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18.Jan.2022
Richard Löwenstein (Mail)


 RESHOOT PROXIMA 3: Preview of Stage 1
In August last year we reported about a new preview video of the third part of the shoot'em up series RESHOOT PROXIMA 3, which is currently in development. Shortly before Christmas 'AmigaBill' invited the three developers of the game Richard Löwenstein, Martin Ahman and Kevin Saunders to its Twitch channel to present the prototype of Stage 1. This demonstration is also available as a Video (game start from minute 33).

As Richard Löwenstein explained to us when asked, a prototype of the first stage was shown, "still far from complete. There are quite a few attack waves missing, the boss is conspicuous by its complete absence." Likewise, exciting attack patterns, boss designs and fine-tuning of the music would still have to be tackled. On the other hand, 90% of the graphics for all five stages have been drawn, and the visual designs for all stages have been defined and technically implemented. (dr)

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17.Jan.2022
English Amiga Board (Webseite)


 Retro gaming: Ziggurat Interactive acquires the rights to Rainbow-Arts games
Five years ago, Julian Eggebrecht, founder of the legendary development studio Factor 5, explained in interviews (German) that the games company had not only secured the name of the former German publisher Rainbow Arts from the THQ bankruptcy estate, but also the rights to the titles published by the Gütersloh-based company in the 1980s and 1990s. A short time later, Factor 5, which also went bankrupt in 2009, was re-established in Germany as a GmbH. more ... (cg)

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17.Jan.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)


 880 kilobyte on 5.25 inch floppy disks: TEAC FD-55GFR 7193-U running on Amiga
The Iranian Siamak Habibzadeh has published a conversion manual at Github, which allows the operation of a 5.25 inch floppy from TEAC on the Amiga. The drive, originally intended for the PC, then stores 880 kilobytes in Amiga format on a 5.25-inch floppy. (cg)

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17.Jan.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)


 Arcade ports: Demo version of 'Wonderboy', preview video of 'Final Fight'
Wonderboy is to be an Amiga conversion of Sega's arcade classic of the same name. The Amiga version is created with the help of the Scorpion Engine. A now available first demo version, which is called alpha by the developer, runs smoothly from an Amiga 1200. Eine für den A500 optimierte Variante soll in Kürze folgen.

There is already an Amiga implementation of Capcom's Acrade machine Final Fight from 1991, but it is not very popular with friends of the beat-em-up genre. A fan of the automaton is now working on a new implementation developed in machine language, which currently requires a 68020 processor. A video shows the current status, one level and two different opponents have been implemented so far. (cg)

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16.Jan.2022



 Aminet uploads until 15.01.2022
The following files have been added until 15.01.2022 to Aminet:
more ... (snx)

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16.Jan.2022



 OS4Depot uploads until 15.01.2022
The following files have been added until 15.01.2022 to OS4Depot:
more ... (snx)

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16.Jan.2022



 AROS Archives uploads until 15.01.2022
The following files have been added until 15.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
more ... (snx)

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16.Jan.2022



 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.01.2022
The following files have been added until 15.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
more ... (snx)

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16.Jan.2022



 WHDLoad: New installers until 15.01.2022
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 15.01.2022: more ... (snx)

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16.Jan.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)


 Event: Amiga37 announced
Markus Tillmann writes (translation): "After the 2015, 2017 and 2019 events in Neuss, the fourth major German Amiga event will take place in 2022 with Amiga37 Germany. Compared to previous years, however, it will no longer be held in the Rheinisches Landestheater, but now in the Kunstwerk in Mönchengladbach.
more ... (snx)

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16.Jan.2022
ANF


 Looking for demand: Zorro II/III graphics card with SAGA
At the title link, in the forum of a1k.org, Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo team) is looking for interest in a graphics card based on the FPGA chipset of the Vampire turbo cards for Amigas with Zorro II or Zorro III slots. In prospect are the known SAGA graphics modes including a full HD resolution at 60 hertz and the new SAGA 3D functions, video acceleration, 16-bit audio and inclusion of the Amiga video signal for HDMI output.

Since the drivers (P96/AHI) were already available and practically all other components were also at hand, the project could be completed relatively quickly if there was sufficient interest to buy one - allegedly even as early as this summer. (snx)

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16.Jan.2022
David Brunet (ANF)


 Obligement: Update of Amiga Games List
The Amiga Games List, a document created and maintained by David Brunet since April 1991, has been updated on January 13th 2022 with the publication of its 52nd edition. Among other new features and corrections, games published or updated in 2021 have been added, and games created with Project Horizon and Irrlicht Engine are now counted. In addition, the "Mozilla" and "Professional" licences have been added; the latter concerns games intended for professional use, e.g. medical. The total now reaches 13,539 entries, be it games, level editors, data disks, extensions and interpreters, which are distributed as follows:
  • 12.910 games
  • 347 extensions and data disks
  • 148 game or level editors
  • 134 interpreters
(snx)

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16.Jan.2022
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)


 AROS: Update of 68k distribution Aros Vision
Since our previous news-item, Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision four times. Besides a new version of the Hippo Player, a CD-ROM filesystem and further programs regarding CDs, CRC checksums, encoding and decoding, virus protection as well as a font editor and viewer have been added. Furthermore, iGame is working again now.

