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Archive 04/2023

`19.Apr.2023`	Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.6.0 E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported). A few moments ago, version 3.6.0 has been released. Changes: EDBG: add support for ECX/EEC compiled executables fix issue with memfill that could cause odd address exception on 68000 add TRY..CATCH..ENDTRY allowing more control over exception handling Add UNTILN, WHILEN ELSEWHILEN, IFN, ELSEIFN, EXITN, CONTN which are inverse of their counterparts eg. UNTILN x is equal to UNTIL Not(x) Add WORD and BYTE types (unsigned 16 bit and signed 8 bit variable types) and Word() Byte() functions as well as PutByte() and PutWord() Allow SIZEOF object and SIZEOF object.member Fix issue where SIZEOF x didnt throw a compile error if x was not defined Added EVO_3_6_0 define Added Compare, Ucompare, Fcompare, StrCompare functions Fixed Int() function to sign extend result Added OPT LEGACYINT to restore old version of Int() command Added command line switch LEGACYINT/S which does the same as the above OPT Allow BYTE and WORD types in modules, increase module version to 13. FindModule: fix error in memory deallocation FindModule: update for BYTE and WORD types (module version 13) ShowModule: update for BYTE and WORD types (module version 13) (dr) [News message: 19. Apr. 2023, 20:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Apr.2023` Siegfried Hübner (ANF)	THEA500 Mini: Running Atari ST programs with emutos-amiga.rom and Amiberry For "THEA500 Mini" Siegfried Hübner describes at the title link how to run also Atari ST programs on this rebuild of the Amiga 500 by Retro Games Ltd. Required are EmuTOS-Amiga.ROM and AmiBerry. To avoid a flickering display, open the Amiberry menu and change Display Line Mode from "Single" to "Double". The .st floppy disk images are compressed with GZip, so that for example the file disk.st becomes disk.st.gz instead. (snx) [News message: 19. Apr. 2023, 11:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Apr.2023`	Jump'n Run: Boxx 4, version 1.03 (update) At this year's revision demo party, the developer 'Lemming880' in cooperation with "Retroguru" had released the fourth part of his 'Boxx' series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The update to version 1.02 fixes bugs in version 1.01, which was released a few days ago. Changes: Fixed issue for Player 2: it was flying by itself! Password for '2 Player Mode' now visible after completing Normal difficulty. Added v1.02 to Credits. Update: (21.04.2023, 05:30, dr) The developer has fixed a bug reported by one of our readers and released version 1.03. Changes: Fixed issue for player not dying in lava. Info screen now explains co-op password. Added v1.03 to Credits. (dr) [News message: 19. Apr. 2023, 11:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Apr.2023`	Puzzle game: Tenebra released The author 'Haplo' describes "Tenebra" as an "an atmospheric puzzle game with rogue-like aesthetics. Guide the hapless protagonist to the exit. Poor guy is afraid of darkness and refuses to walk in the dark areas" (YouTube video). Move torches around, push lights on rails, find keys to doors, light up cold braziers, pass through archways that collapse behind you, find oil barrels to make your torches brighter, squeeze through cracks in broken walls etc. First the game was released for C64 and other 8 bit systems before now the Amiga version followed. "Tenebra" comes in two flavours: classic 8-bit looks (non-interlaced) and enhanced looks (interlaced). (dr) [News message: 19. Apr. 2023, 11:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Apr.2023` The Buffee Project (Blog)	Accelerator board projekt: Buffee firmware beta v0.3 In her blog, which has been given a new layout, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee", already reported several times about her emulation solution of the 68k processor under ARM microprocessors, Pseudo-JIT (PJIT), and compared it for example with Emu68 or UAE (amiga-news.de reported). Now the beta version 0.3 has been published. According to the developers, "PJIT is a real-time version of JIT that avoids the traditional issues of dynamic memory allocation and non-determinism. It is designed to run as a bare metal process on ARM microprocessors operating in big-endian mode to provide transparent access to a traditional 68K bus. It is useable with ARM SoC that integrates only a modest (by today's standards) amount of memory." PJIT does not attempt to be a full system emulator. The beta version is not stable yet, still having issues with timing. With future versions, loading and debugging will also be possible under Visual Studio Code. Further notes and information can be found in the current blog entry. (dr) [News message: 19. Apr. 2023, 05:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Apr.2023`	MorphOS: Nanosaur V1.44 ported After Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky had compiled the source code of the game Nanosaur, originally published by Pangea Software in 1998 and now newly ported by 'jorio', for 32-bit Linux PPC (amiga-news.de reported), Bruno 'BeWorld' Peloille has ported the source code to MorphOS. SDL2 2.26.5, MorphOS 3.17 and the latest TinyGL update are required. (dr) [News message: 18. Apr. 2023, 21:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Apr.2023` Andreas Magerl (ANF)	Full versions: Deathbringer, MegaTraveller 2, Sleeping Gods Lie, War in the Gulf Amiga Future has added further full versions of games to its website: Deathbringer, Mega Traveller 2, Sleeping Gods Lie and War in the Gulf. (snx) [News message: 18. Apr. 2023, 08:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Apr.2023`	Maze game: Cube V1.00 demo version Sami Vehmaa is in the process of writing another game with AmiBlitz3 for fast Amigas with graphics cards or emulators: in "Cube" (YouTube video), the player has to find his way out of a kind of labyrinth (amiga-news.de reported). Before releasing the full version, he now has provided a demo version of his game. (dr) [News message: 18. Apr. 2023, 05:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Apr.2023` MorphZone (forum)	MorphOS: WebRadio.sbar 3.0 beta Already at the end of 2021 Thomas Igracki has provided a beta version 3.0 of his WebRadio screenbar module for MorphOS at the title link. Among other improvements, it contains a station search. However, if this is done too quickly one after the other, it can crash due to the beta status. Download: WebRadio_sbar_v3_beta.lha (264 KB) (snx) [News message: 17. Apr. 2023, 21:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Apr.2023`	SFX engine: Audio Mixer 3.1 Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A500). The author of the "Amiga Tech Files" - for example Different methods for Dual Layer Graphics - introduced first versions in such a blog post. Audio mixer 3.1 is a completely reworked version of that, featuring much more detailed documentation, extra examples, integration with C programs and several new features like looping samples, the internal 'voices' of the mixer being exposed, configuration through a config file (most things will be calculated automatically) and and no longer requiring samples to be a multiple of the mixer buffer size in length (samples can now be a multiple of 4 bytes instead, which saves RAM). (dr) [News message: 17. Apr. 2023, 06:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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