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02.Mar.2024



MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.13.22
Rafał Zabdyr has released another beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required.


Besides bug fixes the new version provides the following changes:
  • add .gitignore from templates when creating new repository
  • edit .gitignore and reload from templates for existing repository
  • add LICENSE file from templates when creating new repository
  • preview/compare image files via datatypes (for untracked files, current changes and history/logs)
  • better integration with GitLab/Bitbucket repositories (via url links)
(dr)

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02.Mar.2024



Tower defense: Demo version of "Dice Masters" for Apollo Vampire V4 (update)
Sami Vehmaa's latest project is a tower defence game in which you have to fend off aliens on a spaceship (YouTube video). The demo version offers two of the planned ten levels.

Update: (05.03.2024, 06:10, dr)

A new demo version 0.91 is available which offers a third level and improved game input logic as well as a more clean gameplay. (dr)

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02.Mar.2024



Musik track: "199X" by LukHash
'LukHash' is a musician living in Edinburgh (Scotland). He describes his music as "fusion of 8-bit digital mayhem and '80s inspired synth music combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics."
His current chiptune "199X" takes you back to the 90s: just out of school, you fire up your (Amiga) computer and start playing. Connoisseurs will recognise various references to classic games. The track can not only be listened to as a YouTube video under the title link, but can also be bought on iTunes or bandcamp. (dr)

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01.Mar.2024



Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.3
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)

The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Version 1.16.3 of the Greaseweazle Tools provide the following changes:
  • FDI: Fix import of FDI image files
  • gw read, write: --dd option renamed to --densel
    • --dd remains valid for now
  • gw write: Option --gen-tg43 generates 8-inch /TG43 signal on pin 2
(dr)

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01.Mar.2024



Mailbox: AmiExpress 5.6.1
AmiExpress is a rewrite by Darren Coles of the original Joe Hodge/LightSpeed Technologies mailbox program in Amiga E. It is open source and includes most of the features of the previous version as well as new features and bug fixes. Version 5.6.1 offers some fixes to resolve issues when running on 68000, support for conf NDIRS setting in the configuration editor and the option to move mail messages to another conference.

Direct download: Amix561.lha (1,1 MB) (dr)

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01.Mar.2024



Video tutorial: Further screen commands in AMOS
Following on from his last two videos about screen commands and especially the "Screen Copy" command, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows more screen commands in the current part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, in particular how to scroll a screen, or rather part of a screen. As always, the source file for the programme shown in the video can be downloaded free of charge from his website. (dr)

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01.Mar.2024



Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.8
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. Changes in version 5.6.8:

Bugfixes
  • GUI Hardware sprite checkbox wouldn't enable when needed
  • some RTG options were not changed on-the-fly
  • fix mouse drift when using RTG hardware sprite
  • absolute mouse movement did not scale correctly in single line mode
  • fix offset for button indicators in ControllerMap GUI
  • Fix absolute mouse positioning for RTG modes as well
  • Fixed crash when using Restart after previous updates
  • Fixed crash/freeze when trying to access FloppyDriveBridge devices under macOS
  • Ensure changes in virtual mouse and magic mouse are applied immediately
  • Removed some buggy Fast copper experimental code
Improvements
  • When emulating, disable RTG settings that cannot be changed on-the-fly
  • added always on top options to Misc panel in GUI, fixed navigation
  • Partial merge of GFX updates from Preview
  • improve WHDBooter prefs changes
  • implement floppydatapullup option
  • more WHDBooter improvements
(dr)

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29.Feb.2024
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SFX-Engine: Audio Mixer 3.6
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A500) (amiga-news.de reported). Version 3.6 has several new features, such as a high quality mixing option that exchanges CPU time for higher quality sound, a plugin system so that effects can be added to samples that are being played (such as pitch changes), the ability to loop from any point in the sample rather than only the start and more. (dr)

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28.Feb.2024
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.21
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.21 his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. Detailed changes:
  • Added an option to block loading of any external assets (images, css, etc) used in HTML emails. When enabled, Iris will only show images attached to the email itself. External content may still be loaded using context menu
  • Double-clicking a message in Drafts will now open it in Edit mode
  • Right mouse click on the messages list selects the clicked email
  • Added a help bubble to the messages list
  • Extended the AREXX WRITE command
  • It's now possible to create and send calendar invitations in emails
  • Updated WebKit & co
(dr)

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28.Feb.2024
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.5 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.4 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. This update introduces a reworked settings UI, possibility to fine-tune browser settings per 1st component of a URL path as well as fixes of reported crashes.

