15.Nov.2020
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Video: The Amiga Show
The Amiga Show is a planned series of 25-minutes videos produced with the Amiga. Yesterday the first episode was published "diving back to July 1985 and witness the launch of the Amiga."
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15.Nov.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #80 - accelerator board Vampire 500 V2 in A100
In issue 80 of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton shows how he put the FPGA accelerator board Vampire 500 V2 into his Amiga 1000.
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15.Nov.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 14.11.2020
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 14.11.2020:
AllocRamDisk.lha disk/misc 6K 68k Alloc a RAM disk in given add...
pc105_i.lha driver/inp 14K MorphOS Italian Keymap
GunFight_AROSx86.lha game/2play 5.0M x86 2 player western game
GunFight_MOS.lha game/2play 4.9M MOS 2 player western game
GunFight_OS3.lha game/2play 4.9M 68k 2 player western game
GunFight_OS4.lha game/2play 5.2M OS4 2 player western game
GunFight_WOS.lha game/2play 5.2M WOS 2 player western game
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 49K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.1M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
ElMexico.lha mods/8voic 102K El Mexico 7ch Latino Guitar Play
GF4RSID1.zip pix/misc 80K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID2.zip pix/misc 81K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID3.zip pix/misc 73K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID4.zip pix/misc 82K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID5.zip pix/misc 76K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
nspark-morphos.lha util/arc 169K MOS New Spark unarchiver
mfkey.lha util/cdity 130K MOS FKey for MorphOS
DisplayBeep.lha util/cli 55K OS4 Flash display as an event alert
WhetDhryStone.lha util/cli 1.6M MOS bench cpus under AmigaOS 3/4 ...
expat.lha util/libs 405K MOS Amiga port of Expat 2.0.1
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 594K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 702K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 754K OS4 Multipurpose utility
setcustomprinter.lha util/sys 5K 68k set a custom printer device i...
PointerEyes.lha util/wb 101K OS4 Eyes on your screen watch you...
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15.Nov.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.11.2020
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 14.11.2020:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amicygnix-games.lha gam/mis 103Mb 4.1 A games collection for AmiCygnix
amicygnix-games-src.lha gam/mis 2Mb 4.1 Sources of the games package for...
witchcleaner.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 Clean temp data from OWB and Way...
displaybeep.lha uti/she 51kb 4.0 Flash display as an event alert
evenmore.lha uti/tex 432kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
pointereyes.lha uti/wor 92kb 4.0 Eyes on your screen watch your p...
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15.Nov.2020
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 14.11.2020
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archives until 14.11.2020:
pxdrum_manual.tar aud/mis 360kb pxdrum manual on many language
lodepaint_manual.tar doc/man 2Mb lodepaint manual pdf in other la...
povray_tutorial.tar doc/man 7Mb povray tutorial in many language
meritous.i386-aros.zip gam/act 3Mb Collect PSI crystals to survive ...
gunfight_arosx86.lha gam/chi 5Mb retro arcade old style games
scr2gif.i386-aros.lha gra/con 97kb Converts ZX Spectrum screens to GIF
povray_manual_duch.tar gra/ray 2Mb povray manual duch
povray_manual_french.tar gra/ray 2Mb povray manual french
povray_manual_ita.tar gra/ray 2Mb povray manual ita
povray_manual_nor.tar gra/ray 2Mb povray manual norway
povray_manual_russ.tar gra/ray 2Mb povray manual russian
povray_manual_spa.tar gra/ray 2Mb povray manual spanish
aya03.lha net/mis 2Mb access wolfram alpha answer mach...
pointereyes.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 67kb Eyes on your screen watch your p...
pointereyes.lha uti/wor 101kb remake of the classic utility
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15.Nov.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 14.11.2020
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 14.11.2020:
nspark_1.7.8b2.lha Files/Archive New Spark unarchiver
GunFight_1.0.lha Games/Shoot 2D A 1 or 2 player western...
AmiBrixx_2.1.lha Games/Think A puzzle-game for the a...
GrafX2_2.8_WIP.lha Graphics/Draw GrafX2 version 2.8WIP, ...
VectorInk_1.1.lha Graphics/Vector A basic vector graphics...
ReportPlus_8.0.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
AskYourAmiga_0.3.lha Misc AskYourAmiga_0.3.lha
WitchCleaner_1.45.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
Mfkey_1.11.lha System/Ambient/Commodi... FKey for MorphOS.
