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02.Apr.2024

Operating system: NetBSD 10.0
The Unix derivative NetBSD has been released in version 10.0. The eighteenth major version of the NetBSD operating system is also available as an original port for PowerPC-Amigas (experimental) and 68k-Amigas.

The global changes since the last version 9.3 are listed on the NetBSD website and include numerous performance, security and general aspects. Two new features are listed specifically for Amiga systems:

support for Kickstart 3.2 (the release from 2020)
loadbsd bootloader now loads the kernel into the highest priority memory segment instead of the largest segment

The following system requirements are specified for installation and operation on 68k Amigas: Amiga with 68020 processor or higher with MMU, at least 24 MB Fast RAM and at least 250 MB free hard disc space. An FPU is not required; according to the developers, the system "does not run correctly" on LC processors 68LC040 and 68LC060 as well as on the 68040V. (nba)

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02.Apr.2024 Video tutorial: First steps in game porting with the Scorpion Engine
In addition to existing video tutorials on using the Scorpion Engine, its developer Erik 'earok' Hogan shows in a short video how to proceed when porting an existing game. (dr)

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02.Apr.2024

Demoparty: Demos and results of Revision 2024
This year's edition of the demoparty Revision took place this Easter weekend in Saarbrücken (amiga-news.de reported). In two YouTube videos you can watch the competition entries in the categories Amiga Intro and Amiga Demo. The winners are ((overview of all entries and winners on Demozoo):

Amiga Intro

1st place: Circumvent by The Twitch Elite
2nd place: Disiplin by Spaceballs
3rd place: Dopamine by Darkage

Amiga Demo

1st place: The Deep Meet by Darkage
2nd place: The Colour Out Of Space by Amiga Skool
3rd place: Backslide to Arcanum by Cosmic Orbs

(dr)

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01.Apr.2024
Puni (ANF) AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for March 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)

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01.Apr.2024 Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.2 for Windows, Mac and Linux
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Amiga. Version 0.6.2 provides many bug fixes, improvements and new effects.

The songs can be exported as audio files (.wav), VGM files and ZSM files (for Commander X16). An manual is available. (dr)

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01.Apr.2024

Puzzle game: Glubble
The "Revision" demo party takes place in Saarbrücken over the Easter weekend. The group Oxygen has published a puzzle game there called "Glubble", in which blobs of the same color have to be pushed together to form groups of the same color.

Glubble is a conversion of the PC game Yugo Puzzle. The title runs on any Amiga with one megabyte of RAM. If you want to play from hard disk you need more RAM. (cg)

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