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Archive 10/2023

16.Oct.2023
Forum 64 (Webseite) Joystick repairs: Replacement PCB for the Competition Pro Mini
The "Competition Pro Mini" is a miniaturized version of the well-known Competition Pro joystick. Thanks to their small size, the micro switches used in these joysticks aren't really up to the mechanical stress they're put through while playing games - which is why many surviving Minis are only partially functional these days: Some of the directions or fire buttons are not working anymore.

Unfortunately, micro switches with the exact same dimensions as the ones used in the Competition Pro Mini are no longer available. To solve this problem, a user has now designed a replacement PCB, that can use "F4T7-UL" micro switches from SAIA-BURGESS which are still available (example). The required files to manufacture the PCB have been published on Github in KiCad format. Once assembled, the PCB is a 1:1 replacement for the original component. (cg)

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16.Oct.2023
Tobias Baeumer (AmiDev Team) (ANF) "Making Of"video: AmiFox Amiga38 Boxed Special Edition
The Amitopia AmiDev Team gave away boxed special editions of AmiFox on the Amiga 38 last weekend, like reported in a previous news. Now there is also a "Making Of" video available with details on how it was produced and what was learned in the process. The video also includes footage of the actual event. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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16.Oct.2023
Steffen Häuser (Mail)

AmigaOS 4: Update to Heretic II nearing completion (Update)
Since the beginning of the year Steffen Häuser has been working on an update for Heretic II for AmigaOS 4, which among other things should support HD modes. At the Amiga38 a preview of the game was already shown at the stands of Alinea Computer and HunoPPC (amiga-news.de reported). As he now informs us, he worked on the game again after the fair and created a new version. The most important changes:

der gl4es-Renderer läuft nun ca. 20-25% schneller als die auf der Messe gezeigte Version
der MiniGL-Renderer hat nun Multitexturing, was ebenfalls zu einer Performanceverbesserung führt

According to tests on his AmigaOne X1000, the new version now runs at 108 fps at 1024x768. UHD resolutions are also supported, which then requires an X5000.

Update: (16.10.2023, 19:45, cg)

Steffen Häuser confirms (German) in a forum posting that the OS4 version of Heretic II will only be available as a boxed copy for full retail price in a newly designed box (German), there are no plans for a free or cheaper update for registered customers. According to Häuser, a boxed edition was requested by his betatesters and physical distribution would result in a larger payment for his (quote) "quite time-consuming work" on the AmigaOS 4 port. (dr)

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16.Oct.2023
Daniel "DNA" Voelkel (ANF) Diskmag: 'Amiga Rulez' now available in English
A week ago, the first German issue of a new Diskmag called 'Amiga Rulez' was published, now the English translation is available. The next issue will be released in mid December, after that new issues will published every quarter. From now on, the German and English editions will be released simultaneously. (cg)

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16.Oct.2023
amigaworld.net (Webseite)

MorphOS: PolyOrganiser 1.22a
Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault's PolyOrganiser is a 'Personal Information Management' tool that features a calendar, an address book and ToDo lists. Changes since version 1.21:

Fix: Update by overwriting directory can destroy user database forever! Use alternative filename for install.
Fix: Fixed the text transparency rendering for Tabs
Add: Time format in preference for local system that add secondes at time. Or force AM/PM. More time formats (with or without 0 fill in hour and am/AM choice)
Fix: Refresh time format at startup
Fix: hit when double clock on empty diary list
Add: new event window when double click on an empty diary list (stay or remove the feature ? context menu do the same)
Change: Tabs color reference to true color mode. Allow alpha for border for allow full transparency for flat skin.
Change: Add transparency to tabs text too.
Change: Calendar switch to full color mode. Fix some render issue.
Fix: import old not true color may create bad color, use defaut instead.

