24.May.2022
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Replacement keyboards for A500/A1200: Update on Kipper2k project
After an abundant year, the American dealer 'Amiga On The Lake' has published new information about the status of the Kipper2k replacement keyboards for the Amiga 500 and 2000 (amiga-news.de reported):
All pre-orders would be expected to be fulfilled by the end of June 2022, or mid-July 2022 at the latest. Staffing shortages and delays in receiving components would have further worsened the already tight schedule.
After the pre-orders were all processed, they would get to work building keyboards for stock and selling them as soon as they were available.
All customers would have received an email asking for confirmation of address information. If any pre-orderer has not received this, they should email Jeff with their full name, order number (if available) and shipping address. (dr)
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23.May.2022
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.2
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch.
Two days ago version 5.2 was released providing the following changes:
New Features:
- Added new CD32 config with 8MB Fast, use that with --autoload option
- Enable RTC automatically if enabled expansions have RTC
- Support for Cycle-Exact mode from XML options
- Ability to set default soundcard
Bugs fixed:
- Hotkey mappings didn't work with controller buttons
- Only check for hotkey buttons if they have been mapped
- When using Auto-crop and virtual mouse driver, the pointer would not reach the edges of the screen
- Launch Amiberry binary directly in macOS app bundle
Improvements:
- Updated bundled AROS ROMs to latest version
- Updated WHDBooter XML and WHDLoad to latest versions
- Picasso96 new features are now optional. DACSWITCH fix
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22.May.2022
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Shoot'em Up: SkillGrid 1.3
About three years ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) released his abstract vertical shoot'em up 'SkillGrid' (amiga-news.de reported).
Additional to several improvements, version 1.3 offers a new weapon (YouTube video) and for AmigaCD32 users the possibility to load and save highscores from/in NVRAM. However, since no testers were available, this feature is to be regarded as experimental. He refers to the readme.txt on the CD. (dr)
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22.May.2022
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Internet: IBrowse 2.5.6 / AmiSSL v5.1 released
Oliver Roberts not only continues to develop his web browser 'IBrowse' for AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4, but from now on also maintains the encryption protocol AmiSSL, which now supports OpenSSL 3.0 and now also has its own homepage. Please read the press release:
IBrowse 2.5.6 is now available for download (OS4 users may use AmiUpdate instead), which is the sixth free update for registered owners of IBrowse 2.5. IBrowse 2.1-2.4 and 1.x owners may upgrade to IBrowse 2.5.6 via our store at discounted rates. Please note: IBrowse 2.5.6 requires AmiSSL v5, also released today, so you are advised to download it before updating IBrowse, otherwise you will be left without HTTPS access.
Whilst this releases fixes quite a few different issues, it brings the following improvements too:
- Adapted to fully use OpenSSL 3.0, via AmiSSL v5
- HTTP Brotli compression support
- OpenSearch autodiscovery support
- Gemini client, allowing loading of gemini: URLs
- Improved Gopher support
- JavaScript fixes and improvements
- Google/Gmail account login fixed (became blocked in March)
Changes of AmiSSL 5.1:
- Switched to OpenSSL 3.0 and updated backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.0.3 (3.5.2022) version, which brings new features, such as a built-in HTTP(S) client, along with security and bug fixes.
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html dated 26.4.2022.
- Split AmiSSL release archive into smaller OS specific and SDK archives.
- OpenSSL tool now has a proper $VER string, with the version number matching the AmiSSL release version number.
- Fixed OpenSSL UI function m68k/ppc crosscalls, reinstating code from AmiSSL v3, that was unfortunately removed in AmiSSL v4.
- Added new streamlined OpenAmiSSLTags/TagList() function to amisslmaster.library which simplifies the opening of AmiSSL.
- Added simple httpget example code which shows how applications can use the new built-in HTTP(S) client.
- Added full autodocs for all the Amiga specific interface functions.
- Improved and structured the developer README-SDK file.
- Added OpenSSL stub link libraries for OS3 (GCC) and OS4 (GCC & VBCC).
- AmiSSL and OpenSSL switched to the Apache License, Version 2.0.
- We have a new homepage at https://amissl.org which provides links to all AmiSSL resources, old and new.
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22.May.2022
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Aminet uploads until 21.05.2022
The following files have been added until 21.05.2022 to Aminet:
modifile.lha dev/amos 74K 68k File modifier written by AMOSPro
asm-kurs6.lha dev/asm 473K Assembly course, German
c2plib.lha dev/misc 133K 68k Fast chunky2planar conversion...
