05.Sep.2023
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade conversion: 'Karate Champ' updated
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has released an update for his Amiga conversion of the 1984 Arcade game Karate Champ. The new version fixes a small graphics bug in one of the later levels. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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05.Sep.2023
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Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.4.0
'wicknix' has released version 32.4.0 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for Linux PPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix 6 on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. The new version is a major development update, further improving web compatibility.
Downloads:
sealion-32.4.0.linux-powerpc-gtk2.tar.bz2 (53 MB)
SeaLion-Extras.zip (66 MB) (dr)
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05.Sep.2023
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Image editor: PyDPainter 1.2.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS
The image editor PyDPainter (YouTube video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as easy to use as possible (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 1.2.1:
Issues fixed
- Frequent crashes after multiple undos
- Add variations on the Brush tool
- Smooth mode available in fill tools
- Cursor rendering problem on M1 Mac
- Coordinates indication request
- Color change / Remap
- Implement Tint drawmode
- File requestor Type button disabled when it shouldn't be
- Revert to last save
- Broken image link in plasma tutorial
(dr)
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05.Sep.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.17, Contacts 1.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.17 his e-mail client Iris and version 1.0 of the contact manager Contacts for MorphOS. The all new Contacts application supports synchronizing contacts from CardDav services, including Google Contacts, iCloud Contacts or any other compatible service like Runbox, Synology, etc. When set up, Iris will link the email addresses to Contacts in order to display any configured photos and other details. Contacts are also used to provide better matches when filling out addresses in To/CC/BCC fields.
Contacts will automatically be installed in the same directory as Iris when you auto-update to 1.17. Detailed changes:
- Iris now comes with a brand new Contacts application
- In email viewer, the gray circle with sender's initials will show his photo if you have one configured in your contacts, including remote images from Google Contacts or iCloud contacts. Clicking on the circle will bring up the contact in Contacts application or show an Add Contact window
- Email address auto-complete will perform lookups of your contacts and prioritize the results
- Right clicking on an email in the address string will let you open the associated contact
- Added a workaround for broken servers that don't handle message ID messagesets correctly in IMAP FETCH command
- Fixes in the email autocomplete string class
- Implemented support for List-Unsubscribe MIME header
- HTML text editor tweaks
(dr)
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04.Sep.2023
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Italian magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 15
The 15th issue of the Italian publication "Passione Amiga" - 48 pages in color, available as a PDF download or as a printed magazine - features the following topics:
- Videogiochi: Boxx, Rogue Declan Zero, Pengo500, Night/Shift, Pleiades 3D, Jack in the Pit, Holiday
- Recensioni: From Vultures to Vampires – volume 2, Chris Huelsbeck – The Piano Collection Volume II
- Anteprima Passione Amiga day 2023
- Speciale AmiGameJam 2022
- Tech: Alla ricerca del controller perduto, Prototipo scheda acceleratrice 68040 per Amiga 3000
- Tech: Amiga GCC, organizzazione dei progetti
- Corso di Blender, parte 7
- Interviste a: Andy Davidson e Michal Bergseth
- E inoltre: Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Scena Demo, Nuovi Talenti, La Posta dei Lettori
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04.Sep.2023
viddi (ANF)
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Action RPGs: Entire Gorluth saga available from itch.io
Recently the third part of the 'Tales of Gorluth' saga was made available via itch.io, now the first two installments of the series as well as the spin-off 'Heroes of Gorluth' can be found there as well. The very first 'Gorluth' game is available for free, the other parts can be purchased for 5,55 ¤. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.Sep.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 164
The English and German issue 164 (September/October 2023) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Starting with Amiga Future 163, the magazine now has 60 instead of 52 pages.
Content of the current issue:
- Interview Christian Wiegel (Settle The World) Part 2
- Show Report Retcon Gaming festival 2023
- Show Report Kickstart 01
- Amiga 38 preview
- Preview Castlevania AGA
- Preview Hamulet
- Preview Bulbmaster
- Review Night/Shift - A Cyberpunk Adventure
- Review Board game vs Amiga - Monopoly
- Review Absolute Zero
- Review Commodore: The Inside Story
- Review Amiblaster Deluxe
- Review TF 1260
- Special Trevors Soapbox
- Special A1222+ Part 1
- Special Demoscene
- Workshop Pagestream Part 2
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04.Sep.2023
Entwickler (ANF)
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Virtual Enemies Devlog #3 - Language system finished
The developers of the upcoming strategical Virtual Enemies have posted another entry to their developer's diary, this one describing the localisation of the game. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.Sep.2023
Willem Drijver (Apollo Team) (ANF)
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Apollo team working on a port of "Robin Hood: Legend of Sherwood"
Willem Drijver from the Apollo team informs us that the team is working on porting the Realtime Strategical Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood to the Apollo hardware. The game was published in 2002 for Windows and ported to MorphOS by e.p.i.c. / Runesoft in 2006. When approached by amiga-news.de, Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo team), who was involved in the MorphOS port back then, confirms that the team is in contact with the rightsholders and that the intention is to distribute the Apollo version of Robin Hood commercially.
Drijver has published a video showcasing the current state of the project, he describes the work done on the "experimental exercise" (Drijver) so far as follows:
"RHLOS is a great RPG game from SpellBound released in 2002 and intended for Pentium PCs (233Mhz/64Mb). Current stage of the project is that we have succeeded in getting the game somewhat up-and-running on V4. The FPS is obviously not on the level that we would like it to be, but basic gameplay is already possible...
For compiling we used the ApolloCrossDev setup for Linux which is another (beta) project from Apollo team. Graphics routines are changed from SDL based APIs to native Apollo Blit and Scroll routines, partly in Assembler. Sound routines are also rewritten and are now using Apollo Arne instead of SDL. There is still some work to be done on the mixer and effect routines, but we are confident to make that work also.
There is still a lot of work to be done to get RHLOS up to a level where it could be released in any form or shape. But we share this first results with you with the intention to raise interests within the Amiga (development) community. If you feel you have the skills and time to help us in this project, we are looking for you to join us! (please PM me on Discord @WillemDrijver)." (cg) (Translation: cg)
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03.Sep.2023
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Aminet uploads until 02.09.2023
The following files have been added until 02.09.2023 to Aminet:
DCAPSPhonk.lha demo/aga 768K 68k Dreamolers Phonk! (Revision 2...
DCAPSIntro64kB.lha demo/intro 123K 68k Dreamolers Intro64kB (Revisio...
ADV-ITA.lha dev/amos 130K Italian adventures creator
less-mos.lha dev/gg 1.3M 68k Viewer program similar to "more"
alt-intl.lha driver/inp 2K alt-intl keymap
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 10K 2023 Carset for F1GP
tfe-darkforces.lha game/shoot 3.3M 68k Dark Forces Amiga Port
GolfSolitaire.lha game/think 2.9M 68k Golf solitaire card game
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
CEB.lha misc/math 136K 68k Solves a 'Countdown' arithmet...
