19.Oct.2023
Stoo Cambridge
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Poster: Cover of AmigaAddict #19
Stoo Cambridge was a graphic designer at Sensible Software, who had also published the game Cannon Fodder, among others. For the cover picture of AmigaAddict #19 he used the game theme and added himself and Jon Hare in pixel portrait style. This picture can now also be ordered as a poster in his webshop.
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19.Oct.2023
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Video talk: The "Amiga Game Framework"
In mid-August we introduced Janne Peräaho's "Amiga Game Framework" in a detailed article. Last weekend, the traditional developer conference (DevCon) took place during the AmiWest, where developers report on their projects. Janne Peräaho kindly provided us with download links to the slides and the video presentation of his planned contribution:
Video talk (zip archive with avi video, 43 MB)
just the slides (zip archive with jpeg files, 3 MB)
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18.Oct.2023
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Truxz
Additional to Fatal Mission, there is another Amiga game started by Ola Zandelin (and Rodrigo Perez) that he did not finish: "Truxz" was supposed to be a 3D racing game with texture mapping. Planned were about nine different types of weapons, many different tracks on different terrain, raytraced graphics and a shop. Again, the developer provides some graphics on his website.
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18.Oct.2023
Mastodon
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Video: Converting PC disk drives for operating on Amigas
In his latest video, Jan Beta shows how to modify standard PC floppy drives to work with Amigas and other retro systems.
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18.Oct.2023
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3D action adventure: Bugdom 2 for Linux and MorphOS
Similar to the first part of the 3D action adventure game "Bugdom", the second part of the game originally published by Pangea Software was ported to modern OS by 'jorio'.
Afterwards, 'BeWorld' compiled Bugdom 2 for MorphOS (the latest SDL archive is required) and Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky for LinuxPPC-32Bit. The game runs on the Linux PowerPC distributions Void PPC, MintPPC, Fienix.
Download: Bugdom2_4.4.0-linux-powerpc.tar.gz (133 MB)
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18.Oct.2023
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 2.2 (x86)
"AROS One", a distribution based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.2 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as DVD ISO file or as USB flash image at the title link, where you can also find video recordings.
Besides updates of the included programs and games as well as bug fixes, also new functions have been added. The changes in detail:
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18.Oct.2023
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Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 v1.0 Release Candidate 2
A month ago, Developer Michal Schulz had released Release Candidate 1 of version 1.0 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Emu68 1.0 Release Candidate 2 contains all fixes from RC1. Additionally it contains two changes improving the support for old games and demos massively:
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17.Oct.2023
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.2 for Windows
Just the other day, in an article about setting up a Greaseweazle V4, we mentioned the graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools. Now 'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.2. Changes:
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17.Oct.2023
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Frogger clone: Frogger (beta version 3)
Frogger (YouTube video) is supposed to be a 1:1 conversion of the 1981 Konam game (amiga-news.de reported). As the developer reports, the third beta version of the game is technically 100% complete and a small trainer has also been integrated. He was also able to inspire a musician for the project who will compose 20 musical sequences. For now, beta version 2 stays available, since the changes will added to the final version.
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17.Oct.2023
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Video: Procedurally generated levels in AMOS
The procedural generation of levels is a technique for creating game worlds in which one does not create each individual level by hand, but uses algorithms to construct the levels programmatically. This allows for almost unlimited variation and can shorten development time (see the explanatory article on the example of Unity).
In his latest video, Rob Smith explains this technique using the example of a future AMOS game for which he has to generate a large number of levels. He also shows how to speed up the algorithm and finally create a simple maze.
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17.Oct.2023
Mastodon
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Image Gallery: 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. According to the operator, quite a number of remarkable images were created during this period, which he believes should not be gathering dust on some hard drive, hidden in an extra level in a game that is never played, or on a PD collection disk that is almost unknown. These graphics should be accessible to all by presenting them on his website.
Somewhat deviating from his own credo, pixel graphics by the Danish graphic artist Facet have been added in the latest Update.
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16.Oct.2023
Forum 64 (Webseite)
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Joystick repairs: Replacement PCB for the Competition Pro Mini
The "Competition Pro Mini" is a miniaturized version of the well-known Competition Pro joystick. Thanks to their small size, the micro switches used in these joysticks aren't really up to the mechanical stress they're put through while playing games - which is why many surviving Minis are only partially functional these days: Some of the directions or fire buttons are not working anymore.
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16.Oct.2023
Tobias Baeumer (AmiDev Team) (ANF)
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"Making Of"video: AmiFox Amiga38 Boxed Special Edition
The Amitopia AmiDev Team gave away boxed special editions of AmiFox on the Amiga 38 last weekend, like reported in a previous news. Now there is also a "Making Of" video available with details on how it was produced and what was learned in the process. The video also includes footage of the actual event.
