07.Apr.2025
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Mining strategy game: The history of "Aminer"
"Last Minute Creations", a Polish group of Amiga game developers (e.g. GermZ or Chaos Arena), spent more than six years working on their mining strategy game "Aminer": set in the Soviet era, the aim is to fulfil the planned economic extraction plans and mine precious metals such as silver for the Ministry of Mining and Fossil Fuels:
"Last Minute Creations" consists of 'KaiN', who writes the code, 'Luc3k', who is responsible for the music and 'Softiron', who is responsible for all graphic tasks.
We asked the coder 'KaiN' how the idea for the project came about and why Aminer, which was presented at the Polish retro party RAM#3 last weekend, took so long to develop:
"We started the project approximately a month before the RetroKomp 2018 party, for the game compo. We were working on OpenFire at that time, but I thought that it'd be cool to show something new at the party, so I've quickly came up with a game I wanted to tackle for some time now.
At this point it was a silly little game where you just dig through the ground without any objective and collect the resources, and also had a challenge mode where the camera goes at the constant speed towards the finish line and you must collect the resources to get the high score.
The idea behind the game was that I really liked the Motherload game from the Flash games era, and I wanted to do a semi-infinite Y scroll on Amiga hardware, so it was mostly a tech demo wrapped together as a RK18 game compo entry - it scored 2nd place and you can see on Pouet.net that it looked a bit differently back then.
Still, the audio was very buggy, because it was my groups first entry to even have audio code at all - we used my own ACE library, which I'm developing for 11 years now and those 6.5 years ago it lacked some serious features - it's now a lot more better since it got all the features needed to create the Aminer.
The game is written entirely in C, with one small part written in C++ for convenience, using the ACE library as I've mentioned. 'Softiron' uses Pro Motion NG for his pixels. For audio of the game compo version, I used sfxr to have some basics blips and blops. After all those years the pickup sound is still from the original version.
At this point we even didn't have an audio guy in our roster, but then we found Lucek on the Polish forums, and he did an amazing job of creating the matching soundtrack for the game. He also did the remaining audio stuff.
One of the main challenges was to determine what do we want to do with this game - we basically had no idea. After we did the demo for compo, 'Softiron' wasn't too happy with the state of the game and wanted to expand it a bit more. We've brainstormed a bit, I came with a little bit of ideas - mostly mimicking the Motherload game, so vehicle part upgrades, underground bases for convenience and that's about it. 'Softiron' on the other hand took that thing to the next level by inventing the whole soviet setting and adding a lot of side mechanics not really related with the digging itself - it's funny because you can finish the whole game without digging too much.
The other challenge was to stay on target and that's mostly because of me. During the pandemic, I thought it'd be nice to release another game to the Revision game compo, so we've started working on GermZ. We've missed the deadline, it then took us a whole lot of time to make this game enjoyable. We've also released two other games for game compos in the meantime: Atarenium Falkon (with code by 'Lucek!') and Chaos Arena, both released in Decrunch party game compos. As you can see we just can't leave a compo without an entry.
Another challenge was to settle on final features. 'Softiron' had lots of ideas for this game, including adding a way to go to moon and dig there, and we had to cut many of them to release the game at foreseeable time. We've also had the hard time with balancing the gameplay due to a lot of different allowed playstyles, mechanics and lots of content. It also became not so simple game, so it no longer would be enjoyed by younger or less demanding audiences. I've mitigated that by adding a Sandbox mode in final weeks, which resembles the free digging mode from the compo version with some basic limited move count mechanics. The most difficult thing for me personally was to get the mood right. Since the game is set in the soviet era in not-so-fictional country, and touches on totalitarian regimes of the past, I hope the game won't be viewed as making those things "cool", because they really aren't. And we shouldn't forget about this, especially now that one of them is coming back from hiatus.
Besides all these explanations, why did it ultimately take so long? Well, we did:
- 3 kilometers of the underground mine to explore
- 8 NPCs
- 7 distinct endings
- 3 underground bases with base building mechanics
- 18 achievements
- 3 game modes and a co-op variant of each mode
- 2 language versions
- more than 20 minutes of soundtrack
- definitely no secrets
- all that crammed into a single floppy disk, if you want to torture yourself with loading times
If you want to take on the task and dig through the earth, you need an OCS Amiga with 1MB chip RAM and 1MB other RAM. The source code is available on GitHub. (dr)
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07.Apr.2025
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HxC Floppy emulator: Software V2.16.13.1
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
- Mame MFI writer : Fix memory allocation error/crashes.
