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AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup – November 2024
AmigaOS 4 News – November 2024
Hi,
December 1st is here and it is (finally) time for a new post on this blog.
Thank you for visiting the Old School Game Blog and checking out this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup.
Some of you have noticed that I haven’t released any roundups for several months. There are many reasons, personal, health, and work-related, but now I’m back and ready to continue where I left off (almost). I’ve got less hardware than before, but I’m looking for a new, affordable setup to remedy the situation.
Now, let us have a look at the news. 🙂
Software News
First up in November was version 0.40 of the PDF generator Compression. This tool is being developed by Achim Pankalla. The goal is to make a PDF generator that is complete with WYSIWYG. Progress has been made since the last version and many errors have been fixed. You can download it here.
TwinVNC is a VNC client, or viewer, allowing control of a computer running a VNC Server. A German catalog has been created for TwinVNC GUI by McFly.
http://twinvnc.free.fr/AuSujetDe.php?menu=2&lang=eng
Andy Broad has released version 1.8 of the driver for UGTABLET base tablets, such as XP-Pen. It has specifically been tested with the XP-Pen Deco01 tablet, and according to the author, other tables with the same ID should work.
SilkRAW is a program developed by Domenico Lattanzi that allows you to work with RAW files generated by digital SLR cameras, acting as an interface to the dcRAW program written by Dave Coffin. Version 3 is out now and can be downloaded from OS4Depot.
Features:
– Thumbnail thumbnail exports, individual RAW files or groups, with metadata extraction and rotation capabilities
– 25 dcRAW options supported
– Batch processing of RAW files, with saving in TIFF, PPM, JPG, PNG, ILBM
– Further postprocessing beyond dcRAW
An update to Report+, a ReAction-based utility with nine functions, has been released by James Jacobs. It was made available on OS4Depot on November 13th. This tool can help you with generating Aminet- and OS4Depot-style readme files, performing batch processing on icons, and much more. Here are the recent changes:
Changes since V8.6:
– Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
Details:
– f3: fixed incorrect library base name.
– os3: now linked with small.lib rather than amiga.lib.
– f7: fixed: unwrapping: some spaces were being converted to EOLs when they should not have been.
– f3: added import and export buttons.
– f3: improved error reporting for nonvolatile.library operations.
– f3: now user can deselect items.
– f3: revised gadget layout somewhat.
SDL2 for AmigaOS 4 has received an update. Version 2.30.9 is now available for download at OS4Depot.
For more information about the project, please visit the GitHub page:
https://github.com/AmigaPorts/SDL
mGBA is an emulator for running Game Boy Advance games by Jeffrey Pfau. It aims to be faster and more accurate than many existing Game Boy Advance emulators, as well as adding features that other emulators lack. It also supports Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. The port to AmigaOS 4 was done by Marek Glogowski and version 0.10.3 was released on November 21st. More information, as well as a download, is available at OS4Depot.
UHC Tools is a collection of programs and scripts for Amiga computers and their offspring to simplify daily usage and the Amiga more independent. The authors, Patrik Axelsson and David Eriksson released a new version in November.
Screenshot from an older version taken by PuniVersion 33.6 of AmiArcadia for AmigaOS 4, a Signetics-based machines emulator, has been released by James Jacobs.
According to the documentation, AmiArcadia supports the following systems:
- Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) (c. 1982);
- Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Cabel, Fountain, Hanimex, Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Soundic, Voltmace, Waddingtons, etc.) (c. 1978);
- Elektor TV Games Computer (1979);
- PIPBUG- and BINBUG-based machines (EA 77up2, EA 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (1977-1978);
- Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);
- Signetics TWIN minicomputer (1976);
- Central Data 2650 computer (1977);
- PHUNSY computer (c. 1980);
- Ravensburger Selbstbaucomputer aka 2650 Minimal Computer trainer (1984);
- Hofacker MIKIT 2650 trainer (1978);
- Astro Wars, Galaxia, Laser Battle and Lazarian coin-ops by Zaccaria (1979-1981);
- Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1981);
- AY-3-8500/8550/8600-based Pong systems (Coleco Telstar Galaxy, Sheen TVG-201, etc.) (1976-1977);
- VTech Type-right machine (1985)
It is packed with features, far too many to list here. Examples are ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, windowed and fullscreen modes, CPU tracing, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics scaling, PAL/NTSC modes, frame skipping, and much more!
Here is an overview of the changes since the last release:
Changes since V33.5:
- Improved Galaxia emulation.
- Added ASM and DISGAME CLI arguments.
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
Kevin Taddeucci has released version 1.6 of his script aimed at MediaVault 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 allowing the user to choose the stream player or to download a stream via a requester.
Version 1.6: (Nov. 25, 2024)
- Added “User Settings to choose ffplay display mode.
- 1 – Waveforms. Used to much CPU on slower systems.
- 2 – Frequency band. Uses much less CPU time.
- Added “User Settings” to set ffplay window size.
- Made corrections to “User Settings” Player variable comments.
Added keyboard shortcuts to player requester.
The developer Kjetil Hvalstrand is back with a new utility. GIF2ABK is a program for converting GIF animations to AMOS ABK or BOBS.
He also released version 1.1 of IFF-Converter, a replica of a program created many years ago by Metallion of Kefrens. Hvalstrand has added major improvements including DataTypes support for filetypes like PNG, GIF, and others, as well as zooming and drag-and-drop support.
On November 26th, the Sacrificio Pagano magic tool from Juan Carlos Herran Martin became available on OS4Depot. This is a special program for people believing in the magic of Wiccan practices providing a virtual altar.
MCE, Multi-game Character Editor, is a user-friendly open-source editor of character files, saved games, high score tables, levels, and graphics for 121 games. James Jacobs, the author, has now released version 15.23, which provides miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
Misc News
Issue 171 of the Amiga Future magazine was released at the beginning of the month. There you can read articles such as A1222 from a Coder’s Perspective, Classic Reflections – Whatever Happened to Macrosystems? – Part 1, interviews, game reviews, news, and much more.
The magazine can be purchased from here:
Francis G. Loch, the author of PowerReboot for AmigaOS 4.1, has published a report about his experiences with the A1222+ on the website of amiga-news.de.
He presents solutions to problems others might encounter when first setting up and getting to know the computer. Highly worth checking out if you are a new A1222+ owner.
https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2024-11-00057-EN.html
There is currently a games competition being held on Amigans.net. For November, participants compete to get the highest score in Mini Metal Slug, an action game brought to AmigaOS 4 by HunoPPC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vsYkOlqIEM
Currently in the lead is Mr_byte with a whopping 48,480 points!
Hans de Ruiter of KSD – Amiga Corner has published a new video on YouTube called Quick Guide: Cross-compiling to AmigaOS 4.x+ the easy way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5j6Ycc4-6o
The author writes: “Setting up a cross-compiler for AmigaOS 4 used to be a painful task because you had to build the cross-compiler yourself following complicated instructions. Now, there’s a much easier way: using pre-built Docker containers. This video shows you how it’s done…”
You can visit his website here.
The Amiga Retro Channel, hosted by Maijestro, has published a video looking at 3D gaming on the AmigaOne X5000. Here he shows games like Quake 3 and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy running.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpe4hiM9rPo
Maijestro recently bought an AmigaOne X5000 and informed us that he will be publishing more videos showing this computer in action in the future.
Skateman has written a post on his blog titled “rVNCd 1.38: A New Era of Remote AmigaOS4 Control”. You can read it here:
https://www.skateman.nl/index.php/2024/11/03/rvncd-1-38-a-new-era-of-remote-amigaos4-control/
Robert Bernardo has published many photos from the AmiWest 2024 event on his blog:
http://blog.retro-link.com/2024/11/more-amiwest-show-2024-photos.html
Not only that, you can watch his videos from the same event on his YouTube-channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsvqR_fyXaA
https://www.youtube.com/@BIOSJERBIL/videos
Well worth checking out for sure! 🙂
Until Next Time
You’ve reached the end of this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup.
The next one is scheduled for January 2025, a new year with new possibilities!
I wish you all a nice December and see you soon in other post here on the Old School Game Blog. 🙂
Take care everyone!
Best regards,
Puni
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AmigaOS 4 News – April 2024
Hi everyone,
Thanks for visiting my blog and the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup. 🙂
Another month has soon passed and May will be upon us. As I write this it is April 30th and I’ve just finished writing the monthly roundup. There was a lot to report this time and it has taken a good amount of time to compile the report. I enjoy it a lot and it is fun to discover and learn about all that is happening in our community. Big thanks to all the developers, users, and enthusiasts who keep the flame burning! 🙂
I’m sure you are eager to check out the news, so without further ado, here is the roundup for April 2024. 😉
Software News
On April 1st, DRIDI released version 2.9z7Final of the Arabic Console Device. According to the author, this version contains better vowel and hamza support inference. More information is available on OS4Depot.
The always-active Kjetil Hvalstrand (LiveForIt) is back with a new release. This time it is a utility called Stackdump. It is a security demonstration tool. It will show you a security risk in a hex dump.
In previous monthly roundups, we’ve read a lot about the FlashMandelNG tool. Dino Papararo and Edgar Schwan are once again back with an update. Version 5 is a bugfix release with added support for benchmark mode in ToolTypes and CLI.
Following the release of Heretic II from Hyperion Entertainment comes a massive pack of multiplayer maps compiled by and uploaded to OS4Depot by TheMagicSN. This pack will be needed to play on PC Heretic II servers to avoid maps are downloaded while playing, which is slow. An installer is included.
Screenshot from the website of Alinea ComputerHe also made an archive called H2_Big_Data which is important for playing Heretic II multiplayer games. This one is about 1.6 GB and is available on Aminet. TheMagicSN writes as follows:
“This archive contains an installer to the custom material (maps, models, etc.) which I was given by Paul Gagnon of H2 Vault. To be able to use the PC multiplayer sites with the Amiga port of Heretic 2 he recommends installing this material.
It comes with an Amiga-friendly installer. It also optionally offers to install a new config.cfg for the Amiga version of Heretic II which adds the multiplayer servers of H2 Vault to the address book of the game. Note that when overwriting your config.cfg you overwrite your Video, Sound, and Controls Options.
This archive has some broken models that could crash Heretic II removed.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you already downloaded 1.0.0 you do not need to download this huge archive again. H2_Big_Data_Fix.lha which is only a few Kilobytes in Size contains a script that will delete the faulty models.”
You can download the fix from Aminet:
https://aminet.net/package/game/shoot/H2_Big_Data_Fix
I tried the multiplayer mode in Heretic II during the weekend and it worked fine. 🙂
Open Fodder
Now for news concerning a port of well-known classic that has been ported to AmigaOS 4. Which classic game is that? It is Cannon Fodder and Cannon Fodder 2, and the various specials and demos from cover disks!