CrazyWorld.lha mods/misc 125K 4ch 16bit Punk Rock by HKvalhe
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mus/misc 235K Some samples created by Sampl...
PDF2JPG.lha util/conv 15M 68k convert PDF to JPG
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.8M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
iGame.lha util/misc 434K 68k Front-end for WHDLoad
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03.Sep.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.09.2023
The following files have been added until 02.09.2023 to OS4Depot:
libfdk-aac.lha dev/lib 14Mb 4.1 Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library
libspeex.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 A free codec for free speech
libxvidcore.lha dev/lib 1009k 4.1 MPEG-4 Simple and Advanced Simpl...
ahi-handler.lha dri/han 23kb 4.0 AHI-handler (AUDIO:)
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
libxml2.lha lib/xml 10Mb 4.1 The XML C parser and toolkit of ...
igame.lha uti/mis 434kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
pdf2jpg.lha uti/mis 15Mb 4.0 Convert PDF to JPG
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03.Sep.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.09.2023
The following files have been added until 02.09.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
LUA-MUI.lha Development/LUA LUA-MUI.lha
AmiArcadia_30.10.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
PDF2JPG_1.1.lha Office/Convert Convert PDF to JPG
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03.Sep.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.09.2023
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 02.09.2023:
- 2023-09-01 updated: Crayon Shinchan (Melon Dezign) patch rewritten, interrupt problems fixed, out of bounds blit fixed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, 68000 quitkey support, patch works with 0.5 MB chip memory now (Info, Image)
- 2023-08-31 updated: The Sword and the Rose (Code Masters) original game version is now supported, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info)
- 2023-08-31 fixed: Kingdoms of England (Incognito Software) protection track removal code fixed, game works without disk in drive now (Info)
- 2023-08-31 improved: Astro Marine Corps (Dinamic) new install script, all known versions should be supported now (Info)
- 2023-08-30 improved: Kingdoms of England (Incognito Software) slave assembled in release mode (no functional changes) (Info)
- 2023-08-30 new: Kingdoms of England (Incognito Software) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2023-08-29 fixed: Twintris (Digital Marketing) a blitwait added in game to avoid gfx bug on very fast amiga (Info)
- 2023-08-29 improved: Hole In One (Digitek) supports another version (Info)
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03.Sep.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Syndicate Intro (F03s Junglist Remix)
- Stardust Memories
- B@TTL3 S&UDR0N - Title -TeChK0
- Battle Squadron - Etheral Aucoustic -End Game
- Street Fighter 2 Guiles Theme Rock Live Performance
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02.Sep.2023
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 July/August 2023
- Old articles from Génération 4 1 to 3:
- Story on software and graphics peripherals on the Amiga (1985-1987)
- Review of Space Quest 2
- News: What game publishers have in store for us
- Reviews of Western Games, Astérix And The Magic Carpet, Terrorpods, Tracker, Impact!
- Comparison: Console or computer? etc
- Interview with Jean-Philippe Derrien (computer graphics designer and former editor of Ami-GraphX)
- Interview with Phillip Nixon (graphist of Oscar)
- Review of Green Beret
- Hardware: RGB2HDMI for A500
- The best of Byte from August to October 1985
- Story: Andy Warhol and the Amiga
- Story: Behind the scenes of the development of Fire & Ice
- Story: The history of Genias
- Story: AAA - Advanced Amiga Architecture (update)
- Tutorial: Installation of AmigaOS 4.1 on QEMU 8.1
- Tutorial: Quick start guide for new A1222 users
- Tutorial: Using MIDI on MorphOS
- Special quiz for Amiga super beginners
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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02.Sep.2023
viddi (ANF)
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Action-RPG: Digital distribution of "Tales of Gorluth III"
The Action RPG Tales of Gorluth III, which was published in December 2021, is now also available as a Download from itch.io. (cg)
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01.Sep.2023
GitHub
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.3
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.3 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:
- Fixed memory leaks
- Fixed the lists getting wrong values when overflow
Direct download: iGame-v2.4.3-20230901.lha (434 Kb) (dr)
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01.Sep.2023
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Video: "From Vultures to Vampires" from AmigaOS 4 view
In his latest video Roman 'kas1e' Kargin dedicates himself to the first two already published volumes of the three-part book series "From Vultures to Vampires" on Amiga history, written by former Commodore-UK manager David Pleasance and by A-EON-Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson (volume 1, (volume 2) and reports to what extent it is worth reading from the point of view of AmigaOS 4. (dr)
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01.Sep.2023
Amigaland.de
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Space game: Pleiades 3D
In "Pleiades 3D" you help Alice, a girl stranded in the Pleiades star cluster, find her way back to Earth (YouTube video). In the process, you have to navigate through space, collect powerful "ray stones" and unlock the engines of the Alcyone space station to bring her back home.
An Amiga 1200 with 4 MB RAM is required. (dr)
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01.Sep.2023
Hyperion-Entertainment-Forum
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Linux: Quake mods under Fienix
Casey Cullen, developer of the Linux PowerPC distribution Fienix, which is also available for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000, among others, has started a sub-project called "Quasco", with which one can play various Quake mods from within Fienix without having to have Quake itself installed. With Quasco, popular mods like Alkaline and Arcane Dimensions can be installed via Synaptic or apt. Cullen shows an example in a YouTube video using Alkaline. (dr)
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01.Sep.2023
Christian Zigotzky (E-Mail)
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Linux: Kernel 6.5 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.5, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests.
Download: linux-image-6.5-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (60 MB) (dr)
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01.Sep.2023
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for August
For the month of August 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)
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31.Aug.2023
itch.io
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Frogger clone: Frogger (beta version 2)
Frogger (YouTube video) is supposed to be a 1:1 conversion of the 1981 Konam game (amiga-news.de reported). Now a second beta version has been released with the following changes:
- a handful of sound fx
- Joystick on port 2 is supported
- removed some logical bugs
- Increased game stability on A600/A1200
(dr)
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31.Aug.2023
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy V5.0.1 for Windows (update)
Just the other day, in an article about setting up a Greaseweazle V4, we mentioned the graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools. Now 'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.00, which for the first time also includes the source code. The other changes:
- Infobox: GNU General Public License
- Infobox: "Uses UnTerminal 1.0..."
