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News
Testing page, Monthly Page 13 - 25/07/10
Testing page has been updated and the Monthly Page 13 is now released and can be downloaded from our Monthly page tab.
Testing page - 22-06-10
The entire testing page has been revamped, to make it easier and clearer to find a title, as they are now better organised via their corresponding alphabet.
Monthly Page 12, Testing - 10/06/10
Monthly Page 12 out for reading and testing page updated
Testing - 24-05-10
Testing has been updated as usual, and will continue to do so weekly for now.
Testing & Tutorial Renders - 19-05-10
Testing has been updated as usual, again.
Have done a couple of tutorials using Blender via my Amiga SAM440EP, and one can view these in the downloads section of our webpage, by scrolling down to
Tutorial Renders. Not expecting to place all the tutorials renders I do up, but I may place more up, depending on current events at BlitterWolf.
Testing - 02-05-2010
testing, just so the amiga community knows, is still going to be a weekly afair where possible. So feel free to heck back on programs and games tested.
Monthly Page 11, Testing, Stargus Game Updated - 20 - 04 - 2010
Monthly Page 11 out now, feel free to download and read our PDF mag / pamphlet. Has two pages.
Testing page naturally also been updated., still weekly updated.
Stargus has now reached a new level, we are officially upto Stargus 0.5 of the port, and this is available for download in our downloads section, Over and Out. :)
Monthly Page 10, Testing - 22-02-10
Monthly Page 10 out now, feel free to download and read our PDF mag / pamphlet. Has four pages worth.
Testing page naturally also been updated., still weekly updated.
Sad news, Testing updated, Contact updated, 2 additional links in links page - 22/1/10Sad News : Apart from a family member passing away near christmas last year, I also managed to loose an entire partition this year, before getting a chance
to back it up.Admiteddly the Update 1 of OS4.1 was worth it in the end thus far. On this very partition I have lost a couple of ongoing projects we were doing for the community.
This now means that we will need to start from scratch in some fields. Thankfully the programming field is safe, so we still have all original code, which will still be worked on.
So for an overview to the community, "Uno Kraepe" game has been lost, but not the code to it. This means we will attempt to carry on, and remake things anew, but with a twist,
by perhaps recreating the genre, instead of how it was going to be. So this has led to a change. Also concepts of other genres have been lost now.
In future, I think atleast I myself, have learnt a valuable lesson, Backup, Backup, and wait, Backup, even if you know your OS wont screw up hard drive in daily use,
other things can go wrong, such as Hard drive failure, Updates, etc, etc. I am deeply sorry to the community for this failure of not backing up what I had at the time.
Testing still being done naturally, but again, have lost many downloaded content recently. Contact page has been updated, and any users wishing to have their
work displayed in the monthly page, with text to accomodate programs used, techniques, styles, etc, can now do so if they please. Hardware page updated.
Monthly Page 9, Testing - 2/1/10
Monthly Page 9 out now, feel free to download and read our PDF mag / pamphlet.
Testing page naturally also been updated.
Testing Page, Monthly Page 9 expected release - 20/12/09
Testing page - for now, still able to place software, apps, games tested weekly for fellow OS4.1 users, on what worked and did not work on our hardware.
Monthly Page 9, may unfortunately not get released until next year, we apologise for any existing readers that were looking forward to a Christmas read.
Stargus v0.41 and monthly Page 8 - 11/11/09
Monthly Page PDF available now, and a new Stargus Beta version Stargus0.41
Stargus v0.4, Testing Page - 03/11/09
Time again for a new Beta version of Stargus 0.4, this one also includes an Updater for those that have already installed a previous version of Stargus.
Testing Page also updated again.
Testing Page / Exodus The Last War Patch - 25/10/09
We have updated the testing page again, and we have decided to add the Exodus the Last War Patch for those that wish to play
this gameon their os4 machines. This patch was not done by us, but was done by a polish group.
Monthly Page 7 / Stargus - 13/09/09
Here is the seventh monthly page, this monthly page is more of an informative monthly page, but I am sure many may still find it interesting.
we had an interview with amiboing.de, and their developments.
Unfortunately for now, the stargus updater seems to be causing slight issues, but we hope to have fixed these issues at a later stage.
Testing Updated reguarly still & a general posting here on NEWS
General Posting :
Many may have noticed the last three weeks not much happening, but rest assured, things are going ahead as planned behind the scenes.
Testing will still be updated reguarly for now, until further notice or time becomes an issue. Thank you for visiting our website.
This coming issue of Monthly Page will also have an update of the Stargus port, as well as comparisons with Linux Debian in game and or program areas.
New StarGus Beta, Testing Updated, Another Magazine added, Changed to www.blitterwolf.com 01-08-2009
There is a new StarGus Beta available for download, please after the instalation is finished, and you go to run the game, be aware that it is normal to wait a few seconds at the
'preferences file.lua' not found in the output window. It will start into the game though, but this is stil beta version, so expect things like DSI or crashes.
Any feedback that can be given via crashlogs as well as system sed wouldbe greatly appreciated.
Testing page as always, still being updated weekly.
Added the Vague magazine to our magazine list page.
Some of you may have noticed, you can type in www.blitterwolf.com to get onto our site now, well, likewise, our emails have now been setup likewise.
Monthly Page 6, ImageFX installer, Testing Updated and Wolf Wallpaper 18-07-2009
For the Monthy Page 6 and what it features go to the Monthly Page section of this site for download.
