26.Oct.2021
AMIGAworld (Twitter)
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GitHub project: Amiga 4000 accelerator board 'Z3660'
On GitHub the developer 'shanshe' has started a project for the Amiga 4000 accelerator board 'Z3660' which is based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board as well as the Z-turn Board. In contrast to the A3660 (currently) only 060 CPU are supported. If Z-turn FPGA is not used, then you get a simple A3660. The only difference is that all A3660 PLDs are replaced by a XC95144XL-TQ144 CPLD. If you use a Z-turn FPGA, then you can add 128 MB of CPU RAM (more RAM, RTG, AHI, USB, SCSI are planned in the future).
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25.Oct.2021
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MorphOS: QR-Code generator 'QRCodeLab'
MorphOS developer Frank Mariak has released a MUI tool called 'QRCodeLab' which can be used to easily create QR codes and afterwards copying them to the Clipboard or saving them as pictures. We have tested the tool using our Amiga-News website: Working!
As the author wrote, "currently, it only supported encoding to UTF8 and non of the other compressed formats like numeric and/or alphanumeric are supported to reduce the code size. It dynamically adjusts the QRCode version based on the length of string."
If you have any suggestions or ideas for improvement, please feel free to contact the author via mail.
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25.Oct.2021
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: RapaGUI 2.1 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of RapaGUI 2.1. This release contains several minor bug fixes and one major bug fix for the Amiga compatible platforms. Because of a major bug in the Amiga versions of RapaGUI 2.0, everybody should upgrade to RapaGUI 2.1. RapaGUI 2.1 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal.
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25.Oct.2021
Twitter
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Reprint: 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium'
In 2014, the book 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium' was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign. In a reprint available from 22. November "over the course of some 420 pages, 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium' showcases more than 140 of the biggest titles, bringing them vividly to life with a double-page screen grab or loading page. Each is accompanied by quotes and commentary from renowned Amiga artists, developers and publishers, including R.J. Mical, David Braben, Sid Meier, Ron Gilbert, Julian Eggebrecht, Tobias Richter, Dave Gibbons and many more. In this latest reprint of Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium, we’ve added a handful of new game reviews, as well as including a spread for Dune. Contributor entries now include their role in the game or profession, in line with more recent visual compendiums."
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[News message: 25. Oct. 2021, 06:34] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 23.10.2021
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[News message: 24. Oct. 2021, 08:29] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.10.2021
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24.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.10.2021
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24.Oct.2021
Twitter (ANF)
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Amigaworld.de: Do-it-yourself Amiga 600/1200 CF-IDE adapter
At the title link Amigaworld.de published an - in revision D now also buffered - do-it-yourself CompactFlash to IDE adapter for the Amiga 600/1200 including an HD-LED fix and a second port for another drive.
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23.Oct.2021
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Tech-Demo: Update for 'Street Fighter 2' game with Scorpion Engine
'Street Fighter 2' is the attempt to recreate the well-known beat'm up on the Amiga using the Scorpion Engine in a better way. The author is not going to develop a full game but hopes to inspire other developers. The update for the playable demo version includes the following changes:
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[News message: 23. Oct. 2021, 10:19] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2021
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Countdown: C64 & Amiga game music remade as epic film scores
Running until Sunday, 24. October 00:39 CEST, a Kickstarter campaign tries to finance the C64 & Amiga game music album 'Epic Action Vol1' (amiga-news.de reported). So far 13.000 Euro from the required 23.000 Euro were payed. On our request a member of Prismatic Realms told that a failure of the financing also definitely mean the end for the project. But in any case the group will continue to develop retro games.
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23.Oct.2021
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AmigaGuide to HTML converter: GuideML 3.16 for AmigaOS 3/4
GuideML is an AmigaGuide to HTML converter which can convert most AmigaGuides and since v3.1 also has a GUI. After 13 years the author Chris Young has updated the tool, which originally was started by Richard Körber. Additional to some bug fixes, now the tool uses the locale.library v38+ which should remove accents from characters for better compatibility. And version 3.16 introduces basic support for the '@{img' command of AmigaOS 3.2.
