10.Aug.2021
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New edition of the Amiga 500: THEA500 Mini
In October 2020 Retro Games Ltd. had hinted at the replica of an Amiga 500 with a picture. Today, concrete details were announced: In early 2022, the replica of the Amiga 500, named THEA500 Mini and distributed by Koch Media, will be available for a recommended retail price of EUR¤129.99 (product video).
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10.Aug.2021
Amigablogs
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Game announcement: 'Menace' remake for Vampire
Kevin Saunders, graphic designer, artist and game designer for Amiga projects (among others Boss Machine and RESHOOT PROXIMA 3), has announced a remake of the game Menace for Vampire Amigas by presenting an animated end level boss. He also encourages Amiga users to support his work by becoming a Patreon.
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09.Aug.2021
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Platformer: Radical Moves
'ScattergoodStudios' has rereleased its game "Radical Rob" originally written in 1992 as Radical Moves. In this platform game, offering 99 levels, the player Rob "has to rid the world of evil fluffies, collect drink cans and work your way through each level." (YouTube-Video).
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08.Aug.2021
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AmiWest 2021: Registration of presentations
As already reported, this years's AmiWest will take place on 16. and 17. October 2021 in Holiday Inn Express in Sacramento, California. In its latest blog entry the organizers call all companies, users and developers to register planned presentations - online or on site - via eMail.
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08.Aug.2021
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Amiga disks on PC: Update to copy program A-Copy
A-Copy is a program for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows. It requires the ADF drive hardware, which uses a Teensy USB Development Board as an adapter between PC and floppy drive
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08.Aug.2021
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Update of Shoot'em Up 'Inviyya'
'Tigerskunk' has released an update for the digital version of his shoot'em up 'Inviyya' providing an additional level. For users who have already purchased the game the update is available after logging in.
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08.Aug.2021
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Preview video: Jump'n Run 'Boxx 4'
The developer 'Lemming880' is working on the fourth part of his 'Boxx' series developed with the Scorpion Engine. You can get some impressions of the third part on amigafrance.com. There you will also find download links for all previously released parts. In a YouTube preview video, 'Lemming880' shows a short walk through the first level of the fourth part of the series.
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08.Aug.2021
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Aminet uploads until 07.08.2021
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08.Aug.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 07.08.2021
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08.Aug.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.08.2021
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08.Aug.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.08.2021
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 07.08.2021:
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07.Aug.2021
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Raspberry Pi: Dev Diary on Emu68
Michal Schulz is working on his Motorola-68000 emulation for the Raspberry Pi (amiga-news.de reported). In two Dev Diary entries Emu68 meets PiStorm and A little bit more of PiStorming he has now reported on his latest efforts of get his emulation running on an A500 and a Raspberry Pi3. Furthermore he provides Nightly Builds on the corresponding GitHub website.
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07.Aug.2021
Amitopia
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UnRAR 6.02 for all Amiga systems
Marcin Labenski has ported the source code of UnRAR 6.0.7 to all Amiga systems and provides the following features:
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07.Aug.2021
amigaportal.cz
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Final Amiga port of 'Metal Gear' (MSX)
In February 2021 announced by a videos, musician, DJ and coder 'Hoffman' has released his final version of his Amiga port of 'Metal Gear', originally developed for MSX home computers. Version 1.1 fixes some bugs and compatibility issues and has the following features:
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07.Aug.2021
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Accelerator board for A1200: Tsunami 1230
Additional to his 'A1100' project, Miguel Fides has built a new accelerator board for the A1200 called Tsunami 1230. According to the his own statement "most compatible acelerator for the A1200 since the Blizzard serie" can be plugged in without any modification of the A1200 case and has the following specifications:
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06.Aug.2021
Amigans
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Memory game: MeMO 3.14
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has released an update of his memory game MeMO. His game is based on the classic memory card game but in his port two payers can simultaneously play for getting the best highscore. MeMO requires a 68020 processor and the ECS graphic chip. Changes of this release:
- Adapted to Amiga CD³²: added saving through nonvolatile.library when writing to disk fails; allowed pausing, aborting and name entering by means of the joypad; added CD ISO image to distro packages.
- Reworked controls (see manual).
- Added controls information to pause screen.
- Added cards numbers to the back of face down cards (which helps with matching cards).
- Straightened cards corners, to match better the overall sharp look of graphics.
- Fixed bug that caused the EXTRA JOYSTICK option to be highlighted shortly after returning from the "about" screen.
