develop with AROS under Windows using WSL2 under the title link. (dr)
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06.Feb.2024
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Video tutorial: Writing a simple IFF ILBM reader for DOS
John Bintz has been a software developer for over 20 years and runs the website The Industrious Rabbit. Originally to share his experiences as a developer with others, but more recently to explore some of the more unusual areas of technology and find ways to explain them in an interesting and entertaining way. In a new post he now explains how to write a simple DOS program on a Windows PC to read the IFF-ILBM image format commonly used on the Amiga. (dr)
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06.Feb.2024
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Video tutorial: Screen commands in AMOS
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at the commands available for using screens in AMOS programs. As always, the source file for the programme shown in the video can be downloaded free of charge from his website. (dr)
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06.Feb.2024
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Aracde classic: "Donkey Kong"
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has ported another game to the Amiga: this time Nintendo's aracade classic Donkey Kong. The game is running on a Amiga 500 (YouTube video). (dr)
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06.Feb.2024
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.02.06
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.02.06:
- RP2040: Fix watchdog timeout
- Fix setting type with default SCSI strings
- Fix IMGx=filename ignoring device type
- Add X68000 quirk for odd 0x00 CBD opcode
- Siemens EWSD patch for ZuluSCSI
(dr)
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05.Feb.2024
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Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.3 (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS)
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga programme for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.3 of his programme, written in the Hollywood 10 programming language, which is available for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3 and 4.
As the author tells us, he had taken our news item of Hollywood 10 support for Visual Studio Code as an opportunity to continue working on SonosController. Changes:
- NEW: option to show notifications when a new track is played in any zones or, as another option, only in the currently selected zone.
This uses MagicBeacon on MorphOS, Ringhio on AmigaOS 4.x and Ranchero on AmigaOS 3.x (if available).
- NEW (AmigaOS 4.x): show an icon in AmiDock including a context menu featuring the following commands:
- Play/Pause
- Previous track
- Next track
- NEW: powerful ARexx interface, see AmigaGuide for further details
- NEW: detect if a device needs updating and stating this in its label.
- NEW: menuitem "Settings/Update music library now" to invoke a refresh of the Sonos music library.
- NEW: menuitem "Project/About my Sonos system" showing information about all zones found in the connected Sonos system.
- NEW: upgraded to Hollywood 10, hURL 2.0 and XML 2.0
- FIXED: possible crash if album art could not be loaded
Since AmiSSL is now available for AROS, the hURL plugin is now also available for AROS. Michael Rupp is therefore now looking for an AROS user who uses Sonos and could test the SonosController for him. If you are interested, simply send an e-mail to the author. (dr)
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05.Feb.2024
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RTG driver: P96 V3.4.1 released
Press release: The new version V3.4.1 contains new drivers for the GBA-PII++ and VA2000 cards, and it makes installation on UAE a lot easier. Further, the driver for the A2410 "Tiga" card has been updated and overlays for the Picasso IV card have been fixed. Support for the Altais card for Draco machines has been improved, and P96Prefs also got an update.
You can get all information on this update in the Wiki article about P96.
Unfortunately, this current shop system has been giving us a hard time lately, with lots of problems during the order process, and even more problems when we tried to update the downloadable files. In order not to delay the release of this version any longer, we kindly ask all customers to be patient, as we're rolling out this version via eMail. (dr)
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05.Feb.2024
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USB-C power supply: PowerShark available (update)
The "PowerShark" a USB-C-based power supply for the keyboard case Amigas 500, 600 and 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). It is now available for about 70 Euro under the title link. Furthermore the developers have published a FAQ page as well as a list of tested power supplies.
Update: (06.02.2024, 22:18, dr)
The "PowerShark" is currently sold out. As the developers told us on request, a next batch is definitely planned. At the moment, however, the focus is on processing the orders. This could take some time due to the large quantity. (dr)
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04.Feb.2024
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.34
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. Changes of version 0.9.34:
- Added condition triggers Cam PosX and Cam Pos Y to check the camera position.
- Internal function that finds out color closest to other has been changed.