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[News message: 23. Oct. 2021, 07:40] [Comments: 0]
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21.Oct.2021
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Music editor: MusicMaker V8 Version 3.12 (update)
Thomas Winischhofer's 'MusicMaker V8' ('MMV8') is a sample-based music editor which the author started back in 1986 as hobby project. As the author wrote, "much later it published in France and the German speaking parts of Europe by Data Becker (V1.76) and by Wolf Software (V2.358, Germany only)."
This version 3 dates back to late 1992 and was never published as a commercial product.
In the readme it is explained, that MMV8 uses "macros" which - unlike "patterns" in trackers - apply to a single channel only. Those "macros" are then put in a playing order, which is called a track. As MMV8 provides up to eight audio channels, up to eight tracks can be set up.
As Thomas Winischhofer told us some time ago, he "doesn't really want to do anything more on the MM except occasionally fix bugs that stand out." That would not be worth reporting. However, this has turned into a few updates in recent times, each of which has been published on Aminet. As the developer writes, he has small windows of time at the moment, which, unlike the DSP drivers - his
other Amiga project of the recent past) he can use sitting at the emulator to fix bugs and improve the source code from 1986 and the following years. But he definitely doesn't want to take away the character and charm of the 80s from the program.
In the latest versions the author mainly worked on the GUI and fixed several minor bugs.
Who of our readers had or has used the music editor?
Update: (07:43, 24.10.21, dr)
Meanwhile version 3.12 is available. Now "m" now shows instrument paths and minor inconvenience in the install script were fixed.
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21.Oct.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 17 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 17 was published, continuing running through chapter 7 of the book which is about "Sprites / Joysticks / Tables / Bit Manipulation".
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[News message: 21. Oct. 2021, 06:25] [Comments: 0]
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20.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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OpenSwitcher: Do-it-yourself floppy disk drive switcher
OpenSwitcher is a do-it-yourself floppy disk drive switcher for the Amiga, tested with an Amiga 500+ and 2.x as well as 3.x Kickstart ROMs. Seperately, there is also a variant for the Amiga 600 and 1200.
Aim of the project is a solution built of easily available and easily programmable parts that is easily to install as well.
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20.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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New downloads at 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 the soccer manager simulation Bundesliga Manager as well as the adventures Jonathan and Die Kathedrale by Software 2000 as well as the economic simulations Mag!!! and ranTrainer by Greenwood Entertainment Software.
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[News message: 20. Oct. 2021, 12:15] [Comments: 0]
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20.Oct.2021
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Event: Developers and presentations at Amiga-Meeting Nord 2021 (Germany)
From November 5 to 7, 2021, the next Amiga-Meeting will take place in Neumünster, Germany. Everyone actively taking part with his own computer will receive keyfiles for Amiga Forever and C64 Forever sponsored by Mike Battilana of Cloanto. Besides 'Matze' also Entwickler-X, Arne/HavanaClub and Kai/Forgottenhero will be there and probably also Frank Mariak of the MorphOS developer team may join.
More details can be found in our german news-item or at the title link.
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20.Oct.2021
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BASIC-Compiler: AQB 0.7.3
With his compiler AQB, which is oriented to Microsoft's AmigaBASIC or QuickBASIC, but not intended as a clone, the developer Guenter Bartsch has the intention to create a modern, clean, AmigaOS-compatible and future-proof BASIC, which is tailored to modern Amiga application development.
In version 0.7.3, besides bug fixes in the compiler, various functions and modules were added.
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[News message: 20. Oct. 2021, 06:25] [Comments: 0]
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20.Oct.2021
Janne Peräaho (Mail)
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Review: Amiga python port of puzzle game 'Oil Worker'
In mid-July, developer Janne Peräaho had begun a series of Python conversions with the game Space Invaders. He now continued this series with the game OilWorker originally published by Wil Alvarez in 2008 as implementation for AmigaOS 4.1. Thereby he optimized the loading of the game data, created the possibility to reset the highscore and added a small manual.