Screenshot by PuniCannon Fodder was one of the most popular games on the Amiga. It was also popular on the PC and probably many other platforms. I remember playing it on my Amiga 500 and later 1200 in the 90’s. I still have the original disks in my collection, but it has been a long time since I checked if they worked.
More information about Cannon Fodder can be found at Hall of Light:
https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/cannon-fodder
In short, it is an action strategy game developed by Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive. You are in control of a group of soldiers and the goal is to complete the missions you get assigned for. You control the soldiers with your mouse, controlling their movement by clicking around on the map and using the buttons to shoot and customize formation, etc.
Open Fodder is an open-source version of the Cannon Fodder engine for modern operating systems. It supports not only the Amiga version of the games but also the PC ones.
- Cannon Fodder (Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS CD)
- Cannon Fodder 2 (Amiga, DOS CD)
- Demos (various cover disks from magazines like Amiga Power, The One, Amiga Format, Amiga Action, PC Format, etc.)
Thanks to the porting done by Smarkusg, we can now enjoy Cannon Fodder natively on our AmigaOS 4 systems. 🙂 Here is a link to his Open Fodder GitHub page.
Screenshot by PuniTo start playing, you can download the archive from OS4Depot:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/action/openfodder.lha
The archive comes bundled with demos you can try, but you’ll need to provide the full version yourself. The files from these must be copied to their appropriate directories in the “OpenFodder/Data/” drawer. You will find one called “Dos_CD”. Here you can copy over the files from the DOS version. The game will then pop up in the menu when you launch Open Fodder.
Screenshot by Puni Screenshot by Puni Screenshot by PuniCannon Fodder is available for purchase from GOG:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/cannon_fodder
I have tried Open Fodder on my Sam460 and also in emulation and it performed very well.
Quake II
Not long ago, Hyperion Entertainment released a new port of Heretic II for AmigaOS 4 by Steffen Häuser a.k.a. TheMagicSN. Häuser has since then been working hard on making various mods available, as well as multiplayer support for the game. Not only that, he’s been working on a new updated port of Quake 2 for AmigaOS 4 as well!
The picture is from the webshop of Alinea ComputerIt is available for purchase at Alinea Computer in Germany. Since it is a download, you’ll get access to it very quickly.
The price is 14.95 EUR.
Here’s the information from Alinea Computer:
Quake 2 is without doubt one of the most famous 3D shooters. Quake 2 was released on the PC by id Software in 1997. In 2002, Hyperion Entertainment released a version for AmigaOS 3.x, based on the GPL source code of the game. Steffen Häuser has now created a new version for AmigaOS 4, which also offers numerous improvements compared to the 4.1 Quake 2 update released a few years ago. In particular, the Quake 2 Mission CDs, which offer countless new levels, are supported for the first time in a native OS4.1 version. Warp3DNova (and MiniGL and software renderers) are also supported natively.
This game, based on the GPL source code, also requires the data files of the PC version, either as a CD or the data of the Steam or Gog Classic version (for the latter two, simply copy them to a directory on your hard drive and select this directory during installation).
Features
- AmigaOS 4 native version
- GL4ES, MiniGL and Software Renderer
- full support for mission CDs “The Reckoning” and “Ground Zero”
- Ports to the unofficial mission CD “Zaero” and to about 50 multiplayer mods will be published on os4depot/Aminet soon, these downloads require the new version of Quake 2
- AmigaInput support
- CD Audio works again (in the old version it only worked with older CD drives)
- As an alternative to CD Audio, Ogg Vorbis files can be played as soundtrack, the music files from this version are already pre-installed during a Steam/Gog install
- Installer now works with PC CD of Quake 2 as well as with the Steam and Gog Classic version, when using the Steam/Gog Classic installer the two mission CDs are installed at the same time. We recommend using the Steam version for easy installation.
- As an alternative to the .cin intros, the game now also supports .avi and .mpeg files (a script to convert the .ogv files of the Steam version is included on the ISO if you want the higher resolution video files)
System requirements
- Software: AmigaOS 4.1 and the data files from Steam, Gog or CD version.
- Hardware: At least 150 MHz PowerPC, 32 MB RAM, graphics card, at least
- 1 GB free hard disc space, A1222 is currently not supported, game can also be played on QEmu and UAE PPC
In connection with the new Quake 2 release, TheMagicSN has ported the unofficial mod Zaero by Team Evolution. Team Evolution gave the full game away some years after the initial release in 1998. Note that you will need the new port of Quake 2 released in 2024 to be installed to play it.
TheMagicSN has uploaded several modpacks for the Quake 2 port to Aminet. As the author states, these packs “(…) contains game modifications for the new AmigaOS 4 version of Quake 2 released in 2024. It does not work with other versions of Quake 2, as they either do not support mods or not AmigaOS 4 native compiled mods.”
Q2_Modpack1
Basketball Quake 2, King of the Server, and Weapons Foundry.
Available on Aminet.
Q2_Modpack2
This pack includes the following Quake 2 Multiplayer Mods:
– Action Quake 2
– Annihilation
– Blastchamber
– Catch the Chicken
– Devastation Quake 2
– Headhunters
– Holy Quake 2
– Jailbreak
– Quake Racing
– Tfx (Team Fortress like Gameplay for Q2)
– Total Wars
– UrbanCTF
– UrbanDM
– WarMod
– Wyrm
Available on Aminet.
Q2_Modpack3
This pack includes the following Quake 2 Multiplayer Mods:
– Assault Quake 2
– ChaosDM
– Domination Quake 2
– Faith/FaithDM/FaithTag
– Fireteam
– FreezeTag
– Terror
– Titanic
Available on Aminet.
Q2_Modpack4
This pack includes the following Quake 2 Multiplayer Mods:
– Generations
– Napalm2
– Nighthunters
– Quake&Conquer
– Sniper
– Sog (Both Multi- and Singleplayer)
– StVitus
– TopRung
Available on Aminet.
Q2_Modpack5
This pack includes the following Quake 2 Multiplayer Mods:
– Gloom (do not confuse with the Amiga game of the same name, this is the Q2
Addon Gloom)
– Ltk
– Pig2k
– ProCTF
– ProRocket
Available on Aminet.
Q2_Modpack6
This pack includes the following Quake 2 Multiplayer Mods:
– AirQuake2
– Awaken2
– Battle of the Sexes
– Gangsters
– Gameleader
– Jabot
– Multigrenade
– Q2Comp
– Weapons of Destruction
Available on Aminet.
Q2_Modpack7
This pack includes the following Quake 2 Multiplayer Mods:
– Brazen
– OpenFFA
– OpenTDM
Available on Aminet.
Screenshot by PuniDGen v1.33 is a Sega Genesis / MegaDrive emulator for AmigaOS 4. The AmigaOS 4 port was done by Marek “smarkusg” Glogowski. The GUI was created by Javier de las Rivas.
Screenshot by PuniAs mentioned in the roundup for March, DGen allows you to enjoy the amazing library of games released for the platform, including well-known classics such as Golden Axe and the Sonic the Hedgehog games.
Bermuda Syndrome is a game developed by Century Interactive for PC and published by BMG Interactive in 1995. According to Wikipedia, it is similar in gameplay and appearance to the 1992 game Flashback. The player controls the main character from a third-person sidescrolling perspective. This re-upload for AmigaOS 4 has been recompiled by Raziel with the latest SDL2, and a gl4es binary has been added. The launcher has been reworked as well. Version 0.1.7 is now available on OS4Depot.
Liba52 is a free library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams. It is released under the terms of the GPL license. The A/52 standard is used in a variety of applications, including digital television and DVD. It is also known as AC-3. Version 0.8.0 was uploaded to OS4Depot on April 14th by Raziel. More information is available here.
AmigaGPT is a text generation program that runs on the classic AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4. Utilizing the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 architectures, this program provides state-of-the-art language modeling.
Features:
– Generates text based on input prompts
– UI customization
– Full conversation history
– Text-to-speech
Changes for April are as follows:
– Fixes the stack size calculation so it will no longer warn you that the stack size is too small if it really isn’t #12
– Send button no longer appears in the top left corner after closing a generated image for Amiga 3.x
Version 1.4.6 is now available from OS4Depot.
Libcurl has been updated to 8.7.1. “Libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form-based upload, proxies, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!”.
The same goes for Curl which has been updated to 8.7.1. Curl is a command line tool for transferring data specified with URL syntax.
Version 3.3.0 of libOpenSSL is out. The readme explains: “OpenSSL is a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured Open Source Toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol formerly known as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. The protocol implementation is based on a full-strength general-purpose cryptographic library, which can also be used stand-alone. OpenSSL is descended from the SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson.” The official Home Page of the OpenSSL Project is http://www.openssl.org/.
WildMIDI is a software MIDI player by Mindwerks. It was brought to AmigaOS 4 by Raziel. It has a core softsynth library that can be used with other applications. It uses Gravis Ultrasound patch files to convert MIDI files into audio, which is then passed back to the calling application. The library API is designed so that it is easy to include WildMIDI into applications wishing to include MIDI-file playback. Version 0.4.6 has now been released.
- A lot of player cleanup and refactoring, thanks to initial work by Azamat H. Hackimov, with the addition of several safeguards and minor fixes.
- Ability to choose which audio output backends to include in the build system: see the cmake script for the relevant `WANT_???` options. Player’s `–help` command line switch lists the available backends. Thanks to initial work by Azamat H. Hackimov.
- New native audio output backends for player: coreaudio for macOS, sndio for OpenBSD, netbsd (sunaudio) for NetBSD.
- Improved pkg-config file generation in cmake script (bug #236).
- Workaround a link failure on AmigaOS4 with newer SDKs (bug #241).
- Other minor source clean-ups.
- CMake project clean-ups. Cmake v3.4 or newer is now required.
AmiELFDisas by Alexander O. Benedictov disassembles standard Amiga ELF files producing an assembler source. Version 1.052 was uploaded to OS4Depot on April 16th and can be downloaded here.
Hollywood Designer 7.0
I’ve been a user of Hollywood and Hollywood Designer for quite a few years now. For those unaware, Hollywood is a programming language that supports many different platforms, such as AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, Linux, etc. It was created by Airsoft Softwair.
One of many excellent features is that you can compile your source code easily for any of the supported platforms. If you’re on MorphOS, you can compile the source for AmigaOS 4 for example, no problem. 🙂
Hollywood Designer is a great addition to Hollywood since it is a point-and-click tool to create everything from presentations to applications without the need to write a single line of code! There are native versions of the program for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), WarpOS (hybrid m68k/ppc), MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS 4 (ppc), and AROS (x86).
