25.Jul.2023
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Xbox: 201 Amiga games in stream with Antstream Arcade
Owners of the Xbox game console from Microsoft now have access to 201 Amiga games via streaming, provided by the British provider Antstream. (Or "had access", respectively, since according to today's updated FAQ, Antstream Arcade has been "temporarily" removed by Microsoft from their store.) For the usage you can choose between a 1-year and a lifetime fee.
The licensing of the games from Amiga Corporation by Antstream was announced last year at Amiga37, Evercade was mentioned as another licensee at that time. Antstream Arcade is also available for PC, Mac, Android and Amazon's Fire TV.
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25.Jul.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 148 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about Seek and Destroy, Star Crusader and Starglider.
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25.Jul.2023
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Proof of concept: Shoot 'em Up "Amiga E.D.F."
The developer 'S0Y' (among others Temptations port for the CD32) has taken a look at the Shoot 'em Up Earth Defense Force, originally released for the SNES, and tested if an implementation and continuation on Amiga-AGA computers would be possible (YouTube video). The game, which is explicitly not intended to be a pure port, should have the following features:
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24.Jul.2023
ALBs Blog
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Program for DeepL use: AmiTranslate 0.2
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.
In version 0.2 some bugs have been fixed: the scrollbars for the text edits now work and pdf documents do now care about returns or line wrap. Additionally, an user suggestion was implemented: a context menu for both edits to copy and paste text.
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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24.Jul.2023
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Video: Repairing an A590 Rev.6, part 3 and 4
In the first part of his video series on repairing an A590, Robert Smith looked at the functionality in detail and the onboard Fast RAM, the second partsecond part is all about the hard disk. In the third part (YouTube video) of the series, a Blue SCSI V2 is installed, and the fourth episode (YouTube video) deals with a modification of the A590 that gives it more speed.
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24.Jul.2023
itch.io
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Platform game: Rastan demo v0.32
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. A few days ago, we reported on the demo version of the Amiga port which is currently in development. The demo now was updated to version 0.32. Changes:
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[News message: 24. Jul. 2023, 06:57] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jul.2023
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Hall of Light: Relaunch of Amiga game database
For a good week now, the Amiga game database "Hall of Light" has been presented in a new design. The most important changes:
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[News message: 24. Jul. 2023, 06:17] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jul.2023
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LinuxJedi blog: Advantages of a 68010 processor
In his latest blog entry Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings (amiga-news.de reported) reports about advantages of a 68010 CPU compared to a 68000.
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[News message: 24. Jul. 2023, 06:06] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2023
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Aminet uploads until 22.07.2023
The following files have been added until 22.07.2023 to Aminet:
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23.Jul.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.07.2023
The following files have been added until 22.07.2023 to OS4Depot:
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23.Jul.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.07.2023
The following files have been added until 22.07.2023 to AROS Archives:
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23.Jul.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.07.2023
The following files have been added until 22.07.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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23.Jul.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.07.2023
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 22.07.2023:
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23.Jul.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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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:
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[News message: 23. Jul. 2023, 06:42] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.15 / Firmware 1.4
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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23.Jul.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: Proposals wanted for the Community Award of the Amiga38
On October 6/7 the Amiga38 will take place in Mönchengladbach (amiga-news.de reported). During this event the recipients of the "Community Award" will be voted again - this time divided into the three categories Hardware, Software/Games and Other.
Suggestions for candidates from the Amiga area for the voting starting in August, which have particularly impressed you between mid 2022 and mid 2023, can be submitted via e-mail to info@amigaevent.de. Please include the name and, if applicable, the nickname, the category and the reason for the nomination.
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23.Jul.2023
Markus Steffan (ANF)
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Game Jonathan: Research in "Kronstadt" mentioned by Memminger Zeitung (German)
In 2018/19 Markus Steffan went on a search for clues in "Kronstadt", the city of the game Jonathan (German Wikipedia entry), which is based on the city of Memmingen (Germany) and was released in 1993 for Amiga and MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported in German).
On July 22, on "Fischertag", the German local newspaper "Memminger Zeitung" now also reported about this research as well as his intention to write a novel about the game later on - including a sequel.
