28.Nov.2021
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New preview video: Platformer 'Guardian - The legend of flaming sword'
In the course of our report about the last major update of the game construction kit 'Red Pill', we also gave a listing of the games currently in development with it. For the platformer 'Guardian - The legend of flaming sword' listed there as well, developer 'Yoz Montana' has now released a new preview video.
He describes the development status of the game as alpha, that of the underlying game engine as beta. The video shown ran on an Amiga 1200 with a 1230/40 turbo card. The developer also lists the progress: Use of 16 background colors instead of 4, scenery with spatial depth instead of without, 528 colors displayed simultaneously on the screen.
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28.Nov.2021
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Aminet uploads until 27.11.2021
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28.Nov.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 27.11.2021
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28.Nov.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 27.11.2021
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28.Nov.2021
MorphZone (Forum)
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amiga.net.pl/bitronic.pl: Statement by Adam Zalepa
In the past, Adam Zalepa published several Amiga books and games at amiga.net.pl and bitronic.pl, respectively. Suddenly, payments and delivery of goods stopped (amiga-news.de reported). In the meantime he published a statement at exec.pl (translation from Polish into English by Konrad 'koszer' Czuba).
According to it, his withdrawal would have been dictated by personal reasons and the state of his health. His business partners would have decided to end the cooperation. His aim would be to collect all his publications, including foreign language versions, at retroguide.pl. He would be aware of his remaining obligations and would try to fulfill them with a delay or in a slightly different form than intended. If his health permits, he would plan to return to previous projects in 2022 and continue to develop them, providing most of the content for free or only for the price of covering costs.
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28.Nov.2021
A1k (ANF)
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AmiTube: YouTube client for 68k Amigas
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video).
Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link.
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28.Nov.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Do it yourself: 8 MB Fast-RAM expansion for Amiga 1200
Oleg Mishin provides at the title link everything for production of an 8 MB Fast-RAM expansion for the Amiga 1200 with an real-time clock. As he notes, for now no configuration of the amount of memory provided is possible.
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28.Nov.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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identify.library: Source code on GitHub
Richard Körber's identify.library is used to identify Zorro cards and provide further details (amiga-news.de reported). While providing it at GitHub now, the source code has been reviewed and reformatted, and the comments habe been translated from German to English. Furthermore, the project is compilable on Linux (and probably other targets) now using vbcc.
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27.Nov.2021
Mike Battilana (E-Mail)
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever and C64 Forever 9 "R2"
Press release: November 26, 2021 - Cloanto released today the "R2" (9.2.9.0) update for Amiga Forever 9 and C64 Forever 9.
The "R2"-Build is the result of eight months of work since the previous major release, and takes into account user feedback, new operating system versions and numerous features from our own wish list.
This is a free update for existing version 9 users, who can get the new version through the Help/About dialog in Amiga Forever and C64 Forever, which includes a detailed Changelog. The updated full installation package and ISO image can also be accessed via the original confirmation email or from the Help/My Downloads and Keys menu item, and are set to remain available for 10 years after an order.
New and enhanced features include:
- Improved Setup Wizard
- Arcade mode, tile view and column view enhancements
- Improved handling of game controller, mouse and keyboard devices
- New non-blocking title editor (allows for multiple instances, e.g. to compare the configurations of different titles) and File Explorer preview and editing capabilities
- Improved Amiga RDB disk support
- New LhA archive extraction and WHDLoad import and playback features
- 8-bit systems: improved virtual mouse, screen capture and clipboard text handling
- New input, pixel ratio and scaling factor options
- Support for some of the latest system features introduced in Windows 11 and in Windows 10 versions 21H1 and 21H2
- Continuing best-in-class support for content curation, high-DPI and mixed display environments, real and virtual game controller and keyboard input
- Fixes to known bugs (see the Changelog for additional details)
Amiga Explorer 9.2 is also being released at the same time, with new features including pervasive CRC-32 checks, large disk imaging improvements, drag and drop enhancements, and bug fixes. This is a free upgrade for all Amiga Explorer and Amiga Forever Plus Edition and Premium Edition customers.
As always, we are grateful to the many friends who supported this project and our Amiga passion, vision and hope.
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26.Nov.2021
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 1.0
After about 5 years of development, the first non-beta release of Iris is now available for download. Iris is the most advanced and modern e-mail client available on MorphOS and Amiga. Iris is the only client to support OAuth2 for GMail, Yahoo and Outlook as well as the only client to support full html viewing and editing of e-mails, thanks to the inclusion of a stripped down WebKit. As a side effect, also the operating system itself obtained many innovations, including adding ObjectiveC support and Unicode support into MUI.
