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03.Oct.2024
WHDLoad Homepage (ANF)


Retro gaming: WHDLoad 19.0
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 19.0 provides the following changes: more ... (dr)

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03.Oct.2024



Database: BeeBase v1.1 for all Amiga systems
Steffen Gutmann's BeeBase is the successor to the programmable, relational database called MUIBase, which is also available for various other platforms (Windows, Mac OS, Linux) in addition to the Amiga systems (amiga-news.de reported).

Version 1.1 contains a corrected icon for the Amiga version and an optional MorphOS binary file using MorphOS' own sqlite.library. (dr)

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03.Oct.2024
Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)


Game: Update 1 for Heretic II 2024 for high-performance 68k Amigas
Press release: For Heretic II 68K an update has been released that fixes a language audio issue, when having the English version installed the audio was set to German. There is also a solution for people that experience mouse issues with certain types of mice that are being seen as game pads. This could happened with USB mice connected via an adapter.

The 68K Update 1 can be found in our downloads area. (dr)

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03.Oct.2024



Video tutorial: Using the AMOS command "LIMIT BOB"
In another video in his tutorial series on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains the LIMIT BOB command and points out an error in the AMOS Pro manual when explaining this command. (dr)

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02.Oct.2024
Indie Retro News (website)


Game: Hyper Wings 1.0
Christian Geldmann's Hyper Wings is an Asteroids-like space shooter (video). Despite the version number 1.0, he still considers the game, which has various difficulty levels and is written in assembler, to be in beta status, which is why he is grateful for feedback on bugs.

Download: hyperwings_v1.00.zip (227 KB) (snx)

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02.Oct.2024
ANF


Tutorial: Installation of AmigaOS 3.2 on an SD card
At the title link Didier Malenfant describes how he has installed AmigaOS 3.2 on his Amiga 1200, which is equipped with a Terrible Fire 1260 turbo board. Target drive has been an SD card connected to the IDE port of the turbo board. (snx)

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02.Oct.2024



Video: Building Your Own Level/Map Editor in AMOS
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how to build a simple level editor in AMOS. (dr)

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02.Oct.2024



PDF manual: DOS documentation finished
As Thomas 'ThoR' Richter, one of the developers of AmigaOS 3.2, told us on request, his work on an English-language PDF manual for the dos.library in the style of the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals has been completed (amiga-news.de reported) and can be downloaded free of charge from the title link. A publication as a printed book is planned. (dr)

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01.Oct.2024



Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 21
The current issue 21 (September 2024) of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga" again comprises 48 color pages and is available in print or digital form. The main focus of the issue is the presentation of the A600GS minicomputer. more ... (nba)

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01.Oct.2024



Workbench clock and calendar: ScreenTime v1.6 now available
ScreenTime, which has just been released in version 1.6, is a useful commodity for all Amigas from Kickstart 2.04 onwards. It displays the current time on the Workbench or any other PubScreen. ScreenTime opens a borderless window at the top of the screen by default, which blends seamlessly into the overall picture. The font and colors are automatically adjusted to match those of the screen. This can create the visual impression that the window is part of the Workbench title bar. more ... (nba)

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01.Oct.2024
Seiya (ANF)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE! 162 (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 162 also contains three reviews of Amiga titles: Crysis, Lethal Xcess and Office. (nba)

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01.Oct.2024
Scene World Podcast (ANF)


Scene World Podcast Episode #199 - John Romero
As part of the 199th edition of the Scene World podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to game designer John Romero (founder of id Software, among other things) about his recently published autobiography, “Doom Guy: Life in First Person”. Among other things, the American talks about his view of the retro scene (including the statement that Doom killed the Amiga), his entry into the games industry as a programmer and his experiences working for several game studios and software companies. The interview begins at 31:17 of the podcast, and the show also includes further news and stories from the retro scene. (nba)

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30.Sep.2024
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch


Puzzle game: Demo version of Ami Robbo 2
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch's latest project will be a contribution to AmiGameJam 2024: Ami Robbo 2 is the successor to Amirobbo by Polish game developers Bernard Krzymowski and Artur 'Szafir' Szafrański, which was released in 1992. With his permission and assistance, new graphics and levels were created for the second part. Robbo is a universal combat robot that has got into trouble and needs to be rescued from abandoned military bases with the player's help. (amiga-news.de reported). more ... (dr)

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30.Sep.2024



Shoot'em Up: Demo version of QuasaurusX
The latest project from Amiten Games is the shoot'em up "QuasaurusX" (amiga-news.de reported), of which a new demo version has now been released: among other things, it offers new background and foreground graphics, new fonts and new end boss routines (YouTube video).