- OCS copper gradients may be faster now.
- Added condition trigger Contains Tile Tag.
- Copper values in screen setup are now really only the default ones.
- Anim Frame trigger renamed to just frame, as it is not taking into account
the animation.
- If you are using the condition Frame is, in the trigger screen this frame
will be displayed.
- Fixes in automatic remap when loading a spritesheet image.
- Further optimizations in trigger processing.
- Small verticall scrolling improvement.
- Optimizations when coming back from playing the game to the editor.
- Fix for sometimes wrong palette being displayed when going from spritesheet
screen to main screen.
- Fix in audio object default value when upgrading a project from an old
version.
- Fix in Overrite Color/gradient triggers not updating the palette.
- Fix in audio listener objects introduced in the previous version.
- Fix in Tile On Map/Screen/Border triggers, under certain conditions could
execute unwanted triggers.
- Fix in Camera follow code.
- Fix when attaching non static objects to static objects.
- Fix for level deletion and others when coming back from playing the game to
the editor.
- Some unused code has been removed.
(dr)
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04.Feb.2024
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Aminet uploads until 03.02.2024
The following files have been added until 03.02.2024 to Aminet:
strangeMOS.lha comm/www 779K MOS strange' is strange
json.hollywood.lha dev/hwood 6K JSON en- and decoder for Holl...
MCE.lha game/edit 4.0M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Schwurblomat.lha game/gag 117K 68k Bullshit Bingo Buzzw. Generat...
EternalLove.lha mods/8voic 168K 16bit 8ch Guitar Piano Ballad...
morsconv.lha text/misc 10K 68k Modular Morse code generator
AmiSSL-5.14-OS3.lha util/libs 3.7M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.14-OS4.lha util/libs 3.3M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.14-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
A1060Diag.lha util/misc 2K 68k A1060 Sidecar Diagnostic Tools
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 881K AOS App for chatting to ChatGPT
ifflistmaker.lha util/misc 6K 68k Merges IFF files into IFF LIS...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 663K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 768K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 835K OS4 Multipurpose utility
rexxpatcherror_de.lha util/rexx 1K German locale for Alfie's Rex...
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OS4Depot uploads until 03.02.2024
The following files have been added until 03.02.2024 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
json.hollywood.lha dev/mis 6kb 4.0 JSON en- and decoder for Hollywo...
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
aos-wallpaper1.lha gra/mis 442Mb 4.1 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Wallpaper ... ...
imp-newicons.lha gra/mis 308kb 4.0 imp3 new png icons
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
amigagpt.lha net/cha 881kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 03.02.2024
The following files have been added until 03.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_2.30.0_Libraries.lha Dependencies/Library/SDL All Libraries SDL : SDL...
MCE_14.50.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
ReportPlus_8.46.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
Strange_0.23.lha Network/Web A small tool to view ht...
(snx)
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04.Feb.2024
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
- Emax/TRSI - Def.loration (Nightwolf 2024 remix)
(snx)
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04.Feb.2024
AROSWorld (Forum)
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AROS distribution: TinyAros 3.1b
The AROS distribution TinyAros is aimed more at users, which is why no developer tools are included (but can be downloaded optionally), which makes it leaner and therefore quicker to install and ready for use. (snx)
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04.Feb.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online
Further full versions of Amiga software have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Font Machine and XDVE CD.
The following games, which are also marked as being new, are just re-uploads: A320 Airbus, Alien Drug Lords, Alien Fish Finger, Anstoss, Antz, Apano Sin, Aquanaut, Archon, Archon 2, Atoms and Aunt Artic Adventure. (snx)
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03.Feb.2024
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Diving game: "The Deep" V1.01 for Apollo Vampire V4 and RTG Amigas
This version 1.01 of Sami Vehmaa's diving game "The Deep" (YouTube video) not only offers a slight speed improvement for the Vampire V4, but also support for RTG Amigas for the first time. (dr)
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03.Feb.2024
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AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.30.0 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.30.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1. The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Changes:
- Improve UTF-8 text input support.