(cg)

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15.Oct.2023

Amiwest: Presentations from Amigakit, A-EON and ExecSG
This weekend, "Amiwest 2023" took place in Sacramento, USA. As usual, all presentations from the show were streamed live over the internet - the recordings of the streams from the first and second day are available on Youtube. The following is a brief summary of the important points discussed in the presentations from Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), Steven Solie (ExecSG) and Matthew Leaman (Amigakit):

Dickinson's presentation was the same one he gave at Amiga 38 a week earlier: A summary of all A-EON hardware projects so far followed by announcements of Enhancer 2.3 and the virtual RTG driver Virtio. LibreOffice - last year's presentation claimed (again) that it was to enter betatesting "soon" - was not mentioned at all.

Steven Solie's very short presentation did not go into the developments around ExecSG that were announced last year - like multicore support or an update for the X1000 firmware 'CFE'. Instead, he introduced himself as the "Release Manager" for A1222+, listed the companies and people involved with that project and explained that Amedia France is working on a recovery USB stick that will contain all components required for setting up a new A1222+ system - like up-to-date drivers for modern graphics cards.

Matthew Leaman introduced Amigakit's latest hardware project and demonstrated its graphical user interface: A600 GS is a supposedly ARM based console that emulates various Amiga setups (pictures of the case and controller), the device features HDMI video output, USB ports and two (optional) 9 pin connectors for Amiga joysticks and mice. The screenshots below show the graphical user interface used to configure the emulation and run games, applications or scene demos.

The operating system running on the emulated Amiga is a patched AROS Kickstart ROM coupled with recompiled components from the Enhancer package. It also features a completely new icon set which can be seen in the screenshots below. Endusers can install their own Kickstart ROMs, RTG support is "in development". System updates will be installed from the net, a custom version of Amigakit's "AMIStore" is planned but will not be ready at launch.

Leaman hopes that the device will be available in early 2024, back in August it was stated that Amigakit is aiming for a price of "less than GBP 100".

Pictures from Matthew Leaman's presentation

(cg) (Translation: cg)

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15.Oct.2023

Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.1 (update)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)

The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Version 1.16 of the Greaseweazle Tools provide the following changes:

New formats: pc98.n88basic.hd, zx.quorum.800
HFEv3: Fix import of some images
CAPS: Support CT Raw files
D88: Support multiple disk images in one file
Kryoflux: Allow sample clock to be specified

Update: (19.10.2023, 21:18, dr)

Meanwhile version 1.16.1 is available. Changes:

Revert to emitting two revolutions of flux from codecs (fixes SCP output)
SCP, Kryoflux: Allow #revs to be specified in output (eg. name.scp::revs=3)

(dr)

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15.Oct.2023
Robosaurus Spielothek (ANF) Video: Show report Amiga38 by Robosaurus Spielothek (German)
Dominic Ortmanns from Robosaurus Spielothek writes (translated from German): "I consider today's video to be a great moment in my work so far. On the one hand, this is due to the topic. After the relative success of my Amiga37 video, I didn't want to let myself down for the Amiga38 and pulled out all the stops. It has been a long time since I had so much fun making and editing a video.

Secondly, I consider the Amiga event that took place this year on October 7 at the 'Kunstwerk' in Mönchengladbach, hosted by Markus Tillmann, to be the Rolls Royce of retro computer shows in Germany. Even though I haven't been attending it for that long, it has made a very big impression on me the last two years.

As to be expected, Amiga38 was both a great success and a great event. You can see my contribution to this phenomenon here. It's the first video since a long time that I made an effort to make. Included are many interesting interviews with different big names of the scene, a comprehensive insight into the trade show happenings and all that flavored with the Robosaurus special sauce.

