02.Jun.2024
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood goes LaTeX: hTeX 1.0 released
Press release: "Airsoft Softwair, the unstoppable coding machine, is back on your screen with a massive new Hollywood plugin release: hTeX. hTeX allows you to experience the wonderful world of LaTeX as it makes it possible to use the LaTeX markup language from Hollywood. This makes it possible to easily display mathematical formulas in your Hollywood scripts and Hollywood Designer projects. On top of that, you can also use more advanced LaTeX features like tables, boxes, and finetuned formatting. Finally, hTeX also allows you to export LaTeX formatted text as PDF documents, SVG images, and PNG images.
Using hTeX is very simple and convenient because the plugin directly interfaces with Hollywood's text library so you don't need to learn any new functions but you can just use the functions from Hollywood's text library. As soon as the hTeX plugin is installed, all functions from Hollywood's text library will automatically be able to handle text formatted in LaTeX. hTeX will make the text available to Hollywood as full vector text which means that it can be infinitely scaled, rotated, and transformed without any loss of quality.
Of course hTeX also supports our brand-new Hollywood Designer 7 which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. So after you've installed the hTeX plugin, Hollywood Designer 7 will automatically become a state-of-the-art editor for LaTeX, just take a look at what is possible when using hTeX together with Hollywood Designer 7:
The hTeX distribution comes with several examples as well as a comprehensive documentation to get you started quickly. And the best of all: hTeX is provided free of charge. Thus, please consider buying Hollywood to show your support for our massive development efforts. Note that Hollywood 10 or Hollywood Designer 7 are strictly required by hTeX.
The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal at the title link. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux, Mac OS and Windows are provided." (snx)
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02.Jun.2024
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Action adventure: June update of "Castlevania AGA"
Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). This now features a "proper" Simon Belmont, who was created especially for this version. There is now also a menu with a jukebox function, which allows you to listen to the different music. (dr)
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02.Jun.2024
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Aminet uploads until 01.06.2024
The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to Aminet:
MicroExcel_2.0a.lha biz/spread 1.6M MOS A Spreadsheed Editor
Void-FB15.lha demo/sound 640K 68k Musicdisk from 68k Inside 2024
transmittances.lha dev/amos 406K transmittances
PreludeSoftwareBundle... driver/aud 122K 68k Software bundle for Prelude s...
7MezzoPlusAros.zip game/board 472K x86 Popular Italian Christmas game
GISequenceMemoryADF.zip game/board 304K 68k memory game
GISequenceMemoryAros.zip game/board 388K x86 Sequence Memory game
Jake_And_Peppy_V90.lha game/demo 28M 68k Playable demo: new Apollo V4/...
sequencememory.lha game/wb 193K 68k memory game
LN3Void24Prt2.lha mods/misc 3.5M 16bit 4ch LN3Void24Prt2 by HK...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 406K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 22M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
BaseConv.lha util/wb 63K 68k Convert numbers between bin/o...
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02.Jun.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.06.2024
The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to OS4Depot:
cppcheck.lha dev/uti 4Mb 4.1 A static analysis tool for C/C++...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
a1222_abstract.lha gra/mis 12Mb 4.0 Abstract backdrop for AmigaOne A...
lm_calendarclock.lha uti/har 5Mb 4.0 Clock to control the time in fro...
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02.Jun.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.06.2024
The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to AROS Archives:
vintagesongplayer.lha aud/pla 2Mb A JukeBox multiformat player
gisequencememory.i386-aro... gam/boa 388kb classic memory game
7mezzoplus.i386-aros.zip gam/car 472kb Popular Italian Christmas game
gipoker.i386-aros.zip gam/car 451kb video poker simulations bar mach...
videntiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb Videntium Picta is picture and a...
witchcleaner.lha net/ser 3Mb Clean temp data from OWB and tra...
omanko.lha uti/fil 2Mb Tool made to get the MD5 and CRC...
lm_calendarclock.lha uti/har 4Mb Clock to control the time in fro...