On the occasion of releasing version 1.0 of Iris, Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek thanks all the betatesters, translators and users who either donated to the project or sent him bugreports and logs.
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26.Nov.2021
viddi (ANF)
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Game: Tales of Gorluth III available in December
The third part of the Tales of Gorluth saga, announced in January 2019, will be shipped next month and can be ordered at the title link.
Subtitled "Dungeon of Reminiscence", the game is advertised as "a very emotional and thrilling story about you and your way back to yourself". The following features of the final chapter are mentioned in the webshop:
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26.Nov.2021
Sven Scheele (E-Mail)
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Event: Interface XXIX on November 27, 2021 cancelled
The event Interface XXIX in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany, originally planned for tomorrow, has been cancelled due to rising Covid-19 incidence.
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26.Nov.2021
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Fantasy shooter: New demo version of 'Project - Quest'
In August we reported on a first demo version of the fantasy shooter game 'Project - Quest' from the Electric Black Sheep developers. This uses the 'Project Horizon Engine', which is also under development and used for the tactical shooter 'Project Horizon'.
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26.Nov.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 21 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now the episode 21 was published, which continues in chapter 7 and is dedicated to the topic 'Sprites'.
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25.Nov.2021
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Accelerator board: CPLD update for ACA1234
At the end of October the delivery of the accelerator board ACA1234, developed by Inividual Computers, for the Amiga 1200 had started.
Now it has been informed that a memory mapping bug needs to be fixed by a CPLD update. To that end, all customers whose ACA1234 was shipped on or before November 15 have been notified via email, including a request to respond and state whether to exercise the extended right of withdrawal or ship the free update cable.
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25.Nov.2021
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Status update and pre-ordering for the game 'Jump'
In mid-July we reported that Polish developer Markus Duda is in the process of converting the game Yoomph, originally written for the Atari, for the Amiga. In it, you have to use a bouncing Amigaball to move around in a three-dimensional tunnel, hitting various (bonus) surfaces along the way. This YouTube video shows the gameplay on the target platform: an Amiga 1200 with 4 MB Fast RAM.
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24.Nov.2021
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Announcement: Inviyya 2 for Amiga (AGA) and Neo Geo in development
Originally Michael 'Tigerskunk' Borrmann wanted to port his shoot'em up 'Inviyya', which was released in spring for the Amiga, to the Neo Geo console. However, while creating the graphics for the Japanese console, he found himself creating completely new levels - he then consequently went on to develop a new game straight away.
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23.Nov.2021
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail-Programm Iris 1.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.0 of his email program Iris today, ending its beta status. On this occasion the author has published a separate statement:
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23.Nov.2021
Prince (Phaze 101)
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial
Prince', founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-shifted to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
Among other things stimulated by our inquiry, to what extent the newly acquired knowledge is practically applied by his participants, Prince has now decided to give further assistance and to show the conversion into assembler for the Amiga step by step on the basis of the small C64 game 'Poop's Journey'. The episode 1 has now been uploaded to YouTube.
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22.Nov.2021
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Texteditor: Amiga Source Editor 1.70
By releasing version 1.2 (2019), at the end of the last year Alain Fontanin has resumed the development of his "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE) which originally started in 1989.
The author constantly develops his text editor further and now has released version 1.70 with the following changes:
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21.Nov.2021
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: hURL 1.2 for several data transfer protocols
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with a major update of hURL - the ultimate multi-protocol data transfer plugin for Hollywood, which allows Hollywood scripts to transfer data using all kinds of different network protocols including full SSL support.
Version 1.2 is a major update that now supports Hollywood 9's extended network adapter so that Hollywood's DownloadFile() and UploadFile() functions can now handle all protocols supported by hURL instead of just HTTP. This makes it much easier to use hURL because you often don't have to use hURL's lowlevel interface any longer but can just use DownloadFile() or UploadFile().
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21.Nov.2021
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Aminet uploads until 20.11.2021
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21.Nov.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 20.11.2021
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21.Nov.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 20.11.2021
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21.Nov.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 20.11.2021
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21.Nov.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.11.2021
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 20.11.2021:
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21.Nov.2021
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Event: Videos of AmiWest 2021
October 16 and 17, the 24th AmiWest took place in Sacramento, California (amiga-news.de reported), and as usual Robert Bernardo prepared videos of the show, with the final one published today:
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21.Nov.2021
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FPGA: First Playstation1 game for MISTer
In mid-August we reported that Robert 'FPGAzumSpass' Peip had announced a Playstation1 emulation for the MISTer. In mid-October he announced via YouTube video that first games would basically run. Now yesterday via Twitter announced that with RidgeRacer the first PlayStation game is now playable on MiSTer: Some bugs are still present, but encourage testing. Unfortunately, those who do not have a second SDRAM available will have to wait a few more days.
