27.Sep.2016
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Preview: Run'n Gun "Blazing Guns"
"Blazing Guns" (Youtube-Video) is a platform game, in which a Western hero first has to load six bullets in the revolver and then to chase enemies.
Currently the game has the following features:
- runs with 50 frames per second
- written in assembler
- runs with 0.5 MB CHIP-Ram
- runs from both floppy drive and hard drive
- solution of 320x267 pixels with 32 colours
The following features will be added:
- running on each OCS-Amiga with 0,5 MB RAM and without accelerator board (currently a 030 processor and a harddrive are recommended)
- 15-20 enemies simultanously appearing on the screen
- music and sound effects
- Power-Ups
Direct download: guns.adf (880 KB)
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27.Sep.2016
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Full version for download: Fun racer Twin Turbos
The full version of the aracde racer Twin Turbos is available for free download. A disk image as well as a WHDLoad version are available.
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[News message: 27. Sep. 2016, 17:51] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2016
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: MUI Royale 1.4
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the immediate availability of MUI Royale 1.4. The biggest new feature in MUI Royale 1.4 is the ability to run MUI Royale 1.4 on palette-based screens. If the Plananarama plugin is installed, it is also possible to open Hollywood displays next to MUI windows managed by MUI Royale. On top of that, MUI Royale 1.4 contains various bug fixes and adds support for some more MUI classes.
MUI Royale requires at least Hollywood 5.2 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. It is available for AmigaOS 3.x (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC) and AROS (x86). The package comes with over 20 example scripts, many of which are direct ports from the MUI 3.8 SDK by Stefan Stuntz, but there are also original developments like demonstrations of how to create a video player using the combined power of Hollywood and MUI. On top of that MUI Royale comes with extensive documentation in over 300 PDF pages which are also available in the HTML, AmigaGuide and CHM formats thanks to the Hollywood documentation system.
All this makes MUI Royale the truly royal MUI experience, carefully crafted for you Kings and Queens of MUI!
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25.Sep.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Girls-Band extension for Ask Me Up XXL
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's 'Ask Me Up' is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 17000 questions in 16 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free. You can play the quiz alone or the cup together with up to five other players.
The "Girls-Band" add-on provides two new avatars named Maria Bella and Acid Jaimie. At least version 2.4.3 is required but the latest version 2.6.0 is recommended. Users who have already purchased the game will get the add-on for free.
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25.Sep.2016
A1k.org (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Arcade racing game Amiga Racer 3.8
Over the update function included in Michael Neitzel's Lotus clone "Amiga Racer", players get new features. Version 3.8 provides the following new features:
- New cars:
- Skoda Octavia with Amiga number plate
- Opel Manta
- Harley Davidson "Tri Glide"
- New highscores:
- Online highscore for competition races
- Animated online highscore menu with new soundtrack
- New button in main menu: View online highscore
- Other improvements:
- Competition button in main menu graphically reworked
- More detailed preview of forthcoming track
- Explanation for dropping out of the competition
- Graphics of the castle in the fairytale forerst track reworked
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25.Sep.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 24.09.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until September 24th, 2016:
MUIbase-3.3.lha biz/dbase 5.1M MOS Programmable relational datab...
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 693K MOS Advanced snake game
Apparent.lha text/bfont 121K Great looking UI text font fo...
CharMapSP.lha text/font 3K CharMap v2.0b spanish catalog
CopPack10.lha util/pack 4K 68k Cop-Pack Cruncher Final Release
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25.Sep.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 24.09.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until September 24th, 2016:
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
amicraftnova.lha gam/mis 3Mb 4.1 Minecraft style game for Warp3D ...
aos-imagefx-icons.lha gra/ico 281kb 4.0 Icons for ImageFX
aos-mainactoricons.lha gra/ico 168kb 4.0 Icons for MainActor
muibase.lha off/dat 5Mb 4.0 Programmable relational database...
jabberwocky.lha uti/com 491kb 4.0 Jabber client
colors.lha uti/she 5kb 4.1 Prints out a color table with al...