- TConsole instead of TProcess (using "UnTerminal 1.0")
- Options: Select location folder of the templates
- Application: Starts without selection of the first available template (read/write)
- Application: Added missing groupbox captions
- Fixed form resize
- Read: New execution dialog with visualized reading tracks and logging
- Read: Correct behaviour of dropdown when changed ("Internal"/"diskdefs") with mousewheel
- Write: Correct behaviour of dropdown when changed ("Internal"/"diskdefs") with mousewheel
Update: (21:09, 31.08.23, dr)
Meanwhile version 5.0.1 is available:
- Read: Saving template in default instead of defined (options) templates-folder
- Write: Saving template in default instead of defined (options) templates-folder
- Write: Changing template didn't refresh
- Wrong version description
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30.Aug.2023
Simon Neumann (Mail)
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Alinea Computer: TV-Port and OmniPort EX available
Press release: Alinea Computer is very pleased to present two versions of the TV-Port and the OmniPort EX. Both products are port expansion boards that can be easily combined with each other.
TV-Port
The TV port is an interface board for every Amiga 600/1200 from which the TV modulator has been removed. The free space allows a hardware interface on the Amiga 600/1200 desktop case to be neatly routed to the outside. The following interfaces are available: 1x USB, 1 x HDMI FFC, HDMI Indivision MK2cr/MK3 or 1x Micro-SD. The TV port can be easily installed in the Amiga 600/1200 using the mounting block supplied.
The basic version of the TV port can be purchased for between ¤9.99 and ¤14.99, depending on the variant.
OminPort EX and OminPort EX for Vampire 2
The OmniPort EX is an extended version of the OmniPort multiport adapter - as reported earlier - which leads various hardware interfaces on the Amiga 1200 desktop case cleanly to the outside via the expansion port. The following interfaces are led out in the standard version: 2x USB (USB card), 1 x HDMI (IndivisonMK2cr/MK3) and 1x Micro-SD (SD2IDE).
The OmniPort EX for the Vampire 2 has the following interfaces: 2x USB (USB card), 1x HDMI (Vampire 2) and 1x network (Vampire 2).
The special feature of the EX version is that the motherboard can be equipped with an additional piggyback board. Boards for 1x USB, 1x Micro-SD, 1x HDMI for Indivision MK3 or 1x HDMI FFC with ribbon cable clamp connection are available here. The piggyback board can be easily installed in the Amiga 1200 together with the motherboard using the mounting block supplied.
In order to be able to use the respective interfaces on the TV port or OmniPort EX, the corresponding hardware must already be installed in the Amiga 600/1200.
Suitable cables and adapters are available as standard or as an option.
The basic version of the OmniPort EX can be purchased from 26.95 Euro. The optional piggyback boards range from 9.99 Euro to 14.95 Euro. The basic version of the OmniPort EX Vampire 2 can be purchased from 35.95 euros. The optional piggyback boards range from 9.99 euros to 14.95 euros. (dr)
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30.Aug.2023
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Video tutorial: Creating a vertical scrolling demo with Scorpion Engine
Erik 'earok' Hogan has posted on YouTube a recording of a Twich stream showing how to create a vertically scrolling demo from scratch on the Amiga (and Sega Mega Drive) using the Scorpion Engine.
As the developer explains, the Amiga has no native support for column scrolling, but it does have the ability to display sprites with infinite height, which makes it possible to emulate the effect. The demo versions for the Amiga and the Sega Mega Drive look the same, but the setuo is fundamentally different. (dr)
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30.Aug.2023
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Video tutorial: The Blitz Basic tool "Drawer Helper"
Rob 'daedalus2097' Cranley has streamed another part of his Blitz Basic tutorial on Twitch (amiga-news.de reported) and made it available on YouTube: this time he dedicates himself to his second contribution to the Amiga Tool Jam after Closer, the tool "Drawer Helper" which is currently under development.
The basic idea of the Commodity is to integrate a little of the functionality of Directory Opus into the Workbench. When a window is open, pressing F1 gives a small toolbar and thus the functionality to, for example, refresh the window, create/delete a folder or insert files. (dr)
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30.Aug.2023
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PDF converter: PDF2JPG V1.1 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 and MorphOS
Bernd Assenmacher is in the process of completing his small collection of PDF tools or converters: after Image2PDF (converts images into PDFs), PDF2PDF (converts PDFs into copy-protected PDFs), he has now released PDF2JPG, with which one can convert the images contained in PDFs into JPG images. After the tool was already available for MorphOS, he has now also released versions for AmigaOS 3 and 4 and also fixed some minor bugs. (dr)
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29.Aug.2023
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Event: Developers and shops at Amiga-Meeting Nord in Neumünster (Germany)
Thorsten Mampel, president of the Amiga club Hamburg, writes: "Besides Matthias Goldisch from 'HobbyRaum - Ihr Retropartner' we are happy that Simon Neumann from Alinea Computer has announced his appearance and will also set up his store at the Amiga-Meeting Nord.
We are especially happy that Matthias Heinrichs (Matze from the A1k forum) can make it this year and will visit us at the meeting on Saturday and Sunday. His extensive list of projects/extensions for the Amiga can be admired in the forum there. They enrich many Amigas still in use today." (snx)
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29.Aug.2023
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Blog: Protagonists in the creation of a demo (update)
Carl Svensson's latest blog entry is a tribute to the demo scene and in particular to the protagonists necessary to create a demo.
Update: (06:41, 30.08.23, dr)
Carl Svenssons has kindly pointed out that the article is a continuation of his recently published Amiga demo Scene Archetypes (YouTube video). (dr)
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28.Aug.2023
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CDXL converter: AGAConv 1.0.3
Markus Schordan's AGAConv is a CDXL video converter. It combines some existing tools to convert videos (MP4, etc.) into the CDXL format that can be played on an AGA Amiga with AGABlaster or other CDXL players. The changes of the version 1.0.3:
- Fixed OCS 12-bit color palette
- Changed --std-cdxl with AGA modes to keep 24-bit mode by default
(dr)
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28.Aug.2023
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: USB Audio 2 Recording and Playback with "USBAudio2
Lyle Hazelwood had already worked intensively on audio playback under AmigaOS 4 in the past: he had completed a USB-CAMD-MIDI driver, further developed the MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes for AmigaOS 4 or published various MIDI libraries and tools. Now he has written "USBAudio2", a small tool that supports USB devices with the "audio protocol 2" of the USB standard. It should now be possible to operate webcams, for example. The tool is controlled via the shell by means of three commands for playing and recording or displaying the input level. (dr)
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28.Aug.2023
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Videos: Building a ReAmiga 1200, part 3 and 4
In June we reported on the first two parts of the five-part video series of the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Manshed", in which John 'Chucky' Hertell's Amiga1200 clone ReAmiga 1200 is recreated. Part 3 was published a month ago and part 4 yesterday. (dr)
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28.Aug.2023
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Event: Further informationen on AmiWest 2023
From 12 to 15 October 2023, AmiWest 2023 will take place in Sacramento, California. Now the organisers have published further information:
"The AmiWest 2023 is coming fast! Going strong since 1998, this year will be the 26th year of the longest-running Amiga-focused show in the world. Set in Sacramento, CA, the Sacramento Amiga Computer Club and a dedicated group of volunteers host the event.