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02.Jun.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.06.2024
The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
WitchCleaner_3.20.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
MicroExcel_2.0a.lha Office/Spreadsheet A Spreadsheed Editor
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02.Jun.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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Programming competition: AmiGameJam 2024 launched
Following the 2022/2023 competition on the topic of "Sword and Sorcery", the next AmiGameJam has now been launched. In this year's edition, the task for the game programmers is: "The Sequel That Never Was". If you want to take part, you have to submit a sequel to a game from the old Amiga days to the organizers by December 1st at the latest.
The participants will as usual be divided into the two categories "OCS/AGA" and "RTG/Vampire/AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS", and voting will again be carried out by both the community and a group of celebrity judges. The judges and prizes will be announced later. (snx)
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02.Jun.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Full version of Insanity Fight online
In the download area of Amiga Future the full version of the game Insanity Fight has been published, including data disk, construction set, manual and source code. (snx)
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02.Jun.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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German Amiga Podcast: Issue 18
Issue 18 of the "German Amiga Podcasts" (GAP) reports from the Amiga Ruhrpott Convention event (ARC) 2024, which took place on May 25 in Duisburg, Germany. (snx)
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02.Jun.2024
Paulee Bow (ANF)
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Music: CD "Bleakwave" by Vogue Renege announced
As part of the "Kickstart 02" event in Nottingham on June 29/30, also Vogue Renege alias Paulee Alex Bow will be performing. The new CD "Bleakwave" is to be released there, and international sales as a physical and digital product will start a few days later.
It contains five songs:
(snx)
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02.Jun.2024
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Amiga-Emulator: Activity monitors and DMA bus visualisation for vAmigaWeb
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
In this update, the developer 'mithendal' has added an activity or load display for the individual Amiga chips Blitter, Copper and Paula and the CPU. This means that you can now see which games use certain Amiga coprocessors or chips in particular. In addition, pens such as the Apple Pencil are now supported. (dr)
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02.Jun.2024
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Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.7 (update)
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.6 was released:
- SCSI-2 Emulation - Fixes compatibility with ACDPlay, OptyCDPlay, OS 3.9 PlayCD etc
- Support masterless slave devices
- Fixup channel detection on Dicke Olga Accelerator
- Various ATAPI bug fixes and performance improvements
Update: (13:50, 02.06.24, dr)
Version 40.7 has just been released and is strongly recommended for all users of the previous version 40.6. (dr)
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02.Jun.2024
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Video: Review of Amiga 2000 accelerator board "Dicke Olga"
"Dicke Olga" is a 68030 turbo card for the Amiga 2000 and a hobbyist project. The YouTube channel "Retronaut" has now taken a look at the card under the title link. (dr)
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01.Jun.2024
Spadoni Carlo (ANF)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 2.5 (x86)
The "AROS One" distribution, which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0 (screenshot), is now available in version 2.5 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file (1.7 GB) or as a USB flash image (3.7 GB) under the title link, where you will also find video recordings (don't be confused by the old title, the download links on the page below the screenshot are correct). The VHD image can be used as a hard drive in virtual machines such as VMware, VirtualBox and QEmu.
