28.Nov.2024
OSnews (ANF)
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Linux PPC removes support for CHRP (e.g. Pegasos)
The maintainers of the PowerPC port of the Linux kernel are planning to remove support for CHRP ("Common Hardware Reference Platform") systems. The Pegasos/Pegasos 2 systems from bplan are among those affected. However, this change will have no effect on the PowerPC computers from Eyetech, ACube and A-EON: here the community has always been responsible for kernel adaptations.
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[News message: 28. Nov. 2024, 21:58] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2024
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Preview videos: Beat'em up "Last Battle 2" , Shoot'em Up "Galactic Plague"
Two developers provide a first insight into the status of their projects developed with the Scorpion Engine by publishing videos showing some gameplay:
Last Battle 2 is to be a beat'em up which sees itself as an unofficial successor to the Sega classic "Last Battle", which was also ported to the Amiga.
Galactic Plague is a vertically scrolling shooter that the designer originally wanted to develop with the Shoot'em Up Construction Kit before deciding to use a more modern platform due to its limitations and instability.
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[News message: 28. Nov. 2024, 21:46] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2024
spillhistorie.no (ANF)
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Interview: The story of Twintris
The blog “Spillhistory” spoke to programmer Svein Berge about his Tetris clone Twintris, which was first published by Digital Marketing in 1990 and then distributed on various magazine disks in 1991.
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[News message: 28. Nov. 2024, 21:40] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2024
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry V7.0.0-RC1
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems such as the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which comes with some newly developed features such as a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch and is used, for example, in the AmiKit workbench distribution for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. A modified version of Amiberry is also the basis for the THEA500 Mini.
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[News message: 28. Nov. 2024, 21:35] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2024
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Windows: py-guide-viewer displays AmigaGuide documents
py-guide-viewer is an extended AmigaGuide viewer written in Python. The program is compiled for Windows, it also offers some features that the Amiga originals do not offer: Images, sounds and pieces of music - in modern file formats - can be embedded in the text file using UUencode and displayed or played within the guide pages. The py-guide-viewer also supports emojis, the text-based original symbols are replaced by small graphics.
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[News message: 28. Nov. 2024, 21:21] [Comments: 0]
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27.Nov.2024
Mastodon (ANF)
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Ambermoon: How fingerprinting identified a press leak
On the occasion of the widest possible release of the Ambermoon source code last year, its lead programmer Jurie Horneman also wrote a text about how he managed to identify through fingerprinting a fairly well-known journalist who had passed on the game in 1993 - and forgot to publish this article.
Now he has made up for this at the title link. When he confronted the journalist at the time by a phone call, he would have been very apologetic. His new intern must have leaked it and so on. In any case, Jurie Horneman writes in his final sentence, the game received a good rating.
(snx)
[News message: 27. Nov. 2024, 11:14] [Comments: 0]
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27.Nov.2024
Discord (ANF)
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AmiGameJam candidate: Battle Squadron 2
Successors to Amiga games are to be created as part of the AmiGameJam 2024 contest. The 'Bitwise Brains' team have published their idea of a sequel to Battle Squadron at the title link.
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27.Nov.2024
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Videos: Quick clips from Amiga Alive on everyday questions
With his "Quick clips", 'Amiga Alive' has started a video series on YouTube, whose short films are dedicated to everyday problems when working on the Amiga - for example, how to get AmigaAMP 3 running on AmigaOS 3.0 or how to translate an AMOS program to C.
(snx)
[News message: 27. Nov. 2024, 11:14] [Comments: 0]
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27.Nov.2024
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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Music album with old OctaMED Soundstudio tracks released on Spotify
Timo Kloss, the developer of Ermentrud and Horny, among others, used an emulator to go through his old OctaMED Soundstudio projects, slightly reworked the best ones, exported them in higher quality and put them together as a new album.
The result is now available on Spotify and other providers under the name “1997_99”. According to him, the musical style moves freely between medieval and techno.