Kicking off on October 12th is the AmiWest Developer Conference. AmiWest has been hosting a DevCon for about a decade. This is two days of focused learning and sharing from experts worldwide on the latest AmigaOS developments, and this year will be no different. Hosted by Steven Solie, lead developer on the ExecSG team, the DevCon will cover various AmigaOS flavors, discussing topics like debugging, DMA routines, and more.
The main exhibition opens at 10:00 AM on Oct 14th. Trevor Dickinson of A-Eon will launch the show with A-Eon news and announcements. Following Trevor will be a full schedule of speakers from across the globe. Speakers include RJ Mical (original Amiga dev), Michal Schulz (author of EMU68k ), and more. For those who cannot make it, we will livestream the day on YouTube. All the details are on the AmiWest webpage.
The exhibit hall will feature over 10 exhibitors. Many returning friends of the show, like Doug Compton of 10 MARC and Mr. Toast. We also expect Matthew Leaman of AmigaKit to return to the show for the first time since 2017. Also joining us for the first time is Ricardo Quesada with his UniJoySticle2 product. A full list of exhibitors is posted on the AmiWest website.
The banquet starts at 7 PM on Saturday, October 14th, featuring Garry Hare, Ph.D. He was the CEO of Amiga Inc. from 2003 to 2005, directly following Bill McEwen. You can read more about Garry's involvement in the latest edition of "From Vultures to Vampires" volume two. Garry will provide unique insights into Amiga's history from a rarely heard voice.
The SACC Sales Table will be back, offering a variety of Amiga parts, books, and software. There will also be some complete Amiga classic systems for sale! We expect to have on sale an A2000 and an A500, possibly more.
The show will also have a raffle filled with cool gadgets for all your computers. After you grab your raffle tickets, be sure to stop by the game's competition table and give Knightmare a spin for a chance to win this year's trophy.
Keep an eye on the AmiWest blog for the latest update on the show. In 1994, folks said the Amiga was dead. Boy, were they wrong!" (dr)
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27.Aug.2023
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Platform game: Updated demo version of "Super Delivery Boy"
Two years ago, NeesoGames published the last demo version of "Super Delivery Boy" (amiga-news.de reported). As the developers report, the development of the game has progressed continuously despite the lack of public updates (YouTube video). What has changed:
- Animated Main Menu with options (music and sound volumes are saved on disk)
- Up to 64 colors on screen (EHB mode)
- Every level (but the interiors) have multi layer parallax scrolling
- Mission hub
- New tiles, platforms, visual and sound effects
- Overall game rebalanced
- ... and, as usual, a lot more for you to find out!
Future plans:
- The game will feature 4 main levels based on the 4 seasons
- Each level will feature different enemies, puzzles, secrets and so on
- The level in the demo can be identified with spring, summer level will be in the next public release, then hopefully the remaining levels will be released on season change but I can't promise!
(dr)
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27.Aug.2023
Frank (ANF)
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Puzzle game: Connect V1.4
In the puzzle game "Connect" (screenshots), you have to connect a series of ICs in such a way that each chip receives exactly the number of connections printed on its package. Developer Frank Röger has written about the now released version 1.4:
"Hello all, just in this moment we uploaded an updated version of Connect. It contains the following changes:
1. At the R2C2 user meeting, we did a lot of coop games and got stuck for a very long time in some games when we couldn't find the bug on the game board. There the idea was born to be able to display the error by pressing a key, to prevent excessively long searches. No sooner said than done, this function is now in the game. By pressing the H key, all chips that do not have the required number of connections are marked red. However, this help has the disadvantage that the game time is set to 9999 seconds. This is not enough for a new highscore, but it is helpful for people who want to solve "all" game boards completely. Please note that this only works in solo and coop mode.
2. The bug devil has crept in. We found him drawing the game cursor excessively on the game board. Luckily we were able to tame it and get some performance out of it, especially on the Amiga 500. :)
3. The manual has been updated. In it you will now find an overview of all shortcuts available in the game.
Have fun playing!" (dr)
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27.Aug.2023
Christian Wiegel (Mail)
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Turn-based strategy game: Farm update for "Settle the World"
After several developer diaries in which he describes his programming progress, Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has published a farm update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World". He writes about it:
"This update is also just another small step on the way to a complete game.
I have completely rewritten much of the programme code for the game over the last few months. The game was not originally designed to be greatly expanded. But since there is still a lot missing in Settle the World (regular elections, natives, computer opponents, etc.) it became urgent to rework everything.
The advantage is that the game now requires much less chip RAM and I can therefore include more music tracks in the coming months.
The changes
Pioneers can now build farms after the citizens of your cities have reached the worker class for the first time. Farms are needed later in the game to supply the aristocrat class with meat and wine.
There are new units to make the best use of farms:
- Cowboys for cattle breeding
- Grape pickers, to harvest grapes
- Winemakers, to produce wine from grapes (luxury good for the aristocrat class)
- Butchers to process cattle into meat (food for the aristocrat class).
New buildings:
- Wine press (can be built on farms)
- Slaughterhouse (can be built in cities)
Other new features:
- Integrated help texts/guidance (but it's still early days).
- More sound effects.
- More intermediate images for events.
- New function "Move to town". Moves units via pathfinding to the selected city.
- New terrain type "Plains".
- Millitary supply wagon to heal/repair damaged millitary units outside cities or to equip colonists to soldiers.
- Soldiers can mount horses outside of cities and thus become dragoons.
- Map generator completely rewritten. No longer generates diagonal land bridges and creates varied landscapes.
- There are now more whales, horses and bison on the map.
- Unnecessary transport units (ships and trade wagons) can be destroyed in cities and the player gets half of the construction costs back.
- Citizens of higher classes of citizen now need more food types per turn (fish and meat in addition to wheat).
- Large ships can now only anchor in cities if at least one dock is available.
- The entire graphics system has been reworked to free up more chip mem memory for more future in-game music.
- Countless things have been added, changed, tried and thrown away since the last update in February 2023.
What's still "missing" in this update:
Elections
Keeping citizens happy does not yet have a big impact on the game.
In the future, there will be regular elections, which the player must win in order to remain in power.
The technical foundations for such an election system have been laid in the current version.
Native people
Here, too, the basis for integrating native tribes into the game has been created in the current version.
The plan is to place native villages and units on the map with which the player can interact.
Unfortunately, I did not manage to include this feature in time.
Computer opponents
CPU-controlled opponents are very complex to implement. I have been working on this intensively for several weeks, but I have to put this
feature off until later. With the programming of the natives I will hopefully be able to gain enough experience to be able to realise
computer opponents later.
