30.Oct.2024
deadwood (AROSWorld)
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AROS: Web browser Odyssey 2.0 for AROS 32-bit released
Following appropriate tests, version 2.0 of the Odyssey web browser for the 32-bit version of AROS has now been officially released (video). Yesterday's second update for this ABI v0 version of AROS is required.
New features of version 2.0 of the browser include in particular an updated WebKit engine based on the February 2019 version, the porting of the media player from Wayfarer 1.21 and SSE acceleration for media playback, so that YouTube can be used again.
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30.Oct.2024
ALB (Blog)
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ePub reader: Legadon 0.3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's reader for e-books in ePub format, Legadon, has been updated for all Amiga systems.
Besides bug fixes, version 0.3 of the reader transforms some UTF-8 characters that have no direct equivalent in the Amiga character set into corresponding characters - for example various forms of quotation marks, dashes and accents.
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30.Oct.2024
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Halloween Pac-Man: Pumpkin
Friends of Pac-Man-like games can find a Halloween version at the title link, called "Pumpkin".
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30.Oct.2024
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Video series: AmigaOS - A Project with Sina & Paddy (German)
In a German video series with nine parts so far, Paddy da Linco and the developer Sina explore the Amiga:
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30.Oct.2024
Mastodon (ANF)
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Video: Developer at AmiWest gives preview of his game "Magicore Anomala"
At the title link Robert Bernardo's video of Dan Salvato's presentation of his OCS game "Magicore Anomala" at AmiWest can be found. The game is still work in progress.
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29.Oct.2024
deadwood (E-Mail)
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AROS/x86: Update of the ABI v0 version
In February Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz ported version 20220318-1 of AROS/x86 for 32-bit systems back to the original binary interface ABIv0. Now at the title link as well as on GitHub a second update for it has been published (release notes).
The archive contains just the updated components which can be copied directly onto an existing installation of the operating system.
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2024, 12:22] [Comments: 0]
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29.Oct.2024
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Do it yourself: Action Replay III cartridge with case
The ar3 project is a remake of the Action Replay III cartridge for the Amiga and offers modern features to use the legendary hardware module for the expansion port on original hardware. The replica provides the original functions of the module. With the open-source approach, ar3 enables expansion and adaptation to current needs. The GitHub project initiated by Nicola Avanzi provides the data (including Kicad and JED files), ROM binaries and component lists required for the replica in the ar3 repository.
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2024, 00:28] [Comments: 0]
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29.Oct.2024
McFly
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Documentary: The Making of Worms (1995)
The documentary "The Making of Worms (1995)" on YouTube provides a comprehensive insight into the creation of the cult game Worms by Team 17. The one-hour film shows the history of the game, starting with developer Andy Davidson's idea and ending with its implementation and release in 1995.
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2024, 00:28] [Comments: 0]
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29.Oct.2024
Amiga Kit
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A600GS: Update 46.1.864 with floppy drive support
With the new update v46.1.864 for the A600GS computer, manufacturer Amiga Kit is introducing, among other things, support for floppy drives via Drawbridge (amiga-news.de reported). The changes in detail:
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2024, 00:22] [Comments: 0]
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29.Oct.2024
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #201 - Charles Cecil (Revolution Software)
In the 201st episode of the Scene World podcast, the team welcomes Charles Cecil, founder of Revolution Software and an icon of British video game development. Cecil, known for some classic adventure games that are still popular today, talks about his career and the development of these influential games. Revolution Software brought many point-and-click adventures to the Amiga, including "Lure of the Temptress" (1992) and "Beneath a Steel Sky" (1994), and also ported the Sierra classic "King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow" to the Amiga. The interview starts at 1:03:08.
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29.Oct.2024
itch.io
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Educational game: Simons Siffror / Simon's Numbers (Swedish)
A playful introduction to numbers and math is provided by the new educational game "Simons Siffror" ("Simon's Numbers") for the Amiga - but only in Swedish text and speech. Players can solve various simple math problems designed especially for children. The user interface is tailored to a young audience, making learning easy and fun.
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2024, 00:21] [Comments: 0]
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29.Oct.2024
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Print magazine: Boing #9 (French)
"Boing" is a French print magazine by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL) for all Amiga systems on 52 A4 color pages.
