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13.Aug.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)

Kids Jump'n Run: Elfie the Unicorn as purchase version on disk
"Elfie - The Unicon" (trailer) is a classic jump'n run for kids which is available for free on Aminet. In order to fulfil an old dream, the author now offers a "commercial" version of the game on disk:

This issue is limited to 20 copies. If you are going to purchase a disk for 10 Euro (including shipping in a cushioned envelope) then please write a mail to the author. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Aug.2018 Free hardware: RS232-WLAN adapter "Virtual Modem for ESP8266"
By using the RS232-WLAN adapters computers which do not have an Ethernet or WLAN controller can be connected to modern networks. Mainly the adapters are used as telnet servers or clients for old computers, e.g. for mailboxes.

Additionally, Daniel Jameson's "Virtual Modem" also can send HTTP requests and is the first adapter which consists of free, open source hardware ands software. An Arduino microcontroller with two modules (for RS-232 and WLAN) as well as the Arduino development environment. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Aug.2018 Harddrive images under windows: HstWB Installer
By using Henrik Nørfjand Stengaard's "HstWB Installer" under Windows you can build bootable harddrive images which then can be used with an emulator or written on an Amiga harddrive. AmigaOS 3.1 or 3.9 and Worbench distributions like BetterWB or ClassicWB are supported. Extension packages can add e.g. graphical game menus for choosing WHDLoad games. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Aug.2018
MorphZone (Webseite) MorphOS: WHDLOpener
WHDLOpener integrates WHDLoad based on E-UAE under MorphOS in its Workbench Ambient. WHDLoad games can be started by clicking the game icon or the its slave file. Under MorphOS, ADF images are mounted and executed using E-UAE.

AmigaOS 3.1 and the corresponding Kickstart-ROM file resp. the 1.3-ROM are required. More details are listed in the news item in the MorphZone.

Download: WHDLOpener.lha.xz (21 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jul.2018
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)

Hardware: Gayle reset fix for Amiga 1200
RastPort's KA21 is a hardware Gayle reset fix for Amiga 1200. Features:

Generates missing PCMCIA reset signal during reboot. It is needed by many PCMCIA cards to be detected by the system after reboot.
Pins for connecting optional reset button.
Pins for 2-way and 4-way clockport expanders. These devices need A15 (and A14 for 4-way units) signal, which is usually taken from Kickstart ROM by inserting additional socket. With KA21 these signals can be connected to two pins on the unit.

KA21 should be available from RastPort distributors at half of August. (snx)

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17.Jul.2018
Samuli Holopainen (ANF) Game: AIBOT
Press release: AIBOT is a test game of an educational game idea aimed at teaching coding principles to a player. It was made for Christiandevs Speedgame 2018 competition and received a honorable mention.

In AIBOT you are controlling a robot through coding its movement, mainly with an aim of getting to a certain location at a level. Completing a level will open up new levels and give money to buy more commands for your robot to use.

You can save your robot's code that you have created, or if you are stuck, you can even load pre-existing code to see how to beat the level. As it is in coding for real, so in this game too: there are multiple ways to reach the goal, and it is limited only upon player's imagination to figure out which exact way to complete them.

You can see a bit about the game from the video Apostolic Game Designers: Christian Speedgame Competition 2018 - 8 new games.

At start, AIBOT is available through Indiego Appstore. It will at later point also be uploaded to Aminet, but in effort to show support to Indiego Appstore, it is available from there for now. AIBOT is available to all main Amiga platforms (AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, AROS, MorphOS) and also Windows.

Notice that this was made with Hollywood using power-heavy ways for graphics, so you need very powered-up machine to have a chance for this to work on Amiga computers. (snx)

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