We are proud to announce this recognition from Phantom Interrogative (Royce)
"Thanks to Damien's suggestions, and some new knowledge of JXFS, the fifth version was the first version installing a working ImageFX..........This was a "team" effort. "
ImageFX installer available for download in our downloads section, also available from OS4depot.
Testing updated and Another Nice Wallpaper, this time of a Wolf, available in our downloads section.
StarGus SE Wallpapber 28-06-09
Another wallpaper StarGus SE available for download.
Monthly Page 5 & Testing Updated - 20-06-09
Monthly Page 5 is out now, and has available to amigans an interview Between the game maker BOH man Simone.Also some casual talk in issue.
Testing page, as usual has been updated and will continuw for now, to be updated on a weekly bases with software that works for os4.x users.
New StarGus Installer Beta Version - 18-06-09
Please feel free to test our Beta instal version of StarGus. you will find this item in the downloads section.
RELOADED - 14-06-09
Welcome Amigans, To Our New and Reloaded website. BlitterWolf Development is Proud To announce the updated website, with a newer Beta version of the StarGus port to come out
sometime next weekend.
07-06-09
Feel free to download the StarGus wallpapers from the Downloads section of this site. These are simple wallpapers, as one of them will be the chosen logo for the StarGus executable tool.
There is a potential that another StarGus wallpaper / icon for the port may be made, including some other elements of space, we will see.
Hopefuly by the end of the weekend here, we will have a nice Beta version for you to download, that includes a couple of icons to chose from. Cheers.
04-06-09
STARGUS
After a scary day today for myself Healthwise, I am proud to announce a BETA tester version of StarGus. I will have made a forum thread, and any feedback on further problems or issues is welcomed.
Since I am writing this early, I may as well also announce that in future, the StarGus will come with an Icon for Docky usage. Hope it all works and plays. for now only Terran is possible
to pick, in future this should change. Find them in the downloads Section or Games Section of this site for download.
Added another Magazine / Bulletin type. Hope to add more magazines in future to the magazines page.
If any of you out there have a magazine that can be viewed online, or your club has an online viewing of their club's magazine, feel free to email us and we can add your clubs magazine to our magazines list.
25-5-09
Monthly Page IV (4)
Shall be up shortly, at the end of this month, due to the last monthly page almost hitting the end of the month, I figured we may as well follow suit.
It will include a whole page of the StarCraft Porting, and may also include a possible preview of how our future website may look like.
TESTING
In recent times I have been trying to place more tested software onto our testing page.
STARCRAFT PORT
I thought I would mention that I myself, inclusive with my colleague, have been able to test run and play a little starcraft. But there are many things that need to be looked at
still, unfortunately, our coder is and has been trying to make it easy for all amiga os4.x users to be able to install from the blizzard original CD, onto their amigas, and as this
is not yet the case, the community will need to wait further. there were also various things missing in the beta version here, and this is yet another reason for not yet placing
the current progress into our downloads section. I apologise in advance for the long time it is taking here, but we are getting closer.
3-05-09
LISTINGS
I apologise in advance, many of you may have noticed that I missed a week, so, to make up for it (or to try to) I have done more testing than usual during the last few days,
when I have found the time. Enjoy.
1-05-09
STARCRAFT UPDATE
For those of you that dont read Monthly Page Issues
"StarCraft update. :-)
All was going well last month when I discovered that the code wasn't working as expected because it assumed the memory is was reading was all backwards in x86 PC style. No so on the AmigaOS4 platform, where we have a "normal" computer that reads memory from left to right, like we do. (English readers and thinkers.) Makes me wonder, were those Intel engineers Arabs from the middle east? :-D
Okay so I started to sort that out. And wrote a special routine to read in the memory backwards. Boy it was a lot of work! It became hard when I also needed to account for both 16-bit and 32-bit words that were read in from disk and needed converting. The main program does take this into account, but it has a support library to extract archives that doesn't, and this is where the problem lies. Had it been more consistent and accounted for all memory it looked at this would have been solved earlier and would be working now.
As it stands the "startool" doing the conversion starts to work as planned, and even now finds the "missing" statdat.mpq that eluded us before. But, that's where it ends. It extracts it out and then on the next move it's... Boom! Crash! Opera. Not the part of last century we were looking for. I think there is still some memory somewhere that's lying around backwards and needs to suffer some "reverses" so we can go forward. If you know what I mean. ;-) In the meantime hopefully I can find out where in particular this is happening. And then by next month I will have something to show for all this annoying work I've had to put into it. And you thought ports would be easy. Ha! Thanks for bearing with us. And I'll see you next month. For now, it's happy bugging. Easter time and those bugs are hiding in holes again. :-)"
19-04-09
Placed Monthly Page issue 3 onto site
Listings Updated
Monthly Page ofcourse also updated
For the latest starport information, look at monthly page issue 3.
Interview with Boing Attitude
13-04-09
Slight update, it seems the progress is taking longer than expected for the starcraft port. The more we dig into it, the more we find.
Research continues.
Practicing In cinema4D, via tha manual.
22-03-09
We are getting somewhere now with the port. We know what it is doing, and we know how to fix it.
Note : I have since made some headway in the code. And found that install tool looks for headers in the install file (exe on CD) in x86 order. This is rather strange, as it looks like a PC programmer can't directly search for a four character string in memory, but must reverse it. So for instance ILBM must become MBLI. Huh? How did they survive?! Most likely the programmer was lazy with regard to non-PC CPUs and coded it directly for a PC.
Listings updated, as per usual, weekly.
Some interviews planned.
Doing some practice in various fields, as well as trying to keep up with the research.
Acai Berry