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[News message: 20. Oct. 2021, 04:03] [Comments: 0]
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19.Oct.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 153 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 153 (November/December 2021) have been published online now at the title link. Its content includes an interview with Guido Henkel as well as reviews of Cybersphere and AmigaOS 3.2.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers.
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[News message: 19. Oct. 2021, 09:16] [Comments: 0]
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18.Oct.2021
zooperdan
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Puzzle: Wheel of fortune game 'YAWoFFA'
Developer 'zooperdan' today released his BlitzBasic-written implementation of the Wheel of Fortune game called 'YAWoFFA' (Yet Another Wheel of Fortune For Amiga). The principle should be familiar: Spin the wheel of fortune, choose a letter and try to solve the word or combination of words you are looking for. The game can be played alone or with four players.
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[News message: 18. Oct. 2021, 21:58] [Comments: 0]
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18.Oct.2021
George Sokianos
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.4.3 (update)
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. By releasing the new version 1.4.2, the author George Sokianos has adapted his program to the changed api so searching for radio stations is working again.
Update: (12:43, 21.10.21, dr)
Meanwhile version 1.4.3 is available which fixes some bugs and was compiled with openssl to 1.1.1l.
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17.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 16.10.2021
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[News message: 17. Oct. 2021, 08:07] [Comments: 0]
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17.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 16.10.2021
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17.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.10.2021
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[News message: 17. Oct. 2021, 08:07] [Comments: 0]
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17.Oct.2021
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmiWest: PDF file of Emu68 speech by Michal Schulz
Michal Schulz has published the slides of his speech at AmiWest 2021 about his JIT emulator for ARM, Emu68 (amiga-news.de reported), at the title link.
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17.Oct.2021
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AmiWest: Announcements of A-EON/Amigakit
Matthew Leaman (Amigakit, A-EON), Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), and Steven Solie (ExecSG) are not attending AmiWest in person, but will be talking about A-EON and Amigakit's projects and products in a live-streamed video conference. Most of the points addressed can be seen in the screenshots of the respective presentation below, but we have briefly summarized some additional points addressed:
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[News message: 17. Oct. 2021, 02:27] [Comments: 0]
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16.Oct.2021
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AmigaOS 4: Preview to Qt 6.2.0
In 2011, Alfkil Wennermark released a first native port of the C++ class library Qt 4.7 for AmigaOS 4.
At the end of August on amigans.net, the author reported that he is about to port Qt6. Now he has uploaded a first preview of a text editor to OS4Depot ceated with QT 6.2.0. Following the instructions of the author, we get the following impressions:
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[News message: 16. Oct. 2021, 19:32] [Comments: 0]
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16.Oct.2021
Achim Kern (Mail)
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Game announcement: 'Balloons' for all Amiga systems
Achim Kern is not only continuously working on his 'SmartHome' project for automating one's own four walls (amiga-news.de reported), but also uses the multimedia-oriented programming language Hollywood used for this purpose to develop games such as Mars Tank Attack.
In his latest game project, 'Balloons', those balloons have to be shot at a fair, with the difficulty increasing from level to level: with more balloons, shorter time and a limited number of shots. Likewise, in higher levels, certain sequences are given, such as three blue, two red, four green balloons. This sounds simple, but the player has to remember this order...If you have further ideas for levels, please contact Achim Kern. The screenshots kindly provided by the author should give a first impression. The game will be available for free for all platforms supported by Hollywood Player and is planned for the end of the year.
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[News message: 16. Oct. 2021, 17:07] [Comments: 0]
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16.Oct.2021
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Commercial action game: Turbo Tomato 1.10
At the end of July, Bitmap Soft released the commercial action game , in which you have to try to remove mutated vegetables from the playground using bombs. Now an update to version 1.10 has been released introducing the different difficulty levels 'SOFT' and 'SPICY'. The other changes:
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[News message: 16. Oct. 2021, 07:05] [Comments: 0]
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15.Oct.2021
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 0.128
Today MorphOS team member Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek released an update for his e-mail client Iris. Changes in version 0.128 include OpenSSL 3 and removal of duplicate addresses when replying to all.
