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`02.Dec.2021`	Game soundtrack: Albums on Delphine games announced Génération Delphine is a project to honor the game soundtracks of the French software company Delphine Software International by releasing albums of the restored tracks. The first album, dedicated to the game Future Wars, was supposed to be released in November, but has now been postponed to early 2022. However, a new preview video has been released, showcasing clips from the album. (dr) [News message: 02. Dec. 2021, 06:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Nov.2021` Reddit	Cache management: Source code of 'HyperCache' released In the late 1980s, early 1990s, Canadian-American programmer David Plummer wrote the cache management 'HyperCache'. Inspired by a user's request, Plummer now published the source code on GitHub and wants to give interested users, programmers and developers the opportunity to take a nostalgic look at program code of that time in general and in particular at the 'state of knowledge' of the author, who was still learning C at that time. For various legal and liability reasons, the code cannot be released as free software at this time, but it is available to anyone for exploration and nostalgic tinkering. If anyone still has Lattice C installed, Plummer would be happy to know if the program can still be compiled. The Obligement website published a detailed test report on this in the early 1990s. There is also an English review in the archives, which among other things also mentions the price of HyperCache Professional 1.01B at that time: It cost US $49.95. (dr) [News message: 30. Nov. 2021, 07:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Nov.2021`	The Amiga video memory: Amigavideo.net Amigavideo.net collects on its site any videotapes dedicated to the Amiga. Amigavideo wants to make available hours of videos to the Amiga community, "from TV commercials to boring 2-hour long tutorials, without forgetting the institutional films selling the machine as the 'most amazing' computer ever." The first goal of this website is to gather as many Amiga related videos as possible, preferably in the best available quality. As Thierry further reports, many of the videos can also be found elsewhere. With Amigavideo.net one simply wants to increase the chances for the Amiga fan to find and watch the video he is looking for. Besides, so many websites have disappeared without a trace, Commodore Billboard or Back2roots come to mind. Thierry was kind enough to tell us the following about the history of the project: "The website has been officially launched on Oct 2017 (quick panel during AmigaON, an Amiga reunion that took place in Ontario, Canada) The first idea of this website surfaced around 2015 when my pile of Amiga VHS tapes was getting bigger and bigger. I'm a big Amiga fan/user (since...1990) and also Cinema/AudioVisual enthusiast, the reason of my "attraction" to everything involving Amiga and Video. The main reason was to "share" those tapes instead of just keeping it in a storage and with a "better" interface than YouTube or etc (where pretty much all the videos already are...but good luck to find anything if you don't know the exact name of the video... Recently, the whole collection has been upscaled to 720/60p with noise reduction....insanely long process but I'm very happy with the result." A future step would be to obtain master copies (also on loan) and preserve them (at least digitally) in as future-proof a state as possible. (dr) [News message: 20. Nov. 2021, 08:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Nov.2021`	Emulation: vAmiga as web port Christian Corti has obviously specialized in web conversions of emulators and programs with his web presence NEOART Costa Rica: Thus, besides the web conversion of the C64 emulator "VirtualC64" and the music tracker "Future Composer" in the form of a remake, he also offers the web conversion of the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga developed by Dirk Hoffmann. All that is needed is a current browser such as Chrome, Edge or Firefox. The required ROMs are provided in the form of an 'AROS Replacement Kickstart ROM'. It is also possible to use your own ROMs, but tests in this regard have failed on our part. Corti explicitly points out the beta status of the project, but we wanted to see how applicable this already is and chose as a test object the game Crazy Columns, which the author Jochen Hoffer provides in the form of an adf file. After calling the title link, we are greeted as follows: After a "Continue", the settings page awaits us: We decide for "Install AROS" and thus for the "AROS Kickstart Replacement ROM". In the tab "Hardware" you can load pre-configured preferences. Since 'Crazy Columns' was written for the Amiga 500, we decide to use it. After an "OK" the emulator starts: Since no action is triggered by pressing the icons, we simply drag the ADF file of the game into the window and the game is loaded. However, the first attempt is still slowed down by the message 'too little memory'. We increase the Fast RAM from the default 0 kB to 512 kB and start again. This time with success: Furthermore, there is a second web implementation of the vAmiga emulator, vAmigaWeb. This is maintained by GitHub user "Mithrendal" and can be reached at this direct link. As vAmiga developer Dirk Hoffmann tells us, "this emulator is also in beta. At the moment important features like the keyboard are still missing. A mouse support is available since yesterday. This webport should run later mainly on mobile devices." (dr) [News message: 20. Nov. 2021, 07:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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