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Archive 04/2024

`24.Apr.2024` AmiKit (ANF)	Workbench distribution: AmiKit 12.5 The Workbench distribution AmiKit for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Vampire, PiStorm and Raspberry Pi is now available in version 12.5, called "Spring Update". Besides updates of system files and included programs, also new software has been added, e.g. a converter for HEIF images, the SONOS controller and various Hollywood plugins; the changelog can be found at the title link. (snx) [News message: 24. Apr. 2024, 20:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2024`	AmigaOS 4: Mini review of Heretic 2 The adaptation of the third-person shooter "Heretic 2", originally released in 1998 for the PC and two years later also for the Amiga, to AmigaOS 4, which was released this year, was subjected to a short review by Pavel 'pavlor' Dohnal at the title link. His positive assessment is that the game runs fast and relatively stable (tested on a Pegasos 2), supports various graphics standards (software rendering, MiniGL, GL4ES) and can also be played with music without a physical CD in the drive. Apart from the costs, the disadvantage is that some configuration work is required initially (adapting the keyboard layout, setting up MiniGL and the CD unit to be used). Graphic errors were also noticed at certain screen resolutions, but after contacting the author he expects these to be rectified quickly. (snx) [News message: 24. Apr. 2024, 08:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Apr.2024`	Demo scene: How the Backslide demo was created At this year's Revision demo party, Backslide to Arcanum by Cosmic Orbs took 3rd place among the Amiga demos. Interest attracted that a large bitmap image rotated effortlessly at 50 Hz in full overscan and 1×1 resolution, moving across the screen and changing size arbitrarily. At the title link, 'Jobbo' from Cosmic Orbs explains how he went about it. (snx) [News message: 24. Apr. 2024, 08:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Apr.2024`	Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.38 RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial. All changes of updated version 0.9.38: Trigonometry functions are now intertal and mathtrans library is no longer needed. Mathtrans library is no longer copied when building games, diskfont is only copied if topaz is not used. Added a condition trigger CPU is to check the processor of the machine where the game is running. When building a game targeting A500 assign ENV: to RAM: is not executed. Optimization of math functions. Fix for tileset not being saved. Fix in basic_platformer project that made impossible completing the second stage. Fix for Default screen width being overwritten by the level one. Fix for Tiled Move action trigger when moving in diagonal. Small fixes. (nba) [News message: 23. Apr. 2024, 11:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Apr.2024`	Arcade port: Phoenix500 Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has converted another arcade classic for the Amiga: Phoenix500 is a top-down space shooter (YouTube video) that has been remade for ECS Amigas. (dr) [News message: 23. Apr. 2024, 06:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Apr.2024`	Shoot'em Up: Game.X 1.2 Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has released version 1.2 of his port of the shoot'em up Game.X (YouTube video, amiga-news.de reported). It uses a newer and faster engine and saves the highscore in the game directory if the NVRAM is not available. The game requires an AGA Amiga and was originally released by Kugenuma Soft in 1990. (dr) [News message: 23. Apr. 2024, 06:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2024` Andreas Magerl (ANF)	Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 168, preview and excerpts Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 168 (May/June 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content of this issue, which features four additional pages, includes interviews with David Pleasance as well as Steve Quartly and Paul Huxham of PhotoFolio, reviews of the AmigaOne A1222 Plus and the (German) AmigaOS 3.2 book as well as an article about parallax scrolling on the Amiga. Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx) [News message: 22. Apr. 2024, 20:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2024`	Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.3.0 for Windows NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2.3.0: The "Remove unknown modules" options did previously remove modules if a player could not be found or the module could not be loaded. This has been changed, so it will only be removed if a player cannot be found. Added a new Level Meter visualizer. This one shows the current level for the left and right speakers in dB. If a module is packed, it will now be shown in a separate line in Module Information Window together with which packers that are used. Updated SharpCompress to version 0.36.0. Updated mpg123 to version 1.32.6. Updated libsidplayfp to version 2.7.0. Added support to player the David Whittaker module Q-Ball. Renamed the AHX player to HivelyTracker + added support for HivelyTracker modules. Added these new module formats: SoundTracker 2.6, IceTracker, ProTracker IFF, SC68, Digital Mugician, Digital Mugician 2, SidMon 1.0, SidMon 2.0 and AMOS Music Bank. An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store. (dr) [News message: 22. Apr. 2024, 18:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Apr.2024`	Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.6 for all Amiga systems Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 2.6: updated guide file On MorphOS and AROS the guide file is now copied to the installation drawer On MorphOS the "Path" command in s:user-startup is now deactivated If wanted active, one needs to uncomment it manually, save it and then reboot the computer added possibility to scale images with all chosen formats added possibility to compress PDF docs when Ghostscript is installed the orientation of PDF docs can now be changed (not with ImageSize format) a print margin can be set now using commandline will now adapt the orientation automatically (not with ImageSize format) compiled single versions for the supported platforms removed applet from archive added a print function to print PDF documents (dr) [News message: 22. Apr. 2024, 16:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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