Screenshot taken from the news release from Airsoft SoftwairOn April 14th this year, version 7 of Hollywood Designer was released. Please read on for the full news release from Airsoft Softwair:
20 years ago, on April 14th 2004, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released the very first version of Hollywood Designer, the ultimate multimedia authoring system for Hollywood. In the following years Hollywood Designer quickly became the must-have software for all users seriously interested in creating state-of-the-art multimedia applications, be it presentations, slide shows, games, or applications. Now, 20 years later, Airsoft Softwair is proud to present Hollywood Designer 7.0, an epic update with lots and lots of new features to properly celebrate the 20th birthday of this marvellous piece of software.
Screenshot taken from the news release from Airsoft SoftwairAs already said, Designer 7.0 is a massive update that boasts lots of new features and improvements over the previous version. We do not want to bore you, so here are just some of them:
* Use the full power of Hollywood 10 which was specifically designed for Designer 7!
* Color emojis, CJK text and complex scripts are now supported (using the Pangomonium plugin)
* Multi-selection support for pages and objects in all listviews and the thumbnail viewer
* Operations can be applied to multiple objects and pages at the same time
* Now uses the Hollywood 10 graphics engine for maximum power!
* Objects can be combined into groups
* Many new action events to work with object groups
* Unlimited undo and redo levels
* Executables can also be exported for macOS and Linux arm64
* Support for different font engines
* Graphics can be exported as palette images
* Radically reduced memory footprint, often reduced to just 25% of Designer 6.0!
* Configurable dynamic memory modes
* Custom character spacing support
* Several new example projects are included
* Full support for Hollywood 10’s plugin interface
* Lots of other new features, optimizations and bug fixesThanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. This is a feature that is totally unique in the Amiga world! We would like to emphasize that it is not only suited for personal use, but also for professional commercial customers. Ferrule Media, for instance, have created an info channel containing over 2000 unique slides in a single project with Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer was designed to handle these huge projects efficiently so that they can run 24 hours a day and 7 days a week without any visible memory fragmentation! Ferrule Media’s info channel, created with Hollywood Designer, is running in dental clinics all over Norway.
Note that Hollywood Designer is no longer limited to “just” being an authoring software, it can now also be used as a flexible graphics editor because it supports many features of modern graphics editors like multiple layers with over 30 filter effects, vector graphics, image import/export in many formats, and text including support complex scripts such as CJK or right-to-left text and color emojis.
Hollywood Designer 7.0 is available as a CD and a download version. There are native versions of the program for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), WarpOS (hybrid m68k/ppc), MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS 4 (ppc), and AROS (x86). If you already own a previous version of Hollywood Designer, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. People who bought Hollywood Designer 6.0 in 2024 can request a free upgrade. Also note that Hollywood Designer 7.0 has been specially crafted for Hollywood 10, so Hollywood 10 is absolutely required by Designer 7.0.
Please consider buying Hollywood Designer 7.0 to show your support for our massive Amiga development efforts. Power up your Amiga system with Hollywood 10 & Hollywood Designer 7 and order now!
Libpng is the official PNG reference library. It supports almost all PNG features, is extensible, and has been extensively tested for over 28 years. Version 1.6.43 is now available on OS4Depot. For more information and source code, check http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html.
From an older version – Screenshot by PuniVersion 32.3 of AmiArcadia for AmigaOS 4, a Signetics-based machines emulator, has been released by James Jacobs.
According to the documentation, AmiArcadia supports the following systems:
- Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) (c. 1982);
- Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Cabel, Fountain, Hanimex, Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Soundic, Voltmace, Waddingtons, etc.) (c. 1978);
- Elektor TV Games Computer (1979);
- PIPBUG- and BINBUG-based machines (EA 77up2, EA 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (1977-1978);
- Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);
- Central Data 2650 computer (1977);
- PHUNSY computer (c. 1980);
- Ravensburger Selbstbaucomputer aka 2650 Minimal Computer trainer (1984);
- Hofacker MIKIT 2650 trainer (1978);
- Astro Wars, Galaxia, Laser Battle and Lazarian coin-ops by Zaccaria (1979-1981);
- Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1981);
- AY-3-8500/8550/8600-based Pong systems (Coleco Telstar Galaxy, Sheen TVG-201, etc.) (1976-1977);
- VTech Type-right machine (1985)
It is packed with features, far too many to list here. Examples are ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, windowed and fullscreen modes, CPU tracing, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics scaling, PAL/NTSC modes, frame skipping, and much more!
Changes since V32.2:
Summary:
- Debugger: added IC, IL, IP commands (for I/O port watchpoints).
- REXX: added OPENDISKDRIVE and CLOSEDISKDRIVE commands.
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
Details:
- fixed a compiler warning.
- twin: fixed: disk loading was broken.
- twin: now emulates 32K of slave RAM (up from 16K).
- changed default for watching of writes to all.
- debugger: fixed: WP with range and condition did not refresh memory subwin.
- debugger: removed L P command.
- debugger: added IC, IL, IP commands.
- debugger: fixed: > and >= breakpoint/watchpoint conditions were swapped around.
- debugger: all commands now understand extended instructions when in extended mode.
- floppy disk subwin: fixed: clicking on “update disk…” and then cancelling was setting the filename.
- fixed: quickload/quicksave didn’t work after inserting a disk.
- incorporated Mikhail’s latest Russian translation.
- aa: fixed icon positions for directory opus.
- aa: fixed: game info subwin was destabilizing the system.
- aa: now uses arexx.class.
- aa: split arexx.c from amiga.c.
- rexx: added OPENDISKDRIVE and CLOSEDISKDRIVE commands.
- arexx: removed WAITFRAME and WAITFRAMES commands.
- localized some more strings.
- incorporated Anthony’s latest Greek translation.
- twin: guest controls subwin: replaced imagery.
AmiArcadia is free to download. You can get it from OS4Depot via the link below:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=emulation/gamesystem/amiarcadia.lha
Here are the links to the websites of the author:
http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/
HarfBuzz is a text-shaping library. Using the HarfBuzz library allows programs to convert a sequence of Unicode input into properly formatted and positioned glyph output for any writing system and language. Version 8.4.0 can now be found on OS4Depot.
Version 2.22.0 of Libsdl2_ttf is out. This library is a wrapper around the FreeType and Harfbuzz libraries, allowing you to use TrueType fonts to render text in SDL applications.
Also updated is Libz, the Zlib data compression library. zlib 1.3.1 is a general-purpose data compression library. All the code is thread-safe. The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950 (zlib format), rfc1951 (deflate format) and rfc1952 (gzip format).
Screenshot by PuniIt is a game called Doom RPG-RE created for mobile phones in 2005. It was developed by Fountainhead Entertainment and published by JAMDAT Mobile. According to Wikipedia, it combines the Doom first-person shooter franchise with role-playing video game elements. The story includes similar events of Doom 3 but involves different characters.
The reverse engineering was done by Erick Vásquez García. You can find more information about this on the official GitHub page.
Screenshot by Puni Screenshot by PuniDoom RPG-RE was ported to AmigaOS 4 by BSzili and Smarkusg. The current version is 0.2.2. The GitHub page of Smarkusg can be found here.
The game is freely available for download on OS4Depot:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/board/doomrpg.lha
I downloaded it this evening and playing it was a matter of unpacking the archive and double-clicking the icon of the game. 🙂 The game worked under emulation.
Bernd Assenmacher has released version 2.6 of the Image2PDF utility. With this tool, you can convert PNG- or JPG files to PDF. The author labels it as “EmailWare”, so please send him an e-mail if you use the program. 🙂 Changes and improvements are as follows:
- 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
The program can be downloaded from here.
Michael Trebilcock has uploaded several new versions of audio decoders:
- Faad2 – FAAD2 AAC decoder
- Faac – Freeware Advanced Audio Coder
- Libfaac – Freeware Advanced Audio Coder library
- Libfaad – Freeware Advanced Audio (AAC) Decoder library
In previous reports, I’ve written about Seq, a MIDI sequencer, by Tuomas Hokka. A new update is out with the following changes:
– 2.11 (22nd April 2024):
- FIXED long standing bug: Reading MIDI device name from a project file was not always copied to the name field
- FIXED bug: Cancelling “Save as” menu selection should not save anything
- FIXED bug: Stopping song play should unlit Play
- FIXED bug: Selecting menu New will clear instruments setup as well
- FIXED bug: Fixed one error message
- FIXED: Bring already opened windows to front
- FIXED bug: Wrong Midi Thru setup window shift value
- FIXED: Separated Fill and Part trigger settings to avoid buggy behaviour
- FIXED bugs: Note length handling in various places (should improve stability)
- Refactored the source code for better maintainability and to avoid bugs
- Added option to extend note length to amount of two full bars
Sandro Barbagelata has released version 1.0 of Theme List. This utility lists any AmigaOS 4, AROS, or MorphOS themes in a directory. According to the information on OS4Depot, “The program requires a directory to scan for any theme, indifferently it is for OS4 or AROS or MOS. Themes can be mixed, they will recognized and treated consequently. The graphic output can be reviewed on the screen and saved on a file. Rename the executable for your system to “ThemeList” to match it with the info file. Default path can be set via tooltypes.”
Thumbnail Maker is an Arexx script for ArtEffect 4 from Haage & Partner. It uses ffmpeg to generate a series of frames from a selected video and paste them onto a canvas to create a sequence of thumbnails. Data about the video is printed at the top, along with a user-definable string. Version 1.04 contains the following changes:
This is version 1.04.
*New feature*:
You can optionally burn the timecode into each frame. Thanks to Mick JT for helping me figure out the syntax of this command. Time is in the format hh:mm:ss and will appear in the top left hand corner. You can select either white or black text. Note that the non-altivec version of ffmpeg 6.01 has a bug and won’t work with this feature. If you have this version installed you won’t see the option to apply timecode. I recommend updating to the latest version of ffmpeg.
*Bug fix*:
The default file extensions have been overhauled, so by default more video file types are displayed for selection.
*Improvement*:
ffmpeg now does the scaling instead of Art Effect. This makes assembling the final image much faster.
*Improvement*:
The script now looks for ffmpeg in appdir not c, so you can keep your ffmpeg executable anywhere.