(snx)
[News message: 27. Nov. 2024, 11:13] [Comments: 1 - 27. Nov. 2024, 15:01]
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27.Nov.2024
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Event: Announcement of date for Classic Computing 2025 (Germany)
Next year Classic Computing event will take place again in September, from 11th to 14th of that month. After Baden-Württemberg, it will then be held in Bavaria, in the Freiheitshalle Hof.
The annual "Classic Computing" is organized by the "Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V." and is one of the largest retrocomputer events in Germany.
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[News message: 27. Nov. 2024, 11:13] [Comments: 0]
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26.Nov.2024
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 34
Issue 34 of the English-language magazine Amiga Addict is now available from the publisher addict.media and in British newsstands. In the cover story, the editorial team is looking for a suitable Christmas present and sheds light on current FPGA systems, including the Minimig and MISTer models.
This issue also contains reviews of the new games Holy Warrior, Sky Shapers and The Lost Pixel and the classic games Arcade Pool and Nick Faldo's Golf, an interview with Bitmap Brothers artist Dan Malone, a festive CD32 corner with AmigaJay's Christmas Crackers collection, Christmas HAM with Digi-Paint, a screenshot quiz and much more.
Amiga Addict is published every six weeks and is available as a single issue or by subscription, in either printed or PDF format.
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[News message: 26. Nov. 2024, 11:18] [Comments: 0]
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26.Nov.2024
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Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 22
The new issue 22 (November 2024) of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga" comes in a new design, the cover was illustrated by Simon Phipps (Rick Dangerous, Wolfchild, among others). The magazine is available in print or digital editions. The main topic of the issue is video games.
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[News message: 26. Nov. 2024, 11:03] [Comments: 0]
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26.Nov.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE! 164 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE! ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in both the Italian original and an English translation (right-hand side). The current issue 163 also contains three reviews of Amiga titles: the beat'em'up "Beastlord", the Arkanoid-clone "Crystal Dragon" and the platform-game "The Lost Pixel".
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[News message: 26. Nov. 2024, 10:50] [Comments: 0]
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25.Nov.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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(snx)
[News message: 25. Nov. 2024, 19:49] [Comments: 0]
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25.Nov.2024
itch.io
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Puzzle game: Connect available for free
Frank from the LogicalByte team writes: "Hello everyone, it's been over 2 years since we released Connect (amiga-news.de reported). During this time, we have received a lot of praise, which has made us very happy. The gaming community has also sent us suggestions for improvements, which we have implemented as long as they fit into the concept and the game technically allowed it. As expected, the box version sold well and sales of the digital version were also satisfactory. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support!
Nevertheless, it is time to take the next step and we have decided to offer this game for free. With this we would like to offer the other players of this world the opportunity to spend great hours with this game on the Amiga. Remaining copies of the box version are still available at Alinea Computer."
(dr)
[News message: 25. Nov. 2024, 09:32] [Comments: 0]
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25.Nov.2024
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SCALA-MM game conversion: The Angel of Death
After Adventure 2 Remake and Beyond a Steel Sky, 'Quantum Code Monk', formerly 'grindercowboy', has released a third game project for Scala MM, which he has now submitted for the AmiGameJam 2024 instead of Beyond a Steel Sky: The Angel of Death is based on Police Quest: In Pursuit Of The Death Angel, a game published by Sierra in 1987, but with different roles. As Jessie Bains, you try to take control of the drug trade in the town of Lytton.
The game is still in development: sound and music are missing and the graphics are only placeholder graphics. The story is also only 20 to 30% complete. AmigaOS 3.x and the Scala-MM-Player are required.
(dr)
[News message: 25. Nov. 2024, 06:53] [Comments: 0]
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25.Nov.2024
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel
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Turn-based strategy: November-2024-Update for "Settle the World"
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel writes about his November update: "A new version of my Amiga game "Settle the World" is available.
The "Quality of Life and Pathfinding Update - November 2024" contains mostly bug fixes and a completely revised pathfinding.
n the last few months I've changed my real-life job, otherwise I would have lost my job. This job is very demanding and I can no longer manage to work four or more hours a day on "Settle the World". Development will definitely continue, but at a slower pace than last year. As always, you can download the latest version of the game free of charge from my project page. You can find a more detailed description of the changes in the corresponding developer diary for the update.
