13.Oct.2023
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Visual Novel: Mansion of Madness 2
After the first part, Sami Vehmaa now continues the story of the Visual Novel game with "Mansion of Madness 2" (YouTube video). According to the author, the game offers an average playing time of 20 to 30 minutes with five different endings. You need at least an Amiga with a 68030 processor and 30 MB RAM. The game is available for download for at least around 2 Euros.
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13.Oct.2023
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit for PiStorm released
In addition to the already existing versions for Raspberry Pi, Windows, Mac and Linux, the workbench distributions AmiKit are now also available for the PiStorm or PiStorm-lite (YouTube video). Ján Zahurančík writes about this:
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13.Oct.2023
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Demoparty: TRSAC 2023 in Denmark
The probably last edition of the TRSAC demo party will take place from 20 to 22 October 2023 in Aarhus, Denmark. TRSAC is an acronym for "The Real Scene After Christmas". TRSAC was started in 2000 by a few friends from the demoscene who thought that demoparties were too much about games.
Among the various competitions is Oldskool, which is primarily reserved for the Amiga. On the timetable, one can find precise information about the different programme items.
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12.Oct.2023
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ACube Systems: Sam460LE boards at a reduced trade fair price
Press release: Dear valued customers,
We have returned from the amazing Amiga38 exhibition, where we had the pleasure of meeting many fellow Amiga enthusiasts. We sincerely appreciate your support and the enjoyable moments we shared, all centered around our shared passion.
During the exhibition, we presented our Sam460LE board at a discounted price. We are excited to announce that we have decided to extend this special offer to coincide with the upcoming Amiwest event! Although we will not be physically present at the event, you can still take advantage of purchasing the Sam460LE from our store at the exclusive price of 729 Euros (excluding VAT) or 890 Euros (including VAT).
Thank you for your continuous support, and we look forward to serving you!
ACube Systems
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12.Oct.2023
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Arcade classic: Bagman500
Jean-François Fabre ported his SDL-based clone of the arcade classic Bagman to the Amiga, which required SDL libraries and thus a graphics card. In late 2019, he released a real port that directly used the Amiga's chipset graphics (amiga-news.de reported), but required a 68020 processor and was "still slow," according to the author.
Now Bagman 500 was transcoded to 68000 and should run on any A500.
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11.Oct.2023
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AmigaOS 4: MilkyTracker 1.04 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has again cross-compiled the source code of MilkyTracker for AmigaOS 4 with GCC 11.3.0 and linked it with the last stable version of SDL 2.28.0..
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10.Oct.2023
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AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.28.4 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.28.4 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1. The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Changes:
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10.Oct.2023
Misja van Laatum (Mail)
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Pixelart: Designs for unreleased game "Conflict
Misja van Laatum had recently reported in a Mastodon article that he and a friend played a lot of Empire: Wargame Of The Century in the 90s and had then made the "half-hearted plan" to make it "bigger and better". Unfortunately, nothing came of that plan. Misja, however, still owns some of the graphics he had already started, which he released to us for publication upon request: Combat backgrounds, user interface designs, a title logo and some Sculpt-3D images for an intro sequence.
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09.Oct.2023
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Review: Impbox - Internet chat on Amigas (German)
Paweł 'juen' Nowak's Infinity Music Player (IMP3) also offers internet functions such as a chat with Discord connection or sharing files with other users. While IMP3 itself runs on any Amiga with at least 512 KB RAM and OS 2.0, Chat & Co. naturally have considerably higher requirements since network hardware and a TCP stack are still needed.
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09.Oct.2023
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New diskmag: Amiga Rulez
"Amiga Rulez" is a quarterly free diskmag whose first issue was distributed on real disks at the "Amiga 38" last Saturday and can meanwhile also be downloaded from the magazine's website. The German edition is already available, an English translation is to follow shortly.
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08.Oct.2023
ALBs Blog
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Program for DeepL use: AmiTranslate 0.3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's programme AmiTranslate (video) serves as a link to the translation service DeepL and is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.
The new version 0.3 can now also display and print Japanese characters.
Besides an SSL-secured internet connection (OpenSSL3 under MorphOS resp. AmiSSL for the other systems) the program also needs the MUI class texteditor.mcc.
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08.Oct.2023
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Event: News from the Amiga38 (update)
This weekend the Amiga38 took place. We asked around for news and things worth reporting:
AmigaOS 3.3: Camilla Boemann, who joined the AmigaOS 3 development team 4 years ago, gave a preview of the upcoming version 3.3 in a speech (YouTube video), which among other things should offer an improved and more intelligent handling of ADF files and run noticeably faster. The HDToolbox will also be replaced and partitioning will become much easier: it will no longer be necessary to specify a device or block size.
