25.Nov.2023
tuxcam@yahoo.it (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 152 (Italian/English)
PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. REV'n'GE tries to compare ports of old Games to various classic platforms or review lesser known titles from the homecomputer era. The current issues contains reviews of the motorcycle racing game 'Red Zone' and the recently released Amiga port of the old DOS game "Star Wars:Dark Forces".
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[News message: 25. Nov. 2023, 23:45] [Comments: 0]
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25.Nov.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future issue 140 available online
The German and English editions of Amiga Future's issue 140 (September/October 2019) are freely available on the Magazine's webpage now. A few printed copies as well as high resolution PDF copies can be purchased from the publisher.
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25.Nov.2023
Darkage Software (ANF)
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Illustrated text adventure: C64 the Mysterious Cassette
"C64 - The Mysterious Cassette - La Cassetta del Mistero" is an illustrated text adventure for AGA Amigas, featuring English and Italian translations. The game was programmed by Colin Vella, with graphics and project management by Paolo D'Urso and music by Allister Brimble. it is based on an Italian novel written by Carlo Pastore.
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[News message: 25. Nov. 2023, 23:34] [Comments: 0]
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25.Nov.2023
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AROS: Irritating bug of the month November
Around a month ago, AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz launched a new initiative including a survey: every month, a bug can be selected from a list of bugs that bother the community and have been reported in the bug tracker, which he then fixes. For the month of November, a bug that did not occur 14 years ago was fixed with 40% of the votes: Wanderer can now run CLI programmes with an argument again, so that it behaves like OS3.9. He has released an updated workbench.library V45.4 for this purpose.
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[News message: 25. Nov. 2023, 08:04] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2023
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Video: A look back at the cracker scene of the 80s
In a video, the YouTube channel "Modern Vintage Gamer" takes a look back at its own history of software piracy in the 1980s, in particular at the time of X-Copy Pro and Amiga.
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[News message: 24. Nov. 2023, 06:20] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.2
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 (amiga-news.de reported)
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[News message: 24. Nov. 2023, 06:10] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2023
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Amiga Kit: A600GS Wiki updated
In addition to the launch of a dedicated, albeit currently still empty, A600GS website for the planned games console, which will be available in the first quarter of 2024, the Wiki under the title link has also been updated. According to this, there will be two versions available: "A600GS" will be equipped with 2GB system memory and 64 GB total memory and the "A600GS+" with 4GB system memory and 128 GB total memory. The official joypad will be standard equipment, while the mouse will only be supplied with the A600GS+ or as an additional purchase. This will be required for the standard applications such as Personal Paint (PPaint) and OctaMED. Furthermore, Amibench V46 and Directory Opus 4 GPL are included in the software package. Three screenshots of the Amibench user interface are now also available, showing which icons are used.
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[News message: 23. Nov. 2023, 21:23] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2023
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Video: The best original Rogue game
The Amiga user 'intric8' has published a detailed video for the Amiga website 'AmigaLove' and its YouTube channel under the title link as well as a detailed article about what he considers to be the best implementation of a Rogue game from the 80s: the Amiga implementation. He also discusses other variants and releases.
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[News message: 23. Nov. 2023, 09:14] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2023
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Developer log: Platform game "Robot Jet Action"
Ten days ago we reported about Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik's start to port his platformer "Robot Jet Action" for the Amiga. Now he has published a first developer update (YouTube video) and describes the progress as follows:
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[News message: 23. Nov. 2023, 06:39] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2023.11.27 (update)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). The Firmware release v2023.11.22, originally described in this article, has been rescinded by the author. He has released v2023.11.27 instead:
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[News message: 22. Nov. 2023, 21:44] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2023
Vitno
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Emerald Web: Emerald Caves offers 64 new levels
The "Emerald Web" has set itself the goal of offering as many variants and level sets of the legendary arcade puzzlers Emerald Mine and Boulder Dash/Rockford as possible for download (amiga-news.de reported). The "Emerald Caves" now released for both OCS and AGA Amigas (YouTube video) offers 64 new levels.