DFT_IDFT_DWT_FFT.zip dev/src 128K 68k DFT, IDFT, DWT and FFT for A1...
PyPlayer.lha dev/src 1.1M 68k Audio Player for Python 1.4.0...
StarDriveSCSI.lha driver/med 59K 68k Microbotics StarDrive SCSI dr...
blockmangets.lha game/actio 80K 68k Help Blockman eat.
labyrinth64.lha game/misc 135K 68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L...
AmiNonogram.lha game/think 121K AmiNonogram
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 51K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.5M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.8M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.3M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
AF-Infinity.jpg pix/back 996K raytraced Chrome-WB-Back (100...
proptopaz.lha text/bfont 3K Proportional version of KS1.3...
xpdftools_404_m68k.lha text/misc 5.2M 68k Tools to manipulate pdf docum...
lharchiver.lha util/arc 4.6M create lha archives intuitively
BootPicture.lha util/boot 102K 68k Shows pictures, plays sound d...
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22.May.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 21.05.2022
The following files have been added until 21.05.2022 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 5Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
chkslash.lha uti/scr 4kb 4.0 Checks for a path termination.
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22.May.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 21.05.2022
The following files have been added until 21.05.2022 to AROS Archives:
barspipes.zip aud/edi 5Mb Port of Amiga 68k Best Midi Sequ...
mod2.zip aud/mis 41Mb modules from 1997
mod3_1.zip aud/mis 84Mb modules from 1997
mp3gain152.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 80kb adjusts mp3s
mp3info-0.8.5a.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 1Mb MP3 info & tag editor
mpega.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 71kb include files for mpega.library
ae-manual-dutch.tgz doc/man 149kb Manual of Audio Evolution in Dutch
ae-manual-french.tgz doc/man 144kb Manual of Audio Evolution in French
ae-manual-ita.tgz doc/man 141kb Manual of Audio Evolution
ae-manual-norw.tgz doc/man 131kb Manual of Audio Evolution in Nor...
ae-manual-spa.tgz doc/man 140kb Manual of Audio Evolution in Spa...
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22.May.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 21.05.2022
The following files have been added until 21.05.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
LHArchiver_1.1.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
Doom3-ProjectUAC_r5.lha Games/Shoot3D Doom3 ProjectUAC
WitchCleaner_2.30.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
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22.May.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.05.2022
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 21.05.2022:
- 2022-05-20 improved: Shuttle (Vektor Grafix/Virgin) using fastmemory, self-modifying code removed, sound fixed (Info)
- 2022-05-20 improved: Red Zone (Psygnosis) fixed access fault, added option for cheat keys (Info)
- 2022-05-19 improved: Amazing Tunes (Share and Enjoy) level 3 interrupt problem fixed, keyboard delay fixed (Info, Image)
- 2022-05-18 fixed: Fusion (Bullfrog) address error on 68000 removed, quitkey on 68000 supported (Info)
- 2022-05-18 improved: 1943 - The Battle of Midway (Go!/Probe) some bonus were hidden by the clouds, fixed now (Info)
- 2022-05-15 improved: Test Drive (Accolade) added keyboard controls (Info)
- 2022-05-15 improved: Red Zone (Psygnosis) better framerate, skip introduction, trainer added, chipmem reduced to 512kb (Info)
- 2022-05-15 improved: Conquests of Camelot (Sierra) better protection crack, keyboard selection (Info)
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22.May.2022
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
- Red Sector Theme (Spacemix)
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21.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5.0 for Vampire V2
Version 11.5.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit specially adapted for Vampire processor cards has just been released (amiga-news.de reported). The AmigaOS files, Kickstart ROMs and the Picasso96 graphics drivers are required. The update includes the following changes:
- ADDED: AmiBrixx 2.1 game by Joerg Renkert (AmiKit:Games)
- ADDED: AmigaAMP/Amplifier pop-up notifications of currently playing tracks or streams
- ADDED: Ask Your Amiga (AYA) 0.6 by ALB42 (AmiKit:Utilities)
