02.Dec.2023
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Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor
After The Curse of Rabenstein and Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), Stefan Vogt has published another text adventure with graphics: "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (YouTube video). Here, the player takes on the role of writer Thomas King and his wife Cora, who move into a remote Scottish manor house a few days before Christmas 1986. In search of inspiration for his next book, Thomas begins to research the history of Blackwood Manor and discovers a dark secret that goes back to the time of the great Scottish witch hunts.
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02.Dec.2023
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.3.1 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes:
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02.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Extended audio emulator "Nallepuh" 1.7
"Nallepuh" or "Nalle Puh" is the Swedish name for Winnie the Pooh and is a hack that intercepts some custom chip register accesses and converts them into AHI function calls. The project, originally started by Martin Blom and now continued by Kjetil Hvalstrand and Damian, initially only emulated the Paula chip, which is responsible for audio and disc control.
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02.Dec.2023
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Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.4 for all Amiga systems
At the end of August, we reported on Bernd Assenmacher's PDF2JPG tool, which can be used to convert the images contained in PDFs into JPG images. As the author has developed further tools, Image2PDF (converts images into PDFs) and PDF2PDF (converts PDFs into copy-protected PDFs), there was a request in the subsequent comments to the news article to bundle these tools into one. This has been realised with the present Image2PDF version 2.4, which is available for AmigaOS 3, 4, AROS and MorphOS. The author has kindly provided us with a few explanations of the new version:
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02.Dec.2023
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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.4.0 (beta version)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to write graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. With version 0.4.0 now released, his project has reached beta status: all planned features have been integrated.
Now the author asks you to test ReBuild extensively and report any bugs to him.
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01.Dec.2023
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Platform game: Update for Amiga port of Electro Man
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch is porting the game Electro Man, originally published in 1992 by Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS, to AGA Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). This update adds the final eighth level.
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01.Dec.2023
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Platform game: Abbey(s) of the Dead
About two weeks ago, the developer 'UltraNarwhal' released a demo version of his extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead" (YouTube video) which is now followed by the full version, available for about three Euro.
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30.Nov.2023
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Preview video: Temptations port for CD32
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported) and now has published another preview video showing the first draft of the sixth level.
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29.Nov.2023
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Visual Novel: Mansion of Madness for Apollo V4
In mid-September, Sami Vehmaa released his first Visual Novel game, "Mansion of Madness" (YouTube video). He has now added a version for the Apollo V4 accelerator cards.
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29.Nov.2023
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Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas: PED81C updated
With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach to work on AGA Amigas with pseudo-native chunky screens without performing the known chunky-to-planar conversions when displaying 3D graphics or any other slowing down additional calculations by CPU or custom chips (Copper, Blitter) at all (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has added a Voxel engine to his project and demonstrates it in a YouTube video. Other changes:
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29.Nov.2023
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Video: Repairing an Amiga 2000
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he gets a non-working Amiga 2000, which he received for his birthday, up and running again.
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29.Nov.2023
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Game development: Color Palette Mixer for Aseprite
Two weeks ago, we reported on a script that converts graphics created using Aseprite into an IFF/ILBM file. In the German comments, Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus pointed out that "Aseprite always works in 24 bit." As a result, "Prismatic Realms" has now published a second script with which you only have 4096 colours to choose from.
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29.Nov.2023
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Mod player: HippoPlayer 2.59
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.59. Changes:
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28.Nov.2023
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PDF magazine: Commodore Free, issue 97
After a break of more than six years (issue 96), the English-language PDF magazine "Commodore Free" is back: as editor Nigel Parker reports, the original website was hacked via a PHP script and all files were deleted. "Scopperdive LTD" has restored the original website and updated it so that it is easier to read on mobile devices and smaller screens. Even though he suffered numerous strokes of fate during the long hiatus, he decided to revive the magazine, also encouraged by countless emails, and offers a colourful bouquet of topics on Commodore and Amiga computers in this issue.
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27.Nov.2023
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Frogger clone: Frogger500 v1.24
Frogger500 (YouTube-Video) is a 1:1 conversion of the 1981 Konami game (amiga-news.de reported). Since our last news item, an MMU error has been fixed and the highscore can now be saved and loaded in both the ADF and WHDLoad versions.
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27.Nov.2023
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.4
The "Scorpion Engine" (video of development of vertical scroll demos) by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used. Changes of version 2023.4:
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26.Nov.2023
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Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.4
AmiWeatherForecasts displays current weather information in a small window in the menu bar. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.4:
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26.Nov.2023
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AROS: Poll on "Irritating bug of the month" December
After the "Irritating bug of the month" for November was fixed (amiga-news.de reported), AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has started the corresponding survey for December under the title link:
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26.Nov.2023
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Aminet uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to Aminet:
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26.Nov.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to OS4Depot:
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26.Nov.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to AROS Archives:
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26.Nov.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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26.Nov.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.11.2023
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 25.11.2023:
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26.Nov.2023
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Theme set: 32se and 32se-lite v7.40 for AmigaOS 3.2
AmigaOS 32se" is a supplement of themes for AmigaOS 3.2, which is available free of charge in a "lite" version (video) or in a full version (video) for about 1,50 US Dollars. It was tested by the developer Sami Vehmaa under emulators.
Additional to some changes and bug fixes, for the first time the Vampire V4 is experimentally supported. Besides, a new Theme set 9 was added, and the lite version now has free access to four themes.
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26.Nov.2023
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Dock: QDock V2.07
Since our last news item, Sami Vehmaa has updated his start bar "QDock" to version 2.07 (YouTube-Video), which includes a lot of bug fixes and improvements.
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26.Nov.2023
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World podcast Episode #177 - Richard Loewenstein
Episode #177 of the 'Scene World' podcast features an interview with Richard 'Spieleschreiber' Löwenstein, former writer for German games magazine 'Amiga Joker', currently developing games for the Amiga, his latest release being Reshoot Proxima 3.
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