For feedback to the author the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used.
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[News message: 15. Oct. 2021, 20:53] [Comments: 0]
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15.Oct.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 16 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 16 was published, dediacated to chapter 7 of the book and is about "Sprites / Joysticks / Tables / Bit Manipulation".
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[News message: 15. Oct. 2021, 20:07] [Comments: 0]
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14.Oct.2021
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 2.8
Today, version 2.8 of Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web browser Wayfarer has been released, consisting of several small optimisations.
Required are MorphOS 3.15 and 1 GB of RAM. A CPU with at least 1.5 GHz is recommended. For feedback to the author, besides the integrated crash report tool and e-mails to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu also the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used.
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[News message: 14. Oct. 2021, 15:38] [Comments: 0]
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12.Oct.2021
ANF
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ComputerBase: 32-bit console Amiga CD³² & 16-bit CD player Philips CD-i (german)
At the title link, german tech magazine ComputerBase compares Commodore's Amiga CD³² as Europe's first 32-bit game console with the CD-i, the 16-bit multimedia system that was introduced by Philips in 1991 and co-developed with Sony.
The actual competing product, however, the Amiga CDTV, that had been introduced by Commodore also in 1991, is not mentioned at all.
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[News message: 12. Oct. 2021, 11:00] [Comments: 0]
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11.Oct.2021
ppa.ppl
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MorphOS: Adventure interpreter ScummVM 2.5.0
Press release: Twenty years ago today, on Tue Oct 9 16:30:12 2001, Ludvig Strigeus pushed the initial revision of the ScummVM code, which was version 0.0.1 of the project. Time flew quickly and, fast-forward to the present day, we are proudly releasing ScummVM 2.5.0 "Twenty years ago today…"
The list of changes is tremendous.
First of all, this is the first release that supports 2.5D games (almost 3D), thanks to the merger with ResidualVM. With this release we announce support for Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey and Myst 3: Exile. This is why we jumped straight to 2.5 in our versioning. Please note that only desktop platforms currently support these games and other platforms may or may not gain the support later depending on their capabilities.
In addition to these 3 games and engines, we officially support 10 more new engines and subengines that add compatibility with the following games:
- Little Big Adventure
- Red Comrades 1: Save the Galaxy
- Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice
- Transylvania
- Crimson Crown
- OO-Topos
- Glulx interactive fiction games
- Private Eye
- AGS Games versions 2.5+
- Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
- The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
- Crusader: No Remorse
- L-ZONE
- Spaceship Warlock
We love localized game releases and multiple platform versions, thus with this release, we enhanced the support for Lure of the Temptress Konami release, Blue Force Spanish, Ringworld Spanish, Amazon: Guardians of Eden Spanish, Mystery House French, Russian translations of Sierra AGI games, Elvira 1 Japanese PC-98, Bargon Attack Russian, Woodruff Russian, Eye of the Beholder Japanese Sega-CD, Legend of Kyrandia Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 2 Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 3 Simplified Chinese, Inherit the Earth PC-98 Japanese, Gabriel Knight 1 Macintosh, Xeen Russian to name but a few. Notably, Macintosh b/w versions of Loom and Indy 3 are now also supported.
Besides the new games and game versions, ScummVM 2.5.0 brings many notable improvements and new features. We have completed a major rework of the GUI: We now support Unicode characters everywhere. The GUI also adapts to high resolutions used in HiDPI screens. The Nintendo DS port has been significantly rewritten. We added GOG and Steam achievements to a large number of Wintermute games and enabled KeyMapper in more games. Thanks to the work of one of our GSoC students, we have now added an option for text-to-speech to the games Sfinx, Soltys and The Griffon Legend.
You may find all of this goodness available to a number of platforms on our download page or let the autoupdater kick in on Macintosh and Windows.
We wish you great adventuring, happy puzzle-solving and exciting journeys to RPG worlds, and hope to see you around in the coming years.
