Code business is back. In 2022 Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood, the cross-platform multimedia application layer. To kick off the celebrations we are proud to present a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: Iconic. Iconic is the ultimate icon loader and saver plugin for Hollywood. It will make all your icon dreams come true because it can load and save icons in pretty much all of the most common icon formats. The following formats are currently supported:

- AmigaOS 1.x style icons
- AmigaOS 2.x/3.x style icons
- AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 icons (aka GlowIcons)
- AmigaOS 4.x icons
- macOS icons (*.icns format)
- MagicWB icons
- MorphOS/PowerIcons icons (PNG)
- NewIcons
- Windows icons (*.ico format)

Of course, Iconic also supports loading and saving of the metadata found in the Amiga icon formats like tooltypes, icon position, drawer view mode, icon type and so on. Thanks to Hollywood 9's new support for palette images it is also possible to load the icon palette, set a transparent pen and access the raw palette pens used in the icon image data. Of course, Iconic doesn't only support palette-based icon images but also icons that contain true colour images with alpha channel. Several of the icon formats listed above also support palette and true colour images within the same icon file and several different icon sizes within the same icon file. All of this is supported by Iconic as well!

This is why Iconic is the ultimate icon plugin for Hollywood and a must-have for every Hollywood user. The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided. Note that Hollywood 9 is strictly required by Iconic.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood we also offer a special 20 euros discount on the full version of Hollywood for a limited time only. This is the perfect chance for all people who don't own Hollywood yet to grab their own copy and to explore the wonderful world of Hollywood and be fascinated by the gigantic functionality of this unique piece of software and all of the plugins that come with it! To order your own copy, just click here.

This release was brought to you by Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business.

https://www.hollywood-mal.de

Individual Computers has just released a new update to the P96 graphics driver (formerly Picasso96).

Visit Individual Computers website.

Kari-Pekka Koljonen has updated his famous music module player HippoPlayer.

Visit the dedicated webpage on Amiga-Storage.

Jim Neray has just released a new version of X-bEnCh.

With 640 colors on screen with AGA (128 with OCS/ECS), this Frontend can autoscan your hard-drive to find all your whdload games or your .exe and organize them in launching listings. X-bEnCh can also manage manuals listings and have an internal script system, the X-bEnCh Scripts (For non whdload games for exemple). It require very few ressouces and is compatible with all Amiga setups. X-bEnCh also have an integrated CLI fully compatible with the Workbench CLI features and a Files/Dirs Manager (X-pl0rEr).

Visit the dedicated webpage.

Steffen Gutmann has just released version 4.4 of its famous MUIBase software.

MUIbase is a fast and flexible database system for MorphOS, Linux, Windows and Amiga. It is targeted for advanced desktop users who want to manage data in a comfortable and powerful way. MUIbase is able to manage any kind of data, e.g. addresses, CD series, movies, photo collections, your family tree, your income and expense, and much more. The power of MUIbase lies in its clear and powerful graphical user interface and its programming capabilities. Programming MUIbase allows you to process data in various ways, e.g. automatic calculations upon user input, generation of reports, import and export of data, etc. For example MUIbase can be used for calculating the total amount of income, or the total amount of recorded time on a CD, or to automatically create and print serial letters to your customers.

Visit dedicated webpage on Amiga-Storage.
More details on MUIBase website. 

Merry Christmas to all!

ALB42 has released a version of his software named AmiTube allowing to read YouTube video in CDXL format.

Visit the ALB42 website.

Thomas Wenzel has released AmigaAMP 3.30 for AmigaOS 3.9 and AmigaOS 4 at the title link. Changes include ARexx macro support and automatic fallback from MHI to AHI.

