27.Jan.2025
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AROS: Sound editor ProTrekkr 2.8.0
ProTrekkr is a tracker program that combines a software synthesizer with a traditional sample tracker. It can mainly be used to create electronic music (such as psytrance, trance, goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) for small intros, demos or games. Version 2.8.0 has now been released for AROS (and other systems). Changes:
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27.Jan.2025
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 3.2.0 Release Candidate 2 (update)
Just last week SDL 3 was officially released with version 3.20. As usual, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki is implementing the multimedia library for AmigaOS 4.1 and has now published a first release candidate which contains the following Amiga-specific changes:
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27.Jan.2025
Patrick Schwedt (E-Mail)
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Amiga-500-Guide: Version 2 of the manual for (re-) beginners (German)
Last year Patrick Schwedt wrote a German PDF file with all kinds of tips for those who have bought an Amiga 500 for the first time or are starting to use it again after a long time. Version 2 is now available on Aminet, which has been expanded and now contains 61 pages. Almost all the pictures have been revised. A new feature is an illustrated guide to installing hardware extensions.
Download: Amiga_500_Guide_V2.0.pdf (5 MB)
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27.Jan.2025
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Managing ADF files: Rust library "adflib" V0.1.5
In March 2023, we reported on Volker Schwaberow's project to convert ADFlib, written primarily in C by Laurent Clevy, into the Rust programming language, and meanwhile he has gained some progress. He has now released version 0.1.5 with the following changes:
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27.Jan.2025
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Strategy game: LightTheLEDs
Rodrigo Vertulo, who previously published "Skinny Marley" (amiga-news.de reported), now wants to remind Amiga fans of their creative spirit with "LightTheLEDs" and offers an "electrifying challenge" with his new game, in which you have to connect batteries to LEDs, but have to go through at least one resistor to ensure that the circuit works correctly.
The game runs on any OCS Amiga and is available for the equivalent of around 2.40 euros.
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26.Jan.2025
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Aminet uploads until 25.01.2025
The following files have been added until 25.01.2025 to Aminet:
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26.Jan.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.01.2025
The following files have been added until 25.01.2025 to OS4Depot:
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26.Jan.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.01.2025
The following files have been added until 25.01.2025 to AROS Archives:
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26.Jan.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.01.2025
The following files have been added until 25.01.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
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26.Jan.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.01.2025
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 25.01.2025:
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26.Jan.2025
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Do it yourself: Programmable ROM module KickSmash32 for the Amiga 3000/4000
KickSmash32, currently available in version 1.4, is a Kickstart ROM replacement module for the Amiga 3000 and 4000, which can be programmed directly under AmigaOS as well as via USB-C from Linux and provides eight flash banks for different ROM files.
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26.Jan.2025
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Windows: WavConvert4Amiga 1.3 (update)
The Windows program WavConvert4Amiga is used to optimize audio files in Wave format for use on the Amiga or with tracker music programs. The range of functions includes any sample rate when converting to 8-bit mono format, support for both PAL and NTSC frequencies and note conversion from C-1 to B-3 for ProTracker.
Update: (27.01.2025, 07:00, dr)
Meanwhile version 1.3 is already available, which adds the Amiga ST-xx sample format: it is now possible to load 8svx and original Amiga St-xx sample formats directly into wavconvert.
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26.Jan.2025
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Music competition: Winter edition of the Boozedrome
On February 22nd, the next Boozedrome will not take place on location in Helsinki, but this time purely on YouTube. Music modules of a maximum length of three minutes and a maximum size of 2 MB that can be played by HippoPlayer 2.45 without additional libraries can be submitted. They will then be played on an Amiga 600 with an 68020 processor and some Fast-RAM.
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26.Jan.2025
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Music: An introduction to Amiga (techno) hardcore
At the title link, Jude Noel has written an overview of the Amiga techno hardcore music scene in English and links to corresponding tracks for direct listening.
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[News message: 26. Jan. 2025, 09:09] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jan.2025
The Oasis BBS (website)
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Video: Why the Commodore Amiga CD³² failed
In the video at the title link, 'The Matrix' once again addresses the failure of the Amiga CD³². Picking up on this, 'Havok' has also written a text on the subject for The Oasis BBS, which he co-runs.
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26.Jan.2025
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Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995 (amiga-news.de reported).
In this January update, some level graphics were added for the game StarRay and, for comparison, the graphics of the Atari ST version, as these are better than the Amiga version despite the technical disadvantages.
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26.Jan.2025
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Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.9
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.9 was released:
Driver
- Performance improvements
- Add support for AIDE
Lideflash
- Add support for RIDE
- Add support for Zorro-LAN-IDESATA
- Support bank erase on Matze TKs
- Support more flash models
- Support programming CDFS to 68EC020-TK
- Fix 68EC020-TK detection
- Inhibit DOS devices during programming
- Add version string
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24.Jan.2025
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Video player: Amos Anim Player v2025
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported).
