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Archive 03/2025

`19.Mar.2025`	Event: FAQ released regarding Classic Computing 2025 in Hof (Germany) As reported, the next Classic Computing, organized by the "Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V.", will take place from September 11-14 in the Freiheitshalle Hof (Bavaria, Germany). A FAQ collection with details of the event has now been published at the title link. (snx) [News message: 19. Mar. 2025, 20:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Mar.2025`	Event: Brief report from AUGS meeting 2025 in Zurich (Switzerland) Last weekend the latest meeting of the Amiga Users Group Switzerland took place in Zurich (amiga-news.de reported). At the title link, the association briefly looks back on it. (snx) [News message: 19. Mar. 2025, 20:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Mar.2025` Amigatronics (ANF)	Demoscene: SampleMind interviews Hoffman At the title link 'SampleMind' has conducted a half-hour interview with the musician, DJ, coder and demoscener 'Hoffman'. It covers his career, his approach to chiptune composing, the influence of the Amiga on his path and his latest projects. (snx) [News message: 19. Mar. 2025, 20:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Mar.2025`	Action game: Amiga Yoomp! 1.09 / Boxed version / Review Amiga Yoomp! is the conversion of an Atari 8-bit title from 2007. Version 1.09 has now been released, which adds a music mode menu so that additional music tracks can be selected. Collectors can also purchase the game in a box from the Polish Komoda & Amiga plus magazine. Tony 'AmigaGuru' Aksnes has written a review of this version in his blog. (snx) [News message: 19. Mar. 2025, 20:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2025` viddi (ANF)	Pre-order campaign: The Piano Collection III with Allister Brimble Following the successful releases of the two albums Piano Collection and Piano Collection II with Chris Hülsbeck (amiga-news.de reported) the pianist and music producer Patrick Nevian returns with a possible third album in the series - this time in collaboration with another legendary Amiga composer: Allister Brimble. Brimble, known for his iconic soundtracks to games such as Alien Breed, Superfrog and Project-X, is providing a selection of his most famous works for this album. The tracks are reimagined by Patrick Nevian on the piano and arranged in an intimate, classical style, similar to the previous piano collection series. The official announcement is made via a YouTube video that gives a first teaser of the upcoming album. Fans now have the opportunity to register their interest in a limited physical release. To be included, send an email to Patrick Nevian with the subject "Allister Brimble TPC III" by 17 April 2025 at the latest. The following options are available: audio CD for 25 EUR incl. shipping audio CD plus limited USB stick for 59 EUR incl. shipping The physical album will be available exclusively through this campaign. The release is planned for the third quarter of 2025. (nba) [News message: 18. Mar. 2025, 18:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2025` Indie Retro News	Speed Haste: MS-DOS racing game ported to the Amiga The fun shareware racing game Speed Haste, originally developed by NoriaWorks for MS-DOS, has now been successfully ported to the Amiga by Szilard Biro. The game, which gained great popularity in the 90s, offers classic arcade action with Formula 1 and stock car racing, twelve different vehicles and eight different tracks. The Amiga port requires powerful hardware and at least a 68040 or 68060 processor with FPU, as well as AGA or a graphics card and 4 MB of Fast RAM. The keyboard, joystick or CD32 pad can be used for control. Due to the game's shareware status, only a few tracks and vehicles are available; registration of the game is no longer possible. Nevertheless, it is worth taking a closer look at the game and giving it a few goes. In addition to the Amiga port published on Aminet, you need three files (SPEED.CFG, RECORDS. LST, SPEEDH.JCL and CR.JCL) from the DOS version of Speed Haste, which have to be copied into the game directory on the Amiga. (nba) [News message: 18. Mar. 2025, 18:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2025` Electric Black Sheep	Game: New update for Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut The team at Electric Black Sheep has updated its space opera "Star Dust Wars – Director's Cut" on a technical level. The animations have been reprocessed using a new method, which means they are the same size but in slightly better quality. The length of one level in the CD32 version has been shortened by 20%, bringing the ISO size down to under 1CD-700MB, but it is still not recommend to play it on real hardware because of the reading speed. A bug in the AMOS animation player is being fixed, so the problem that the size of a frame cannot exceed 32 KB has been resolved. Thanks to this and the new processing method, the size of the EHB version has been significantly reduced (from 1.63 GB to 1.23 GB)! Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut ideally requires an Amiga 1200 with a hard disc, accelerator card and Fast RAM, and can be downloaded in return for a voluntary donation. (nba) [News message: 18. Mar. 2025, 12:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2025` Hacker News	Blog: Amiga 600 - The Amiga no one wanted Dave Farquhar is a computer security expert who runs the blog "Silicon Underground?" where he writes about computers that aren't usually in the spotlight. In his latest blog post, he writes about the Amiga 600 and why it became a symbol of everything that was wrong with Commodore and the product line. (dr) [News message: 17. Mar. 2025, 06:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2025`	Amiga emulator: Amiberry-lite 5.8.7 Amiberry-lite is an Amiga emulator based on WinUAE 4.4 and, in contrast to its big brother Amiberry (amiga-news.de reported), is intended for slower hardware - up to the Raspberry Pi 4. Version 5.8.7 has been released here. (dr) [News message: 17. Mar. 2025, 06:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2025`	Video: The AlgoMusic music program AlgoMusic is a complex music program that randomly generates and plays a song from a series of algorithms in a techno/house style. In his latest video, Robert Smith explores the program, which was written by Thomas Schürger in 1995, and takes a look at his later work SoundHelix. Finally, he provides information on the "state of the art" in artificially generated computer music. (dr) [News message: 17. Mar. 2025, 06:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2025` Acneproduction	Mouse-controlled zombie shooter: New playable demo of "BDTZ" BDTZ ("Better Dead Than Zed", video) is a mouse-controlled shooter in which the character has to be controlled from a bird's eye view through a zombie-infested maze of streets. Ammunition is scarce and shots attract more zombies (amiga-news.de reported). The new demo version offers a new intro, improved graphics, a newly introduced female zombie character, new sound effects and minor bug fixes. You can choose from three levels and in order to play it, you need both adf files. The game is still in development, but two playable demos have already been released in the last two weeks. BDTZ should run on any Amiga with at least one megabyte of RAM. (dr) [News message: 17. Mar. 2025, 06:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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