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22.Jul.2023



 Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.1
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
  • Now supports characters from Western languages other than English
  • Blank responses from OpenAI no longer cause a crash
Direct download: AmigaGPT.lha (213 KB) (dr)

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21.Jul.2023



 Developer diary: "Settle the World" 07/23
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel continus working on his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). In his latest developer diary entry he reports about changes on the graphics system und of pathfinding. Christian would be happy about users who try out his current development version for a few hours and then report to him where there are problems, ambiguities or crashes.

"In the last few weeks, I was forced to rewrite the entire graphics and unit system of the game from scratch. Over the course of a year, I have repeatedly added new functionalities and graphics. The original design, however, was not designed for this, as the game was supposed to be playable within six months as an entry for a competition. So the programme code became more and more chaotic and confusing. Due to other restrictions, it was also no longer possible to add new buildings or units. So I was faced with the choice of letting Settle the World "die" or investing a lot of work and completely rewriting the game. The graphics system is now much simpler. I'm not quite finished yet, there are a few graphic errors, but my development version is at least playable again. The number of bitmaps needed in the memory could be reduced, so that more valuable Chip RAM is free during the game. This can be used later, for example, for in-game music tracks.

I am also working on the citizen happiness system. I noticed that it was not understandable for the players why some citizens of a city are unhappy and some are not. Now, in my development version, you can click on the smiley icon at the bottom right of a city and when you move the mouse cursor over a house, information about what makes the residents happy or what they are missing is displayed on the right side of the screen.

It's not quite finished yet, but it's already very helpful.


In my current development version of Settle the World, pathfinding has been also reworked.

Since I couldn't find any BlitzBasic 2 example code for pathfinding last year, I converted a code example from the PC to the Amiga without understanding exactly what happens there. Unfortunately, this resulted in units that moved diagonally from bottom left to top right, or from top right to bottom left, only moving "stair-stepped", or taking huge detours. Now that I have read up on the subject properly, I also understand what happens during pathfinding. The error has now been corrected and the units now also move diagonally correctly in all directions. It cost me many hours of time, but it's worth it.

Land units will always try to avoid rough terrain like mountains, swamps and forests. In doing so, units will always prefer roads, even if it means taking long detours. This does not matter, however, as the movement of units on roads is three times as fast as on flat terrain." (dr)

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20.Jul.2023



 Video tutorial: Blitz Basic
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch another part of his Blitz Basic tutorial (amiga-news.de reported), "looking at some general Blitz stuff, 3rd-party libraries, AmiBlitz includes and more". (dr)

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20.Jul.2023



 Retrohax blog: Amiga 500 upgrade #1
As Retrohax.net writes, he had restored hundreds of retro machines to their original state over the past years (sometimes with minor modifications) and he was kind of tired of it, so the time had come to try something different.

So he decided to create a new series of posts in which he will try to describe upgrades and visual modifications of the 20 remaining unrestored Amiga 500s. Each of these Amiga 500s will be unique and described in a separate blog post. As soon as such an Amiga is completed and tested, he will start an eBay auction with it. This is post number 1 of 20. (dr)

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20.Jul.2023
GitHub


 WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.1
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:

Added
  • Now the Genre list is populated from the igame.data files and the genre file, if it exists, although it is not necessary. The genre filtering is working with these new values
  • Added a new cycle box that lets the user filter the results based on the chipset. This requires in settings the "Prefer igame.data files" to be enabled
Fixed
  • Fixed a hit when the entry properties are requested without having a selected entry.
Changed
  • When real-time filtering is enabled at least 3 characters are required so as to be initiated. Less than 3 characters are ignored, unless the filtering by pressing the enter button is enabled.
  • Removed the filtering options from the Genre list and moved them to their own select box above the entries list
  • Now, even if the list entries list is populated a new repository scan will update the Chipset and Genre information based on the data found in igame.data files.
  • If the "Prefer igame.data files" is not enabled those files are not used during the scan of repositories
Direct download: iGame-v2.4.1-20230719.lha (434 Kb) (dr)

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19.Jul.2023
Apollo-Forum


 FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update GOLD 2.17 "Bronto"
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series produced by Motorola which also provides a separate graphics driver called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards 600 V2, 500 V2+ and 1200 V2. Changes:
  • Card supports now to run in one of 4 different speed mode. This allows for run old games e.g. in speed of A500 or A1200, to improve running old games that have problems running on faster CPUs.
  • Support for new instruction EXTUB.L This instruction is very useful for type conversion. It is used by some GCC versions. Supporting it does improve code density and improves performance.
  • Support for new instruction EXTUW.L This instruction is very useful for type conversion. It is used by some GCC versions. Supporting it does improve code density and improves performance.
  • Support for enhanced instructions BRA.s+ BSR.s+ BCC.s+ This instruction is supported by some compilers and assemblers. This instruction improves code density and improves performance.
  • Hardware optimized version of FPU instruction FDBcc.w
  • Hardware optimized version of FPU instruction FDBcc.l
  • several FPU Performance optimizations ported from V4-FPU to V2
(dr)

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19.Jul.2023
Yawning Angel (E-Mail)


 Video tutorial: Writing a simple game in AMOS
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' had published a series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro over the past twelve months (amiga-news.de reported). Based on this, in the latest video he shows how to program a small, functional game and thus finishes his series for the time being. (dr)

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19.Jul.2023
Mastodon


 Platform game: Rastan demo v0.31
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. Now an Amiga port is in development and after a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) there are now also demo versions, which the developer still calls alpha versions. Changes in version 0.31:
  • 2nd fire button to jump properly implemented.
  • Fixed Rastan's castrato death howl.
  • Fixed horizontal movement for downward plunges to make them behave the same way regular jumps do.
  • Fixed AI ledge bug for level 1-B warriors.
  • Added hard-drive version.
(dr)

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19.Jul.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Print magazine: Special issue of ASM (German)
German magazine ASM ("Aktueller Software-Markt", current software market) was published from March 1986 to February 1995. Now a special issue is available, which contains more than 30 reviews of current games for 8- and 16-bitters as well as numerous interviews:

On the one hand with a number of people involved at that time - Manfred Kleimann, Frank Brall, Martina Strack, Bendrik Muhs, Stefan Swiergiel, Klaus Segel, Stefan Bayer, Torsten Oppermann and Dirk Fuchser - and on the other hand also with Thomas Meiertoberens (Magic Bytes) and Steve Wilcox (Elite Systems), Roman Werner (Super Marble Boy), The Mojon Twins (Ramiro el Vampiro), Juan Manchon (Amigastore. eu), Andreas Magerl (APC&TCP) and Sebastian Bach (Polyplay).

The official press release:

"ASM returns - The ASM (Aktueller Software Markt), a popular German computer magazine in the late 1980s, is still revered in retro circles today. It has recently made a comeback after a 28-year hiatus.

In 1986, the ASM magazine covered almost every important computer system, including the C-64, Spectrum, Schneider CPC, MSX, Dragon, and Enterprise. The 16-bit Atari ST and Amiga were also included, starting in 1987 and finding their way into households. However, by 1995, the PC had become dominant, and there was no longer a market for multi-platform magazines. Nowadays, there has been a significant change, as old computers that were once abandoned or thrown away in the 1990s are finding new admirers. Every year, more games are being released that surpass expectations and bring out the best in these systems.

A German magazine that used to accompany home computers during their success in German living rooms is making a comeback. The new issue, 3/23, aims to provide an overview of the current 8-bit and 16-bit software market, just like it did in the past. However, the new ASM is more than just a software magazine. It also pays tribute to the old ASM editions from the 1980s. There are plenty of interviews with former editors, which offer interesting insights into the daily work of software journalists at that time.

The old guard was pleased with the project. 'I am thrilled that the previous format has been reintroduced and executed so well,' states Manfred Kleimann, the former editor-in-chief who created the magazine's concept in 1985 and provided input for the new edition.

The latest print edition can be found at the title link, where also other Amiga magazines like 'Amiga Future' and 'Amiga Joker' as well as the computer magazine 'LOAD.' are available. This 100-page special edition costs 8 euros and requires an additional fee for shipping."

From the content:
  • Over 30 test reports on current games for 8 and 16 bits
  • Interviews with Manfred Kleimann, Frank Brall, Martina Strack, Bendrik Muhs, Stefan Swiergiel, Klaus Segel, Stefan Bayer, Torsten Oppermann, Dirk Fuchser
  • Interviews with Thomas Meiertoberens (Magic Bytes) and Steve Wilcox (Elite Systems), Roman Werner (Super Marble Boy), The Mojon Twins (Ramiro el Vampiro), Juan Manchon (Amigastore.eu), Andreas Magerl (APC&TCP), Sebastian Bach ( poly play)
  • Reader survey on the ASM
  • Competition resolution: Finally here - the ASM computer game
  • In the spotlight: 40 years of Vectrex
  • Flashback: what became of the St. Brides Girls?
(snx)

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18.Jul.2023



 AmigaOS 4.1: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.86
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. Changes since our last news item:
  • Recognises a transaction as existing if there are many spaces in a row in the reason for payment. (Duplicate entries may occur after the update if the next import overlaps in date with existing data. Then simply delete them)
  • No crash when printing if no printer is set up.
  • Italian catalog by Samir Hawamdeh
  • Under certain circumstances charts were not saved during evaluation.
  • FullHD tables for Ignition evaluation
(dr)

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18.Jul.2023



 AmigaOS 4.1: ignition-OpenDocument plugin v0.38
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated to version 0.38. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. Some improvements were made to prevent endless reading and the debug outputs were removed to speedup performance. (dr)

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18.Jul.2023



 Event: "ZZAP! Live" in Kenilworth (England)
On 12 August 2023 at The Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England) the first "ZZAP! Live" event, organised by the South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum, among others. All Commodore computer systems including the Amiga will be represented.

