27.Nov.2024
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Event: Announcement of date for Classic Computing 2025 (Germany)
Next year Classic Computing event will take place again in September, from 11th to 14th of that month. After Baden-Württemberg, it will then be held in Bavaria, in the Freiheitshalle Hof.
The annual "Classic Computing" is organized by the "Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V." and is one of the largest retrocomputer events in Germany. (snx)
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26.Nov.2024
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 34
Issue 34 of the English-language magazine Amiga Addict is now available from the publisher addict.media and in British newsstands. In the cover story, the editorial team is looking for a suitable Christmas present and sheds light on current FPGA systems, including the Minimig and MISTer models.
This issue also contains reviews of the new games Holy Warrior, Sky Shapers and The Lost Pixel and the classic games Arcade Pool and Nick Faldo's Golf, an interview with Bitmap Brothers artist Dan Malone, a festive CD32 corner with AmigaJay's Christmas Crackers collection, Christmas HAM with Digi-Paint, a screenshot quiz and much more.
Amiga Addict is published every six weeks and is available as a single issue or by subscription, in either printed or PDF format. (nba)
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26.Nov.2024
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Print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 22
The new issue 22 (November 2024) of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga" comes in a new design, the cover was illustrated by Simon Phipps (Rick Dangerous, Wolfchild, among others). The magazine is available in print or digital editions. The main topic of the issue is video games.
- Video-Games: 2 Tiny Cowboys, Absolute 0, Crysis, GoGoGo, Hammurabi, Phoenix 500, Pumpkin, Shadowmage, Squarez, Tale of Evil, The Lost Pixels, The Tower of Evil, Tiny Pixel.
- Previews: Worms TDC 1.5, Deathrace.
- Tech: Amiga and WLAN, BeeBase.
- Report: Passione Amiga Day 2024
- Exclusive interviews: Simon Phipps and Andy Davidson.
- And also: Game- and Tech-News, Demoscene, readers' letters and much more
Passione Amiga 22 can be ordered from the publisher's webshop as a single issue or by subscription as of November 8, 2024. A Kindle version can be purchased from Amazon. (nba)
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26.Nov.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE! 164 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE! ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in both the Italian original and an English translation (right-hand side). The current issue 163 also contains three reviews of Amiga titles: the beat'em'up "Beastlord", the Arkanoid-clone "Crystal Dragon" and the platform-game "The Lost Pixel". (nba)
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25.Nov.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_2.30.9_Libraries.lha Dependencies/Library/SDL All Libraries SDL : SDL...
MCE_15.22.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
OpenMoHAA_0.80.0-alpha... Games/Shoot3D OpenMoHAA 0.80.0 for Mo...
Atomiks_1.0.4.1.lha Games/Think Port of Atomiks
(snx)
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25.Nov.2024
itch.io
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Puzzle game: Connect available for free
Frank from the LogicalByte team writes: "Hello everyone, it's been over 2 years since we released Connect (amiga-news.de reported). During this time, we have received a lot of praise, which has made us very happy. The gaming community has also sent us suggestions for improvements, which we have implemented as long as they fit into the concept and the game technically allowed it. As expected, the box version sold well and sales of the digital version were also satisfactory. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support!
Nevertheless, it is time to take the next step and we have decided to offer this game for free. With this we would like to offer the other players of this world the opportunity to spend great hours with this game on the Amiga. Remaining copies of the box version are still available at Alinea Computer." (dr)
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25.Nov.2024
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SCALA-MM game conversion: The Angel of Death
After Adventure 2 Remake and Beyond a Steel Sky, 'Quantum Code Monk', formerly 'grindercowboy', has released a third game project for Scala MM, which he has now submitted for the AmiGameJam 2024 instead of Beyond a Steel Sky: The Angel of Death is based on Police Quest: In Pursuit Of The Death Angel, a game published by Sierra in 1987, but with different roles. As Jessie Bains, you try to take control of the drug trade in the town of Lytton.
The game is still in development: sound and music are missing and the graphics are only placeholder graphics. The story is also only 20 to 30% complete. AmigaOS 3.x and the Scala-MM-Player are required. (dr)
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25.Nov.2024
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel
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Turn-based strategy: November-2024-Update for "Settle the World"
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel writes about his November update: "A new version of my Amiga game "Settle the World" is available.
The "Quality of Life and Pathfinding Update - November 2024" contains mostly bug fixes and a completely revised pathfinding.
n the last few months I've changed my real-life job, otherwise I would have lost my job. This job is very demanding and I can no longer manage to work four or more hours a day on "Settle the World". Development will definitely continue, but at a slower pace than last year. As always, you can download the latest version of the game free of charge from my project page. You can find a more detailed description of the changes in the corresponding developer diary for the update.
I would be very pleased to receive feedback and constructive criticism." (dr)
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24.Nov.2024
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Aminet uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to Aminet:
AmiSpeedTest.lha comm/net 77K 68k Network speed test utility
xdump.lha dev/misc 538K 68k Four AmigaDOS binary file ana...
DiskCopier10a.lha disk/bakup 60K 68k A 2024 floppy disk copier
adfblitzer.lha disk/misc 33K 68k handle ADF files - English an...