- Update install script.
- Reset mouse pointer when it leaves its window.
- Improve audio recording.
Download: SDL2.lha (6,9 MB) (dr)
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03.Feb.2024
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m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin V1.8.7 for Visual Studio Code
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. Preversion 1.8.7 fixes a compatibility issue with Vscode 1.86.0. On GitHub, a detailed documentation is available. (dr)
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03.Feb.2024
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Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.1 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 0.6.1 released today contains many bug fixes and improvements for the chiptune tracker, including MIDI corrections, three new OPL emulation cores, two new chips and much more. 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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02.Feb.2024
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Blog: Limitations of the HAM mode explained on the Hamulet engine
Recently, the developer of the game Hamulet - a demo version was included in issue 10 of the English-language Amiga magazine "WhatIFF?" - published a YouTube video that is intended to demonstrate as a proof-of-concept whether a puzzle or platform game could be feasible using the Hamulet engine in HAM and has the following features:
- Large 8-way scrollable HAM screen with no visible fringing
- Massive animated bobs (Blitter objects), the largest one being 144x170 pixels
- Copper list to create a parallax effect of a "transparent" HAM screen, where the background sky gradient is visible and scrolls at a lower speed
- Multiple animated sprites
- Music by Virgill
- Runs on Amiga 500, requires 1MB of chip
Appunti Digitali is an Italian website that deals with technology issues that the operators know or can judge from their own (professional) experience. The article now published under the title link deals with this video and the limitations of HAM. (dr)
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02.Feb.2024
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2500UX (AMIX)
In the past we have reported several times (1, 2, 3) about Commodore's Unix derivative AMIX. The two "official" Amigas on which Amix could run were the Amiga models 2500UX and 3000UX. Bo Zimmerman has bought an Amiga 2500UX on eBay, since it had been on his wish list for a long time. In his blog post under the title link, he now reports on his impressions and the restoration. (dr)
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02.Feb.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for January 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)
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01.Feb.2024
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Java program: ham_convert 1.9.4
Sebastian Sieczko's java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats to the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.9.4. Changes:
- Added DynamicHires variant with an AGA palette. To enable select mode=Amiga AGA Dynamic HiRes/PCHG software mode.
- Implemented PCHGF_32BIT format to be used by DynamicHires AGA and Atari 8-bit ILBM IFF files (using BigLineChanges). DynamicHires OCS uses PCHGF_4BIT (SmallLineChanges) format IFF limited to RGB444. https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/ILBM_IFF_Interleaved_Bitmap#ILBM.PCHG was uses as a reference. This enabled accurate encoding of the Atari 8-bit palette in the iff files.
- Extra EHB palette optimization was renamed extra OCS palette optimization and extended to support also 2/4/8/16/32-color modes (to be extended later).
- Acorn Archimedes VIDC1 256-color mode (out of 4096).
(dr)
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01.Feb.2024
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Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.0
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the Amiga conversion of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally published by Data East in 1986: the player controls an armed military vehicle and must make his way through enemy forces - consisting of soldiers, flamethrowers, helicopters, tanks, jeeps etc. - to ultimately retrieve a stolen fighter plane. - The player must make his way through enemy forces - consisting of soldiers, flamethrowers, tanks, jeeps, etc. - to ultimately retrieve a stolen fighter plane (YouTube video).
He has now released version 1.0, which requires a 2-button controller and an Amiga with at least 1MB chip RAM, 1MB additional RAM and a CPU with 14MHz or better. A hard disc is also recommended. (dr)
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01.Feb.2024
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Developer diary: Update on the game "The Gate" #1
At the beginning of October last year , we introduced the AMOS game "The Gate" by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts. We asked the developer to tell us about the current state of development. Here is his report, illustrated by his latest YouTube video:
"I still don't have a list of requirements but I'm targeting stock Amiga 1200 for this project, fingers crossed :)
I'm still writing the engine but I've made big progresses adding new features, fixing bugs and optimizing the code to make it as smooth as possible.