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[News message: 22. Nov. 2023, 07:07] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2023
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Preview video: Platform game "Deathmine" (v0.03C)
In the middle of last year, we reported on an early version of the game "Deathmine" as an entry for the Amiga Blitz Basic Jam. At the end of October, the developer 'pixelplop' had converted the game into C/C++ code and has now published a new preview video, showing some new features like animated torch flames, toxic rain drops, glow worms and Morlocks.
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[News message: 22. Nov. 2023, 06:51] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2023
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Preview video: Shadow Dancer
Mohammed Malik is about to implement one of his favourite games on the Amiga with the Scorpion Engine: Sega's Shadow Dancer. He has now published another preview video. The game is to run on an A500, and a project page has also been set up on GitHub.
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[News message: 22. Nov. 2023, 06:44] [Comments: 0]
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21.Nov.2023
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Turn-based strategy game: Developer version for "Settle the World"
As Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel writes, from now on the latest development version of "Settle the World" can be downloaded from the project page. The author asks that these versions not be used for public reviews or similar, as they are often poorly tested and contain features that have not yet been fully implemented. However, as updates for the stable branch of the game can only be released at longer intervals, the author hopes to receive feedback for planned or already partially implemented features by testing the developer versions.
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[News message: 21. Nov. 2023, 06:40] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2023
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Image Gallery: Update of the "Amiga Graphics Archive"
The latest update of the "Amiga Graphics Archive" adds a series of images from the 1988 air racing game Gee Bee Air Rally, whose graphics were created by Mike Nowak.
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[News message: 20. Nov. 2023, 20:36] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2023
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CLI command: sysvars V0.11
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical frame rate (PAL/NTSC), Kickstart version and revision, version and revision of bsdsocket.library as well as whether the emulator UAE is used - and if so, in which version.
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[News message: 20. Nov. 2023, 06:27] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2023
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Web browser: IBrowse 3.0
Press release: IBrowse 3 has arrived. It's finally time to move on from IBrowse 2, which has been developed for over 20 years! IBrowse 3 makes available the previously unreleased features that were originally being worked on alongside IBrowse 2.4 (on a completely separate development branch), whilst retaining everything from IBrowse 2.5.9 and all the new developments since its release. The IBrowse 2 and 3 development branches are now fully merged, which was a complex and time-consuming task, due to considerable divergence. The process was completed methodically and carefully, in order to not compromise stability or lose any functionality. Development can now move forward without being restricted to the limitations of the IBrowse 2 framework, allowing for more substantial changes.
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[News message: 19. Nov. 2023, 22:18] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2023
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.3 for Windows
Just the other day, in an article about setting up a Greaseweazle V4, we mentioned the graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools. Now 'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.3. Changes:
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[News message: 19. Nov. 2023, 21:45] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2023
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.4
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
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[News message: 19. Nov. 2023, 21:39] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2023
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Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.3
AmiWeatherForecasts is a weather forecasting application that provides the latest weather information for any location. 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 1.3:
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[News message: 19. Nov. 2023, 21:33] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2023
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.29
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.98, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial. Changes of version 0.9.29:
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[News message: 19. Nov. 2023, 20:51] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: Plananarama 2.1 released
Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, is proud to announce that version 2.1 of Plananarama has just been released. Plananarama is the magic plugin which allows Hollywood scripts to be run on classic Amiga hardware without any graphics board. Once Plananarama is installed, all Hollywood scripts will 'automagically' run on palette screens as well! All resolutions are supported - from 8-bit LowRes to 1-bit productivity SuperHighRes Interlace. Version 2.1 is a minor update which a new feature which makes it easier to create applications that run on both, RTG and planar screens. Plananarama 2.1 is available for free download from the official Hollywood portal.
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[News message: 19. Nov. 2023, 19:23] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2023
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Aminet uploads until 18.11.2023
The following files have been added until 18.11.2023 to Aminet:
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[News message: 19. Nov. 2023, 09:02] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 18.11.2023
The following files have been added until 18.11.2023 to OS4Depot:
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19.Nov.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 18.11.2023
The following files have been added until 18.11.2023 to AROS Archives:
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[News message: 19. Nov. 2023, 09:02] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.11.2023
The following files have been added until 18.11.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 19. Nov. 2023, 09:02] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.11.2023
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 18.11.2023:
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