MCE.lha game/edit 4.1M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha game/misc 55M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM 2.5.1 (...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 9.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 9.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 10M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
IMP_GI.lha pix/icon 4K GlowIcon for IMP
NAFCYI1991S3-B02.zip text/bfont 1.0M NAFCYI Fall 1991 (BMP Fonts)
Trinity.lha util/misc 33K 68k Trinity Tools
UHCTools.lha util/misc 53K ALL UHC Tools installer
(snx)
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24.Nov.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 10Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mgba.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.1 GB/GBC/GBA Emulator
iff-converter.lha gra/con 1Mb 4.0 Convert images into raw format.
uhctools.lha uti/mis 53kb 4.0 UHC Tools installer
(snx)
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24.Nov.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 23.11.2024
The following files have been added until 23.11.2024 to AROS Archives:
uhctools.i386-aros.lha uti/mis 53kb A collection of programs and scr...
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24.Nov.2024
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WHD-Load: New installers until 23.11.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 23.11.2024:
- 2024-11-20 improved: Predator 2 (Konami) second version supported, game bugs fixed, frame rate limiter, trainers, 68000 quit key (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Wonderdog (Core Design) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Oscar (Flair Software) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-20 fixed: Neuromancer (Interplay) SMC fix wasn't correct (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Moktar / Titus the Fox (Titus) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Mega-Typhoon (Bernhardt Braun/Nordlicht Edv.) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Liquid Kids (Ocean) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Jim Power (Loriciel) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-20 improved: The Immortal (Electronic Arts) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info, Image)
- 2024-11-20 improved: Cedric (Neo/Alcatraz) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-11-18 improved: Zyconix (Accolade) fixed problems on 68040 (Info)
- 2024-11-17 fixed: Neuromancer (Interplay) crash in self modifying code patch fixed (Info)
(snx)
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24.Nov.2024
GitHub
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Do it yourself: Amiga adapter RiskyKVM for keyboard-video-mouse switches
RiskyKVM is intended as an Amiga adapter for keyboard-video-mouse switches, but can also be used as a USB to DB9 and Amiga keyboard interface. (snx)
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24.Nov.2024
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ADF-Blitzer 3.10
Andreas Gouder's program ADF-Blitzer for creating and writing back ADF images has been released in version 3.10. Besides smaller additions, it does now also support German language besides English. Further localizations are not intended.
Download: adfblitzer.lha (33 KB) (snx)
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23.Nov.2024
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Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 10.3
Thomas 'Thor' Richter's universal PCI driver system “OpenPCI” supports all known PCI solutions for the Amiga without recourse to the software of the respective manufacturer. The current version 10.3 eliminates problems when working with PCI bridges:
- Bridge configuration was refactored again. Bridge
and parent device are now passed already into the
constructor of a PCI device, and not only when it
is added.
- Fixed a trashed register in the Mediator board
scan.
- The Mediator scan did not pass the parent device
correctly into the device creator, thus giving
devices behind bridges wrong bus IDs.
- For some strange reason, the Mediator does not
seem to decode the address bits for selecting a
device behind a PCI bridge correctly; it seems
to ignore them. Therefore, the Mediator currently
supports only a single device behind a bridge.
- Some bridges take apparently several milliseconds
to accept a configuration. Now the library inserts
a 50ms delay after having installed the target
busses after setting up a PCI bridge.
- The time delay function was broken and passed in
the wrong command to the timer.device.
(cg)
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22.Nov.2024
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Operating system-compliant Pac-Man conversion: 5th-7th part of the video series
Thomas Cherryhomes is working on a conversion of the game Pac-Man that only uses operating system calls. Episodes five to seven
are entitled "recreating a WSG sound", "the pac-man sprite" and "the clyde BOB".
(cg)
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22.Nov.2024
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast episode #202 - Making the fan-made Broken Sword 2.5
In the 202nd edition of the "Scene World" podcast, the team welcomes Marius Gosch, one of the founders of the Broken Sword 2.5 project, which also runs on AmigaOS thanks to ScummVM. The interview, in which Gosch talks about his work as a writer and puzzle designer on this fan-made sequel to Broken Sword 2, starts at timestamp 1:43:08 of the podcast. (cg)
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22.Nov.2024
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Tetris clone: "Tetra Zone"
Around eight years ago, Wei-ju Wu published a seven-part series (plus additional episodes) on Amiga hardware programming in C on his YouTube channel. Now he is in the process of writing a Tetris clone called "Tetra Zone" for the AmiGameJam 2024, which implements techniques from this tutorial series (YouTube video).
His game extends the original with three preview stones, a hold function, a "ghost stone" and support for "wall kicks". Another goal was to achieve a stable frame rate of 50/60 fps on a 5-bitplane screen. He has now released a first pre-release version (without sound). (dr)
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22.Nov.2024
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Developer log: Shattering the Magicore 8-color limit
In a recent blog entry on his game "Magicore Anomala" (amiga-news.de reported), which is currently in development, developer Dan Salvato explains why the background in the game uses eight colours or less - and how it is still possible to use Copper to change the colour palette to create an even more colourful image while displaying different areas of the background. (dr)
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20.Nov.2024
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Event: Videos from 25th Amiga-Meeting Nord in Neumünster (Germany)
At the turn of the month the 25th Amiga Meeting North took place in Neumünster, Germany. Two videos now show the presentations of Michal Schulz about PiStorm and Emu68 and Simon Neumann from Alinea Computer about new hardware developments. (snx)
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20.Nov.2024
Mastodon (ANF)
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Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive
Four images from Island Graphics from 1985 have now been added to the collection of early Amiga graphics. Three of them show ballerinas. They were based on paintings by the French painter Edgar Degas, which were transferred to the Amiga as a background image using a Genlock and then traced using a painting program. (snx)
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