05.Feb.2021
Vintage is the New Old
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Programming contest: BASIC 10Liner Contest
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some sound or colorful lines by writing little BASIC programs.
The organizers wrote: "The BASIC 10Liner Contest started 2011 as a party fun at the NOMAM meeting in Northern Germany. NOMAM means 'Not only marvelous Atari machinery' and is an annual meeting from classic computer enthusiasts. The visitors of the meeting decided to hold a little contest: Write a program in 10 lines of BASIC on Atari Computers! We had loads of fun with programming the whole weekend. 2013 we decided to repeat the contest. This time only games were allowed. In 2014 we opened the 10Liner contest also for programmers who did not visit to the meeting. Owners of other 8 bit computer requested to open the contest for their machines. We met the wish and opened it for all 8 bit computers."
This year the contest celebrate 10th anniversary. And also Amigas as 16 bit computers can partiticipate: In the category "Wild" those contributions can be sent in. You can get some inspiration from contributions of the previous years. Additional to many little games, two programs for the Amiga were also written: In 2018 Matteo Trevisan wrote an "Amiga BASIC Login" (fourth post) and in 2019 an "Amiga 500 Chatbot", listet as first post.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 27, 2021, 6 p.m. CET. Award ceremony: Saturday, April 10, 2021 at NOMAM.
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03.Feb.2021
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New preview video: Shoot'em Up 'Inviyya'
The development of the shoot'em up game 'Inviyya' (we reported on it) inspired by the classic R-Type has been almost completed: A new preview video shows the latest level of development - according to the developer the final tests have been started. The game will be published on poly.play.
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02.Feb.2021
English Amiga Board (Website)
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Self-made project: Real-time clock for A500 and A1000
Marcel Jähne's "A1k SimpleClock" is a real-time clock for the A500 and A1000 which is put on the socket of the 68000 processor. All required documents can be found on Gitlab under a free license.
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02.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Video: Amiga port of 'Metal Gear' (MSX) in progress
On Youtube a video shows the Amiga port of the MSX game Metal Gear which is the first part of a action adventure game. According to the author, the "gameplay code is 90% complete".
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02.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Playable Demo: Nameless single screen platform game
For a so far nameless single screen platform game (video) created with the Scorpion Engine now a demo version was released providing three playable levels.
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31.Jan.2021
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 0.107
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is going to be the standard e-mail client for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and is able to display as well as create HTML e-mails.
Changes in version 0.107 include configurable additional toolbar functions, 'Move to Spam' message functionality, support for setting and displaying message importance, and an optional requester before single-replying to a message that has multiple recipients.
Besides, the privacy policy has been updated, stating for each kind of functionality that only the necessary data are transmitted. For feedback to the author, the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used. (snx)
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31.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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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:
- Enigma Gun (3'rd time lucky Remix)
- Elysium (LDA 1337 Remake)
- Shadow of the Beast III - Game Over
- Shadow of the Beast II - Opening
- Toi-Tei
- Agony - Owls journey
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31.Jan.2021
Juan Carlos Martin (Mail)
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Point'n Click adventure: "The Widow" updated (update)
Already on 21. January Juan Carlos 'Templario' Herran Martin announced an update of his point' click adventure 'The Widow' on his Morgue Soft website. But only from today the new version 1.10 is available. Additional to German and Italian catalogs and new sounds, some bugs were fixed and minor changes done, among others "the Bath Girl doesn't showed naked when you take some object from her".
To amiga-news.de, Juan Carlos confirmed his intention of closing the "chapter Amiga" and thus also his website by March 12. In contrary to the past practice, he is going to upload his most important programs to the different Amiga archives like Aminet, OS4Depot or AROS archive.
Update: (02.02.2021, 05:40, dr)
As a reader pointed out, the website of Morgue Soft already has been closed. Juan Carlos explained, that he has to disable his website due to limited memory for website traffic provided by the web hoster. Instead of paying he decided to close the website as signal of solidarity for almost all shops in Spain are closed. He pointede out that except the erotic games all software will be archived on OS4Depot und MorphOS. He also has indicated that in one way or another he might continue his developer activities.
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31.Jan.2021
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Aminet uploads until 30.01.2021
The following files have been added until 30.01.2021 to Aminet:
MUIbase-4.3.lha biz/dbase 6.1M MOS Programmable relational datab...
sqlite-3.34.0-amiga.lha biz/dbase 19M MOS SQL database engine
planethively.i386-aro... demo/sound 463K x86 A musicdisk about HivelyTrack...
COP.lha dev/debug 165K 68k Low Level Debugger
MuForce.lha dev/debug 293K 68k V40 Enforcer, detects illegal...
libvstring.i386-aros.lha dev/lib 80K x86 dynamic string allocation/gen...
REV35GB.lha disk/misc 1K Iomega REV 35GB mountlist
MCE.lha game/edit 3.0M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.3M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.5M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Albireo.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 41K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
hivelyreplay.i386-aro... mus/play 95K x86 Replayer from HivelyTracker (...
led-20200202.tar.gz text/edit 14K A simple line-oriented text e...
gzrt.i386-aros.lha util/arc 91K x86 Recover data from a corrupted...
MuRedox.lha util/boot 118K 68k MuLib based math speedup for ...
wordcount.i386-aros.lha util/cli 58K x86 Count lines, words, and chars
ppcrack.i386-aros.lha util/crypt 102K x86 unpack / decrypt all PowerPac...
HuntnGather.lha util/dir 202K 68k File indexing and search util...
BoardsLib.lha util/libs 76K 68k provides detailed info about ...
