04.Mar.2025
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 167 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
The latest issue 167 contains numerous game reviews for other retro systems as well as reviews of three Amiga games: Cyber Man, Riviera '79 und Tony: Montezuma's Gold. (nba)
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03.Mar.2025
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Proof of concept: RallyXSE
Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen presents the start of a proof of concept in a short video that shows how to create a car rally game with the Scorpion Engine. (dr)
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03.Mar.2025
Taiwanrider
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Video: Forgotten Town - A story of early German Hardcore Techno
The video documentary "Forgotten Town - A story of early German Hardcore Techno" (vimeo link) tells the story of the origins of the scene magazine "Hakke" (webarchive link), which was produced in Chemnitz (Germany) in the 1990s . All issues of the magazine were produced with an Amiga 4000 from 'JaDe'.
Almost all productions of the Borschtsch project, such as Get High, were also produced with the Amiga: initially with the Oktalyzer, later productions then with OctaMED Soundstudio and various MIDI devices.
All the background music in the film is produced by Borschtsch and on the Amiga. (dr)
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03.Mar.2025
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Emulator: Denise v2.5
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64 (German YouTube video). Version 2.5, which has now been released, offers the following changes:
- added 1581 floppy drive
- added SuperCPU
- support SuperCPU + REU (e.g. Sonic without slowdowns)
- added option to boost DRAM accesses (speedup Wolf3D)
- support Metal Dust burst loader (new CIA's only and in UI check CIA Burst modification)
- added Final Chesscard
- support options to overclock (up to 115 MHz)
- hint: latest BROM v3.6 from IBM PC ISA-cartridge can be used too
- added MagicDesk 2 (SNK vs CAPCOM Stronger Edition)
- added Easycalc, Hyperbasic, Businessbasic cartridges
- added StarDOS, SuperCard+
- added 4 and 8 player adapter for C64
- added option to toggle 1541C track zero sensor
- Linux: built flatpak
- Linux: improve detection of Bluetooth controller
- Windows: support USB adapter for DB9 retro joysticks
- additional sound profile for C64 added to differentiate between 5 1/4" and 3.5" drives
- configurations are shown in a tree view for subfolder support
- updated reSID code
- hide mouse cursor after 2 seconds of inactivity and becomes visible again when moved
- fix VIC-II sprite collision bug
- fix A1000 blitter busy bug
- fix A1000 WOM lock during reset instruction
Denise is available cross platform for Windows 32/64 XP and higher, macOS (from version 10.9 on, Intel and Arm) and Linux (Ubuntu). (dr)
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02.Mar.2025
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Aminet uploads until 01.03.2025
The following files have been added until 01.03.2025 to Aminet:
MailSender_MOS.lha comm/mail 6.0M MOS send pictures and/or fi...
MailSender_OS4.lha comm/mail 6.6M OS4 send pictures and/or fi...
amigassh.lha comm/net 111K OS3 SSH2 for the Amiga
libiconv-1.4.lha dev/lib 2.4M VAR Characterset Conversion...
xmdump.lha dev/misc 555K OS3 Analyze AmigaDOS progra...
Voodoo.lha driver/vid 25K OS3 Voodoo P96 driver
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.4M MOS Multi-game Character Ed...
Piramide_AROS.lha game/think 4.6M ARO remove all cards from t...
Piramide_MorphOS.lha game/think 4.5M MOS remove all cards from t...
Piramide_OS4.lha game/think 4.9M OS4 remove all cards from t...
PrayForUkraine.lha mods/8voic 391K GEN 16bit 13ch Piano/Violin...
unshield-1.5.1.lha util/arc 1.6M VAR Extract/list InstallShi...
IdentifyLib_FR.lha util/libs 25K GEN French catalog and docs...
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02.Mar.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.03.2025
The following files have been added until 01.03.2025 to OS4Depot:
libiconv.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 Character Set Library (Linked St...
piramide.lha gam/car 5Mb 4.0 remove all cards from the pyramid
mailsender.lha net/ema 7Mb 4.0 The most simple application to s...
unshield.lha uti/arc 2Mb 4.1 Tool and library to extract CAB ...
