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Archive 04/2024

05.Apr.2024
OSnews (ANF) History of technology: The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disc
IEEE, an online magazine specialising in technology topics, has published a background report on the storage medium floppy disk and the company 3M that is well worth reading.

Floppy discs had an amazingly long life - it was only in January 2024 that the Japanese government announced that it would no longer require floppy disc copies of government applications. 3M got out of the data storage business some 28 years ago when it transferred its floppy disc production to an outsourced company called Imation. Imation still exists, under the name Glassbridge Enterprises, but with a much lower profile.

You can read the entire article in English under the title link. (nba)

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05.Apr.2024
Amigans.net (Forum)

AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonHD V5.20 for Sam460
The RadeonHD driver software is a graphics driver for RadeonHD graphics cards for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). Version 5 only supports "Southern Islands" cards (HD7000 series), but offers hardware-accelerated video decoding (Enhancer Software 2.2 required). The new version 5.20 has now been released for the Sam460. The changes:

Fixed a potential crash in the find card code when the card is already in use
Fixed an infinite loop in code to get PCIe speed capabilities, which would trigger if the parent PCIe device isn't the root controller
Disabled GART for the Sam460 again (was accidentally enabled)
The usleep() threshold for using the timer device was broken a while ago. FIXED
Rewrote usleep() so it no longer needs to open/close the timer device every time there's a longer delay (lowers overhead)
Now skips attempting to initialize the card altogether if the card is already in use
Fixed a potential crash if initializing the driver failed
Enabled the UVD interrupt (trap handler)
Fixed interrupt handling for the Sam460. Caching on PCIe reads from VRAM was causing the interrupt handler to read stale data, resulting in missed interrupts which, in turn, causes a complete freeze. Added fallback and workaround code

(dr)

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04.Apr.2024

GUI für Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.4 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.4 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes:

Requires Greaseweazle 1.16.3
Read: Added new template "Commodore C64 SingleSided 48-TPI floppy disks (35 tracks).inir" by Richard Verlinden
Write: New option --gen-tg43 generates 8-inch /TG43 signal on pin 2
Write: Added new template "CommodoreC64170kbSingleSided(35tracks).iniw" by Richard Verlinden
Read: --dd option renamed to --densel
Write: --dd option renamed to --densel
Read: Fixed reported issue #5: File extension error when select EDSK format
Convert: Fixed reported issue #5: File extension error when select EDSK format

(dr)

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04.Apr.2024

Casual puzzle game: Kondi Krush
"Kondi Krush" is a clone of the smartphone classic Candy Crush: On a playing field filled with sweets, the aim is to place at least three identical elements in a row and making them disappear from the playing field by swapping two pieces of sweet in each turn.

Kondi Krush versions are offered for a host of retro platforms: In addition to the Amiga port (Video), there are also conversions for Commodore 64, Commodore 16/Plus 4 and the Hungarian Videoton TC Computer.

Direct Download:
Executable: kondikrush-amiga (432 KB)
ADF image: kondikrush-amiga-adf (880 KB) (cg)

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04.Apr.2024
David Brunet (ANF) Obligement: Interview with AmigaOS 3.2 developer Camilla Boemann
David Brunet has published on his Obligement website an interview with the Danish developer Camilla Boemann, who is part of the AmigaOS 3.2 team.

Besides the english version at the title link there is also a french one. (snx)

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04.Apr.2024 Video tutorial: Extended Parallax scrolling in AMOS
Following on from his parallax scrolling tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at how to implement commands such as Double Buffer, Autoback, and Screen Swap in order to address some of the scrolling issues in the latest part of his tutorial series. (dr)

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04.Apr.2024

Preview video: Pumpman v0.003
In addition to several other projects such as "Deathmine", 'PixelPlop' is also working on the game "Pumpman" (amiga-news.de reported), for which he has now published a new preview video. Changes:

"Fake" vertical scrolling allowing for more floors.
Increased the spacing between floors.
Dithering pattern added to the background to help smooth the colour gradient.
Added a bonus balloon that floats up between the floors.
Added a trap door at the top so you can complete/exit the level.
Status bar is now mostly functional.
Redrew most of the gfx to add more detail.
Added/changed some sfx.
Bugfixes.

(dr)

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03.Apr.2024
Amiga.org (forum) AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 13 of "WhatIFF?"
"WhatIFF?" is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. The topics of the thirteenth issue include reviews of hardware (e.g. xT Amiga 600 Turbo Card, Open Amiga Sampler) and games (e.g. The Deep, Dice Masters), instructions (e.g. Game Graphics: What NOT to do, Making Modules 101 Part One) and interviews (e.g. Massimo Loi, Simone Bevilacqua). (snx)

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