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Submission + - AmigaOS 4.1: Software Development Kit V54.16 Released

Submitted by Mike Bouma
Mike Bouma writes: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a very substantial and comprehensive update of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for AmigaOS 4.1 54.16. Also Linux: Kernel 6.0 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 has been released and the biggest Amiga event of the year will be held upcoming weekend in Mönchengladbach, Germany. The Amiga37 event.

Submission + - AROS One x86 v1.7 and MorphOS 3.17 PPC Released

Submitted by Mike Bouma
Mike Bouma writes: Version 1.7 of AROS One for x86 has just been released and it's a distro of the "AROS Research Operating System", originally "Amiga Research Operating System". It's a standalone, free and open-source multi-media centric operating system that's designed to be portable, flexible, efficient and lightweight and can be seen dual booting with Windows 10 on an Acer laptop here. The most popular AROS specific community portal is AROS Exec.

Parts of AROS were used to create the commercial PowerPC based Amiga-Like operating system MorphOS, which has recently seen a new release as well, version 3.17. The most popular MorphOS specific community portal is MorphZone.

Comment Re:I'm sure it's fine, but... (Score 1) 76

by Mike Bouma (#62576566) Attached to: 'Turn an Old PC Into a High-End Amiga with AmiKit'

Why is this news? This isn't about a new or particularly notable release. From the summary: "The latest & greatest version was released in 2020."

The latest version is actually from earlier this month.

Software News : AmiKit XE updated on all platforms! Posted by AmiKit on 2022/5/23:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amigans.net%2Fmodule...

Submission + - "Turn an Old PC Into a High-End Amiga with AmiKit" 2

Submitted by Mike Bouma
Mike Bouma writes: AmiKit is a compilation of pre-installed and pre-configured Amiga programs running emulated on Windows, macOS, Linux as well as running on classic 68k Amigas expanded with a Vampire upgrade card. Besides original Workbench, AmiKit provides Directory Opus Magellan and Scalos as desktop replacements and its "Rabbit Hole" feature allows you to launch Windows, Mac or Linux applications directly from your Amiga desktop! Antialiased fonts, FullHD 32-bit screen modes and DualPNG Icons support is included and this package comes with exclusive versions of MCP and MUI 5 (Magic User Interface).

The original AmigaOS (version 3.x) and Kickstart ROM (version 3.1) are required, also the recently released AmigaOS 3.2 is supported. You can also get the needed files from the Amiga Forever package(s). It even supports emulating AmigaOS 4.x (for PowerPC) easily through Flower Pot.

Here's an extensive overview video by Dan Wood. An Amiga Future review of an earlier 2017 version can be read here.

Comment Re:I might add (Score 1) 117

by Mike Bouma (#62570560) Attached to: AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Remains Well Supported With PowerPC Linux

Yes, ID Software once claimed in an interview Doom couldn't be done on the Amiga. It got ported in days on Amigas older than PCs are able to run Doom after the source code got released. On most unexpanded PCs Doom ran also pretty terrible.

Doom running on an A1200 (AGA) / 68030 / 50 Mhz compared to an AMD 386 DX 40 MHZ with Tseng Labs ET4000 Isa video Card (very similar in performance, so ID Software was wrong):
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Quake was even ported to 68k/AGA. With PowerPC and RTG upgrade cards Quake runs well on classic Amigas. The first versions of AmigaOS4 were also being developed using the Amiga 4000 expanded with PPC upgrade cards!

Amiga 4000 750FX PPC 1GHz! Quake 3
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Now with AmigaOS4.x and the AmigaOne x5000, Hughes Nouvel aka HunoPPC, is porting Doom 3 as well:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amigans.net%2Fmodule...

Comment Re:Just let it go (Score 1) 117

by Mike Bouma (#62570254) Attached to: AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Remains Well Supported With PowerPC Linux

You don't need Linux PowerPC to setup a FTP server.

You can do this as well with AmigaOS4 and ZitaFTP Server (also available for Windows):
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkeasigmadelta.com%2Fstor...

Comment AmigaOne Hardware News : Fifteen years of Sam440e (Score 1) 117

by Mike Bouma (#62569990) Attached to: AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Remains Well Supported With PowerPC Linux

"Dear customers,
It was the year 2007 when we introduced our first “baby”, the Sam440ep. Fifteen years ago. We designed and produced the Sam440ep, a lovely mini-itx motherboard that many enjoyed running AmigaOS 4, AROS and Linux.

At that time we, a bunch of mad amigans, resolved to do our best to bring this hardware to life for all the Amiga Community because it was in dire need of a new computer platform to run AmigaOS.

Without the Sam440ep, the future of AmigaOS would have been very difficult.

After all these years, just as the latest batch of Sam460LE is being produced, we choose to release the electrical schematics of the Sam440ep to the community.