Meanwhile, also a HDF version of the distribution is available. Like users of the UAE version, also those using the HDF version can update the distribution out of itself by choosing System/Install/Update from the menu. The startup-sequence and user-startup files won't be changed.
more ... (snx)

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15.Jan.2022
Prince (Mail)


 Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Debugging using the Visual Code Extension
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding 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 reports regularly).
As part of another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. In the episode Debugging using the Visual Code Extension by Paul Raingeard he shows how to set up and apply the Amiga Assembly for Visual Studio Code extension. (dr)

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15.Jan.2022



 Web emulator: vAmigaWeb
For quite some time we have been reporting about vAmiga, an Amiga emulator for MacOS that emulates the classic Amigas 500, 1000 and 2000. Based on this code, two web ports have been developed in the last months: vAmigaWeb and vAmiga (online). We had already mentioned both in our article Emulation: vAmiga as web port and tested the latter in more detail. more ... (dr)

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14.Jan.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)


 Linux: Kernel 5.16 für AmigaOne X1000/X5000
The final Linux kernel 5.16 is available. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The Image can be downloaded in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum. (dr)

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13.Jan.2022
Trevor Dickinson


 Trevor Dickinson on: A1222+/Enhancer V2.x/From Vultures to Vampires Vol 2
In response to our inquiry, Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) provided a brief summary of the current status of some projects:
  • A1222plus motherboard

    • Hardware works as expected, including network and audio
    • DVD drive support still problematic at the moment
    • Board now can boot Workbench
    • Performance like the original beta board: all popular software (e.g. Odyssey and IBrowse, but also the latest DVDPlayer version) as well as A-EON's 2D and 3D graphics drivers including the latest Enhancer 2.1 release are supported.
    • The A1222+ uses the latest uboot firmware written by Mark Olsen, which provides additional variables such as reduction in the number of Boing Ball animation and generally faster boot time.
    • production start and planned availability not set yet: currently preparing early adopter production depending on component availability

  • Enhancer Software V54

    • further updates are in progress after the release of version 2.1 (e.g. integration of AmiSSL 4.11, improved Warp2D library). The 14th alpha build of V54 was released to beta testers on January 4. Release in the course of the year
    • Two installation variants possible:
      • over the existing OS4 installation (similar to current version 2.1)
      • on a separate Enhancer partition, from which can be booted by default (the OS4 installation CD is required once for this purpose). It is unclear which components are used or copied temporarily or permanently.

  • LibreOffice

    • Trevor speaks of "a long and expensive journey which I am hoping is coming to a satisfactory conclusion".
    • record a video of Libre Office in action planned.
    • Soon: widen the beta test programme to accelerate the the first release.

  • From Vultures to Vampires, volume 2

    • at the moment Kickstarter campaign for financing the second volume until 24. Januar 2022
      • Initiated by David John Pleasance, who also focuses on all administration, including contacting printers
      • Trevor Dickinson is not involved in the Kickstarter campaign and is not accepting any funds from the Kickstarter campaign or future book sales. He is 3/4 finished writing volume 2
      • covering the years 2005 to 2021
      • currently about 6.400 Euro are given from required 18.000
      • E-Books available from the end of February
      • with signature if desiredr
      • ubsidizing shipping costs for buyers outside GB
    (dr)

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12.Jan.2022
Ko-fi


 AmigaOS 4: 'Lite XL' editor 1.16.12.7
At the end of last year, George Sokianos had announced with the release of version v1.16.12.3 that he had started porting the editor 'Lite XL', which originates from the Linux world (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday he released the for the time being last update to v1.16.12.7 for this version branch and writes the following about it:

"Today I did the last release of Lite XL for AmigaOS 4.1. Don't worry, I am not stopping working on this fine editor. On the contrary. I will stop working on the v1.16.12 source branch so to focus on the latest available version.

The last few days I managed to port Lua 5.3 and Lua 5.4, as well as the PCRE2. Although the newer versions of Lua are not necessary yet, the PCRE2 is one of the mandatory libraries needed. All of them are highly experimental, and not tested thoroughly, but I am happy I managed to finish them.

In the new v1.16.12.7 release, which is already available to be downloaded from my Git repository and OS4Depot, I did a few changes that might help with the SDL to use the Gfx Card in a better way, which will increase the overall speed. Also, I included a few plugins and colour schemas that are tested and working fine with this version, in case you would like to add some extra features or make it look better for you.

I updated the README_OS4 file where you can find more information about all these additions, how to use them and a couple of tips 'n tricks that might help you.

I hope it will keep you occupied until the next major release, which is going to be epic.

If you want to track the progress of Lite XL v2 development, you can always check https://git.walkero.gr/walkero/lite-xl/issues/12 or make sure to watch this page, since I am going to update you frequently.

Finally, I would like to thank you once more for your generous support. The motivation I get from you all is inexpressible." (dr)

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