He has documented his efforts in a GitHub project.
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20.Nov.2021
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Accelerator board: Last Buffee status update for 2021
In our last new item we reported that the Buffee accelerator boards had to be sent back for revision. Now the developers have published a last bog entry for this year (pictures available under the title link):
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20.Nov.2021
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The Amiga video memory: Amigavideo.net
Amigavideo.net collects on its site any videotapes dedicated to the Amiga. Amigavideo wants to make available hours of videos to the Amiga community, "from TV commercials to boring 2-hour long tutorials, without forgetting the institutional films selling the machine as the 'most amazing' computer ever."
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20.Nov.2021
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Emulation: vAmiga as web port
Christian Corti has obviously specialized in web conversions of emulators and programs with his web presence NEOART Costa Rica: Thus, besides the web conversion of the C64 emulator "VirtualC64" and the music tracker "Future Composer" in the form of a remake, he also offers the web conversion of the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga developed by Dirk Hoffmann. All that is needed is a current browser such as Chrome, Edge or Firefox. The required ROMs are provided in the form of an 'AROS Replacement Kickstart ROM'. It is also possible to use your own ROMs, but tests in this regard have failed on our part. Corti explicitly points out the beta status of the project, but we wanted to see how applicable this already is and chose as a test object the game Crazy Columns, which the author Jochen Hoffer provides in the form of an adf file.
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19.Nov.2021
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.3
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM.
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18.Nov.2021
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Javascript: Scripted Amiga Emulator 0.9.13
Rupert Hausberger's "Scripted Amiga Emulator" is written in Javascript and HTML5. The goal of his project is to make the 'Amiga Classic' emulation available for browsers. This should not require any browser plugins or third-party scripts, but only HTML5 and Javascript. Finally, it should be possible to play demos, intros or mods, play games or benchmark the browser. After a small break, he has now brought version 0.9.13 online, which brings the following changes:
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18.Nov.2021
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.7.1 for Raspberry Pi 4/400
Besides new versions of some Amiga programs, minor update 11.7.1 (changelog) of Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the single-board computer Raspberry Pi 4/400 also includes version 4.1.6 of the underlying emulator AmiBerry that was released last month.
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17.Nov.2021
Discord
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Preview video: Remake of Rick Dangerous
'Z-Team' has announced a remake of the game Rick Dangeous with enhanced graphics for the Amiga 1200 or CD32 as their entry for this year's AmiGameJam. Now a first preview video of the game developed with the Scorpion Engine has been released.
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17.Nov.2021
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Video tutorial: Episode 20 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now the episode 20 was published, which continues in chapter 7 and is dedicated to the topic 'Sprites'.
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17.Nov.2021
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Amiga Art Contest 2021: Announcement of the winners
In a video show the winners of the this year's Amiga Art Contest (amiga-news.de reported) have been announced.
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16.Nov.2021
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AmigaOS 3/4: New Netsurf test build
In May 2020 the version 3.10 of the ReAction-based Amiga port of the web browser Netsurf was released. Until the next official release 3.11, so-called test builds are published by the developers, which already include changes but may still contain bugs.
After a longer break, Chris Young has now updated the build version #5314 with the root certificates, which are included in the currently current version #5318. When asked, Chris Young explained to us that especially the OS3 version has to be considered as a pure test version - 'very alpha/beta quality'. Furthermore, he holds out the prospect of a possible special AmigaOS 3.2 version, should it prove true that the ReAction gadgets and his workarounds for the old versions are the cause of the instability.
A short test of the OS4 version first takes us to our main page, which loads without problems. When selecting a single message, three or four seconds pass:
Now the message about Ben Hermans is selected and the source on amigaworld.net is called. The page loads quickly, but an additional window opens with a list of JavaScript errors. At least it becomes clear that the page obviously does not work without the infamous tracking tool..:
Well remembered is that GitHub pages often cause difficulties (under previous Wayfarer versions sometimes no text was visible), so we test the link to Dirk Hoffmann's MacOS emulator vAmiga:
The page itself loads very quickly, but the warning messages increase again. Furthermore, logging in is not possible because the corresponding link is missing. Basically, JavaScript can be disabled in the settings. Furthermore Chris Young gave us the tip to add "log_filter:level:CRITICAL" to the choice file under NetSurf/Users/Default to stop the display of the errors. Finally, we allow ourselves to type a big name into the input field: heise.de:
Apart from the fact that you are overwhelmed by JavaScript errors, this was probably a bit too big. But NetSurf ran stable and one can only hope that the development will be continued to have another alternative especially under AmigaOS 4.