Guests include Andrew Braybrook, Steve Turner and Jason Page (Uridium, Paradroid, Rainbow Islands, Fire and Ice), Jon Hare and Stoo Cambridge (Wizball, Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder) and Gary Bracey, Simon Butler, Paul Hughes and Stephen Thompson (Ocean Software titles). (dr)

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17.Jul.2023
Rafał Zabdyr (E-Mail)


 MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.9.19
Rafał Zabdyr has released a first beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS. "Git Desktop" (Aminet link) is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required. (dr)

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17.Jul.2023



 Arcade port: Pengo released
After the beta version (amiga-news.de reported) the developer Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has released the full version of the game "Pengo", originally published for Sega's arcade machines (video). As a red penguin, you have to fight off so-called Sno-Bees in a labyrinth of ice blocks. (dr)

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16.Jul.2023
Eldee Stephens (E-Mail)


 AmigaOS 4: Guide for new A1222 users
In the course of the press release about the start of production of the A1222+ motherboards (amiga-news.de reported), A-EON also gave Eldee Stephens permission to make his guide for potential A1222 users public.

As he tells us, a lot of work went into the creation of this guide. Stephens has been a tester of the A1222 since the beginning and has regularly tested it with dozens of apps and games since 2015 to find out what works and what doesn't, what needs to be adjusted, etc. The compatibility lists for applications or games in this guide are the result of extensive testing.

In addition, he has done extensive benchmarking tests with file systems and various HW components over time. The guide is a simple HTML-based collection of pages that guides new and potential users through the A1222 experience - from setting up the system to finding tools and games that work well. He further explains, "Hopefully it will help people avoid pitfalls and determine if the A1222 is a good machine for them or not. I wanted to level-set expectations so people know the reality of the system."

Asked if he had come across anything remarkable in his numerous tests, Stephens said: "The only surprising thing to me was just how fast SPE-native software was. Games built to support the P1022 absolutely blow away the SAM460, although there are very few of them at the moment."

Due to software changes, the guide is constantly being updated, but is mostly complete. (dr)

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16.Jul.2023



 Start bar: WBDock2 V2.896
Today Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.896. Changes:
  • the background config of the AmiDock style changed:
    • if you specify a non-existant file, the background will be filled with the workbench background color
    • only if you leave both drawer and file name empty, the background will be pseudo-transparent
    • you can now enter #rrggbb as a file name to choose a specific background color as hexadecimal red/green/blue value
Download: wbdock2.lha (377 KB) (dr)

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16.Jul.2023



 Aminet uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to Aminet:
z80dasm.lha              dev/cross  275K  MOS Z80 assembly generating disas...
HWP_ZIP.lha              dev/hwood  297K  ALL Read and write ZIP archives
F1GP2023Carset.lha       game/data  10K       2023 Carset for F1GP
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha      game/misc  11M   68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 2.0...
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha      game/misc  11M   68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.0...
LN2OfficeRemix.lha       mods/misc  87K       4ch LN2 Office Remix MED by H...
LN2SewerLoaderRemix.lha  mods/misc  185K      4ch LN2 SewerLoader Remix by ...
LN2StreetLoaderRemix.lha mods/misc  1K        4ch LN2 StreetLoader Remix by...
LN2TFBLoaderRemix.lha    mods/misc  141K      4ch LN2 Final Battle Loader R...
fxblankers.lha           util/blank 83K   MOS Effectful screenblankers for ...
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  12M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
(snx)

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16.Jul.2023



 OS4Depot uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to OS4Depot:
eaqne2.lzx               gam/adv 19Mb  4.0 Second chapter of EAQNE
amidream.lha             gra/con 213kb 4.0 A Text to Image Application
hwp_zip.lha              lib/hol 297kb 4.0 Read and write zip archives for ...
(snx)

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16.Jul.2023



 AROS Archives uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to AROS Archives:
eaqne2.lzx                   gam/adv 18Mb  Second chapter of EAQNE
zip_amiga.lha                lib/mis 297kb Plugin allows Hollywood scripts ...
(snx)

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16.Jul.2023



 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
ZIP_2.0.lha               Dependencies              Read and write ZIP arch...
z80dasm_1.2.0.lha         Development/Cross         Z80 assembly generating...
EAQNE-2_1.0.lha           Games/Adventure           Adventure point and cli...
AmiTranslate_0.1.lha      Misc                      AmiTranslate_0.1.lha
Wayfarer_6.0.lha          MorphOS-update            Wayfarer is the latest ...
fxBlankers_1.2.lha        System/Ambient/Blankers   Effectful screenblanker...
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16.Jul.2023



 WHDLoad: New installers until 15.07.2023
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 15.07.2023:
  • 2023-07-11 improved: Killing Cloud (Vektor Grafix) fixed protection, trainer improved, added level selection (Info)
  • 2023-07-10 improved: Savage (Probe Software) less chipmem requirement, trainers added, use files now, QuitKey for 68000 (Info)
  • 2023-07-10 updated: Aunt Arctic Adventure (Mindware/Starbyte) patch rewritten, another version supported, manual included (Info)
(snx)

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16.Jul.2023
Epsilon's World


 Blog "Vintage is The New Old" is discontinued
The blog "Vintage is the New Old" (ViTNO) - formerly known as "CommodoreBlog" and then as "Commodore is Awesome" - will stop all activities at the end of the month. The blog used to report on all facets of retro computing. The operator Paulo justifies his step with the fact that despite the numerous readers, the engagement and feedback on articles and actions is close to zero. In contrast, news published on ViTNO is very often used and commented on in other media (podcasts, websites, etc.) without the site being named as a source.

Another reason for discontinuing the blog was his perception that websites with in-depth articles were generally losing space and importance at the expense of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Tik Tok, etc. with quick-to-consume posts. In his opinion, most people no longer seemed to have the patience to read longer posts and stories that wanted to be written on.

He said he will continue to be involved, not give up his hobby. After the closure, ViTNO will be found in the Internet Archive. (dr)

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15.Jul.2023



 LinuxJedi blog: Restauration of an Amiga 3000
In two detailed blog entries Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings shows how he restores an Amiga 3000 bought from the USA. The first part is mainly about adjustments to the power supply and changing from NTSC to PAL system, in the second part he replaces the 100MB SCSI drive with a BlueSCSI-V2. (dr)

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15.Jul.2023
itch.io


 Platform game: "Boxx"-Remake v1.0
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the Scorpion Engine. The latest update to version 1.0 includes the following changes:
  • Upgraded to Scorpion Engine v2023.2
  • added bounce blocks to normal and hard mode
  • added more cannons
  • easy mode gives 3 hearts, normal mode 2 hearts, hard mode 1 heart
  • boss now flashes when hit by player projectile
  • boss has a different health pool per difficulty mode
  • boss overlapping player does a bit more damage on hard mode
  • boss phase 3 now turns towards the player when the player is 'in sight'. But the boss only does it again after it has been off screen. Alarm lights indicate if the boss will turn around or not: red = turns around, green = keeps walking
  • boss phase 3 walks faster on hard mode
  • boss phase 3 shoots on hard mode
  • player jumps a little higher (like 3 pixels)
  • fixed enemy damage: right side did half damage of left side
  • hearts image in top bar updated
  • some levers now spawn a bomb on hard mode instead of nothing
  • made some level ends a bit longer
  • coin drop animation a bit longer
  • bonus heart and all energy potions now also have a drop animation
  • menu, game over and outro music volume lower before it starts playing (before it would start louder and then fade)
  • menu boxx logo pixel ratio fix
  • menu font fixes
  • jukeboxx and credits now have the right coin button
  • performance mode replaced with boss flash option
  • top panel boxx logo replaced
  • top panel difficulty icon added
  • plain scorpion splash screen
  • added workbench icon to hard disk version
  • menu 'beta' text removed
An Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM is required. (dr)

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15.Jul.2023
MorphZone


 MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.0 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. As the developer wrote, the WebKit core has again been rebased to the latest stable WebKitGTK tree. But that's not all, 6.0 also brings many UI improvements like Bookmark filtering, improved password management, Youtube playback fixes, additional Altivec acceleration and more.

To update from 5.5 simply use the Check for Updates menu function. Wayfarer will then download the new build and auto-update on quit. To update from an older version, manually extract all files from wayfarer.lha into your existing installation.

Changes:
  • Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.40.2
  • Implemented Bookmarks filtering
  • Password manager now stores port numbers too, making it possible to have multiple services requiring login handled on the same domain (as a side effect, all old passwords have been promoted to port 443/https)
  • Added a popup if audio initialization has failed
  • Added a way to manually add passwords in the Password Settings
  • Youtube MSE playback improvements
  • Fixed HTTP authentication popup saving credentials for a wrong host in case of redirection
  • Fixed a redraw issue when opening print panel while page is still loading
  • Fixed to default mimeType to text/html if missing in response from server
  • Fixed a couple of minor memory leaks
  • Updated libnix and libpng16 both with additional Altivec optimizations
  • Updated libxml2, libwebp
Download: wayfarer.lha (32 MB) (dr)

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14.Jul.2023



 Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 12.2 for Raspberry Pi and Windows/Mac/Linux
AmiKit has released version 12.2 of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE. Among other things, AmigaOS 3.2.2.1 is now supported and it has been updated to the latest version of the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry. Detailed change logs for Windows/Mac/Linux and for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. (dr)

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14.Jul.2023



 Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 3.41
FlashFloppy is an alternative, open source firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek. Its original firmware is not developed any further. Changes in version 3.41:
  • AT32F415: Fix timer handling since clock speed increase (v3.39).
  • LCD: Faster power-on initialisation. Don't wait for display to clear.
(dr)

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14.Jul.2023
jPV RNO (E-Mail)


 Review: "Finnish Amiga Users Group" at the Vectorama 2023
In mid-June, Vectorama 2023, an online gaming event aimed at people of all ages, took place in Oulu, Finland. Also present was the Finnish Amiga Users Group, which organised an Amiga stand at the gaming event.