Update: (01.03.2024, 20:50, dr)

Meanwhile version 7.5 is available which fixes reported crashes and HLS Live video playback (live Youtube streams on mobile frontend). (dr)

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28.Feb.2024



Demo party: Ticket sales for Revision 2024 launched
Ticket sales have now started for the Revision demo party (amiga-news.de reported), which traditionally takes place on the Easter weekend in Saarbrücken, Germany. (dr)

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28.Feb.2024



Video series: Restoration of an Amiga 4000
In a six-part video series, the YouTube channel "Retronaut" shows how an Amiga 4000, which was part of a whole conglomerate of items used by a commercial television station in the British Midlands in the 1990s and which no longer worked, is brought back to life. (dr)

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28.Feb.2024



AROS: "Irritating bug of the month" February fixed / Poll for March
In the "Irritating bug of the month" poll for February, the addition of an easy way to enable tethering in the network settings was chosen. AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has added this feature, which will be available in the next update.

The "Irritating bug of the month" survey for March has also begun. Please vote. (dr)

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27.Feb.2024



Preview video: Dungeon Crawler "The Cthulhu Project"
At the end of last year, we introduced Maurice Doerr's dungeon crawler "The Cthulhu Project". In another preview video, he now shows interactions with computer-controlled characters (NPCs) for the first time. (dr)

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27.Feb.2024
Cameron Armstrong (Mail)


AI assistant for Amiga development: "Amiga Guru"
Cameron Armstrong, author of the chat program AmigaGPT (amiga-news.de reported), has created a custom GPT based on the Amiga documentation so that it is much more accurate for Amiga development than the standard ChatGPT.

Since ChatGPT sometimes knows quite little about Amiga development (and therefore often gives wrong, albeit convincing, answers), he has created a custom GPT tailored to Amiga development.

It has been trained on the entire contents of all current editions of the official reference manuals, some third-party Amiga development books and all current documentation autodocs for AmigaOS 3.2 and 4.1.

Chatting with custom GPTs requires a ChatGPT Plus subscription. (dr)

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26.Feb.2024
Puni/Void (ANF)


Diskmagazine: Voting on Amiga demoscene charts for Versus #10
Issue 10 of Versus, the disk magazine of the demo groups Nukleus and Void with the Amiga demoscene charts, is in preparation and the voting has started. At the title link you can name your favorites for AmigaOS (OCS/ECS) and AmigaOS 4, whereby not all fields in the corresponding tables have to be filled in. (snx)

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26.Feb.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.7
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has released version 1.7 of his audio editor "Rave". The program requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 and the Enhancer-Core classes from A-EON Technology.

Die Änderungen in der Version 1.7:
  • 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: rave.lha (3 MB) (snx)

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26.Feb.2024
Amitopia (ANF)


Web browser: AmiFox 0.6
AmiFox, first released a year ago, displays modern web pages on an Amiga or under AROS by downloading and displaying the pages converted to images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server").

New features of version 0.6 include the ability to set the preferred language so that Google and other sites do not always appear in Finnish (the public AmiFox server is located in Finland), and a history of the websites visited. (snx)

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26.Feb.2024
Seiya (ANF)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 155 (Italian/English) - 10th anniversary
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.

Amiga-related, the current issue is about the games Roach Motel and Spheroid as well as the program PageSetter 3. (snx)