*Improvement*:
A few minor code polishes…
STREAM is a Memory + floating-pt Bandwith Tester created by John D. McCalpin. Version 5.10 was uploaded to OS4Depot by Sailor.
amiga-news.de reports that RadeonHD V5.20 for Sam460 has been released. “The RadeonHD driver software is a graphics driver for RadeonHD graphics cards for AmigaOS 4.1. Version 5 only supports “Southern Islands” cards (HD7000 series), but offers hardware-accelerated video decoding (Enhancer Software 2.2 required).”. For the full story, please visit amiga-news.de here.
Amiga-news.de also reports that version 9.0.0 of QEMU has been released. This is an open-source computer emulator that makes it possible to emulate a computer in software, such as the Pegasos 2 and Sam460 for example. The support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who has set up a dedicated website with helpful information. Version 9.0.0 contains improvements to the Sam460e emulation (faster, support of short drive options like -cdrom & -drive media=…, SFS fixed) and Pegasos2 IRQ fixes. Here you can read the full story on amiga-news.de.
KT_Scripts by Kevin Taddeucci is a collection of simple Arexx and DOS Scripts to add helpful features to various AmigaOS4 programs and Workbench. v1.2 release adds the following script.
CleanDrawer:
ARexx script to perform Workbech drawer icon arrangments . Arrange the icons by desired order, resize window to fit and snapshot the window all at once. No need to use three menu selections to do it.
Screenshot by PuniAt the end of the month, HunoPPC returned with a new release of the Snes 9x, a Super Nintendo emulator.
Version 1.62.3r4 contains a lot of changes. Please read on for the list. 🙂
- Added new renderer : OPENGL 1.3
- Added new renderer : EGL_WRAP
- Added new renderer : SOFTWARE
- Added choice of render: Software/OpenGL/Compositing/EGL_Wrap
- Added SkinFX for renders without Overscan (just on renders: Software/OpenGL)
- Up sound buffer to 210 ms by default
- Added option -displayrenderer for show renderer
- Added option -filterhardware (OpenGL Compositing and EGL_Wrap), LINEAR is activated and by default is NEAREST
- GUI is now V1.0.8
- Added render EGL_Wrap with 5 Filters shaders CRT (effect), please do not use vsync with a low machines
* “Shader CRT Low”
* “Shader CRT High”
* “Shader CRT Scanline Low”
* “Shader CRT Scanline High”
* “Shader CRT No Scanline”
- Added 9 Skins created by me for this engine (internal engine)
- GUI now lock unnecessary options with differents renderers
- Rewrite 3 renderers SOFTWARE/OPENGL and EGL_WRAP
- Added on GUI : “Saved states” with 9 buttons and button “launch selected save”
- Added option QWERTY for keys on AmigaInput parameters
- Now name of Hardware is on display renderer
- Now show fps is without show name of hardware
- Fixed keyboard wrapper on SDL1
- Fixed GUI crash without ROMS (thanks Alex)
- Added new icon tooltype GUI_FADE_EFFECT for add fade effect on GUI, disabled is (GUI_FADE_EFFECT)
It’s great to see the development continues on this emulator! 🙂
Screenshot by PuniJuan Carlos Herrán Martín is back with an update to his game called High-Low-Equal Poker. This is the final version which works inside of a window of 800×600. The bugs have been fixed. You can get the game here. 🙂
Screenshot by Puni Screenshot by PuniIt also contains environment and graphics from the world of Los Malditos, as well as two exclusive decks with Los Malditos characters.
MCE, Multi-game Character Editor, is a user-friendly open-source editor of character files, saved games, high score tables, levels, and graphics for 117 games. James Jacobs, the author, has now released version 14.8. a SideWinder 1 level and graphics editor has been added.
Raziel released version 0.2 of ifarchive.org DL. Download supported games (ScummVM’s Glk engine) from http://www.ifarchive.org and put them into their respective sub-directories, depending on the engine used.
Supported engines:
adrift (up to v4), advsys, agt, alan(2,3), archetype, comprehend (see below), frotz, glulx(e), hugo, jacl, level9, magnetic, quest (early quest only), scott, zcode (up to v6)
Unsupported engines:
adrift (v5 and higher), Comprehend (see below), quest (later quest games), quill, tads, zcode (v7 or higher)
It is available for download on OS4Depot.
Miscellaneous
Ktadd has launched a new blog called Amiga NG Blog. He presents us with his brand new A1222+! Congratulations on your new computer, Ktadd! 🙂 Please visit his blog to see many pictures of his build and read about the project. Videos are available on his site.
Speaking of the A1222+, Robert Bernardo has also posted about his new computer. He has published an unboxing post on his blog, which you can read here.
We in Void and Nukleus are currently working on the upcoming issue of Versus, the Amiga demoscene charts. It will be available for Classic Amiga, AmigaOS 4, and Android.
To make the charts as representative as possible, we need your support! Please fill out the Online votesheet via the link below. You are not required to fill out all the fields. Vote for your favorites today! 🙂 Thanks in advance!
https://www.nukleus.nu/VersusVote.php
Besides that, we are also looking for article contributions. Please get in touch with me (puni at protonmail dot com) or Browallia of Nukleus (e-mail on the Nukleus website) if you would like to learn more and help make this issue of Versus the best one yet. 😉
A preview of issue 168 of Amiga Future has been released on the official website of the magazine. On the cover, we can see the new A1222+. The magazine can be ordered here.
Helge Kvalheim is back with more music created on his AmigaOne X5000! The first is the LN3 Wind Temple 24, second (which you can check out below) is the Last Ninja 3 Water Temple 24. 🙂
Pavlor, a user on Amigaworld.net, has published a review of Heretic II. Please click here to read it. He covers everything from the purchase, shipping, gameplay, etc.
George Sokianos a.k.a Walkero has been streaming on Twitch during April. In the video below he is playing Heretic II:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2127670826
The Heretic II Multiplayer Event took place on April 27th. Here Amigans were invited to participate. Maijestro and McFly PPC have released videos on YouTube of the gameplay. More events will take place in the future.
Muf has made a video about the new Heretic II and Quake 2 for AmigaOS 4. The video is in Polish, but you can turn on subtitles if you want.
Amigaone.pl uploaded a video showing Quake 2 running on an AmigaOne X5040.
AmigaBezŚciemy episode 24 was published a couple of weeks ago. It features an interview with Marek Głogowski about AmigaOS 4, Qemu, and more. The language in the video is Polish, but you can turn on subtitles.
In April, we will ventured into the world of pinball. We played the classic Space Cadet Pinball!
Screenshot by PuniSpace Cadet is available to download from OS4Depot:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil … ion/spacecadetpinball.lha
The goal was to score as many points as possible! The competition is actually not over yet, but will end tonight. Here is the link to the thread of the contest:
https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9515
Until next time
You’ve now reached the end of this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup.
Big thanks to all of you for supporting this initiative by reading, spreading, commenting, and sending me messages. It is much appreciated, and helps keep me motivated.
If you would like me to mention your project in a roundup, please feel free to contact me. You can also send me news, links to interesting videos, and so forth. Thanks in advance.
I wish you all a great day! See you in next month’s roundup! 🙂
Best regards,
Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler
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AmigaOS 4 News – March 2024
Hi everyone,
Thanks for visiting my blog. 🙂
It is, like it usually is at the end of a month, time for the AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup!
March proved to be a very active month in the community. We got new hardware, a commercial software release, and many updates to everything from applications to games. Thanks to all the developers, users, and enthusiasts who keep the platform alive!
On the personal side, March was also the month I got myself a new AmigaOS 4 system based around the Sam460LE by ACube Systems. Have since then expanded it with an optical drive, as well as added extra storage space.
Without further ado, here is the AmigaOS 4 news from March 2024. 🙂
Software News
Some of you might remember that I did an interview with Steffen Häuser, a.k.a. TheMagicSN, a few months ago about the game he has ported for Hyperion Entertainment to AmigaOS 4, namely Heretic II.
I’m happy to report that the boxed version of the game is now available for purchase from Alinea Computer in Germany! RetroPassion in the United Kingdom had it in stock, but it is currently only available on backorder.
Picture taken from the product page at Alinea ComputerHere is the link to Alinea Computer:
https://www.amiga-shop.net/en/Amiga-Software/Amiga-Games/Heretic-II-for-AmigaOS-4::1354.html
The price is 44,95 EUR VAT included.
The requirements are as follows:
- AmigaOS ® 4.1 or higher
- PPC (x1000/x5000, Sam, QEmu or older PPC Hardware like Peg2/Classic/A1, no support for A1222 currently)
- 64 MB minimum, more recommended
- 3D acceleration supported through Warp3D/Warp3DNova (OpenGL)
- Soundcards supported through AHI
- 4x CD ROM (only needed for game installation)
- 400 MB free harddrive space
Features:
- Features Quake IITM 3D engine by Id Software ® using OpenGL
- MiniGL(Warp3D), GL4ES (Warp3DNova) and Software Renderer
- Both GL Renderers with Multitexturing
- CD Audio with Game Music (also playable through ISO-mounting, CD does not need to be in Drive while playing)
- Localization (both Text and Audio-Output) to English, German, French, Italian and Spanish
- Improved Quality of Video Intro/Extro
- High Resolutions (1920×1080 and 4K Resolutions) added
- Multiplayer Support (internet or LAN up to 32 players)
- Formidable Enemy AI
- Outstanding player controls (mouse, keyboard, joystick) using AmigaInput
- Expandable with new mission packs like Quake
My original plan was to show you photos of the box, screenshots from the game, and to tell you more about it, but unfortunately, my copy of Heretic II is still in transit. I got a message that it was going to be delivered soon, but suddenly the tracking showed that it was back at customs here in Norway again. Due to Easter, it has gotten further delayed. I’m guessing it will reach me sometime in the middle of April. I will write a review of the game later on when I’ve received it and have had time to play through it. I’m looking forward to that! 🙂
Speaking of Heretic II, Steffen Häuser recently ported THF 3.0 to AmigaOS 4. This is one of the biggest multiplayer mods for the game. You need Heretic II for AmigaOS 4 to run it. This opens the door to some fun multiplayer action for Amigans! You can download it from here.
Unofficial Polish and Russian localization for Heretic II have also been released.
On March 2nd, DRIDI released version 2.9z5Final of the Arabic Console Device. According to the author, this version contains a lot of fixes. Later in March, on the 31st, another update was published, 2.9z6Final. Please visit OS4Depot to read more about the changes.
René W. Olsen has released version 1.29 of the Amiga VNC Server. Changes from the previous versions are as follows:
– Changed: The Server now only sends GfxTiles that are asked for by the client. This also means the Faster BufferSync=Off is no longer possible.
– Fixed: The Server no longer sends RichCursor if there are UpdateRequest. This fixes the RealVNC logon problem.
– Fixed: The ‘Settings updated, restart required’ message now disappears when you stop the server.