- Kryoflux writer : The default sample frequency can be changed with the
KFRAWEXPORT_SAMPLE_FREQUENCY variable. (patch by uru2)
- Kryoflux Stream Loader : Support different sample rate setting from the
KFInfo string.
(dr)
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07.Apr.2025
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Point'n Click adventure: Demo version of Soltys released
Pawel 'tukinem' Tukatsch has released a short demo version of the point'n click adventure game "Soltys" (video), which was originally developed by the Polish studio LK Avalon and released for MS-DOS in 1995 (Wikipedia).
However, as the author emphasises, his game is not a port, but a completely rewritten version of the original game. In addition to Polish subtitles, there are also English, German, Spanish and Italian subtitles. An Amiga computer with AGA chipset, at least 1 MB Fast RAM and harddisk are required. (dr)
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07.Apr.2025
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Arcade action: New demo version V0.98 of Ghosts'n'Goblins
At the end of 2024 'Skyzoo73' released a handsome practice study to show how Ghosts 'n Goblins can be ported to the Amiga using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The now updated demo version offers a lot of corrections and optimisations and requires an AGA Amiga with Fast RAM and CD32 joypad (or similar). (dr)
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06.Apr.2025
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Aminet uploads until 05.04.2025
The following files have been added until 05.04.2025 to Aminet:
Codecraft.adf dev/misc 880K OS3 Integrated Development ...
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Ed...
MCE.lha game/edit 4.2M OS3 Multi-game Character Ed...
Galactica.lha game/wb 24K OS3 Port of strategical Lin...
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 67K OS3 Create your own backdro...
PolarPaint_68k.lha gfx/edit 2.0M OS3 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_AROS.lha gfx/edit 2.2M ARO Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_MOS.lha gfx/edit 2.2M MOS Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_OS4.lha gfx/edit 2.5M OS4 Paint program made with...
PolarPaint_WOS.lha gfx/edit 2.3M WUP Paint program made with...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 11M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 10M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 414K OS3 Updated HippoPlayer
AvalancheSPA.lha util/arc 2K GEN Spanish catalog for Ava...
fix1980.lha util/arc 1K GEN Fix an lha with timesta...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 2.1M OS3 free icon.library in op...
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 2.2M VAR App for chatting to Cha...
IgameSPA.lha util/misc 2K GEN Front-end for WHDLoad
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 881K OS4 Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 699K OS3 Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 775K MOS Multipurpose utility
GoVD.lha util/wb 31K OS3 Virtual Desktops for Wo...
(snx)
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06.Apr.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.04.2025
The following files have been added until 05.04.2025 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
losmalditos.lha gam/adv 22Mb 4.0 Adventure point and click R.P.G.
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
polarpaint.lha gra/edi 2Mb 4.1 Paint program made with Hollywood
image.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Fast image viewer with simple fu...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 2Mb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
wormhole.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.1 Network file transfer utility
reportplus.lha uti/mis 881kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
(snx)
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06.Apr.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.04.2025
The following files have been added until 05.04.2025 to AROS Archives:
losmalditos.lha gam/adv 22Mb Adventure point and click R.P.G.
polarpaint_aros.lha gra/edi 2Mb Paint program made with Hollywood
flx_play.x86_64-aros-v11.... vid/pla 74kb Simple FLI/FLC/FLX Animation Player
(snx)
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06.Apr.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.04.2025
The following files have been added until 05.04.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
LosMalditos_1.10.lha Games/Adventure Adventure point and cli...
PolarPaint_1.0.lha Graphics/Draw Paint program made with...
BouncingBall_1.0.lha Misc Port of BouncingBall (S...
AmigaGPT_2.4.0.lha Misc App for chatting to Cha...