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2024, 00:21] [Comments: 0]
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28.Oct.2024
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Hyperion continues to be managed by court-appointed administrator
“Ben Hermans BV” (hereinafter: BHBV) was a private company with limited
liability owned by Ben Hermans, which has held
97% of the shares in Hyperion
since 2019 and subsequently also acted as a ‘director’ of Hyperion. In March,
bankruptcy proceedings were
opened against BHBV for the second time and
shortly afterwards, at the request of BHBV's liquidator, a “provisional
administrator” was appointed for Hyperion to manage the company's business
until further notice.
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[News message: 28. Oct. 2024, 21:03] [Comments: 1 - 29. Oct. 2024, 15:21]
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28.Oct.2024
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master v4.9 R116 für Windows 10/11
Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).
After our last news item, bugs have been fixed and the program "Sprite Animation" can now export C/Pascal/Basic code of all animation frames. In a recent YouTube video he shows how he created a simple platform game with the help of Raster Master and raylib (GitHub).
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28.Oct.2024
ALBs Blog
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Video: Client for chatbot "Ollama"
In a short video, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow presents his client for the chatbot Ollama (German), which he wrote at an Amiga meeting in Berlin. You can install this model on your own server using a Docker container and then access it from a small Amiga programme. He wrote this client with FreePascal.
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[News message: 28. Oct. 2024, 12:09] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2024
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News from AmiWest 2024, AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 3 announced
At AmiWest, which took place this weekend in Sacramento (USA), Steven Solie
and Trevor Dickinson were again present to give presentations and answer
questions about AmigaOS 4 related products. Just like last year, no Hyperion representative was
attending. Instead Bill Borsari from the organizing team announced
during the opening speech that Hyperion “plans” to release an update 3 for
AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition.
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2024, 18:14] [Comments: 1 - 28. Oct. 2024, 00:05]
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27.Oct.2024
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Aminet uploads until 26.10.2024
The following files have been added until 26.10.2024 to Aminet:
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27.Oct.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 26.10.2024
The following files have been added until 26.10.2024 to OS4Depot:
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27.Oct.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.10.2024
The following files have been added until 26.10.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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27.Oct.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.10.2024
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 26.10.2024:
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2024, 06:31] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2024
Mastodon (ANF)
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Do it yourself: Video adapter Spite Sprite and mouse adapter Toxoplasma Gondii
Spite Sprite is an Amiga RGB to composite/S-Video adapter, while Toxoplasma gondii is not just a parasite that also infects mice as an intermediate host, but in this case an adapter that converts the analog signals from PC mice into digital signals for the Amiga and thus makes them usable there as well.
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2024, 06:31] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2024
ANF
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File manager: New test build of Directory Opus 5.92
After eight years a new test build of version 5.92 of the file manager Directory Opus 5 (previously: "Magellan") is available at the title link. Directory Opus 5 became open source in 2012.
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27.Oct.2024
spillhistorie.no (ANF)
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Interview with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson
At the title link Jon Håvard Gundersen has conducted another interview for the Norwegian site Spillhistorie, this time with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson. The Swede is known for numerous demos and music disks for the Amiga and the C64 and probably above all for the conversion of Commodore hardware into musical instruments (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2024, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2024
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Proof of concept: Image display without RAM
With his proof of concept "Amiga CPU Blit Read-Only" 'nicodex' shows how to display an image on the Amiga without write access to the RAM. His ROM requires a PAL Amiga with a 68000 or 68010 processor clocked at 7 MHz.
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27.Oct.2024
Look Behind You (ANF)
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Pre-order sale: Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual - AmigaDOS as a printed book
Press release: The "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: AmigaDOS" by Thomas Richter will be published in a strictly limited print run - a project that does not pursue any commercial purpose, but aims to offer the PDF reference manual created by Thomas 'ThoR' Richter as a high-quality, printed book at an affordable price.
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2024, 06:29] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2024
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Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer Red Alert 1.7.2
Artur Jarosik's port of "Command & Conquer: Red Alert", designed for Amigas with powerful turbo cards such as PiStorm/Emu68, Apollo/Vampire V4 or Warp1260, is now available in version 1.7.2.
