17.Feb.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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7-bit: Wicher installation disk 2.5
The driver disk for the Wicher expansion cards developed by 7-bit has been updated. No detailed information on the changes version 2.5 are available.
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17.Feb.2021
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US trademark: "Amiga" now registered by Amiga Corporation
Last autumn, Hyperion had withdrawn its opposition against Cloanto's registration of the US trademark 'Amiga'. According to current paperwork from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) the mark is now properly registered.
The document still lists Cloanto Corporation as the owner of the mark. We are told by Mike Battilana (Cloanto, Amiga Corporation) that this is caused by the USPTO's slowness when adding results from the assignment queue to the public database. He points out that the the mark has already been assigned to Amiga Corporation back in January and that he expects the USPTO database to get updated accordingly in the next few days.
Note from staff: Since the USPTO is already pointing out a "likelihood of confusion" of the US marks Hyperion applied for (AmigaOne, AmigaOS) with the 'Amiga' mark, we assume that these attempted registrations will be denied in the near future now that the latter has been registered.
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16.Feb.2021
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #107: Demoscene - The Art of Coding
Demoscene - The Art of Coding is an initiative to enlist the demoscene as the first digital culture on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage. AJ and Joerg (er, Derision and Nafcom) talk to Dedux, Flopine, Kudrix, and Unjello about why this is important and how we can all help move the initiative forward. (interview begins at 10:00).
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16.Feb.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 149, preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 149 (March/April 2021) have been published online now under the title link. Its contents include an interview with Adrian Cummings and reviews to AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition - Update 2 and the FPGA computer MiSTer.
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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16.Feb.2021
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: Software Development Kit 3.16 (February 2021)
Press release: The MorphOS Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the MorphOS 3.16 SDK, February 2021 release. This update includes a greatly enhanced GDB, with TUI, syntax highlighting and shared library debugging. Two new profiling utilities were added. EventProfiler may be used to instrument a applications and generate Chrome Debugger files that may be loaded into Wayfarer for analysis. Koprofiler is a sampling profile that can be used to record a selected thread. Several GG packages were also updated, including git, wget, nano and perl. Updated OpenSSH now comes with ssh-agent.
Our new SDK requires MorphOS 3.15 and about 2 GB of free disk space and can be found in our files section. As usual, a separate source package is available for download as well.
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15.Feb.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MIDI soft synthesizer FrozenLiquid 1.1
Antoine 'Tcheko' Dubourg's FrozenLiquid is a "small Shell tool" for MorphOS playing MIDI sounds without having to have the required hardware. CAMD and Reggae are required. The soft synthesizer is based on FluidLite.
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15.Feb.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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VirusZ III: Bootblock file updated
In December the Virus Help Team reported a new bootblock virus (amiga-news.de reported). A week ago a new bootblock file was released to use with VirusZ III v1.02. The team wrote: "Some of the bootblock viruses we have added to the VirusZ_III.Bootblocks, will make checksum changes with each mutation, that means that every time the virus infects, it change code. So there is absolutely no guarantee that the new viruses, we have added it will be reported as a the virus, because the virus could have mutated and changed it's code. But we will add as many mutations as we possible can."
The team also explained under the title link: "VirusZ is still the classic antivirus software for Amiga computers. Virus Help Team have made this VirusZ_III.bootblocks file, because there is nothing else we can do, no one from Virus Help Team knows anything about programming and can't make an antivirus program and Virus Help Team does not have the scource code for the xvs.library by Georg Hörmann. So that is why we think this is better than nothing, at least now VirusZ III can find bootvirus unknown to xvs.library."
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14.Feb.2021
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Aminet uploads until 13.02.2021
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14.Feb.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 13.02.2021
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14.Feb.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 13.02.2021
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14.Feb.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.02.2021
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14.Feb.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 13.02.2021
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 13.02.2021:
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13.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Two other Jump'n Run games announced (Scorpion Engine)
Currently two other games are being developed using the Scorpion Engine: The first one is a classic jump'n run (video) which has been tested on several Amigas - specific requirements are still not available. The second game (video) is more a "fly'n run" for the player controls a owl.
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12.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade classic: Amiga Space Invaders, beta 3
"Space Invaders" (video) written in Blitz Basic is supposed to be quite an authentic port of the arcade classic with the same name released in 1978. The new beta version fixes minor bugs. Additionally, the game now also runs on an A500 with full speed. A new background picture was added as well: By pressing the 'B' key you can change the background picture, the '1' and '2' keys change the colour of the overlay.