And by the way, GOG.com is running a special promo tied to the release and our anniversary, where you can buy many ScummVM-supported games at a discount.
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[News message: 11. Oct. 2021, 07:04] [Comments: 0]
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11.Oct.2021
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 beta 4
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 4 providing the following changes:
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[News message: 11. Oct. 2021, 06:35] [Comments: 0]
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11.Oct.2021
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Alinea Computer: OmniPort - Multi port adapter for Amiga 1200
Press release: We are pleased to announce the release of the OmniPort multi port adapter for the Amiga 1200.
The OmniPort is a multi-port adapter that neatly routes various hardware interfaces on the Amiga 1200 desktop case to the outside via the expansion port. The interfaces are 2x USB, 1 x HDMI and 1x MicroSD. In order to be able to use the respective interfaces with the OmniPort, the corresponding hardware must already be installed in the Amiga 1200.
The hardware can be purchased now for 24.95 Euro in the online shop.
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[News message: 11. Oct. 2021, 05:53] [Comments: 0]
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10.Oct.2021
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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USB-Adapter: Firmware update 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 a new version of the USB stack support for wheel and the 4th and 5th mouse buttons.
Downloads:
RysMKII_v0.11_beta.hex (Firmware, 27 KB)
RysWheel_Installer_v0.11b.lha (AmigaOS Software, 72 KB)
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[News message: 10. Oct. 2021, 11:42] [Comments: 0]
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10.Oct.2021
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[News message: 10. Oct. 2021, 08:49] [Comments: 0]
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10.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.10.2021
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10.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.10.2021
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10.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
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[News message: 10. Oct. 2021, 08:49] [Comments: 0]
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10.Oct.2021
Amigasystem (ANF)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 1.6 (x86)
"AROS One", an AROS distribution based on ABI v0, is now available in version 1.6 for x86 computers (video, resolution of 720p recommended). It can be downloaded at the title link either as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image.
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[News message: 10. Oct. 2021, 08:48] [Comments: 0]
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10.Oct.2021
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Floppy disk images reading and writing on PC or Mac: Greaseweazle 0.31
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported).
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Now released version 0.31 increases USB buffer size from 16 to 64 KB. Greaseweazle is available at various dealers.
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10.Oct.2021
Greg Donner
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware 1.9.1
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 10. Oct. 2021, 08:26] [Comments: 0]
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10.Oct.2021
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Lionheart Remake 1.10: Java port of Lionheart
Byron 3D Games Studio has released a Lionheart Java Remakeof Lionheart for its LionEngine (amiga-news.de berichtete). Source codes are available on GitHub for the LionEngine as well as for the game port.
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09.Oct.2021
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Accelerator board: TerribleFire TF1230 available
Retro32 wrote on its website: "We’re delighted to announce that the mighty TerribleFire TF1230 is now available from our store.
This epic Amiga 1200 accelerator card offers both great performance and value and IMO is the best Amiga 1200 upgrade for your money. With a 50MHz at your disposal and up to a whopping 128MB of Fast Memory on tap, the TF1230 offers speeds over 7 times faster than a stock 1200.
At present, we only have very limited stock of these cards available but hope to offer more stock as availability improves."
According to the website, prices start at 170 British Pounds (about 200 Euro) for a TerribleFire TF1230 equipped with mit 64MB RAM.
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08.Oct.2021
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Video tutorial: Assembler coding course
Formerly the demo group RamJam released several Amiga demos. Between 1994 and 1996 the member Fabio 'Randy' Ciucci wrote the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi". In 2016, with Ciucci's permission, RamJam published this course as book. On the website there is also a two-disk version as well as an Italian-language pdf document of the course. 'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams it on Twitch in English and then uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday eposide 15 was published, dediacated to chapter six of the book.