(snx)
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02.Mar.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.03.2025
The following files have been added until 01.03.2025 to AROS Archives:
wildmidi.x86_64-aros-v11.zip aud/pla 460kb Midi Player
piramide_aros.lha gam/car 5Mb remove all cards from the pyramid
amigakeyremaper.x86_64-ar... uti/mis 57kb Simple program that swaps left/r...
cls.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/she 41kb CLear Screen command
switch.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/wor 78kb Screens/windows switcher commodity
zapperng.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/wor 56kb Change the behaviour of the zoom...
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02.Mar.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.03.2025
The following files have been added until 01.03.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
Piramide_1.0.lha Games/Card Solitaire card game - r...
MCE_15.30.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
VAMP_3.20.lha Multimedia A Multimedia Player pro...
MailSender_1.03.lha Network/Email Send pictures and/or fi...
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02.Mar.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.03.2025
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 01.03.2025:
(snx)
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02.Mar.2025
Amiga.org (forum)
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New York Post illustrates Citibank accounting error with Amiga 2000
The New York Post illustrated the fact that Citibank recently made a false entry of 81 trillion US dollars with the photo of an Amiga 2000 with a 1084S monitor - presumably not coincidentally alluding to inadequate control software.
User comments on Reddit at the title link suggest therefore that the bank should switch to more modern computer equipment - such as a CD³². (snx)
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02.Mar.2025
RetroGames e.V. (ANF)
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Photos and video of the special exhibition "40 years of Amiga" in Karlsruhe
As reported, a special exhibition "40 years of Amiga" can be visited on Saturdays in Karlsruhe (Germany). An illustrated short report from the vernissage on January 10 can now be seen at the title link, and a video recording of Petro Tyschtschenko's speech has also been published. (snx)
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02.Mar.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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German Amiga Podcast: Issue 20
The twentieth edition of the "German Amiga Podcast" (GAP) visits 'Tinomania', who is hosting the Amiga Ruhrpott Convention 2025 with his team on June 21. (snx)
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01.Mar.2025
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Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" has been supplemented by numerous pictures from graphics competitions of the German Amiga magazine. Since there were already some more pictures from this magazine in the archive, there is also a new overview page with all pixel graphics from the Amiga magazine. (cg)
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01.Mar.2025
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Axe'n Crossbow
"Amiga Games That Weren't" provides information on 'Axe'n Crossbow', a project by Fuzzball graphic artist Tomas Dahlgren also known as 'Seven Gates of Hell', which combines elements from various arcade games such as Elevator Action, Temple of Doom, Kung-Fu Master and Rolling Thunder in a medieval setting. (cg)
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01.Mar.2025
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Individual Computers: ACA1260Tool 0.98
"ACA1260Tool" is used to configure the ACA1240/1260 turbo cards from Individual Computers and can be started both from the Workbench and from the shell. Version 0.98, which has now been released, contains the following changes:
- added commandline option to show the commandline help
- added commandline option to select fan profile
- added commandline option to enable IDE speeder
- added commandline option that shows all kinds of info (WIP)
(cg)
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01.Mar.2025
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Open source A4091 software package: A4091 version 42.31
For ReA4091, the open source replica of Commodore's Fast SCSI2 controller "A4091", there is now also an open source software package available, which contains AmigaOS drivers, a ROM image, a test utility and software for debugging the driver. Version 42.31 was released two days ago. (cg)
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01.Mar.2025
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Field report part 1: Checkmate display, tests with various retro systems
In a blog entry, 'Epsilon' presents two examples of the crowdfunded Checkmate 19” IPS Retro Monitor in detail and tests the display with various retro systems. A planned second part will examine the interaction with numerous other 8- and 16-bit systems. (cg)
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01.Mar.2025
AmigaKit (Mail)
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A600GS: Software update 46.1.1015
A further software update has been released for AmigaKit's A600GS emulator platform, which is available for download to registered AmiSphere customers and includes the following changes:
A600GS
- Add Italian language translation thanks to Samir Hawamdeh
- Add test for RDB based HDFs, when RDB found omit altered options to allow correct handling by AmiBerry
- Suppress editing of DEVICE VOLUME and BOOTPRI for RDB based HDFs as these are all in the control of the RDB
- Add option to limit Z3 memory space used to 1Gb, this should allow RTG and Z3 memory to be used on OS variants that inadvertently impose this limit.