Changes in version 2.5:
- Update AROS One OS System:
- Dopus4 now compresses archives to Zip
- Update Network Prefs Catalog Italian
- ClickToFront now initiated by the system
- Deleting Files and Folders via 'Del' Key
- Add on GRUB "EarlyStartup"
- Execute uCommander from EarlyStartup, just type uCommander
- GRUB Set to 640 x 480
- Add Catalogs OWB (Spain, France, Turkey, Czech)
- Clean Cache OWB (Script)
- Removed package archive Alternative icons can be downloaded from a separate archive
- SMB2-Start, new script for automatic sharing
- SMB2 Docs on the various Scripts (TXT e PDF)
- Zune settings recreated
- Update AROS One Apps:
- Screentest v1
- MidiDriver v1.0 AndTools
- Protrekkr v2.6.7
- SonosController v1.4
- Raylib v5
- GLFW v3.4
- Arrakis v1.0 Demoscene
- Nano v1.2 Demoscene
- Void-FB14 MusicDisk
- AmiFox v0.6
- ScummVM v1.9.1
- ResidualVM v0.3.1.1
- Magical Broom Extreme v1.0
- Origami v1.0 Demoscene
- The Fulcrum v1.0 Demoscene
- Image2PDF v2.6
- ThemeList v1.0
- Split & Build v1.5
- GMoreAros v1.0
- LoView 2.024
- WitchCleaner v3.20
- L.M. Calendar&Clock v1.0
- Update AROS One Games:
- BOH
- Scopa
- MBX
- XRick
- MadBomber
- Functionalities:
- Introduce new C library, synchronized with 64-bit AROS (deadwood)
- Allow linux hosted AROS to work under WSL (Kalamatee)
- Better default mouse cursor image (JuanDoble07)
- Early Boot Menu made more functional (JuanDoble07, Kalamatee)
- Simplify adding tethering in Prefs/Network (#115) (deadwood)
- Speed up boot using ahci.device (deadwood)
- Delete files with DEL key in Wanderer (#116) (deadwood)
- Updates:
- AROS build system (deadwood)
- Italian and Polish translations (AMIGASYSTEM, subocz)
- Prefs/Boot 1.4 (deadwood)
- Use standard C library function names in SDK (deadwood)
- Functional fixes:
- Wanderer (bugs: #107) (deadwood)
- fat-handler (bugs: #107) (deadwood)
- intuition.library (bugs: no auto scroll up screen) (JuanDoble07)
- dos.library (bugs: NOMOUNT partitions are automounted, wrong path copying) (JuanDoble07, Ronnie Beck)
- exec.library (bugs: infinite crash loop) (deadwood)
- dos.library (bugs: #60) (deadwood)
- utility.library (bugs: #63) (deadwood)
- stdlib.library (bugs: wrong support for '*' in sscanf) (deadwood)
- camd.library, camdusbmidi.class (hitchhikr)
- ram-handler (bugs: #134) (deadwood)
- ahci.device (bugs: #135, unnecessary 60MB memory allocation) (deadwood)
- Wanderer (bugs: 105, offline volumes showing with "ghost" icons) (Kalamatee)
- rtl8139.device (bugs: no support for wrapped buffer) (stegerg)
- Stability fixes:
- muimaster.library (deadwood)
- debug-handler (deadwood)
- crt.library (bugs: calling atexit in CTOR set crashes program) (deadwood)
(nba)
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31.May.2024
Jérôme Senay (Mail)
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Print magazine: Boing #8 (French)
"Boing" is a French print magazine by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL) for all Amiga systems on 52 A4 color pages.
The eighth issue includes a big article about MicroProse, the publisher of Civilisation, an interview with Frédéric Cordier, the author of AMOS Pro Unity, and numerous game reviews. (dr)
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30.May.2024
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AROS: Review of May 2024
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of May at the title link. (dr)
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30.May.2024
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Video: Interview with Eric Chahi (Another World)
At the title link Adrian Wallett of "Arcade Attack Retro Gaming Network" did an interview with Eric Chahi, the programmer and graphic artist of the game "Another World". (snx)
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30.May.2024
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Adventure: Geo's Quest - Gateway to Nowhere
As a sequel to "Geo's Quest: In Search of Queen Lorraine" in "Gateway to Nowhere", the hero, George Angus, is faced with the problem that Queen Lorraine, who was rescued from The Gates of Bill, has been lost by the Knights of Escom, to whom she was entrusted. George is assisted by Dave Haynie in the second rescue of the queen. The fifth chapter then follows (loosely) his path after the end of Commodore (Pios, MetaBox, Merlancia, Fortele). (snx)
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29.May.2024
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Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.6.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software. It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (preview video).
The primary goal of this project is to provide a graphical user interface on top of the excellent ira reassembler to accelerate the workflow.
Aira Force implements reassembly using the ira disassembler and the vasm assembler. Ira transforms the source executable or raw binary into assembly language source code, then vasm assembles the source code. The output binary should be identical (or equivalent) to the input binary.