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07.Oct.2021
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: New revision 2.0 announced
At the end of July the developer 'jasonsbeer' fixed revision 1.2 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX', as production candidate. Now he has recommended all users who are going to build such a board to wait for he "expects to assemble and test the next revision (2.0) of the Amiga 2000 EATX board by the middle of November. The revision 2.0 board will have additional features that many will find attractive." Detailed changes:
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07.Oct.2021
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Dungeon Crawler: "The Shadows of Sergoth" available for pre-order
At the end of 2018 the Dungeon Crawler "The Shadows of Sergoth" was announced for 2019. So far only a playable demo was released. From now on the game is available for pre-order from Doublesided Games: For 14,99 Euro for the disk version or for 39,99 Euro for the boxed edition. The game is supposed to be released on 13. November. "The Shadows of Sergoth" runs on any graphics chipset (OCS, ECS, AGA), but 2MB Chip-Ram are required and a faster Amiga is recommended (A1200 or accelerated) to activate the 3D movement effects and enhance the gameplay experience. Content of the boxed edition:
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06.Oct.2021
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Dock bar: WBDock V1.26
Thomas Rapp has updated his dock bar 'WBDock', similar to Toolmanager oder AmiDock, for AmigaOS 1.3. WBdock can now load custom images for icons, supporting icon and IFF ILBM files, without color remapping.
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06.Oct.2021
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.4.1 (Update)
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations. An external player like AmigaAmp and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. For the first time now Podcasts also are supported. The author George Sokianos wrote:
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05.Oct.2021
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.7.0 Update for Raspberry Pi 4/400
Version 11.7.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the Raspberry Pi 4/400 increases performance and security and provides program updates. Changes:
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03.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 02.10.2021
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03.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.10.2021
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03.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.10.2021
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03.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 125 (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.
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02.Oct.2021
amigaworld.net
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Video tutorial: Installation of AmigaOS 3.2 under AmigaOS 4.1
In his latest YouTube tutorial Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has demonstrated how to install AmigaOS 3.2 under AmigaOS 4.1 on his AmigaOne X5000 via EUAE with JIT enabled. After installation, AmigaOS 3.2 is running with a screen resolution of 1920x1080x32. Additionally he installs also diverse hacks and patches.
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01.Oct.2021
Technology Blog
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Programming: 'Rust'-Support for Motorola 68000 announced
As Golem reports, the Rust programming language has received experimental support for the Motorola 68000 CPU architecture and processor family for the first time, thanks to a LLVM port. The associated code has been contributed to the main branch of the language's open source repository.
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01.Oct.2021
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Amiga-Emulator: Amiberry 4.1.5
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch.
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29.Sep.2021
exec.pl
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m68k assembler support: Plugins for JetBrain and Visual Studio IDEs
Recently we reported, that Chris 'platon42' Hodges is developing a (e.g. USB-Stack Poseidon) Plugin for the integrated development environment (IDE) of Jetbrains (e.g. CLion and IntelliJ for Windows, Mac OS and Linux) providing support for m68k assembler. It equips the IDEs with syntax highlighting and code refactoring capability for Motorola's instruction set.
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[News message: 29. Sep. 2021, 06:52] [Comments: 0]
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28.Sep.2021
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Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.1 (OS3/4, MorphOS)
Known for his workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp had released his first Amiga program at the beginning of August, which is used to control Sonos speakers: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released version 1.1 for his program written in the programming language Hollywood, which for the first time is available for AmigaOS 3 in addition to AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS and includes the following changes:
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27.Sep.2021
Jörg 'Torque' Klopsch
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AmigaPortal.de: Relaunch of website
In June 2019 the blogger, YouTuber and Amiga fan Jörg 'Torque' Klopsch started the Amigaportal.de. After it was not available for quite a while due to various problems, it has now been relaunched and now offers the possibility for discussion and talks.
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27.Sep.2021
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 Beta 3
At the end of May developer Dirk Hoffmann released version 1.0 of his Amiga emulator for macOS. With the release of the first betaversion for version 1.1 he continued the development. Now beta version 3 is available, with the following changes:
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26.Sep.2021
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BASIC compiler: AQB 0.7.2
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively.