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25.Feb.2024



Aminet uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to Aminet:
SonosController_AROS.lha comm/misc  2.6M  x86 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_MOS.lha  comm/misc  2.6M  MOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3.lha  comm/misc  2.2M  68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3fp... comm/misc  2.1M  68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS4.lha  comm/misc  3.0M  OS4 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_WOS.lha  comm/misc  2.5M  WOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
amigassh.lha             comm/net   32K   68k SSH2 for the Amiga
AmiGemini.lha            comm/net   342K  AOS Gemini/Spartan/Gopher/Finger/...
BSDSocket-Extension.lha  dev/amos   35K   68k Use bsdsocket.library in AMOS...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   5.6M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
escribed_ellipse.pdf     docs/misc  107K      ellipse targetted through 5 p...
anaiis.lha               driver/oth 241K  68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.24
anaiis_boot.lha          driver/oth 268K  68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
anaiis_massive.lha       driver/oth 46K   68k Massive release 1.24
RescueLander.lha         game/actio 118K  68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
MCE.lha                  game/edit  4.0M  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  4.6M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Chocolate_DOOM.lha       game/shoot 2.5M  68k Amiga port of Chocolate DOOM
Pana_SX-KC600.lha        mods/mpg   4.5M      Music played by Panasonic SX-...
hippoplayerSource.lha    mus/play   2.0M      HippoPlayer source code
hippoplayerupdate.lha    mus/play   402K  68k Updated HippoPlayer
GF4RSID1.zip             pix/misc   76K       Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID2.zip             pix/misc   81K       Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID3.zip             pix/misc   78K       Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID4.zip             pix/misc   83K       Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID5.zip             pix/misc   81K       Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID6.zip             pix/misc   85K       Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID7.zip             pix/misc   77K       Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID8.zip             pix/misc   75K       Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID9.zip             pix/misc   78K       Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSIDA.zip             pix/misc   79K       Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDB.zip             pix/misc   79K       Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDC.zip             pix/misc   80K       Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDD.zip             pix/misc   76K       Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
NAFCYI1991S1-B04.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B05.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B06.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B08.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B09.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B10.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B11.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B12.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip     text/bfont 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip     text/bfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip     text/bfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip     text/bfont 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B24.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B25.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-04.zip      text/pfont 1.7M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-05.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-06.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-07.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-08.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-09.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-10.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-11.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-12.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-13.zip      text/pfont 1.7M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip      text/pfont 1.6M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-15.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-16.zip      text/pfont 1.7M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-17.zip      text/pfont 1.7M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-21.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-22.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-24.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-25.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
gcr1.1.lha               util/cli   5K    68k Show console window resolutio...
HexSee_OS4.lha           util/misc  399K  OS4 Hex File Viewer (OS4 version)
iGame.lha                util/misc  438K  68k Front-end for WHDLoad
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  662K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha       util/misc  834K  OS4 Multipurpose utility
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  18M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
AppLauncher_sbar.lha     util/wb    43K   MOS Run apps from the screenbar
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25.Feb.2024



OS4Depot uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to OS4Depot:
sonoscontroller.lha      aud/mis 3Mb   4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your...
mce.lha                  gam/uti 5Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
amigemini.lha            net/bro 342kb 4.0 Gemini/Spartan/Gopher/Finger/Nex...
rvncd.lha                net/ser 115kb 4.1 Amiga VNC Server
hexsee.lha               uti/fil 399kb 4.1 Hex File Viewer
igame.lha                uti/mis 438kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 834kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
amiupdate_dan.lha        uti/wor 20kb  4.0 Danish catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_deu.lha        uti/wor 20kb  4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_fra.lha        uti/wor 21kb  4.0 AmiUpdate French Catalog
amiupdate_ita.lha        uti/wor 47kb  4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_spa.lha        uti/wor 19kb  4.1 Spanish catalog files for AmiUpdate
wb2filer.lha             uti/wor 48kb  4.0 Hack to run Filer when dbl-click...
(snx)

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25.Feb.2024



AROS Archives uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to AROS Archives:
usbmidi.i386-aros.lha        dri/aud 66kb  MidiDriver with source
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25.Feb.2024



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
AppLauncher_2.6.lha       Ambient/Screenbar         Run your apps from the ...
Protrekkr_2.6.5.lha       Audio/Tracker             A hybrid of modern day ...
SonosController_1.4.lha   Devices/Speakers          Control your Sonos spea...
iGame_2.4.6.lha           Games/Launcher            A frontend to launching...
Woof_14.0.0.lha           Games/Shoot3D             Woof! is a continuation...
Easy2Install_1.0b49.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
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25.Feb.2024



WHDLoad: New installers until 24.02.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 24.02.2024:
  • 2024-02-23 new: Spectral (The Black Lotus) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
  • 2024-02-21 new: Panacea (The Black Lotus) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
  • 2024-02-21 improved: Darkside (The Black Lotus) caches are enabled on 68020/030 without MMU system too now (Info, Image)
(snx)

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25.Feb.2024
Forum 64 (Webseite)


DIY: "Joystick Reanimator" repairs micro switches using electric impulses
C64 fan 'GI-Joe' - a service technician in real life - has come across many faulty microswitches in his professional life. The silver-plated switching contacts of switches that only have to switch very low currents were often oxidized: the arcing that occurs at higher currents, which "cleans" the oxidizing contacts in a kind of self-cleaning function, does not occur at lower currents. Sooner or later, the electrical resistances become too high due to the oxidizing switching contacts, even though the switch switches mechanically perfectly.

To solve this problem with the microswitches built into many joysticks, GI-Joe invented the "Joystick Reanimator": A joystick that no longer works is connected to the device. When the stick is moved or a fire button is pressed, the associated switch is then activated with a current high enough to generate the "self-cleaning" arc. The circuit board also contains connection sockets for a multimeter so that the electrical resistances of the microswitches built into the joystick can be easily tested.

German and English instructions as well as all documents required for reproduction (including circuit diagram, assembly list and KiCad project files) are available for download. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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