YAM
YAM v2.10 has been rebuilt with important bug fixes implemented. A new YAM support page has been added to the Wiki for A600GS / A1200NG users.
- Regenerate the flex generated C files from HTML2Mail.l and ParseMail.l with flex version 4.6 (run on the A600gs itself) as the OS4 version used for cross compiling was just slightly too old and caused occasional crashes.
- Fix bug in RecipientString GoActive method, custom MUI class that could set the same input handler on the window more than once and cause lock-ups due to queueing a node twice.
- Fix equivalent issue in GoInactive method
The last two fix an issue with the Forward window locking up and also the Edit draft window in some circumstances
AmiBerry
Minor refactor of Z3mem options parsing to allow setting up of multiple Z3 memory "cards" , the previous parser would overwrite the same memory bank with the subsequant options causing some quirky side effects! The end result of this is to allow combinations of memory like 512 + 256 (for 768 total.) (cg)
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01.Mar.2025
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- News from January/February 2025.
- News: wolfSSL shows its face on the Amiga.
- Old articles from Generation 4 issues 32 to 35:
- Review of Cadaver
- Review of Snow Bros
- News: Captain Planet, the hero of the 1991 autumn season
- News: Compact Disc invades the computer world
- File: Origin, an explosive evolution
- Review of 7 Colors
- Review of Champion Of The Raj
- News: The 4 D'Or 1990
- File: Arachnophobia, the film, the game
- Review of Brat
- Review of Midwinter 2
- etc.
- Interview with Simon Neumann (director of Alinea Computer).
- Interview with Daniel Pesina (Mortal Kombat character).
- Review of MorphOS 3.18 and 3.19 (update).
- Hardware: PiStorm32-lite with Emu68 1.0.
- The best of Byte from April 1992 to January 1993.
- File: Tribute to Martyn Brown (1967-2024).
- File: Graphics cards for Sam440ep-Flex.
- File: The Amiga Games List (update).
- File: The IFF ILBM format.
- The GEnie conference of 22 August 1993 on "the Amiga truth".
- Tutorial: Using MirrorCopy on MorphOS.
- Tutorial: Tips on installing the TF1260.
- Programming: Assembler - Using the VERTB interrupt on the Amiga.
- Special quiz about the year 2024 on the Amiga.
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28.Feb.2025
Howard Price
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Amiga disassembler with emulator: Aira Force 0.9.1 (Windows, Linux, macOS & RPi)
With Version 0.9.0, Howard Price released a major update of his disassembler Aira Force (Video) for Amiga programs under Windows/64-bit, Windows/32-bit, macOS, Linux/64-bit and the Raspberry Pi. The new version 0.9.1 offers the following features:
- Amiga audio DMA emulation
- Experimental audio out (use at your own risk)
- Emulator optimisations
- macOS Universal Binaries
- Other bits and bobs
The author has written a detailed description of the changes in his developer diary. (dr)
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28.Feb.2025
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Real-time strategy: First early demo version of "King Arthur's Campaign"
After its train simulator "Trans-Pennine Express" (amiga-news.de reported), 'lifeschool' has started a new project: a real-time strategy game with some "Defender of the Crown" influences. The playing field in "King Arthur's Campaign" can be seen from a bird's eye view, the units are freely movable. The game is set in Roman times.
Basically, the author is interested in the use of arrays in this game: by copying all X and Y coordinates of all units into an array each turn, he wants to be able to quickly check whether units have met. He has now released a first early demo version 0.3 as a hard disc image. (dr)
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