You see...I am far from finished with the development of -Settle the World- ;-)
So that the next update doesn't have to wait for months, there will be two versions available for download on the project page in the next weeks.
One is the "official" update and the other is a current development version.
The development versions will hardly be tested, but most of them are compatible with the game state.
I hope this will give me some more feedback on the game ;-) (dr)
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27.Aug.2023
itch.io
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Arcade port: Karate Champ
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre's latest project is the Amiga port of the 1984 Karate Champ developed by Technos Japan and published by Data East. The Amiga port runs all Amigas with 2MB RAM (YouTube video). (dr)
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27.Aug.2023
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Aminet uploads until 26.08.2023
The following files have been added until 26.08.2023 to Aminet:
x68k2amiga.zip dev/misc 16K 68k Convert Sharp X68000 executab...
alt-intl.lha driver/inp 2K 68k alt-intl keymap
minetest.lha game/demo 7.2M MOS Minecraft clone in Python
TONY.adf game/demo 880K 68k TONY playable demo
webptools131_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.4M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
TopazDouble.lha text/bfont 4K Double-height recreation of T...
MuLockLib.lha util/boot 133K 68k Lock mmu.library in memory on...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 15M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
FatOlga.lha util/moni 1K 68k AIBB 6.5 Module for FAT Olga ...
(snx)
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27.Aug.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 26.08.2023
The following files have been added until 26.08.2023 to OS4Depot:
vumeter.lha aud/mis 53kb 4.0 Audio VUMeter display
usbaudio2.lha aud/rec 90kb 4.1 Record and Play audio over USB A...
libvpx.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.0 WebM VP8/VP9 Codec library
(snx)
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27.Aug.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.08.2023
The following files have been added until 26.08.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
LegendOfKorr.lha Games/Action Legend of Korr: Path of...
fheroes2_1.0.7.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
(snx)
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27.Aug.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.08.2023
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 26.08.2023:
(snx)
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27.Aug.2023
Forgotten Computer (ANF)
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Video: Infinity Music Player with Impbox
At the title link, "Forgotten Computer" reports in a nearly one-hour video about Paweł 'juen' Nowak's Infinity Music Player (IMP3) and the hardware extension Impbox, with which the program can access the WLAN even without an Amiga TCP/IP stack. IMP3 runs on any Amiga with 512 KB RAM and at least Kickstart 2.0.
Download: imp3.lha (45 KB) (snx)
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27.Aug.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 164 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 164 (September/October 2023) have been published online at the title link. Content includes an interview with Christian Wiegel (Settle The World) as well as previews of Castlevania AGA, Hamulet and Bulbmaster.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
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27.Aug.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 149 (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.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about "Shadow of the Beast" and "Strider". (snx)
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27.Aug.2023
GAP (ANF)
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German Amiga Podcast: Issue 15
The fifteenth edition of the "German Amiga Podcast" (GAP) is about the Amiga game "Babariana", which is still in development. In the interview, its developer Stephan 'Makconner' Pförtner calls Babariana a mixture of "Overtime-Game" and a "dark adventure". (snx)
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26.Aug.2023
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Motorola68k emulation: Beta version 2.1 of Emu68 (V0.16)
Developer Michal Schulz has released beta version 2.1 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite which fixes bugs of the previous version and introduces many important improvements. Changes:
- CCR fixes. Beta 2 has changed internal handling of CCR, but unfortunately added several bugs due to the change. Beta 2.1 fixes all these problems, improving compatibility with m68k software.
- Fixed fusing of MOVE instructions. Until now there were few corner cases where fusing of subsequent MOVE.L instructions resulted in wrong behavior of generated code. Thanks to Paraj this issues are solved now and fusing of MOVE.L instructions works without (hopefully) any bugs.
- Added temporal instruction cache working on CHIP memory during JIT translation process. This greatly improves the translation itself, since not only the translator itself accesses instruction stream, but also CCR optimizer and CRC32 calculator.
- Added optional slowdown of code executed from CHIP memory. This might be important for old games and/or demos which rely on CPU busyloops
- Removed code inlining feature on 24-bit memory to reduce the need of crawling through the CHIP memory. Greatly improves the performance of demos/games where instruction cache is set to checksumming mode.
The beta version 2.1 is recommended for all PiStorm users. Per default the firmware is used in two-slot mode. By adding "one_slot" option to cmdline.txt one can force the single-slot operation.
The developer provides more detailed information on the changes in his new Patreon article. (dr)
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26.Aug.2023
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Platform game: Demo version v1.3 of Tony
Only recently Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch had released demo version 1.2 of his game Tony, which among other things introduced different color palettes (amiga-news.de reported). Since some bugs crept in, he has now released version 1.3. (dr)
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26.Aug.2023
Reddit
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Font: "TopazDouble" as Amiga-native recreation of Topaz
"TopazDouble" is an Amiga-native recreation of the 8×8 pixel Topaz font, now rendered in 8×16 for modern resolutions. As the developers wrote, the classic Amiga with 640×256 (PAL) uses a resolution close to 2:1 - which means that the standard Topaz font would be half-height if used with resolutions with a pixel aspect ratio closer to 1:1.
For some reason, an Amiga-native version of a double-height Topaz font for resolutions with a square (1:1) had never been written, which "TopazDouble" was now making up for.
This font is said to be ideal for "modern" resolutions such as 800×600, 1024×768, classic Amiga resolutions such as 640×400 and 640×512 (Hi-Res Interlace) - as well as 16:9 resolutions such as 720p and 1080p. (dr)
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26.Aug.2023
Reddit
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Video: The Terrible Fire developer Stephen Leary
Neil aka RMC has set up The Cave, a hands-on exhibition of retro microcomputers, consoles and games. There he also welcomes guests for a chat, this time developer Stephen Leary, creator of the Terrible Fire turbo cards, who talks here about their development history. (dr)
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26.Aug.2023
itch.io
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Adventure: Demo version of "Mission2Mars" v1.00
After "The Oregon Trail", Sami Vehmaa has released another text-based adventure game for AmigaOS 3, which, however, is only suitable for emulation environments due to its high requirements (250 MIPS): in "Mission2Mars" (YouTube video), a crew of five is on its way to Mars in the year 2029 to drop people off. After the nine-month journey, they spend 16 months on the surface of Mars and another 9 months on the journey home to Earth.
In space, you can visit asteroids and search for ice, like on Mars for signs of life. Using equipment, you can produce air, fuel and food from ice. (dr)
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26.Aug.2023
itch.io
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Action game: "Ooze: The Escape"
The developer 'Haplo' - who had already published the puzzle game Tenebra - has converted "Ooze: The Escape", originally published for ZX Spectrum, for the Amiga and given the game, among other things, improved graphics, sprites, animations and sound effects as well as a much larger map.
