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Archive 03/2024

`18.Mar.2024` Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)	Modern text engine for Hollywood: Pangomonium 1.0 supports Emojis Press Release: Airsoft Softwair is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a powerful new plugin for Hollywood: Pangomonium - the ultimate text engine for Hollywood. Pangomonium is a plugin of epic proportions and the first plugin to require Hollywood 10. Pangomonium contains an ultra-modern text engine that is at the cutting edge of technology and can draw text in almost any language in the world. In addition, Pangomonium also supports fonts with colored characters, making it finally possible to write programs on Amigas that support colored emojis! Pangomonium is based on the established Pango and Cairo libraries and also allows Hollywood scripts to call all Pango/Cairo functions directly. Of course, there is also a simpler interface to draw text via Pangomonium without having to deal with Pango/Cairo in depth. Pangomonium has been two years in the making and is now finally ready for release, exclusively for Hollywood 10. Here are just a few of Pangomonium's impressive features: Text can be drawn in almost any language in the world, including complex fonts and layouts such as bi-directional text, left-scrolling fonts, vertical layouts, etc. Support for fonts with color characters (finally emoji support on the Amiga!) Two high and low level interfaces for beginners and advanced users Hollywood scripts can use all Pango and Cairo functions (over 500 of them!) seamless integration into the text interface of Hollywood 10 allows very easy use the plugin can also replace Hollywood's vector graphics engine extensive documentation in AmigaGuide, HTML, CHM and PDF formats (over 300 pages!) over 30 ready-to-run example scripts And best of all, Pangomonium is available to download for free from the official Hollywood portal. At least Hollywood 10 is required. Thanks to Hollywood's platform-independent plugin system, there are versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux, macOS and Windows. (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 18. Mar. 2024, 19:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2024` Simon Neumann (ANF)	Alinea Computer will take over distribution of the next two Hyperion games Press release: We are pleased to announce that we, as Alinea Computer, will take over the distribution of the next two games from Hyperion Entertainment. The cooperation so far has been excellent and we hope to continue it to realize further projects. Our first game as a distributor will be Heretic II for AmigaOS 4, which can be ordered at the title link. Dealers should contact us directly as a distributor. (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 18. Mar. 2024, 19:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2024`	Linux: Kernel 6.8 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.8, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests. Download: linux-image-6.8-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (61 MB) (dr) [News message: 18. Mar. 2024, 17:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2024`	Tower defense: "Dice Masters" 1.00 for Apollo Vampire V4 In Sami Vehmaa's tower defence game "Dice Masters", the player has to fend off aliens on a spaceship (amiga-news.de reported, YouTube video of version 1.00). Now all ten levels as well as an arcade mode are available. A demo version with one level offers the opportunity to try out the game free of charge. (dr) [News message: 18. Mar. 2024, 06:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2024`	Shaviry: DIY Amiga RGB to VGA adapter and monitor switcher Shaviry is a new hardware project created by hobby developer Enrique Ferrari Lorenzo. It combines an Amiga video-to-VGA adapter and a monitor switcher, featuring an integrated RGB amplifier to minimise vertical bars and improve display quality. Shaviry is explicitly not a scandoubler, so the connected monitor(s) must support 15 kHz video signals. The mode of operation of the adapter can be controlled using jumpers: Shaviry thus functions as a pure VGA adapter on Amigas that are not equipped with a graphics card or HDMI-to-VGA adapter, and/or as an automatic input switcher controlled by Switchcontrol via CIA or parallel port or by switch, Arduino or similar via a 5-volt signal. A built-in optocoupler component prevents overvoltage in this process. The switchover with a CRT monitor is immediate, with an LCD monitor it takes a little longer, according to the developer's description. Tests were carried out by the developer with an AGA Amiga and THS7374 and THS7376 RGB amplifiers. Using the THS7374 with 9.5 Mhz filter bandwidth, the vertical bars are slightly visible, but the image is blurred, according to the developer. The THS7376 produces a sharp image and the bars are almost invisible. Shavira is currently not offered commercially, but is aimed at the growing do-it-yourself community, i.e. those who are not afraid to wield a soldering iron. The developer Enrique Ferrari Lorenzo provides the PCB data for KiCad and Gerber files on the project page on GitHub under the title link for free download and provides a complete overview of the required components along with extensive image and video material for support. The current revision is REV23012024 from 23 January 2024. A readme about Shaviry is also available in English. (nba) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 16:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2024`	Aminet uploads until 16.03.2024 The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to Aminet: amosreg.lha dev/amos 6K 68k Edit AMOS Pro username and regno evo.lha dev/e 673K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution c2plib.lha dev/misc 204K 68k chunky2planar as an Amiga sha... x68k2amiga.zip dev/misc 25K 68k Convert X68000 exec/data file... MultiJoyTest.lha driver/inp 6K 68k Test a MultiJoyAdapter (8 joy... GIScopaAdf.zip game/board 340K 68k Italian card game slotgameadf.zip game/board 308K 68k Slot Game F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 8K 2024 Carset for F1GP ScummVM_RTG_060.lha game/misc 55M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.3... battaglianavaleadf.zip game/think 328K 68k GI Battaglia Navale slotgame.lha game/wb 240K 68k Slot Game AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 7.