04.Nov.2024
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Cowboy/shootout game: Full version of Duel released
In "Duel", two cowboys (or a cowboy and an alien) that can be controlled up or down shoot at each other, with various obstacles providing cover (video). In the now finalised version (amiga-news.de reported) you can choose from 29 characters.
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04.Nov.2024
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Preview video: Platformer "Robot Jet Action 2"
Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik is in the process of porting his platformer "Robot Jet Action", originally released for the C64, to the Amiga as "Robot Jet Action 2" using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video #5 under the title link, among others transparency effects are demonstrated.
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04.Nov.2024
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AROS: Review of October 2024
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of October at the title link.
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04.Nov.2024
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Preview video: Danmaku #6
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of continuing a project that was started four years ago and interrupted in the meantime. Now that the complete, new development team is together - graphics: Holger Crome, music: Roland 'Triace' Voss, code: Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener - the original name of the game "Hyperborea" (amiga-news.de reported) has been discarded in order to finally decide on a common title. Until then, the Japanese name of the game genre for Bullet Hell, Danmaku, will be used as the working title. Changes to the sixth preview video:
- new WIP stage 1 background graphics: a preview of Crome's great level 1 artwork!
- new animated player ships: the original ship asset was bought from Matt and reworked by me to fit the palette restrictions.
- new explosions: same for the new explosions which have a lot more animation frames now.
- new spread-shot gfx: there was rightful criticism that it looked a bit too much like an ice-cream cone, so I threw it away and made a new one.
- new additional animated bonus stars: IMO the bonus stars were a bit too static, so I added a smaller animated variant.
- bonus star magnetism: it's just a much more satisfying game experience if you collect lots of bonus stars instead of missing most.
- new sparks on hit: when you hit an enemy there are procedural "sparks" now, for additional feedback and to make it more vivid.
- animated bullets (not really new but for the first time in a WIP video): it's no real bullet hell game without those famous rotating oval bullets ;)
- shadows for all floating enemies / player ships: I'm a big SWIV fan, so this was kind of mandatory ;)
- fresh set of enemy placeholders: no more BS :) The current placeholders' originals have either been bought from Matt or lent from a Dezaemon spritesheet before quickly being tweaked for the engine.
- title screen placeholder: the name "Hyperborea" is no more. And until we found a new one, I asked some AI to generate a title screen for a classic shmup named "Placeholder" using Japanese for the title...
Well, good enough for now (and better don't try to translate it ;) ).
- player ship / shot coloring configurable in main menu: was so quick and easy to add, so why not!
- shadows and sparks can be enabled / disabled in main menu: in case somebody doesn't like the eye candy.
- further really massive bullet code / memory optimizations: the more bullets the better, so...
- new bullet patterns: still rather simple because it's a WIP demo.
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04.Nov.2024
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Diskmag: Amiga Rulez 24-02 (English/German)
The third issue of the diskmag “Amiga Rulez” is available simultaneously in German and English versions. For the first time, the current issue features game tests (Sensible Soccer) and a review of the best scene productions of 2023.
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03.Nov.2024
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Aminet uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to Aminet:
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03.Nov.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to OS4Depot:
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03.Nov.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to AROS Archives:
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03.Nov.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.11.2024
The following files have been added until 02.11.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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03.Nov.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.11.2024
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 02.11.2024:
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03.Nov.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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Event: Videos of AmiWest 2024
As usual Robert Bernardo presents several videos of AmiWest again:
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02.Nov.2024
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Action adventure: October update for Castlevania AGA
Dante Mende has released another update to his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure “Castlevania”. He adjusted the moving platforms on level 2 to align with the floors in the level (so the player sprite don't appear with "feet sunk" in the floor if he just walks out of them). DJ Metune is now in charge of the music department, about half of the soundtrack is still currently finished.
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02.Nov.2024
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GUI for identify.library: Huh? 0.1
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's “Huh?” is a MUI-based graphical user interface for Richard 'Shred' Körber's identify.library, which can read built-in extensions and other properties of the system.
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01.Nov.2024
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Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.5.0 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported).
In addition to updating important programme components, version 2.5.0 now makes it possible to have a question mark in the file name (to separate the file name and the standard sub-song) and to drag and drop a link to a module into the module list.
An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store, the ".NET Desktop Runtime V8" is required.
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31.Oct.2024
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Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 9.2
To stem the proliferation of incompatible, vendor-specific software solutions for PCI extensions, Benjamin Vernoux introduced his “OpenPCI” system in 2003 and actively developed it further until 2007. However, the original OpenPCI was only a wrapper that continued to rely on the original, proprietary libraries of the respective hardware provider.
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31.Oct.2024
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AmigaOS 4: DTP program Compression 0.4 (Beta)
Achim Pankalla's DTP program 'Compression' allows graphics and text to be placed on printed pages and generates PDF documents from them. New features in version 0.4:
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[News message: 31. Oct. 2024, 19:33] [Comments: 0]
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31.Oct.2024
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Block diagram from 1991: the Amiga 5000
The “Commodore International Historical Society” regularly publishes official Commodore documents provided by former employees and other insiders. A block diagram from 1991 by Commodore engineer Dave Haynie shows a design for an “Amiga 5000” in which the CPU/RAM/ROM module is connected to the other system modules - including an “Amiga module” containing the AAA chipset, as well as a “Zorro bridge” - via a PCI bus.
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[News message: 31. Oct. 2024, 19:21] [Comments: 0]
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31.Oct.2024
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Jump'n Shoot: La Noche de los Pequeños Espectros
La Noche de los Pequeños Espectros (“The Night of the Little Ghosts”, video) is a Halloween-themed platform game. The title, written with Amiten's “AmiGen” engine (including NinjFeratu) runs on any ECS Amiga with at least one megabyte of memory. A user-defined fee must be paid for the download, but a free download is also possible.
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[News message: 31. Oct. 2024, 18:13] [Comments: 0]
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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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[News message: 30. Oct. 2024, 12:46] [Comments: 0]
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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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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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