04.Jul.2024
Paulee Alex Bow (E-Mail)
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Synth-Pop mit Amiga-Beteiligung: "Bleakwave" von Vogue Renege
Amiga musician Paulee Alex Bow has released an EP called "Bleakwave" under the artist name 'Vogue Renege'. The songs can be purchased on Bandcamp, a CD version can be ordered from the author by e-mail.
As Bow tells us, a whole series of Amiga computers (A500+, A1200 and A3000) were used for the production. Trackers are responsible for a large part of the rhythm work, but Amiga-based software synthesizers, real-time effects programs and MIDI software are also used on each track, which together produce a "very special sound" according to the artist.
(cg)
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04.Jul.2024
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AmigaOS 4: ignition OpenDocument addon V0.40, Excel addon V0.12
With the release of the spreadsheet ignition 1.30 (amiga-news.de reported) Achim Pankalla has also updated two addons:
The ods-addon enables tables to be loaded and saved in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc, among others. In this version 0.40, a bug has been fixed and new functions of the current ignition version have been implemented.
The xlsx add-on for importing MS Excel files is now available in version 0.12, which also supports new functions of the recently released ignition version. (dr)
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04.Jul.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Spreadsheet ignition 1.30
Achim Pankalla has released version 1.30 of his spreadsheet ignition which at least requires AmigaOS 4.1 update 6. Changes:
- Some GUI-errors are corrected.
- The printing prozess can now be stopped.
- Some Guru-failures are eliminated
- The number of copies field in the printer dialog now works.
- The zoom factor in printer dialog accepts now manual set values.
- A new function for replacing text in a string was added.
- New functions for number conversions.
- Error in "select" function was fixed.
- An error in the 3D column diagram was fixed.
(dr)
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03.Jul.2024
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Event: Awards for unpublished productions at Passione Amiga Day 2024
This year's Passione Amiga Day will take place on September 15th (amiga-news.de reported). Participants will also be able to vote for the Passione Amiga Award for previously unreleased Amiga productions (including NG systems).
The following categories are included: games (at least one fully playable level), applications and demoscene productions (demo, intro, music disk, slideshow, disk magazine or compilation). Entries can be submitted until September 10th, limited to one per person. (snx)
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02.Jul.2024
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Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.3.0.04 / 2.5.1.04 for Amigas with 68060 CPU
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3 for a long time: the current conversions are available for RTG-Amigas and AGA-Amigas with 68060 processor. The RTG-version 2.5.1.04 is based on ScummVM 2.5.1, the AGA-versio 2.3.0.04 is based on ScummVM 2.3.0. Using ScummVM, games from LucasArts, Revolution, Sierra On-Line, Westwood Studios and other manufacturers can be run, even those that were never originally released for the Amiga. (nba)
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02.Jul.2024
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 in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- News for May/June 2024
- Old articles from Génération 4 16 to 18:
- News: Psygnosis prepares the successes of 1990
- Review of Kick Off: Extra Time
- Review of The Seven Gates Of Jambala
- Review of The Untouchables
- File: Cyberpunk
- Review of Hard Drivin'
- Review of Toobin'
- Review of Wayne Gretzky Hockey
- File: The Cinématique system
- Review of Twinworld: Land Of Vision
- Review of Chicago 90
- Review of Oxxonian
- Interview with Carlo Spadoni (author of AROS One)
- Interview with Fumito Ueda (game developer)
- Interview with Thomas Hertzler (developer at Rainbow Arts)
- Review of wipEout
- Review of AmiTranslate 0.3
- Comparison: raylib versus SDL
- The best of Byte from February to June 1987
- File: Technical information on the Backslide To Arcanum demo
- File: Hardware compatibility with AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Linux on Amiga NG
- DIY: Restoring an Amiga 1200
- Point of view: Debugging over the years
- Programming: Creating a demo - chapter 3, part 1, sprites
- Special quiz about football games on the Amiga
(nba)
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02.Jul.2024
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Puzzle game: Ami Robbo 2 V0.1
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch's latest project will be a contribution to AmiGameJam 2024: Ami Robbo 2 is the successor to Amirobbo by Polish game developers Bernard Krzymowski and Artur 'Szafir' Szafrański, which was released in 1992. With his permission and assistance, new graphics and levels were created for the second part. Robbo is a universal combat robot that has got into trouble and needs to be rescued from abandoned military bases with the player's help.
