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14.Feb.2010



Amiga Games That Weren't: 4 new entries
The site of Amiga Games That Weren't is dedicted to Amiga games which have never been published. The first update of this year includes information about Putty Squad, the strategy-/RPG-mix Siegemaster as well as Pipeline and Rotoplex which are two puzzle games written by John Dale. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Feb.2010



AGA: Arcade-Puzzler Archmage (playable preview)
In Archmage written by von Robert "Minniat" Szaki (programming) and Krzysztof "Koyot1222" Matys (graphics) you have to open treasure chests and collect crystals (screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). The game requires the ixemul.library (version 48.0 or higher) and at least a 68030-processor.

Download: ArchmageDemo2.lha (209 KB)

You can find a video of the game at Youtube. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Feb.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Cross-Compiler updates for AmigaOS 4
Joachim "Zerohero" Birging has published udates of his Cross-Compiler-Tools for Cygwin and Linux. For the first time this new version should now support Shared Objects.

An experimental version of gcc 4.4.2 was published as well, but only for x86_64-linux. The author asks you to test the compiler and to give him some feedback. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Feb.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: FTP-Client AmiFTP 1.946
Joachim "Zerohero" Birging has published an update of the FTP-program AmiFTP. As messaging system the program now uses the function "Display Notifications" which was introduced with AmigaOS 4.1. You have to activate the option in the "preferences".

Download: AmiFTP-1.946-OS4.lha (229 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Feb.2010
Amiga.org (Forum)


Video: Kiki Stockhammer talked about her NewTek-Time
Under the title link you can watch a video in which Kiki Stockhammer talked about the period in which she advertised for NewTek the Video Toaster. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Feb.2010
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Official Hollywood-Portal online
Press release After a long time of preparations, the new Hollywood MAL portal is finally online under hollywood-mal.com.

The new site features information about Hollywood, screenshots, and due to popular request there is also a forum for the Hollywood community here. Enjoy your stay! (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Feb.2010
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Bubbelsche Deluxe finished
After the demo version you can now purchase the full version of the game Bubbelsche Deluxe for AmigaOS 4.1.1. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Feb.2010



amiga.com shut down by provider
For eleven days the website of the company Amiga Inc. cannot be accessed. Amiga's domain hoster GoDaddy informed that the website was shut down because of the wrong address data of the domain owner. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Feb.2010
Amiga Impact (Webseite)


Print magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 45
Since 1998 the French print magazine aMiGa=PoWeR has been published by the Association Française du Libre Essai (AFLE). This time issue 45 includes 30 pages with the following topics:
  • Amiga-/MorphOS-News
  • Report from the Alchemy 8
  • End-of-the-year review 2009
  • Game test: Amichess 2.8 for AmigaOS 4
  • Game test: Free Heroes 2
  • Hardware test: AmigaOne G4 1 GHz
  • CD test: C64 Orchestra
  • Gold classic: Cannon Fodder
  • Practice test: LCD-HDTV
  • Practice test: Playing MOD-files on a Palm with Psytexx
  • HTML-programming (part 5)
  • Upgrade of an Amiga 600
  • Demo-Zone: Scoopex (7. and last part)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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12.Feb.2010



Demo database: Amiga Scene Demo Database
The "Amiga Scene Demo Database" is a powerful search engine for the database BitWorld. The project is still in beta status and therefore the authors ask for your feedback. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Feb.2010
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: (HD)-Video-DVD-Authoring with BlueHD
With Carsten Siegner's BlueHD you can create video-DVDs in three different formats:
  • Common Video-DVD (PAL)
  • HD-Video-DVD HDTV (mkv-h264/AAC) (Can be only played with a newer BlueRayPlayer)
  • HD-Video-DVD HDTV (MP4-h264/AVC)

BlueHD was written in C and has a graphical user-interface.

Download: bluehd.lha (23 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Feb.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: iODBC ported
Andrea Palmatè has ported iODBC to AmigaOS 4. iODBC is the acronym for "Independent Open DataBase Connectivity". This is an implementation of the standardized database interface ODBC and of X/Open-specification.

The AmigaOS-4-version is still in beta phase and generates a lot of debug-output which you can send the author. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Feb.2010



amiga.org: "Proxy" for IBrowse users
amiga.org has figured out a very smart solution for a common problem: Since the code of the website was changed to CSS- many problems occured if the site was accesed with older Amiga browsers. Therefore the administrators has developed a proxy that translates the modern HTML-sites of the portal in CSS-free HTML 3. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Feb.2010
Pegasosforum (Webseite)


Localization compiler: SimpleCat 3.19
Today SimpleCat version 3.19 was published. With this program, written by Guido Mersmann, you can manage and create localization files. It is possible to fix an error in the script or to translate catalog files. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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09.Feb.2010
Inquisitor (ANF)


The history of Amiga Inc: "Amiga Documents"
An anonymous Amiga user called "Inquisitor" has written a very detailed summary on the history of Amiga Inc.

By the way, for one week the website of the company Amiga Inc. cannot be accessed. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Feb.2010
morphzone.org (Webseite)


MorphOS: Several game ports (update)
During the last months "SixK" has ported some SDL-based, open-source games to MorphOS:

Round based strategy: Free Heroes of Might and Magic 2

Free Heroes of Might and Magic 2 is a reimplementation of the first two parts of the fantasy series Heroes of Might and Magic (screenshots: 1, 2). The files of the original, commercial version are required.

Download: fheroes-src-r1410_mos.tar.gz (2,8 MB)

Action role playing game: FreedroidRPG 0.13rc2

FreedroidRPG is an action roleplaying game similar to Diablo (screenshots: 1, 2). The MorphOS-archive contains two versions: freedroidRPG_opengl uses the graphic-hardware for displaying it. Because of the limitations of the MorphOS-port of OpenGL there can be some problems.

Download: freedroidrpg-0.13rc2_mos.tar.gz (133 MB)

Arcade-Puzzler: Pushover 0.0.2

Pushover is a remake of an old commercial Amiga game (screenshot).

Download: pushover-0.0.2_mos.tar.gz (40 MB)

Lemmings-clone: Pingus 0.7.2

Pingus is a clone of the Amiga classic Lemmings (screenshot). The MorphOS-archive should not be extract with untgz because this program does not create some empty folders required by the game. The MorphOS-version does still not include any compiler optimizations.

Download: pingus_0.7.2_mos.tar.gz (13 MB)

Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid 1.14

Blob Wars is a 2D-platform game (screenshots: 1, 2).

Update: Herbert "HAK" Klackl has ported the latest version 1.14 and published it here.

Project: Starfighter 1.1.0

Project Starfighter is a traditional Shoot'em Up (screenshots: 1, 2).

Download: starfighter-1.1_mos.tar.gz (3 MB)

Powermanga 0.90

Powermanga is a 2D Shoot'em Up similar to "Deluxe Galaga". The game offers 41 levels, more than 200 sprites and supports the resolutions 320x200 or 640x400.

Download: powermanga-0.90.tar.gz (11 MB)

Zelda: Oni Link Begins

Zelda: Oni Link Begins is a remake of Nintendo's well-known action adventure Legend of Zelda (screenshots: 1, 2).

Download: ZeldaOLB-src-morphos.tar.gz (17 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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