27.Apr.2008
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Preview: New games for classic Amigas
Though things have calmed down around Mr. Beanbag (rumor has it that the programmer lost interest) and Super Pumpkin Brothers, some new projects for OCS and AGA Amigas have recently emerged instead:
Annihilation
Annihilation is a horizontally-scrolling shoot'em up for AGA Amigas (screenshot). The developers Underground Arcade promise "parallax scrolling, intelligent enemy waves, awesome power-ups, huge mid-level and end-of-level guardians, [...]" on their web page. The player should be able to make a choice among three pilots, who possess different spaceships. Annihilation's release is planned for 2008, a two-year-old demo can be found at Aminet.
Halloween Nightmare
Halloween Nightmare, which comes from Underground Arcade as well, is about a platform game where the player can slip into various Halloween costumes (screenshot). The release is planned for this year, too, a playable demo version is available since several months. Halloween Nightmare is being developed with the game construction kit Backbone.
Ambermoon Arcade
"Ambermoon Arcade," which is also being developed with Backbone, should become a Golden Axe-style beat'em up, which is located in the world of the RPG classic Ambermoon (Screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). A demo version should be released before long. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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27.Apr.2008
german-amiga-community.de (Web page)
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AROS Distribution: VmwAROS 0.7.1 (Beta)
VmwAROS is an AROS distribution which already includes a set of pre-installed applications like FryingPan, SimpleMail or an early preview of the web browser Traveller. The package is available in two versions: A distribution based on the emulator VMware, which is launched from Windows, as well as a bootable live CD designated as "VmwAROS LIVE!"
Two days ago, it had become known that the last version of VmwAROS had been downloaded more than 85,000 times. (cg) (Translation: cad)
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26.Apr.2008
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WinUAE: Configuration hints for AmiKit on an Eee-PC
Under the title link Ravi Abbott described which configurations you have to set to use the complete distribution AmiKit under WinUAE on the Subnotebook Eee made by Asus.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-magazine: #Amigaguide, second issue
Last week the printed version of the #Amigaguide was sent to the subscibers. Today the English magazine is available as free PDF-document. Topics of this issue:
- NAF - 15 years and still booting!
Norwegian Amiga Association celebrates 15 years anniversary 1992-2007
- Codex Alpe Adria: Report from the Italian Amiga fair
- AROS: Report of AROS from the hands of Michael Blackburn Heltne aka mike^^
- Test: EFIKA 5200 B: Test of the EFIKA 5200 B from Stian Strøm aka Amigaguy
- Amiga Players: Sean Fitzgerald of ART writes about Amiga heroes and crooks
- Amiga Freak XL: Gary D., aka s00p of #amiga, is an Amiga freak of the XL format...
You can only download it if you are a member of the Amiga portal amigaweb.net. If you are not then you first of all have to create an account.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Apr.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Origyn Web Browser 1.23 (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer has published another update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. Changes in version 1.23/1.22:
- 1.23: Enabled font kerning. Looks better, but the cursor offset is wrong in text input now
- 1.23: No longer downloads application/xhtml+xml
- 1.23: The font implementations are build as shared objects now and you can choose the one you want, currently the AmigaOS4 implementation and the embedded bitmap fonts only since the freetype one doesn't work because of a bug in libexpat.so. To use the embedded bitmap fonts, which might make OWB more usable on classic Amigas although I doubt it helps much, rename libowbfont.so to libowbfontamiga.so and libowbfontembedded.so to libowbfont.so
- 1.23: Added FONTXDPI and FONTYDPI tooltypes to configure the font rendering in the AmigaOS4 font implementation and changed the defaults from 72/72 to 84/72 DPI
- 1.23: The bookmark code is in a shared object now, that way George can work on it without having to build the complete OWB himself.
- 1.22: Improved the speed of the font system a little bit
- 1.22: Improved font spacing
- 1.22: Fixed http://crashlog.os4depot.net/cl41
- 1.22: Updated curl-ca-bundle.crt
- 1.22: Disabled some gfx and scrolling optimisations as they sometimes cause gfx errors, for example clearing the top of a page without updating it again
- 1.22: Added bookmarks from George Sokianos' OWB_GUI
OWB 1.23 is an update and requires the previous version 1.21 which is available on Aminet.