We hope many of you will be happy to see one of the first image of our first project.

The ACube Systems team

Sam440ep schematics"

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amigans.net%2Fmodule...

Comment Re:But ... (Score 2) 117

by Mike Bouma (#62569986) Attached to: AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Remains Well Supported With PowerPC Linux

Most AmigaOS4 / AmigaOne owners dual boot into Linux PPC as well. Most seem to be programmers and technically educated people. Some even triple boot into MorphOS:

Public Release of MorphOS 3.17
"X5000 hardware support was improved to handle two Radeon cards and the HDD activity LED. Several text layout and rendering issues have been fixed in MUI."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmorph.zone%2Fmodules%2Fnew...

For mainstream usage, here's an opinion from a hardcore AmigaOS4 user:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Most are using AmigaOS4 as a hobby and own PCs next to their systems.

Submission + - Linux 5.19 kernel adds 500k new lines for graphics (phoronix.com)

Submitted by UnknowingFool
UnknowingFool writes: The current Linux kernel in development, 5.19, added 495,793 new lines of code for graphic driver updates. David Airlie sent in the new lines as part of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem of Linux. The majority of additions were for AMD's RDNA and CDNA platforms but Intel also submitted changes for their DG2 graphics as well. Updates also came from Qualcomm and Mediatek for their GPU offerings.

Submission + - AmigaOne X1000 / X5000 Remains Well Supported with PowerPC Linux

Submitted by Mike Bouma
Mike Bouma writes: Despite being expensive and having been soldout for quite some time at the main Amiga Dealers, two days after Linus Torvalds' release of Linux 5.18, Christian "xeno74" Zigotzky made the latest PPC kernel available for the AmigaOne X1000 / X5000. Here and here are some screenshots. Linux PPC performs well on AmigaOne computers, for example here is a 5 year old YouTube AmigaOne X5000 demonstration video.

Submission + - Hollywood Designer 6.0 Released

Submitted by Mike Bouma
Mike Bouma writes: Airsoft Softwair has released Hollywood Designer 6.0, "a full-blown multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia-based applications, for example presentations, slide shows, games, and applications. Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS."

The current version of Hollywood is v9.1 with various updated add-ons. To see earlier versions of Hollywood 9.0 & Designer 5.0 in action have a look at Kas1e's short demonstration on AmigaOS4 / AmigaOne X5000.

Comment Some more tutorials and examples (Score 1) 35

by Mike Bouma (#62555908) Attached to: How to Write Your Own Games - for the Amiga

Pong for Amiga: How to write a video game in a day:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

That game was written in C.

An example Amiga 500 game written in C/C++ is Tiny Bobble:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

To code demo or game in Amos :
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Falain-trees...

An example of a game currently under dev in Amos (Bubble Story) :
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Metro Siege is using Enable Software's Engine9000 and apparently they also have a "Super Secret" game under development using this engine. 8-)

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fengine9000.com%2F

Submission + - Recent Amiga Games Creation Tutorials and Examples

Submitted by Mike Bouma
Mike Bouma writes: With the release of the A500 mini (which also supports A1200 games) and its side loading feature you may be interested to get started with Amiga Retro games development. This is why I collected some recent Amiga games development tutorials and added some additional information.

A popular game programming language on the Amiga is Blitz BASIC or AmiBlitz as the freely available and open source version is called now. The latest version (v 3.9.2) was recently released. The best known game developed with Blitz Basic is Team 17's original Worms game for the Amiga 500 in 1995. Meanwhile the Worms franchise has sold over 75 million game units across many different platforms. Daedalus2097 has just started an AmiBlitz video tutorial series on Twitch.tv: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. An example AmiBlitz game currently under development is Super Metal Hero (A1200) and here's a shooter level in the game.

REDPILL is a 2D game creation tool written in AmiBlitz by Carlos Peris and is designed to empower people to create many games for Amiga without programming knowledge. It's still early days but the first games are already being designed using this tool. An example game designed with this tool is Guardian — The legend of flaming sword.

The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'Earok' Hogan is a closed source game engine with all software developed for it open source. It offers a modern Windows IDE for development. In this video, Erik Hogan guides Micheal Parent from Bitbeam Cannon step by step as they create a legit retro video game from scratch. Various new games have and are being developed using this engine. An already released game is Amigo the Fox and an example game under development is Rick Dangerous (A1200 version).

If you want to dig deeper into Amiga coding then here's a series of Assembly game development tutorials by Phaze101. An example game currently being written in assembler is RESHOOT PROXIMA 3 (A1200).

If you are unexperienced with coding but would like to then here are some Amos (BASIC) tutorials for you: Rob Smith's How to program Wordle in AMOS on the AMIGA and Lets Code Santa's Present Drop Game.

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