Version 2.9114.523 of the DNetC client was released on March 4th. Distributed.net was the Internet’s first multi-purpose distributed computing project. If you are interested in contributing to the Distributed Amiga team, visit the effort homepage at http://distributed.amiga.org/, it contains all the necessary info along with extensive information on usage, configuration, and troubleshooting. You can download it from OS4Depot here.
Marie Katrine Ekeberg has released version 0.3.0 of AmiEnvMon. This is a utility to call a homemade Pico environment monitor API to fetch information and show this in a GUI based on MUI. Here is the link to the GitHub page.
George Sokianos, a.k.a. Walkero, is back with an update to the Lite XL port for AmigaOS 4. This time it is version 2.1.3r1.
Screenshot by PuniLite XL is a lightweight text editor written in Lua and SDL2. It is being developed by the Lite XL team. Here is the link to the official page on GitHub.
Here is the changelog:
[2.1.3r1] – 2024-03-09
Added
– Added AmiUpdate support
– Added the Tetris pluginUpdated
– Updated the code to the upstream 2.1.3 release
– Compiled with SDL 2.30.0 that supports editing with ISO encodings, other than English. Now the editor should be able to support any language and in conjuction with the codesets plugin be able to make text encodings conversions.
– Now the codesets plugin supports MorphOS 3.18 and aboveChanged
– Changed the way the “Open in system” option executes the WBRun command in AmigaOS 4, with a more secure way
– Did a lot of code cleanup in sync with the upstream, and parts of code that were left over
– Compiled with pcre2 10.42 (MorphOS version only)Fixed
– I did a lot of changes on path manipulation and usage, fixing scanning the root of a partition or an assign path
– Fixed an error with the codesets plugin, where an empty file could not be opened
– Improved the folder suggestions when opening projects or changing paths. Now even the root folders of a partition are presented
– Fixed ghmarkdown plugin, but now requires a GitHub token to be providedFor more information (and to download the program), please visit OS4Depot.
SDL2 for AmigaOS 4 has received an update. It is now available for download at OS4Depot. Information about the changes for this version can be found on the GitHub page.
FFmpeg is a fast video and audio converter that can also grab from a live audio/video source. It can also convert between arbitrary sample rates and resize video on the fly with a high-quality polyphase filter. MickJT has released a new update that brings it to version 6.1.1. More information about the program is available on OS4Depot.
On AmigaOS 4 you can emulate many different computers and consoles. One of the systems you can enjoy is the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis. This platform is especially interesting since it contains a vast amount of high-quality games. Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Earthworm Jim, Ecco the Dolphin, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage 2, and many more, are examples of this. Thanks to work done by Marek “smarkusg” Glogowski (porting) and Javier de las Rivas (GUI), we can enjoy version 1.33 of the DGen emulator on our computers. 🙂
Here is a video created by Rene Engel a.k.a. Maijestro showing DGen running on QEMU (Pegasos II):
Prince of Persia is a classic game first released in 1989 by Broderbund. It was developed by Jordan Mechner, who was the author of another blast from the past, namely Karateka. Prince of Persia came out for many different platforms, including the Amiga. I can remember briefly playing it on an Amiga 500, but nothing more than that. It is a famous game though, well-known in the history of video games.
Screenshot by PuniLet us fast-forward to 2024. An open-source port of Prince of Persia, based on the disassembly of the DOS version, extended with new features, is available to AmigaOS 4 users. The developer behind the original port is NagyD. Responsible for the AmigaOS 4 port is Javier de las Rivas.
Screenshot by PuniOn March 18th, version 1.23 of the AmigaOS 4 port was released. You can download it from OS4Depot:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/adventure/sdlpop.lha
The open-source variant has many added features compared to the original, such as recording your game. You can find a complete list via the link below:
https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP/tree/amigaos4
Screenshot by PuniThe game ran fine under emulation of AmigaOS 4.1 FE Classic, so it should run on most, if not all AmigaOS 4 setups. 🙂
Hollywood is an excellent language for developing software. There are a wide range of plugins available handling everything from video to music. Pangomonium is a new plugin for Hollywood that features an advanced text rendering engine that makes it possible to draw text in almost every language of the world. It supports complex layouts like the right-to-left or bidirectional ones found in the Arabic and Hebrew languages or vertical layouts in columns like in Japanese. Pangomonium can also handle complex-text languages like Hindi and fonts that contain colored glyphs (emojis) are supported as well. By giving you full access to the Pango API the plugin also enables you to customize all stages of the text rendering process. Please visit OS4Depot to download the plugin and to read more about it.
Letter Worm is a new game by tickBIT. The goal of the game is to collect enough letters to eventually fly away as a butterfly. Please click here to download it or here to visit the page on GitHub.
Several libraries related to SDL2 have been released. These are:
- Libsmpeg2 (SDL2 MPEG Player Library (SMPEG2)
- Libsdl2_net (SDL2_net portable network library)
- Libsdl2_image (SDL2 image file loading library)
- Sdl2_gfx (Drawing and graphical effects extension for SDL2)
- Libsdl2_ttf (A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL2)
A new version of MPlayer has been uploaded to OS4Depot! This program can play most standard video formats straight out of the box, and almost all others with additional external codecs. MPlayer for AmigaOS 4 is based on MPlayer 1.5 (w/ FFmpeg 6.0), merging code from LiveForIt-MPlayer, MickJT-MPlayer and the Andrea Palmatè’s MPlayer ports, with additional changes and improvements.
MPlayer in action with Øystein Sunde from Gitarkameratene – Screenshot by Puni MPlayer playing a music video called Gas Man Redux by Guru Mediator – Screenshot by PuniHere is an overview of the changes since the last release:
MPlayer 1.5 RC2 (MPlayer 1.5) – MickJT, Marek, Javier and Samo79 (26.01.2024)
* Based on MPlayer 1.5 SVN-r38440 (FFmpeg 6.0)
From now on, the AmigaOS4 release will follow the official versioning scheme!
* Compiled with GCC 11.3 + LTO (currently compiled with optimisation -O2)
* Added support for append, now dragging more than one file will append them
* Added support for AmiUpdate (yes again!)
* Added amiga video output (a fresh new P96 video output written by Jörg Strohmayer!)
* Added video’s path in all availible video outputs (show file path in MPlayer window)
* Added more audio/video formats in ASL requester and reorder them alphabetically
* Added gadgets for iconification and fullscreen in all availible video outputs
* Added “Iconify” option menu to iconify MPlayer from menu
* Added “Open subtitles” option menu to load the subtitles from MPlayer
* Added “Unload subtitles” option menu to unload the subtitles from MPlayer
* Added “Subtitles size” option menu to increase/decrease the size of the subtitles
* Added “Properties” option menu to show informations about the video playing
* Added “MPlayer-GUI” option menu to open MPlayer-GUI from MPlayer
* Added catalogs for French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish (Credits: zzd10h, Maijestro, Marek, Samo79 and Javier)
* Fixed support for AppWindow, now drag and drop of files over AmiDock really works
* Fixed external windows problems when opened on fullscreen
* Fixed crash on AltiVec version if launched on non AltiVec CPUs
* Fixed crash on quit in the GL video outputs
* PIP: Added support for menu
* Disabled some more debug outputs that were printing to shell
* MPlayer can now be controlled with the Exchanger commodity (Show, Hide and Quit)
* Separation of video outputs for SM502 G4 vo_sdl_sm502.c (Useful in QEMU emulation)
* Made screen/window titles standard in all availible video outputs
* Made drag and drop standard in all availible video outputs
* Improved RegisterApplication support
* New banner and iconsets (thx Mason!)
* A lot of bugfixes and code cleanupHere is the download link:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=video/play/mplayer.lha
Marek “smarkusg” Glogowski has released Polish catalog files for AmiUpdate, while Marko Raina has uploaded Finnish ones.
It is no secret that many of us played with ProTracker on our Amiga computers back in the day. Countless music modules have been composed since the tracker was first released. Even I (in co-operation with another demoscener) created a tune called TveitaDowntown back in 2000. That song is not very good, but we had fun making it. 😉
Screenshot by PuniPT2 Clone is a ProTracker 2 clone created for Windows, MacOS, and Linux by 8bitbubsy. The goal is to make a highly accurate clone of the classic ProTracker 2.3D. It is, as seen above, available also for AmigaOS 4. This is thanks to Smarkusg who ported it to our platform.
Screenshot by PuniYou can read more about it on GitHub:
https://github.com/8bitbubsy/pt2-clone
Here are the changes since the last version:
– Fullscreen mode code has been refactored, as I apparently had coded it the wrong way. “Stretched” mode always fills the whole screen now too, and other issues may have been fixed as well. The “INTEGERSCALING” option in protracker.ini has been removed as it wouldn’t work with the new code anyway.
– Updated SDL to v2.30.1You can download it from OS4Depot:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=audio/tracker/pt2_clone.lha
SDL2_mixer is a sample multi-channel audio mixer library. It supports 8 channels of 16-bit stereo audio, plus a single channel of music. It can load FLAC, MP3, Ogg, VOC, and WAV format audio. It can also load MIDI, MOD, and Opus audio, depending on build options. Version 2.8.0 is now available from OS4Depot.
Liba52 is a free library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams. It is released under the terms of the GPL license. The A/52 standard is used in a variety of applications, including digital television and DVD. It is also known as AC-3. Version 0.8.0 is now available for download.
AmigaGPT is a text generation program that runs on the classic AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4. Utilizing the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 architectures, this program provides state-of-the-art language modeling.
Features:
– Generates text based on input prompts
– UI customization
– Full conversation history
– Text-to-speech
Version 1.4.4 is now available from OS4Depot.
Changes:
– Fixes a bug in chat mode in AmigaOS 3.X where the send button stays disabled after an error occurs
– Change the stack size in the program .info file to the recommended 32768 bytes
– Fix bug where accents were not loaded properly resulting in the speech to fail. If you get an error when generating speech, go to the menu and set the accent again
Libfreetype 2.13.2 has been uploaded to OS4Depot to fix headers path. According to the readme, FreeType is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images).
Kjetil Hvalstrand a.k.a. LiveForIt is back with a new release! This time it is a utility called Mem Info. According to the author, it is a small tool to display the memory usage on an AmigaOne. The source code is included if you’re interested in improving or customizing it.
Pankalla has returned with a new add-on for the spreadsheet program Ignition. This tool makes it possible to read and write files with the suffix ods. Well-known programs such as Open Office Calc and Libre Office Calc use this.
