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20.Oct.2023
Hackaday.com (ANF) Amiga-compatible mainboard: Denise
For about 90 Euro the Amiga-compatible mainboard "Denise" from the Swedish developer Enterlogic should be available in principle, plus e.g. 14 Euro shipping costs to Germany - but currently it is listed as sold out since the end of June, a new batch is announced. Besides the bare board, one gets another PCB for the RAM and two microcontrollers including firmware to use also PC keyboard and mouse besides the original Amiga ones.

Once all other components, including the 68000 processor and the Amiga custom chips, have been found and soldered, the fully assembled Denise is said to be most comparable to an Amiga 500+ with two Zorro II slots. (snx)

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20.Oct.2023 CLI command: sysvars - system information as environment variables
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical frame rate (PAL/NTSC) as well as whether the emulator UAE is used - and if so, in which version.

AmigaOS 2.x is required, a future version for operating system version 1.3 is being considered. (snx)

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20.Oct.2023 Do it yourself: amiga-DSKRDY PCB for floppy disk drives
If no original Amiga disk drives are used, the "RDY" signal that the floppy disk drive is ready is usually missing, which can cause problems with some programs.

The 15x20 millimeter board amiga-DSKRDY provides the corresponding signal for such drives, assuming that readiness actually exists after 500 milliseconds. (snx)

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20.Oct.2023

Alien Breed clone: new playable demo for 'Chaos Guns'
Chaos Guns started life as a mashup of 'Alien Breed' - running and gunning from a top-down view - and 'Hired Guns' - four indepently playable characters. A first tech demo, written in the rather exotic programming language 'PowerD', was released in 2014. After loosing the only coder and realizing that engine as originally envisioned would be too taxing for the Amiga, the team created several prototypes including one created with Backbone that was released to the public in 2016.

Shortly afterwards Jozef Tomka joined the team as a coder, to write an engine for this reduced version of the game - 32 instead of 256 colors, only one playable character - in Assembler. But according to members of the team, everybody was involved in too many projects, so work on Chaos Guns came to a halt for years. But now Tomka has published a new early alpha version of the game:

"Chaos Guns 8.69 (2023)" ist playable (video), even if the enemies aren't really fighting back yet. To be able to shoot, you first have to select a weapon using the "1" to "7" keys.

Download: ChaosGuns_8.69.lha (386 KB) (cg)

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18.Oct.2023 3D action adventure: Bugdom 2 for Linux and MorphOS
Similar to the first part of the 3D action adventure game "Bugdom", the second part of the game originally published by Pangea Software was ported to modern OS by 'jorio'.

Afterwards, 'BeWorld' compiled Bugdom 2 for MorphOS (the latest SDL archive is required) and Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky for LinuxPPC-32Bit. The game runs on the Linux PowerPC distributions Void PPC, MintPPC, Fienix.

Download: Bugdom2_4.4.0-linux-powerpc.tar.gz (133 MB) (dr)

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14.Oct.2023
Simon Neumann (E-Mail) Neues von Alinea Computer: Wodem, KickRom-Flash und KickRom-Progger
Press release: Alinea Computer presents three new products that were presented to the public for the first time at Amiga 38:

Wodem

With the Wodem, you can integrate any Amiga into your WiFi via the serial interface and have access to the Internet via a TCP/IP stack. With the appropriate turbo card or interface card, speeds of up to 115,200 bps are possible. The configuration is described in detail in the manual supplied. The Wodem can be purchased without accessories for 29.95 euros.

KickRom-Flash

The KickRom-Flash Adapter (version 1.4) is a programmable Flash-Rom replacement for EPROM components (e.g. 27c400) or Kickstart-Roms in the Amiga computer. Up to 4 Kickstarts (512 kb each) can be loaded onto a module and switched via jumpers or a switch. The switch with the name KickRom-Switch is unfortunately not yet available, but will be released in a few weeks.

In addition to the standard version of the Flash-Rom module, there is currently a special version for the Amiga 600, as mechanical problems can occur there with the standard modules. The programming and deletion of the components is done with the programming device KickRom-Progger. A KickRom flash can be bought for 29.95 Euros. In addition, a programming service is available for customers without a programming device.

KickRom-Progger

With the KickRom-Progger you can program/read Flash-Rom (27C400 emulators) devices up to 1.4 from Alinea Computer as well as commercially available 27C400 devices. The programmer can be operated directly on your Amiga via the serial interface. In addition to the serial interface, the programmer can also be controlled via USB on any computer. The programmer is operated via its own firmware, which is controlled from the computer via a terminal programme and can therefore run on almost any platform.

The device is the world's first programmer that can burn its own Kickstart roms directly on the Amiga. The KickRom Progger can be purchased without accessories for 44.95 euros. Options include a zero-force socket and a serial cable for BigBox Amigas.

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