The gameplay is based on the classic Sokoban but there are many other elements and a top-down view that Tukatsch invented. There will be a lot of graphics from different artists, and the animations themselves will be different and more rich. The early version 0.1 that has now been released implements basic control of the robot and interaction with objects. (dr)
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02.Jul.2024
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m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin v1.8.10 for Visual Studio Code
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. The stable version 1.8.10 fixes a strange behaviour during debugging and restores the vasm output, which was suppressed since version 1.8.4. On GitHub, a detailed documentation is available. (dr)
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01.Jul.2024
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Emulator with live monitoring: Coppenheimer V0.2
Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, has developed an alternative user interface for the browser-based emulator vAmigaWeb with Coppenheimer, which can monitor memory utilisation in real time (YouTube video).
n addition to the functions provided by vAmigaWeb such as ROM selection, starting disc images or executable files, managing emulator snapshots, some DMA monitoring and a debugger shell, Coppenheimer can also be used to find bitmaps in memory. The application is designed for classic Amigas with OCS, 68000 processor and 512+512 KB memory configuration:
The following features have now been added in the updated version 0.2:
- Real-time diagrams for DMA utilisation and memory accesses
- emulator vAmigaWeb updated
- better eye-catching play/pause button
The initial version was tested by the developer 'dj h0ffman' in a Twitch session. (dr)
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30.Jun.2024
Hyperion (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Update for Heretic II
Earlier this year the third person shooter Heretic II has been released for AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). Now Steffen Häuser has published an update containing smaller improvements with regard to CD audio output as well as bugfixes.
Details can be found in the official press release by Hyperion at the title link. (snx)
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30.Jun.2024
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Game: Gorky 17 for AmigaOS 3.x (68k) released
Press release: We are pleased to announce that we have been appointed by Hyperion Entertainment as distributor of another game, Gorky 17 for AmigaOS 3.x (68k).
Gorky 17 is a horror conspiracy game that combines strategy and RPG elements. The game has a strategic combat system similar to the famous Amiga RPG Ambermoon - or the more recent "Baldur's Gate 3" - and also uses point-and-click adventure elements. The story is also driven forward by voice samples and atmospheric music.
Compared to the AmigaOS 4 version, the videos have a higher resolution and more localizations have been added. The localizations are of course also available for the AmigaOS 4 version. The game has been localized in English, German, French (French only with subtitles), Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish and Hungarian (via download).
System requirements:
- PiStorm (Pi3/Pi4/PiCm4) or Vampire V4 or UAE
- At least 180 MB RAM on loaded Workbench
- Requires either CybergraphX or Picasso 96 installed and Chunky 640x480 16-bit mode; AGA is not supported
- AHI required
- Requires approximately 1 GB of free hard disk or SD card space
Features:
- A gripping story with great characters
- Deep sci-fi horror atmosphere in an abandoned Polish town
- Original monster design and a great mix of turn-based combat and adventure elements
The game will be delivered in a bundle with the AmigaOS 4 version. The retail price is 34.95 Euro. The pure AmigaOS 4 version now costs only 29.95 Euro. The game is supplied in the form of the AmigaOS 4 version (DVD case with printed manual) and a USB stick with the installer for the 68k version. (snx)
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30.Jun.2024
ANF
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Print magazine: Retro Gamer with 4000 subscribers (German)
The German print and PDF magazine Retro Gamer, which also contains articles on Amiga topics (amiga-news.de reported), should actually have been discontinued by its original publisher at the end of last year, but has since been published by Jörg Langer himself.
Now it is reported that there are 4000 subscribers meanwhile and that the issue 2/24 has been sold around 8800 times (excluding the ePaper version) by subscription, via the online store and in retail outlets. The print run was said to be at 15000. (snx)
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30.Jun.2024
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Manual: Pandory500 on the THEA500 Mini (German)
As reported, the alternative firmware "Pandory500" for the THEA500 Mini enables usage of emulators of other systems.
At the title link 'Mingo' has published a German manual with several screenshots how to achieve this. (snx)
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30.Jun.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for June 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 in his "Old School Game Blog" at the title link. (snx)
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30.Jun.2024
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Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (v0.4)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world" (amiga-news.de reported). With this further early demo version, the size of the level has increased to a massive 60 screens. There is also another power-up to collect and, for the first time, a WHDLoad package to download.
Direct downloads:
NeonWorld.adf.zip (105 KB)
NeonWorld.whdload.lha (111 KB) (dr)
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30.Jun.2024
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Aminet uploads until 29.06.2024
The following files have been added until 29.06.2024 to Aminet:
amigassh.lha comm/net 103K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga
HHH-GHA.adf demo/sound 880K 68k Borschtsch - Get High!
HHH-MWT_LQ.adz demo/sound 790K 68k Borschtsch - Maerchenwald Terror
no_sine_circle.lha dev/amos 1K circle with no sines
evo.lha dev/e 689K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
anaiis.lha driver/oth 242K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.24
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 269K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 46K 68k Massive release 1.24
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 7.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 8.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 8.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
taput.lha misc/emu 38K MOS TAPe UTility
Aftershave.zip mods/crash 102K Heavy drums/bells/harpsichord...
ptplayer.lha mus/play 35K 68k ProTracker player w/ support ...
ADiffView.lha util/misc 141K 68k Graphical ASCII file compare/...