Juan Carlos Herrán Martín is a very active developer of games for platforms such as AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, and AROS. We’ve seen plenty of releases from him in the previous monthly roundups. Now he is back again and inviting us to check out a new project he is working on. The game is called Los Malditos, and it is a free adaption of the mythical books from Timun Mas from the 1980s and 1990s related to Dungeons & Dragons, which the author was a fan of. The demo of the game is now available for download at OS4Depot.
Screenshot of an older version – Screenshot by PuniVersion 32.0 of AmiArcadia for AmigaOS 4, a Signetics-based machines emulator, has been released by James Jacobs.
According to the documentation, AmiArcadia supports the following systems:
- Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) (c. 1982);
- Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Cabel, Fountain, Hanimex, Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Soundic, Voltmace, Waddingtons, etc.) (c. 1978);
- Elektor TV Games Computer (1979);
- PIPBUG- and BINBUG-based machines (EA 77up2, EA 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (1977-1978);
- Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);
- Central Data 2650 computer (1977);
- PHUNSY computer (c. 1980);
- Ravensburger Selbstbaucomputer aka 2650 Minimal Computer trainer (1984);
- Hofacker MIKIT 2650 trainer (1978);
- Astro Wars, Galaxia, Laser Battle and Lazarian coin-ops by Zaccaria (1979-1981);
- Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1981);
- AY-3-8500/8550/8600-based Pong systems (Coleco Telstar Galaxy, Sheen TVG-201, etc.) (1976-1977);
- VTech Type-right machine (1985)
It is packed with features, far too many to list here. Examples are ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, windowed and fullscreen modes, CPU tracing, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics scaling, PAL/NTSC modes, frame skipping, and much more!
Here is an overview of the changes since the last release:
Summary:
- Added preliminary Signetics TWIN minicomputer emulation.
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
Details:
- wa: fixed: some non-auditable filetypes were being audited.
- wa: phunsy: fixed: “project|open”: mdcr files were not being considered as signetics files nor as tapes.
- added preliminary emulation of signetics twin minicomputer (incl. added DRIVE debugger command).
- disassembler: now indirect jumps into ROM are threaded as code.
- now CPSL $FF pseudocode is given as PSL = 0 .
- binbug: fixed: floppy drive subwin: block contents gadgets: colours were not always changed when changing sector or track.
- fixed buffer overflow that could result in incorrect next default disassembly address.
- fixed: opcodes subwindow had incorrect information for pseudocode and flags for some instructions.
- enhanced tooltips for opcodes subwindow.
- floppy subwin: now says “sector contents” instead of “block contents”.
- aa: CPU monitor: revised gadget layout somewhat.
- aa: tr: fixed: opening cpu monitor could cause a crash/hang.
- fixed: cpu monitor: flag button was wrong colour.
- wa: floppy drive subwin: thickened current track/sector arc for easier visibility.
- assembler: added support for extended instruction set (as used by signetics RASM assembler).
- pipbug,binbug: fixed: it was temporarily refusing to process guest input in some circumstances.
- assembler: fixed: it was emitting spurious warnings when using indexed addressing.
- localized some more strings.
- wa: fixed: floppy subwin: “insert disk…” button wasn’t localized.
- incorporated Anthony’s latest Greek translation.
Miscellaneous News
Now for one of the biggest news of this month. The A1222+ is now finally available for purchase! It is great to see that the computer is now available. It has been a long journey for Trevor Dickinson, A-EON Technology, and the other parties involved, but now it is finally out in the market.
AAA Technology is currently working hard shipping out motherboards and pre-built systems to customers around the world.
A complete system costs 1,599 EUR. This price does also include VAT.
The motherboard with 4 GB of RAM costs 1,238.90 EUR. VAT included. Without RAM, it costs 1,1199 EUR.
Please visit the website of amigakit.fr for more information about what the options include in terms of hardware and software.
Hopefully, we’ll see some reviews and videos about the A1222+ soon. 🙂 In the meantime, I recommend having a look at Epsilon’s look at the A1222 on his blog. He has been a beta tester of the system for many years.
Eldee Stephens updated “The QuickStart Guide for New A1222+ Users” on March 22nd. This is a valuable resource for A1222+ users. It contains information about everything from compatibility to helpful tips and tricks. I highly recommend that you check it out via the link below:
AmiWest 2024 has just been announced! The event will take place on October 25th, 26th, and 27th. It has a new theme, which is “Get your game on!”
Here is the announcement from the official website:
AmiWest 2024 theme is “Get your game on!”. Gaming has been a mainstay of the Amiga platform since before it’s inception. The last few years have seen a resurgence in Amiga games and gaming across all platform flavors. This year AmiWest will focus on a celebration of all things Amiga gaming. This includes HW innovations, the latest modern retro releases, the latest game engines like Redpill, Hollywood, and Scorpion, with the latest tools like UniJoysticle. Watch amiwest.net for the latest updates and information.
Show Dates
AmiWest 2024 will be held October 25th to October 27th, at the Holiday Inn Express Cal Expo, 2224 Auburn Blvd.,Sacramento, California 95821, USA. Tell everyone you know and bring a friend to AmiWest.
Format Change
The show will be three days in 2024. In past years we used Thursday and Friday for the AmiWest on site DevCon. For 2024 we are going to change our format and shift the DevCon to a virtual event, more details will be provided in the coming months. For Friday, October 25th, the show will focus on long form presentations on leading hardware and software projects.
Sign up to receive email updates
The AmiWest Organizing committee has begrudging decided that the email fad is not a flash in the pan and decided to implement a robust newsletter mail server. Please follow this link to sign up and show your support!
A new issue (167) of Amiga Future has been released for March and April. Not much AmigaOS 4-related content this time, but still an interesting read; Trevor’s Soapbox, Passione Amiga Day 2023, Dynamic websites with PHP.
As usual, we are running a games contest over at Amigans.net! 🙂 This month we’ve been playing Tap Jewels for AmigaOS 4 by Entwickler-X. This game was suggested by BillE. Many thanks for the good suggestion!
Screenshot by PuniTap Jewels
Another addictive Match-3 diamond/jewels style game with three great game modes. These are Puzzle Quest, Time Challenge, and Survival.
In this contest we play Time Challenge:
Match 3 or more identical jewels, be fast to get more time to play, because the time goes by. The game is over if the time is up.
The goal is to score as many points as possible. Please post a screenshot of your score in the appropriate forum thread to participate. It is still some time left to play. 😉
Here is the link to the competition thread over at Amigans.net.
Tap Jewels is a commercial game, which you can purchase as a download from Alinea Computer:
https://www.amiga-shop.net/en/Amiga-So … ownload-version::803.html
If you are unsure about whether this is a game for your or not, you can try the demo version at OS4Depot first:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/puzzle/tapjewelsdemo.lha
Videos
Rene Engel a.k.a. Maijestro has created many videos this month. One of these shows the the new Heretic II for AmigaOS 4 from Hyperion Entertainment running on QEMU (Pegasos II):
McFly PPC uploaded several videos in March. One of these shows Gorky 17 running on his AmigaOne X5000:
Never mind what I wrote about videos of the A1222+ above. It turns out that Mister JBAM has released videos of him unboxing the A1222+ and installing it.
Mister JBAM made a video of playing Tower57, too.
The videos are in French, but you can turn on auto-generated subtitles in English.
George Sokianos, a.k.a. Walkero, did a live stream of him installing and playing Heretic II for AmigaOS 4.1. Unfortunately, he had difficulties with his capture card, so he could not record much of the gameplay. It was still a good stream, and he provided helpful information concerning the game. The port of the game, TheMagicSN, was present in the chat.
Until next time
You’ve now reached the end of this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup.
I’d like to send a big thank you to everyone for supporting this initiative by reading, spreading, commenting, and sending me messages. It is much appreciated!
If you would like me to mention your project in a roundup, please feel free to contact me. You can also send me news, links to interesting videos, and so forth. Thanks in advance.
I wish you all a great day! See you next month! 🙂
Best regards,
Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler
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AmigaOS 4 News – February 2024
Hi,
Welcome to the second AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup of 2024!
It has been yet another active month in the world of AmigaOS 4. We’ve got plenty of updates to software and releases. The A1222+ is not out the door yet, but hopefully, it will be in March. As you’ve noticed, you are reading this on the Old School Game Blog, not on the Gaming on AmigaOS 4 blog. I’ve melted the two together, so from now on the roundups will be hosted here.
Without further ado, let us move on to the news! 🙂
Software News
Let us start with some AI-related news. AmigaGPT is a text generation program that runs on the classic AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4. Utilizing the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 architectures, this program provides state-of-the-art language modeling.
Features:
– Generates text based on input prompts
– UI customization
– Full conversation history
– Text-to-speechVersion 1.4.2 (2024-01-31) is now available from OS4Depot. They replaced clicktabs for AmigaOS 3.x since the version is too old and will crash. 3.x users can select the mode at startup.
Screenshot by PuniAfter hard work, HunoPPC is back with a massive update to the Super Nintendo emulator for AmigaOS4 called SNES9X NG.
Here are the changes from the previous version:
– Added modifications of prefs KEYBOARD on native GUI now!!
– Added on engine, new converter of keys intuition events to keys SDL2 events for new function of keyboard prefs
– Added recognition of duplicates in modified keys
– Added 2 new image for recognition, one for OK (green) and one for NOK (red)
– Rewinding cool option working now on game :-), use GUI for activate and add number of Mo for rewind dans on game press F12 for a moment to operate rewinding, IMPORTANT!! this hack is very big for your CPU, on X5000 90% of usage with 60FPS
– Fixed Vsync, now working with -vsync and for disable using -novsync (thanks to Kas1e)
– Fixed limiter of fps without Vsync
– Fixed loading Rom offset “Tintin in Tibet (Europe) (En,Es,Sv)
– Fixed loading Wild Guns, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – The Fighting Edition with a good IRQ cycles and DMA delay
– Fixed LowMapRom and HiMapRom on memmap functions
– Optimized DSP2 for AmigaOS4
– Fixed small audio Crackling
– Fixed Speedup audio DSP1 and DSP2
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– Tipo fixed on locale (thanks Javier)
– Tipo fixed on SuperFX Mhz-> to ->%
– Fixed Run game selected with RETURN now!!
– Fixed quit GUI with ESCAPE
– Added cool sounds effects on native GUI (mario voice and yoshi voice)
– Added option -interpolationmethod for Sound Interpolation Method, Gaussian=0 / Linear=1 / Cubic=2 (default) / Sinc=3
– Remove Key Q for quit Snes9X
– Added new filters:
* 2xBR
* 2xBR-lv1
* DDT
* Scanlines 25%
* Dot Matrix
– Fixed draw time with FPS count
– Fixed HACKVIDEO config write
– Fixed INTERPOLATION config write
– Fixed OVERCLOCKCPU config write
– Added button for sounds effects on GUI
– New all catalogs
– Sound now is Threaded
– Fixed timing for all games with Vsync
– Fixed Joypad2, now working with the GUI launcher
– Added new hack option “-disablespritelimit” disable max sprite tiles rendered per line. Default = 34, Unlimited ~= 128
– Fixed Mute now working!!