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25.Sep.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.09.2016
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 September 24th, 2016:
- 2016-09-19 improved: Grapevine 16 (LSD) memory requirements changed so all modules can be played (Info, Image)
- 2016-09-19 improved: Grapevine 15 (LSD) memory requirements changed so all modules can be played (Info, Image)
- 2016-09-19 improved: Grapevine 14 (LSD) memory requirements changed so all modules can be played (Info, Image)
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22.Sep.2016
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Playable demo: Alarcity - Survival Mode (AGA)
A month ago, there was a first preview video, now a playable demo for AGA-Amigas and CD32 is available: Alarcity is supposed to become a shooter with several levels and a story, but also offers a "survival mode" in which the player has to survive as long as possible.
The playable demo demonstrates this mode. Later the survival mode is supposed to be avaialbe as free download, while the actual game (inclusive survival mode) will be commercially sold.
Due to the early stage of development the demo has been not tested on many Amiga configurations. Pure AGA-computers as well as WinUAE obviously work without any problems, but according to the developers many CPU-upgrades cause graphic bugs.
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22.Sep.2016
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ModExplorer plays music modules from the Internet (AmigaOS 3/4, AROS, MorphOS)
Similar to AmiModRadio, ModExplorer plays mods from the Internet, but additional to the Aminet also supports Modland and modules.pl.
The latest version of the programm which was developed Hollywood provides either a MUI-based interface, which only works on systems with a graphic card, or a skin-based interface, which also works under AGA. ModExplorer requires the guigfx.library and render.library. The MUI-interface also requires MUI, MUI-Royale and AISS. If you want to use the Skin-based version under AGA, you have to install the Hollywood-Plugin Planarama.
Direct download: modexplorer.lha (7 MB)
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22.Sep.2016
MorphZone (Webseite)
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AmiCast: Survey on NG-systems
Under the title link, Krzysztof Radzikowski has started a detailed survey on NG-systems (AmigaOS 4, AROS, MorphOS).
Additional to common questions about the used system the its equipment, he asked for your wishes for the future development.
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22.Sep.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Assembler: vasm 1.7f
Frank Wille has released an update of the assembler vasm. As usual Wille does not provide vasm binaries except with the vbcc compiler distribution. If you are interested in, you have to compile the assembler on your own. Changes in version 1.7f:
- Print a warning when a constant is not representable using the target data type.
- Show warnings or errors when an expression overflows the backend's address data types.
- Warn about overflows caused by negative expressions in space directives.
- New option -chklabels makes vasm issue a warning when a label conflicts with a mnemonic or directive name.
- Reworked internal relocation representation.
- m68k: Base-displacement addressing modes and suppressed registers are allowed for CPU32. Just memory-indirect is illegal.
- m68k: Added FJcc mnemonics for GNU-as compatibility (-gas option).
- PPC: Added complete support for 403, 405, 440, 460, Book-E, e300 and e500 instruction sets.
- 6800: Fixed a bug which suppressed command line options for syntax- and output-modules.
- 6800: Support for 6801/6803 compatible CPUs added (contributed by Adrien Destugues).
- ARM: Thumb-mode [PC,#imm] and [SP,#imm] addressing modes were not recognized.p ARM: Fixed thumb-mode SP-adjustment instructions: ADD SP,#<9-bit unsigned> and SUB SP,#<9-bit unsigned> (missing).
- ARM: External subroutine calls in thumb-mode with BL were broken.
- x86: Fixed determining the operation size when last register is %DX.
- x86: 32-bit only instructions failed, when selecting a 32-bit cpu using the -m command line option.
- x86: Avoid Illegal Relocation error for calls and jumps in absolute mode.
- std-syntax: Data directives do no longer enforce natural alignment, for compatibility with GNU-as! Use the -align option to keep the old behaviour.
- std-syntax: '0f' is another allowed float-constant prefix for GNU-as compatibility.
- std-syntax: .stabs should support escape-characters in its string-field.
- std-syntax: Support progbits and nobits section type arguments for ELF compatibility.
- mot-syntax: Retain the possibility to use multiple ORG directives and output a real binary file, as before V1.7e. Only an ORG directive after a SECTION directive is now relocated within that section.
- mot-syntax: Added IFMI (=IFLT) and IFPL (=IFGE).
- mot-syntax: Fixed problems when macro arguments are followed by blanks and the -spaces option is given.