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12.Feb.2021
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Game engine: Antiryad Gx 4.9 (AmigaOS 3, AROS, MorphOS)
Antiryad Gx is an engine for 2D-/3D games available for different platforms. After a registration also commercial games can be written using the free version. Changes in version 4.9:
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11.Feb.2021
Jochen Hoffer (E-Mail)
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Tetris clone: Crazy Columns (demo) 0.95
Jochen Hoffer has released a new version of 'Columns', a classic Sega game (video). Now you can set up the controls of how the colours rotate or the "Tetrominoes" immediately dropp down.
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11.Feb.2021
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Print magazine: Issue 128 of Amiga Future readable online
The English issue 128 (September/October 2017) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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10.Feb.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Pre-order: A1100 - A new motherboard for Amiga-1000 housing
The 'A1100' is a new motherboard for an A1000 housing. A video shows the hardware. The boards has the following specifications:
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10.Feb.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Java-based graphic tool: ham_convert 1.8.1
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based 'ham_convert' converts modern graphic formats into the HAM format of the Amiga.
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09.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview videos: Jump'n Run 'Minkey', Darts game 'Game Shot!'
'Minkey' is a classic jump'n run for Amigas equipped with at least 1 MB RAM. According to the author the engine has been "90% finished". So far 11 levels can be played. A new video hows the first level of World 2.
'Game Shot!' (video) is eine Darts game for the Amiga, dedicated to the late father of the author. It is written by the Scourge of the Underkind developer.
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09.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Jump'n Run: Pitfall II - Lost Caverns
'Pitfall II: Lost Caverns' is a port of the classic jump'n run game of the same name to the Amiga using the Scorpion Engine. The current version still is alpha According to the author "it still needs a lot of polish, but it is a fully working and completable port of the C64 release. Unfortunately, this first release won't run smoothly on an A500 - but it should be OK on an A1200 (future updates should be a lot more optimal)."
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09.Feb.2021
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Arcade Shoot'em-Up: 'Gradius' port Tinyus Beta 0.1
After Tiny Invaders, Tiny Galaga and Tiny Bobble, the demo group of Abyss is working on its fourth aracade port within one year: 'Tinyus' (video) is a faithful port of the arcade shoot'em up Gradius released in 1985:
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07.Feb.2021
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Aminet uploads until 06.02.2021
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07.Feb.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 06.02.2021
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07.Feb.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 06.02.2021
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07.Feb.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 06.02.2021
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07.Feb.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.02.2021
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06.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Turbo Sprint - First port of the classic as time-limited beta version
'Turbo Sprint' (video) is supposed to become a faithful port of the Atari classic Super Sprint. Improved sound as well as support of the CD32 are announced. Now a first time-limited beta version has been released with the following features:
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05.Feb.2021
Vintage is the New Old
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Programming contest: BASIC 10Liner Contest
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some sound or colorful lines by writing little BASIC programs.
The organizers wrote: "The BASIC 10Liner Contest started 2011 as a party fun at the NOMAM meeting in Northern Germany. NOMAM means 'Not only marvelous Atari machinery' and is an annual meeting from classic computer enthusiasts. The visitors of the meeting decided to hold a little contest: Write a program in 10 lines of BASIC on Atari Computers! We had loads of fun with programming the whole weekend. 2013 we decided to repeat the contest. This time only games were allowed. In 2014 we opened the 10Liner contest also for programmers who did not visit to the meeting. Owners of other 8 bit computer requested to open the contest for their machines. We met the wish and opened it for all 8 bit computers."
This year the contest celebrate 10th anniversary. And also Amigas as 16 bit computers can partiticipate: In the category "Wild" those contributions can be sent in. You can get some inspiration from contributions of the previous years. Additional to many little games, two programs for the Amiga were also written: In 2018 Matteo Trevisan wrote an "Amiga BASIC Login" (fourth post) and in 2019 an "Amiga 500 Chatbot", listet as first post.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 27, 2021, 6 p.m. CET. Award ceremony: Saturday, April 10, 2021 at NOMAM.
