23.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Podcast: AMIcast 18 - Amibian (Amiga on the Raspberry Pi)
In the latest issue of his podcast, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked to Gunnar Kristjánsson and Thomas Navarro Garcia, members of the project
Amibian, which directly boots a Raspberry Pi into the Amiga emulator UAE4All.
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23.Nov.2016
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.4.4 (alpha)
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which is supposed to help developing games of diverse genres - released videos show ports of Pacman and Pang. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" for running the finished games requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast-RAM.
On Internet so far there only is a closed Facebook group, but you can contact the authors via eMail. The latest alpha version can be downloaded via Google Drive.
Now the RedPill editor tries not to use a FPU. More changes of version 0.4.4:
- Tiles can have 3 shapes: Normal, Ramp Up and Ramp Down. Define them in the Tiles screen.
- Audio: Amiga Mods can be played. Define them in the audio menu and use Play Mod trigger to play them. They are loaded at play moment, it is better to play them once at the start of the level.
- Audio: Amiga IFF sounds can be played. Define them in the audio menu and use Play Sound trigger to play them.
- Sprite color Remap now gives an error message when failing.
- Sprite generation from sprite sheets is more robust.
- Physics and platform code has been redone (again) to support the new tile shapes.
- GameObjects process has been slightly optimized.
- When editting values the previous value is not lost anymore.
- When editing levels now you can use F to flood fill the current tile.
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22.Nov.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Game: BOH-Update 17, new website
There is a free update for Simone Bevilacqua's commercial "Dungeon-crawler" BOH (among others available for AmigaOS 4, AROS). Besides, the website moved and can be now found under the title link.
Changes:
- Adds 17 new missions (5 very easy, 8 easy, 4 average)
- Improves 43 missions by means of new/revised hints, little changes to the layouts, and other changes
- Marks training missions with a dedicated icon
- Adds the remote control icon to the HUD
- Adds graphics interpolation to enemy sprites
- Improves some graphics and shooting sound effects
- Adds specific sound effects to the theme "C64"
- Renames some missions and most themes
- Reworks the manuals entirely
- Reworks the soundtrack artwork entirely
- Allows to run the game on Windows 10 as a normal user (due to changes in the Windows files handling policy, it had become necessary to run the game as administrator)
- Fixes the resetting of the timer due to the focus loss auto-pause when the game was already paused
- Applies various other changes/optimizations
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22.Nov.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Web browser: NetSurf 3.6 for AmigaOS 3/4
Chris Young has updated his ports of the web browser Netsurf. In version 3.6 some bugs have been fixed and the GUI-code cleared up. Besides, supercookies now can be refused and handling certificates was improved.
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22.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 95
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers, which is available in different formats - among others as HTML version and as C64-Diskmag.
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22.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Full version of "Gadget: Lost in Time" as free download
The full version of the puzzler and platform game Gadget: Lost in Time is available as free download.
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[News message: 22. Nov. 2016, 04:34] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 19.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 19th, 2016:
BlitzISOtoFloppy.lha dev/basic 1K Make floppy from Ultimate Bli...
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 36K 68k Mediator driver Sonnet 7200 G...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
srec.lha gfx/misc 149K OS4 Screen Recorder
AmigaAMP3-68k.lha mus/play 334K 68k MPEG audio player with GUI (A...
CTLG2CT.lha util/conv 14K 68k Decompiles catalogs back into...
pwdGen.lzh util/misc 8K 68k password generator
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 455K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 517K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 567K OS4 Multipurpose utility
tz.lha util/time 1.0M 68k Time Zone Database and Library
tzdev.lha util/time 743K Time Zone Database and Librar...
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20.Nov.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 19.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until November 19th, 2016:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
reportplus.lha uti/mis 567kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
ctlg2ct.lha uti/tex 39kb 4.0 Decompiles catalogs back into .c...
amiupdate_rus.lha uti/wor 7kb 4.1 Russian catalogs for AmiUpdate
srec.lha vid/rec 149kb 4.1 Screen Recorder
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20.Nov.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Hyperion Entertainment: Facebook website
For all the little "in between" news, Hyperion Entertainment has established a Facebook website under the title link.