The new features since version 1.5 include bug fixes, a reduction of the CPU load during video playback, accelerated movement of the map when the right mouse button is pressed and an SDL-less CGX/AGA variant.
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27.Oct.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 171 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 171 (November/December 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content includes interviews with Simon Phipps, Carlo Pastore and Achim Pankalla, several reviews, e.g. of ignition and X-bEnCh, and various specials, for example about MacroSystem, usergroups and the history of the demo scene.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers.
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2024, 06:29] [Comments: 0]
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26.Oct.2024
ALB-Blog
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ePub reader: Legadon v0.2 for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released Legadon, a simple ePub reader for all Amiga systems (YouTube video), which makes reading e-books on the Amiga possible for the first time.
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[News message: 26. Oct. 2024, 20:08] [Comments: 0]
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26.Oct.2024
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Platform game: 2tinycowboys now with single-player mode (update)
2tinycowboys (YouTube video) is a game developed with the Scorpion Engine for the Amiga 500, in which two players compete against each other on a single screen in arcade platformer style. Since our last news item, numerous changes and improvements have been made, including the addition of a single-player mode.
Update: (14:16, 28.10.24, dr)
With version 28 released yesterday, some bugs have been fixed. It is now possible to start a single player mode with both characters.
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[News message: 26. Oct. 2024, 09:32] [Comments: 0]
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26.Oct.2024
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Dungeon Crawler: Halloween X released
After a demo version (amiga-news.de reported), Sami Vehmaa has now released the full version of his dungeon crawler "Halloween X" (neues Twitch video), which can currently be purchased for around 4.60 euros. A fast AGA Amiga and AmigaOS3.x are required.
At the same time, he also updated the demo version. Version 1.06 offers bug fixes, a better user interface, adjusted difficulty levels and timing for traps, etc.
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[News message: 26. Oct. 2024, 06:53] [Comments: 0]
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25.Oct.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE! 163 (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 classic "Crystal Dragon", the new release "Dr. Dangerous" and the CDTV title "Gardenfax: Trees & Shrubs".
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[News message: 25. Oct. 2024, 11:33] [Comments: 0]
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25.Oct.2024
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Emulator: Denise v2.4
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64 (German YouTube video). Numerous amiga-specific changes have been made since our last report on version 2.21: among other things, emulation has been improved, especially the disk drive, and a 4-player adapter is now supported. Detailed changes:
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[News message: 25. Oct. 2024, 09:03] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2024
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PDF document: The Amiga 500 beginner's guide (German)
In a 46-page German PDF document, Patrick Schwedt has written both his personal Amiga story and, above all, lots of tips and hints for those who have bought an Amiga 500 for the first time or after a long time. There are chapters on drives, memory expansions, turbo cards, operating systems, mice and software, among other things.
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[News message: 24. Oct. 2024, 22:39] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2024
Mastodon
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Arananet: Accelerator Trinity 1240-60 can be pre-ordered
After four years of development and extensive testing, "best accelerator ever built for the Amiga A1200" has been finalised. The Trinity 1240-60 supports 68040-68060 CPUs and is compatible with all A1200 revisions. According to the developer, great care has been taken to optimise access to the chip memory, regardless of whether it is equipped with a 68040 or 68060 processor. It can now be pre-ordered for 369 euros.
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[News message: 24. Oct. 2024, 21:32] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2024
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Blog: Different versions of Amiga Topaz font
In his latest article, Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, reports on his journey of discovery regarding the different Amiga Topaz fonts of the respective Kickstart ROMs: while browsing through Cloanto's collection of Kickstart ROMs and looking at the screenshots, he noticed that Topaz font of the Kickstart intermediate version 1.4 Alpha 18 was already a sans serif, but would not look quite like the 2.0 version of Topaz.
Incidentally, when trying to load the Workbench under Kickstart 1.4, he discovered that a green "Recoverable Alert" with a "Guru Meditation" message appeared.
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[News message: 24. Oct. 2024, 04:13] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2024
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Blog: Installing a TF1260
Under the title link, Didier Malenfant describes his findings and experiences with the installation of a TerribleFire 1260 turbo card (see also turbo card comparison (German)). The article will be continuously updated.
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