The player's task is to navigate Ooze through various corridors and labs, using his gravity-reversing powers to overcome obstacles and avoid robot guards. (dr)
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25.Aug.2023
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Demo development: Amiga Scroller
After an estimated 30 years of Amiga abstinence, Andreas Scholl is trying to remember his programming skills and has started to write a small demo. He has documented the current status with two YouTube videos: Amiga Scroller V0.001 and Amiga Scroller V0.02 (dr)
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25.Aug.2023
Patreon
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.3 / RetroAnimator (update)
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
According to the developer the Scorpion Engine 2023.3 is the fastest version to date, and among many smaller improvements, it features a handful of major upgrades:
- Support for the RetroAnimator animation toolkit for fluid animations.
- Support for CDTV/CD32 music on Amiga.
- Support for Column Scrolling on Mega Drive.
- Export to CDTV/CD32 ISO on Amiga.
- Export to DragonDrive cartridge on Mega Drive.
There is also a new introduction video that briefly covers all of the tabs, as well as the differences between the Amiga and Mega Drive platforms.
Update: (16:16, 25.08.23, dr)
As Erik Hogan informs us, he has now also released the above-mentioned RetroAnimator on his Patreon website. RetroAnimator is a toolkit that can be used to create super fluid animations with minimal memory usage. It was previously only used in Engine 9000 (which was used to make MetroSiege), now it's available to Scorpion Engine developers as well (though it technically could be adapted to any engine as it uses a simple JSON data format). (dr)
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24.Aug.2023
One Joyful Day (ANF)
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Preview video: Real-time strategy game "AI Kills All Humans"
"One Joyful Day" is a new Game Studio making games for Modern Amigas and PC. The first game is called "AI Kills All Humans" and is a tactical Real-time strategy game, in which you play as an AI, which due to a slight change in code, is sending robots to kill all humans.
You however don't have direct control of your robots, but robots independently decide how to execute your commands, like a general telling troops to attack, but troops themselves decide how. Release is planned for the fourth quarter of 2023.
The developer has already gained experience with earlier releases such as Help My Cat! (YouTube video), "Ducks Of Apocalypse" (YouTube video) or Hollywood with Designer Tutorial (part 1, part 2). "AI Kills All Humans" (Steam link) is also being written with Hollywood. Versions for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS are planned. There may also be a version for AmigaOS 3, but due to the requirements it will probably only be playable in emulation. (dr)
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24.Aug.2023
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LinuxJedi-Blog: Making Amiga IFF thumbnails work in Linux
In his latest blog entry Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports how to correctly display thumbnails of Amiga IFF/ILBM files on Linux machines. (dr)
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24.Aug.2023
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Video: Disk Backup Station
In his latest video Robert Smith introduces his "Disk Backup Station" which he presented at the Kickstart 01. He will make or sell these for people, it's purely a one off, although there is the possibility that he may release all the design files for it in the future.
The backup station can backup floppy disks to ADF or SCP and uses three greaseweazle boards to control three floppy drives, and the user interface is controlled bu a few arcade buttons connected to an Arduino. (dr)
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23.Aug.2023
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Blog: "Rave" developer looks back at the beginnings of his computer passion
In a very personal entry on his blog Rear Window, Rave developer Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka wrote about the beginnings of his passion for computers and its relevance for the present. (dr)
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22.Aug.2023
itch.io
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Rogue-like game: Roguecraft V0.4.3
In October 2022, Budger Punch announced an Amiga version of their C64 game Rogue64 with improved graphics and adapted features (amiga-news.de reported). At the beginning of August a demo version was released for the AmiGameJam 2022 (YouTube video). Now a first update is available which among others fixes some bugs. The developers wrote:
"We have fixed issue with the game turning real-time when you tap the fire-button. We have added an instructions screen, and an (currently empty) Achievements screen. The spikes now work in the game. Be careful! The player now moves smoothly when there are not monsters in the room, to make backtracking less tedious.
We have also fixed some graphical glitches, and random memory writes that would corrupt the music. Hopefully this is good now, or at least a lot better!
There are other changes you will just have to find out yourselves. Have fun finding them!
We also want to say THANK YOU for all the awesome feedback and suggestions from all of you playing our game. It is so lovely so see the community embracing this hobby project, and want to help us make this a great game!" (dr)
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22.Aug.2023
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Mediathek V0.3 for all Amiga systems
In early August, we presented Jörg Renkert's Hollywood implementation of the MediathekView program for Amiga systems. Five days ago he updated to version 0.3. It would have been quick to write a report about it, but we wanted to test the program in more detail, especially with regard to streaming.
In addition to some adjustments and bug fixes, the information on a selected program is now no longer displayed on the bottom right-hand side, but on the left-hand side in a separate tab, which is automatically switched to when a program is selected.
In our first article, streaming did not work at all, although we were told by Edgar Schwan, among others, that it worked for him. So let's take another closer look. Jörg Renkert has clarified the usage again in his German instructions: next to the path to the preferred player, a "%u" must be appended, which transfers the link of the stream to the program.
One thing can be said in advance: Emotion is the only video player that could stream all videos. On the X5000, however, it only makes sense to use the low quality, as the picture and sound are no longer synchronized with the medium quality. Incidentally, ORF programs can neither be streamed nor downloaded. All fields are grayed out. There are two different MPlayer versions for AmigaOS 4 in the OS4Depot:
- Liveforit-MPlayerNG, based on MPlayer 1.1.1
- MickJT-MPlayer, based on MPlayer 1.3.0, in two versions:
The Liveforit-MPlayerNG for AmigaOS 4 cannot stream broadcasts any more than Fabien Coeurjoly's port of MPlayer 1.1.1 for MorphOS (the only one that runs without AltiVec and can therefore be used on the AmigaOne X5000).
First I checked which version of MickJT-MPlayer was installed: of course the wrong one, the one for HD graphics cards...Perfect, error found, I thought. So I unpacked the RX version, read the readme (!): I found the note there that I also needed the older version for HD graphics cards (the full archive). Good, also unpacked. Then copied the (supposed) RX version to the disk in my existing directory and saw that the archives are otherwise no different. Started the media library again, selected the program, let MPLayer stream - error message again:
Can't be true... Should Edgar have swindled me? Of course not! ;) So out of desperation (or cleverness? ;) I chose another program and tried again. And what happened? I could suddenly hear sound! And read in the text of the output window that no window could be opened using the "comp_yuv2" driver. Why was that? And slowly it dawned on me: when unpacking the HD version of the MickJT player, I had probably overwritten the RX version...stupid mistake! So, I unpacked the RX archive again, and lo and behold: the application now had an "RX" at the end. So, I copied it over, selected the transmission, timidly pressed the "E" button, and?