Also, I invested some time in this video to include people from my team who usually only do magic behind the cameras. I hope you enjoy our contribution to Amiga38. And of course I am very happy about feedback and if you share the video. If you are really convinced of your own work, then you are of course happy about the communication about it." (snx)

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15.Oct.2023

Aminet uploads until 14.10.2023
The following files have been added until 14.10.2023 to Aminet:

HollywoodSP.lha          dev/hwood  846K      Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   4.8M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
WormWars.lha             game/actio 900K  68k Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWarsMOS.lha          game/actio 746K  MOS Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-OS4.lha         game/actio 1.1M  OS4 Advanced snake/Tron game
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  4.1M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha    gfx/fract  35M   OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
giabaco.lha              misc/edu   246K  68k Ancient calculation tool

(snx)

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15.Oct.2023

OS4Depot uploads until 14.10.2023
The following files have been added until 14.10.2023 to OS4Depot:

milkytracker-sdl2.lha    aud/tra 2Mb   4.1 SDL2 version of an FT2 compatibl...
wormwars.lha             gam/act 1Mb   4.0 Advanced snake/Tron game
videoslotmachine.lha     gam/boa 3Mb   4.0 A slot video game
flashmandelng.lha        gra/mis 35Mb  4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...

(snx)

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15.Oct.2023

AROS Archives uploads until 14.10.2023
The following files have been added until 14.10.2023 to AROS Archives:

amitechgazette-issue01.pdf   doc/mis 4Mb   Preview of this PDF Magazine
videoslotmachine.lha         gam/boa 3Mb   A slot video game

(snx)

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15.Oct.2023

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 14.10.2023
The following files have been added until 14.10.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:

Shrinkler_4.6.lha         Development/Cross         Shrinkler executable fi...
WormWars_9.32.lha         Games/Action              Advanced snake game by ...
Bugdom2_4.0.0.lha         Games/Action              Port of Pangea Software...
MCE_14.30.lha             Games/Editor              Multi-game Character Ed...
VideoSlotMachine_1.10.lha Games/Misc                A slot machine game
Doom3_r6.5.lha            Games/Shoot3D             Doom3 ProjectUAC
fheroes2_1.0.9.lha        Games/Strategy            fheroes2 is a recreatio...
AmiTranslate_0.3.lha      Misc                      AmiTranslate_0.3.lha
SDL-Demos.lha             Misc                      Some examples of SDL fe...
Wayfarer_6.2.lha          MorphOS-update            Wayfarer is the latest ...
Wazp3D-update_56.2b.lha   System/Library/3D         CPU only Warp3D impleme...
xpkRAKE.library_1.7.lha   System/Library/XPK        A XPK library needed fo...

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15.Oct.2023

WHDLoad: New installers until 14.10.2023
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 14.10.2023:

2023-10-14 new: Reshoot Proxima 3 (spieleschreiber) done by Wepl (Info, Image)
2023-10-11 fixed: Tolteka (Ariolasoft) fixed all wrong BLTCON1 address (Info)

(snx)

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15.Oct.2023
Amiga Future (website)

AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:

Beetlemusic [Bouncy edit]
Beetlemusic [Encore500]
Body Blows [Encore500]
Rage is Relentless [Encore500]
RSI Hard [Encore500]
Battle Squadron - HiScore [Encore500]
Endtheme [Encore500]
Forests [Encore500]
Turrican 2 - Title [Encore500]
Never-ending Amiga love [Encore500]
Occ-San-Geen [Encore500]
Cannon Fodder (Feat Sunesis) [Encore500]
Nearly There [Encore500]
Atmosphere (Double Dragon II) [Encore500]
Paranoimia Crack Intro [Encore500]
Complications [Encore500]
Rallye Master [Encore500]
Leander - Title [Encore500]
Amberstar - Title [Encore500]
Test Drive II - The Duel [Encore500]
Stardust Memories [Encore500]
Oro Incenso [Encore500]

(snx)

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15.Oct.2023
Amiga.org (forum) AmiWest 2023: First photos
Robert Bernardo is documenting again the AmiWest 2023 taking place this weekend and has published first photos. Among those from friday the Ranger prototype can be seen.

A separate gallery is dedicated to the prototype of the A600GS from AmigaKit, an apparently ARM-based "Game System", which in the basic version with 2 GB RAM and without DB9 joystick connectors should cost less than 100 British Pounds if possible.

