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Mixel is your man as you already know! He's on Discord if you want to ask him yourself!
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Amiga Software News / Emojis and more: Pangomonium 1.0 released
« Last post by softwarefailure on March 18, 2024, 02:34:08 PM »


Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present a massive new plugin release for Hollywood: Pangomonium - The Ultimate Text Engine for Hollywood. Pangomonium is a plugin of epic proportions and the first plugin only available for Hollywood 10. Pangomonium contains an ultramodern, state-of-the-art text engine that can be used to draw text in almost any language of the world. On top of that, it also supports advanced text features like fonts with colored glyphs. This finally makes it possible to write programs which support emojis on Amiga! Pangomonium is based on the established Pango and Cairo text and vector graphics libraries and also allows you to access the complete Pango and Cairo function set directly from Hollywood scripts. Of course, there is also a high-level interface which allows you to conveniently draw text without having to delve into Pango and Cairo programming. Pangomonium has been two years in the making and is now finally ready for release exclusively for Hollywood 10.0.

Here are just some of Pangomonium's impressive features:

- draw text in almost all languages of the world (including complex scripts and layouts such as bidirectional text, right-to-left layouts etc.)
- support for fonts that contain colored glyphs (finally enjoy those colorful emojis on Amiga!)
- exports two high-level and one low-level interface to Hollywood
- Hollywood scripts can access all Pango and Cairo APIs directly (over 500 functions!)
- seamless integration with Hollywood 10's new text interface makes it very easy to use Pangomonium
- the plugin can also replace Hollywood's inbuilt vector graphics engine
- extensive documentation in AmigaGuide, HTML, CHM and PDF (more than 300 PDF pages!)
- comes with over 30 ready-to-run example scripts

And the best of all: Pangomonium is provided free of charge for all existing Hollywood users. Thus, please consider buying Hollywood to show your support for our massive development efforts. Note that Hollywood 10 is strictly required by Pangomonium.

The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux, macOS and Windows are provided.

This release was brought to you by Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business.
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He's the music composer on classic games such as R-Type, Katakis, the Turrican series, and many others.  Join the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) for a delightful evening of conversation with Chris Huelsbeck, where you get to interact and ask questions alongside his many adoring fans.


Mark your calendars:

Date / time:  Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 7:30PM ET (Toronto).

Zoom info:  https://www.tpug.ca


If you're unable to attend the meeting, please watch it on TPUG's YouTube channel by subscribing to be notified:

https://www.youtube.com/@TorontoPETUsersGroup


See you at the meeting!

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Amiga Marketplace / Re: FPGA Arcade Replay 1 System For Sale
« Last post by Kremlar on March 17, 2024, 10:08:56 PM »
Price drop to $320.
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Amiga Events / SACC March meeting
« Last post by SACC-guy on March 17, 2024, 08:06:10 PM »
Greetings!
Our next SACC meeting is this Sunday, March 24th at 1:30 PM. We will be meeting in person at the Holiday Inn and on-line.

The meeting agenda and hotel information is on the homepage of the club website. Go to www.sacc.org/index.shtml to check it out!

I’m happy to add your topic or project to the Agenda, just reply to this email with your topic. The URL for the online Jitsi meeting is: meet.jit.si/SacramentoAmigaComputerClub

Thanks,
Jerry Gray - SACC VP
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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: XSURF 100 - Poor Performance?
« Last post by Boing-ball on March 17, 2024, 06:57:09 PM »
If you have taken the jumper off. Then it’s set to Z3 (Zorro 3) which is the correct speed setting for the A3000 and A4000.

I use a X-Surf100 with the RoadShow TCP/IP stack. Runs fast!
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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: XSURF 100 - Poor Performance?
« Last post by Ancalimon on March 17, 2024, 05:38:00 PM »
Just took a jumper off from the card. Will try again
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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: XSURF 100 - Poor Performance?
« Last post by Boing-ball on March 17, 2024, 05:24:39 PM »
You do have the jumper set correctly on the X-Surf? I.e not set to Z2?
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I recently watched the video on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ixZhIxMus

This is about buying old PC graphics tablets and using them with an Amiga by adding adapters and a special driver.

I ended up buying an Aiptek Hyperpen 6000 tablet which was new old stock, complete with some old AAA batteries still in shrink wrapped plastic packaging, especially because this model has been described as definitely Amiga compatible.



I bought this tablet from eBay, because I wasn't able to find any other tablet mentioned in the video. There were lots of old Wacom tablets available, but it wasn't clear which ones would work. I didn't like the advice that MOST Wacom Serial tablets would work, apart from Intuos models.

I plan to use this tablet with Deluxe Paint, although the video doesn't recommend this, due to lack of pressure sensitivity. I have only ever used Deluxe Paint with a mouse before, so this doesn't matter to me.

So far, I've bought a 9 pin serial to 25 pin serial adapter, as well as a PS/2 to USB adapter. I inserted a recently bought AAA battery into the pen, I booted up my Amiga with the Aiptek tablet plugged in to the Serial port, then I connected it to the mains and a light on the tablet next to where it says F1 lit up. This was all I was expecting to happen at this stage. I need to install the FormAldiHyd driver from Aminet to get it to work. Unfortunately, when I was testing the pen that came with it, which has no wired connection to the tablet, the tip which makes contact with the tablet got depressed and pushed in, but now won't return to its previous extended position. I hope I haven't broken it. There is no light on the pen. I don't understand why it requires a battery. I can't see how it would transmit any data wirelessly. It also comes with a battery powered 3 button mouse, but I don't see any point in using this, because the whole point is to get away from drawing with a mouse. 

As for installing the driver, I have downloaded it from Aminet onto my MacBook and copied it onto a FAT32 formatted CF card. I recently installed FS-UAE, but I haven't used it recently. I found that it couldn't detect either of my AmigaOS CF cards, which are in SFS and PFS formats. I set these cards up using Linux.

Can anyone give me any advice about completing this setup and what might go wrong? Unfortunately, the artist Mixel who made the video hasn't replied to a question of mine from a few weeks ago.

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Amiga Events / Re: Los Angeles Maker Faire 2024, April 6
« Last post by RobertB on March 17, 2024, 01:25:38 PM »
     The LA Maker Faire is edging closer, and our Classic Los Angeles Computers (CLAC) tables now have the computers to be exhibited -- an Ultimate 64, an Amiga 3000, a Commodore PC20-III, and from SCCAN member Jerold K., a brown C64.  The computers will be set up for gaming, except for Jerold's which will be set up for music production/creation.  See you soon at the LA Maker Faire!

          Writing from Sydney, Australia,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group -
          http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network -
          http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
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