Bugfixes:

• Pulldown menus now work across all ReAction windows
• If a datatype can't load the cover image from memory, then AmigaAMP will write it to T: as a file and try to load it from there
• Fixed radio station name taken from stream metadata in playlist
• Up to ten reconnect attempts when shoutcast server reports 'unavailable'
• Fixed handling ID3v2 tags in front of FLAC files
• Fixed loading / adding whole directories
• Fixed initial state of EQ/Playlist buttons in skin mode
• Automatically save current equalizer setting when saving prefs
• Reworked visualisation routines for better synchronicity
• Fixed SSL connections that require Server Name Indication

New features:

• Automatic fallback from MHI to AHI for uncompressed audio and tracker modules (68k version)
• Multi-select playlist in ReAction mode
• Snapshot windows directly via pulldown menu entry
• Popup menu for "Add..." button in ReAction playlist window
• ARexx macro support: Macros must have .rexx extension and start with a line saying "/* AmigaAMP ARexx Macro */"
• Automatic adding of .pls to saved playlist filename
• Now using octave-spaced equalizer band frequencies

source : amiga-news.de

REDPILL is a tool to empower people to create many games for Amiga without programming knowledge. Easy to use and at the same time allow to do complex things. Allows people to create 2D games with the true Amiga feeling! Supports both ECS and AGA Amigas, it is free and it is still in development.

Visit dedicated webpage on Amiga-Storage.

Visit official webpage.

Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 18.7 provides the following changes:

• new: if a kickstart is requested by the Slave (ws_kickname) WHDLoad provides the current default keymap as a virtual file called 'WHDLoad.keymap' kickemu kick13.s and kick31.s got a new option called SETKEYBOARD which loads and activates the 'WHDLoad.keymap'
• fix: avoid a possible crash if no kickstart image could be found
• chg: the check for a read-only filesystem to ignore write operations now checks the first data directory instead the current directory of WHDLoad
• new: sources/whdload/lowlevel.s has been added to be used with kickemu, it is based on the OS3.1 lowlevel.library and provides a way to avoid the disk based library and save some memory, the kickemu option INIT_LOWLEVEL uses it now instead loading the disk based library
• fix: corrected the key repeat fix in kick31.s
• chg: resload_ListFiles no longer requires a switch to the OS if Preload was able to cache all files by using the file cache to fill the buffer with filenames
• new: support for virtual filesystem plugins (VFS) added, if one of the Data/K objects specified is not a directory but a file WHDLoad will attempt to load PROGDIR:WHDLoad.VFS and uses this interface to load data for such data objects, the VFS-ABI/API is described in "include/whdvfs.i", a VFS implementation which currently supports lha and zip-archives can be obtained from http://github.com/temisu/WHDLoadArchiveFS Thanks a lot to Teemu Suutari for his great work! VFS objects are always read-only for WHDLoad, so either use SavePath/K or a first data directory which isn't VFS to allow WHDLoad to save something
• fix: cursor down in the CLI usage message is working again in the standard AmigaShell (issue #5146)
  chg: DIC 1.2: if a track has a read error and option Skip is active and the device is controlled by trackdisk.devices, DIC switches to sector reads now to be able to read more good data in case not all sectors on this track are unreadable
  chg: WHDLoad now returns with an error code = 5 if the Preload operation has been canceled by pressing the Esc key while the splash window is open (issue #5171)
  chg: a new option NoWriteInfo/N has been added as local and global option, if set WHDLoad will not update/write any .info files (issue #5153)
• chg: WHDLoad now resets custom.serper on exit to stop a possible MIDI/MT32 playback via the serial line (JOTD)
• new: option WriteCache/S added to overwrite global option NoWriteCache/S (issue #5263)
• new: WHDLoad is now able to cache also write operations to new created files or existing files which grow in size. For that the option PreLoad must be active and there must be enough memory available to preload all files. WHDLoad will then allocate the largest free memory block remaining and use this memory to dynamically cache new files or growing existing files. The cached files are written to disk on WHDLoad exit.
• new: kick31.asm can be enabled to activate internal resident command WHDCtrl which supports to quit WHDLoad ATM

Visit the official website.

Se rendre sur le site officiel.

source : amiga-news.de