Direct download: OWB.lha (2,7 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Apr.2008
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: Shuffle 1.14 for registered users
For all registered users there is an update of the MorphOS puzzle game "Shuffle" (screenshot).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2008
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Status-Update of SAM440-port
In his blog Michal Schulz who at the end of the last year started porting AROS to Acube's SAM440-platform told about his last progresses. A photo of the AROS-Workbench called Wanderer demonstrates that he made it to boot AROS on the PPC-Motherboard.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2008
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MorphOS: Bounty-system on pegasosforum.de
Users on pegasosforum.de want to establish a bounty system.
Currently in the new section "Bounty Bay" proposals of different software projects are discussed and written.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Milkytracker 0.90.80
Milkytracker is a clone compatible with ProTracker and FastTrackerII. It now includes an improved editor (screenshot).
The most important changes in version 0.90.80:
- Open up to 32 modules using tabs, allows simultaneous playback of different tabs, copy pattern data/instruments/samples between tabs
- New resamplers for improved sound quality: Cubic Lagrange, Cubic Spline, Fast Sinc, Precise Sinc, Amiga 500, Amiga 500 LED, Amiga 1200, Amiga 1200 LED
- Render parts of the song directly into a sample slot (from HD recorder)
You can get more information about the changes at the readme.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2008
Moobunny (Forum)
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Apple bought PowerPC producer P.A. Semi
According to the economic magazine Forbes Apple has bought the processor producer P.A. Semi. It is assumed that the PowerPC-derivate will be used in future models of Apple's iPhone-mobiles.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2008
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Team AROS: New home
According to Randy 'dammy' Vice its initiative Team AROS will get a new home. From June power2PEOPLE will take charge of Team AROS.
Randy 'dammy' Vice said he himself cannot maintain the website and the corresponding mySQL database.
The monthly "Benefactor"-bounties will be finished to the 1st of May but there will not be any other changes.
power2PEOPLE is a non-profit organization led by Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (Genesi).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: NewsCoaster 1.63
NewsCoaster is a MUI-based newsreader and is now available for AmigaOS 4 in version 1.63.
The source code will be available on SourceForge.net soon. Additionally there you can post bug reports.
Download: newscoaster.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2008
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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AROS für AmigaOS: AfA 4.2
Under the title link Bernd Rösch has published AfA 4.2 which is a port of single AROS components for AmigaOS 3.9.
The most important changes:
- Bug fix at the skin routines which did not set the screen structur correctly.
- Improvement of the compatibility of the skin routines for FinalWriter, CyberShow and PhotoAlbum
- Bug fix and extension of morelibspace mada by Thomas Klein.
- Gadtools programse also use the new design of the scroll elements of Zune.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2008
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #103
The scene group Liquid Skies has published its 103th musicpack. This time it includes a rack called "Just Music" which was composed by the Russian musician Alex West. The cover was designed by DaFreak.
Some further information to the track:
- Title: Just Music
- Artist: Alex West
- Style: Drum'n Bass
- Play time: 5:41
- Format: mp3 @ 128 kbps
- Size: 5.2 MB (ZIP-compressed)
You can download the file under the title link. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2008
Diverse (ANF)
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Windows: Zak McKracken - between time and space
Fans of the Adventure legend Zak McKracken have developed a haben eine sequel of the Lucasfilm classic from the year 1988 (screenshots). After seven years of development the game is now available for free. The download has a size of 1,9 GB.
Download:
BitTorrent-Download
Download page at winfuture.de
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Apr.2008
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Printmagazin: Amiga Future 72 (Mai/Juni 2008), Vorschau
Pressnote: The preview and excerpts for the Amiga Future 72 (May/June 2008) are online now.
In this issue you can find recent reviews of DvPlayer, "AmiKit", Word Me Up XXL, Goonies and lots of more.
Furthermore there is an interview with the makers of Tales of Tamar.
A more detailed description of content and excerpts can be found at: http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=2358
The Amiga Future is available as an English or German printed magazine directly from the editorial office and also some Amiga dealers.
The Amiga Future can be obtained either as a single issue or by subscription each version either with or without a cover CD.
As always you can find lots of PD software and some full versions of software/games such as Nemac IV DC on the Amiga Future cover CD.
We ask all users having an interest in this magazine to order as soon as possible, to avoid disappointment, as some previous copies have already sold out. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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