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03.Feb.2021
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New preview video: Shoot'em Up 'Inviyya'
The development of the shoot'em up game 'Inviyya' (we reported on it) inspired by the classic R-Type has been almost completed: A new preview video shows the latest level of development - according to the developer the final tests have been started. The game will be published on poly.play.
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02.Feb.2021
English Amiga Board (Website)
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Self-made project: Real-time clock for A500 and A1000
Marcel Jähne's "A1k SimpleClock" is a real-time clock for the A500 and A1000 which is put on the socket of the 68000 processor. All required documents can be found on Gitlab under a free license.
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02.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Video: Amiga port of 'Metal Gear' (MSX) in progress
On Youtube a video shows the Amiga port of the MSX game Metal Gear which is the first part of a action adventure game. According to the author, the "gameplay code is 90% complete".
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02.Feb.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Playable Demo: Nameless single screen platform game
For a so far nameless single screen platform game (video) created with the Scorpion Engine now a demo version was released providing three playable levels.
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31.Jan.2021
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 0.107
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is going to be the standard e-mail client for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and is able to display as well as create HTML e-mails.
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31.Jan.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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31.Jan.2021
Juan Carlos Martin (Mail)
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Point'n Click adventure: "The Widow" updated (update)
Already on 21. January Juan Carlos 'Templario' Herran Martin announced an update of his point' click adventure 'The Widow' on his Morgue Soft website. But only from today the new version 1.10 is available. Additional to German and Italian catalogs and new sounds, some bugs were fixed and minor changes done, among others "the Bath Girl doesn't showed naked when you take some object from her".
To amiga-news.de, Juan Carlos confirmed his intention of closing the "chapter Amiga" and thus also his website by March 12. In contrary to the past practice, he is going to upload his most important programs to the different Amiga archives like Aminet, OS4Depot or AROS archive.
Update: (02.02.2021, 05:40, dr)
As a reader pointed out, the website of Morgue Soft already has been closed. Juan Carlos explained, that he has to disable his website due to limited memory for website traffic provided by the web hoster. Instead of paying he decided to close the website as signal of solidarity for almost all shops in Spain are closed. He pointede out that except the erotic games all software will be archived on OS4Depot und MorphOS. He also has indicated that in one way or another he might continue his developer activities.
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31.Jan.2021
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Aminet uploads until 30.01.2021
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31.Jan.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.01.2021
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31.Jan.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.01.2021
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31.Jan.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.01.2021
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31.Jan.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.01.2021
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30.Jan.2021
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Raspberry Pi as m68000 replacement: PiStorm
Claude Schwarz' 'PiStorm' connects a Raspberry Pi to a CPU socket of an A500, A1000 or A2000 using an adapter for emulating a fast m68k processor. In contrary to the Buffee project a Linux-based solution is used instead of running the 68k emulator directly on the hardware.
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29.Jan.2021
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Accelerator board project 'Buffee': ARM processor emulates 68040/400 Mhz
The open source accelerator board project "Buffee" started by Renee Cousins and Tim Wacker consists of an adapter board which is connected to the processor socket of an A500, A1000 or A2000 and has a SoC of type Octavo OSD335x-SM inclusive 512 or 1024 MB RAM.
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29.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Screenbar plugin 'VideoMemoryGauge', updates of other plugins
The Screenbar plugin 'VideoMemoryGauge' shows the free video RAM. By double clicking the plugin, the program GraphicBoards is started. Additionally all other Screenbar plugins have been updated:
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28.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Tanker simulation: Full versions of 'Campaign' and 'Campaign II' as download
The full versions of the tank simulations 'Campaign' and 'Campaign II' released in 1992 and 1994 can be downloaded from the Amiga Future website. Additional to ADF and IPF disk images, also WHDLoad installers are available. The pdf document described as "Manual" actually only is a one page "addendum" to the manual.
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28.Jan.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade classic: Second beta version of Amiga Space Invaders
"Space Invaders" (video) written in Blitz Basic is supposed to be quite an authentic port of the arcade classic with the same name released in 1978. The new beta version provides minor improvements and an "Easter-Egg" of the original.
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28.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 127 of Amiga Future online available
The English issue 127 (Juli/August 2017) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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27.Jan.2021
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E-Mail client: YAM supports AmiSSL 4.7 / moved to GitHub
About seven years ago we reported about an update of the e-Mail program YAM last time. At the beginning of the year 2019 by updating AmiSSL to version 4.3 it was possible again to check e-mails from diverse providers. For that you have to switch to the developer version of YAM which has been monthly updated by Nightly Builds. After a month you had to install the new version since each version was limited for a period of one month. Apart from that, the changelog always stayed the same: "This is only a rebuild of YAM with no functionaly changes but updated expiration date."