Enhancer 2.3, Virtio GPU driver: In his talk (YouTube video), Trevor Dickinson described the history of A-EON's hardware developments, announced a new Enhancer version 2.3 for probably before Christmas, and introduced the Virtio GPU driver for Picasso96: a virtual GPU for use with emulators like QEMU and virtual machines (KVMs), developed for A-EON by Hans der Ruiter. Features:
- Looks like a regular PCI device
- Passes graphics commands through the host operating systems graphics drivers
- Provides 32-bit display support
- High resolution
- Fast - no need to emulate hardware registers
- Virtio GPU has 3D and video decoding hardware acceleration - WIP
Virtio GPU driver current status:
- Fully working framebuffer driver, with 8, 16, and 32-bit modes
- Hardware accelerated mouse pointer
- DDC/EDID working, so automatically gets available screen-modes
- High resolution
- Fast - no need to emulate hardware registers
- Virtio GPU has 3D and video decoding hardware acceleration - WIP
- Version 0.5 has just been released
- Very usable as-is
Pre-order of A1222 Plus: At Amedia France, part of the "AAA Technology" alliance consisting of Amedia Computer, AmigaKit and A-Eon, one could place pre-orders for an A1222-Plus complete system at the special price of 1600 Euros (incl. VAT, plus PayPal or extra shipping costs), and continue to do so by via e-mail or the corresponding website. The following is a sample offer, which can be modified according to your wishes, e.g. graphics card, tower, etc:
- Chieftec mATX Tower
- A1222+ 1.3 Motherboard
- Kingston 4GB SoDDR3 1600MHz
- Crucial 240GB SSD harddisk SATA3
- AFox Radeon RX550 4GB gfc card
There should be an official sales link on the official A1222 Plus website soon.
new products from Alinea Computer: new products were available for purchase at the Alinea Computer stand, which will also be available in the shop this week. More details will be published this week:
- Wodem - WLAN via the serial interface for every Amiga
- KickRom-Flash - 4-fold flash-rom adapter with up to 4 kickstarts
- KickRom-Progger - Flash-Rom programmer for programming the KickRom flash modules directly on the Amiga
And a few prototypes were also shown, which will be released this year:
- KickRom switch - 4-fold kick-start switch for the KickRom flash
- KickRom switch as TV port version
- Joyport Power Adapter - Get 5V power via the joystick port and use it for Wodem, KickRom Progger or other 5 V devices so that a separate power supply unit no longer has to be used.
- Floppy to 5V/12V switch - To be able to quickly connect e.g. fans via the floppy power cable
native AmigaOS 4 version of Heretic II: At the beginning of the year we reported that Steffen Häuser was working on a native AmigaOS 4 version of Heretic II. The finished version could be marvelled at both at the HunoPPC stand and at Alinea Computer. At the latter, the game was shown on a Sam460ex with Radeon HD 7750 and the new GL drivers. According to Simon Neumann, it ran "absolutely smoothly". On the Sam with a resolution of 1280x1024 with 39 fps, on Steffen Häusers own AmigaOne 1000 at 1024x768 with about 100 fps.
Videos: In addition to the recording of the official live stream, there are also short tours of the fair that visitors have uploaded to YouTube, including Retro Merlin and Propheus.
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08.Oct.2023
ALB-Blog
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.4
"AmiFox" displays modern web pages on an Amiga by downloading and displaying pages converted to images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). At Amiga38, some copies of a boxed version financed by the author were given away, which contains the new version 0.4. This offers some new features like an AREXX interface or the possibility to pass a web page as a command line parameter (both useful for OpenURL use).
Especially for Amigas with small screens (e.g. Native PAL Hires Mode), parts of the interface can be hidden: either automatically (the status bar) or by pressing a button (the text input bar).
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08.Oct.2023
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Shoot'em Up: Reshoot Proxima 3 released
The official release party took place at this weekend's Amiga38, and now, after Reshoot and Reshoot R, the third part of Richard Löwenstein's shoot'em-up series has been released: Reshoot Proxima 3 (official YouTube teaser) offers the following features:
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08.Oct.2023
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Aminet uploads until 07.10.2023
The following files have been added until 07.10.2023 to Aminet:
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08.Oct.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 07.10.2023
The following files have been added until 07.10.2023 to OS4Depot:
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08.Oct.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 07.10.2023
The following files have been added until 07.10.2023 to AROS Archives:
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08.Oct.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.10.2023
The following files have been added until 07.10.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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08.Oct.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.10.2023
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 07.10.2023:
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08.Oct.2023
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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:
- Battle Squadron - Loose (Spatial Mix)
- Physical Presence (Spatial mix)
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08.Oct.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Forum: AROS-Exec preserved on AROSWorld
After the closure of Ola '4pLaY' Jensen's forum AROS-Exec for health reasons, AROSWorld has preserved it read-only for posterity at the title link.
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07.Oct.2023
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Music album: "Virtual Burnout" by LukHash
'LukHash' is a musician living in Edinburgh (Scotland). He describes his music as "fusion of 8-bit digital mayhem and '80s inspired synth music combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." In March we reported on his track Amiga, which is also included on the now released new album "Virtual Burnout" and can be purchased on music stores and streaming platforms.
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07.Oct.2023
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Blog: Author of "Fire and Ice" about game engines
Andrew Braybrook has also written classics for the Amiga: Rainbow Islands, Paradroid 90, Realms, Fire and Ice und Uridium 2. He runs his own blog and in his latest entry talks about his experiences with game engines gained during his long creative career as a developer.
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07.Oct.2023
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Detailed article: Connecting an Amiga to a modern display
Developer Steffest, among other things author of the Amiga MOD tracker Bassoontracker and the web-based image editor DPaint.js, describes in a detailed article on the website of the Belgian Amiga Club the possibilities of running an old Amiga on a current monitor, if no old crt monitor is available.
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