03.May.2019
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 during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- March/April 2019 news.
- Old articles from Amiga News Tech n°28 to 31:
- File: Cycles, registers et adressing modes of the 68030
- Programming: ARexx - Screens, windows and messages
- Programming: Assembler - RGB plasma
- Tutorial: Utilization of Yacc
- Programming: AMOS - Find a file without requester
- File: C ANSI
- Programming: C - BOBs
- Programming: GFA Basic - timer.device
- Tutorial: Utilization of Flex
- Programming: AMOS - Plotter, etc.
- Interview Denzil Long (coauthor of Dune 2).
- Review: AEROS 3.5.
- Review: Amiga Forever 8.
- Review: Atari++ 1.7.3.
- Review: Icaros Desktop 2.2.5/2.2.6.
- File: integrated circuit packaging.
- File: Oxxi, Inc.
- DIY: Pimp my Pegasos (update).
- Tutorial: Make a backup of MorphOS on an external USB hard drive.
- Tutorial: Mapping Kickstart 3.1.4 Rom using MapROM on an ACA500Plus.
- Tutorial: Installing AmigaOS 3.1.4 on an ACA500Plus (or any Amiga).
- Special quizz about Scala.
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03.May.2019
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Video interview: Mike Battilana (Cloanto)
In February the managing director of Cloanto, Mike Battilana, succeeded in transferring all Amiga rights from Amiga Inc. to "C-A Acquisition Corp." which was founded by him. After that Stephen 'ClusterUK' Jones (e.g. Checkmate A1500 Plus) started a crowd funding campaign for financing a trip to Italy in order to meet Battilana and ask him some questions which before he had collected in diverse English-language forums.
The resultat is a video which lasts more than two hours. After Battilana was introduced in detail he and Jones who are friends since the eighties discuss the questions. Jones also provides a timetable listing which issue is discussed at what time:
- 00:12:00 Overview of Amiga history since late 90's to build context.
- 00:17:20 Red and Blue wars that I missed, which I believe caused a lot of the problems we have now ?
- 00:19:30 Discussion about the Gateway deal?
- 00:12:30 Which beer you prefer, as poster has promised to buy him one (or more) at Amiga34 in Germany.
- 00:24:00 Are you going to Las Vegas in August at Comm Vex?
- 00:25:30 Somebody did not want to ask a question due to my avatar LOL
- 00:26:10 Will amiga.com finally be for Amiga fans instead of trying to pawn off a snowman screen saver LOL
- 00:31:45 HI Michael thanks for supporting the Amiga platform when very few were .
- 00:32:35 How does it feel when specific parties (and many people on various forums) try to paint you as the (only) bad guy, for simply defending yourself in court?
- 00:36:35 Who do you think you are? Response to answer “Is that the best you've got?“
- 00:40:00 What would your parents think of this?
- 00:42:50 Where do you get off?
- 00:43:10 Did you ever understand what Amiga Inc. tried to do the past 20+ years? If yes - what did they do?
- 00:46:20 Thoughts on new clones coming out e.g. AmyITX, ReAmiga, Pauls A4000 board etc?
- 00:50:50 Does Cloanto support Fair Use when it come to Amiga media and material?
- 00:52:40 Where do you see Amiga in 5, 10, 25 year times, and what are your plans for the Amiga?
- 1:00:00 Any thoughts about expanding Amiga Forever to include MAC os8 emulation, Mac ppc emulation, and Atari ST emulation?
- 1:02:00 Given the recent (and not so recent) court / legal actions, is there any new development regarding the "Discourse on Possible Futures" specifically open source?
- 1:05:40 Possibility of a version of workbench/ ROM that would work out of the box with the Vampire range of accelerators or even just the V4 stand alone? Since the Vampire supporters support you blindly are they licensing your ROM copies?
- 1:07:00 Should Cloanto secure the necessary rights, would the company let independent developers access the source code or contribute, without having to sign an NDA or contracts of sorts and will we be allowed to freely share the patches and/or derivative work ?
