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Archive 04/2023

`26.Apr.2023` Forum64 (ANF)	AGA successor: Document about the Advanced Amiga Architecture published At the title link Dave Haynie has published this month the sixth draft of a Commodore-internal compilation of the development status of the never-finished AAA chipset, which dates from June 18, 1992. The PDF file comprises 314 pages. (snx) [News message: 26. Apr. 2023, 14:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2023` Mingo (Twitter)	Emulator: Denise V2.0 with Amiga support Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which, with the now released version 2.0, can now emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64. Features already known from the C64 emulation, such as runAhead, savestates, drive sounds, PAL encoding, dynamic rate control, G-Sync/FreeSync, Warp, just in time polling are also available for the Amiga. Amiga related changes: add Amiga emulation of A1000 (OSC/ICS), A500 (Full OCS), A500 (ECS Agnus, OCS Denise) RGB or S-Video with PAL/NTSC color encoding, border cropping support all global features like: runAhead, savestates, G-Sync, configs, Warp, JIT polling, shader up to 4 disk drives with acceleration option Chipram, Slowram, Fastram list disk content in UI AROS firmware is preinstalled motor controlled auto warp drive sounds support custom frequencies like B.C. Kid (56.4 Hz) if you only want to use one of the two emulators, Amiga or C64 core can be hidden Denise is available cross platform for Windows 32/64 XP and higher, macOS (from version 10.9 on, Intel and Arm), Linux and BSD. (dr) [News message: 26. Apr. 2023, 08:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2023`	Illustrated book: "Demoscene - The Logo Art" can be preordered At the beginning of April, for the Illustrated book "Demoscene: the Logo Art" a crowdfunding campaign was started (amiga-news.de reported), which was successfully finished the day before yesterday. In A4 format, demoscene logos from more than three decades on around 400 colour pages are presented and background information on the corresponding pixel artists or scene groups are provided. On Editions64K now the book can be preordered for 40 Euro (plus shipping). The delivery will start from 25 Dezember. (dr) [News message: 26. Apr. 2023, 08:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2023` Passione Amiga (ANF)	Italian print and PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 13 The twelfth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available as usual with 48 color pages both as a booklet and as a PDF, deals with the following topics: Video Games: Boxx 4, Rick Dangerous Enhanced Version, Xevious 1200, Hop to the Top, Tenebra, AmiSnakes, JBoulder, Geo's Quest 2 In Search of Queen Lorraine Review: Boing! Reportage Passione Amiga spring 2023 edition Article: We are all collectors AmigaOS 3.2.2 Blender course, part 5 The wit of the Amiga community Interview with Newel And also: Games news, Tech news, Tricks and Solutions, Demo Scene, New Talents, Readers Mail (dr) [News message: 26. Apr. 2023, 05:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2023` Seiya (ANF)	PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 145 (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 Woof und GI Memory Game. (dr) [News message: 26. Apr. 2023, 05:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2023`	Video: AmiTube and AmiFox running under AmigaOS 3.9 Dave 'Skateman' Koelman, who among other things wrote the article Using two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000, shows in a short video how he uses AmiTube and AmiFox on his Vampire Standalone under AmigaOS 3.9. (dr) [News message: 26. Apr. 2023, 05:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2023`	Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga V2.4 Dirk Hoffmann has released version 2.4 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS. Changes: Enhancements: Improved audio filter emulation Added support for ADFs containing less than 80 cylinders Added some more ROM fingerprints Bug fixes: Fixed a crash that occurred when loading certain extended ADFs The minimum system requirement for his emulator has been raised to macOS 11.0. Since the developer has left the "Apple Developer Program" ("too expensive"), the app is no longer certified. This means that from now on a warning will be displayed when the app is started. (dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2023, 19:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2023`	Portable assembler: vasm V1.9d Frank Wille's 'vasm' is a portable, open-source assembler for which the author offers ready-made binaries for AmigaOS 2/3/4, MorphOS, TOS, MiNT and Windows. Changes in version 