The stand featured an Amiga 500 with Gotek, THEA500 Mini, six A1200 computers, and two MorphOS machines. The A1200 setups were equipped with 030 accelerators and WHDLoad collections. One A1200 also had a PiStorm accelerator to be shown, but it was swapped back to a 030 for better games compatibility. A Mac mini setup was running an infoscreen presentation made with Hollywood Designer and playing some background music, and an iBook setup was used to enter scores from games competitions with a custom program made with Hollwood and MUI Royale. The scores updated in real-time to the infoscreen computer via NetFS Revised mounted network shares. Competitions were held in Pang, Giana Sisters S.E., and Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons games, and three best players in each game were rewarded with prizes.

The latest videos and photos from the event have now been updated to the Finnish Amiga Users Group's event page. (dr)

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14.Jul.2023



 Demoparty: Results of Pågadata 2023
At the beginning of July the Pågadata 2023 took place in Kvidinge, Sweden (amiga-news.de reported). At the demo competition held there, the following Amiga results were achieved:

Amiga Demo Amiga Amos Demo Amiga Music The contributions can be downloaded from the homepage sorted by category. (dr)

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 Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.0.1.01 for Amigas with 68060 processor
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3: the latest version 2.0.1.01 is available for RTG-Amigas and AGA-Amigas with 68060 processor and is based on ScummVM 2.0.1 for the first time. (dr)

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 MorphOS: Screen blankers fxBlankers V1.2
Stephan Blixth (OnyxSoft) has released version 1.2 of his screen saver fxBlankers for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) which now also includes DotFlag and RandomPixels. (dr)

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 Event: Banquet ticket registration for AmiWest 2023
The banquet ticket registration form is now available for AmiWest, which will be held in Sacramento, California, from 12 to 15 October 2023. In addition, two more raffle sponsors, AmiKit and Alinea Computer, and prominent attendees, Doug Compton of 10MARC and Alex Perez of Rabbit Hole Computing (ZuluSCSI), have been secured. The speaker at the banquet will be Garry Hare, former CEO ("Chief Executive Officer") of Amiga Inc. (see also his legal dispute from 2005). (dr)

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 Amigaland.de: Games by California Dreams added
At Amigaland.de now all games by California Dreams are available. This month the titles Street Rod, Street Rod 2: The Next Generation, Blockout, Tunnels of Armageddon, TrianGO and Vegas Gambler have been added to that collection of legally downloadable software. (snx)

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 Start bar: WBDock2 2.877
Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.877. Changes of this program for AmigaOS 3.1 and higher include addition of an experimental separator app (only working properly in AmiDock style yet) and a change in autohide mode preventing the dock to also appear when a previously started program ends.

Download: wbdock2.lha (377 KB) (snx)

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 Amiga Future: New full versions online
Further full versions of Amiga games have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Wibble World Giddy, Giddy 2, Operation Firestorm, and Space Ace 2 - Borfs Revenge as well as the Bauersoft releases Basket, Hotel, Imbiss, and Toon. (snx)

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 Image editor: PyDPainter 1.2.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS
The image editor PyDPainter (YouTube video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as easy to use as possible (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 1.2.0:
  • Implement Background
  • Fix Picture/New canvas sizing
  • Added palette pick to choose color from screen
  • Fix bugs with fullscreen
  • Implement Stencil Lock FG
  • Fix loading of VGA display IDs
  • Added Stencil and Background documentation
  • Add placeholders for other menu documentation
(dr)

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 Virtual Enemies: Devlog #2 - Registration, Network, Language-Support
For the announced strategy game "Virtual Enemies" (amiga-news.de reported), the developers have published a second devlog:

"It's time to give another interim report on the development status of "Virtual Enemies". So how does it looks like:

Character registration is almost complete. That means, the player chooses his language, enters his pseudonym and chooses a sponsor. Nothing is saved yet. This is also not the goal for Amiga38.

What will also not be part of the playable prototype is network communication. Nevertheless, we have already dealt with it a bit and can announce that according to current knowledge, communication with a game server works fine. More details about the planned multiplayer features will follow soon.

Oh, by the way, we have finished the internal tests on the language mod system. The system works great! We just need to add automatic detection of new languages until the final version. But this is not a priority at this point.

Next steps are the provisional creation of a main menu, a mailbox system and the creation of 2 tutorial missions. For everything else placeholder graphics will be used.

After finishing this work the Amiga38 is welcome to come. Some pictures will follow at the end of July, if everything goes according to plan. However, we have to point out that these are placeholder graphics and will definitely still be replaced!" (dr)

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 Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 22
The 22nd issue of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" will be published on Thursday, July 13th. Among the topics are reviews of current games and especially an interview with the developers Shaun Southern and Andrew Morris about the history of Magnetic Fields (Lotus trilogy, Super Cars).

Amiga Addict is published monthly and is available as a single issue or by subscription, either in printed form or as a PDF file. (snx)

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 Arcade port: Pengo beta version released
At the title link, a beta version of the game "Pengo", originally published for Sega's arcade machines, has been released (video). As a red penguin, you have to fight off so-called Sno-Bees in a labyrinth of ice blocks. (snx)

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 Program for DeepL use: AmiTranslate 0.1
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's program AmiTranslate (video) serves as an ambilink to the translation service DeepL and is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.

Besides an SSL-secured internet connection (OpenSSL3 under MorphOS resp. AmiSSL for the other systems) the program also needs the MUI class texteditor.mcc. (snx)

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 AROS distribution: AROS Vision "Sunrise"
Olaf Schönweiß has uploaded a new version of his distribution Aros Vision. There is no information if and what new features there are apart from the addition of Marcus Sackrow's programs AmiDream and AmiTranslate.

Below you can read a general distribution description by its compiler.

"A brief overview of Aros Vision 'Sunrise': AROS/68k is used as a base. This makes it possible to use AROS and Amiga binaries together. The API implements the functionality of AmigaOS 3.1, so many programs run.

From AROS/68k it inherits RTG, AHI, the MUI implementation Zune, the disk image device, network support, themes, the functionality of Magic Menue and 24-bit datatypes. A preconfigured Magellan is used as the desktop.

Many archive types are predefined and can be opened with a double click and searched and unpacked with an interface (xadmaster). The common packers are pre-installed.

WHDLoad is preinstalled and preconfigured with AROS ROMs. These work with about 60-70% of the slaves. If you want, you can add the original ROM files yourself in the Devs:Kickstarts folder. IGames for startup is included, as well as several WHDLoad games and demos.

The time is synchronized via internet at startup (for this, the time zone must be set correctly).

Shell is very similar to the original. Among other things, almost all AmigaDOS commands of version 3.1 are included, plus many more commands in the C directory. In addition, more handlers are preconfigured in the L directory.

The desktop (Magellan) integrates many of the commands from C and makes them easier to use by integrating them into file types and offering specific context menus. Likewise, after double-clicking, display or playback programs are defined for many types. These can be e.g. music files, mods, videos, animations or pictures. Likewise there are conversion possibilities in many cases.

For websites you can use Amifox, in combination with Amitube also play Youtube videos. Alternatively, there is the browser AWeb or an FTP program and the e-mail program Simplemail.

There are many more programs included such as games, demos, applications and interfaces.

Here is a small overview and selection of the preinstalled software:
  • Music playback programs like AmigaAMP, Eagleplayer and HippoPlayer. Trackers like HivelyTracker, NewTracker. Other programs like SoundFX, conversion programs etc.
  • Developer programs and compilers like ACE, AmiBlitz, AMOS, JForth, FreePascal, E-vo, Moduka and Oberon, script languages like Lua and Python.
  • Emulators like ScummVM, DosBox, Frodo (C64), EmuBoy, Hatari and MasterGear
It is also possible to mount ADF and ISO images, create ADF files from inserted disks, scan the system for viruses, backup and restore important data, work with floppy disks, use tools for hard disks and much more. Additionally there are file managers (like DOpus4 and ClassAction), graphic software like WildFire and TVPaint, tools to edit icons or fonts, fractal programs, raytracer, Ignition, image viewer, PDF viewer, text editors, MakeCD, AmigaEyes, gag programs and many more.

The newest programs are AmiDream (AI for photos) and AmiTranslate (translation of texts). The distribution can be downloaded at the title link." (snx)

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 AmigaOS 4: Status update for the WebKit port
George 'walkero' Sokiano's describes the current status of the Webkit port in a forum post:

Since his last status report, he had not spoken up again, but a lot had happened behind the scenes. The work on the Webkit engine requires changes in adtools, gcc and the runtime library clib2 maintained by Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate - among other things, a pthreads implementation for clib2 is currently being worked on. Not only the Webkit port but also all future AmigaOS applications or ports would benefit from these changes and extensions.

A few weeks ago, they had finished porting most of the libraries required by Webkit to AmigaOS. Sokianos is currently working on a Webkit-based "mini-browser", which will initially load only a single page. The developer states the status of the work on this mini-browser "at 42%".

In the meantime, two new, very experienced developers, 'FlynnTheAvatar' and 'sTix', have joined the small team that takes care of the work around Webkit. (cg)

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 Hollywood: ZIP plugin 2.0 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0 of the ZIP plugin for Hollywood. This is a major update which adds several new features exclusively for users of Hollywood 10. For example, the ZIP plugin now supports Hollywood 10's new filesystem adapter interface which means that you can use functions like DeleteFile() or Rename() directly on files or directories within zip archives. Also, the plugin now makes use of several optimizations offered by Hollywood 10.