Downloads:
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16.Nov.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full version of "Zeewolf" available as free download
Amiga Future offers the full version of the shooter Zeewolf for free download. ADF and IPF disk images are offered, as well as a ready WHDLoad install.
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16.Nov.2021
FS-UAE (Webseite)
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Emulation: FS-UAE Lanucher 3.1.48
The "FS-UAE Launcher" is responsible for configuring and launching the Amiga emulator FS-UAE. The now released update includes some translations that were forgotten in the original release. The author points out that due to changes in the SDL library used by FS-UAE, the controller configuration in FS-UAE Lanucher may need to be updated to make the emulator respond to all joystick or joypad buttons again.
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15.Nov.2021
Nivrig Games
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Game announcement: Arcade action game 'Turbo Santa'
After the huge success of Turbo Tomato, John Girvin of Nivrig Games has announced his next game for the 68k Amigas: In Turbo Santa, the player must fill in for Santa Claus, who has fallen asleep, and try to deliver presents in time to save Christmas.
The story: "Christmas Day has come to The Garden. The children are starting to wake up and wander around, still half-asleep, looking for the presents Santa has left them. But none are to be found!
Gather magical gifts as they appear and toss them to the dreaming children. Don't miss, and watch out for the GRONCH dashing around stealing presents! Take too long and the children will wake up to no presents and Christmas will be ruined!"
Turbo Santa (video) has been announced for December and will be available for free. It will require 1Mb Chip Ram and Kickstart 2.04. Music is by DJ METUNE.
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14.Nov.2021
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14.Nov.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 13.11.2021
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14.Nov.2021
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14.Nov.2021
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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Adventure: Release date and final trailer for Ermentrud - Hero with Horse
More than twenty years after its first announcement, release date of the point-and-click adventure "Ermentrud - Held mit Pferd" (Ermentrud - Hero with Horse) has been set: In about four weeks, on December 10, 2021, the game will be available for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Windows, Mac OS and iOS). A video introduces the game.
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14.Nov.2021
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Graphics card: Status update on the ZZ9000
In 2018 the ZZ9000 as the successor of the FPGA-based and open source Zorro II/III compatible graphics board MNT VA2000 could be preordered. The ZZ9000 combines a RTG graphics board, AGA scandoubler and network card equipped with two 666-MHz-ARM coprocessors for applications demanding high processing power like accelerated graphic rendering or JPEG and MP3 decoding. Besides, an USB port provides support for USB mass storages.
Now on the product site the following statement was published: "Due to the global chip shortage, we have decided to stop selling ZZ9000 temporarily. We have preordered all necessary parts to build and ship all existing orders. The current shipping target for 92% of existing orders is January 2022 and the rest in March 2022. Thank you for your patience and support."
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13.Nov.2021
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Tools for ARexx development: RxEnv V1.2
At the beginning of September we reported on Carl Svensson's project RxEnv which is supposed to add a 'REPL' to the ARexx development environment.
REPL is for 'Read, Eval, Print, Loop' and offers the option to enter any ARexx code in an interactive window and get immediately response. This might be helpful to find bugs in the code (see this article).
His intension and the story of his project, Svensson has explained in his article The Joy Of Limitations: Writing an ARexx REPL in ARexx. Now he has released version 1.2 of RxEnv with the following changes:
- Implemented immediate mode in the REPL.
- If an error occurs, rxpp now exits with return code 20 instead of return code 1.
- Added malloc() checks to rxpp.
- Added the pprx script.
- Minor cleanups in REPL code.
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12.Nov.2021
Youtube / 8-Bit Guy (ANF)
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8-BitArcade-Adventure: "PETSCII Robots" announced for Amiga
PETSCII Robots by popular Texas youtuber 8 Bit Guy is an arcade adventure game originally developed for the Commodore PET, whose in-game "graphics" consisted entirely of PETSCII characters (video).
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11.Nov.2021
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #127 - Nicola and Anthony Caulfield
In their new podcast episode, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Nicola and Anthony Caulfield, a filmmaking team from London. They are responsible for documentaries like "From Bedrooms To Billions" and its sequel "The Amiga Years" . Their current project, called "The Rubber-Keyed Wonder", is about the ZX Spectrum. Interview starts at 9:47 minutes.
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11.Nov.2021
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: Interface XXIX in Kiel (Germany) on November 27, 2021
On saturday, November 27, 2021, the next "Interface" retrocomputing event takes place in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. Details can be found in our german news-item.