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06.Apr.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.04.2025
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 05.04.2025:
- 2025-04-05 improved: Uridium 2 (Graftgold) high scores are saved to a separate file (Info)
- 2025-04-02 improved: North & South (Infogrames) 2nd button/joypad support fixed, more icons, new install script (Info)
(snx)
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06.Apr.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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Crowdfunding: Psygnosis - Games People Play (Volume 1)
Following the book "Demoscene: The Amiga Renaissance", Éditions64K is now planning a two-volume publication on the history of the games company Psygnosis (e.g. Lemmings, Shadow of the Beast).
The first volume covers the years 1980 to 1993, i.e. the period from the company's foundation to its takeover by Sony. The second volume, which is due to be published next year, will be dedicated to the PlayStation era up to the end of the games publisher in 2012.
In contrast to the previous campaign, the book is almost finished and will be ready for printing by the end of the crowdfunding period on May 11. Shipping should begin around June 15. (snx)
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06.Apr.2025
Amiga Future (website)
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Java program: ham_convert 1.11.0
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the HAM format of the Amiga and is now available in version 1.11.0.
New features include an MSX2+ screen 10 conversion, an improved MSX2+ screen 12 conversion, an MSX Basic image file export and bug fixes. Mode 10 allows 12,499 simultaneously displayable colors, mode 12 even 19,268. (snx)
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05.Apr.2025
Markus Tillmann (ANF)
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Event: Start for ticket sales for "Amiga40"
Press release: Amiga40 Germany - 40 years of Amiga, a celebration for everyone!
17 - 19 October 2025 - a very special date for everyone who loves the legendary Commodore Amiga: We celebrate 40 years of Amiga with a big anniversary event in Mönchengladbach! Amiga40 Germany will be THE meeting place for fans, technology enthusiasts, retro lovers from all over the world - and for families who want to go on a journey through time together.
Tickets go on sale today, 5 April, at 6 pm CET via our ticket shop at amigaevent.de/ticket!
Come along - celebrate with us 40 years of Amiga cult and a time when computers still had personality!
We look forward to your visit! (cg)
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05.Apr.2025
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.4.0
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool can be downloaded separately.
The new version 2.4.0 has now been released with the following changes:
- ARexx port added to allow issuing AmigaGPT commands from another app or from a script
- Fixed bug where the About AmigaGPT window wouldn't display all the text correctly
- Latest OpenAI chat models added
- Latest OpenAI text to speech models added
- Latest OpenAI text to speech voices added
- Can now give instructions to the OpenAI voice to change how it sounds (only works for the gpt-4o-mini-tts model)
- Chat now uses the new Responses endpoint instead of the Chat Completions one to allow for future expansion
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2 MB) (dr)
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05.Apr.2025
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Video tutorial: 3D Shooter proof of concept with AMOS
The latest video from retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' follows on from his last one about creating simple anaglyph 3D graphics in AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported) and continues it as a program for a 3D shooter proof of concept. (dr)
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04.Apr.2025
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Pre-order: New synth album ‘Home Arcade’ with Amiga track
'LukHash' describes his music as a "fusion of digital 8-bit chaos and 80s-inspired synthesiser music, combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." His new album "Home Arcade" can now be pre-ordered and customers will also receive 'retro versions' of three tracks from the album: two covers in the form of SID tunes, one as a classic Amiga MOD, all three songs can be played on the original hardware. The finished album will be released on 2 May. (cg)
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04.Apr.2025
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Demoparty: Revision 2025 is still looking for volunteers
The demo party ‘Revision’ will traditionally take place on the Easter weekend at the ‘E-Werk’ in Saarbrücken. However, the organisers are still looking for volunteers:
Press release: Revision is the biggest pure demoscene event in the world - and roundabout 70 volunteers make it possible. Come join us to have the best Easter weekend for you, us, and the demoscene! We are looking for people with the English skill and attitude that make them great working in a multi-national team, and who are as excited as we are to make this party great for everyone.
You'll need to be in the E Werk from super-latest Friday morning before Revision to the Monday, to help us build up and tear everything down as far as you can. Being on time and reliable is very important to everyone in your team, so we're able to share the workload fairly.
If you've been an orga at a demoparty before you'll know the score, but previous experience is not essential.