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 221K AOS App for chatting to ChatGPT
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 22M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
BaseConv.lha util/wb 65K 68k Convert numbers between bin/o...
powerreboot.lha util/wb 175K OS4 Reboot and shutdown utility f...
(snx)
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30.Jun.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 29.06.2024
The following files have been added until 29.06.2024 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
snes9xgui_contrib.lha emu/mis 236kb 4.1 alternative/contribution
1222-wp.zip gra/mis 18Mb 4.0 Set of 10 wallpapers for A1222
amigagpt.lha net/cha 221kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
gfxbench2d.lha uti/ben 4Mb 4.0 A 2D graphics benchmark tool
(snx)
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30.Jun.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.06.2024
The following files have been added until 29.06.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
SmartClipboard_1.4.lha Ambient/Screenbar Define actions to act o...
AmiArcadia_32.70.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Easy2Install_1.0b54.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
ADiffView_2.6.lha Text/Compare A graphical file compar...
(snx)
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30.Jun.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 29.06.2024
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 29.06.2024:
(snx)
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30.Jun.2024
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Survival game: Zombie Survivor V1.26
Sami Vehmaa continues to work on his current project "Zombie Survival", a game for Amigas with a graphics card in which you have to fight off an endless army of the undead (YouTube video). The current version 1.26 offers the following changes:
- There is a new tiled map system and with it comes a editor. Game supports two maps: one is user created map, you can edit in game. Editor can only put objects on the tiled ground, tiled ground can't be changed. Object can be placed with only one restriction not overlap other objects
- More objects has been added, old road was removed
- Some gfx changed to the better, put some lipstick on it ;)
- menu code is upgraded
- some nasty and some gfx bugs was found and fixed !
- game has been adapted to work as best it can on all resolutions
- Some audio overhaul and added in game music
(dr)
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30.Jun.2024
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Puzzle game: Shift
Shift is a puzzle game that has been published by Antony Lavelle for various platforms such as iOS and will soon also be available for Windows PC. The special feature: the player is in a room that is half black, half white and has the ability to "shift" - turning the game environment and levels around, turning floors into ceilings and obstacles into paths while trying to find the way to the next room.
After the version for Atari, Haplo has now released the Amiga version, which offers improved graphics, new animations and 8 new levels (44 levels plus a secret level). The game runs on OCS Amigas. (dr)
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29.Jun.2024
GitHub
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga V2.6.2 (update)
Starting with version 2.6.1, developer Dirk Hoffmann wants to make changes to the internal architecture of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS. The long-term goal is to port the new emulator architecture from VirtualC64 V5.0 to vAmiga in order to enable features such as Run-Ahead (background article). As the architectural changes are considerable, several intermediate versions will be part of this project.
The minimum system requirement for his emulator is macOS 11.0.
Update: (02.07.2024, 05:40, dr)
Version 2.6.2, which was released yesterday, fixes crashes in the configuration panel and restores the functionality of the RetroShell command "amiga defaults". (dr)
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29.Jun.2024
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Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.7.4 for Windows, Linux and macOS
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (YouTube video).
This Update to version 0.7.4 introduces the correct support of labels. In addition, the latest beta version of the developer tool vasm has been integrated, which adds two new options:
- dbg-local adds local labels with their original name (like 1$ or .abc) to HUNK_SYMBOL.
- dbg-globloc adds local labels by trying to construct a name out of their preceding global label and the original local label name: global$local (Examples: main$1$, main$.abc).
This means that executables built with these options will automatically have correct names for local label symbols applied by the ira disassembler. (dr)
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28.Jun.2024
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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.8.0
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported).
Darren 'dmcoles' Coles has now released version 3.8.0. Changes:
- Added variable names + types and procedure line numbers to EVAR debug info
- Made multi-dimensional arrays memory layout more logical (first dimension is most significant)
- Fix global variable structure generated for library definitions
- Added object definitions to debug info
- Update EDBG to parse new EVAR structures
- Add SRCLINE define (current line number)
- Add SRCPROC define (current proc name)
- Added EVO_3_8_0 define
- Added support for ARRAY OF PTR TO ... in objects
- Fixed issue where two variables declared with the same initial value did not get set correctly.
Direct download: evo.lha (689 KB) (dr)
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28.Jun.2024
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Video tutorials: Hexadecimal colour values in AMOS
A fortnight ago, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' showed in the first part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro how to determine the hexadecimal colour codes for your own program and the colour codes of all bobs or sprites using a utility he created. In the second part, which has now been published, feedback from users has been incorporated and his utility programme has been further improved. (dr)
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28.Jun.2024
GitHub
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Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.5 for Windows, Mac and Linux
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Amiga. Version 0.6.5 introduces, among other things, the TIunA sound driver inspired by TIAtune, which uses rapid frequency switching to achieve pitches which otherwise are impossible, therefore facilitating music composition (YouTube video).
The songs can be exported as audio files (.wav), VGM files and ZSM files (for Commander X16). An manual is available. (dr)
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