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11.Nov.2021
amigaworld.net
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Anniversary: 20 years AmigaSource
For 20 years now Scott Pistorino collects on his site AmigaSource all information around the Amiga. On October 19, 2001 he introduced his project on amiga-news.de. Beside several interviews with Ben Hermans or Fleecy Moss from 2002 there are numerous categories like software, hardware, demos etc. Because Pistorino changed to a new database some time ago, some articles are not yet available again. In the future he plans to add links to all official Amiga systems like X1000, A1222 etc. as well as systems of external developers like MiSTer, Vampire, Raspberry Pi etc. We say congratulations!
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10.Nov.2021
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AmigaOS 4.1: Start of video and discussion series
Each Friday on 19:30 Uhr CET George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, explains on Twitch the AmigaOS and had so far focused on version 3.2. Those videos he also has uploaded to YouTube. Since last Friday now he talks about AmigaOS 4.1 and explains among others in the first episode the AmigaOS 4.1 FE file structure, the different Prefs utilities and what can be done with them and why the WBStartup folder is removed and what took its place.
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09.Nov.2021
AmigaImpact
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New preview video: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported) which is supposed to run on unaccelerated Amiga 1200 and CD32 with 50 fps.
Meanwhile the author has published the 20. preview video from which here two screenshots have been taken:
The crowd asset is a temporary placeholder, taken from Super Soccer (SNES). About the history of the game the author wrote:
"Around 1994 or so, when I lived in Ecuador, my friend Patricio Maldo and I were pretty much the only Amiga users all around, everybody else was into PC. Therefore software supply was pretty bad and we usually had to wait until the next trip to Germany to stock up.
Although I actually hate soccer, we both spent hours over hours with the soccer management simulations "Starbyte Super Soccer" and "Bundesliga Manager Pro" (and he constantly beating me ;) ).
Our verdict was clear: Starbyte had the more interesting features whereas Bundesliga Manager had the superior presentation with its great goal sequences.
What we wanted was a mixture of both, so I started coding one. I'm pretty sure it was Patricio who came up with the name "Souverän!".
Back then I used GFA Basic on my A500 with 1MB. By the time it was pretty cool, had lots of advanced features, but the primary reason for using it was: I simply had nothing else ;)
For the goal sequences I came up with something special: SNES Super Formation Soccer like 3D view! I had seen this in an issue of the german games mag "VideoGames", used those mags a lot for inspiration. Well, it was not fullscreen, of course, limited to 4 color IIRC, consisting out of some 10 precalculated base pictures (thanks to DeluxePaint's 3D functions) and parallax scrolling chunks of 5 rows of pixels or so. Was actually pretty cool nevertheless :)
Unfortunately I ran into some RAM limitations at some point, IIRC it was some issue with GFA Basic itself, something like no more arrays available or so, so the project died when it was already fairly advanced.
So, this here is a tribute to this project from ~25 years ago :)."
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09.Nov.2021
AmigaImpact
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Emulator: FS-UAE 3.1
The author Frode Solheim wrote:
"While I'm primarily working on FS-UAE & Launcher 4, I've seen the need to do some updates to version 3 as well. Especially for macOS users where 3.0.5 is not working very well on the latest macOS releases. But it has useful fixes for other platforms as well, including a fix for using .lha archives on Windows and a compatibility fix for using QEMU-UAE on recent Linux distros. I haven't announced version 3.1 on fs-uae.net yet, among other things because I don't have installers prepared yet, and I also haven't had time to make sure that FS-UAE Arcade runs correctly. Apologies for not having a more smooth upgrade path, but I simply haven't had time.
I have made a post over at the English Amiga Board with links to FS-UAE & Launcher version 3.1. I recommend that most users using 3.0.5 upgrade to this version."
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07.Nov.2021
George Sokianos (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.5.1
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations and, since Version 1.4.0, also to listen to podcasts. An external player like the free AmigaAmp or the commercial Emotion and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. About the latest version 1.5.0 the author George Sokianos has written:
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07.Nov.2021
OS4Depot
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Little review: Password management "PassPocket"
Yesterday version 1.1 of the password manager 'PasspPocket' was released in the OS4Depot. However, the archive includes versions for both AmigaOS 3 and 4. We took a look at the version for AmigaOS 4 and daringly left the instructions (in German and English) aside (for now) and started the program directly - hoping to be able to dive intuitively into the world of password management...