The AROS/68k kernel and AmigaKits self-programmed replacement components of the AmigaOS ("System V46") are used. All intellectual property is AmigaKit's own or that of its software partners, such as A-EON Technology. (snx)

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15.Oct.2023
GAP (ANF) German Amiga Podcast: Issue 16
The sixteenth edition of the "German Amiga Podcast" (GAP) is about Amiga38, that took place October 7 in Mönchengladbach (Germany). (snx)

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14.Oct.2023
MorphZone (Forum)

MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.2
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.2 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes:

Added AdBlocker settings with three different data sets
Improved search vs URL detection in the URL string
Added "Paste and Go" to the URL string context menu
New tabs are now being added after the active tab (can be changed in Settings/Interface)
Added a Font Code Path setting and changed the default to Simple on slower machines. This was previously forced to Complex to allow ligature handling, but could lead to very poor performance when editing text, etc
Fine-tuned redraw handling while editing text
Updated EasyList AdBlocker data
Updated libwebp to address its various recent CVEs
Updated sqlite, nghttp2, curl and psl libraries

Download: wayfarer.lha (33 MB) (dr)

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14.Oct.2023 Preview video: Doom clone "Grind"
John 'Tsak' Tsakiris has published a new preview video for his Doom clone "Grind" (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)

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14.Oct.2023 Theme set: New wallpapers for 32se (AmigaOS 3.2)
Sami Vehmaa has released another theme pack to his theme set for his AmigaOS 3.2 extension 32se or the free 32se-lite which adds ten different wallpapers, boot logos and sounds from his new game Mansion of Madness 2. (dr)

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14.Oct.2023
Simon Neumann (E-Mail) Neues von Alinea Computer: Wodem, KickRom-Flash und KickRom-Progger
Press release: Alinea Computer presents three new products that were presented to the public for the first time at Amiga 38:

Wodem

With the Wodem, you can integrate any Amiga into your WiFi via the serial interface and have access to the Internet via a TCP/IP stack. With the appropriate turbo card or interface card, speeds of up to 115,200 bps are possible. The configuration is described in detail in the manual supplied. The Wodem can be purchased without accessories for 29.95 euros.

KickRom-Flash

The KickRom-Flash Adapter (version 1.4) is a programmable Flash-Rom replacement for EPROM components (e.g. 27c400) or Kickstart-Roms in the Amiga computer. Up to 4 Kickstarts (512 kb each) can be loaded onto a module and switched via jumpers or a switch. The switch with the name KickRom-Switch is unfortunately not yet available, but will be released in a few weeks.

In addition to the standard version of the Flash-Rom module, there is currently a special version for the Amiga 600, as mechanical problems can occur there with the standard modules. The programming and deletion of the components is done with the programming device KickRom-Progger. A KickRom flash can be bought for 29.95 Euros. In addition, a programming service is available for customers without a programming device.

KickRom-Progger

With the KickRom-Progger you can program/read Flash-Rom (27C400 emulators) devices up to 1.4 from Alinea Computer as well as commercially available 27C400 devices. The programmer can be operated directly on your Amiga via the serial interface. In addition to the serial interface, the programmer can also be controlled via USB on any computer. The programmer is operated via its own firmware, which is controlled from the computer via a terminal programme and can therefore run on almost any platform.

The device is the world's first programmer that can burn its own Kickstart roms directly on the Amiga. The KickRom Progger can be purchased without accessories for 44.95 euros. Options include a zero-force socket and a serial cable for BigBox Amigas.

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14.Oct.2023
commodore.news (Webseite) PDF magazine: AMI Tech Gazette, issue 5
The "AMI Tech Gazette", edited by Eric Schwartz and Michael Barclay, is a bi-monthly English PDF magazine. The fifth issue offers current short news and a review of the British print magazine "CU Amiga" as well as the first part of a course in which Eric Schwartz describes his approach to creating illustrations and animations on the Amiga. (cg)

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