The plugin is now available for free download under the title link. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (arm64, ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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 Aminet uploads until 08.07.2023
The following files have been added until 08.07.2023 to Aminet:
lubricator.lha           comm/www   69K   68k GUI HTTP search/download + di...
WhatMightHaveBeen.lha    demo/aga   119K  68k Demo for DSP3210 chips
GameX.lha                dev/c      15K   68k Game development link library...
MemLeakZ.lha             dev/misc   3K    68k Watch memory usage, detect me...
adfZ.lha                 disk/misc  7K    68k read/write ADF from/to disks,...
MaxReplayTest.lha        driver/aud 11K   68k Determine Paula's max. replay...
P96Prefs.lha             driver/vid 111K  68k P96 Preferences Editor
AbsoluteZero.lha         game/jump  1.4M  68k AGA puzzle platformer game
rana.lha                 game/jump  128K  68k A Frogger clone for Amiga OCS...
2D_ATcad_RTG.lha         gfx/misc   682K  68k 2D-CAD-Programm
SilkRAW_AROS.lha         gfx/misc   2.0M  x86 GUI for Dave Coffin's program...
SilkRAW_MorphOS.lha      gfx/misc   1.9M  MOS GUI for Dave Coffin's program...
SilkRAW_OS4.lha          gfx/misc   2.4M  OS4 GUI for Dave Coffin's program...
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.6M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.9M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   5.2M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
LadyInBlueFunk.lha       mods/misc  281K      4ch Funk Blues MED by HKvalhe
NAFCYI1991S1-B01.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B02.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B03.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
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 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B08.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B09.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B10.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B11.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B12.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip     text/bfont 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip     text/bfont 2.6M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B18.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B19.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B20.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B24.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B25.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B26.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B27.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B28.zip     text/bfont 2.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-03.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-04.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-05.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-06.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-07.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-08.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-09.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-10.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-11.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-12.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      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 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-16.zip      text/pfont 1.7M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-17.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-18.zip      text/pfont 1.6M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-19.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-20.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-21.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-22.zip      text/pfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip      text/pfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-24.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-25.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-26.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-27.zip      text/pfont 1.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-28.zip      text/pfont 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
MMULib.lha               util/libs  786K  68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha                util/libs  69K   68k Minimal MuLib archive for red...
hackgoshell.lha          util/shell 3K    68k allow user defined palette fo...
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 OS4Depot uploads until 08.07.2023
The following files have been added until 08.07.2023 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
breakhack.lha            gam/rol 15Mb  4.1 Breakhack is a small roguelike game
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 AROS Archives uploads until 08.07.2023
The following files have been added until 08.07.2023 to AROS Archives:
rnoslides.i386-aros.lha      gra/mis 2Mb   Create Slideshow of Image Easy
silkraw_aros.lha             gra/mis 2Mb   GUI for Dave Coffin's progr...
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 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.07.2023
The following files have been added until 08.07.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
IMP_3.411.lha             Audio/Players             Play modules from inter...
AmiArcadia_29.50.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
AmiDream_0.2.lha          Graphics/Convert          A Text to Image Applica...
Easy2Install_1.0b17.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
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 WHDLoad: New installers until 08.07.2023
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 08.07.2023: (snx)

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 MorphOS: Settings for usage under Linux with libvirt
At the title link, MorphZone member "AA5ikkR5SQC6pJSc" reports the settings he used under Fedora Linux to run MorphOS in emulation via QEMU using libvirt. A working NIC, however, he didn't achieve to configure so far. (snx)

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09.Jul.2023
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 Book: From Vultures to Vampires, Volume 2 available
Two years after volume one of the "From Vultures to Vampires" books about Amiga history by former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson, starting July 14 the second of in total three volumes will be available after some delays.

Below you will find the press release:

Buchcover "A Tale of Struggle and Adversity in the Fight to keep the Amiga alive. 'From Vultures to Vampires' is the fascinating true account of what happened to Commodore after the fateful New York auction sale of 1995.

Volume 2 chronicles the machinations and intricate shell games surrounding the Amiga's ownership from 2005 to 2010. The heated battle for the post-Commodore Amiga crown led to the ongoing development of competing next-generation PowerPC-based computers and operating systems.

As companies faded from the scene, new champions took up the challenge of keeping the Amiga dream alive. The twists and turns involving Commoodore's trademarks were more convoluted. with repeased opportunistic attempts to control the Commodore brand, something that continues to this day.

Content:

  • Chapter 1: The circle of life: Happy 20th Birthday, Amiga!
  • Chapter 2: Getting better? It can’t get no worse?
  • Chapter 3: Powered up
  • Chapter 4: Swimming against the tide
  • Chapter 5: Breakthrough
  • Chapter 6: A new beginning
  • Chapter 7: Commodore revisited

'From Vultures to Vampires Volume 2' will be published as a hardback book of 288 pages, priced at 40.00 Euros (£35 / $45), and will be available from well-stocked bookstores, online retailers, and directly from the publisher on July 14, 2023. E-book editions for Kindle and other platforms will also be available.

Delivery to pre-order customers worldwide began on July 7, 2023.

The final volume 3 is expected in September 2023.

ISBN:
978-3-98249-854-6 (hardback book)
978-3-98249-855-3 (e-book)" (snx)

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09.Jul.2023
Amigaworld.net (website)


 Print magazine: Boing #6 (French)
"Boing" is a French print magazine by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL) for all Amiga systems on 52 A4 color pages.

The sixth issue includes news about the game "Twilight of the Muses!", reviews about PiStorm32-Lite and Turrican 2 AGA as well as an interview with Chris Hülsbeck. (snx)

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09.Jul.2023
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 Hardware: Funding of Immortal Joysticks secured
Crowd funding of the "Immortal Joysticks", that had been built on demand before (amiga-news.de reported), has been successful. In total more than 30,000 UKP could be collected. (snx)

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08.Jul.2023
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 Event: DEF CON 31 with Amiga FTP client vulnerability identification
From August 10 to 13, 2023, the IT security event DEF CON 31 will take place in Las Vegas. In one of the presentations, Dr. Wesley McGrew is dedicated to the possibility for beginners to find security vulnerabilities in earlier operating systems - and will demonstrate this using an FTP client for the Amiga from 1994. (snx)

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08.Jul.2023
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 Tool: Closer closes Workbench windows
Its name tells it all: the BlitzBasic program "Closer" will take away the chore of closing the Workbench windows for you. (snx)

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08.Jul.2023
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 AI picture generator: AmiDream 0.2
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiDream generates pictures described by text using the language model Stable Diffusion. The program is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS. (snx)

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07.Jul.2023
MediaMarkt advertising (ANF)


 Trademark exploitation: "Commodore" household appliances
Apparently the most recent use of the brand name "Commodore" with a logo similar to the original can currently be found in MediaMarkt's advertising in Germany and Austria: on the one hand wet mopping robots in three variants and in Austria on the other hand also a so-called "balcony power station". Both products are distributed by the Austrian company KSR Group GmbH. (snx)

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07.Jul.2023
Demozoo (ANF)


 Jump'n'Run: Absolute Zero
In "Absolute Zero", a jump'n'run game created with RedPill, one has to collect batteries for "climate reactors" in a frozen world (video).

Download: AbsoluteZero.lha (1 MB) (snx)

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06.Jul.2023



 A-EON announces that A1222+ production is underway
In a joint press release (PDF), A-EON, ACube and AAA Technology announce that production of A1222+ motherboards is underway. Pre-orders for the A1222+ are "expected to open in the coming months", with shipments said to begin shortly afterwards. Customers who committed to A-EON’s 'Early Adopter' scheme will have first choice of refusal after which orders will be accepted on a first come first served basis.

According to the press release, A-EON is financing the design and production of the A1222+, while ACube has developed the final prototypes and will now manage the production and testing process. The Luxembourg based "AAA Technology", a joint venture between Amedia Computer France, AmigaKit Ltd. and A-EON Technology Ltd, will act as the main distributor for the product.

Note from staff: A year ago, A-EON confirmed that it no longer has a license to distribute AmigaOS 4 and that the X5000 motherboards on sale at the time were bundled with AmigaOS by a third party. The unnamed company mentioned in our old news item that was rumoured to be said third party was indeed AAA Technology. (cg)

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05.Jul.2023
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 Emulator of an optical drive with CD³² support
Felix Lazarev has announced that his "Phøde Universal Optical Drive Emulator" will also support the Amiga CD³² among other systems. An "Optical Drive Emulator" (short: ODE) replaces an optical drive with a board that reads CD images from e.g. an SD card instead of using real CDs. This is much more robust, since no mechanics and no laser are used anymore.

Pre-orders are currently underway, and production is planned for the end of September, with delivery starting at the end of October. (snx)

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05.Jul.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 163
The English and German issue 163 (July/August 2023) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.

Content of the current issue includes a preview of the ASM game, a review of the IceDrake turbo board and show reports. (snx)

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05.Jul.2023
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 AmigaOS 4: Script for adjusting Browservice usage by Odyssey
In order to be able to visit more modern websites on AmigaOS 4 with the Odyssey web browser, Browservice can be used (amiga-news.de reported). However, it happens that lateral scroll bars constantly appear and disappear again.

George Sokianos has now provided a Javascript file at the title link which solves this problem by generating the images supplied by Browservice a few pixels narrower so that the scroll bars do not appear at all. Before importing the file into Odyssey, one does only have to adjust the IP address in line 12 using a text editor. (snx)

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05.Jul.2023
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 Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.2
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.