By releasing the last Nightly Build, this limitation has been removed. And if you try to access the YAM homepage yam.ch you are forwarded to the GitHub site.
Apart from that YAM can use the latest version 4.7 of AmiSSL. Since version 4.4 the encryption software for network and internet communication is maintained by a team of the IBrowse developer Oliver Roberts and ensures that even at the Amiga encrypted Internet connection can be established. Mainly 68k Amigas generally benefit from optimized versions for 68020-40 and 68060 processors, but 68060 processors in particular (amiga-news.de reported).
We could not figure out how intensively YAM is being developed. For example it is not clear if the target set in 2016 to implement a IMAP download is continued to pursue. The source code of YAM is available on GitHub so everybode who is able and interested in developing further YAM can help.
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27.Jan.2021
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Product announcement: A500 replacement board 'MiSS FGPA'
8bits4ever already is offering some FPGA solutions for retro fans. Soon also a FPGA-based replacement boards for A500 cases will be available. This 'MiSS FPGA' fit inside a Commodore A500 case and uses the original A500 keyboard as input device.
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27.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 118 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") compares the ports of classic games on different systems available back then. Besides the Italian version of the magazine there is also an English one.
Among others the latest issue includes Amiga articles about Maniac Mansion and Project Battlefield.
Downloads:
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Italian
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26.Jan.2021
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World Episode 106 - Retro music on floppy disks
The musician 'Remute' does not olny release his productions on vinyl or as download but also on Amiga and C64 floppy disks. 'Scene World' talks to him about why he chose this medium, and the unique challenges associated with releasing music on such unusual platforms (interview begins at 22:40).
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26.Jan.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview videos: Jump'n Run 'Minkey', Super-Sprint clone 'Turbo Sprint'
'Minkey' (video) is a classic jump'n run for Amigas equipped with at least 1 MB RAM. The author describes the engine as "90% finished". So far 11 levels can be played. And he has added: "There are also more colorful levels ready with nice copper'ed backgrounds, I will post them soon." The game is supposed to be released this year.
'Turbo Sprint' (video) becomes a original port of the Atari classic Super Sprint. Improved sound as well as a port for the CD32 has been announced. The author hopes to provide the best homecomputer port of Super Sprint.
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[News message: 26. Jan. 2021, 21:58] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jan.2021
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Database: MUIBase 4.3 and SQLite 3.34.0
Steffen Gutmann has released an update of his programmable relational database MUIBase for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS (and Windows and Linux). For SQLite is used as engine he has also updated his port of this SQL database.
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[News message: 26. Jan. 2021, 21:45] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jan.2021
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Tetris clone: Crazy Columns (demo) 0.93
Jochen Hoffer has released a new demo version of his port of the Sega classic 'Columns'. German as well as English versions are available now and the update fixes a few minor bugs. The developer tells us that the last thing holding back the release of the full version is the completion of the sound effects.
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[News message: 25. Jan. 2021, 21:38] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jan.2021
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: e-mail client Iris 0.104
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is going to be the standard e-mail client for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and is able to display as well as create HTML e-mails.
With this latest release you can now add e-mail archives of other programs. Several bugs have been also fixed. For feedback to the author, the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used.
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24.Jan.2021
Aminet
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Console replacement: ViNCEd 3.98
"ViNCEd" written by Thomas Richter is a replacement for the console program CON:. You can run the Shell in it but also other programs.
The full screen console handler has many additional features. For example "the whole window content is kept in memory, so you may use the cursor keys to move upwards on the screen and may re-execute commands you typed some time ago by pressing the return key". Furthermore yYou can cut, copy and paste text to and from the clipboard, as with the standard handler."
By adding parameters, many programs support the debugging mode. If you use the ordinary Shell for it you can only read and copy this text which fits in the current window. Using ViNCEd you can read and copy the whole debug output by selecting the text with the helpof the cursor keys or the scroll bars.
