16.Apr.2022
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Jump'n Run: second playable demo of 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night'
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes provides another demo version of his jump'n run 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night', created with the game construction kit Scorpion Engine. According to the developer, this second preview "adds a lot of improvements since the last time (no new levels or anything, just tweaks, graphical improvements, etc)". The game requires 2 MB of Chip and 1 MB of Fast RAM, and (presumably) a 68020 processor.
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16.Apr.2022
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Hardware hack: A fifth audio channel for the Amiga
In an older blog entry, which can only be found in the web archive, a Norwegian describes how he uses the FBAS signal of his Amiga to output a fifth audio channel in addition to the four existing (stereo) channels. He uses the fact that bright and dark pixels are transmitted as different voltages on the video cable. A video demonstrates the principle in action.
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16.Apr.2022
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Modern decompressor for Amiga data compression formats: Ancient 2.0
Ancient' unpacks files compressed with Amiga "crunchers" like Powerpacker or similar. The program, written in portable C, supports a variety of known compression formats - among others all that the regular XPK distribution can unpack, as well as disk images in DiskMasher format ("DMS") and LhA archives. Source code and Windows executables can be found on Github, a MorphOS version has been published on im Aminet.
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15.Apr.2022
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Easter Egg in AmigaOS 3.2.1 discovered
AmigaOS 3.2.1 contains an Easter Egg, that much had been hinted at by members of the team. A user has now discovered it: The disk image Update3.2.1.adf has a folder 'T', which contains a file called 'ed-backup'. This executable file is a small demo with bouncing boing balls and a small text scroller. The user who discovered the Easter Egg posted a small description of the process including a screenshot of the demo on os4welt.de (registration required).
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14.Apr.2022
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Sound card ZZ9000AX: PDF manual and fixed axmp3 version
The ZZ9000AX is the sound module for the multifunctional Amiga expansion card ZZ9000. The delivery of the first batch began at the end of March (amiga-news.de reported).
Now the developer Lukas F. Hartmann has released both a PDF manual including schematics (direct download) and a new version of the axmp3 tool (direct download), which should reduce the risk of screen scribbling (Z3 only). Also, there would be sound output problems on some 68060 configurations. He would take care of this after his vacation next week.
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13.Apr.2022
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Shoot'em Up: SkillGrid 1.2
About three years ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) released his abstract, vertical shoot'em up SkillGrid (amiga-news.de reported).
In the meantime, the second update has been released, which further improves the game and provides a special 'PRESS PLAY ON TAPE' variant: a special version whose soundtrack is the rockin' tongue-in-cheek song "Man with the Gun" by the Commodore 64 revival band PRESS PLAY ON TAPE.
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13.Apr.2022
OSnews
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Raspberry Pi: Development status of free firmware
'Raspberry Pi' computers require partially closed source software to boot - the so-called raspi-firmware package. But since its release 10 years ago, there have been efforts to make it bootable with open source software only. In a recent blog entry Gunnar Wolf describes how free firmware for the Raspberry is progressing.
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13.Apr.2022
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #20 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 20 (winter/spring) are game reviews on 'Shadowlands', 'Pacman', 'Incman', 'Dread' and 'Coco Banana' as well as the articles 'What is Amiga in 2022? Part 1' and 'A500 CPU replacement'.
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12.Apr.2022
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Programming Contest: Results of the BASIC 10Liner Contest 2022
The "BASIC 10Liner Contest" is a competition for self-written BASIC programs that have to consist of exactly 10 lines and has been organized since 2011 (amiga-news.de reported). Traditionally, the winners are announced during a live show, the "NOMAM" ("Not only marvelous Atari machinery"), an annual gathering of enthusiasts of the home computer era, which took place last weekend.
Even though there was no entry for Amiga-Basic this year, we don't want to withhold the first place winners in the individual categories from our interested readers and present them:
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12.Apr.2022
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Playable demo of a commercial Arcade game: Yoomp
Just like Jump!, 'Yoomp' is a conversion of a Atari 8 bit release from 2007. A playable preview for OCS Amigas has been released a while ago, the game is going to be distributed commercially by RGCD. Further information about the project can be found in a thread on ppa.pl (machine translation).
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11.Apr.2022
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Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 6
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euros) or printed (7.50 Euros) editions. The current issue has 36 colored pages (DIN A4) and covers the following topics:
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11.Apr.2022
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Scandoubler announcement: 'Medusa' converts video signals to VGA/DVI
The scandoubler Medusa accepts a composite, S-Video or RGB signal and converts it into proper VGA output, which is also converted into a digital signal available via a DVI-I connector. There is also an option to digitize an analog audio signal, combine it with the DVI output using an appropriate adapter and output the audio/video combination via HDMI.
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11.Apr.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: DrawBridge for MiSTer in development
Robert Smith's project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppy disks with a standard PC disk drive connected. After successfully implementing this project, the developer explores in his latest video the possibilities of transferring this to the FPGA Amiga clone MISTer as well.
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11.Apr.2022
Carlos Peris (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.8 with WHDLoad support
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM.
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11.Apr.2022
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Aminet uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to Aminet:
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11.Apr.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to OS4Depot:
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11.Apr.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to AROS Archives:
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11.Apr.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.04.2022
The following files have been added until 09.04.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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11.Apr.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.04.2022
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 09.04.2022:
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10.Apr.2022
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Prototype: A-Pet - PET/CBM inspired metal case for Amiga or PC
An Amiga fan from England is working on a metall case inspired by the PET/CBM series from Commodore. Thanks to different backplates, the "A-Pet" will be able to house a generic PC motherboard or various Amiga models. While the proportions will be similar, the case is not an exact match of the original PET cases: It's not using a 9 or 12 inch monitor but offers a 14 or 17 inch display. And regular Amiga keyboards would be too wide for a standard PET case anyway.
Currently, the designer is working on a first prototype, he's reporting his progress in an Amiga forum regularly. The project's current state is also illustrated in a Video.
The A-Pet is laser cut from metal sheets which are then folded like a sheet of construction paper. The designer plans to sell finished, powder coated cases to end users.
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