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23.Jul.2023
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Platform game: Early version of "Jack In The Pit"
For the AmiGameJam 2022 and the KiwiJam 2023, "Jack In The Pit" was written in 48 hours (YouTube video): the platform game "combines a short length with a sharply increasing difficulty curve. It also features a wide variety of vertical parallax effects to create a sense of 3D depth". It runs on any Amiga with 1MB.
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[News message: 23. Jul. 2023, 06:36] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jul.2023
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.1
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
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21.Jul.2023
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Developer diary: "Settle the World" 07/23
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel continus working on his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). In his latest developer diary entry he reports about changes on the graphics system und of pathfinding. Christian would be happy about users who try out his current development version for a few hours and then report to him where there are problems, ambiguities or crashes.
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20.Jul.2023
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Video tutorial: Blitz Basic
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch another part of his Blitz Basic tutorial (amiga-news.de reported), "looking at some general Blitz stuff, 3rd-party libraries, AmiBlitz includes and more".
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20.Jul.2023
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Retrohax blog: Amiga 500 upgrade #1
As Retrohax.net writes, he had restored hundreds of retro machines to their original state over the past years (sometimes with minor modifications) and he was kind of tired of it, so the time had come to try something different.
So he decided to create a new series of posts in which he will try to describe upgrades and visual modifications of the 20 remaining unrestored Amiga 500s. Each of these Amiga 500s will be unique and described in a separate blog post. As soon as such an Amiga is completed and tested, he will start an eBay auction with it. This is post number 1 of 20.
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20.Jul.2023
GitHub
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.1
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:
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[News message: 20. Jul. 2023, 06:28] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jul.2023
Apollo-Forum
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FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update GOLD 2.17 "Bronto"
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series produced by Motorola which also provides a separate graphics driver called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards 600 V2, 500 V2+ and 1200 V2. Changes:
- Card supports now to run in one of 4 different speed mode. This allows for run old games e.g. in speed of A500 or A1200, to improve running old games that have problems running on faster CPUs.
- Support for new instruction EXTUB.L
This instruction is very useful for type conversion.
It is used by some GCC versions.
Supporting it does improve code density and improves performance.
- Support for new instruction EXTUW.L
This instruction is very useful for type conversion.
It is used by some GCC versions.
Supporting it does improve code density and improves performance.
- Support for enhanced instructions
BRA.s+ BSR.s+ BCC.s+
This instruction is supported by some compilers and assemblers.
This instruction improves code density and improves performance.
- Hardware optimized version of FPU instruction FDBcc.w
- Hardware optimized version of FPU instruction FDBcc.l
- several FPU Performance optimizations ported from V4-FPU to V2
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19.Jul.2023
Yawning Angel (E-Mail)
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Video tutorial: Writing a simple game in AMOS
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' had published a series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro over the past twelve months (amiga-news.de reported). Based on this, in the latest video he shows how to program a small, functional game and thus finishes his series for the time being.
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19.Jul.2023
Mastodon
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Platform game: Rastan demo v0.31
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. Now an Amiga port is in development and after a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) there are now also demo versions, which the developer still calls alpha versions. Changes in version 0.31:
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[News message: 19. Jul. 2023, 08:29] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jul.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Special issue of ASM (German)
German magazine ASM ("Aktueller Software-Markt", current software market) was published from March 1986 to February 1995. Now a special issue is available, which contains more than 30 reviews of current games for 8- and 16-bitters as well as numerous interviews:
On the one hand with a number of people involved at that time - Manfred Kleimann, Frank Brall, Martina Strack, Bendrik Muhs, Stefan Swiergiel, Klaus Segel, Stefan Bayer, Torsten Oppermann and Dirk Fuchser - and on the other hand also with Thomas Meiertoberens (Magic Bytes) and Steve Wilcox (Elite Systems), Roman Werner (Super Marble Boy), The Mojon Twins (Ramiro el Vampiro), Juan Manchon (Amigastore. eu), Andreas Magerl (APC&TCP) and Sebastian Bach (Polyplay).
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