- ADDED: Audio streams (m3u) are now recognized and being replayed in AmigaAMP
- ADDED: BackUp 1.91 by Daniel Westerberg from OnyxSoft (AmiKit:Tools)
- ADDED: HollyMan 9.1 - a Workbench Pacman clone by Andreas Falkenhahn
- ADDED: Kill 2.27 by Walter Dorwald (AmiKit:C)
- ADDED: MiniHex 1.1b by Daniel Westerberg (AmiKit:Tools)
- ADDED: NWait 1.0 by Allan Versaevel (AmiKit:C)
- ADDED: SCopy 1.08 by John Hendrikx (AmiKit:C)
- ADDED: twittAmiga 4.4.2 by Oliver Urbann
- ADDED: VirusZ III 1.04 by Georg Hormann and Dirk Stoecker (AmiKit:Utilities/EXPANSION)
- AMIKIT: Additional Downloads script 11.6.1
- AMIKIT: Dracula 11.5.0 with automated installation of AmigaOS 3.2.1 update
- AMIKIT: Live Update 1.9 by Daniel Westerberg from OnyxSoft
- AMIKIT: Updated Startup-LoadModule 11.5.0
- AMIKIT: Updated Startup-Vampire 11.5.0
- VAMPIRE: Super AGA drivers 2.9 for Vampire by Apollo
- VAMPIRE: i2c.library 40.0
- VAMPIRE: SD drivers 0.13
- VAMPIRE: VampireFlash 1.13
- VAMPIRE: VampireMap 1.13
- VAMPIRE: v4net.device 2.202
- VAMPIRE: vampiregfx.card 1.40 for V4 R8
- VAMPIRE: VControl 1.19
- VAMPIRE: On-demand support of the latest stable V4 core R8 (8691). Run Dracula > Vampire > Core Support or boot without the Startup-Sequence and enter "v4coresupport"
- VAMPIRE: AHI driver for ARNE (16-bit audio on V4) by Apollo
- UPDATED: ADiffView 2.2 by Uwe Rosner (with a code from M.Hertel)
- UPDATED: AmigaAMP 3.31 by Thomas Wenzel
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 4.12 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: Another World WHDLoad Slave 2.7 by Harry & JOTD
- UPDATED: Boards Library 3.55 by Torsten Bach, Thomas Barth and Marcus Gerards
- UPDATED: Cloud services (Drobox, GDrive) starting improved
- UPDATED: EvenMore 0.94 by Chris Perver
- UPDATED: guigfx.library 20.1 (FPU) by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: HippoPlayer 2.52 by Kari-Pekka Koljonen
- UPDATED: Hollywood Player 9.1 by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: hURL 1.2 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: iGame 2.1b2 (15-Mar-2021) by Emmanuel Vasilakis and Contributors
- UPDATED: Infinite Module Player (IMP) 3.380 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: JFIFdt44 44.17 by Henryk Richter and Gunther Nikl
- UPDATED: LoadModule 45.18 by Thomas Richter and Etienne Vogt
- UPDATED: MCC_BetterString 11.36 Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_NList 0.128 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TextEditor 15.56 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TheBar 26.22 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MUI 5.0 (20210831) by Stefan Stuntz, Thore Bockelman and Jens Maus
- UPDATED: MUIbase 4.4 by Steffen Gutmann
- UPDATED: MysticView 1.07 by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: PolybiosPDF 1.3 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: RapaGUI 2.1 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: RiVA MPEG-1 Player 0.56 by Stephen Fellner & Henryk Richter
- UPDATED: RNOPDF 1.4 by jPV^RNO
- UPDATED: SysinfoBoards 3.7 by Holger Hippenstiel
- UPDATED: Sysinfo 4.4 by Tobias 'Geijer' Geijersson and Nic Wilson
- UPDATED: SnoopDos 3.11 by Eddy Carroll, updated by Thomas Richter
- UPDATED: UnRAR 6.11 by Alexander Roshal, Amiga port by Marcin Labensk
- UPDATED: VirusZ Bootblocks (22-Apr-2022) by Virus Help Team
- UPDATED: VisualPrefs 1.5n by Massimo Tantignone
- UPDATED: xvs.library 33.46 by Georg Wittmann
- UPDATED: YAM 2.10dev (26-Jan-2021) with AmiSSL support by YAM Open Source Team
- UPDATED: WHDLoad 18.7 (build 6366, 15-Dec-2021) by Bert Jahn et al.
- FIXED: PAL screens were corrupted in OS3.2
- FIXED: Initialising of YAM theme works now
- FIXED: HippoPlayer uses the default AHI mode now (if enabled)
- REMOVED: Russian locale, catalogs and fonts
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21.May.2022
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Custom chips: Replacement project of Buffee developers
As Renee Cousins, one of the developers of the turbo card project 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported), explained a few days ago, she has turned back to her original Amiga project dedicated to hard-to-find custom chips and their replacements. The first one is Gary and will be called 'Gary Zander'.
At the moment this board is 100% reliably tested on an Amiga 500 and only needs a bit more time during reboot. The lack of tri-state and open-drain pins on the Xilinx chip would be the reason not to release it now. The board would be produced and tested with these supplemented pins soon.