– On game FULLSCREEN/WINDOW mode now working with = L_ALT + RETURN
– Added new option -emulatedmachine for a virtuel machine, activate a correct software rendering on internal engine (disable: vsync, FULLSCREEN_DESKTOP)
– Fixed commandline for all filters
– fixed commandline for support optical games: mouse, superscope, justifier and macsrifle.
– GUI is now V1.0.7
– Added to GUI news options: sound thread and Emulated machine (for QEMU and WinUAE machines)
– Fixed Vsync disable if you use emulated machine or rwinding options (thank to Javier)
– Added new images for inputs : Keyboard, joypad, mouse, superscope, justifier and macsrifle
– Now superscope working with a mouse Amiga
– fixed disabled prefs Buttons of joypad if you use other input
– Center the cursor on screen
– Support all optical games with cursor and mouse for shooting (move working, now i working on the buttons) IMPORTANT: Correctly choose the type of weapon suitable for the game otherwise it may not work correctly, MOUSE ONLY!!!
– Added new folder “Roms-Optical” for copy your games Guns or Optical (Konami Justifier, superscope, mouse and a special MacsRiffle)
– Fixed -nooverscan and center a screen on 320×240 mode (window and fullscreen)
– Fixed on mode -nooverscan and 320×240 centered screen with L_ALT + RETURN
– Fixed Justifier1 AimOffscreen Trigger button, now working with the center button of mouse
– Added 2 KEYS on KEYBOARD with optical mode:
* KEY HOME : “Superscope Pause”
* KEY END : “Superscope AimOffscreen”
– Fixed mode -emulatedmachine on all renderer
– Fixed if you use optical games with with L_ALT + RETURN disable a pointer on window mode
– Added 3 new images availablecover3dMSU1.png, availablecover3dOPTICAL.png and availablecover3dSUPERFX.png for not available previews
– GUI checking now all datas dependency for interface on launching and push requester if you have an error
– Fixed disable vsync on GUI with -emulatedmachine -nooverscan and -rewinding options
– Fix fps limiter on PAL mode
Screenshot by PuniThe emulator is available for download on OS4Depot:
OS4Depot – Your one stop for AmigaOS4 files
Rene Engel has created a video showing the emulator running on his AmigaOS 4 setup through QEMU. The footage was created with the previous version of SNES9X NG.
Leu is a spreadsheet application by Marcus Sackrow, which started as an Excel and OpenOffice viewer. Now it also features basic editing functions and a fully working parser.
Screenshot by PuniIt supports the loading of Excel (XLSX), Libre/OpenOffice (ods), ASCII (CSV), and TurboCalc (TCD) files. You can export the tables to Excel, Libre/OpenOffice, ASCII, HTML, or wiki tables. Version 0.08 is now available for download at OS4Depot.
Screenshot by PuniA. Pankalla has released an update to Luettje Bookholler, which is a personal finance program. For those of you who are curious about what «Luettje Bookholler» means (I have mentioned this in an earlier roundup, but will repeat it for new readers), I can tell you that it is German and means «Little Accountant». Version 1.87 contains several bug fixes and changes:
- Bug: Report account-flow has not offer the last years, only last 12 months.
- Bug: Long catogory names are not shown in ignition tables.
- Changes: Now also the values are shown in ignition pie-graphics.
- Bug: Corrects some little bugs in ignition-sheets.
SDL2 (Simple DirectMedia Layer 2) 2.30 was released in February. You can download it from OS4Depot, as well as find more information about it there:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=library/misc/sdl2.lha
Screenshot by PuniVersion 30.81 of AmiArcadia for AmigaOS 4, a Signetics-based machines emulator, has been released by James Jacobs.
According to the documentation, AmiArcadia supports the following systems:
- Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) (c. 1982);
- Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Cabel, Fountain, Hanimex, Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Soundic, Voltmace, Waddingtons, etc.) (c. 1978);
- Elektor TV Games Computer (1979);
- PIPBUG- and BINBUG-based machines (EA 77up2, EA 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (1977-1978);
- Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);
- Central Data 2650 computer (1977);
- PHUNSY computer (c. 1980);
- Ravensburger Selbstbaucomputer aka 2650 Minimal Computer trainer (1984);
- Hofacker MIKIT 2650 trainer (1978);
- Astro Wars, Galaxia, Laser Battle and Lazarian coin-ops by Zaccaria (1979-1981);
- Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1981);
- AY-3-8500/8550/8600-based Pong systems (Coleco Telstar Galaxy, Sheen TVG-201, etc.) (1976-1977);
- VTech Type-right machine (1985)
It is packed with features, far too many to list here. Examples are ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, windowed and fullscreen modes, CPU tracing, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics scaling, PAL/NTSC modes, frame skipping, and much more!
Screenshot by PuniHere is an overview of the changes since the last release:
Changes since V30.8:
Summary:
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
Details:
- arcadia: improved overlay text for basketball and horse racing.
- wa: arcadia: changed white to grey in sidebar game glyphs (for better contrast against default sidebar background).
- wa: arcadia: fixed: sidebar game glyphs for red clash and robot killer were swapped.
- incorporated Mikhail’s latest Russian translation.
- aa: fixed: it was crashing during exit if eg. a needed ReAction class was not available.
- assembler: fixed: INCBIN directive was broken.
- pipbug: now autostarts biorhythm (300 baud) and life (machine code).
- pipbug: fixed: VDU autoadjustment could result in a mislocated LED display.
- pipbug: adjusted VDU autosense settings for biorhythm, calendar maker, mazemaker.
- fixed: WC,WP command were writing garbage error messages.
- pipbug: improved compatibility (improves random number generator, russian roulette, etc.).
- pipbug,binbug: now silences sound when resetting.
- pipbug: now translates ENTER to Ctrl-L automatically for mastermind and revised mastermind.
- wa: fixed: first string sent to output window was not being displayed.
- pipbug: added knowledge about good dump of RYTMON.
- pipbug 2: added comment support for pipla example.
- pipbug: fixed: baud rate addresses were incorrect after reset (fixes pipla test).
- pipbug: added autostart for Micro BASIC programs.
AmiArcadia is free to download. 🙂 You can grab it from OS4Depot here:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=emulation/gamesystem/amiarcadia.lha
Here are the links to the authors websites:
http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/
HunoPPC and the Amiga French Team 2024 have ported Wipeout Rewrite to AmigaOS 4!
Screenshot by PuniThe rewrite of WipEout was done by Phoboslab. Here is the link to the Github page.
Please read on for more information from HunoPPC:
AmigaOS 4.1 Port by HunoPPC with the Amiga French Team 2024
Important: OpenGL renderer with MiniGL Library (no software)
A big thank you to Samo79 because this port for minigl would never have been made if he had not insisted 🙂
Use glewMGL port and code for minigl by HunoPPC 2024
Use SDL2 port by Capehill
IMPORTANT!! If you use hack GUI please check your DEVS/MONITOR/”driver” for add all new resolutions, thanks.
First release 1.0.0 AmigaOS4
- Added GUI for start a new prefs on live (important !! it’s an hack)
- Added Icon created by me
- Fixed loading texture with glewMGL
- Fixed fullscreen mode on glewMGL
- Added KPH counter on screen (thanks Samo79)
The game can be downloaded from OS4Depot, but the archive does not contain the assets (textures, 3d models, etc.) required to run the game. You can find the download link for the data files in the documentation on OS4Depot. 🙂
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/driving/wipeout.lha
The screenshot is from George Sokianos page on Ko-fiVersion 2.4.6 of the WHD-Load front-end iGame was released in February. The AmigaOS 4 port is maintained by George Sokianos a.k.a. Walkero. This is a front-end application for launching WHDLoad games and demos.
Features include:
– Multiple WHDLoad slaves repositories on hard disk partitions
– On-demand scanning in repositories for installed WHDLoad slaves (games, demos etc.)
– Use game tool types on the run
– Shows game screenshot (screenshot window can be altered through
– tool types/settings use datatypes to load foreign formats)
– Categorization of the games and filtering
– Manual addition of non-WHDLoad games, demos, etc.
– Simple statistics
– Find-as-you-type search filterIf you’d like to read about the changes since the previous version, please have a look at the appropriate page on GitHub.
An update to Report+, a ReAction-based utility with nine functions, has been released by James Jacobs. It was made available on OS4Depot on February 18th. This tool can help you with generating Aminet- and OS4Depot-style readme files, performing batch processing on icons, and much more. Click here to go to the download page or to find information about the recent changes.
Several language catalog files For AmiUpdate have been uploaded to OS4Depot thanks to the work of Niels Bache (Danish), Samir Hawamdeh (Italian), Michael Merkel and Gerd Frank (German), Petrol (French), Javier de las Rivas (Spanish).
René W. Olsen has released version 1.27 of the Amiga VNC Server. It has been written from scratch, and according to the author, it still needs some work. The source code is available on GitHub. Click here to download the archive. He has also released version 2.7 of ReSrc4, an MC680x0 Disassembler.
Heretic II from Hyperion Entertainment is getting close to becoming available for purchase! I’ve been in touch with the Alinea Computer Shop. They will stock the game. I wrote them and asked them to reserve a copy, which they will. 😉 If you want to know more about Heretic II for AmigaOS 4, I recommend checking out this interview I did a while back with Steffen Häuser a.k.a. TheMagicSN, who ported it to AmigaOS 4.
AmiGemini version 0.11 was released on the February 20th. It was created by Karl Jeacle and uploaded to OS4Depot by Samir Hawamdeh. It is a browser for Gemini, Spartan, Gopher, and Finger. The source code is included.
Kas1e has released version 0.10 of WB2Filer. WB2Filer is a hack that patches Intuition’s functions via SetMethod() to allow transparently run of the Filer binary pointing to the given partition on Workbench’s desktop instead of the original Workbench windows. Please click here to get an overview of the changes since the last release.
Screenshot by PuniHexSee, a hex viewer that displays file contents in blocks of 16 characters per line, has been updated to version 1.1. The author is Retrami Software. It contains a few extra features that are not always available in other AmigaOS hex viewers. It can read any file up to 4 GB in size, while a single file buffer will not use more than 128 KB even for the largest file. Text and background colors can be set to any color, and it was written especially for AmigaOS 4.1.
