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Archive 04/2022

`15.Apr.2022`	Easter Egg in AmigaOS 3.2.1 discovered AmigaOS 3.2.1 contains an Easter Egg, that much had been hinted at by members of the team. A user has now discovered it: The disk image Update3.2.1.adf has a folder 'T', which contains a file called 'ed-backup'. This executable file is a small demo with bouncing boing balls and a small text scroller. The user who discovered the Easter Egg posted a small description of the process including a screenshot of the demo on os4welt.de (registration required). (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 15. Apr. 2022, 23:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Apr.2022` Twitter	Sound card ZZ9000AX: PDF manual and fixed axmp3 version The ZZ9000AX is the sound module for the multifunctional Amiga expansion card ZZ9000. The delivery of the first batch began at the end of March (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer Lukas F. Hartmann has released both a PDF manual including schematics (direct download) and a new version of the axmp3 tool (direct download), which should reduce the risk of screen scribbling (Z3 only). Also, there would be sound output problems on some 68060 configurations. He would take care of this after his vacation next week. (dr) [News message: 14. Apr. 2022, 06:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Apr.2022` Twitter	Shoot'em Up: SkillGrid 1.2 About three years ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) released his abstract, vertical shoot'em up SkillGrid (amiga-news.de reported). In the meantime, the second update has been released, which further improves the game and provides a special 'PRESS PLAY ON TAPE' variant: a special version whose soundtrack is the rockin' tongue-in-cheek song "Man with the Gun" by the Commodore 64 revival band PRESS PLAY ON TAPE. (dr) [News message: 13. Apr. 2022, 11:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Apr.2022` OSnews	Raspberry Pi: Development status of free firmware 'Raspberry Pi' computers require partially closed source software to boot - the so-called raspi-firmware package. But since its release 10 years ago, there have been efforts to make it bootable with open source software only. In a recent blog entry Gunnar Wolf describes how free firmware for the Raspberry is progressing. (dr) [News message: 13. Apr. 2022, 09:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Apr.2022`	Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #20 (English/Polish) "Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 20 (winter/spring) are game reviews on 'Shadowlands', 'Pacman', 'Incman', 'Dread' and 'Coco Banana' as well as the articles 'What is Amiga in 2022? Part 1' and 'A500 CPU replacement'. The magazine is available in a printed edition inclusive Commodore 64/128 Coverdisk for 9,67 Euro (plus 5 Euro shipping), the price for the digital edition is 2,15 Euro. (dr) [News message: 13. Apr. 2022, 06:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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