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23.Jan.2025
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Video analysis: Shadow of the Beast - The Greatest Video Game Tech Demo Ever
In a 14-minute video, the Youtuber "Modern Vintage Gamer" takes a close look at the Amiga classic "Shadow of The Beast" and explains, among other things, how the up to 13 independently scrolling levels or the sometimes over 120 colours on the screen come about - but also why the title sometimes comes across as a bit monotonous in terms of gameplay due to the many technical gimmicks that push the hardware to the limit.
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23.Jan.2025
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Action game: Amiga Yoomp! 1.07
Amiga Yoomp! is a conversion of an Atari 8-bit game from 2007. In the last few weeks, several updates have been released that bring the following changes:
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22.Jan.2025
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Audio playback: Interview on the occasion of version 1.0 of AmiModRadio
Shortly before Christmas - after years of almost asymptotically approaching this version number - AmiModRadio 1.0 was released. Reason enough for us to ask its programmer 'Tygre' for an interview.
About the program: AmiModRadio accesses the more than twenty thousand music modules in Aminet, but also tens of thousands of tracks from Haxor.fi, Modland and Modules.pl, in order to download a piece of music, unpack it and play it on one of the playback programs such as AmigaAMP, DeliTracker, EaglePlayer, HippoPlayer, MultiPlayer or TuneNet. A rating function is also included. AmiModRadio is open source, the files are available on SourceForge and BitBucket. Anyone wishing to report bugs is asked to do so via the official bug tracker. Suggestions for improvement are always welcome.
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21.Jan.2025
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Shoot 'em up: Sky Shapers available in a physical box edition
Sky Shapers is a 50 FPS vertically scrolling shoot 'em up from the Norwegian development team Digilicious Nibbles. With three levels and 37 different enemy types, boss fights, weapon upgrades and special weapons, high-quality sound and two levels of parallax scrolling, the game brings arcade flair to the Amiga. Sky Shapers includes an extensive introduction sequence, a bonus point screen and a permanent high score table. The game achieved a positive 88 percent in the December issue of Amiga Addict.
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21.Jan.2025
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Flappy-Bird-clone: Happy Bat 1.2
The skill game "Happy Bat" has been developed by Carlos Zener for testing the high score function of the game development tool REDPILL (amiga-news.de reported). Happy Bat has now been updated to version 1.2, which features new graphics by Jordi Palome and a new music track for the initial level. In addition, executable files have been provided for Amigas with 68000 or 68020+ processors. The game requires a real or emulated Amiga with an AGA chipset.
"Happy Bat" is an adaptation of the game "Flappy Bird". The aim is to make a bat flap its wings by pressing the space bar or the joystick button, thus preventing it from hitting the ground or pillars, and guiding it safely through the level.
Happy Bat is provided both as a LhA archive and in ADF format. It can be downloaded in return for a voluntary donation.
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21.Jan.2025
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Hyperion Entertainment: Press release regarding the new director
As reported, Timothy De Groote has been appointed as the new director of Hyperion Entertainment. The following press release has been officially published by the company at the title link today.
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20.Jan.2025
Games That Weren't
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Joy of Killing
"Joy of Killing" was a shoot'em up started in 1996 by the Polish development team S-Crew. The site "Amiga Games That Weren't", which collects information on unreleased Amiga titles, has now restored the demo produced at the time in co-operation with 'Rygar'.
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20.Jan.2025
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Linux: Kernel 6.13.0 for X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.13.0, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled a version for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The new kernel fixes, among others, bugs around network, sound and SCSI.
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20.Jan.2025
Mixel
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Multiplayer arcade game: "WiZONK!" 1.0.4
"WiZONK!" (Video) is a single-screen platformer developed with the Scorpion Engine, in which up to four combatants try to kill each other. In version 1.0.4, a few bugs have been fixed and some changes have been made to the functionality:
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20.Jan.2025
Kobold_Eduard
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Christmas game: The Young Icefighter, Level 5 and bonus level
"The Young Icefighter" is a Christmas game for children created with the "Shoot'em Construction Kit", for which the developer's eight-year-old son drew most of the graphics (amiga-news.de reported). Now another bonus level and level 5 have been released.
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[News message: 20. Jan. 2025, 06:21] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2025
Marcel Stritzelberger
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Article: Amiga-Memory - A computer that shaped us (German)
Christian Spanik is an Austrian presenter, film producer and author who has written books about the Commodore 64 and Amiga. He also runs the website Der Digisaurier, where he looks at current topics with the knowledge of the past.
In the recently published German article "Amiga Memory: A computer that shaped us", he takes readers "on a journey through personal memories, quirky details and special moments that make the Amiga an unforgotten classic. And my favourite computer to this day."
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