14.Mar.2020
Indie Retro News
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Preview videos: Shoot'em Up 'Boss Machine' (AGA)
'Boss Machine' is a horizontal scrolling shoot'em up written by Daniel Stephens (Code), Kevin Saunders (Graphics) and Lee Smith (Music) which will run on AGA Amigas. Some videos (1, 2) published on Youtube are supposed provide a first impression of the game but showing it at a very early stage.
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14.Mar.2020
Indie Retro News
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Horizontal scrolling Shoot'em Up: Inviyya Demo v2
Inviyya which is inspired by the clssic game R-Type requires an Amiga 500 and according to the developers "will feature 6 levels, couple of special weapons, 3 layer parallax scrolling and nice music and sfx". A commercial release on Poly.play is planned. The team now has released a second playable demo version (video).
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14.Mar.2020
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Arcade port: Tapper, version 1B
"Tapper" (video) is a port of the arcade classic from 1983 with the same name. The curennt level of development the author describes as an "early developer version" but the game already is playable and the author asks for your feedback regarding functioning on different non-emulated hardware configurations.
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13.Mar.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web browser Odyssey 1.23 r5_beta02
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has released a new beta version of his AmigaOS 4 port of the web browser Odyssey. The changes of the last two releases:
- Added bunch of new and up2date user agents to "spoof as".
- Enabled WebP support
- WebKit revision number is now presented in AboutBox too
- Recompiled with more up2date 3d party libraries: libFreeType2 2.10.1, libXML2 2.9.10, libXSLT 1.1.34 and libWebP 1.0.3
- Source code with all amigaos4 specific changes and custom 3d party linker libraries are on GitHub now: https://github.com/kas1e/Odyssey/
- Recompiled Odyssey with GCC 8.3.0, previously it was 4.4.3
- Fixed dangling pointer issue with WebPreferences, which was responsible for the "Conf" directory string becoming random garbage (c) Hans de Ruiter
The issue was here for a long time, just with older GCC we were lucky enough to not step in.
- Fixed lame crash on exit happens when you use a beta of MUI and it brings you "expire" window.
- Application.library previously got v1 of the interface, but for some time it should be 2, fixed.
- Updated codesets.library to the latest one (6.21, 16 Jan 2018)
- Updated curl-ca-bundle.crt (https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem , 01 Jan 2020)
- Compiled with Curl 7.68.0, OpenSSL 1.1.1c & RTMP 2.4.
- actual build date and version in "about"
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11.Mar.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Jump'n Run: "Tiny little Slug" available
At APC&TCP you can order "Tiny Little Slug" (video), a jump'n run game written by André Zeps, XplrA and Thomas Boisse. In this game you have to "climb like a snail on walls and ceilings to find the strawberry". Opponents cannot be harmed but have to be removed by different methods.
The game offers four different worlds, three different degrees of difficulty and three big end bosses. Highscores can be saved on disk or harddrive or in the NvRAM of the CD32 and on Internet.
Tiny Little Slug is available on CD, disk or as download archive. An Amiga 500 is required but the game also is compatible with accelerated Amigas and the CD32.
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08.Mar.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 07.03.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 7th, 2020:
ign-addon-ods.lha biz/spread 207K OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
CDDBItaCat.lha comm/misc 10K Italian catalog for CDDB.libr...
NetPrinterItaCat.lha comm/tcp 14K Italian catalog for NetPrinter
PoenitentiamAgite.lha demo/intro 6K 68k An intro from Capacitor Party...
TheReturnOfTheCube.zip demo/intro 39K 68k An intro from Posadas 2018
jrm-bs75.lha demo/sound 956K 68k dA JoRMaS: Bonus Stage #75 (i...
jrm-hc74.lha demo/sound 1.3M 68k dA JoRMaS: Happy Carva #74 (i...
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 20K 68k 15 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
AmiSSL_in_E.lha dev/e 45K 68k AmiSSL Example and includes f...
radinfo.lha disk/misc 4K 68k Prints info about mounted RADs
Frontiera.lha game/strat 173K 68k Frontier alike game WIP for i...
Runaway_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.3M x86 LCD game conversion
Runaway_MOS.lha game/wb 2.3M MOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS3.lha game/wb 4.1M 68k LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS4.lha game/wb 2.6M OS4 LCD game conversion
Runaway_WOS.lha game/wb 2.5M WOS LCD game conversion
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 39K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
PointRiderUIItaCat.lha gfx/show 9K OS4 Italian catalog for PointRide...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
cc1541.lha misc/emu 84K MOS Create Commodore 1541 floppy ...
HKvalhesvoice.lha mods/smpl 451K 16-bit HKvalhes Voice WAVs
GSGuiItaCat.lha text/dtp 14K Italian catalog for GSGui v0.38
BootPicture.lha util/boot 35K 68k Show pictures/play a sound du...