In version 0.7.2, besides further function calls and bugfixes, an online documentation in AmigaGuide format has been added and the Auto-Format feature fine-tuned. Most formattings and spellings of identifiers are preserved now. Keywords are still recognized and turned into upper case letters, indentations are carried out automatically and folding is also still supported.
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[News message: 26. Sep. 2021, 08:53] [Comments: 0]
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26.Sep.2021
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Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.60
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 1.60 with the following changes:
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[News message: 26. Sep. 2021, 08:17] [Comments: 0]
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26.Sep.2021
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Aminet uploads until 25.09.2021
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26.Sep.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.09.2021
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26.Sep.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.09.2021
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26.Sep.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.09.2021
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[News message: 26. Sep. 2021, 08:03] [Comments: 0]
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26.Sep.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Game: Point'n'click adventure CyberSphere available
CyberSphere is a Point'n'click-Adventure sold as boxed game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS/x86 (as well as Windows, Mac OS and Linux; amiga-news.de reported), in which you have to traverse a city, its underground and outskirts to find out what has happened to you in the previous days after having awaken in your apartment with a headache and missing memory.
Languages of the game are Italian, English and French, required are 512 MB (2 GB for AROS) RAM and 100 MB of free space on the hard disk.
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[News message: 26. Sep. 2021, 08:03] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2021
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Puzzle game: Crazy Columns 1.03
Jochen Hoffer keeps on working on his port of the Sega classic 'Columns' (Video) and has released version 1.03 (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 25. Sep. 2021, 06:25] [Comments: 0]
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24.Sep.2021
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Music: C64 & Amiga Game Music Remade as Epic Film Scores
The independent video game developer Prismatic Realms has officially started its Kickstarter website for financing the very special music album 'Epic Action Vol. 1': C64 & Amiga Game Music Remade as Epic Film Scores. The following Amiga games will be used:
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21.Sep.2021
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 2.7
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has updated his web browser Wayfarer to version 2.7: Changes:
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19.Sep.2021
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Jackal: Second demo version available
Recently NeesoGames had announced an Amiga port of Jackal, originally released in 1986 by Konami (amiga-news.de reported) and also released a first demo version. Since yesterday a second demo version of the game is available which is developed with the Scorpion Engine. This still is a WIP and described as buggy. New features:
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19.Sep.2021
Günter Bartsch (Autor)
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Amiga QuickBasic Compiler: Version 0.7.1alpha1 released
Developing his Amiga QuickBasic Compiler, the developer Günter Bartsch is going to create "a modern, clean, Amiga OS-compliant, future-proof BASIC that is tailored towards modern Amiga application development. Recently we have reported about the start of the project and the author has got a lot of feddback which encouraged him to continue working on his project. Now he has released version 0.7.1alpha1.
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19.Sep.2021
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: APK Compiler 4.0 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood APK Compiler 4.0. The Hollywood APK Compiler is an add-on for Hollywood that allows you to compile your Hollywood scripts into stand-alone apps for Android, ready to be distributed via the Play Store!
Hollywood APK Compiler 4.0 is a major update which now supports compiling Android App Bundles (AAB) as well. Starting from August 2021, new apps uploaded to the Play Store must use the AAB format which is why the Hollywood APK Compiler supports this format now too. Of course, it's still possible to compile APKs because those are really useful for sideloading or distribution outside the Play Store. Another new feature in Hollywood APK Compiler 4.0 is support for the final version of RapaGUI 2.0. Everything in the final version of RapaGUI 2.0 is now supported by the Hollywood APK Compiler as well!
The update to Hollywood APK Compiler 4.0 is available free of charge for all existing customers and can be downloaded from the restricted download area.
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[News message: 19. Sep. 2021, 17:02] [Comments: 0]
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19.Sep.2021
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Aminet uploads until 18.09.2021
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19.Sep.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 18.09.2021
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19.Sep.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.09.2021
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19.Sep.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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Print magazine: Issue 134 of Amiga Future readable free of charge
German and English issue 134 (September/October 2018) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" is available free of charge now at the magazine's website. Published as image files of the individual pages, remainders of the physical issue as well as PDF files at a higher resolution are available at the publisher.
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