There you go! :) To be on the safe side, I asked Daniel Westerberg again, who had uploaded the RX version. The only difference between the HD and RX version is actually only in the replacement of the graphics card driver used: the HD version from 2018 searches for the "RadeonHD.chip" at startup and refuses to open a window if it is not found or the corresponding graphics card is present. He simply replaced this "HD" with "RX" in the exe file.
When I tried it out further, however, I noticed that there are programs for which MickJT-MPlayer still refuses to play with the above error message. If you want to see an example: just enter the search term "Garten" and then select the BR program "Bauerngärten". It could not be the codec used, as both working and non-functioning programs used "libavformat version 57.25.100".
I contacted Edgar Schwan again and the clever fox found the reason: the "Bauerngärten" movie is on the server "https://cdn-storage.br.de". Edgar had tried to download it using the "wget" tool. The answer he got was:
'The certificate owner does not match the hostname "cdn-storage.br.de"'.
He then switched off the certificate check and called the following command in the shell:
wget --no-check-certificate
https://cdn-storage.br.de/MUJIuUOVBwQIbtCCBLzGiLC1uwQoNA4p_AQS/_-dS/_Akp5-Fd571S/d2cdb4c7-b7e3-4b0a-89ec-1a43bdf5d273_E.mp4
And: now it works! By the way, also with the LiveForIt-MPlayer! So if it is possible to deactivate this certificate check in the media library, you could then also use the LiveForIt-MPlayer and (presumably) also stream under MorphOS.
The only remaining question is why the DvPlayer cannot stream: as Hans de Ruiter (who gave the DvPlayer hardware acceleration) told us, in his opinion the libavformat library used should in principle be able to stream over the network. The use of this feature could be added in future versions of DvPlayer. (dr)
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22.Aug.2023
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Blog: Amiga 4000T Upgrade, part 2
In the second part of a richly illustrated series of articles (amiga-news.de reported), "Epsilon's World" describes how he equips his Amiga 4000T with, among other things, a scanner, IDE CD drive and the applications AmiTube and AGABlaster. (dr)
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21.Aug.2023
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Point'n click adventure with photos: Holiday V1.05b
The photo point'n click adventure Holiday (YouTube video) is also a contribution to the AmiGameJam (you can still cast your vote today only!).
The player arrives in a Spanish resort in 1988 and has the task of surviving the next 11 days. To do this, you move through the town by means of photographs and must use three special items that offer protection from the sun. A few screens contain instant death scenarios. (dr)
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21.Aug.2023
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Frogger clone: Frogger (beta version)
After Croaker, RANA and Megafrog, Frogger is the fourth recent attempt to adapt the classic game produced by Sega in 1981 and developed by Konami, in which you have to guide a frog safely across a busy road and then across a river, for the Amiga. Frogger (YouTube video) is to be a 1:1 conversion of the Konam game and is written in assembler, based on the original Z80 code. (dr)
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20.Aug.2023
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.24
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.98, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
The new version 0.9.24 provides the following changes:
- Added support for 64 global variables, it was 32.
- In the exported game only the used variables will be allocated, potentially
saving some memory.
- Fix in the tile animations that was causing the exported games using them to
run very slowly.
- Simplified handling of reading exporting projects.
- Fixes and implementations related to custom fonts usage in HUD and in
triggers.
- Exact values for friction and weight can now be set up and displayed.
- Trigger help routines have been improved.
- More triggers have been documented in the in-editor help.
- Optimizations in the main loop of the game.
- Optimizations in the tile comparison triggers.
- Optimizations in the player input triggers.
- Optimizations in the render code.
- Some memory was wasted when changing the current mod being played, this has
been optimized.
- Some unused code has been removed.
- Fixed a bug in Absolute Zero project when going back to menu and starting a
stage again.
(dr)
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20.Aug.2023
Look Behind You (ANF)
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Event: Retro Area at Gamescom 2023 with Amiga celebrities
This week, from August 23 till 27 (opening for the public on thursday), world's greatest computer games event, Gamescom, takes place in Cologne, Germany, again. Part of it is a Retro Area, and also Amiga celebrities like Turrican developers Factor 5, composer Chris Hülsbeck and former Commodore managers Petro Tyschtschenko and David Pleasance will visit the show, with the latter presenting his books at the joint booth of the publishers Look Behind You and Gameplan.
Further details about the Retro Area at Gamescom 23 can be found at the title link as well as in our german news-item. (snx)
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20.Aug.2023
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Aminet uploads until 19.08.2023
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to Aminet:
sylpheed.lha comm/mail 22M OS4 Sylpheed e-mail for AmiCygnix...
sylpheed-src.lha comm/mail 1.8M Sources of Sylpheed 3.7.0 for...
WhatMightHaveBeen.lha demo/aga 117K 68k Demo for DSP3210 chips
asm3210.lha dev/asm 153K Cross assembler for DSP3210 c...
7800basic.lha dev/cross 4.4M MOS BASIC-like language for Atari...
beebasm.lha dev/cross 708K MOS Assembler with BBC Micro styl...
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 822K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.5M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 83K 68k P96 Preferences Editor
RescueLander.lha game/actio 59K 68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
TONY.adf game/demo 880K 68k TONY playable demo
labyrinth64.lha game/misc 137K 68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L...
gfx2crtc.lha gfx/conv 51K MOS Convert gfx to Amstrad CPC fo...
mandel_dsp.lha gfx/fract 21K 68k Mandelbrot generator for DSP3...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
AlwaysTogether.lha mods/8voic 1.9M 16bit 5ch Soul/R&B Tribute by...
AlwaysTogetherTuned.lha mods/8voic 1.9M 16bit 5ch Soul/R&B Finetuned ...
PDF2JPG.lha util/conv 4.9M MOS convert PDF to JPG
LilCalendar.lha util/time 3.4M 68k Versatile calender and remind...
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OS4Depot uploads until 19.08.2023
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to OS4Depot:
libfreetype.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 A Free, High-Quality, and Portab...
libx264.lha dev/lib 8Mb 4.1 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video compressi...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
blackjuan.lha gam/car 5Mb 4.0 Blackjack clone
sieteymedida.lha gam/car 4Mb 4.0 The Siete y Media card game.
sylpheed.lha net/ema 22Mb 4.1 E-mail client for AmiCygnix with...
sylpheed-src.lha net/ema 2Mb 4.1 Sources of Sylpheed 3.7.0 for Am...
mediathek.lha net/mis 3Mb 4.0 Downloading Movies from differen...
set_get_ts.lha uti/scr 25kb 4.0 obtain time in scripts
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AROS Archives uploads until 19.08.2023
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to AROS Archives:
blackjuan.lha gam/car 4Mb Blackjack clone
sieteymedia.lha gam/car 4Mb The Siete y Media card game.