New features in version 2023.2 include an optional sliced blitting mode for the Amiga, which greatly reduces the memory consumption of animations. (snx)

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03.Jul.2023
Nico Barbat (ANF)


 German translation of "Commodore: The Inside Story" available
The book "Commodore: The Inside Story" by David Pleasance is also available in German now. Details can be found in our German news-item. (snx)

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03.Jul.2023



 Videos of the Kickstart 01
Last weekend, after a break of several years, an event for Amiga fans took place again in Great Britain with the Kickstart 01 (amiga-news.de reported). A short walk around of the event organised by Ravi Abbott (interview with amiga-news.de) was recorded by AmigaNG, detailed live recordings can be found on the Twitch channel StudioFromTheSky. (dr)

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02.Jul.2023



 Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.14
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 1.14 of the Greaseweazle Tools provide the following changes:
  • Windows 64-bit: Install correct 64-bit version of CAPS/SPS IPF library
  • Windows 32-bit: Install 32-bit versions of required MSVCR DLLs
  • Now require Python 3.8 or later
  • TD0: Support advanced compression blocks
(dr)

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02.Jul.2023



 Frogger clone: RANA
Already two years ago, Lorenzo Di Gaetano from the group Phaze101 wrote his Frogger clone RANA (Reckless Amphibian New Adventures) for the "Retroprogrammers Inside Gamedev Challenge" and published the source code on GitHub.
Since there was no finished binary so far, the idea arose in a forum discussion on Amiga-News.de to create one and make it available to the general public. With the kind permission of the author and the final implementation by Josef Wegner, the game is now available on Aminet (YouTube video). (dr)

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 Aminet uploads until 01.07.2023
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to Aminet:
encore_morphiller.lha    demo/misc  11M   MOS Morphiller by Encore - demo f...
ssh2fs.i386-aros.lha     disk/misc  94K   x86 SSHv2 file system client
ssh2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha  disk/misc  176K  68k SSHv2 file system client
worldcup.lha             docs/misc  655K      Statistics of World Cups 1930...
IndivisionAGAVampireP... driver/mon 1K    68k Patch for Indivision AGA sw f...
TONY.adf                 game/demo  880K  68k TONY playable demo
NightShift.lha           game/role  16M   68k NIGHT/SHIFT: A Cypherpunk Adv...
imp3.lha                 mus/play   45K   ALL Do stuff on Amiga!
IdentifyLib_FR.lha       util/libs  21K       French catalog and docs for i...
z_lib.i386-aros.lha      util/libs  54K   x86 Zlib core as a shared library
z_lib.m68k-amigaos.lha   util/libs  91K   68k Zlib core as a shared library
AmigaGPT.lha             util/misc  206K  68k App for chatting to ChatGPT
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  12M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
gidatario.lha            util/time  229K  68k GI Datario
(snx)

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 OS4Depot uploads until 01.07.2023
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to OS4Depot:
imp3.lha                 aud/pla 45kb  4.0 Do stuff on Amiga!
gluae.lha                emu/uti 15kb  4.0 Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
silkraw.lha              gra/mis 2Mb   4.1 GUI for Dave Coffin's progr...
sdl2.lha                 lib/mis 7Mb   4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
(snx)

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02.Jul.2023



 AROS Archives uploads until 01.07.2023
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to AROS Archives:
worldcup.lha                 doc/mis 655kb Soccer World Cup statistics 1930...
z_lib.i386-aros.lha          lib/mis 54kb  Zlib core as a shared library
yam29p1-aros-i386.lha        net/ema 3Mb   Email Client 2016 Fixed Verson
yam29p1-aros-ppc.lha         net/ema 4Mb   Email Client 2016 Fixed Verson
ssh2fs.i386-aros.lha         net/mis 94kb  SSHv2 file system client
(snx)

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 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.07.2023
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Morphiller_1.2.lha        Demoscene/ENCORE          Demo for MorphOS PowerPC
SilkRAW_2.0.lha           Graphics/Misc             GUI for Dave Coffin's p...
Wayfarer_5.5.lha          MorphOS-update            Wayfarer is the latest ...
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02.Jul.2023



 WHDLoad: New installers until 01.07.2023
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 01.07.2023:
  • 2023-06-29 fixed: Star Command (SSI) the game will be loaded correctly, manual included (Info)
  • 2023-06-29 fixed: Nevermind (Psyclapse) an access fault removed, some options added, QuitKey for 68000 (Info)
  • 2023-06-27 fixed: Cobra (Bytec) access fault in SidMon replay routine patched (Info)
  • 2023-06-25 improved: TFX (Digital Image Design) various performance optimizations (Info)
(snx)

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02.Jul.2023
David Brunet (ANF)


 New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
  • May/June 2023 news
  • Old artiles from Ami-GrafX 5 to 7:
    • Comparison: Virtual landscape software
    • Tutorial: Imagine - The modelling possibilities of the shape editor
    • Tutorial: ClariSSA - Interfacing ClariSSA with other software
    • Miscellaneous: Simulation of an ambulatory surgery clinic
    • Tutorial: Volumm 4D - Trees and cut-out volumes
    • Tutorial: Real 3D - Robotics
    • File: Presentation of ASC Presta
  • Interview with Yannick Buchy (Meta-MorphOS.fr, Amiga-Classic.org)
  • Interview with Ravi Abbott (The Retro Hour, Amiga Addic)
  • Review of MorphOS 3.18
  • Review of Karateka
  • File: Presentation and history of the Emerald Mine series
  • File: The Copper
  • File: The history of Simulmondo (second part)
  • Tutorial: Making backup copies on MorphOS
  • DIY: Icarus 1 - AROS One and Icaros Desktop
  • DIY: Installing and configuring Wi-Fi on CD32
  • Programming: Articles from GuruMed.net website
  • Special quiz about Shadow Of The Beast
(snx)

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02.Jul.2023



 Lubricator 2.0: Receiving disk images via HTTP and writing them on disk
"Lubricator" written by Timm 'bifat' Mueller loads disk images from the World Wide Web and writes them on an Amiga disk using an Amiga with only 1 MB RAM and without harddrive. New in version 2.0:
  • Parser bits rewritten in assembler
  • Minor corrections in signal handling, verbose output, improved documentation
  • AmigaGuide and Installer added
  • some requests could be performed twice, corrected
  • directories are now sorted to top in local facility
  • now deletes __MACOSX garbage from archives automatically
(dr)

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02.Jul.2023



 RTG driver: Preferences editor "P96Prefs" 47.9 for P96
With "P96Prefs" Thomas Richter has written an improved, alternative preferences editor for the RTG driver P96 (amiga-news.de reported). Version 47.9, now available on Aminet, adds support of tooltypes that are supported as of P96 3.4.0, namely the RainbowII and the CBMs only graphics card, the A2410. AmigaOS 3.2 or higher is required. (dr)

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02.Jul.2023



 Developer tools: Amiga SDKs adapted to GCC compilers
Cameron 'Nightfox' Armstrong, who recently published AmigaGPT, offers SDKs of AmigaOS 3.2 NDK and AmigaOS 4.1 (V54.16) adapted to the GCC compiler based on Stefan 'Bebbo' Franke's Amiga GCC Development Kit. These contain additional adaptations of AmiSSL-SDK and the translator.library.

A Dockerfile is now also included with today's update to create an AmigaOS 3 & 4 compiler development environment with everything included. (dr)

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01.Jul.2023



 New cross compiler/assembler: Calypsi
"Calypsi" is a collection of compilers and assemblers that run under Windows, Linux and macOS and can generate code for various retro platforms - among others, 6502 and 68000 processors are supported. Although the project is hosted on Github, the source code is not freely available and the use of the tools is only permitted for private purposes.

A runtime library for Amiga programmes is delivered with the compiler, it is described by the author as "work in progress". The associated source codes are available, cooperation of other developers is explicitly welcome here. (cg)

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01.Jul.2023



 Preview video 31: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported). He has written about his 31. preview video:

"Lots of stuff has happened during the past months, the highlights being:
  • about 30% wider goals!
  • optional radar!
  • no glued ball anymore, real dribbling!
Personally I always found SWOS or KickOff dribbling way too hard to master. Therefore my dribbling mechanics got some kind of twist, so that you get an unglued ball with the ease of use as if it was glued :) In a nutshell it works as follows:

Once you touch the ball, your player enters "dribbling mode". In that mode it will more or less auto-follow the ball, unless you make something like a 180 deg turn or stop moving. If you change joystick direction from e.g. up to up-right, then this direction change will not be applied immediately. Instead your player will continue to run up until he hits the ball for the next dribbling short-kick - and at this precise moment your current joystick direction will actually be applied and you continue dribbling up-right.

Expanding the goal's width was a rather tedious task because I had to heavily mess around with the carefully tweaked sprite setup to somehow make one more hw-sprite available for the larger goals. The new radar made this even more complicated.

Eventually one of the corner-sticks is now made using sprite #5 - whose DMA-channel isn't working: due to horizontal soft-scrolling and 32bit fetch-mode, only the sprites 0 to 4 remain fully functional here. And the fact that we're in 64 pixel sprite mode doesn't make it better. But with some hackery #5 was tamed - luckily the corner-stick is just a stick ;)

Anyway, til the next time!" (dr)

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30.Jun.2023



 Tool for Reverse Engineering: Amiga extension for Ghidra 10.3.1
Ghidra is a free and open source reverse engineering tool (amiga-news.de reported).

Based on the work of Vladimir Kononovich and Martin Atkins, 'Bartman' has released an update for the Amiga extension supporting now the latest Ghidra version 10.3.1. It can load Amiga Hunk-Executables, Kickstart ROMs and WinUAE State File (.uss). (dr)

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30.Jun.2023



 SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.07.01
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 2023.07.01:
  • Improve CD-ROM image switching logic
  • Increase MPC3000 InitPreDelay to 600ms, from 500ms (cb5fd0a)
  • Fix bootloader size comparison
  • RP2040 SDIO: Increase stopTransmission timeout
  • ZuluSCSI GD32 V1.1: Fix PhyMode=2 (DMA_TIMER) with AHA2940UW
  • ZuluSCSI GD32 V1.1 Fix PhyMode=1(PIO)
  • Temporary fix for DMA_TIMER mode on ZuluSCSI v1.1
(dr)

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30.Jun.2023
MorphZone (forum)


 Demoscene: Morphiller from Encore wins at Decrunch party in Wroclaw
From June 23rd to 25th the demoparty "Decrunch" took place in Wroclaw, Poland. In the category "wild competition" the MorphOS demo "Morphiller" by Encore has won (video). The music titled "Revolution", found on the album "Fish and Chips", is by "XTD of Lamers".