- Made several optimizations.
- Adapted to and built against latest custom framework (which makes startup and cleanup more robust and has a couple of bugfixes).
- Fixed/improved/added outer antialiasing of graphics on all cards (trying to stay faithful to the original design).
- Touched up a few cards.
- Reduced and partly eliminated bass notes clicking.
- Made various other minor changes.
- Improved manual.
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04.Aug.2021
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Jump'n Run for Vampire V4: SonicVamped 1 and 2
'SonicVamped' is a port of the 2013 Android version of SEGA's Sonic The Hedgehog 1 & 2 to AmigaOS optimised for Vampire V4 computer. The games ported by Artur "Arti" Jarosik and "Quetzal" also run under Vampire V2 accelerator boards but not at full speed.
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03.Aug.2021
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Controlling Sonos speakers (update)
Michael Rupp, well-known by his Workbench simulation TAWS now has started a new project: Learning the programming language Hollywood.
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03.Aug.2021
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Dev Diary: 'This week in PiStorm'
In his weekly column 'This week in PiStorm', the developer Andrew Hutchings gathers progresses and insights on the 'PiStorm' project.
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02.Aug.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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From Vultures to Vampires: Shipping of book by Pleasance and Dickinson (vol. 1)
The first volume of "From Vultures to Vampires", a book by the former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and the A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson, is currently shipping to those crowdfunders who pledged for the e-book version. Printing of the real book is expected to be finished August 20.
For the Kindle variant, its manufacturer currently states September 6 as date of availability. Regarding prices, on his website David Pleasance mentions 15 (e-book, same amount as previously for crowdfunders) and 35 British Pounds, respectively (printed book, for crowdfunders it had been 30 Pounds; for volume two, the latter get a discount of 50 % on both variants).
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01.Aug.2021
Alain Fontanin
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Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.52 (update)
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 1.51 with the following changes:
- Compiled with SAS/C 6.58
- Use of the locale library for language-specific and country-specific properties (date and time) and catalogs for the localized version (english in the code, french and german as catalogs). The source file to generate the catalogs (ASE2019.cs with SimpleCat) is in the release
- Use of the gadtools library for menus and gadgets
- Reentrance mechanism, based on Arexx script to avoid having multiple instances of ASE2019 in memory
- Replacement of obsolete functions
- Ability to handle differents 'EOL' characters
- Significant improvement in the reading speed of a document
- Ability to create and manage document backups
- Improve configuration of ASE2019
- Improve tabs management : tab size from 1 to 10 and hard tabs
- Improve speed cancellation changes
- Integration of the Amiga clipboard
- First version (limited) of document comparison function
- Correction of the 'Delete content of the current line' function
- Correction of the 'Delete characters after cursor' function
- Correction of the 'Delete characters before cursor' function
- New functions 'Delete word before/after cursor'
- New configuration of the 'DEL' & 'BACKSPACE' keys;refer to 'Shortcuts' section, of the documentation for more information
- Removal of the 'Lorem Ipsum' function
- Correct version of the 'ASE2019.cs' localization file
Meanwhile version 1.52 is available which fixes a bug in the English menu.
Download: ASE2019_1.52.lha (134 KB)
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01.Aug.2021
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01.Aug.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 31.07.2021
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01.Aug.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 31.07.2021
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01.Aug.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 31.07.2021
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01.Aug.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 31.07.2021
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 31.07.2021:
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31.Jul.2021
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Commercial action game: Turbo Tomato Deluxe Collectors Edition
Today Bitmap Soft has released the commercial action game 'Turbo Tomato – Deluxe Collectors Edition' in which you have to try to remove mutated vegetables from the playground using bombs.
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31.Jul.2021
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7-bit: Software update for 508i-Wicher cards
7-bit has released a software update to version 2.8b3 for its Wicher 508i cards which fixes a bug in AmigaOS3.2.
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31.Jul.2021
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Print-/PDF Magazine: Amiga Addict, Issue 7
Seventh issue of British magazine "Amiga Addict" is available for pre-ordering. The lead article is about Psygnosis, but there are also articles about the Vampire, a review of Turbo Tomato and a look at how comic books helped sell the Amiga back in the day. This issue has 60 pages and includes an exclusive demo.