(snx)
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.08.2023
The following files have been added until 19.08.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
PowerSDL_16.2.lha Dependencies/SDL PowerSDL.library 16.2 (...
beebasm_1.10.lha Development/Cross Assembler with BBC Micr...
7800basic_0.28.lha Development/Cross A BASIC-like language f...
AmiArcadia_30.02.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Barkanoid2_demo.lha Games/BrickBreaker Demo of a commercial game
Siete-y-Media_1.10.lha Games/Card Play in this virtual Ca...
Blackjuan_1.10.lha Games/Card Blackjuan Poker Card
Sqrxz_0.9.9.6.lha Games/Platform A Jump'n'Run game.
fheroes2_1.0.7.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
gfx2crtc_0.3.1.lha Graphics/Convert Convert gfx to Amstrad ...
Wayfarer_6.1.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
Iris_1.16.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email...
TinyGL-Update-2023-08-... MorphOS-update Ninth public MorphOS Ti...
Easy2Install_1.0b30.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
LilCalendar_2.6.lha Office/Organizer Versatile calender and ...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 19.08.2023
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 19.08.2023:
(snx)
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20.Aug.2023
AUGS - Alisha Stutz (ANF)
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Event: Vintage Computer Festival in Zurich (Switzerland) with David Pleasance
On November 11 and 12, 2023 the Vintage Computer Festival in Zurich, Switzerland, takes place. Guest of honor on invitation by Amiga User Group Switzerland (AUGS) will be David Pleasance, who has been General Manager of Commodore Electronics LTD in Basel, Switzerland, from 1990 until 1992.
Further details on the event can be found at the title link or in our german news-item. (snx)
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20.Aug.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: German translations of the manuals of the ZIP and XML plugins
Andreas Falkenhahn writes: "Helmut Haake and Dominic Widmer have been busy again and translated the manuals of the ZIP plugin 1.2 and the XML plugin 2.0 for Hollywood into German. Both are available for download at the title link. Thanks to Airsoft Softwair's MetaDoc system the translations are not only available as PDF files but also in AmigaGuide, HTML and CHM format." (snx)
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20.Aug.2023
Welt (ANF)
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Welt.de: Short article about "Commodore-Amiga - Legendary girl-friend" (German)
At the title link, Martin Klemrath, Managing Editor History, has published for "Welt.de" a short article in German about the "iconic computer" Amiga. (snx)
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20.Aug.2023
Rene Engel (Mail)
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Emulation: Simplified installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU
In mid-April Amiga-News.de had published Rene Engel's updated installation guide of AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU 8.1. Since then numerous attempts have been made to improve the emulation and simplify the installation. Rene Engel has kindly summarised the efforts for us and published a correspondingly updated and simplified installation guide in the forum (German):
"The QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan, who mainly concentrates on the Amiga operating systems MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.1 by means of Qmiga, has written an alternative boot loader for the Pegasos-2 emulation, which he himself calls BBoot. This bootloader simplifies Pegasos-2 installation many times over (YouTube video).
The modification of the Pegasos-2-Install-ISO and Pegasos2.Rom are no longer necessary. AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 is also no longer needed, as A-Cube has made the Silicon Motion chip required for the emulation freely available on OS4Depot.
The new driver can now display resolutions up to 1920x1080, the limitation to 16 bit remains for the time being. With the new boot loader, up to 2048 MB memory allocation is now possible under the QEMU Pegasos 2 emulation. The boot process has accelerated again with the new boot loader.
They are currently working on an AmigaOne emulation, which already works to a limited extent."
(dr)
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19.Aug.2023
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Video tutorial: Episode 36 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 36 was published. (dr)
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19.Aug.2023
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LinuxJedi blog: Restoration of an Amiga 4000, parts 5-7
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings had already published four blog entries on the restoration of an Amiga 4000 (amiga-news.de reported) and continued this now with the parts 5, 6 and 7. (dr)
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18.Aug.2023
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Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.3.1
'wicknix' has released version 32.3.1 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for Linux PPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix 6 on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. The new version includes minor bug fixes and improvements to the user interface. A few new extensions have also been added.
Downloads:
sealion-32.3.1.linux-powerpc-gtk2.tar.bz2 (53 MB)
SeaLion-Extras.zip (65 MB) (dr)
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18.Aug.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.1
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.1 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. The developer recommends installing the new version via the "Check for updates" function, as this is quicker and ensures that all necessary files are updated correctly. Changes:
- Downloads and network cache writes now use asyncio.library
- Adjusted SSL ciphers to try to default to ones that are faster on PowerPC
- Checks whether lo0 interface is enabled and warns if not
- Improved error handling in auto-updater
Download: wayfarer.lha (32 MB) (dr)
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18.Aug.2023
Pawel Tukatsch (Mail)
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Platform game: Tony demo version v1.2
Tony by Monochrome Productions is a monochrome platform game that is now available in version 1.2 on Aminet (YouTube video). After the programmer Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch first had written games like Farmiga in AMOS, he switched to the Blitz Basic 2 programming language and "trained" his skills with games like Ami-Tower or Wood Block Puzzle. Tony is now to be the first major game written with Blitz Basic 2, which is a tribute to the Polish journalist and travel writer Tony Halik.
As an explorer in the style of Indiana Jones, you travel through ancient ruins and try to avoid snakes, creepy insects and deadly pits with spikes. There are also various keys to find. In the new demo version 1.2, there is a new game menu and the entry of a code at the end of a level has been removed. Instead, you now have to collect the last key. In addition, throwing potions from the inventory has been removed: if you collect a key and have a full inventory, a potion turns into a key by itself.
If you are in the mood for some visual variety, you can now try out different colour palettes in the settings. (dr)
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17.Aug.2023
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga CD32
In the first part of a series of articles Richard 'shred' Körber shows how he restores an Amiga CD32. (dr)
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17.Aug.2023
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Video: Installing PageSetter 2 under Workbench 3.2
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explores in his latest video whether it is possible to install the desktop publishing software "PageSetter 2" (information on version 1), released in 1989 for Workbench 1.3, under Workbench 3.2. (dr)
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17.Aug.2023
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Platform game: Boxx 3 remake v0.2
After the release of Boxx 4 and the remake of Boxx, the developer 'Lemming880' has also started to remake the third part of the Boxx series, which he originally released in 2017, with the Scorpion Engine and improve the graphics (YouTube video of the editing of the third level). This version is declared as a beta version, the developer asks to report any bugs. (dr)
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16.Aug.2023
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Video: Setting up a Greaseweazle V4
In a video the YouTube channel 'MikeyGRetro' shows how to set up Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" with the help of the Greaseweazle Tools and the GUI FluxMyFluffyFloppy for reading Amiga disks. (dr)
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