Download: encore_morphiller.lha (11 MB) (snx)

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30.Jun.2023
Yoz Montana (Mail)


 Preview video: Platform game "Guardian - The legend of flaming sword"
At the end of 2021 we reported for the first time about Yoz Montana's platformer "Guardian - The legend of flaming sword", which he creates for AGA-Amigas with the help of the Game Construction Kit RedPill. In issue 15 of the magazine Amiga Addict a demo was published. The new preview video that has now been published shows stages 1 to 5, which have been further improved compared to the demo version. (dr)

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29.Jun.2023
MorphZone


 MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 5.5
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 5.5 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes include among others mjpeg support in ffmpeg (enables audio playback in JellyFin) and an updated/bugfixed cURL. Therefore, the author strongly recommends upgrading to 5.5 if you are using 5.2-5.4.

Download: wayfarer.lha (29 MB) (dr)

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29.Jun.2023



 Platform game: Demo version of "Gothic Vania"
Matteo 'Toolkitman' Trevisan is a about writing his first platform game using the Scorpion Engine. He has released a first, early demo version of "Gothic Vania" for AGA Amigas:


(dr)

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29.Jun.2023



 Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V2.0 R87 for Windows 10/11
Raster Master (amiga-news.de reported) is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).

Now version 2.0 R87 has been released. Changes:
  • Maps can now be 128x128 and 256x256 tiles
  • when Paint tool is selected in Map Editor hold SHIFT key it will replace all instances of the Tile
  • Discovered that onpaint events were being generated when the Labels for coordinates were being updated. This is probably a bug with LCL. This caused the program to repaint the pixels/map area when it was not required. Changed all instances in program to statusbar to update coordinate information. This may have caused performance issues with slower speed computers
(dr)

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29.Jun.2023
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 Preview video: "AmiDream" generates pictures from text
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow (among others AmiFox) gives a preview of his latest project in a video under the title link: inspired by websites like getimg.ai, the tool "AmiDream" generates images from text using the AI model Stable Diffusion. (dr)

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28.Jun.2023



 DIY: Firmware update for "GottaGoFaZt3r"
"GottaGoFaZt3r" developed by Matt Harlum is a memory expansion with 128MB or 256MB Z3 autoconfig FastRAM for the Amiga 3000 and 4000 (amiga-news.de reported). With today's firmware update, DTACK will be activated later during read operations to avoid problems with the A4091. (dr)

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28.Jun.2023
Echtzeit (Webseite)


 Video talk: "Demoscene: From Underground Culture to UNESCO Cultural Heritage"
On 15 and 16 June, the "ICE Conference 2023" took place, dedicated to 3D environments in the most diverse fields of application. Part of the event was the video talk "Demoscene: From Underground Culture to UNESCO Cultural Heritage" held by Dr. Andre 'kudrix' Kudra, which among other things also mentions the Amiga demo Batman Rises released at the end of last year. (dr)

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28.Jun.2023



 Music tip: Iraq Demo - Ending (D4XX Remix)
In addition to complete albums (for example the Jaguar XJ220 remix album), Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann also releases individual remixes: this time he has dedicated himself to the Iraq Demo, released in 1990 by Animators. (dr)

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28.Jun.2023



 Demoparty: Pågadata 2023 (Sweden)
Not only the demo party "Posadas" in the town of the same name in Spain will take place next weekend (amiga-news.de reported), but also the "Pågadata" in Kvidinge, Sweden. Entries for the Amiga demo competition are possible in the categories "AMOS demo", "Demo", "Music" and "GFX". (dr)

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27.Jun.2023
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky (E-Mail)


 Linux: Kernel 6.4 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Right after the release of the Linux kernel 6.4, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests (Screenshot). Changes concerning the AmigaOnes:
  • X1000, X5000, and QEMU e5500: Multi-Gen LRU support (CONFIG_LRU_GEN=y and CONFIG_LRU_GEN_ENABLED=y)
  • PASEMI updates in the PowerPC updates
  • PASEMI ethernet and DPAA updates in the networking updates
  • There are some issues with the BTTV driver for TV cards so we added the new BTTV driver originally planned for the kernel 6.5 to our kernel 6.4.
  • X1000: Fix ISA mapping when "ranges" property is not present, for PASemi Nemo boards
Download: linux-image-6.4-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (59 MB) (dr)

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27.Jun.2023



 Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 3.40
FlashFloppy is an alternative, open source firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek. Its original firmware is not developed any further. Changes in version 3.40:
  • XDF: Fix writes to side 1 of XDF disk images
  • HFE: Better handling of long No Flux Areas
  • QuickDisk: Reduce motor spinup time to 1 second (previously 2 seconds)
  • LCD: Completely blank display when backlight is off
(dr)

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27.Jun.2023
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 Game: Cypherpunk adventure Night/Shift
Night/Shift by Eclectic Imaginations is an Amiga-exclusive exploration game with Hi-Res HAM8 graphics. The game runs on any Amiga with an AGA chipset and can be downloaded for free at the title link.

Set in Boston in 2039, this cypherpunk adventure game tasks three young citizens with uncovering the greatest conspiracy of their time in a mix of dystopia and nostalgia. (snx)

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27.Jun.2023



 Music tip: Protracker music track "Grogon - Tabular Ravers"
'no9' has been working in the audio field for years and also occasionally composes music for games (amiga-news.de reported). On his YouTube channel, he also publishes his own compositions time and again, like now the piece "Grogon - Tabular Ravers". (dr)

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27.Jun.2023



 Management of ADF files: adflib V0.8.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS
Laurent Clevy first released adflib in 1999 in version 0.7.8 (Aminet). The portable C library, written mainly in C, is used to manage Amiga-formatted devices such as hard disks and ZIP disks or to swap them out via the .ADF format. Besides Volker Schwaberow's approach to convert the library into the programming language Rust, the original library is now also being updated, currently maintained by Tomasz Wolak.

Reading files has been bug-fixed and writing them has been introduced as a new function. Changes in version 0.8.0:
  • full file read and write support
  • added support for hard- and soft links
  • added Linux native devices
  • updated and improved unadf
  • added new command-line utilities:adf_floppy_create, adf_floppy_format, adf_show_metadata
  • numerous bugfixes and improvements
  • more extensive testing
  • added configuration to build with CMake (ie. to facilitate building for Windows)
  • added (unofficial) Debian and Ubuntu packaging
(dr)

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26.Jun.2023
AMIGASYSTEM (ANF)


 AROS distribution: AROS One 2.1 (x86)
"AROS One", a distribution based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.0 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as DVD ISO file or as USB flash image at the title link, where you can also find video recordings.

Besides updates of the included programs and games as well as bug fixes, also new functions have been added. The changes in detail:
  • Update AROS One OS System:
    • Update RNOTunes.catalog for version 1.1
    • Create OpenURL.prefs which allows OpenURL to open a link directly with OWB
    • Create 4Sets of AmiFox Buttons
    • Fix Theme BlackIce
    • Created new Icon Set for all styled Apps "Circle"
    • Translated and Updated in Italian all system Apps (Catalog)
    • Fix AlarmClock
    • Fix Theme PixBlue
    • Create 12 Themes for AROSAmp
    • Create Script Theme-Prefs for AROSAmp
    • Create 3 Button and 5 Wallpaper for MPlayer
    • Create Script Theme-Prefs for MPlayer
    • Created new Set "Button Themes" for OWB
    • Create Script Theme-Prefs for OWB
    • Create New Button "BIG" AmiStart
    • Create New Script AmiStart
    • Create Icon DosDriver SMB2 and SMB2-Restart
    • Create Script SMB2-Restart (Mount/Dismount SMB2)
    • Create new script for BoingIconBar (BiB-Prefs), "now no need to reboot the system to replace Sondi and Buttons"

  • Update AROS One Apps:
    • RNOTunes 1.1
    • Update - RNOTunes.catalog for version 1.1
    • LilCalendar 2.4
    • iConecta 4.25
    • AppBuilder 3.1
    • FlexCat 2.18
    • UnMount 0.1
    • HWP_hURL 2.0
    • HWP_APNG 1.2
    • HWP_YAFA 1.2
    • HWP_TIFF 1.2
    • HWP_PCX 1.2
    • HWP_JEPEG2000 1.2
    • HWP_FLIC 1.2
    • InstallerLG 1.0.3
    • VIM 9.0.1546
    • LHA 1.14i
    • WildMidi 0.4.5
    • Update Dopus Config: associati file .ct, cd a Editor, tasto Del elimina file, tasti Amiga + C, copia file
    • AROSAmp 0.24
    • Image2PDF 2.2
    • SMB2-handler 53.7
    • Filesysbox.library 54.4
    • BoingIconBar 1.12

  • Update AROS One Games:
    • Xump
    • Powermanga

  • Update Core ABIv0 20201110:
    • Fix kms.library
    • Fix muimaster
    • Fix Input prefs
    • Fix BoingIconBar
(snx)

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 Demoparty: Posadas 2023 (Spain)
From 30 June to 2 July, this year's edition of the Posadas demoparty will take place in Posadas, Spain. As the Spanish graphic designer José A. 'jojo073' Gonzáles tells us - the French magazine BOING interviewed him in its fifth issue and has now published this interview in Spanish - the demo party was first organised with numerous competitions in the 1990s and was brought back to life a few years ago after a long break. To get in the mood, he published a pixel artwork showing a character from a film, which the experienced film connoisseur will surely be able to identify without difficulty... (dr)

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26.Jun.2023



 Video-Tutorial: Animation and collision detection of sprites in AMOS
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, and following on from his last video on sprites, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains how to control the animation of sprites and how to detect collisions between them. (dr)

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25.Jun.2023
Seiya (ANF)


 PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 147 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.

