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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 13 of "WhatIFF?" (03. Apr. 2024)
"WhatIFF?" is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. The topics of the thirteenth issue include reviews of hardware (e.g. xT Amiga 600 Turbo Card, Open Amiga Sampler) and games (e.g. The Deep, Dice Masters), instructions (e.g. Game Graphics: What NOT to ...

Shoot'em Up: "Skillgrid" V1.4 (07. Jan. 2024)
In early 2019, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released his abstract, vertical shoot'em up SkillGrid (YouTube video). Changes to version 1.4: Added cells field flashing when these cells (are about to) appear: ASTEROIDS cell (bright colors); BEAM/* cell...

Demo: THE CURE v1.5 for AGA-Amigas (03. Jan. 2024)
Some time ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released a demo called 'THE CURE' (YouTube video) which placed first at the 'Solskogen' demo party 2020 in the category Oldskool (amiga-news.de reported). This demo he keeps on developing and meanwhile has relea...

Memory game: MeMO 3.20 (24. Dec. 2023)
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has released an update to his memory game MeMO. It is based on the classic memory card game, but in his implementation two players can compete against each other at the same time and compete for the best score. MeMO requires a...

Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas: PED81C updated (29. Nov. 2023)
With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach to work on AGA Amigas with pseudo-native chunky screens without performing the known chunky-to-planar conversions when displaying 3D graphics or any other slo...

PED81C: Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas (Update) (23. Jun. 2023)
The Amiga's bitplane-based graphics, in which the color information for each pixel on a screen is captured as two-dimensional layers and, for scrolling, each layer (bitplane) is changed by the exact same value so that each pixel also gets the same color a...

Game updates: ArtPazz 1.8, Follix 1.6, Ring around the World 1.2 (07. Jun. 2023)
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has updated his games ArtPazz (puzzle game where jumbled pieces of a classic painting have to be pushed back), Follix (a puzzle game inspired by Atomix, only here letters have to be lined up) and "Ring around the World" (point'n'...

AMOS Layers System 1.101 and 2.5 (06. Jun. 2023)
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua's "AMOS Layers System" allows programmers under AMOS to layer several of its screens, specifying the order, colors and transparency. br> Among the new features of the latest update are minor changes to the commands and a speed ...

Video: Experiments with the AMOS Layers System (ALS) (29. May. 2023)
Simone Bevilacqua's AMOS Layers System (ALS) "turns the screens of AMOS Professional into layers that can be laid over one another, with complete control of order, colors and opaqueness, while keeping them renderable as usual" (amiga-news.de reported). Du...

Video: Background story of the game "Ring around the World" (29. Mar. 2023)
"Ring around the World" is a point'n'click adventure game about a supposedly drowned man with memory loss, which is also one of three test games for the AMOS Layers System by the same author. At the title link as well as in a video Simone 'saimo' Bevil...

AMOS Layers System 1.100 & 2.4 (19. Mar. 2023)
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua's "AMOS Layers System" (amiga-news.de reported) makes it possible to overlay several of its screens when programming under AMOS, specifying the order, colors and opaqueness. Since our last report, minor optimizations have been...

Game updates: ArtPazz 1.7, Follix 1.5, Ring around the World 1.1 (19. Mar. 2023)
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has updated his games ArtPazz (puzzle game where jumbled pieces of a classic painting have to be pushed back), Follix (a puzzle game inspired by Atomix, only here letters have to be lined up) and Ring around the World (point'n'cl...

Point'n Click adventure: Ring around the World (07. Mar. 2023)
"Ring around the World" (video) by Simone Bevilacqua (KOG, Huenison, Blastaway, among others) is described by the author as a "short, open world, point'n'click adventure from the top view". The player wakes up on the shore of an unknown world and can only...

Puzzle game: Follix 1.3 (AGA) (21. Feb. 2023)
Besides his puzzle game ArtPazz, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has also updated his second puzzle game Follix: Fixed endless floppy drive motor spinning. Fixed graphical glitch that could happen in the transition between the game and information screens...

Puzzle game: ArtPazz 1.4 (AGA) (21. Feb. 2023)
In ArtPazz, the goal is to put the jumbled pieces of each classic painting back in their original place by moving them around (video). The puzzle game was created with AMOS Professional for AGA-Amigas and is free, but the author also allows you to pay a v...

AmigaOS 4: Arcade game KOG updated (30. Jul. 2022)
As already reported in the article on Blastaway, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has updated several games in parallel and thus his arcade game KOG as well (video). Changes: July 29, 2022 Added screenshots of internal graphics (now [F1] grab a screensho...

AmigaOS 4: Update of arena shooter 'Blastaway' (30. Jul. 2022)
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua's 'Blastaway' (video) is an arena shooter with 50 levels in five different worlds. The game principle is inspired by Wizard of Wor, the graphics by The Chaos Engine (amiga-news.de reported). As Simone wrote, "lately work ha...

Windows: Update for the arcade games Huenison and KOG (update) (21. Jul. 2022)
Simone Bevilacqua's game Huenison for AmigaOS 4 and Windows combines various game elements of early arcade games. The current update of the title, which was released in 2013, is intended to improve the recognition of control pads under Windows (the D...

Shoot'em Up: SkillGrid 1.3 (22. May. 2022)
About three years ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) released his abstract vertical shoot'em up 'SkillGrid' (amiga-news.de reported). Additional to several improvements, version 1.3 offers a new weapon (YouTube video) and for AmigaCD32...

Demo: THE CURE version 1.4 for AGA Amigas (30. Apr. 2022)
Some time ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released a demo called 'THE CURE' (YouTube video) which placed first at the 'Solskogen' demo party 2020 in the category Oldskool (amiga-news.de reported). This demo he keeps on developing and meanwhile has relea...