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16.Oct.2023
Steffen Häuser (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: Update to Heretic II nearing completion (Update)
Since the beginning of the year Steffen Häuser has been working on an update for Heretic II for AmigaOS 4, which among other things should support HD modes. At the Amiga38 a preview of the game was already shown at the stands of Alinea Computer and HunoPPC (amiga-news.de reported). As he now informs us, he worked on the game again after the fair and created a new version. The most important changes:
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16.Oct.2023
Daniel "DNA" Voelkel (ANF)
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Diskmag: 'Amiga Rulez' now available in English
A week ago, the first German issue of a new Diskmag called 'Amiga Rulez' was published, now the English translation is available. The next issue will be released in mid December, after that new issues will published every quarter. From now on, the German and English editions will be released simultaneously.
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[News message: 16. Oct. 2023, 01:28] [Comments: 0]
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16.Oct.2023
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS: PolyOrganiser 1.22a
Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault's PolyOrganiser is a 'Personal Information Management' tool that features a calendar, an address book and ToDo lists. Changes since version 1.21:
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15.Oct.2023
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Amiwest: Presentations from Amigakit, A-EON and ExecSG
This weekend, "Amiwest 2023" took place in Sacramento, USA. As usual, all presentations from the show were streamed live over the internet - the recordings of the streams from the first and second day are available on Youtube. The following is a brief summary of the important points discussed in the presentations from Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), Steven Solie (ExecSG) and Matthew Leaman (Amigakit):
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[News message: 15. Oct. 2023, 22:36] [Comments: 0]
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15.Oct.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.1 (update)
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
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15.Oct.2023
Robosaurus Spielothek (ANF)
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Video: Show report Amiga38 by Robosaurus Spielothek (German)
Dominic Ortmanns from Robosaurus Spielothek writes (translated from German): "I consider today's video to be a great moment in my work so far. On the one hand, this is due to the topic. After the relative success of my Amiga37 video, I didn't want to let myself down for the Amiga38 and pulled out all the stops. It has been a long time since I had so much fun making and editing a video.
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15.Oct.2023
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Aminet uploads until 14.10.2023
The following files have been added until 14.10.2023 to Aminet:
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15.Oct.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 14.10.2023
The following files have been added until 14.10.2023 to OS4Depot:
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15.Oct.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 14.10.2023
The following files have been added until 14.10.2023 to AROS Archives:
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15.Oct.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 14.10.2023
The following files have been added until 14.10.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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15.Oct.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 14.10.2023
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 14.10.2023:
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15.Oct.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
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15.Oct.2023
Amiga.org (forum)
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AmiWest 2023: First photos
Robert Bernardo is documenting again the AmiWest 2023 taking place this weekend and has published first photos. Among those from friday the Ranger prototype can be seen.
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15.Oct.2023
GAP (ANF)
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German Amiga Podcast: Issue 16
The sixteenth edition of the "German Amiga Podcast" (GAP) is about Amiga38, that took place October 7 in Mönchengladbach (Germany).
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14.Oct.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.2
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.2 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes:
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[News message: 14. Oct. 2023, 07:06] [Comments: 0]
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14.Oct.2023
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Preview video: Doom clone "Grind"
John 'Tsak' Tsakiris has published a new preview video for his Doom clone "Grind" (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 14. Oct. 2023, 06:36] [Comments: 0]
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14.Oct.2023
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Theme set: New wallpapers for 32se (AmigaOS 3.2)
Sami Vehmaa has released another theme pack to his theme set for his AmigaOS 3.2 extension 32se or the free 32se-lite which adds ten different wallpapers, boot logos and sounds from his new game Mansion of Madness 2.
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[News message: 14. Oct. 2023, 06:33] [Comments: 0]
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14.Oct.2023
Simon Neumann (E-Mail)
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Neues von Alinea Computer: Wodem, KickRom-Flash und KickRom-Progger
Press release: Alinea Computer presents three new products that were presented to the public for the first time at Amiga 38:
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14.Oct.2023
commodore.news (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: AMI Tech Gazette, issue 5
The "AMI Tech Gazette", edited by Eric Schwartz and Michael Barclay, is a bi-monthly English PDF magazine. The fifth issue offers current short news and a review of the British print magazine "CU Amiga" as well as the first part of a course in which Eric Schwartz describes his approach to creating illustrations and animations on the Amiga.
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13.Oct.2023
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Visual Novel: Mansion of Madness 2
After the first part, Sami Vehmaa now continues the story of the Visual Novel game with "Mansion of Madness 2" (YouTube video). According to the author, the game offers an average playing time of 20 to 30 minutes with five different endings. You need at least an Amiga with a 68030 processor and 30 MB RAM. The game is available for download for at least around 2 Euros.
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[News message: 13. Oct. 2023, 06:11] [Comments: 0]
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13.Oct.2023
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit for PiStorm released
In addition to the already existing versions for Raspberry Pi, Windows, Mac and Linux, the workbench distributions AmiKit are now also available for the PiStorm or PiStorm-lite (YouTube video). Ján Zahurančík writes about this:
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13.Oct.2023
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Demoparty: TRSAC 2023 in Denmark
The probably last edition of the TRSAC demo party will take place from 20 to 22 October 2023 in Aarhus, Denmark. TRSAC is an acronym for "The Real Scene After Christmas". TRSAC was started in 2000 by a few friends from the demoscene who thought that demoparties were too much about games.
Among the various competitions is Oldskool, which is primarily reserved for the Amiga. On the timetable, one can find precise information about the different programme items.
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