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07.Nov.2021
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Amiga-Emulator für MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 Beta 6
At the End of May the developer Dirk Hoffmann released version 1.0 of his Amiga emulator for MacOS. He continued the development by releasing the first beta version for version 1.1. Now he has released beta version 6 providing the following changes since version 4:
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07.Nov.2021
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Aminet uploads until 06.11.2021
The following files have been added until 06.11.2021 to Aminet:
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07.Nov.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 06.11.2021
The following files have been added until 06.11.2021 to OS4Depot:
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07.Nov.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 06.11.2021
The following files have been added until 06.11.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
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07.Nov.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.11.2021
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 06.11.2021:
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07.Nov.2021
Spiegel 45/2021 (ANF)
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Famous Amiga users: Horst Seehofer (german politician)
That the parting home secretary of Germany and former prime minister of the german state Bavaria enjoys a model railway in his spare time has been publicly known for quite some time already. Now, however, in an interview with german news magazine "Der Spiegel" (issue 45/2021), Horst Seehofer revealed another, at least former, hobby as well.
Asked what exactly he would like about model making, he answered: "In the past I always unscrewed every Amiga computer because I wanted to understand how it works. Today it's different, most people don't know what a circuit board is today, some can't even fix a bicycle tire. On the model railway you do it all at once: You build with wood. You deal with electrics. You can program."
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07.Nov.2021
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New downloads on amigaland.de
At amigaland.de Mirko Engelhardt offers software that had been commercial before with the permission of the respective copyright owners. Latest additions include games published by Software 2000 or its branch Magic Soft: Backgammon, Charly and Ditris.
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06.Nov.2021
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ModExplorer 3.8 FE for all Amiga systems
As author Jörg Renkert writes on his homepage, the point of ModPlayer is not to be just another audio player (there are already enough good ones) with which to listen to your music archives. Instead, it offers users mods that they have never heard before. To do this, ModExplorer randomly downloads modules from the Internet (including Aminet, Modland and modules.pl) and plays them. These mods are also not stored permanently. Instead, ModExplorer creates a playlist that contains Internet links to these music files. This way they can be played again later.
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06.Nov.2021
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Lionheart Remake: Version 1.20 of Java por of Lionheart in development
After Byron 3D Games Studio had released the amiga game Lionheart for the LionEngine developed by them as Lionheart Java Remake in mid-October in version 1.10, the development of version 1.20 has now been started with the release of first screenshots of the underwater world.
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05.Nov.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 19 of assembler coding course
'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams on Twitch the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English and after some time uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday episode 18 was published, continuing running through chapter 7 of the book teaching about 'Attached Sprites'. Furthermore the group 'Phaze101' has announced to publish an English-language version of the original Italian book.
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05.Nov.2021
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Ben Hermans listed as Hyperion's director again
In early May, Ben Hermans was delisted as Hyperion's director and presumably replaced by a judicial liquidator for Ben Hermans B.V. - the company that held the actual director position, while the person Ben Hermans acted as its permanent representative. According to an entry in Belgium's legal newsletter (local copy), Hermans was already reinstated as a director at the end of June (automated translation):
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05.Nov.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 153
The English and German editions of Amiga Future issue 153 (November/December 2021) has been published yesterday and can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include an interview with Frank Röchter and a "Making Of" of his release 'Falconia', a review of 'Athanor 2 - Legend of the Birdmen' as well as 'Trevors Soapbox'.
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04.Nov.2021
Miguel Fides (Mail)
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Accelerator board: First batch of 'Tsunami 1230' delivered
At the beginning of August the developer Miguel Fides had announced a new accelerator board called 'Tsunami 1230' for the A1200. At the beginning of September then a first production run was started. As Miguel announces on the 'The Tsunami Project website, these boards have now been sent not only to the first pre-order customers, but also to selected stores. These include Relec (Switzerland) and Retropassion (UK) as well as Alinea in Germany. When asked, Simon Neumann from Alinea told us that currently, however, no cards have arrived yet.
Those who missed the pre-order campaign for the first production run can still express their interest in the card via Mail.
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04.Nov.2021
Amiga Love
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Self-made project: Amiga 2000/3000 keyboard
The developer 'grahamshaw1972' has started the project 'A2000 Serotina' which is a build it yourself Open Source hardware mechanical keyboard for the Amiga A2000 and A3000 computers. Features are:
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04.Nov.2021
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Shoot'em up: Third demo version of Jackal
NeesoGames had recently announced an amiga version of the game Jackal originally published by Konami in 1986 and had already released two demo versions.
Now a third demo version of the game created with the Scorpion Engine is available. The changes:
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04.Nov.2021
OS4Depot
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AmigaOS 4: FTP-Server 'ZitaFTP' 1.30
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.30 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:
"I have a new ZitaFTP Server update for you. This one has a major new feature that's almost invisible (and that's by design). The new feature is: countermeasures against password cracking. It's designed to keep hackers out of your server and your machine, keeping your files safe.