- mot-syntax: New directives inline and einline, to define an isolated block for local labels.
- mot-syntax: New directives ifmacrod and ifmacrond to conditionally assemble a block when a macro is defined or undefined (compatible with the same directives on the Barfly assembler).
- madmac-syntax: Make ORG behave like in mot-syntax.
- vobj-output: The byte-offset to a relocation now always defines the base for all relocation calculations (e.g. PC-relative).
- vobj-output: For little-endian the bit position in a byte of a reloc-field is now counted from right to left. You will need at least vlink V0.15b to link more complex little-endian relocations (e.g. ARM).
- hunk-output: -keepempty prevents the assembler from deleting empty sections.
- elf-output: -keepempty prevents the assembler from deleting empty sections.
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22.Sep.2016
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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DVD: Amiga Future Archive 3
The Amiga Future Archive 3 DVD was released. In fact, it has already been published at the Gamescom, but we had simply no time to announce the release. The Amiga Future Archive 3 includes the following Amiga Future releases as PDF:
- German: Amiga Future Issue 11-115
- English: Amiga Future issue 67-115
Issue 11 to 26 have been scanned. All other issues are PDFs in print quality. The issue 11 was the first German Amiga Future that was published. The issue 67 was the first English edition of the Amiga Future.
There is no upgrade path from earlier version of the Amiga Future Archive DVD. And since we were often asked this at the Gamescom: The next DVD will be released somewhere in 2018 :) (cg)
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21.Sep.2016
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AROS: August 2016 Highlights
Based on his weekly news about the progresses of the operating system AROS, under the title link Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz also writes monthly summaries.
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21.Sep.2016
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Calimero 3.6
Version 3.6 of Carsten Siegner's desktop publishing software Calimero now supports correctly text marking. He wrote: "Now it's possible to mark only one character. Moving the cursor to a different character works now like each other editor" (screenshot). Furthermore, he reworked the settings window and the key input handler. "Now it's fast as possible, without a delay during typing."
Download: Calimero_3.6.lha (7 MB)
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21.Sep.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Datenbank: MUIbase 3.3
Already three weeks ago, Steffen Gutmann released an update of his relational, programmable database with graphical user interface for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes of version 3.3:
- Remembers the print settings in the preferences
- When a new project needs to be saved in order to continue, let the user save a project instead of showing an error message that a project name has to be set
- Warn user when changing choice labels in the structure editor when there are existing records. Changing the choice labels does not update the label indices stored in records. Also warn about duplicate and empty labels
- Windows/Mac OS X/Linux versions: reflect changes to labels immediately when editing labels
- Improved year completing when entering date values. When entering a one or two digit year, 1900 or 2000 is added depending on which result is closer to the current year. Similar for three digit years
- Updated French translation by Stéphane Aulery
- Converted all catalog translations to the PO file format. This makes it easier to maintain translations and add additional languages
- New version of the ImportSample project with a custom import function
- Several bugfixes
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20.Sep.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vlink 0.15b
Frank Wille has updated the portable linker vlink, which can handle a lot of binary formats and is part of the compiler package vbcc.
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20.Sep.2016
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Review: MIDI on the FPGA computer MIST.
Amiga user Epsilon has successfully tested MIDI functionality on the MIST FPGA system and wrote his experiences in a blog entry.
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20.Sep.2016
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Preorders for new manual for AmigaOS 3.5/3.9
The Polish publisher amiga.net.pl, which in May had already announced a manual for using AmigaOS 4.1 under an emulator, is going to republish the older, Polish books about the Amiga in English. First he will publish a manual for AmigaOS 3.5/3.9, which will be available for about 22 Euro (plus shipping). The e-Book will cost 12 Euro.
The book will be delievred from January 2017 on. Preorders are now being accepted. The Guidebook for Directory Opus 5 will be translated as well, but there is not a specific time schedule yet.
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19.Sep.2016
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Video of AmiParty 19 (Poland)
In August the American Bill Winters attended the "AmiParty 19", which took place from August 12 to 14 in Polish Chelm.
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18.Sep.2016
(ANF)
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FPGA accelerator board: Vampire 2 (A600) becomes more expensive
According to "kipper2k", who is the producer of the FPGA-based accelerator board Vampire II (A600), the price for one board will increase from 150 Euro to 250 or 289 Euro because "the orders are much greater than the production rate and i cannot cope with the demand". Therefore the only option is to "to have the boards assembled by a board house to increase production".