Expat_4.3.lha System/Library/XML Amiga port of Expat 2.0.1
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15.Nov.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 14.11.2020
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 14.11.2020:
- 2020-11-11 improved: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) load/save highscores operation fixed, new imager (Info)
- 2020-11-11 improved: Super Cars 2 (Gremlin) automatic NTSC detection (Info)
- 2020-11-09 improved: Super Cars 2 (Gremlin) added joypad controls, added BUTTONWAIT (Info)
- 2020-11-09 new: Smash (Idea) done by Asman (Info)
- 2020-11-09 new: Gordian Tomb (X-Ample) done by Asman (Info)
- 2020-11-09 new: Cave Runner (Rudi Martin) done by Asman (Info)
- 2020-11-09 improved: BombJack (Elite) added icons by Irek'72 (Info)
- 2020-11-08 improved: Mega-Typhoon (Bernhardt Braun / Nordlicht Edv.) added joypad/2nd button controls, trainer added (Info)
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15.Nov.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Overload Pt. 1
- Lost Patrol - Title Remix
- Gods - Into The Wonderful
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15.Nov.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.82
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Fast RAM.
Changes since version 0.8:
- In settings screen now you can select if you want to use a custom screen or the workbench for file requesters.
- Added action Repeat Every to execute actions every certain time.
- In Animation screen the animation number can be selected using an input field.
- In Animation screen you can modify the frame offset using the cursor keys.
- In Objects screen, Display Offset X and Y can be set using an input field.
- Bigger limit for sprite size when using the Auto Slice option.
- Extra checks and optimization for Auto Slice option.
- In Screen menu, a color other than 0 can be overwritten, from 0(background) to 127.
- BG Color and BG Rainbow action triggers are now named Overwrite Color and Overwrite Gradient.
- Physics: Speed on col behavior reviewed.
- Performance: Improved performance of math routines.
- FIX: CD32 play CD routines fixed to allow more than one track being played.
- FIX: After moving to another level sometimes there was a glitch in the scroll.
- FIX: When re-adding objects in the level, sometimes they were not added.
- FIX: Screen width was not reset when loading a new game.
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14.Nov.2020
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Puzzle game: AmiBrixx 2.1 for all Amiga systems
Two weeks ago we reported about version 2.0 of Jörg 'Evil' Renkert's puzzle game AmiBrixx. In this game you try to "elminate groups of stones of the same color. Thereby the other stones will fall down and form new groups. The game ends, when no more groups can be eliminated."
Yesterday the author released version 2.1 providing some minor bug fixes: In the Amiga 68k version now the full screen is used on lower screen solutions (such as HighRes or HighRes Interlaced) which we can confirm by our tests. In the Windows version the game screen moved other windows to top/back sometimes. This was fixed.
The author would be grateful for any feedback including ideas and suggestions for improvement.
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13.Nov.2020
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Competition Pro clone featuring Arcade parts: ArcadeR (Update)
The ArcadeR's design is heavily inspired by the classic 'Competition' joysticks, but inside the newcomer is making use of actual Arcade components - a noname clone of a Sanwa joystick mechanism, to be precise. The sticks are available in different colours and provide optional autofire as well as a configurable 2nd fire button.
Two small switches at the front of the case are used for (de)activating autofire and selecting if the right fire button should act as button 2 or button 3. The autofire frequency can be adjusted using a potentiometer, but that potentiometer can only be accessed after opening the case. The second fire button is not electrically compatible across different systems, so the customer needs to specify the target system when purchasing a stick. This setting can be switched between "Atari/Amiga" and "C64" later on using a solder bridge.
A detailed review of the joystick is available on Youtube.
Despite the UK top level domain of the official website, RetroRadionics is actually based in China. If the joysticks are in stock, users keep reporting shipping times as short as two weeks, but German users keep reporting Problems with DHL (German: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) when their packages are getting relabeled by DHL after they arrive in Germany. The only European distributor of the ArcadeR known to us at the time of writing is the British dealer ZX Renew.
Update: (19.11.2020, 22:30, cg)
The Spanish dealer 'micomputer' is also selling the ArcadeR.
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12.Nov.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 125 of Amiga Future online
The English issue 125 (March/April 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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11.Nov.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Games collection for AmiCygnix 1.6
Edgar Schwan has updated his games collection for his X11 environment AmiCygnix. 24 games are included, most of them board- or cardgames but also a shoot'em up and a interactive fractal zoomer.
New in version 1.6:
- New game "Pioneers", a clone of "Settlers of Catan".
- Neue versions:
- Ace of Penguins 1.4 instead of version 1.2. The card game "Spider" has been added and the card game "Solitaire" offers new possibilities. The GUI tool for starting the individual games has been revised and optimized for standalone start.
- XEmeraldia 0.4.3 instead of version 0.4.1. The graphics have been optimized.
- XGalaga 2.1.1.0 instead of version 2.0.34. The playing field is now bigger and a variation called "Hyperspace" is now included.
- The xMahjongg GUI tool has been revised and optimized for standalone start.
- All programs have been recompiled. Programs that require GTK+ 2 now use GTK+ 2.24.32.
- All programs can now be started "Standalone".
- The icon set has been updated. Thanks to Thomas Blatt!