- 1:09:50 Amiga Inc. had a plan of going cross platform with the AmigaDE product as a VM. What plans still exist and does the invention of WebAssembly in the browser influence this?
- 1:12:30 Will there ever be a bridge technology that allows accelerated 68k machines to run VM code along with Next-Generation AmigaOne series platforms?
- 1:13:50 Will AmigaOS 3.1 be open sourced and under what license? and Does Cloanto have the ability to open source Amiga OS? If so why does he not open it up?
- 1:15:40 How are you going to make sure, to the best of your ability, Jens Schoenfeld (or any other important people) does not leave the Amiga Classic hardware scene?
- 1:19:00 Are there some plans to bring back updated RKM manuals in some form? There are reasonable inexpensive print-on-demand services today, or maybe as e-books or PDFs?
- 1:20:55 I have and love my AmigaONE X1000 that runs AmigaOS4.1FE now and have long dreamed of an AmigaOS4.2! Can you please tell us NG Amiga users how Cloanto owning the Amiga IP will affect future updates to OS4.x?
- 1:24:00 Why is Cloanto Corporation and C-A Acquisition Corporation organized under the laws of the state of Nevada?
- 1:25:05 I also updated my classic Amigas with the recently released OS3.14 and physical roms from Hyperion and again wonder how Cloanto owning the IP rights moving forward will affect OS3.14 and future updates moving forward ?
- 1:26:00 I’d like to know what he thinks about the Vampire and the growth of the 68K community in a post-PowerPC age.
- 1:26:45 Now that you own all the IP, will you be looking to create a rebirth machine range including entry level A500/A1200 equivalent, and if yes, would you consider the classic micro computer form factor? and If so would you be looking to work with existing hardware manufacturers (A-EON, Apollo etc) or would you try to do it "in house"?
- 1:29:00 I'm planning on buying wb 3.1.4 and ks roms. But who actually owns both? Who should I buy it from? if hyperion is selling them, does he get a commission?
- 1:33:20 What happened with the 8-Bit guy's request for licensing?
- 1:36:20 Will we see Amiga as a cloud based OS and possible to install as a virtual machine?
- 1:38:05 In event of open sourcing of AmigaOS 3.1, have you considered using source code license compatible with AROS source code license?
- 1:39:35 What are all the Amiga related IPs that he owns and what rights does that give him?
- 1:40:30 How do third party companies get in touch about licensing and new product design to be inline with IP rights?
- 1:43:15 Are you going to reach out to hardware developers, and what support will you be offering?
- 1:44:15 Have you any plans to develop in house software for classic accelerated Amigas?
- 1:44:40 Will you encourage the support of Raspberry Pi and other SBC's?
- 1:47:10 As the technology world around us is increasingly becoming "touch screen only," I would like to know if your plans for either the Classic AmigaOS or NG include plans of ditching traditional mice and keyboards, or if they will still be supported?
- 1:48:45 Do you plan on leveraging hardware companies (A-Eon, A-cube, etc.) to move away from PPC toward a more affordable hardware CPU platform? and Do you plan on making AmigaOS4.x hardware agnostic, or keeping it limited to one family of CPU's?
- 1:50:10 Would you be for forming an Amiga (OS) Foundation to support development in the same vein as the Apache, Mozilla, and various BSD Foundations?
- 1:50:55 Will there be new 3.X AOS versions in the future? How will the lawsuit effect that?
- 1:52:20 As a Mac/Linux user I really only use the ROM files from my current version of Amiga Forever. "We'll soon start working on a Mac version of Amiga Forever” seems to have been on the Cloanto website for a very long time now. Are Cloanto still working on a Mac version of Amiga Forever which offers the same, or better functionality as the Windows version?
- 1:54:15 Will there be an Amiga Mini or would they be willing to work with Emubee for the furtherance of their Amiga X project? and Will the new entity, Cloanto or whatever support (or better: get involved into) the AmigaX project?