This process allows the user to analyse and annotate the source code efficiently, before make any required changes to the generated disassembly and building a patched binary. It may be useful for fixing bugs, adding features, optimising the code, or academic software archeology. Features:
- Disassemble Amiga executables (hunk Load Modules)
- Disassemble raw Amiga binaries, e.g. bootblocks, non-DOS programs
- Interactively convert disassembly to code, data or text
- Rename and add labels
- Add comments and banners
- Define pointers and equates
- Efficient code navigation
- Tools to search for potential pointers, equates and code
- Live Analysis using 68000 emulator to aid understanding
- In-built Amiga documentation (custom chipset, OS)
- Menu and keyboard driven UI
- Runs on Windows, Linux and macOS (sorry, no Amiga version)
- Hex viewer
- Reassemble disassembled code and compare against source
- Dockable windows and multi-viewports (native OS windows) with Dear ImGui
The tool is currently pre-ALPHA and not all features are implemented yet. (dr)
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28.May.2024
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Audio: Prelude Software Bundle V4.1 now available
The updated software bundle (V4.1) for the Prelude sound card family (and derivatives) includes the prelude.library, the mixer and the MHI driver for the Amiblaster.
The new features at a glance:
- As soon as any application opens the prelude.library, it automatically loads and sets the saved mixer settings. This means that the mixer does not have to be started each time the system is started, unless you want to mix one of the inputs to the output right at the beginning.
- The prelude.library now also initialises newer revisions of the MAS3507D (e.g. on newer MPEGit replicas) correctly, so that the playback speed is correct.
- The included MHI driver for the Amiblaster now also supports the Ultra and the CP/Mini (clockport version).
The Prelude Software Bundle supports the Prelude Z2, Prelude 1200 and Amiblaster Deluxe sound cards as well as the Prelude Z2 extensions MPEGit and Arpeggiator. Under WinUAE, the bundle is compatible with the Prelude Z2 and Prelude 1200 models supported there.
Download: PreludeSoftwareBundleV4.lha (122 KB) (nba)
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28.May.2024
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Crowdfunding for new card game Amiga Trumps
Following the motto "Let's keep Amiga gaming alive... in card game form!", the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the new card game "Amiga Trumps" has been successfully launched. The funding goal of ¤ 1,762 has already been reached, but the campaign will continue until 23 July 2024.
The "Amiga Trumps" card deck brings the brilliant characters from the classic Amiga games to the stage: Inspired by the classic Trump card games of the 1980s, this deck brings 34 heroes from well-known Amiga titles into the hands of gaming fans.
For those unfamiliar with Trump card games: They are very easy to play. A deck is dealt evenly to all players. One player names a value from their top card (e.g. strength, heroism), and the other players read out the corresponding value from their cards. The highest value wins the round and the winner collects all the cards played. This continues until one player has won all the cards.
The special highlight of this deck are the cards themselves. Each card features a hero, villain or other main character from a classic Amiga title against a background image of the game. In addition to the character, the cards contain values in five categories: Strength, Heroism, Skill, Agility and Weapons. The game includes characters such as Guybrush Threepwood, Turrican, Rick Dangerous, Soccer Kid, Superfrog and Zool. A special option is the purchase of the deck with a golden trump card: LeChuck, with artwork from "Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge".
The cards are to be printed on laminated playing card in the finished product and come in a fully printed folding box.
The project can still be supported until 23 July 2024 on Kickstarter under the title link. (nba)
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27.May.2024
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Demoparty: Results of "68k Inside"
The "68k Inside" demoparty took place in Finland last weekend. Among other things, competitions in the "Intro" and "Demo" categories took place there. The organisers have now published the results lists. Amiga productions also made it to the top places:
Intro
Demo
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27.May.2024
George Sokianos (ko-fi)
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AmigaOS 4: Code analysis with Cpppcheck V2.14r1
Im September 2022, George 'walkero' Sokianos made an AmigaOS 4 port of Cppcheck, a static code analysis tool for the C and C++ programming languages, available for the first time. The tool is designed to be able to analyze your C/C++ code even if it has non-standard syntax common in embedded projects. The latest official version 2.14 has now been ported (release notes). (dr)
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