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Included games:
- The Ace of Penguins: A collection of one-player games:
- canfield - a cardgame
- freecell - a cardgame
- golf - a cardgame
- mastermind - the well known code-breaking game
- merlin - a logic game similar to "lights out"
- minesweeper - the well known logic game
- pegged - a board game
- solitaire - a cardgame
- spider - a cardgame
- taipei - a mahjongg like game
- thornq - a cardgame
- BomberClone (A game like "Super Bomberman". With network support.)
- GLightOff (Puzzle game)
- gSoko (Sokoban clone)
- gTans (Tangram game)
- GtkAtlantic (a game like "Monopoly")
- Pioneers (a clone of the board game "Settlers of Catan")
- Sudoku-Savant (a clone of the board game "Sudoku")
- XaoS (Fractal zoomer)
- XEmeraldia (a variation of the game "Tetris")
- XGalaga (Shoot 'em up)
- XLightOff (Puzzle game)
- XMahjongg (a solitaire game)
- xtris (a multiplayer tetris clone with network support)
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11.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Single screen platform game: 'Super Pumpkin Brothers' announced for 2021
The Single screen platform game 'Super Pumpkin Brothers' is a clon of the classic arcade game Snow Bros.. A first playable preview has been already released in 2007 - but then the development stopped. It was now restarted by a six-man team. A video shows the current state of the development.
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10.Nov.2020
amigablogs.net (Webseite)
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Free graphic set for game developer: "NEONworld"
One of the submissions to the Amiga Art Contest 2020 was a graphic set for an imaginary game called "NEONworld". On his Patreon website, the graphics artist Kevin Saunders has provided the set as zip archive. It can be used in free game projects without any limitations. Saunders only wants to be listed in the credits.
The graphics are meant for screen solutions of 320x256, use 16 colours and were drawn on the Amiga using Brilliance. The UFO was rendered with Lightwave. An example level for the game concept intended by Saunders is included as well.
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10.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Early video preview: Jump'n Run 'Duckstroma'
In Erik 'earok' Hogan's jump'n run 'Duckstroma' the player controls a duck which can use its eggs for jumping in higher levels. The game already has been released for MSX and ZX Spectrum using the flip-screen feature.
Now a video of the Amiga prototype was published showing smoothly scrolling levels. The port for the Amiga is written with Hogan's Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine.
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09.Nov.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Competition: Submissions to the 'Amiga Art Contest 2020' released
For the graphic competition "Amiga Art Contest 2020", started in July, all submissions in the categories "hand drawn artworks", "Photographic" and "Raytracing" now are available on the website of the organizers. The tracks do not seem to be available but some of them can be listened to in a video.
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09.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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3D-Shooter: Another early Tech-Demo from 'Blask'
'Blask' (video) is a 3D-Shooter written in AMOS which is still in the very early stage of development and is supposd to be run on an Amiga 500. In a discussion on ppa.pl (Polish) the developer has talked about the latest progress of the game. He has already released two pre-versions of the game under the former name "Alien Enemy: Dangerous".
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09.Nov.2020
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Little discourse on render-library
In our report about the game AmiBrixx we have attended the auhor Jörn Renkert on the fact that under usually an OS3 port of a Hollywood application requires a graphics card and therefore pushing a port for AGA Amigas.
Unfortunately we did not succeed in running the game on an Amiga1200 equipped with Blizzard 1230 and 128 MB FastRAM. All required libraries have been installed as mentioned by the author. Before this test, on the Amiga of our editor version 40.8 of the render.library was installed but disabled. Instead of it, version 30.0 was active. After even the last edited version released by the author crahed we did remember the previously disabled version 40.8 render.library.
After resetting the system to version 30.0, the game started without problems. We then found two diiferent versions of the library on Aminet:
- Version 40.8, released in 2005, and
- version 32.0, released this year.
Contrary to the information given there in the readmes, version 40.8 was written by Timm S. Mueller (e.g. graphics card picture viewer Mysticview), version 32.0 by Henryk Richter (e.g. author of the music player Eagleplayer). Getting more information about the different versions, we asked the authors for a statement. Kindly enough both oh them replied. Hendryk Richter has summarized it:
"Version 32 of the render.library are virtually identical to 30.0/31.0. After consultation with Timm, the version bump from 31 to 32 was done to merge the different versions of the v30 branch available on Aminet. Only a build for 68060 without FPU was added since the last upload. I do not know any program (68k) which requires a version >30 of the render.library.
The development branch V40 of the render.library was Timm's rewrite in C of the assembler version for providing the option of porting it to PPC platforms. As mentioned in the readme, this re-implementation the much slower on 68k Amigas with processor <68040. It is recommended to use V30-V32 with 68k."
After the installation of version 32.0, the game also worked fine. Therefore we do not only recommend version 32.0 for 68k Amigas - considering the crashes we must advise against this version 40.8.
On request of amigas-news.de the author Timm S. Mueller explained that currently he is not going to deal with it again.
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