- 1:56:30 I recently read that Commodore Italy has acquired global rights for Commodore trademarks. Do you have any thoughts or plans to partner with them for products?
- 1:58:30 Can you confirm that Cloanto now owns the Amiga name and logo (the one on the A500 etc) and if so, are you willing to license it out to third party products?
- 2:01:25 The work from Olaf and Thomas on 3.1.4 is awesome. The cleanest and best update to 3.1 so far. How do you think Cloanto can support and contribute to OS3 development from now on?
- 2:04:38 The Amiga logo has been revised on numerous occasions. The logos associated with the operating system and the hardware include, among others, the original variant written in italic Times (created by Commodore) and one more stylised variant written in a modified bondoni typeface (created by Amiga Technologies). Under Cloanto management, which one do you plan to use up ahead and why? What graphical identify do you feel properly represents the Amiga in 2019?
- 2:08:00 Michael thoughts on where we are now and what are his plans for the future
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29.Apr.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 138
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 138 (May/June 2019) have been released today and can be ordered from the magazine staff or various Amiga dealers. This issue's topics include a review of Aranet and AmigaOS 3.1.4 #2 as well as a report on the demo scene.
Please note that from 6th until 29th May the editors of the Amiga Furure are on vacation - orders (also of downloads) will be processed afterwards.
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29.Apr.2019
Diverse (ANF)
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25 years ago: Insolvency of Commodore
This very day 25 years ago the computer company Commodore, producer of the famous home computers C64 and Amiga, had to register insolvency. In a review Heise online reminds of Commodore (German).
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28.Apr.2019
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Report and video of Amiga prototype "Zorro" (Update)
Under the title link Eric Hill has reported on his recently purchased Amiga development system. According to his information, this prototype was named "Zorro" and is a later variation than "Velvet". Commodore did send it to Hewlett-Packard hoping that the company would support it but it would not. In spring 1985 a private person bought it from HP.
The main differences in comparison to the ordinary Amiga (1000) as Eric Hill found out:
- Commodore logo instead of Amiga checkmark on the case
- Commodore keys inbstead of Amiga keys
- No signatures on the inside top cover of the case
- Custom chips Portia (instead of Paula) and Daphne (instead of Denise) as well as an early Agnus version
The computer used a Kickstart disk version 29.11. A video complements the report.
Update: (07:29, 05.05.19, snx)
As it turned out meanwhile, the disk has been overwritten by the previous owner with Kickstart 1.2. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Apr.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 27.04.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 27th, 2019:
md2_1.4.17_beta.lha comm/news 154K 68k Last public version of MicroD...
md2_14.lha comm/news 506K 68k Integrated standalone mailer ...
F1GP2019Carset.lha game/data 23K 2019 Carset for F1GP
LumberjackPlatform.adf game/jump 880K 68k Lumberjack Platform (Bootable...
LumberjackPlatformHD.lha game/jump 218K 68k Lumberjack Platform (HD Install)
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 374K 68k Amiga AGA port of Duke Nukem 3D
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 383K 68k Amiga RTG port of Duke Nukem 3D
mijfif.lha gfx/show 86K MOS JFIF,BMP,ILBM,ZX.SCR viewer
ViewLHA.lha gfx/show 26K 68k View graphics files compresse...
LarryIsBack.lha mods/8voic 253K Larry Is Back 6ch Hip Hop by ...
opus-tools-0.2_a68k.lha mus/edit 471K 68k Opus Audio Tools
NTSCPics4PAL.zip pix/misc 54M NTSC graphics rescaled for PAL
Albatros.lha util/boot 34K 68k Lock your AMIGA by a keyword
AkikoTFFix.lha util/misc 4K 68k Reenables Akiko on CD32 with ...