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31.Jul.2021
Dante
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Top-Down-View-Shooter: New Preview video for 'AlarCity'
Already at the end of 2017 the developers of Pixelglass Games had announced the Top-Down-View-Shooter 'AlarCity'. John Tsakiris now has published a YouTube video "showcasing the transition from the original old 1.0 demo to the new design and direction." The game is being developed using the Scorpion Engine.
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31.Jul.2021
Amitopia
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MorphOS: Reading data of Garmin devices
Carsten Siegners Healthcare "reads data from Garmin devices (smart watches,
portable GPS devices and bicycle computers. This data are displayed in a diagram." The first public version 1.0 can read cardiogram (data of the heart), sport, user profile and device info from the hardware. The latest MorphOS-Version 3.15 is required.
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[News message: 31. Jul. 2021, 07:12] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jul.2021
Andre Ravalico (ANF)
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Videos: New channel CommoGuru (german)
At the title link, Andre 'Wollny' Ravalico has started a german YouTube channel called "CommoGuru". His aim are more in-depth reports compared to other videos about Commodore.
For now there are two videos of almost 45 minutes each about the Amiga CD³² and the Amiga 1200. Depending on reception, more will follow.
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[News message: 30. Jul. 2021, 15:25] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jul.2021
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ACube Systems: New online shop / Sam460cr boards still not available
Press release, 29. July 2021:
"ACube Systems it’s pleased to announce the opening of its new online store.
In the new store customers will find the current lineup of ACube hardware ranging from barebones motherboards to accessories. Everything you’ll need to enjoy your AmigaOS / MorphOS experience with the usual quality and reliability you expect from several years of experience.
Please note:
Registered users of the old shop have been automatically imported, but we highly recommend all users to check their accounts, especially the shipping address, and correct any errors they should see."
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[News message: 30. Jul. 2021, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jul.2021
Patrick Nevian
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Tales of Gorluth III: Development status and survey
In January 2019 the third part of Tales of Gorluth Saga was announced. In April of the last year the developer Patrick Nevian (AMIworx) informed that the third part is being ported to the Scorpion Engine.
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[News message: 29. Jul. 2021, 11:51] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jul.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Emulator: QEMU 6.1 emulates Pegasos II
Two days ago, release candidate 1 of version 6.1 of the emulator QEMU has been published, including now the possibility to also emulate bplan's PowerPC mainboard Pegasos II.
Besides the AmigaOne X5000 and the already emulated mainboard Sam460ex, Pegasos II is the only further platform running MorphOS as well as AmigaOS 4.1, barring original Amiga computers with corresponding accelerator boards, which, despite internal maintenance, are not officially supported anymore since MorphOS 1.4.5.
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29.Jul.2021
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Lawsuit: Hyperion's response to Evert Carton's testimony
On June 25, 2021 Hyperion's co-founder and sole managing director during the settlement negotiations with Amiga Inc. in 2009, Evert Carton, was deposed by both parties' lawyers in the lawsuit of the plaintiffs Cloanto and the so-called Amiga parties vs. Hyperion Entertainment as defendant. On July 14, 2021 plaintiffs submitted a motion for leave to file regarding this deposition (amiga-news.de reported).
On July 28, 2021, Hyperion Entertainment submitted their response to the court, requesting that plaintiffs’ motion should be denied (PDF file). Besides lack of diligence - because plaintiffs failed to depose Evert Carton before filing their motion for summary judgement - and increased harm for Hyperion with regard to their business relationships if the summary judgement would be delayed by admission of the deposition, the application is also substantiated by Evert Carton's minor relationship to the Amiga market.
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28.Jul.2021
AmigaLove
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Iconverter: Old icons with a new look / Basics about AmigaOS icons
With 'Iconverter' (currently version 0.95) you can convert old icons as if they were created for today's more recent versions of AmigaOS. Iconverter converts AmigaOS 1.x and MagicWB icons into the format of NewIcons, using the color scale for which these icons were created. Theoretically this would also work for icons created under AmigaOS 2.0 to 3.1, but they are usually displayed correctly without conversion.
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[News message: 28. Jul. 2021, 07:09] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jul.2021
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mouSTer: USB input devices for retro computers / Review
In the middle of last year, the Polish store retrohax.net announced "mouSTer", an adapter that allows connecting any USB mice and joypads to classic computers. In the meantime, "mouSTer" is available from the provider for just under 26 euros (plus shipping). The current firmware version is 3.12.2019.