Here is a list of what's new since my last progress report:
- Doors
- Doors can be operated with the [action key], a pop up screen will appear to allow the user to operate the door.
- Unlocked doors can be operated freely
- Some of them may require a key to be opened
- Some of them may require a terminal to be opened
- Some of them may require to complete an event to be opened, in this case the hero will say something about it to give an hint to the user.
- Furnitures
- Furnitures are essentially containers and they hold items: the hero search them (like already seen in Impossible Mission) and when the furniture is searched an auto-pick screen is displayed to let the user know what items has been picked and what will be leaved into the container, not picked items can be picked later.
- Furnitures may require a terminal to be unlocked
- Furnitures may require a dialog option to be selected to be unlocked
- Terminals: I've developed a simple scripting language for this for maximum flexibility.
Terminals graphics is also nice because I've reproduced old monitor color glitches and out-of-sync effects.
Terminals that require keys can be hacked by the player using a special hacking tool that will be available in the game.
Each terminal can be tuned by the script that is run (colors, effects, print speed, etc...).
I'm very proud of how I implemented terminals: they run script programs that allow me to simulate terminals with text interfaces.
From terminals the user is able to:
- Operate doors (open/close/unlock)
- Operate furnitures (unlock)
- Display informative text to help the hero with its quest
- Minigames
- An many more actions and nice things
- Dialogs
- Like I've done for terminals, I've used scripts to run dialogs between characters but also when the hero express a thought.
Dialogs use almost the same scripting language developed for the terminals but with more commands for certain situations and to display the portrait (and the needed expressions) of the character that is talking.
This system is very flexible and you may be able to unlock a door after having talked to an NPC for example
- Game menu, which let the user access the following functions:
- Documents : You can read here all the docs the hero has gathered (implemented)
- Tools : From here the hero can review and equip special tools he found during the adventure (implemented), these tools are unique and can be used with the right mouse button once equipped (implemented).
- Map : A simple automap system, not yet implemented. I'd like to let the player to type map notes.
- Diary : This is a personal diary, the player can freely take notes here. Not yet implemented and not sure if it is nice or not.
- System : From here the player can load and save the game. Not yet implemented.
- Settings : Game settings. Not yet implemented.
About the tools
I've already designed the tools that the player will find during its adventure, they are 8 in total and the hero can equip them, once at a time, from the game menu.
Once equipped some tools can be triggered automatically, some manually (with the right mouse button) and some have both the functionalities.
For example there is a device called "Relife" that has two functions when equipped:
- 1: If the hero is suddenly killed the device tranfers its energy into the hero body and regenerate some of his life points.
- 2: Pushing the right mouse button (and holding it down) the device's energy refill the hero hit points.
The "Relife" device regenerates its energy over time, very slowly.
Another example is the "Hacking Device" which I'm currently working on: when equipped the hero will be able to hack any locked terminal, the hacking will be completed if the player will be able to resolve a mini-game. We all know Fallout 3/4 terminals & Mass Effect ones right? :)
What has to be done?
- Game menu
- Tools/Special devices (2 of 8 implemented)
- Traps
- NPCs
- Enemies
Those will complete the engine and I will focus on the maps and the story, which is already on my desk :)
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You can support the developer via his Patreon page. (dr)
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Arcade classic: Pong for RTG Amigas and Apollo Vampire V4
After Sami Vehmaa initially released his Pong conversion for the Apollo Vampire V4 only, version 1.01 is now also available for RTG Amigas. It can be played either against each other or against the computer. (dr)
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31.Jan.2024
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.2 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 1.4.2:
- Replaced clicktabs for AmigaOS 3.X since the version is too old and will crash. 3.X users can select the mode at startup.
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (881 KB) (dr)
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DIY: Firmware 1.02 for Amiga 4000 accelerator board "Z3660"
In October 2021, developer 'shanshe' had started a project on GitHub for the Amiga 4000 turbo board "Z3660" based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board and the Z-turn Board (amiga-news.de reported). The now available firmware 1.02 improves the SCSI emulation introduced with firmware 1.01 in terms of speed and stability. (dr)
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