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 7.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 7.7M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul... AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands LN32024Theme.lha mods/misc 109K 4ch 16bit LN3 2024 New Theme ... WHDArchiveExtractor.lha util/arc 14K 68k Automates extraction of WHDLo... DOpus4Manual_de.lha util/dopus 120K German DOpus 4 manual AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 909K AOS App for chatting to ChatGPT WHDLoadMenu.lha util/misc 485K 68k A WHDLoad frontend ConsumerV1.0.lha util/moni 228K 68k Memory Log Tool, to Screen & ... (snx) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2024`	OS4Depot uploads until 16.03.2024 The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to OS4Depot: amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator dgen-sdl.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.1 Emulator of the Sega Genesis/Meg... sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 litexl.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte... ffmpeg.lha vid/con 51Mb 4.1 Video and audio converter (snx) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2024`	AROS Archives uploads until 16.03.2024 The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to AROS Archives: bp_dev_tools_accessories.zip aud/edi 1Mb Development B&P For Tools a... arrakis.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 3Mb port of the Arrakis demo for Ipo... nano.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 4Mb port of the nano demo for Ipod b... (snx) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2024`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.03.2024 The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: AmiArcadia_31.0.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... Iris_1.22.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email... Wayfarer_7.6.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ... Lite-XL_2.1.3r1.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh... (snx) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2024`	PDF manual: DOS documentation in the works At the title link on GitHub Thomas 'ThoR' Richter, one of the developers of AmigaOS 3.2, has started work on a PDF manual for the dos.library in the style of the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals. (snx) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2024`	Amiga-Scoopex-C: Conversion of the Assembler tutorial into C The GitHub project Amiga-Scoopex-C is a conversion of the examples of the Amiga assembler course "Amiga Hardware Programming", which can be found on YouTube, into the C programming language. Now all 11 previously created instructions have been adapted to the current version of vscode-amiga-debug, so that functions such as INCBIN-CHIP have become available. Each episode now consists of a single source code file. In addition, the existing instructions for the Copperlist have been revised so that the data no longer has to be copied to Chip RAM at runtime. (snx) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2024`	Video: Review of the PowerShark In a detailed video report, Robert Smith tests the "PowerShark", a USB-C-based power supply for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 keyboard cases (amiga-news.de reported). (dr) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 06:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Mar.2024`	YouTube: Recording of the PiStorm-presentation at FOSDEM 2024 Andrew "LinuxJedi" Hutchings, full-time CCO for the MySQL alternative MariaDB Foundation, is known as a developer of hardware and software for the Amiga. At FOSDEM 2024, an open source developer conference held on March 3rd to 4th, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium, Hutchings gave a presentation on "PiStorm - The evolution of an open source Amiga accelerator", which demonstrates the modification of the Raspberry Pi mini motherboard as an Amiga turbo card and is available on YouTube. In the presentation, Hutchings demonstrates the use of the PiStorm32-Lite on his Amiga 1200 and talks about this and other topics: What the PiStorm really is, both as hardware and a community The history of the project, including the bumps along the road Directions that is intended to take the project in the future A demonstration of what PiStorm is capable of The recording can be accessed via the title link. (nba) [News message: 16. Mar. 2024, 11:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Mar.2024`	Video tutorial: Parallax scrolling in AMOS Following on from the screens tutorials (1, 2, 3), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how to achieve parallax scrolling with the dual playfild command in the latest part of his tutorial series. (dr) [News message: 16. Mar. 2024, 06:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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