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[News message: 27. Jul. 2021, 08:40] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jul.2021
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Adventure: Furtum Sacrum (Spanish/English)
Furtum Sacrum ("holy theft") is a point'n'click adventure by the Spanish group AmigaWave (amiga-news.de reported). Besides its original language, also English is supported. The game features characters of the film adaptation of the novel "The name of the rose", but a storyline of its own. Your task as a monk sent to the monastery San Martiño de Xuvia is to clear a series of robberies.
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27.Jul.2021
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Video tutorial on how to install the Amiga emulator 'Amiberry' on a Pi400
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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[News message: 27. Jul. 2021, 08:12] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jul.2021
Greg Donner
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CS-Lab: New firmware 1.20 for Warp560/1260 available
As reported by Greg Donner on his unofficial Warp 3060/4060 page, CS-Lab has released a new version 1.20 for the Warp 560 and Warp 1260 along with an updated Quick Start Guide, which includes the following changes:
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[News message: 27. Jul. 2021, 07:55] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jul.2021
English Amiga Board (Website)
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MIDI utilities: amiditools 1.0.0
Christian Vogelsang provides with the 'amiditools' some tools for musicians who control MIDI hardware with an Amiga. The package contains the following programs:
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[News message: 26. Jul. 2021, 22:44] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jul.2021
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 4.9 Beta 25
The next release of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE will be version number 5.0 due to a new chipset emulation as well as the emulation of a Voodoo3 graphics card. Beta versions have been provided by the developer Toni Wilen for some time already under the version name WinUAE 4.9 Beta [n], currently Beta 25.
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25.Jul.2021
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2021.5.2
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
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25.Jul.2021
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Aminet uploads until 24.07.2021
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25.Jul.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 24.07.2021
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25.Jul.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 24.07.2021
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25.Jul.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.07.2021
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[News message: 25. Jul. 2021, 06:43] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jul.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.07.2021
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 24.07.2021:
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[News message: 25. Jul. 2021, 06:43] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jul.2021
Aminet
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.8.13
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: 24. Jul. 2021, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jul.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vasm 1.8l
Earlier this week Frank Wille released an update of the modular assembler vasm. A list of changes in version 1.8l can be found at the title link.
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23.Jul.2021
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS 3.15: Bugfix for RAM handler
RAM handler of MorphOS 3.15 comprises a bug lasting for some years already that may result in the RAM: root directory to appear to contain many duplicate entries. With help by user 'AngryTom', MorphOS team member Harry 'Piru' Sintonen could fix this bug and release a patch for it now. To install it, extract the archive and drag & drop "ramrootfix" to SYS:WBStartup.
Download: ramrootfix.lha (21 KB)
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23.Jul.2021
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 0.125
Today MorphOS team member Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek released an update for his e-mail client Iris. Changes in version 0.125 include improvements of spellchecking, context menus and HTML markup code of e-mails.
For feedback to the author the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used.
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23.Jul.2021
Amigans
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Developer package: DevPack 1.1
The free "DevPack" provided by Dimitris Panokostas and Philipp Lonke is meant for Amiga users who under AmigaOS are going to develop software. The first version was released at the end of October 2020. The package is hosted on the Amikit website but does not have any dependencies on the commercial Workbench environment and can be installed on harddrive by extracting the lzx archive. Diverse compilers, text editors and other tools are included as listed in the Readme.
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22.Jul.2021
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A2000-Motherboard using the EATX standard: Revision 1.2 is production candidate
After the developer 'jasonsbeer' has tested the prototpye of his rebuild of the A2000 motherboard called 'Amiga-2000-ATX', he has set revision 1.2 as production candidate. He wrote:
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22.Jul.2021
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Game announcement: 'Jump!'
Polish developer Markus Duda is in the process of converting Yoomph, originally written for the Atari, for the Amiga. You have to move in a three-dimensional tunnel by means of a bouncing Amigaball and hit various (bonus) areas. This YouTube video shows the gameplay on the target platform: An Amiga 1200 with 4 MB Fast RAM.
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21.Jul.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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Retailer: Relec changing ownership
Swiss Amiga retailer Relec has been founded in 1996 to fill a gap in the French speaking part of Switzerland as well as other countries of the same language. Now co-founder Emmanuel Rey is handing the company over to Benoît Wiblé. Connected to this is a change of location: the reseller moves from Payerne in the canton of Vaud to Fully in Valais.