Are you interested, especially in the opening posted below? Then drop us a message at hotline-2025@revision-party.net!
Infoteam
They are the face of Revision, and for some the first impression they get of the demoscene at large. Embark on the fastest way to meet new people and make a lot of friends at a demoparty - Join our Infoteam!
Main Duties:
- Manage admission of visitors, answer questions, sell beverages
- First point of contact for the visitors, and distribute requests to all other teams (e.g. compo, recording, seminar, events, etc)
- Liaise with the security personnel and escalate any issues to the shift lead or main organisers
We are looking for someone who:
- Likes to engage with people, and is a creative, ad hoc problem solver
- Is fluent in English, additional languages are a plus (German is NOT needed)
- Is willing to work 4 shifts during the party (2x 4h + 2x 6h) with ca 5 other orgas
(cg)
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02.Apr.2025
Vinnny (ANF)
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Operating system: AmigaOS 3.2.3
Press release: Brussels – April 2, 2025. Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is proud to provide the third free update for AmigaOS 3.2. This update includes two years’ worth of fixes and enhancements to AmigaOS 3.2.2 since the previous update.
Some of the highlights in Update 3:
- ReAction classes have received numerous updates
- TextEditor now allows users to define a custom menu with macros
- 12 KB of Chip RAM is no longer reserved
- A new Kickstart 3.2.3 ROM
- At least 50 other fixes, including updates to DiskDoctor and HDToolbox
Registered users can download Update 3 for AmigaOS 3.2 here.
Thank you for your continuing support of AmigaOS. (snx)
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02.Apr.2025
Mark 'Pnutttz' Nuttall (ANF)
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Crowd funding: Card game Amiga Trumps Powerplay
The financing of an Amiga "top trumps" game was initiated on Kickstarter and has already been achieved. "Amiga Trumps Powrplay" comprises thirty characters from Amiga games and will go into production at the end of April once the campaign is complete. The card game can be used independently or as an expansion for its predecessor "Amiga Trumps". (snx)
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02.Apr.2025
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Event: ZZAP! Live 2025 in Kenilworth (England)
On May 17/18, the third "ZZAP! Live" event for all Commodore and Amiga systems will take place for the first time over two days at the Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England), organized by Fusion Retro Books, the Arcade Club, Retro Games Ltd, the South West Amiga Group and the Retro Computer Museum. (snx)
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02.Apr.2025
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of March 2025
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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02.Apr.2025
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AROS: Month in review March 2025
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz summarizes the news for AROS/x86 users in the last month at the title link. (snx)
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01.Apr.2025
Ján Zahurancík, Philipp Lonke (ANF)
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20 years of AmiKit: The AmiKit Museum is now open
This year, the popular AmiKit celebrates its 20th birthday. The first coverage of the project appeared on amiga-news.de on 14 July 2005 ("Emulation: First Preview of the AmiKit Complete System"). The AmiKit Museum has now been set up as a thank you to Amikit's loyal fans. All Windows installers for the Workbench distribution - from AmiKit 1 to 11 - can be downloaded and tested free of charge, all fully functional. It's an interesting resource for all computer archaeologists, enthusiasts and collectors. (nba)
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01.Apr.2025
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky
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Linux: Kernel 6.14.0 for X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.14.0, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The X1000/X5000-specific changes are:
- Linux 6.14 Released With Working NTSYNC Driver, AMD Ryzen AI Accelerator Support -- phoronix.com
- Linux 6.14 Sees Last Minute Fix For A Two Year Old Regression Causing A 30% Performance Drop -- phoronix.com
- Changes according to the Linux Kernel 6.14.0-final log
- X1000: ABIv2 kernels (CONFIG_PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2)
- DRM fixes (including Radeon fix):
- Networking fixes
- MMC host fixes
- Linux Git log
(nba)
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01.Apr.2025
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Swedish demoscene recognised as UNESCO cultural heritage
The demoscene has been acknowledged as an intangible cultural heritage in Sweden. This underlines the cultural significance of this digital art form, which has existed since the 1980s and includes an active community in Sweden with numerous demoparties and internationally recognised groups such as The Silents, Phenomena, Triad or Fairlight.