I would be very pleased to receive feedback and constructive criticism."
(dr)
[News message: 25. Nov. 2024, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2024
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Aminet uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to Aminet:
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24.Nov.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to OS4Depot:
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[News message: 24. Nov. 2024, 08:58] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to AROS Archives:
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24.Nov.2024
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WHD-Load: New installers until 23.11.2024
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 23.11.2024:
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[News message: 24. Nov. 2024, 08:58] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2024
GitHub
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Do it yourself: Amiga adapter RiskyKVM for keyboard-video-mouse switches
RiskyKVM is intended as an Amiga adapter for keyboard-video-mouse switches, but can also be used as a USB to DB9 and Amiga keyboard interface.
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[News message: 24. Nov. 2024, 08:57] [Comments: 1 - 24. Nov. 2024, 22:27]
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24.Nov.2024
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ADF-Blitzer 3.10
Andreas Gouder's program ADF-Blitzer for creating and writing back ADF images has been released in version 3.10. Besides smaller additions, it does now also support German language besides English. Further localizations are not intended.
Download: adfblitzer.lha (33 KB)
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[News message: 24. Nov. 2024, 08:57] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2024
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Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 10.3
Thomas 'Thor' Richter's universal PCI driver system “OpenPCI” supports all known PCI solutions for the Amiga without recourse to the software of the respective manufacturer. The current version 10.3 eliminates problems when working with PCI bridges:
- Bridge configuration was refactored again. Bridge
and parent device are now passed already into the
constructor of a PCI device, and not only when it
is added.
- Fixed a trashed register in the Mediator board
scan.
- The Mediator scan did not pass the parent device
correctly into the device creator, thus giving
devices behind bridges wrong bus IDs.
- For some strange reason, the Mediator does not
seem to decode the address bits for selecting a
device behind a PCI bridge correctly; it seems
to ignore them. Therefore, the Mediator currently
supports only a single device behind a bridge.
- Some bridges take apparently several milliseconds
to accept a configuration. Now the library inserts
a 50ms delay after having installed the target
busses after setting up a PCI bridge.
- The time delay function was broken and passed in
the wrong command to the timer.device.
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[News message: 23. Nov. 2024, 00:22] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2024
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Operating system-compliant Pac-Man conversion: 5th-7th part of the video series
Thomas Cherryhomes is working on a conversion of the game Pac-Man that only uses operating system calls. Episodes five to seven
are entitled "recreating a WSG sound", "the pac-man sprite" and "the clyde BOB".
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[News message: 22. Nov. 2024, 22:07] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2024
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast episode #202 - Making the fan-made Broken Sword 2.5
In the 202nd edition of the "Scene World" podcast, the team welcomes Marius Gosch, one of the founders of the Broken Sword 2.5 project, which also runs on AmigaOS thanks to ScummVM. The interview, in which Gosch talks about his work as a writer and puzzle designer on this fan-made sequel to Broken Sword 2, starts at timestamp 1:43:08 of the podcast.
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[News message: 22. Nov. 2024, 22:03] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2024
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Tetris clone: "Tetra Zone"
Around eight years ago, Wei-ju Wu published a seven-part series (plus additional episodes) on Amiga hardware programming in C on his YouTube channel. Now he is in the process of writing a Tetris clone called "Tetra Zone" for the AmiGameJam 2024, which implements techniques from this tutorial series (YouTube video).
His game extends the original with three preview stones, a hold function, a "ghost stone" and support for "wall kicks". Another goal was to achieve a stable frame rate of 50/60 fps on a 5-bitplane screen. He has now released a first pre-release version (without sound).
(dr)
[News message: 22. Nov. 2024, 18:27] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2024
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Developer log: Shattering the Magicore 8-color limit
In a recent blog entry on his game "Magicore Anomala" (amiga-news.de reported), which is currently in development, developer Dan Salvato explains why the background in the game uses eight colours or less - and how it is still possible to use Copper to change the colour palette to create an even more colourful image while displaying different areas of the background.
(dr)
[News message: 22. Nov. 2024, 17:59] [Comments: 0]
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