Following this, the replacement for the Agnus will be tackled, called 'Willoe'. Currently, 3D models of the board are being printed to ensure they fit into the PLCC socket. The rough functional scope of Willoe:
- 100 pin TQFP Lattice MachXO2 core (XO2-2000)
- Near instant-on (CPLD-like) functionality
- 16MB of 133MHz, 8-bit pSRAM for AGA+ bandwidth
- 1MB, 2MB Agnus and 2MB Alice compatibility
- Jumpered NTSC/PAL default modes (will also obey pin and software changes)
- Automatic 8372 and 8375 pin detection (universal socket compatibility)
- Many optional features to come
(dr)
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21.May.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.01
After several beta versions the developer Dirk Hoffmann had released the final version 2.0 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS ten days ago (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.01 was made available yesterday fixing two crash causes (DMA debugger, drive export menu).
The minimum system requirement is macOS 10.15.
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19.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.7.0 for Windows/Mac/Linux
An update to version 11.7.0 has been released for the workbench distribution AmiKit, which is intended for emulators. In addition to an emulator, AmigaOS 3.x and the Kickstart ROMs are required.
The changes primarily include updated Amiga programs:
- UPDATED: ADiffView 2.1 by Uwe Rosner (with a code from M.Hertel)
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 4.11 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: guigfx.library 20.1 (FPU) by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: HippoPlayer 2.52 by Kari-Pekka Koljonen
- UPDATED: Infinite Module Player (IMP) 3.379 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: JFIFdt44 44.17 by Henryk Richter and Gunther Nikl
- UPDATED: MCC_BetterString 11.36 Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_NList 0.128 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TextEditor 15.56 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TheBar 26.22 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MysticView 1.07 by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: RapaGUI 2.1 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: RNOPDF 1.4 by jPV^RNO
- UPDATED: SnoopDos 3.11 by Eddy Carroll, Thomas Richter et al.
- UPDATED: UnRAR 6.11 by Alexander Roshal, Amiga port by Marcin Labenski
- FIXED: Initialising of YAM theme works now
- FIXED: HippoPlayer uses the default AHI mode now (if enabled)
- FIXED: LoadModule was not updated last time
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19.May.2022
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Development environment: Update on 'Grimoire' project
About a month ago we reported about Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier's new project of a software development solution for Amiga computers: Grimoire. In two recent blog entries he reports about the progress on the project:
With the first entry he opens his developer diary and lists all changes he has made to the project starting in January 2020 until today. The second entry reports specifically on his progress with 'screens':
- 'getBestScreenMode' can be returned for Planar and Saga Chunky modi.
- 'OpenScreen' can open bitplanes screens (up to 256 colors).
- working on ’primitive’ copper list support for full screen view with 1 screen. This will later be replaced by a more complex system that can handle more than one screen in view and grid effects.
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18.May.2022
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Accelerator board project: Buffee partly Open Source again
At the end of March we reported that the turbo card project 'Buffee', originally started as Open Source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, is fully Closed Source. In a new blog entry from yesterday, the developers now announce that the source code for PJIT has been reopened and the private repository has been merged and closed. From now on there is only one repository for PJIT.
Closed Source on the other hand remains the firmware, which contains the boot loader, the PRU programs and the CPLD image, and the hardware design files. (dr)
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18.May.2022
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Video tutorial: Blitz Basic
The Irish Amiga user 'Daedalus2097' has started a tutorial series about Blitz Basic on Twitch. So far there have been two live streams, which you can watch again in retrospect at your leisure: part 1, part 2. AmiBlitz 3 was used as development environment. (dr)
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17.May.2022
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Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' update
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign for the re-release of the wireless Commodore Maus 1352 (amiga-news.de reported).
In a short status update, the developer writes that he is in the process of updating the mouse firmware and finding the best solution for the USB-DB9 adapter regarding the chip shortage. Next up, he says, is the production of the injection molds. In the recent poll on which color shade to use, most votes fell on RAL 9002, which was also used for the campaign photos. However, the developer is looking into the possibility of using a second color shade: RAL 1013 (overview of RAL color shades). (dr)
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17.May.2022
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Video tutorial: Bars & Pipes Professional
As the user 'Ricebug' reports in the Amiga Love forum, he has been using Bars & Pipes Professional for many years (see also our article about BarsnPipes 1.0 for Amiga OS4.1 FE). He would like to share his experiences with it and has started a corresponding YouTube channel. Currently there are four videos showing the installation, giving an overview of the program, demonstrating the setup of the workplace as well as the MIDI export. More videos are to follow. (dr)
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