This decision follows similar ones in other countries: in Finland, the demoscene was recognised as national intangible cultural heritage in 2020, and in Germany, it was included in the federal directory of intangible cultural heritage in 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). This means that the demoscene is also part of UNESCO's world cultural heritage.
The Swedish "Institutet för språk och folkminnen" - a governmental organisation for the preservation of language and cultural heritage, comparable to a Ministry of Culture in other countries - announced the listing. (nba)
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01.Apr.2025
Dennis "Psyria" Lohr (ANF)
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Music: New music album by Chris Hülsbeck released on Bandcamp
On 28 March 2025, Chris Hülsbeck released his latest music album compilation entitled "Desert-Love-Mirage" on Bandcamp. He writes on Bandcamp and X: "This album is my latest work (not related to video games), in which I created music in all kinds of styles that I felt inspired to do at the time. This was all made possible by my Patreon supporters, and I invite everyone to join my project at www.patreon.com/chris_huelsbeck, where you can find detailed background stories for each piece of music and more." Dennis "Psyria" Lohr comments: "Sound, composition, sound and style. If it were a picture, you would probably say: 'Yes, a real Hülsbeck!'." (nba)
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01.Apr.2025
John Brett
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GUI for Greaseweazle tools: ADFDiskBox 2.2
ADFDiskBox is an application with a graphical user interface that serves as a comfortable frontend for the Greaseweazle V4 tools (reported). Developed in C#, the tool is aimed primarily at users who regularly work with Amiga-DOS disks. ADFDiskBox simplifies Amiga-DOS batch read and write operations (for ADF, 82-track ADF, SCP:Amiga-DOS and RawSCP). Devices and drives can be selected to easen the simultaneous use of multiple Greaseweazle devices.
In the newly released version 2.2, developer John Brett has added the "Options" form to make the main GUI clearer.
ADFDiskBox runs on Windows 10/11 (32-bit and 64-bit) and requires the.NET Framework 4.8. In addition to the executable program, the source code is also available for free download. (nba)
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31.Mar.2025
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Video: The 75 worst Amiga games
In his latest video, Kim Justice presents what he considers to be the 75 worst Amiga games. The game Top Banana from the developer "Hex" from 1992 has made it to first place. (dr)
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31.Mar.2025
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Point'n Click adventure: NEONnoir v1.2
The point'n click adventure game "NEONnoir" (video) was developed with AmiBlitz for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. As a down-and-out private detective, the player has to track down a drug-addicted daughter from a good family (amiga-news.de reported).
Originally, the developers had planned to release the game in a boxed version, but this could not be realised. However, the German and Italian translations that have already been completed, as well as a manual, will now at least benefit users of the digital version. (dr)
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31.Mar.2025
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Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 40.2
After several beta versions (amiga-news.de reported), Thomas 'Thor' Richter has released version 40.2, the first stable version of his universal PCI driver system "OpenPCI", which supports all known PCI solutions for the Amiga without recourse to the software of the respective manufacturer. On request, the author kindly explained the background and idea behind the project in our German-language news item. (dr)
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31.Mar.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.7 for Linux and macOS
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for Linux and macOS based on the current WinUAE version. The new Version 7.0.7 mainly fixes bugs. (dr)
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31.Mar.2025
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.49
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written now in Amiblitz 3.10.0, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
In the new version 0.9.49, among other things, the option to cycle colors in the palette has been added (video). All changes:
- Action trigger Color Cycle to cycle colors in the palette.
- Added example for color cycle, ex_colorcycling.
- Action trigger Set Text Image to set the image to be used in the dialog.
- Added help for particle editor.
- Maximum number of song modules increased from 16 to 24.
- Optimization for lateral scrolling games.
- Particles are now cleaned when switching levels in runtime.
- Now compiled with AmiBlitz 3.10.0.
- Fix when exporting images in multilaguage games.
- Fix for show tile collisions in level editor.
- Fix for pick frame when spritesheet is not the first one.
- Fixes in frame editor, pick frame and copy and paste frame.
- Fixes in dialog engine.
- Fixes in the thumbnail system.
- Fix for selecting game objects above 78.
- Updated documentation.
(dr)
[News message: 31. Mar. 2025, 06:05] [Comments: 0]
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