From now the Vampire II is available in two different versions. The price for the standard version, which is euqal to previous ones, will be 250 Euro. The "Black Edition" is equipped with a faster CPU ("x13 clockspeed") and will be available for 289 Euro. If you have already paid in advance, then you will get your commercially assembled board for 150 Euro.
In Future the next 100 persons who had preordered will be asked to pay in advance and after getting the money the next production will be started. About four to five weeks later, the customer will get his board.
kipper2k also wrote: "We understand that this price hike appears high, Prices have been held low from day 1 and all prepaid orders on Amibay are being honoured by Majsta at a loss. These preorders have allowed the development of the project to be completed so the people who have supported the project from the beginning will reap the benefits of their investment."
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18.Sep.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 3: 8-Bit graphic programm Personal Paint 7.3b
The free "maintainance" update of the 8-Bit graphi programm Personal Paint now is also available for AMigaOS 3, which fixes several minor bugs. Version 7.3b is available for free to all existing customers. You can download it at ppaint.com.
Additional to the bug fixes, an optional black pictogramm set created by Martin 'Mason' Merz is available. Besides, the new InfoWindow class, known from the Enhancer package, is provided and used for the online help.
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18.Sep.2016
Finnish Amiga Users Group (ANF)
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Event: Finnish Amiga Users Group's Saku 2016 Event on September 24th
Press release: Finnish Amiga Users Group hold their 9th Saku event in Oulu, Finland, on Saturday, September 24th. The event will feature many classic Amiga setups from A500 to A4000, FPGA computers like Minimig and MIST, Commodore 64, and several next generation systems. There will also be a presentation about the Hollywood programming language and the documentary film "From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years!" will be shown on a big screen.
Finnish Amiga retailer Gentle Eye will be present with some Amiga goodies, and the users group is getting new promotional products just for the event. Admittance is free of charge and refreshments will be available. Saku 2016 will start at 14 o'clock on September 24th at Oulun Tetra ground floor conference room at Mäkelininkatu 31. Please visit the users group's website for more information. Welcome! (snx)
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18.Sep.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 17.09.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until September 17th, 2016:
BarflyDisk2_00.lha dev/asm 597K 68k Barfly (68k+PPC) ASM Developm...
IFF-ILBM.zip dev/misc 6K IFF-ILBM loader for C#
WormWars.lha game/actio 788K 68k Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.0M OS4 Advanced snake game
FunTime3_96.lha mags/germa 394K German Amiga Magazine, Issue 3
FunTime4_96.lha mags/germa 423K German Amiga Magazine, Issue 4
FunTime5_96.lha mags/germa 477K German Amiga Magazine, Issue 5
RNOInfoScreen.lha mus/play 7.0M WOS Music player front-end and in...
Calimero_3.6.lha text/dtp 6.7M MOS A DTP Program
zip-bin.lha util/arc 118K OS4 Zip - binary archive
zip-src.lha util/arc 1.1M OS4 zip source archive
BootEm.lha util/boot 26K 68k Ancient BootLeg replacement (...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 455K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 517K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 566K OS4 Multipurpose utility
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18.Sep.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 17.09.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until September 17th, 2016:
rnoinfoscreen.lha aud/pla 7Mb 4.0 Music player front-end and info ...
appbuilder.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 Hollywood language productivity
memdump.lha dev/mis 66kb 4.0 Views and modifies memory with a...
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 89Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
exorcisticon.lha gra/ico 92kb 4.0 Icon for window and screen kille...
blender.lha gra/ray 66Mb 4.1 The free open source 3D content ...
zip-bin.lha uti/arc 118kb 4.0 Binary archive
zip-src.lha uti/arc 1Mb 4.0 Zip source archive
reportplus.lha uti/mis 566kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
rbase64.lha uti/she 4kb 4.1 Base64 encoder/decoder
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18.Sep.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.09.2016
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 installer has been added until September 17th, 2016:
- 2016-09-11 improved: Pool Of Radiance (SSI) less OS swap when saving an existing savegame, custom option to restart the game (Info)
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