More specifically, it protects against brute-force and dictionary type password cracking attempts. These attempts involve repeatedly trying different username and password combinations until they finally stumble on one that gets them in. It may sound impractical, but remember that these attacks are automated. Without any countermeasures, many password combinations could be attempted automatically per-second. ZitaFTP Server's password cracking prevention slows down and locks out would-be hackers, thereby keeping your files safe.
ZitaFTP Server is currently designed to be an easy to use private network server. It's perfectly capable of being an internet facing FTP server, but deliberately haven't added that ability to the UI. That's because the internet is a risky neighbourhood.
In the physical world, thieves can rattle windows and doors at night, looking for one that's loose (had that happen in Toronto one night). If they find a loose one, they sneak in. Well, on the internet the entire globe is your neighbourhood. Every single computer on the internet could potentially communicate with your internet facing server, meaning that good, bad, and downright evil people could all potentially come knocking, or rattling your server's virtual windows.
I simply wasn't comfortable adding internet server features to the UI without some kind of countermeasures against hacking attempts. The countermeasures are now here, so adding UI features to make setting up a full internet facing FTP server will be next (e.g., handling an external domain & TLS certificate)."
A single license of 'ZitaFTP Server' is available for about 47 Euro. The program can be tested for free for 30 days.
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03.Nov.2021
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement website reach now 7000 articles
David Brunet wrote: "The magazine Obligement is active on the Amiga scene since 1997. New articles of all kind are regulary added on its website. And the number of articles has now passed the 7000 mark! To celebrate this big number, the 6999e and 7000e articles published are the original review of the Amiga 1000 PAL and NTSC.
Unfortunatly, the translation engine of the website is no more functional (thanks Google :-(). We are searching an alternative solution for our non-french speaking readers.
The following articles have been added to the website of the Amiga magazine Obligement during the last two months:
- September/October 2021 news
- Old articles from Joystick 29 to 32: News: Street Fighter 2 an eventful arrival, Interview with Thierry Magnaldi, Review of Ween The Prophecy, Review of Sim Life, Review of The Aquatic Games, News: Accolade in American time, Interview with David Braben, Review of The Carl Lewis Challenge, Review of Civilization, News: Silmarils' new products for summer 1992, Review of Winter Supersports 92, Review of G-LOC R360, etc.
- Interview with Benoît Wiblé (crazy manager of Relec)
- Review of Inviyya
- File: Monkey Island, or how Ron Gilbert created an adventure game that didn't suck
- File: What happen to Eyetech Group? (second part)
- File: Amiga history, years 1984-2003 (update)
- File: Zool Arcade
- File: History of ERBE Software/Topo Soft
- Hardware: Amiga 1000 PAL and Amiga 1000 NTSC
- Programming: Introduction to MUI programming on MorphOS
- Tutorial: Printing on AmigaOS 4 via GoogleCloudPrint
- Special quiz about Xtreme Racing
Feel free to contribute. Please contact David "Daff" Brunet for more info."
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01.Nov.2021
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4.1: DvPlayer V54.7 released
Already for the AmiWest 2021 a new version of the video and audio playback program DvPlayer distributed by A-EON Technology should be available. As of today, version 54.7 is indeed available:
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31.Oct.2021
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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Product announcement: 7-bit accelerator board 'Wicher 520EC' for Amiga 500/500+
After announcing the Wicher 1220 turbo card for the A1200, Artur Gadawski of the retro hardware company 7-bit now takes aim at the A500/500+ with the Wicher 520EC turbo card:
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31.Oct.2021
IBrowse-Website
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 4.11 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 4.11 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL provides the latest root-certificates as well as some bug fixes. Detailed changelog:
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[News message: 31. Oct. 2021, 11:27] [Comments: 0]
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31.Oct.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #111 - Report from AmiWest
In episode 111 of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton is talking about his visit of this year's AmiWest in Sacramento.
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31.Oct.2021
Twitter
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Music: Rave album 'Breaking Even'
Yesterday gwEm has released the album 'Breaking Even' featuring "authentic 1992 style breakbeat hardcore rave, produced 100% on a Commodore Amiga 600". The eight tracks are available in different formats, e.g. as MP3 and FLAC. for a price which you choose.
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[News message: 31. Oct. 2021, 07:48] [Comments: 0]
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31.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 30.10.2021
The following files have been added until 30.10.2021 to Aminet:
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31.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.10.2021
The following files have been added until 30.10.2021 to OS4Depot:
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31.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.10.2021
The following files have been added until 30.10.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
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31.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
- Hired Guns (Awesome Megablast)
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31.Oct.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Trademark protection: Cloanto withdraws opposition against Intellivision's Amico
After being forced by third party to defend the Amiga trademarks against Intellivision's "Amico" game console, Cloanto now filed a motion to withdraw their opposition at USPTO with prejudice, meaning that the opposition is replaced by a separate agreement between the parties, which prevails (PDF file).