Below you can read the official press release by Relec:
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21.Jul.2021
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Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons: Game conversion technical details
In his blog Cracking Stones one of the developers of the game Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons (amiga-news.de reported) gives detailed information about how it was technically implemented
So far four blog entries have been published:
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21.Jul.2021
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Project announcement: Universal Commodore power supply
The website 'RavenWolf' is generally dedicated to the research and restoration of all kinds of retro technology. In the latest project, a universal Commodore power supply is to be developed in the next few months. It is intended to be built by any hobbyist and will therefore mainly use commonly available components.
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19.Jul.2021
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood-Plugin: RapaGUI 2.0 released
Press release: After almost 4 years of development Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the long awaited release of RapaGUI 2.0. RapaGUI is the cross-platform GUI toolkit for Hollywood that allows you to create GUIs with native widgets for AmigaOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. GUI layouts in RapaGUI are conveniently defined in XML files which are then converted into full-blown GUIs by RapaGUI on-the-fly. It just doesn't get any easier!
RapaGUI 2.0 is a major update with lots of new features, improvements and bug fixes. Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in RapaGUI 2.0:
- support for Android!
- high-DPI monitors are now supported
- support for GTK3 on Linux
- core event handler completely rewritten
- convenient internationalization (i18n) support
- inter-process communication is now supported
- online help support
- dark mode support
- different fonts and font styles are now supported
- new Splitter, Finddialog and Hyperlink classes
- many new features for existing classes
- support for several new Hollywood 9 features
- over 50 pages of new documentation
- lots of other improvements and bug fixes
RapaGUI 2.0 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x64) and Windows (x86, x64) are provided. RapaGUI comes with almost 350 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM that describe the GUI programming basics in detail and provide a convenient function and class reference.
Note that Hollywood 9 is strictly required by RapaGUI 2.0. It won't work with older Hollywood versions. Also note that there are a few minor incompatibilities between RapaGUI 2.0 and 1.x so it might be necessary to adapt your scripts. See the documentation for details.
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18.Jul.2021
Amiga Documents (Twitter)
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Lawsuit: Evert Carton on the settlement agreement from 2009
As requested by Cloanto and the Amiga parties, Evert Carton made a deposition in their lawsuit with Hyperion, the company he was a co-founder of. Plaintiffs' aim is to clarify the original intention of the settlement agreement (PDF file) signed in 2009 by Amiga Inc. and Hyperion.
The agreement's interpretation on the usage of trademarks and the source code of AmigaOS 3.1 is disputed (amiga-news.de reported), especially its further development for Motorola 680x0-based Commodore Amiga computers in the form of AmigaOS 3.1.4 and meanwhile also AmigaOS 3.2, respectively. Going by the plaintiffs point of view, Hyperion is cashing in on it unlawfully; a preliminary agreement to tolerate the distribution of AmigaOS 3.2 if it was made available for free was withdrawn in January.
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18.Jul.2021
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Aminet uploads until 17.07.2021
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18.Jul.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.07.2021
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18.Jul.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 17.07.2021
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18.Jul.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.07.2021
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[News message: 18. Jul. 2021, 06:39] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jul.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.07.2021
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 17.07.2021:
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17.Jul.2021
PPA
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Arcade shooter: Bean Versus The Animator
'17BitRetro' has released the arcade shooter 'Bean Versus The Animator' which can be purchased for 5 Dollar. The archive includes a lguide as well as five adf files. According to the developers they "wrote it originally back in 1994 and finished it off this year".
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17.Jul.2021
PPA
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Shell extension: Go Shell 3.0
The developer Krzysztof Donat wrote: "GoShell is free and easy tool to open Shell terminal in fullscreen on separate screen. You can choose any screen mode, set the colors and fonts, change the terminal window settings, and more. GoShell also has several predefined color sets, e.g. classic OS 3.x or OS 1.3, dark, green, orange etc."
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17.Jul.2021
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Amiga disks on PC: Pre-orders and name change for Smith's project
Robert Smith has renamed his project for reading Amiga disks using a PC disk drive from 'Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer' to 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge).
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16.Jul.2021
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A2000-Motherboard im E-ATX-Formfaktor: Tests des Amiga-2000-ATX-Prototypen
After developer 'jasonsbeer' received the commissioned prototype of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX', a few days ago, he is now testing it for functionality and possible bugs. He writes:
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15.Jul.2021
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PDF Magazine: Lotek64, Issue 62
The magazine "Lotek64" is dedicated to old or alternative computer systems. The 62nd issue contains, among other things, a report on the Anaglyph 3D process used in the demoscene for about 30 years and its applications, including the example of the Amiga. This article can also be read on the website 'tarnkappe.info', where it is supplemented by some videos.
