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`24.Sep.2021`	Music: C64 & Amiga Game Music Remade as Epic Film Scores The independent video game developer Prismatic Realms has officially started its Kickstarter website for financing the very special music album 'Epic Action Vol. 1': C64 & Amiga Game Music Remade as Epic Film Scores. The following Amiga games will be used: Lost Patrol Dune - Ecolove HeroQuest Nicky Boom Shadow of the Beast Turrican II - The Desert Rocks Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 Another World A first impression you can get by listening to five samples via Soundcloud, among others 'Lost Patrol' and 'Dune'. About the background of the project the initiators wrote: "Epic Action is our fantasy music album project that focuses on melding two genres together that we believe are a perfect fit: Classic Video Game Music and Epic Hollywood-style Action Film Scores. Growing up, we were blown away by some of the music that classic computer systems were able to produce. Since you are here, chances are you were too! Rob Hubbard, David Whittaker and the late Ben Daglish (among many others) were prolific composers on the C64 and Amiga scenes. So much so that their game music tracks are still listened to, remixed and remade to this very day. At the same time, we are a big fan of Hollywood action films. John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Alan Silvestri and many others are responsible for helping turn great movies into experiences that are bigger than life by scoring riveting masterpieces that leave you on the edge of your seat. The idea behind this album is to deftly combine those two worlds. We've brought together talented and hard-working folks to turn this concept into reality. It is our hope that you find this project as interesting and exciting as we do and we thank you for your support!" (dr) [News message: 24. Sep. 2021, 06:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Sep.2021` Amigaworld.net (forum)	Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #108 - Mainboard ReAmiga 3000 In episode 108 of his video cast 10MARC Douglas Compton reviews the replacement mainboard ReAmiga 3000 by John "Chucky" Hertell (amiga-news.de reported). Besides this review there has been also video footage by the developer himself published in August and October 2019. (snx) [News message: 11. Sep. 2021, 06:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Sep.2021` Discord	Atoms: A re-implementation of the Amiga game using web technologies Already three years ago the programmer Thomas Pike reported on his website about the history and realization of his project: The re-implementation of the PD game 'Atoms' (YouTube video), originally released by Tom Kuhn, which was based on a Atari ST game, using web technologies. Say: The game can be played in the browser. His re-implementation has some differences from the original: for example, the chain reactions and explosions are immediately visually visible. Likewise, in its implementation you can play against a computer opponent. On the other hand, the "elevator intromusic" present in the original is missing here. After a three-year break, the author has found some time to implement the change suggested by a comment on his game: The creation of an alternative color scheme to allow people with red-green vision problems to enjoy the game. When asked by Amiga-News, the author told us that in principle he also had network support on the agenda, but that this would involve a considerable amount of work, so that a realization was rather unlikely. He does not exclude a realization of the music support, however, he is dependent on an mp3 file due to the limitations of the web technologies. However, he lacks both the original music file and a qualitatively adequate mp3 variant. Reason enough for us to start a short search. We found the required information and finally data in a blog entry of the website Computer Related Nonsense. Just as quickly, the author then added that music component to his implementation today. Since HTML5 and CSS were used for its implementation, a modern browser is required to play. Consequently, all our tests to get the game running in a browser under AmigaOS 4.1 failed (IBrowse, NetSurf, Odyssey). Only under MorphOS with Wayfarer the game could be started successfully (OWB also failed). The source code of the project is available on the associated GitHub page. (dr) [News message: 01. Sep. 2021, 21:20] [Comments: 1 - 02. Sep. 2021, 22:00] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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