1.9d: m68k: Using MOVEQ.L instead of MOVEQ must only disable the warning for values between 128 and 255, but not allow any value without error. mot-syntax: XREF allows no definition and XDEF requires a definition. std-syntax: Fixed potential problem with "scratch at end of line" warnings after a section attribute string. oldstyle-syntax: Fixed potential problem with "scratch at end of line" warnings after a section attribute string. tos-output: Reloc-output in executables was broken since V1.9b! Restrict to 32-bit absolute relocations again. (dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2023, 05:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2023` Jens Schönfeld (Twitter)	Individual Computers: Pre-order of keyboard/joystick adapter Keyrah V3 Keyrah V3 is the revised version of our popular Keyrah interface (amiga-news.de reported). Keyrah V3 allows you to connect the keyboards of classic computer systems like the Commodore 64 or the Amiga 1200 to modern computers (e.g. PC, Mac, or the Raspberry Pi) via USB. Now you can pre-order the adapter for 47.77 euros, which will be available from 27 April. Supported systems with this model are: Commodore C64 (all models) Commodore SX-64 Commodore VIC-20 (VC20) Commodore C16 Commodore C128D Amiga 1200 Amiga 600 Amiga 500 Amiga 4000/CDTV Atari ST (8-pin connector only) PC XT / PC AT (PS/2) The following systems can be made compatible by mounting additional connectors on the circuit board or using adapters: Commodore C128 Commodore C116 Commodore plus/4 Commodore PET (8296) Commodore CBM2 (B-Series) Amiga 2000/3000 (with PS2 adapter) Keyrah V3's switch allows you to switch between the standard and a keymap that's geared towards emulation. This switch looks and feels like the original power switch of the Commodore 64, adding a third switch position that allows you to send an ACPI signal to shut down/power up your computer. To avoid triggering the shutdown procedure by accident, this third position is not locked, so the switch will always flip back from it if not held in place. For further safety, the ACPI signal is only sent to the computer after being held in this position for five seconds. (dr) [News message: 24. Apr. 2023, 21:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2023`	Tank Mouse remake: Shop opened / Driver update (update) The Polish designer Lukas Remis had successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign for the re-release of the wireless Commodore Mouse 1352 (amiga-news.de reported). Now the free sale of the mouse in black or beige for 46 Euros or the USB-to-DB9 adapter for 25 Euros plus shipping (in Europe approx. 8 Euros) has started under the title link. Users had reported in various forums that there were problems with the touch scrolling function. In a status update only available to supporters, the developer acknowledges these problems: "As some of you might know, Cocolino driver which is needed for scrolling function, is causing some errors and interfering with MUI on classic Amiga OS. Unfortunately we've dicovered that too late. The driver is closed-source so we can't make changes to it, and I'm not a programmer myself." Remis offered a prize of 500 euros and a set of beige and black tank mice with DB9 adapters for the first person to develop a new open source driver for Amiga Workbench. This has apparently already been done according to the latest update and the driver should be uploaded to Aminet soon. Update: (25.04.2023, 05:48, dr) Version 0.2 of the touch-scrolling driver now is available on Aminet. (dr) [News message: 24. Apr. 2023, 20:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2023`	Linux: Kernel 6.3 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Right after the release of the Linux kernel 6.3, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered the kernel for download in the associated discussion topic of the Hyperion forum. X5000users should note that, if uInitrd is used for example for booting with a LABEL, then the dtb file should be loaded to the address 1d00000. The kernel has grown in recent months so the address 1c00000 is used by the uImage. (dr) [News message: 24. Apr. 2023, 20:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2023`	Programming language: Amiga Blitz Basic 2 Visual Studio Code Ext. 0.9.1 In August last year we reported on the merging of Youen Chéné's fork of the Visual Studio Code Extension created by 'MickGyver', which adds support for Amiga Blitz Basic 2 (and Amiblitz), and the first joint release of version 0.7.0. Yesterday version 0.9.1 has been released providing fixes for Windows compatibility. (dr) [News message: 24. Apr. 2023, 05:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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