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15.Jul.2021
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: Version 6.8 des Audio-Treibers für Intel HD Audio
An update of the new AHI driver for AmigaOS 4 has been released (amiga-news.de reported) which includes the following changes:
- Output options added (ALL, Line, Front HP, S/PDIF)
- Added support for S/PDIF output (both RCA and optical)
- Added support for output muting (mutes Line, Front HP and S/PDIF)
- Added support for line-in and microphone preamplifier. (From the CODEC perspective, Line-In and MIC are equivalent. Therefore, preamps can also be enabled for Line-In).
- Speed improvements
- Small bug fixes
Explaining, the developer adds:
"With AHIRecord you can select a monitor output. This is a strange implementation becauseese actually makes an AHI request to change the playback output. This would require a digital loop. But this is not implemented in AHIrecord.
Now that the playback output selection is implemented, this is how you control the playback output for the next playback cycle. So be careful.
The internal monitor hardware provides an analog loopback to a small selection of outputs. The Sound Blaster Audigy FX is limited to the Front HP and Line outputs.
The CM8828+CM9882 cards are limited to the Line output only. So you cannot use the HD audio front panel output as a monitor output
AHI has no way to switch to monitor input. Only to monitor volume. So all monitor outputs are enabled. But if there is a need for a single monitor output, I can add a mute option for the other single outputs."
Supported Soundcards:
- Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy FX (24bit/192kHz 5.1)
- Startech PEXSOUND7CH (24bit/192kHz 7.1) -> available under many different names
- Fransande 411944 (24bit/192kHz 7.1) -> available under many different names
- Terratec AUREON 7.1 PCIe (24bit/192kHz 7.1)
Sound cards that should work:
- Basically any combination of HDaudio controller and HD Audio multichannel codec (e.g. CA0113, CM8828, CM9882A ALC898 etc.)
Sound cards that do not work (yet):
- Asus Xonar Phoebus solo (CM8888 in combination with Discrete DACs in high quality)
- Powercolor Devil HDX (CM8888 in combination mit Discrete DAC)
Sound cards that will never work:
- "Sound Core3D" (CA0132) based sound blasters (Eg. Z, AE-5, AE-7, AE-9 etc). These cards have a DSP (ca0132) instead of an audio codec. They initially appear to be HD audio cards but after the DSP is booted they behave totally differently. Therefore, such cards must be supported with other drivers.
- PCIe Asus sound cards that are currently on sale. These cards are either AV100 (converted CMI8788), CM8786 or C-media 6632AX (USB chip) based. None of these chips comply with the Intel HD Audio standard.
- Sound Blaster Audigy RX and all other EMU-based or X-FI-based sound blasters. (do not comply with the Intel HD Audio Standard).
- Non-PCIe sound cards in general like external USB cards or old PCI cards.
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[News message: 15. Jul. 2021, 06:31] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jul.2021
Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail)
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Amiga disks on PC: Copy program A-Copy
A-Copy is a program that looks a lot like X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows. It requires the ADF drive hardware, which uses a Teensy USB Development Board as an adapter between PC and floppy drive.
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[News message: 14. Jul. 2021, 23:51] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jul.2021
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AmigaOS 4: Python implementation of Space Invaders
Programmed by Tomohiro Nishikado and Taito distributed by Taito, Space Invaders premiered in 1978: an attack of aliens had to be fended off with the spaceship, moving left and right with it at the bottom of the screen and trying to decimate with shots the rows of regularly arranged aliens that were constantly moving horizontally, gradually moving downwards.
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12.Jul.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview-Video: Point'n Click Adventure 'Athanor 2'
Two years ago 16-bit conversions of the point'n click adventure game 'Athanor 2 - The Legend Of The Birdmen' (originally developed for the Amstrad CPC) were announced. Now, a first video has been released: Athanor 2 Amiga (pre-release video), comparison of the Atari ST and Amiga conversions.
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12.Jul.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Game Compilation: Ad Cosmos Ex Terra
Ad Cosmos Ex Terra is a game compilation for A500 with one MB of RAM. The disc image, which can be downloaded for free or for a price to be determined by the customer, contains the titles 'Lumberjack', 'Pong 4b' and 'Jump Besi Jump' - the first two have been revised again for this release.
