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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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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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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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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23.Oct.2024
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.21
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.
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23.Oct.2024
GitHub
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.18 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.18 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version 3.4.0 (22.10.2024) of OpenSSL. Changes:
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22.Oct.2024
WinUAE Homepage
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Emulator: WinUAE 5.3.1
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.3.1. Changes:
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[News message: 22. Oct. 2024, 16:54] [Comments: 0]
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22.Oct.2024
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 33
Issue 33 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 discusses the influence of the Amiga on virtual reality systems.
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22.Oct.2024
EAB (Forum)
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Videogames studies: Experimental action game "Squarez" now available
The recently released Squarez is a remake of the Flash game SQUARES 2 and was developed as part of the CHLudens research project (amiga-news.de reported). This abstract action game is controlled entirely by mouse and offers minimalist, rectangle-based graphics. The aim of the game is to catch grey rectangles while avoiding the yellow ones in various levels.
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[News message: 22. Oct. 2024, 16:36] [Comments: 0]
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22.Oct.2024
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Developer log: Creation of demo "New Art" (1st place at Deadline 2024)
In a detailed article, Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, describes the creation of the demo New Art, which won first place in the "Three Dee" category (3D effect using red/cyan-coloured glasses) at this year's edition of Deadline (amiga-news.de reported).
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21.Oct.2024
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Blog: Comparison of Push-Over versions (Amiga, Atari ST, PC, Super Nintendo)
The "Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog" compares and reviews games "as unbiased as possible". The current article compares the Amiga, Atari ST, PC and Super Nintendo versions of the Ocean classic Push-Over.
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21.Oct.2024
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Developer log: Amiga Game Scripting Languages
In a recent developer diary entry, Nivrig Games discusses The Bitmap Brothers' own scripting language called "Adventure Creation Language" (ACL) used in the game Cadaver and possible alternatives. This is completed in a second entry.
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20.Oct.2024
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Aminet uploads until 19.10.2024
The following files have been added until 19.10.2024 to Aminet:
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20.Oct.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 19.10.2024
The following files have been added until 19.10.2024 to OS4Depot:
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20.Oct.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.10.2024
The following files have been added until 19.10.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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20.Oct.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 19.10.2024
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 19.10.2024:
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20.Oct.2024
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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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20.Oct.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Future versions of Wayfarer without updated WebKit/GTK engine
As Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has told at the title link, future versions of his web browser Wayfarer will stay with the current version 2.46 of the WebKit/GTK browser engine. Already porting this one would have taken several weeks. Since the WebKit developers removed the Legacy/Win/Cairo target and its dependencies, which Wayfarer requires, and started to use Skia, further MorphOS ports of the engine wouldn't be feasible anymore.
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20.Oct.2024
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Book: English edition of AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual / French one in progress
In February, Look Behind You published the Reference Manual "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" in German language with 512 pages. Now the 480-page English edition is available as a book and as a digital download as well - either directly from the publisher or from selected retailers: Amiga on the Lake (USA), RetroPassion (UK) and Retro 8bit Shop (Netherlands).
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20.Oct.2024
Amigans / User spotUP (ANF)
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Worms: The Director's Cut 1.5 for the 30th anniversary
Next year, the legendary game Worms celebrates its 30th birthday. To mark the occasion, its programmer Andy Davidson is planning a free new edition for the Amiga. To this end, demo groups around the world are invited to contribute new levels with their own names.
A level template is available on request. The levels must have a size of 960 x 350 pixels and be sent in by New Year's Eve. Specifications for the 16-color palette: 00 - black or dark color (transparent), 01 - white or near white, 02 - pink, 03 - any color, 04 - lighter shade of 03, 05 - any color, 06 - lighter shade of 05, 07-15 - any colors. Layers: Either one image for a conventional Worms level or two images for a two-layer level, consisting of foreground and background with the same color palette. The background - to be kept darker - is shown where the foreground is transparent or the foreground is destroyed in the course of the game.
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20.Oct.2024
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Guides for AmigaOS 4 developers: Kea Campus videos about MUI
As part of his membership program "Kea Campus" (amiga-news.de reported), Hans de Ruiter has now completed the videos on cross-compiling AmigaOS 4 programs and started a new series on creating user interfaces with MUI.
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20.Oct.2024
ANF
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Looking back: Battle Chess was not U-certificated in Germany
At the title link, "Gamers Global" looks 35 years into the past and recalls that the Amiga chess game "Battle Chess" was indexed as harmful to minors in Germany in April 1989 on the initiative of the Bavarian State Youth Welfare Office.
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20.Oct.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online / Website celebrated 25th anniversary
On the Amiga Future website, full versions of the game Sword of Sodan as well as the applications Distant Suns and Reflections 4 have been made available.
Amiga Future also celebrated the 25th anniversary of its online presence last month: its website went online for the first time on September 9, 1999. What was initially intended as a source of information for the print magazine has since continued to grow with the news section, over 100 online readable issues of the magazine, 7,000 German and 2,000 English test reports, workshops, specials, etc.
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20.Oct.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Reshoot Proxima 3: Tin box variant available
To celebrate the first birthday of the shoot'em-up game "Reshoot Proxima 3", it can now alternatively be purchased in a metal box, limited to 55 copies and signed, at the title link - optionally also with a USB stick.
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20.Oct.2024
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Logic game: Untangle V1.1
Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so that no line intersects another (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.1 with the following changes:
- Fixed a bug of freeing a memory block twice at game end.
- Added the game ending displaying total number of moves and time spent.
- Added 25 more levels, now the game has 175 levels.
The game runs in a Workbench window, an Amiga with any processor and Kickstart/Workbench 3.0 or higher are required.
Download: untangle-1.1.lha (32 Kb)
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19.Oct.2024
Reddit
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Preview video: PAC-MAN conversion using operating system calls (1)
After his nine-part video series on the practicality of the Amiga 1000 as a workstation (amiga-news.de reported), Thomas Cherryhomes' latest project is a PAC-MAN conversion that uses nothing other than operating system calls for graphics and sound.
He also wants to design the game so that it will run on any Amiga, from an Amiga 1000 with 256 KB Ram and KickStart 1.1 to the fastest Amiga with 3.x.
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[News message: 19. Oct. 2024, 19:57] [Comments: 0]
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18.Oct.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 #4 under the title link, the author shows his work on the new theme "Forest".
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18.Oct.2024
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Developer log: What can be expected from the final 64-bit version of Odyssey?
At the end of August, we reported on an initial test version of the Odyssey browser for AROS version 2.0, which is being continuously updated (the latest version of the 32-bit variant was released yesterday). In a short article, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz describes various ways in which the upcoming 64-bit version Odyssey 2.0 can execute JavaScript code and what impact this has on performance. Some of the results are quite interesting and come very close to today's (October 2024) Firefox performance. This is all the more surprising given that the WebKit engine Odyssey 2.0 was released in February 2019.
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