On Twitter Amiga Corporation commented: "Amiga and Amico both mean friend. To stop any speculation: we had a productive exchange about coexistence, and concerns were resolved. Amiga wishes Intellivision all the best for its entertainment project."
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31.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 127 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time.
Download pages:
Italian (Schlüssel: DrdBPIPM8WFERqI5_4EmunyBTL4LjwTmvKi1-PHVvIM)
English (Schlüssel: OyoO3QZtiOz4GzRYsb-gu3vjCTmZSm8oxE_pYjcniAg)
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[News message: 31. Oct. 2021, 07:11] [Comments: 0]
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31.Oct.2021
Carlos Peris (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.2
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM.
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[News message: 31. Oct. 2021, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
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30.Oct.2021
George Sokianos (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.5.0
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations and, since Version 1.4.0, also to listen to podcasts. An external player like AmigaAmp and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. About the latest version 1.5.0 the author George Sokianos has written:
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[News message: 30. Oct. 2021, 07:48] [Comments: 0]
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30.Oct.2021
Polnisches Amiga Forum
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AmigaOS 4: Comparison of video players (Polish)
In a detailed article - Polish original bzw. automatic translation - the author 'MUFA' has reviewed the different video players available for AmigaOS 4: Tested with an AmigaOne X1000 equipped with a Radeon HD R9 270 graphics card and an AmigaOne X5000 equipped with a Radeon RX 560 graphics card. Test candidates has been on the one hand the free MPlayer and FFPlay as well as the two commercial players DvPlayer and Emotion. He also has include in his consideration the support of the Unified Video Decoder (UVD).
Verdict: As of now, he recommends Emotion for overall performance. He awards second place to MPlayer for the best player without UVD support as well as its exemplary stability and free availability. Only in third place he sees DvPlayer, whereby he points out that with Hans De Ruiter a proven expert is entrusted with the further development and he therefore expects a lot from future versions.
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29.Oct.2021
Commodore 64 Forum
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Text adventure: "Darkest Hour" released
Darkest Hour is an old-fashioned text adventure game, available for several platforms and also for AmigaOS 3.
Die Story: "Halloween is almost here, but something is happening that's much scarier than the annual haunted house at the fire hall. There are rumors of a vampire - a real one - attacking people at night. Of course most people think it's just silly; who wouldn't? But people are going missing, and others swear they've seen it. It's up to you to track down this vampire, stop it if possible. The question is, will you even survive the night?"
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2021, 16:49] [Comments: 0]
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29.Oct.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 18 of assembler coding course
'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams on Twitch the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English and after some time uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday episode 18 was published, continuing running through chapter 7 of the book teaching about sprites and tables.
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2021, 06:55] [Comments: 0]
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28.Oct.2021
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French print magazine: "Boing" Nr. 2 available
Following the successful first issue of the French-language print magazine "Boing," Boing Attitude (known for the file manager Dir Me Up and the quiz game Word Me Up XXL, among others) has announced the release of the second issue.
The magazine is dedicated to Amiga in all its diversity (AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4.1, MorphOS and Aros) and offers in the second issue among other things an exclusive interview with Romain Canonge, one of the co-founders of Amiga Dream magazine and a test of the game Athanor 2 including the interview with its author Eric Safar. Also included are tests of the games Wrong Way Driver, Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons and the multimedia application Mediavault.
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28.Oct.2021
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USB-Adapter: Firmware update v.012 for Ryś MKII
The Ryś MKII adapter can be used together with USB HID devices like mouses, joysticks and pads to connect them as input devices for Amiga computers. The latest firmware update includes support for new mouse models. RysWheel driver has been given option to turn off the wheel driver operation (Stop option).
Added support for models:
- Logitech M-BT83
- Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse
- LogiLink ID0010
- Acer SM-9023
- Logitech RX 250
- Logitech RX 300
- A-EON MX 1000-4
Downloads:
RysMKII_v0.12_beta.hex (Firmware, 123 KB)
RysWheel_Installer_v0.12.lha (AmigaOS Software, 72 KB)
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27.Oct.2021
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Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.7
Robert Smith has updated his project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge)for read Amiga disks using a common PC disk drive. According to the author, additional to improved diagnostics, improved reading/writing, extra features and new UI version 2.7 mainly offers HD floppy disk support. All this work has fed back into WinUAE meaning that WinUAE (and soon Amiberry) will also support real HD disks in real-time.
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