18.Oct.2022
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Event: Review of Amiga37
Last weekend the Amiga37 took place in Mönchengladbach. We would like to summarize here for our readers what there was to see for news, but also interesting observations at the fair:
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18.Oct.2022
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Developer diary: Inspired by Powermonger, part 2
n the first part of his developer diary Daniel Bratton reported how he started to reprogram the board of the game Powermonger with the intersecting lines (amiga-news.de reported). In the second part he now publishes the complete code for generating the map and the polygon, which is also available on GitHub.
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17.Oct.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood APK Compiler 4.2 released
Press release: Hollywood APK Compiler 4.2 has just been released. This is a minor update which adds support for the latest target API requirement for uploading apps to the Google Play Store. This update is provided free of charge for all existing APK Compiler customers and can be downloaded in the restricted download section.
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17.Oct.2022
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Trading simulation with RPG elements: Aquabyss
The game 'Aquabyss', first announced in 2018 with a teaser video, was released on Amiga 37 last weekend in a pre-release version. The game is a trading simulation in the style of Elite - without 3D sequences, but with various RPG elements. The game is set in a steampunk underwater world at the beginning of the 19th century.
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17.Oct.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 33 of assembler coding course / Racing Cars Game Jam
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 33 was published.
Furthermore he started the Racing Cars Game Jam. As with the Retro Trex Game Jam (amiga-news.de reported), the idea behind this jam is to expand the knowledge and awareness of retro computers. This time consoles are also allowed. The challenge is to create an identical, cloned or original version of a car racing game. Some examples are listed on the website. At the end of the contest, there will be a live stream showing all the games. The contest will run until December 18, 2022.
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17.Oct.2022
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Magnifier tool: Lupe 2.1 for AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS
At the end of June Matthias "UltraGelb" Böcker released version 2.0 of his magnifier tool for MorphOS and AmigaOS (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released version 2.1, which also supports AmigaOS 4. The changes:
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16.Oct.2022
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Aminet uploads until 15.10.2022
The following files have been added until 15.10.2022 to Aminet:
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16.Oct.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.10.2022
The following files have been added until 15.10.2022 to OS4Depot:
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16.Oct.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 15.10.2022
The following files have been added until 15.10.2022 to AROS Archives:
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16.Oct.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.10.2022
The following files have been added until 15.10.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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16.Oct.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.10.2022
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 15.10.2022:
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16.Oct.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Java program: ham_convert 1.8.6
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based ham_convert converts modern graphics files into the Amiga's HAM format. Meanwhile version 1.8.6 has been released, featuring improved multithreading that should work better with big.little configurations.
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15.Oct.2022
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Tool: identify-library 40.2
At the beginning of October Richard Körber published version 40.1 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). He has just updated to version 40.2 with the following changes:
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15.Oct.2022
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Obligement: Review of game "Wrong Way Driver"
The Obligement news site published a review of the arcade game Wrong Way Driver, which was released in 2021. The original is in French, but machine translations are provided.
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15.Oct.2022
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Scorpion Engine: Introduction of the new positioning feature
In a recent video, Erik Hogan, developer of the Scorpion Engine, introduces a new, innovative feature of the Scorpion Engine that allows exact X/Y positioning of actors in the map as well as overriding actor variables, events and control ports.
The feature will be included in the upcoming stable version 2022.8 and is already available in the experimental branch of the Scorpion Engine.
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14.Oct.2022
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Developer diary: Inspired by Powermonger, part 1
Developer Daniel Bratton had been "fascinated with what appeared to be a living breathing world – and that world looked like a gaming tabletop", ever since the game Powermonger came out in 1990. Since then, he said, he's always wondered how that was programmed. That eventually motivated him to learn how to program the Amiga so he could recreate it.
In the first part of his developer diary, Daniel Bratton now reports on how he reprogrammed the game board with the intersecting lines - with the help of the Visual Studio Code Extension, which he will discuss in more detail in later entries.
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13.Oct.2022
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ACube Systems: Delivery of Sam460LE boards in November
Press release: We would like to thank all our customers for their support and patience.
Despite all our efforts to deliver the new Sam460LE by the end of September, we suffered some delay in the production and, unfortunately, the boards are still not ready for delivery.
Unfortunately, we had to make a last-minute change of some components (connectors) that are no more available and this has delayed (again) the production as we had to test the pre-production boards one more time.
After this last-minute modification, pre-production boards passed every test and are ready to go. We are expecting to be able to ship all the boards to our customers in November.
At Amiga37 in Mönchengladbach we will show the pre-production boards on which are based the final boards we will send to customers. We will update our customer as soon as we have news. See you in Mönchengladbach!
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13.Oct.2022
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Linux: Browser Artic Fox V40.0
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled version 40.0 of the web browser Artic Fox for Linux PowerPC (32 Bit). Basically it runs under the Linux PowerPC distributions Void PPC, MintPPC, Fienix and Ubuntu 10.04 (which are also available for AmigaOne X1000 and 5000. Mainly, the browser is meant for older resp. slow systems (e.g. G3 with Ubuntu 10.04) because it is using an older version of the Goanna engine which has a good performance on slower systems. As a result, certain pages like GitHub cannot be fully displayed.
Download: arcticfox-40.0.linux-powerpc.tar.bz2 (40 MB)
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12.Oct.2022
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.1.0
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Today version 1.1.0 of the firmware was released. Changes:
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12.Oct.2022
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Tetris clone for RTG Amigas: Atris V0.50
A month ago, Sami Vehmaa released a Tetris clone called Atris for Amigas equipped with graphics cards (amiga-news.de reported). This update to version 0.50 adds an easy and a hard mode, each of both with highscore. Additionally, the game now can be completely controlled with the keyboard.
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12.Oct.2022
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 7 of 'WhatIFF?' released
WhatIFF? is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is mainly intended for users who want to be creative with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported).
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12.Oct.2022
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.4 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 5.4 and is now based on the latest OpenSSL 3.0.6, which was also released yesterday. The changes:
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12.Oct.2022
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DIY: Remake of audio digitiser AP420
The AP420, released by Phoenix Microtechnologies in 1991, is an audio digitiser that can take a microphone or line-level input and is connected to the parallel port of an Amiga. 'wiretap-retro' has posted an updated schematic on GitHub that matches the one in the official PDF manual, with the addition of a second RCA jack so you can connect stereo audio. Likewise, he has upgraded the microphone jack, which now features a 3.5mm TRS jack. The selector switch on the board can be used to switch between the RCA input and the microphone input.
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12.Oct.2022
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Commercial puzzle game: Connect
In the puzzle game "Connect", you have to connect a series of ICs in such a way that each chip receives exactly the number of connections printed on its package. The game offers over 4 billion possible board variations and can be played alone, in cooperation or against each other.
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