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10.Oct.2023

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.28.4 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.28.4 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:

Fix renderer viewport issues
Fill renderer bitmaps with 0 during creation
Fill frame buffer bitmap with 0 during creation

Download: SDL2.lha (6,8 MB) (dr)

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10.Oct.2023
Misja van Laatum (Mail)

Pixelart: Designs for unreleased game "Conflict
Misja van Laatum had recently reported in a Mastodon article that he and a friend played a lot of Empire: Wargame Of The Century in the 90s and had then made the "half-hearted plan" to make it "bigger and better". Unfortunately, nothing came of that plan. Misja, however, still owns some of the graphics he had already started, which he released to us for publication upon request: Combat backgrounds, user interface designs, a title logo and some Sculpt-3D images for an intro sequence.

Misja van Laatum explains further to us: "The game we were planning was to be called Conflict, and we had ambitious plans: terrain of different heights (hence the bunch of tiny tile graphics), more types of units than in Empire, a zoomed in view when attacking cities (the larger tiles) allowing you to target individual infrastructure, etc. The problem was that I'm not a great programmer (my skillset was limited to Blitzbasic and AMOS) and I didn't really know anyone that could, at that time... but it might be fun to one day pick this up now that I have a bit more experience."

In this respect, there is hope that the "half-hearted plan" will eventually become reality.

(dr)

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09.Oct.2023 Review: Impbox - Internet chat on Amigas (German)
Paweł 'juen' Nowak's Infinity Music Player (IMP3) also offers internet functions such as a chat with Discord connection or sharing files with other users. While IMP3 itself runs on any Amiga with at least 512 KB RAM and OS 2.0, Chat & Co. naturally have considerably higher requirements since network hardware and a TCP stack are still needed.

The "Impbox", a version of the Plipbox adapted to IMP3, which was introduced in August, corrects this problem: it enables the use of IMP's Internet functionality without requiring additional hardware or software. A user has documented his experiences with setting up and using the Impbox in a short report including a video. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Oct.2023 New diskmag: Amiga Rulez
"Amiga Rulez" is a quarterly free diskmag whose first issue was distributed on real disks at the "Amiga 38" last Saturday and can meanwhile also be downloaded from the magazine's website. The German edition is already available, an English translation is to follow shortly. (cg)

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08.Oct.2023
ALBs Blog Program for DeepL use: AmiTranslate 0.3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's programme AmiTranslate (video) serves as a link to the translation service DeepL and is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.

The new version 0.3 can now also display and print Japanese characters.

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

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08.Oct.2023

Event: News from the Amiga38 (update)
This weekend the Amiga38 took place. We asked around for news and things worth reporting:

AmigaOS 3.3: Camilla Boemann, who joined the AmigaOS 3 development team 4 years ago, gave a preview of the upcoming version 3.3 in a speech (YouTube video), which among other things should offer an improved and more intelligent handling of ADF files and run noticeably faster. The HDToolbox will also be replaced and partitioning will become much easier: it will no longer be necessary to specify a device or block size.

Enhancer 2.3, Virtio GPU driver: In his talk (YouTube video), Trevor Dickinson described the history of A-EON's hardware developments, announced a new Enhancer version 2.3 for probably before Christmas, and introduced the Virtio GPU driver for Picasso96: a virtual GPU for use with emulators like QEMU and virtual machines (KVMs), developed for A-EON by Hans der Ruiter. Features:

Looks like a regular PCI device
Passes graphics commands through the host operating systems graphics drivers
Provides 32-bit display support
High resolution
Fast - no need to emulate hardware registers
Virtio GPU has 3D and video decoding hardware acceleration - WIP

Virtio GPU driver current status:

Fully working framebuffer driver, with 8, 16, and 32-bit modes
Hardware accelerated mouse pointer
DDC/EDID working, so automatically gets available screen-modes
High resolution
Fast - no need to emulate hardware registers
Virtio GPU has 3D and video decoding hardware acceleration - WIP
Version 0.5 has just been released
Very usable as-is

Pre-order of A1222 Plus: At Amedia France, part of the "AAA Technology" alliance consisting of Amedia Computer, AmigaKit and A-Eon, one could place pre-orders for an A1222-Plus complete system at the special price of 1600 Euros (incl. VAT, plus PayPal or extra shipping costs), and continue to do so by via e-mail or the corresponding website. The following is a sample offer, which can be modified according to your wishes, e.g. graphics card, tower, etc:

Chieftec mATX Tower
A1222+ 1.3 Motherboard
Kingston 4GB SoDDR3 1600MHz
Crucial 240GB SSD harddisk SATA3
AFox Radeon RX550 4GB gfc card

There should be an official sales link on the official A1222 Plus website soon.

new products from Alinea Computer: new products were available for purchase at the Alinea Computer stand, which will also be available in the shop this week. More details will be published this week:

Wodem - WLAN via the serial interface for every Amiga
KickRom-Flash - 4-fold flash-rom adapter with up to 4 kickstarts
KickRom-Progger - Flash-Rom programmer for programming the KickRom flash modules directly on the Amiga

And a few prototypes were also shown, which will be released this year:

KickRom switch - 4-fold kick-start switch for the KickRom flash
KickRom switch as TV port version
Joyport Power Adapter - Get 5V power via the joystick port and use it for Wodem, KickRom Progger or other 5 V devices so that a separate power supply unit no longer has to be used.
Floppy to 5V/12V switch - To be able to quickly connect e.g. fans via the floppy power cable

native AmigaOS 4 version of Heretic II: At the beginning of the year we reported that Steffen Häuser was working on a native AmigaOS 4 version of Heretic II. The finished version could be marvelled at both at the HunoPPC stand and at Alinea Computer. At the latter, the game was shown on a Sam460ex with Radeon HD 7750 and the new GL drivers. According to Simon Neumann, it ran "absolutely smoothly". On the Sam with a resolution of 1280x1024 with 39 fps, on Steffen Häusers own AmigaOne 1000 at 1024x768 with about 100 fps.