The game is currently not yet optimised, so that at least an (upgraded) Amiga 1200 is required. (dr)

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30.Sep.2024



AROS: Video on AROS distribution AROS One 2.6
Version 2.6 of the "AROS One" distribution for x86 computers based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0 was released around three weeks ago (amiga-news.de reported). The YouTube channel "Proteque-CBN" takes a close look at this version. (dr)

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30.Sep.2024
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: Tenth beta version of TinyGL
The MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen had offered a Bounty project for improved OpenGL support and drivers for additional Radeon graphics cards under the title link, which had been successfully financed (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has released the tenth public beta version of his TinyGL update.

The main focus here was the implementation of support for framebuffer objects. However, in the process, many other related and unrelated parts of TinyGL have also been improved, resulting in better OpenGL compliance and more implemented features. The R600 driver is not included in this release, but will be included in a future release once the developer has updated it to the current TinyGL requirements. (dr)

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30.Sep.2024



GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.9 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.9 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for Greaseweazle Tools V1.20 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes: more ... (dr)

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30.Sep.2024
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood plugin: Pangomonium 2.1
Pangomonium is a plugin for Hollywood that offers a modern text and graphics engine with extensive features, including support for exotic fonts and coloured emojis. Version 2.1 is a bugfix release which fixes a bug in the SVG loader. It can now be downloaded from the title link on the official Hollywood portal. (dr)

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30.Sep.2024



DIY: Firmware update for "GottaGoFaZt3r"
"GottaGoFaZt3r" developed by Matt Harlum is a memory expansion with 128MB or 256MB Z3 autoconfig FastRAM for the Amiga 3000 and 4000 (amiga-news.de reported). The recent firmware update fixes the compatibility with A4091: DTACK (Data Transfer Acknowledge) was initialised too early, resulting in the wrong data being read from the GottaGoFaZt3r during DMA (Direct Memory Access). If no A4091 is used, there is no need to update to this version. (dr)

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29.Sep.2024



7-bit: Sum firmware update
The Sum adapters by 7-Bit enable the connection of USB keyboards to the Amiga. At the title link now a firmware update has been released. (snx)

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29.Sep.2024



Aminet uploads until 28.09.2024
The following files have been added until 28.09.2024 to Aminet:
more ... (snx)

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29.Sep.2024



OS4Depot uploads until 28.09.2024
The following files have been added until 28.09.2024 to OS4Depot:
more ... (snx)

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29.Sep.2024



AROS Archives uploads until 28.09.2024
The following files have been added until 28.09.2024 to AROS Archives:
more ... (snx)

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29.Sep.2024



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.09.2024
The following files have been added until 28.09.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
more ... (snx)

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29.Sep.2024



WHDLoad: New installers until 28.09.2024
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 28.09.2024: more ... (snx)

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29.Sep.2024
Retrogamiingpappa (E-Mail)


Interview with Robert Koon (Amiga conversion of Dune II)
In another interview by Spillhistorie, Hans Arne Jacobsen spoke this time with Robert Koon, one of the developers involved in the Amiga conversion of Westwood's strategy classic Dune II. He is currently working on a new version, which should eliminate the limitations of the DOS original (amiga-news.de reported).

As the programmer explains among other things, he also intended to re-enter Amiga development with this undertaking - there would be several other projects that he wants to implement afterwards. (snx)

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29.Sep.2024



Video: The Obligatory Amiga Blitter Video
In the latest video on his website The Industrious Rabbit, John Bintz explains the Amiga's blitter in about thirteen minutes, supported as usual by his bunny drawings.

The source code used in the video, including that for converting PNG graphics to images embedded in the Amiga assembly code, can also be downloaded. (snx)

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28.Sep.2024



Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.20, Firmware 1.6
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. more ... (dr)

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28.Sep.2024



Jump'n Run: CD32 version of Boxx series, cheats for all four parts
About a year ago the developer 'Lemming880' released updates for the three parts of his Boxx remake series as well as for the fourth part (amiga-news.de reported). All four parts use the Scorpion engine. Now he has released versions for the CD32 for the fourth part separately as well as for the complete series. He also provides cheats for all four parts. (dr)

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27.Sep.2024
Entwickler


Turn-based strategy game: New demo version of "Ecliptic"
Ecliptic is described by the author as "a mixture of turn based tactical combat and role playing" (amiga-news.de reported) being a visually reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Now a fourth demo has been released for the game as lha archive.

As the developer reports, the game now makes full use of EHB mode (in German). The chip RAM management has also been changed so that the game should no longer slow down on an A500 with 512 chip RAM.

In addition, the "combat rules" of the game have been revised: the hit points and damage caused by weapons have been simplified and are hopefully better balanced. The robots should also feel different now.

The game requires 1MB RAM, recommended is an Amiga 1200 with HD and Fast RAM. (dr)

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27.Sep.2024



Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master v4.3 R110 for 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. more ... (dr)

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