– Added program information to the Screen Bar
– Added Tool Tips to the gadgets
– Enabled Localisation
– Added Text & Hex Search
– Added Text & Hex selection
– Enabled Home/End/PgUp/PgDown keysYou can download HexSee from OS4Depot.
MCE, Multi-game Character Editor, is a user-friendly open-source editor of character files, saved games, high score tables, levels, and graphics for 115 games. James Jacobs, the author, has now released version 14.61. Changes include a Dungeon Master 2 save game editor, and miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
On February 23rd, Michael Rupp released an update for the SonosController program, which allows you to control your Sonos speakers from any Amiga connected to the same network. The changelog can be found on OS4Depot, along with the program itself.
– NEW: first release for AROS x86
– NEW: ARexx command REINDEX to invoke re-indexing the Sonos music library
– NEW: include all icons in every distribution in new subdrawer “Icons”
– NEW: include additional icons by AMIGASYSTEM (thanks Carlos!)
– IMPROVED: reloading the browser with F5 will not loose the selected position and item anymore.
– FIXED: loading of data (playlists, queues, etc.) is no longer limited to 100 entries (bug introduced with 1.3).
– FIXED: if network is off the app won’t crash on startup but show an error message.
– FIXED: possible crash when clicking the “looking for Sonos…” entry.A major release this month was the update to Rave. Daniel Jedlicka, a.k.a. Trixie on Amiga forums, has released an updated version of Rave, his sound editor for AmigaOS 4 compatible computers.
Changes since the previous release are as follows:
– The program now keeps a list of recently opened files and has an associated item in the Project menu for quickly opening these files again.
– Reworked the file requester, which now features a more flexible Access Panel with a user-definable Favourites section.
– Another addition to the file requester is the Browsing History pop-up for selecting recently used paths.
– Fixed a playback-related bug that would make Rave unresponsive, waiting for a signal that never arrives.
– Updated documentation.Download link:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=audio/edit/rave.lha
Rave requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 or newer. It also requires Enhancer Core classes (toolbar.gadget, infodata.gadget, select.gadget, shared.image).
Here is an overview of Rave’s features:
– A modern, configurable graphical user interface (GUI).
– A tabbed environment for managing multiple projects from within a single program window.
– A powerful custom file requester with preview playback and other useful features.
– A wide selection of editing functions with unlimited Undo.
– Asynchronous operation: performing a task in a project doesn’t block the other projects.
– Support for multiple clipboard units.
– Modular design with an object-oriented plugin system, which makes the program easy to extend.
– A wide range of supported audio file types and formats.Trixie has also published a new post on his blog, Rear Window, which is called Crawling back to life. There you can read more about the development of Rave.
Amiga-news.de reports that AmiUpdate has been updated twice in February. First to version 2.50, then to 2.51. Please visit amiga-news.de here to read the full story.
Another piece of news from amiga-news.de is about QEMU and the BBoot bootloader version 0.6. According to amiga-news.de, “BBoot is a simple, minimal bootloader for loading AmigaOS on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, written by Amiga QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan.” Please click here to read the whole article concerning BBoot.
The last news is the release of version 6.22 of Codesets. More information and a download is available over at OS4Depot.
Miscellaneous
Versus is a demoscene chart and disk magazine created by two demo groups, Nukleus and Void, for Amiga OCS/ECS and AmigaOS 4. Nine issues have been released so far. The last one, Versus #9, came out for Classic Amiga and AmigaOS 4 in 2019.
Versus #10 is on the way, and voting has officially opened!
Cast your vote for your favorite demos, intros, programmers, musicians, and so forth! 🙂 The more votes collected, the more accurate the charts will be. Thank you in advance for your support!
You can find the Online votesheet here:
https://www.nukleus.nu/VersusVote.php
It is worth mentioning that you are not required to fill out all the fields.
We are very grateful for every vote we receive, and we really hope you’ll spend a few minutes filling out the votesheet as soon as possible. 🙂
Some of you might have noticed that I’ve not published much on Gaming on AmigaOS 4 recently. AmigaOS 4 related posts have been published on the Old School Game Blog instead. The reason is that I’ve decided to continue Gaming on AmigaOS 4 on Old School Game Blog from now on. I’m involved in many projects, such as those with Void (Amiga demo group), so it easier to blog in one place. 🙂
The AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup will continue, but on Old School Game Blog instead. I’ve added an AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup section to the site. Here is the link. I hope you’ll continue reading my blog posts about AmigaOS 4 and Amiga in general at Old School Game Blog.
Screenshot taken on February 28th by PuniThe A1222+ motherboard and a full A1222+ computer system were listed on the website of amigakit.fr in February. The price for a motherboard without RAM is 1,199 EUR. 4 GB of RAM costs 39,99 EUR extra. A full system will set you back 1,599 EUR. The final price depends on taxes, fees, and shipping. You can not order either one from the shop yet, but according to AmigaKit, they should be available soon. Here is a quote from AmigaKit dated February 12th:
“No, AmigaKit FR is getting ready for general sale. First stock arriving is for Early Adopters very shortly. A date for non-early adopters will be added to the webstore in the next week or so.”
Source: https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9258&start=60
A date has not been added yet (today it is February 29th). March is just around the corner. When the A1222+ was announced (again) in October, one was told that the boards would ship in October, or November at the latest. This information can be found at Discord, as well as on Amigans.net. Several months have passed since then, and as far as I know, no one has received the A1222+ yet. The Facebook page of AAA Technology has not been updated since October, so it is not easy for customers or potential buyers to know what is going on. I really hope the A1222+ will be released soon though, and I feel for all those who are waiting and waiting for it to arrive. I’m sure it will be a fun system to experiment with!
A preview of the March/April issue of Amiga Future has been published on the official website of the magazine. Here is the link.
The Lost C has published a video on YouTube showing the new HunoPPC port of WipeOut for AmigaOS 4.1 in action. He shows it running a Sam440, Sam460, and an Amiga 1200 with BlizzardPPC and BVision. The video is in Italian.
He is not the only one who has created a video of Wipeout. So has McFlyPPC. His video shows it running on an AmigaOne X5000.
Rene Engel has uploaded a video showing version 1.33 of the Dgen SEGA Mega Drive emulator running with QEMU / Pegasos 2.
Muf has created a review of the Velocap HDR Tbox Deluxe, which you can see here. It is in Polish.
In February we’ve been playing a game by Entwickler-X called Balance Blox on Amigans.net.
BillE is currently in the lead with a whopping 124,200 points! There’s still a little bit of time left if you want to try to beat the score and become this month’s game champion over at Amigans.net.
https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9472
Until next time
You’ve reached the end of this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup. Hope you have enjoyed reading the news. 🙂
Thanks to all of you for supporting this initiative by reading, spreading, commenting, and sending me messages. It is much appreciated!
Have a great day, and see you in the next roundup! 🙂
Best regards,
Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler
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Die Partei hat nicht die gleichen Chancen im Wahlkampf durch voreilige unrechtmäßige Verbote ihrer Inhalte. Und Berlin scheint wieder total überfordert und verschickt Wahlunterlagen doppelt und der Wahlkampf wird einseitig aus dem Ausland gesteuert ...
Ungültige Wahl, schon bevor gewählt wurde?
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Die Partei hat nicht die gleichen Chancen im Wahlkampf durch voreilige unrechtmäßige Verbote ihrer Inhalte. Und Berlin scheint wieder total überfordert und verschickt Wahlunterlagen doppelt und der Wahlkampf wird einseitig aus dem Ausland gesteuert ...
Ungültige Wahl, schon bevor gewählt wurde?
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Die Partei hat nicht die gleichen Chancen im Wahlkampf durch voreilige unrechtmäßige Verbote ihrer Inhalte. Und Berlin scheint wieder total überfordert und verschickt Wahlunterlagen doppelt und der Wahlkampf wird einseitig aus dem Ausland gesteuert ...
Ungültige Wahl, schon bevor gewählt wurde?
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Die Partei hat nicht die gleichen Chancen im Wahlkampf durch voreilige unrechtmäßige Verbote ihrer Inhalte. Und Berlin scheint wieder total überfordert und verschickt Wahlunterlagen doppelt und der Wahlkampf wird einseitig aus dem Ausland gesteuert ...
Ungültige Wahl, schon bevor gewählt wurde?
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Die Partei hat nicht die gleichen Chancen im Wahlkampf durch voreilige unrechtmäßige Verbote ihrer Inhalte. Und Berlin scheint wieder total überfordert und verschickt Wahlunterlagen doppelt und der Wahlkampf wird einseitig aus dem Ausland gesteuert ...
Ungültige Wahl, schon bevor gewählt wurde?
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Wahlkampf 2025 - Mach Dein HakenJesusKreuz bloß an der rechten Stelle 😇 :lui:
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Wahlkampf 2025 - Mach Dein HakenJesusKreuz bloß an der rechten Stelle 😇 :lui:
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Wahlkampf 2025 - Mach Dein HakenJesusKreuz bloß an der rechten Stelle 😇 :lui:
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Wahlkampf 2025 - Mach Dein HakenJesusKreuz bloß an der rechten Stelle 😇 :lui:
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Wahlkampf 2025 - Mach Dein HakenJesusKreuz bloß an der rechten Stelle 😇 :lui:
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Wenn deutsche Medien etwas vertiefen wollen, wird es automatisch verflacht.
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Wenn deutsche Medien etwas vertiefen wollen, wird es automatisch verflacht.
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Wenn deutsche Medien etwas vertiefen wollen, wird es automatisch verflacht.
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Wenn deutsche Medien etwas vertiefen wollen, wird es automatisch verflacht.
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Wenn deutsche Medien etwas vertiefen wollen, wird es automatisch verflacht.
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In den USA sind sie schon im "Wer ist der größte Superschurke-Modus", während wir noch die "Superuntertanen" suchen.
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Wahl 2025, welche Partei hat mehr zur Verflachung der Erde beigetragen, als für den Klimaschutz?
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Wer gleitet am elegantesten in Elon Trump''s Arsch?
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"Voting left makes you a better person and saves the world! And if you don't vote for the lefties' moron, you strengthen the Nazis, because it's logic."
your braindead lefties
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what artificial dumbness means:
There is no shortage of skilled workers, only bullshit jobs. Artificial full employment, an artificial intelligence could do most jobs, much better than us, 24/7, without getting sick.
technology is not the problem, but capitalism and the endless greed for power and money. don't get rid of technology, but overcome the senseless suicidal capitalism and the clowns in the management levels. sapere aude!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttb2BdExy38
"Es gibt nichts Richtiges im Falschen" Adorno