DisLib.lha util/libs 19K 68k A library based MC68K disasse...
MMULib.lha util/libs 724K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
AmigaMapPing.lha util/misc 73K 68k Shows your Amiga on live.amig...
DevInfosItaCat.lha util/misc 46K Italian catalog for DevInfos ...
DevInfosNGItaCat.lha util/misc 47K Italian catalog for DevInfosN...
WHDLoadMenu.lha util/misc 479K 68k A WHDLoad frontend
SysinfoBoards.lha util/moni 14K 68k More Boardinfos for Sysinfo
lzip-1.22.i386-aros.lha util/pack 323K x86 Data (de)compressor like gzip...
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31.Jan.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.01.2021
The following files have been added until 30.01.2021 to OS4Depot:
notification_sounds.lha aud/mis 5Mb 4.0 Sound samples for Notification
ahidrv-filesave.lha dri/aud 97kb 4.1 Amiga OS4 antive AHI FILESAVE dr...
minigl.lha dri/gra 7Mb 4.0 OpenGL subset 3D API
shadthecat.lha gam/mis 10Mb 4.1 An with Hollywood programmed jum...
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
utf8_library.lha lib/mis 189kb 4.1 Encode/Decode or manipulate UTF8...
devinfos_ita.lha uti/mis 46kb 4.0 Italian catalog for DevInfos v17.22
devinfosng_ita.lha uti/mis 47kb 4.0 Italian catalog for DevInfosNG 1...
binmerge.lha uti/scr 120kb 4.1 Tool to merge multiple bin/cue t...
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31.Jan.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.01.2021
The following files have been added until 30.01.2021 to AROS Archives:
absolutedolle2.i386-aros.lha dem/mus 2Mb A music disc by Void
capacitor.i386-aros.lha dem/mus 2Mb Promo Intro for Capacitor Party ...
planethively.i386-aros.lha dem/mus 463kb A musicdisk about HivelyTracker ...
wordcount.i386-aros.lha uti/she 58kb Count lines, words, and chars
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31.Jan.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.01.2021
The following files have been added until 30.01.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Iris_0.104beta.lha Email New email client suppor...
Albireo_1.3.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
MCE_12.31.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
MUIbase_4.3.lha Office/Database Programmable relational...
SQLite_3.34.0.lha Office/Database SQL database engine
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31.Jan.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.01.2021
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 30.01.2021:
- 2021-01-29 improved: Test Drive (Accolade) reduced memory requirements (Info)
- 2021-01-25 fixed: Bubba'n'Stix (Core Design) fixed title screen not showing (Info)
- 2021-01-25 improved: Space Quest 3 (Sierra) made MT32 working in german version, made 68000 compatible (Info)
- 2021-01-25 improved: Master Axe (Epic) trainer added, access fault fixed, made 68000 compatible (Info)
- 2021-01-25 improved: Leisure Suit Larry 3 (Sierra) added alternate way to enter umlauts, fixed access fault (Info)
- 2021-01-25 fixed: Apprentice (Rainbow Arts) fixed random crash on some configurations (Info)
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30.Jan.2021
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Raspberry Pi as m68000 replacement: PiStorm
Claude Schwarz' 'PiStorm' connects a Raspberry Pi to a CPU socket of an A500, A1000 or A2000 using an adapter for emulating a fast m68k processor. In contrary to the Buffee project a Linux-based solution is used instead of running the 68k emulator directly on the hardware.
On his Twitter channel Schwarz has published some videos showing the latest level of development: FastRAM obviously still has not been implemented. Hardware documentations and source codes are available on Github but not under a free license: A commercial application requires the accordance of the developer.
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29.Jan.2021
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Accelerator board project 'Buffee': ARM processor emulates 68040/400 Mhz
The open source accelerator board project "Buffee" started by Renee Cousins and Tim Wacker consists of an adapter board which is connected to the processor socket of an A500, A1000 or A2000 and has a SoC of type Octavo OSD335x-SM inclusive 512 or 1024 MB RAM.
The ARM-CPU of the Octavo module emulates a 68k processor using a special JIT emulator called Pseudo JIT which supposedly can achieve the speed of a 68040 clocked with 400 Mhz. Additional to the firmware, the hardware design freely available. According to the developers in their blog, the production of prototypes gets closer.
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29.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Screenbar plugin 'VideoMemoryGauge', updates of other plugins
The Screenbar plugin 'VideoMemoryGauge' shows the free video RAM. By double clicking the plugin, the program GraphicBoards is started. Additionally all other Screenbar plugins have been updated:
- CPUGauge 1.7
- CPUGraph 1.1
- DateTime 1.4
- MemoryGauge 1.6
- MouseEyes 1.3
- MouseCoords 1.3
- Kerbe 1.2
- PixelPicker 1.3
- TopTasks 1.5
- Uptime 1.4
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28.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Tanker simulation: Full versions of 'Campaign' and 'Campaign II' as download
The full versions of the tank simulations 'Campaign' and 'Campaign II' released in 1992 and 1994 can be downloaded from the Amiga Future website. Additional to ADF and IPF disk images, also WHDLoad installers are available. The pdf document described as "Manual" actually only is a one page "addendum" to the manual.
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28.Jan.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade classic: Second beta version of Amiga Space Invaders
"Space Invaders" (video) written in Blitz Basic is supposed to be quite an authentic port of the arcade classic with the same name released in 1978. The new beta version provides minor improvements and an "Easter-Egg" of the original.
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28.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 127 of Amiga Future online available
The English issue 127 (Juli/August 2017) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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