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18.Nov.2016
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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Catacomb 3D: Delivery has started
Since the beginning of this week, the game Catacomb 3D (amiga-news.de reported) has been delievered. Purchaser of Projekt Lila can apply for a "VIP-Status" in Pascal Papara's Ares-shop and then will get a discount for the game.
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16.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Kickstarter: New keycaps for Amiga keyboards
Last year, Philipp Lang and his team achieved the production of new A1200 cases via Kickstarter. The production just has started. As completion now new keycaps are supoposed to be produced which are compatible with existing Amiga keyboards.
About 67.000 Euro has to be collected cia Kickstarter to start the production. One set of keycaps consist of all necessary keys Tasten (some of them in different sizes to be compatible with as many as possible Amiga computers), new springs as well as plastic clips for sticking some of the bigger keys like SPACE or ENTER. The sets will be available with German, British and American layout. Additionally a lot of different colours will be offered, some of them as limited editions.
A single set will cost 49 Euro in the Kickstarter campaign, but there also will be diverse special editions for a higher sum of money. Please note, that all Dollar prices - unless otherwise specified - on the project website are not in US but in Singapore-Dollar ("SGD"). At the beginning of the project website, the maintainers give information how to convert the prices into USD or Euro
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16.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Audio-Player: AmigaAMP 3.18 (AmigaOS 3/4)
In the latest version of the audio player AmigaAMP a bug was fixed, which could cause crashes if the preferences are changed while playing.
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14.Nov.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video-Review: ARMIGA, ARM-based Amiga emulating microconsole
"The Game Show" has released a video review of the ARM-based Amiga emulating microconsole ARMIGA. In March the ARMIGA-project was started via crowdfunding, meanwhile you can buy the devices in a webshop. A special feature of the ARMIGA is the built-in disk drive which can read Amiga disks.
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13.Nov.2016
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CD1200 prototype in Retro-Computer-Museum in Leicester
The CD-drive CD1200, which was introduced by Commodore at the CeBIT 1994, should make the Amiga 1200 compatible with the CD³² by using the integrated Akiko-chip. There are two prototypes, a gray one which Ryan Czerwinski ("Merlancia") own and the white one, which was presented at the CeBIT.
During the last months, readers of Amiga.org discussed where the white CD1200 could be located. The producer of the podcast "The Retro Hour", Ravi Abbott, has found it in the Retro-Computer-Museum in Leicester, proved by photos under the title link.
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13.Nov.2016
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)
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Crowdfunding: First Amiga pictures of the game Tower 57
In summer last year, the development of the game "Tower 57" was crowdfunded. As an additional goal also it was given so much money to develop an Amiga version, which Daniel Müßener does. Under the title link some first screenshots show the current level of development.
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13.Nov.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 12.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 12th, 2016:
ntimed.lha comm/net 266K 68k Network time synchronization ...
streamer.lha comm/www 355K 68k Internet radio MPEG/RealAudio...
AmigaProgramming-1.0.lha docs/help 286K Guide to Amiga Compatible Pro...
RiVA-src.lha gfx/show 89K 68k RiVA MPEG player source code
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.4M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
Travel_Around_Earth.lha mods/xm 731K New mod by Pseudaxos
cranker.lha util/pack 730K 68k Amiga exe cruncher/loader,dat...
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13.Nov.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until November 12th, 2016:
pypdf2.lha dev/lib 86kb 4.1 Manipulate PDFs from python code
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
sortbench.lha uti/she 8kb 4.0 a CPU benchmark that stresses CP...
pdf_maker.lha uti/tex 26kb 4.1 Convert postscript to PDF with s...
amiupdate_fin.lha uti/wor 32kb 4.1 Finnish catalogs for AmiUpdate
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