StartBar-ITA.lha util/wb 164K 68k Italian version of StartBar
StartWin.lha util/wb 40K 68k A bugged workbench launch bar
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28.Apr.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 27.04.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 27th, 2019:
exomizer.lha emu/uti 616kb 4.0 A cruncher for 8-bit computers u...
lzma_lib.lha lib/mis 242kb 4.0 LZMA/XZ (de)compression library
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28.Apr.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 27.04.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until April 27th, 2019:
atari800-310.i386-aros.lha emu/com 964kb Emulator of Atari 8bit computers
rnoeffects-icons.lha gra/ico 6kb Drawer and program icons
run_lodepaint.lha gra/ico 5kb Icon plus script which does not ...
txt2pdf-icons.lha gra/ico 7kb Drawer and program icons
crono.i386-aros.lha gra/mis 2Mb Generator of printable annual or...
jill.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 18Mb A Multipurpose Utility For Workb...
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28.Apr.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 27.04.2019
The following archive has been added to MorphOS-Storage until April 27th, 2019:
miJFIF_1.996.lha Graphics/Show A JFIF,BMP,ILBM,ZX.SCR ...
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28.Apr.2019
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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Crowd funding: Odroid-XU4 system IndieGo XS as retro-console with AEROS
On Kickstarter under the title link a campaign was started for pre-financing ARM-Linux-based minicomputer which can be used for playing video games using emulation. Among others Pascal Papara's AROS distribution AEROS is preinstalled.
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27.Apr.2019
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Source code of "Trap Runner" released
After the collector's edition of his jump'n run Trap Runner has been available, similar to other games Frank Wille has released the source code, level files and graphics of the game under a Public Domain licence. The archive includes all files necessary for creating a disk image of "Trap Runner".
The build process is portable that means you can assemble the game on different platforms. Additional to an ISO-C99 compiler and the AmigaOS assembler includes, only GNU-make, vasmm68k_mot and vlink are required. All other tools you can build from the source code. In Makefile you only have to adapt the variable ASINC to the corresponding environment. It includes the path to the Amiga includes.
Download: TrapRunner1_2.lha (1,6 MB)
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27.Apr.2019
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Commercial Shoot'em Up: "Skillgrid" as download or Boxed Edition (AGA)
Skillgrid (video) developed by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) is an abstract, vertical shoot'em up which runs endlessly and according to the developer with "frenetic, tactical gameplay", diverse sub-games and many boss battles the player is supposed to be encouraged to chase after new highscores. The game requires an AGA computer.
Skillgrid is available from itch.io as chargeable download for 7,99 USD (about 7 Euro) or from RGCD as Boxed Edition providing two variants: As "basic CD-only version that comes with an auto-booting jewel-cased, glass-mastered CD complete with a professionally printed 16-page manual, a large weather-proof vinyl RGCD sticker, RGCD and Retream postcards and two disk labels (so you can make your own floppies from the images on the CD)" (for about 19 Euro) or as "deluxe version comes with all this plus a packet of four beautiful 25mm button badges, an A3 poster (rolled) and the game on two floppy disks - all presented in a plastic clam shell box complete with custom made foam insert" (for additional 6,90 Euro).
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27.Apr.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 97 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Air Support", "Frankenstein", "Skyblaster" and "Tube Warriors".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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26.Apr.2019
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amiga-news.de: Server move completed (update 2)
During the next hours amiga-news.de will be moving to a new sever. To avoid loss of data, all interactive elements of our web presence (comments, forums) are currently disabled. Once the work has been completed, these features will be enabled and this news item updated. We thank you for your understanding.
Update: (26.04.2019, 21:50, cg)
The move to the new server has been completed, we will now update the DNS entries. It might take a bit of time until all DNS servers know the address of the new server, so depending on the ISP used, visitors might still end up on the old server for a little while.