Amiga-related, the current issue is about Project: Quest, Tower FRA and Final Fight. (snx)

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25.Jun.2023
itch.io


 Adventure: "The Oregon Trail" V1.00
Sami Vehmaa's "The Oregon Trail" (YouTube video) is set in 1847 and is a text-based adventure game (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.00 provides the following changes:
  • Fixed repeat event not to occur
  • Weather gfx
  • Fixed/tested out family member deaths
  • Cholera
  • Some missing gfx
  • Clothes wearing
  • More events
  • Time passes even in stand still things like in shop
  • Text scroll recoded
  • Menu gfx updated
  • Custom mouse pointer
  • Most graphics fine tuned
  • Game travel line "story" fine tuned
  • Game saved on quit
  • Icon touched up
  • Reset option in menu to reset saved game
  • More detailed health status key h
(dr)

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25.Jun.2023



 Aminet uploads until 24.06.2023
The following files have been added until 24.06.2023 to Aminet:
NetFS-revised.lha        comm/net   620K  68k Remote filesystem & AREXX bet...
PED81C.lha               dev/amos   612K  68k "Native" chunky screens system
wla_dx_v10.5.lha         dev/cross  8.5M  68k WLA DX - Cross Macro Assemble...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   3.3M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
DFT_IDFT_DWT_FFT.zip     dev/src    287K  68k DFT, IDFT, DWT and FFT for A1...
WhatIFF1.05.lha          mags/misc  248K      What IFF? #1.05-June-2022
WhatIFF2.10.lha          mags/misc  1.4M      What IFF? #2.10-June-2023
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.6M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.9M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   5.2M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
LadyInBlueJazz.lha       mods/8voic 303K      8ch slow Amiga Blues Jazz by ...
hippoplayerupdate.lha    mus/play   406K  68k Updated HippoPlayer
Cebo_Dark_Theme_Grabs... pix/wb     1.3M      Screenshots of the Cebo_Dark_...
luett-font.lha           text/bfont 4K        Small HiRes font (8x8, all co...
Avalanche_FR.lha         util/arc   7K        French catalog for Avalanche 2.3
avalanche_guide_de.lha   util/arc   8K        German translation of Avalanc...
filesysbox.i386-aros.lha util/libs  53K   x86 A FUSE compatible file system...
filesysbox.m68k-amiga... util/libs  73K   68k A FUSE compatible file system...
IconLib_46.4.lha         util/libs  1.6M  68k free icon.library in optimize...
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 OS4Depot uploads until 24.06.2023
The following files have been added until 24.06.2023 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
eaqne1.lzx               gam/adv 18Mb  4.0 Adventure detectives,  crimes an...
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 AROS Archives uploads until 24.06.2023
The following files have been added until 24.06.2023 to AROS Archives:
whatiff2.10.lha              doc/mis 1Mb   Magazine on AmigaGuide "Jun...
eaqne1.lzx                   gam/adv 18Mb  Adventure detectives,  crimes an...
easyrpg.i386-aros.lha        gam/adv 4Mb   play games created with RPG Make...
filesysbox.i386-aros.lha     lib/mis 53kb  A FUSE compatible file system layer
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha         net/sam 82kb  SMB2/3 file system client
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 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.06.2023
The following files have been added until 24.06.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_2.28.0_Libraries.lha  Dependencies              All Libraries SDL : SDL...
AmiArcadia_29.41.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
REminiscence_0.5.1.lha    Games/Adventure           REminiscence is a re-im...
EAQNE-1_2.0.lha           Games/Adventure           Adventure point and cli...
NetFS_3.2.lha             Network/Filesystem        Network File System for...
Easy2Install_1.0b16.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
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 WHDLoad: New installers until 24.06.2023
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 24.06.2023: (snx)

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25.Jun.2023
Nico Barbat (ANF)


 Event: Look Behind You and Gameplan at the Level Up in Salzburg (Austria)
In addition to Amiga Future, the two German publishers Look Behind You and Gameplan will also participate at Level Up in Austria for the first time this year. Below you can read the translation of their official press release:

"Level Up is the first Austrian gaming and eSports festival that brings together recreational gamers, professionals, gaming fans, as well as creators and stars of the scene in an experiential atmosphere to experience new trends and celebrate their shared passion. But retro computing will not be neglected either: in a separate retro area, those interested can experience historic computers live.

The two German publishers Look Behind You and Gameplan will be taking part in Level Up for the first time this year. At the joint booth, the two publishers, who focus on video game culture and retro technology, will offer their complete book program, including 'Spielkonsolen und Heimcomputer 1972-2022', 'Die Geheimnisse von Monkey Island', 'Atari: Kunst und Design der Videospiele' und 'Die Kunst von Assassin's Creed Valhalla'. Publishers Winnie Forster (Gameplan) and Nico Barbat (LBY) will be on hand throughout.

Visitors will also be able to play through the adventure game 'The Secret of Monkey Island' on an Amiga 1000 at the joint booth of LBY and Gameplan. A special exhibit will be the rare Vectrex game console, released in 1982, which visitors will also be able to try out for themselves. Revolutionary at the time, the device from General Consumer Electronics features a built-in vector screen and is often referred to as the first 'truly portable' game console.

There's something for everyone at Level Up, whether you're a hobby gamer, eSports pro, cosplayer, retro fan, indie aficionado, card gamer, tabletop player or game-loving family. Particularly successful program items from previous years will be back this year. Among others, the Level Up Icarace World Championships, the high-class Rocket League tournament Morekats Mayhem #4, cosplay action in cooperation with Animix, tabletop and card gaming in cooperation with Gamers Finest Salzburg and CardArena, a drone championship, as well as a charity stream to raise money for charity. There will also be a separate FSK16+ area, where players and orgs will battle it out in tournaments without youth clearance.

Level Up will take place from July 1 to 2, 2023 at the Messezentrum Salzburg. Tickets are available in advance and at the box office. To ensure that this year's event is once again a pleasure for the whole family, visitors under 16 pay a reduced price, while children under 12 attend the event completely free of charge." (snx)

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24.Jun.2023
Twitter


 Game announcement: Twin-Stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero"
After Nivrig Games had already published some preview videos (amiga-news.de reported), the official game announcement now followed with the opening of the itch.io project site: the twin-stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero" (latest YouTube video) will be released this summer and can be played at the Kickstart taking place next weekend in England.

The plot: "The wizards have been at it again, and this time they've accidentally opened Hellgates under the castle! Now it's up to you, brave brave Sir Declan, to search each procedurally generated castle dungeon and find enough magical shards to access and close its gate.

Armed with a magical Caster Sword, potions you find, and perhaps the occasional legendary charm, Sir Declan must fight demons that escaped from the gate, avoid traps, and collect treasures to trade for battle enhancements, before finally facing the Hellgates themselves." Features:
  • 50fps 2D hell-blasting action
  • Billions of procedurally generated dungeons
  • Multiple control schemes,
  • including new Abstraction Games twin-stick controller
  • Online high score table
  • Many enemies and traps to defeat
  • Upgrades to unlock as you progress
  • Legendary artefacts to recover
  • Hapless villagers to save
An Amiga 500 with 512 KB Chip RAM and 512 KB other RAM are required. (dr)

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 Text comparison tool: ADiffView 2.4
ADiffView compares two ASCII text files and displays the differences graphically. The diff engine uses Eugene Myers' diff algorithm. After Uwe Rosner had already published version 2.4 for MorphOS in May, this version is now also available for AmigaOS 3 (direct download, 134 KB). Changes:
  • Behavior: When ADiffView opens its own screen it is now a public screen named ADIFFVIEW.1. This number is incremented for each instance. The name of the screen where ADiffView is actually running is displayed in the About requester.
  • Behavior: On AmigaOS 3.1.4 and newer when ADiffView opens its own screen the new off-screen dragging mode is enabled. This allows windows to be dragged beyond the screen borders.
  • Behavior: Added (ToolType / CLI) argument EDITORONPUBSCREEN. When this is set and the editor (see EDITOR argument) supports a PUBSCREEN argument it will be opened on the ADiffView screen. The default editor C:Ed doest't support it, but OS3.1.4+ Tools/TextEdit does.
  • Behavior: The editor is now started asynchronously.
  • Fixed user interface and selection glitches that occurred when different screen or window title bar heights were set in OS3.1.4.+ Prefs/IControl.
  • Built with the OS3.2 NDK.
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23.Jun.2023



 MorphOS: Platform game REminiscence 0.5.1
REminiscence is a rewrite of the engine used in the game Flashback from Delphine Software. This program is designed as a cross-platform replacement for the original executable. The MorphOS version requires SDL-Library 2.28.0. Changes:
  • added looping for DOS .prf music
  • changed audio mixer to stereo
  • updated timings for cutscenes
(dr)

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23.Jun.2023
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)


 Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.2.1
'wicknix' has released version 32.2.1 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for LinuxPPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. Among other things, the preferences dialogue has been changed, a new logo and some new extensions and themes have been added.

Download: sealion-32.2.1-linux-powerpc-gtk2.tar.bz2 (54 MB) (dr)

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23.Jun.2023



 AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.28.0 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.28.0 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:
  • Add USB Gamepad mapping.
  • Disable SDL_FRAMEBUFFER_ACCELERATION only if user hasn't overridden it.
Download: SDL2.lha (6,8 MB) (dr)

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23.Jun.2023
Amiga.org (forum)


 PED81C: Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas (Update)
The Amiga's bitplane-based graphics, in which the color information for each pixel on a screen is captured as two-dimensional layers and, for scrolling, each layer (bitplane) is changed by the exact same value so that each pixel also gets the same color again, is memory-efficient but slow for individual changes and, with the advent of 3D graphics and fast memory on graphics cards, has fallen behind the chunky display of PCs and Macs.