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12.Jul.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Teaser video: Jump'n Run 'Agonman' announced for August
'Agonman' is a platform game created with the help of the RedPill development environment. A teaser video announces the release of the title for August. A 68020 and 2 MB of RAM are mentioned as the minimum requirements, while a 68030 and some Fast RAM are recommended. Agonman uses some of the graphics from the 2020 released classic 'Agony'.
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12.Jul.2021
Amigans
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Puzzler 'Follix' for AGA Amigas released
Recently he has updated his puzzle game ArtPazz, yesterday Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has announced the release of his AGA puzzle game Follix. He wrote:
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[News message: 12. Jul. 2021, 09:42] [Comments: 0]
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11.Jul.2021
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Amiga-2000-ATX
The developer 'jasonsbeer' continues to work on his project 'Amiga-2000-ATX' (amiga-news.de reported). 'Amiga-2000-ATX' is a replica of the A2000 motherboard which, unlike the original, uses the E-ATX form factor and thus fits into standard PC cases. Another goal in development is to replace components that are no longer available with newer alternatives wherever possible.
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[News message: 11. Jul. 2021, 09:03] [Comments: 0]
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11.Jul.2021
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Aminet uploads until 10.07.2021
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11.Jul.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 10.07.2021
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11.Jul.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 10.07.2021
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11.Jul.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 10.07.2021
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11.Jul.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 10.07.2021
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 10.07.2021:
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11.Jul.2021
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: Interface XXVIII in Kiel (Germany) on 07.08.2021
On saturday, August 7 2021, the retro computer event "Interface" is taking place in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. Organised as usual by Vintage Computer Club (VCC), Amiga-Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH) and Computer-Club Klausdorf (CCK), further information can be found in the german version of this news-item.
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10.Jul.2021
AmigaLove
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ADF support for AmigaOS 1.3: DiskMimic
Chris Brenner writes: "This software was created to fill in a missing feature of OS 1.3: the ability to mount ADF images. It allows you to directly read and write ADF images stored on your hard drive. Although it was intended to work with ADF images, there is no reason why this software shouldn't work with other types of disk images as well, as long as you have a suitable file system and enough space on your hard drive.
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10.Jul.2021
Aminet
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.8.12 / Shot'em up in 33 Minutes (Video)
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. YouTuber 'kerrichal' demonstrates in a video how to create a shot'em up game within 33 minutes using RedPill.
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10.Jul.2021
Amigans
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Puzzle game: ArtPazz 1.1 (AGA)
In ArtPazz, the goal is to put the jumbled pieces of each classic painting back in their original place by moving them around (video). The puzzle game was created with AMOS Professional for AGA-Amigas and is free, but the author also allows you to pay a voluntary price.
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09.Jul.2021
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ALS 1.96/2.0: Screen overlay
Recently Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua announced an AGA specialized version of his AMOS Layers system, which he has now released as version 2.0. He also updated the previous version supporting OCS and ECS. He writes:
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09.Jul.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Database entry for Amiga mark updated
Already earlier this year, the "Amiga" trademark had been transferred to Amiga Corporation by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with regard to the USA (amiga-news.de reported). However, the USPTO trademarks database still had to be updated. This has been done meanwhile at the title link.
Also for two further Amiga marks finalisation is imminent: the checkmark as well as the boing ball are to be published end of this month (at the websites linked, please click on "Status"; further information can be found at the "Prosecution History" entry).
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09.Jul.2021
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RTG-Driver: P96 v3.1.0
The graphics card driver P96 has been updated to version 3.1.0. The update is available free of charge for existing customers who have purchased the driver in the last 12 months. Jens Schönfeld writes about this new version:
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08.Jul.2021
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Platformer Game: Last demo version of 'Super Delivery Boy'
A last demo version of the platformer game 'Super Delivery Boy' (Video) developed with the Scorpion Engine is available under the title link. According to the developer the "expected release date should be somewhere around winter 2021". A boxed edition has been announced as well. Changes of this demo version:
- Added dialogues with profile pictures
- More interactivity with objects and characters
- Mission complete level, where you can deliver the box and get ready for the next delivery (restore health etc..)
- Level 1 revisited and rebalanced
- 2 secret areas
- Updated title screen visual and added music
- .. and as usual, a lot more for you to find out!
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08.Jul.2021
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 2.3
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web browser Wayfarer has been updated to version 2.3. Changes:
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