Update 2: (27.04.2019, 15:00, cg)
DNS entries are updated, all work is done. If you notice anything unusual, please drop us a mail or post in the comments section. (cg)
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25.Apr.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Using Amiga disks on PC: ADF-Copy 1.001 and ADF-Drive-Firmware 1.001
Using the USB adapter ADF-Drive and the corresponding copy program ADF-Copy you can read Amiga disks with a PC drive under Windows, Linux or on the Raspberry Pi (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 1.001 of ADF-Copy provides the following changes:
- more detailed diskinfo and used blocks
- format disk, format several disks
- changing drive timings for larger compatibility woth older drives, mtp mode on/off, number of retries and saving them to EEPROM
- compare disk to adf file
- graphical overhaul of interface
- bugfixes of v1.000
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21.Apr.2019
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amiga-news.de: Moving to a different server next weekend
On next weekend amiga-news.de will move to a new server. The work will likely start on Friday evening. During the move interactive features such as comment section or forum will be disabled. The move itself might take some hours or even days. During this time it can happen that visitors are redirected to the old server which will be documented by a little warning.
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21.Apr.2019
exec.pl (Webseite)
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Interview with Trevor Dickinson: Amiga present and future
Under the title link exec.pl has interviewed Trevor Dickinson (A-EON Technology). Among others about Tabor and the AmigaOne X5000/40, the laptop and browsers as well as software availablility in general and the legal dispute between Hyperion and Cloanto were spoken.
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21.Apr.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.04.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 20th, 2019:
Setlist-FM-dl-0.5.lha comm/net 2.1M MOS Setlist-FM-dl
SDL_RTG.zip dev/lib 489K 68k RTG port of the SDL audio/vid...
MCE.lha game/edit 2.3M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 2.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
BioJet.adf game/misc 880K 68k BioJet
OpenDUNE_RTG.lha game/strat 290K 68k Amiga RTG port of OpenDUNE
FlashMandel_OS4.lha gfx/fract 40M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals r...
ViewLHA.lha gfx/show 25K 68k View a graphics file compress...
LarryCasino.lha mods/misc 249K 4ch Larry Casino Theme by HKv...
RNORadio.lha mus/play 3.3M MOS Internet radio player
Dictionaries.lha text/misc 1.0M Dictionaries ready for MorphOS
libxslt-mos-tutorials... text/misc 2.3M MOS libxslt tutorials
UnRAR-5.70.lha util/arc 576K MOS UnRAR 5.70
IFFDecode.lha util/misc 32K 68k Decode an IFF file
RNOWidgets.lha util/wb 4.5M MOS Desktop widgets application
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21.Apr.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.04.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 20th, 2019:
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 40Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
unrar_ml.lha uti/arc 576kb 4.1 Unpacks RAR archives
smtube.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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21.Apr.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 20.04.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until April 20th, 2019:
crono.i386-aros.lha gra/mis 2Mb Generator of printable annual or...
led-20190414.tar.gz uti/tex 12kb A simple line-oriented text editor.
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21.Apr.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 20.04.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until April 20th, 2019:
Unrar_5.70.lha Files/Archive Unrar_5.70.lha
xsltproc_1.1.9.lha Text/Misc A command line tool for...
libxslt_tutorials.lha Text/Misc libxslt tutorials.
libxslt_1.1.9.lha Text/Misc The XSLT C library deve...
MCE_11.2.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
OpenDune.lha Games/Strategy OpenDune 0.9 Port By Be...
RNOWidgets_1.4.lha System/Ambient/Commoditie Desktop widgets applica...
RNORadio_1.1.lha Audio/Players RNORadio is a GUI based...
VAMP_2.20.lha Multimedia A Multimedia Player pro...
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21.Apr.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.04.2019
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 April 20th, 2019:
- 2019-04-15 fixed: Turbo (Microillusions) fixed major bug that prevented the game to work properly, trainer added (Info)
- 2019-04-14 improved: Putty Squad (System 3) rewrote all scoring routines to allow 6 digits instead of 5, CD32 buttons supported, interrupts fixed (Info, Image)
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