With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach described in detail in the documentation in the archive at the title link to work on AGA Amigas with pseudo-native chunky screens without performing the known chunky-to-planar conversions when displaying 3D graphics or any other slowing down additional calculations by CPU or custom chips (Copper, Blitter) at all.

Videos at the title link demonstrate the effects made possible by the fact that chunky-like each dot on the screen is defined by its own byte in Chip RAM. Among the examples included there is also one showing how to use a PED81C display in AMOS programs.

Update: (09:22, 25.06.23, snx)
Mistake corrected regarding bitplane scrolling. (snx)

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22.Jun.2023
Twitter


 Book project: "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" can be pre-ordered
In March 2023, the book project "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" was successfully crowdfunded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the book can be pre-ordered at a currently reduced price of 40 euros (instead of 44.90 euros) plus shipping. (dr)

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22.Jun.2023
Amiga Future (website)


 amigafan.de: Interviews with Retro Games and BitbeamCannon
On his site amigafan.de David Schlak has published two interviews recently. One was with Retro Games Ltd. (THEA500 Mini) - according to which a maxi version is still intended, even if the sales figures of the miniature edition of an Amiga seem to have fallen short of expectations -, the other one with BitbeamCannon about the game "Metro Siege", which has been announced for four years now and for which still no completion date is foreseeable due to limited spare time. (snx)

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22.Jun.2023



 Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.58
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.58. Changes:

Fixes:
  • Starting with command line "HiP " or with a "Startup" playlist and with random play mode always played the first entry, not a random entry, fixed this.
  • Fix search view sometimes not showing the last two list items.
  • Increased the maximum width of the window, so it can be resized wider than before.
  • Loading with "XFDmaster library" was fixed already in the previous version but I forgot to mention it in the last changelist.
  • PlaySid on kickstart 1.3: playing PSIDs on kick 1.3 could crash previously. There is now a fixed kick 1.3 specific playsid.library included, which is the latest official original version with some kick 1.3 specific fixes. Use the other included library for newer kickstarts.
  • AHI: Improved SBLive compatibility when stopping playback.
New features:
  • A new prefs option "Prefs/Play-1/Position slider" enables a slider in the main window which can be used to select the playing position. This works for the most common module types supporting pattern skipping. It also enables seeking locally played MP3 files.
  • Updated 8bitbubsy's xmaplay060 from version v0.41 to v0.46.
(dr)

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22.Jun.2023



 Icon-Library 46.4.577
In March 2021 we introduced Peter Keunecke's icon.library in detail, which he continues to maintain and improve. In the version now published, he has added, among other things, a script "ConvertToPngIcons" in the bonus folder, which can convert Amiga icons into PNG format and optionally scale them with the help of ImageConverter. (dr)

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22.Jun.2023



 Video: RTG screen mode with Amiga 1200 and Indivision AGA MK3
In its latest video, the YouTube channel "Hold and Modify" shows how to achieve a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels with an Amiga 1200 without a graphics card but equipped with an Indivision AGA MK3. (dr)

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22.Jun.2023



 Videos: Building a ReAmiga 1200
About three years ago, revision 1.5 of John 'Chucky' Hertell's Amiga1200 clone ReAmiga 1200 was released. In a two-part video (part 1, part 2), the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Manshed" creates this clone. (dr)

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21.Jun.2023
Passione Amiga (ANF)


 Italian print and PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 14
The 14th issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available as usual with 48 color pages both as a booklet and as a PDF file, deals with the following topics:
  • Video Games: CyberPunks 2, Tapper, Poker Nights: Tropical Heat, KalleKloakk, Chopper Duel, Tenebra 2, Galaxian500, The Ninja Zombie Killer
  • Articles: What will happen to our Amigas?
  • Tech: Invasion of the Replicants
  • Tech: Amiga GCC, first steps
  • Blender course, part 6
  • Hardware: DueOttoSei
  • Interviews with: David Rowe and Jerr O'Carroll
  • And also: Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Demo Scene, New Talents, Mailbox
  • Coverdisk: Playable demo of Super Metal Hero (A1200 and CD³² version)
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19.Jun.2023



 Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.0.1 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported).

Version 2.0.1 mainly fixes bugs of the previous version:
  • Made Future Composer player more robust for empty modules.
  • If you have set up Windows to use more than 2 channels, NostalgicPlayer crashed when trying to play a module. Big thanks to Robert Konrad (RobDangerous) for the fix.
  • If the very first line is selected in the module list, then the page-down key didn't work.
  • In some rare situations the Piano visualizer crashes when fast-forwarding with an invalid argument error.
  • Some mp3 files was not recognized as so.
  • Fixed different bugs when double-clicking a file to open it in NostalgicPlayer.
An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store. (dr)

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19.Jun.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 163 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 163 (July/August 2023) have been published online at the title link. Content includes a preview of the ASM game, a review of the IceDrake turbo board and show reports.

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

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18.Jun.2023



 Video: "Browservice" under Linux and AmigaOS 4
Dave 'Skateman' Koelman, who among other things wrote the article Using two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000, explains in a video along with the accompanying video description how to set up Browservice - a web "proxy" server that allows surfing the internet on historical browsers - under Linux in order to then be able to use it with the Odyssey browser under AmigaOS 4. Comparable to AmiFox for AmigaOS 3 or AROS, Browservice converts the browser view window into images, which are then displayed by a JavaScript application on the client browser. (dr)

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18.Jun.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


 Hollywood: Support by editors SciTE and Notepad++ (Update)
Andreas Falkenhahn writes: The popular editors SciTE and Notepad++ now also support Hollywood by default.

SciTE supports Hollywood beginning with version 5.3.6 and Notepad++ supports Hollywood beginning with version 8.5.2. SciTE is especially interesting for Linux and macOS users, since on these platforms no Hollywood IDE is available.

Update: (16:50, 19.06.23, snx)
Our reader Michael Jurisch rectifies: By his Hollywood extension for Visual Studio Code there is an alternative editor available for Linux and macOS. (snx)

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18.Jun.2023



 Aminet uploads until 17.06.2023
The following files have been added until 17.06.2023 to Aminet:
links-mos.lha            comm/www   7.2M  MOS Links text-only WWW browser w...
evo.lha                  dev/e      652K  68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha     disk/misc  82K   x86 SMB2 file system client
smb2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha  disk/misc  149K  68k SMB2 file system client
MCE.lha                  game/edit  3.6M  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  3.9M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  4.2M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha     game/role  18M   68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
2D_ATcad_RTG.lha         gfx/misc   740K  68k 2D-CAD-Programm
WhatIFF2.10.lha          mags/misc  1.4M      What IFF? #2.10-June-2023
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.8M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
opus-tools-0.2_a68k.lha  mus/edit   389K  68k Opus Audio Tools
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip     text/bfont 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip     text/bfont 2.6M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B18.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B19.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B20.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP 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 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-16.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-17.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-18.zip      text/pfont 1.6M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-19.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-20.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-21.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-22.zip      text/pfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip      text/pfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
avalanche.lha            util/arc   110K  AOS ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
IdentifyDev.lha          util/libs  67K   68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyUsr.lha          util/libs  100K  68k Identify hardware and more
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  11M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
GoShell.lha              util/shell 25K   68k tool for open Shell in full s...
GoShell_pl.lha           util/shell 3K        polish catalog for GoShell
RNOWidgets.lha           util/wb    4.9M  MOS Desktop widgets application
RNOWidgets_OS4.lha       util/wb    4.5M  OS4 Desktop widgets application
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 OS4Depot uploads until 17.06.2023
The following files have been added until 17.06.2023 to OS4Depot:
nanosaur.lha             gam/act 14Mb  4.1 A science fiction third-person s...
mce.lha                  gam/uti 4Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
smb2fs.lha               net/sam 128kb 4.1 Filesystem for accessing files u...
avalanche.lha            uti/arc 110kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
tequila.lha              uti/wor 33kb  4.1 Task monitor / CPU profiler / to...
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 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.06.2023
The following files have been added until 17.06.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
MCE_14.15.lha             Games/Editor              Multi-game Character Ed...
fheroes2_1.0.5.lha        Games/Strategy            fheroes2 is a recreatio...
Links_2.29.lha            Network/Web               Links text-only WWW bro...
QuickLaunch_1.0.lha       System/Ambient/Launchbar  A software launch manager
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 WHDLoad: New installers until 17.06.2023
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 17.06.2023: (snx)

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Amiga.org (forum)


 AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 10 of "WhatIFF?" published
"WhatIFF?" is an English language Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. The topics of the tenth issue include hardware (e.g. A314-CP, Commotron 2000) and game reviews (e.g. Luma, Neon Noir) as well as tutorials (e.g. Brilliance, LightWave 3D) and interviews - for example with the programmer of the demo version of Hamulet, which is exclusively included as "cover disk". (snx)

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Amiga Future (website)


 Start bar: WBDock2 2.874
Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.874. The changes of the program for AmigaOS 3.1 or higher include "autohide" mode now moving the dock above all other windows and appearing only when the mouse is on the right screen as well as taking pens from Palette prefs for drawing the frame around the dock.

Download: wbdock2.lha (374 KB) (snx)

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 Video tutorial: MUI-GUI (part 3) and GadTools GUI (part 1) in Blitz Basic
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch both the third part Teil of his tutorial showing how to create a GUI with MUI in Blitz Basic (amiga-news.de reported) and the first part of a tutorial series on how to create a GadTools GUI in Blitz Basic. (dr)

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 Shell extension: GoShell 4.0
GoShell is a free and simple tool for opening a shell terminal in full screen mode on a separate screen (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in the now released version 4.0 of the tool developed by Krzysztof Donat:
  • added locale support for GoShell configuration tool (English GoShell.cd and GoShell.ct included. If you want a catalog for your language, feel free to translate)
  • added new predefined color set (yellow)
GoShell (Aminet link) runs on any Amiga with Kickstart 3.0+ and is freeware, but the author would appreciate a small donation. (dr)

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