Videos: In addition to the recording of the official live stream, there are also short tours of the fair that visitors have uploaded to YouTube, including Retro Merlin and Propheus. (dr)

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08.Oct.2023
ALB-Blog Web browser: AmiFox 0.4
"AmiFox" displays modern web pages on an Amiga by downloading and displaying pages converted to images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). At Amiga38, some copies of a boxed version financed by the author were given away, which contains the new version 0.4. This offers some new features like an AREXX interface or the possibility to pass a web page as a command line parameter (both useful for OpenURL use).

Especially for Amigas with small screens (e.g. Native PAL Hires Mode), parts of the interface can be hidden: either automatically (the status bar) or by pressing a button (the text input bar). (dr)

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08.Oct.2023

Shoot'em Up: Reshoot Proxima 3 released
The official release party took place at this weekend's Amiga38, and now, after Reshoot and Reshoot R, the third part of Richard Löwenstein's shoot'em-up series has been released: Reshoot Proxima 3 (official YouTube teaser) offers the following features:

Custom-made for Amiga AGA-hardware
Fluid gameflow experience
5 uniquely themed stages
adaptive attack wave design
makes full use of AGA-chipset
24 bit color pixel art
Steady 50 fps framerate
2 difficulty settings
Energizing music and sound-fx
Entire code in Assembly-language
Local and global highscore table
Available on CD-ROM boxed, USB and digital
Exclusive for Commodore Amiga A1200, A4000 and CD32
Compatible with most Amiga-emulation systems, MISTer, A500 Mini, PPC

In addition to Richard Löwenstein as project manager and coder, Kevin Saunders was responsible for the graphics and Martin "Altraz" Ahman and Jochen "Virgill" Feldkötter for the sound design. The game is available in different versions in the Amiga Onlineshop (dr)

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08.Oct.2023

Aminet uploads until 07.10.2023
The following files have been added until 07.10.2023 to Aminet:

SegTracker.lha           dev/debug  22K   68k A global SegList tracking uti...
c2plib.lha               dev/misc   201K  68k chunky2planar as an Amiga sha...
gibattaglianavale.lha    dev/misc   278K  68k GI Battaglia Navale 
giplanner.lha            dev/misc   290K  68k GI Planner 
P96Prefs.lha             driver/vid 111K  68k P96 Preferences Editor
AmiTechGazette-Issue0... mags/misc  3.7M      Free preview of Ami Tech-Gaze...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.7M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
PDF2JPG.lha              util/conv  16M   MOS convert PDF to JPG
PDF2PDF.lha              util/conv  15M   MOS convert PDF to PDF
Magellan_II_SDK.lha      util/dopus 146K  68k DOpus Magellan II Software De...
AmigaGPT.lha             util/misc  207K  68k App for chatting to ChatGPT
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  15M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram

(snx)

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08.Oct.2023

OS4Depot uploads until 07.10.2023
The following files have been added until 07.10.2023 to OS4Depot:

nallepuh.lha             aud/mis 83kb  4.1 Nalle Puh (Paula,CIAA,CIAB emula...
seq.lha                  aud/mis 424kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer
oo.lha                   dev/lib 2Mb   4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
hidtouchusbfd.lha        dri/inp 63kb  4.1 USB HID driver for touchscreen m...
viivi.lha                gra/vie 323kb 4.1 Picture viewer
pdf2pdf.lha              uti/mis 15Mb  4.0 Convert PDF to PDF
touchbench.lha           uti/mis 61kb  4.1 Mouse emulator for touchscreens
quickstarter.lha         uti/wor 416kb 4.1 Quick program start menu

(snx)

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08.Oct.2023

AROS Archives uploads until 07.10.2023
The following files have been added until 07.10.2023 to AROS Archives:

fade2black.i386-aros.zip     gam/act 6Mb   Fade to Black is an action-adven...
drawer_icon_games_kensv4.lha gra/ico 246kb Drawer Games Icons Kens v4 Style
icon_game_38x38.lha          gra/ico 234kb icon game 38x38

(snx)

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08.Oct.2023

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.10.2023
The following files have been added until 07.10.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:

AstroMenace_1.3.3.lha     Games/Shoot3D             Hardcore 3D space scrol...
Easy2Install_1.0b38.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
PDF2PDF_1.3.lha           Office/Convert            Convert PDF to PDF

(snx)

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08.Oct.2023

WHDLoad: New installers until 07.10.2023
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 07.10.2023:

2023-10-04 improved: Zaxxon (Bignonia) overhauled, keyboard and snoop errors fixed, trainer and icons added (Info, Image)

(snx)

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08.Oct.2023

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:

Battle Squadron - Loose (Spatial Mix)
Physical Presence (Spatial mix)

(snx)

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08.Oct.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum) Forum: AROS-Exec preserved on AROSWorld
After the closure of Ola '4pLaY' Jensen's forum AROS-Exec for health reasons, AROSWorld has preserved it read-only for posterity at the title link. (snx)

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