AssignZItaCat.lha util/cdity 9K Italian catalog for AssignZ 2.10
RSE-UTS.lha util/cli 195K 68k Package of tracker tools and ...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 981K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
DevInfosItaCat.lha util/misc 12K Italian catalog for DevInfos ...
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 110K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 143K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
RandomBackdrop.lha util/wb 7.9M 68k Up to 255 random backdrops wi...
SteMarRegDOSScripts.lha util/wb 9K 68k 7 AmigaDOS scripts by Stefano...
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08.Mar.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.03.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 7th, 2020:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amicygnix-base.lha net/mis 121Mb 4.1 An Unix/X11 environment for Amig...
amicygnix-base-src.lha net/mis 15Mb 4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix base pa...
amicygnix-tools.lha net/mis 76Mb 4.1 Extension package for AmiCygnix,...
amicygnix-tools-src.lha net/mis 3Mb 4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix tools p...
amicygnix-x11-src.lha net/mis 65Mb 4.1 Sources of the basic X11 system ...
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 207kb 4.1 ignition addon for access ods-files
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08.Mar.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 07.03.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until March 7th, 2020:
Mercurial_2.8.2-1.lha Development/Tools Mercurial_2.8.2-1.lha
CVS_1.11.23.lha Development/Management Port of CVS, a revision...
CVS_1.12.11.lha Development/Management Port of CVS, a revision...
Flite_1.2.lha Audio/Misc Speech synthesis engine
ZGloom_0.2.0.lha Games/Shoot 3D ZGloom, A re-implementa...
BootClock_1.05.lha Misc A little and easy progr...
Tesseract_2.04.lha Office/OCR Port of high quality Op...
DOSBox_JIT-beta2.lha Emulation A DOS-emulator that use...
xad_rar.lha Files/Archive XAD (UnArc) client for ...
cc1541_3.1.lha Emulation/Misc Create Commodore 1541 f...
Runaway_1.17.lha Games/Misc A LCD game conversion.
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08.Mar.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.03.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until March 7th, 2020:
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06.Mar.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Graphics board: Denise adapter for ZZ9000
Already since January under the title link a Denise adapter for Lukas F. Hartmann's graphics board ZZ9000 has been available (amiga-news.de reported).
The adapter ZZ9500CX transfers the digital video signal of the custom chips to the graphics board to get the functionality of a scandoubler on the Amiga 500 or any other Amiga without a video slot.
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06.Mar.2020
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Event: Video recordings of Bill McEwen at the ACE 2000
On 21. and 22. October 2000 in Melbourne, Australia, the Alternative Computer Expo took place (amiga-news.de reported). In addition to the show report, in 2012 three videos were published showing Bill McEwen from Amiga Inc. introducing his AmigaDE plans. This videos rarely have been watched.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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05.Mar.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Printmagazin: Amiga Future, issue 143
The English and German issue 143 (March/April 2020) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today and can be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future as well as Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Topics include the fourth part of the AmigaOS 3.1.4 special ("The developers are dishing the dirt"), a workshop for synchronising partitions and a review of 'Insanity Fight Construction Set'. (cg)
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02.Mar.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: X11 environment AmiCygnix 1.5
Edgar Schwan's AmiCygnix is an Unix environment for AmigaOS 4. It is not an emulation but all programs has been compiled for AmigaOS 4. AmiCygnix provides a directory and data structure similar to an Unix installation.
In version 1.5 many problems have been solved but there are also new features like a new windows manager and new display drivers. The documentation now is available as PDF file.
New in AmiCygnix-Base:
- This release now includes a new Window Manager called "Dynamic Window
Manager" (dwm), recommended for use with programs launched from the
standalone scripts.
This window manager maximizes the main window of the program and does not
add frames to the windows. This avoids duplicate frames, as in a workbench
display and the use of the window manager Openbox.
- A total of seven new display drivers have been added to the package. All drivers that do not use Picasso96 require graphics.library V54!
- If a workbench display is iconized, the name of the icon now indicates the
program started in it, if it was started with a standalone script.
- The X server did not support special keys like "Page Up" or "Home" found on
a PC keyboard. Also the NumLock key was not supported. This has now been
implemented (thanks to Stefan Juhas for his hint!).
- Under certain circumstances, the X server could freeze the entire system
when starting or exiting. This particularly occurred in programs that were
started with a standalone script. All display drivers have been revised for
this and the problems should be resolved.
- Fixed some bugs in myX11Setup and myX11SetupLight.
- For some parts of the program, the Italian translation has been updated
or recreated.
- The display drivers xpicasso96clonewb and xpicasso96wb were revised for
better performance, especially on 32bit screens.
- The "lxpanel" desktop panel could crash under certain circumstances. Has
been fixed. Also thanks to Samir for the hint!
- The documentation in the "Docs" directory is now predominantly in PDF
format.
New in AmiCygnix-Tools:
- The start scripts have been adapted to the new windows manager.
- The documentation also now is available as PDF file.
Screenshots:
Download:
amicygnix-base.lha (121 MB)
amicygnix-tools.lha (76 MB)
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