According to Thomas Richter, "the first version of ViNCEd appeared years ago (even before 1990). In lack of a better name, I called it VeryNewCon - as
opposed to the NEWCON: developed by Commodore for the 1.3 Workbench which was the latest clue at this time. VeryNewCon was short VNC: - but since this
name is really boring, I decided to fill in some vowels - and add an "Ed". Well, it's an editor which runs, apparently, a shell in it."
Changes in version 3.98: "If ViNCEd became active before ENV: and LOCALE: were setup, the localization wasn't updated for new windows even after ENV: became mounted. ViNCEd now also pulls all new system preferences once it becomes aware that the preferences system becomes active. Also, a new swedish locale is included."
ViNCEd requires OS 2.0 or higher.
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[News message: 24. Jan. 2021, 08:05] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jan.2021
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Aminet uploads until 23.01.2021
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24.Jan.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.01.2021
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24.Jan.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 23.01.2021
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24.Jan.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.01.2021
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24.Jan.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.01.2021
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 installer has been added until 23.01.2021:
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[News message: 24. Jan. 2021, 07:25] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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CDXL play: AGABlaster 0.9.82
AGABlaster plays Commodore's CDXL videos. In version 0.9.82 support for standard 12-bit AGA6-8 and HAM8 videos (used in several games in the late 90s) was added. Additionally optimized versions for all 68k processors inclusive Vampire are available.
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[News message: 23. Jan. 2021, 23:09] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2021
Aminet
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Spaceship vs Asteroids Game: SPOD
After more than 20 years Marten Wobst has reactivated his Amiga 500. In celebration of the day he has written a little game called SPOD (Space Pilot of Death).
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[News message: 23. Jan. 2021, 09:02] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2021
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Videos of virtual meeting of "Amiga Ireland"
This year the annual meeting of "Amiga Ireland" has been virtually organized. On YouTube you now can watch the videos which were shown on the meeting last Saturday. Among others the results of the Creative Competition, tutorials on Lightwave and BlitzBasic and interviews with Trevor Dickinson and David Pleasance.
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[News message: 22. Jan. 2021, 23:24] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2021
amiga ireland 2021 online youtube channel (ANF)
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Prototype: New 2-Stick controller for Amiga or C64 introduced
"Abstraction Games" has developed a new joypad for C64 and Amiga which has four fire buttons but also two sticks - working on the joystick port without having to change something on the computer. In the past dual-stick-controllers often were used in slot machines but so far has been not available for Commodore home computers.
Two games have been also introduced which the developers have adapted to the new joysticks: Chaos Engine and Commando (C64). Probably the games will be commercially distributed, maybe as Kickstarter campaign.
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[News message: 22. Jan. 2021, 23:19] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2021
Amiga Documents (Twitter)
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Lawsuit: Hyperion und Cloanto allegedly close to a settlement again
A year ago, Hyperion and Cloanto asked the judge presiding their lawsuit to extend a deadline because they were allegedly close to finalizing a settlement. A few days later, the negotiations were aborted.
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21.Jan.2021
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Book announcement:'From Vultures to Vampires' splitted into two parts
Last summer the second book of the former Commodore-UK manager David Pleasance, written together with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign. According to Pleasance in two updates (1, 2), they "seriously underestimated the amount of enthralling material our research has uncovered, added to which as Trevor and I reached out to many of the people who feature in these stories, to our surprise (and sheer delight) many have responded and added even more intriguing content than we could have ever wished for."
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[News message: 21. Jan. 2021, 23:15] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jan.2021
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MicroTouch driver: Full version of GPTouch available
The Amiga Future offers the full version of 'GPTouch' for free download. GPTouch is a driver for touch screens produced by MicroTouch in 1991.
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[News message: 21. Jan. 2021, 21:19] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Driver update for Wicher cards
A new driver disk for the expansion cards Wicher 500i rev.2c/Ex, Wicher 508i (Ex), Wicher 608, Wicher CDTV and Wicher 1211 developed by 7-bit has been releaed. The sdcard.device as well as the Ethernet drivers enc28j60_w16.device and enc28j60_w32.device has been updated.
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[News message: 20. Jan. 2021, 23:24] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Apollo core: Release 5 for Vampire 4
The Apollo core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series of Motorola providing a new graphic resolution called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards. Apollo Release 5 provides the following changes:
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[News message: 20. Jan. 2021, 23:18] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jan.2021
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Turn-based space strategy: Imperium Terranum 2.802a
The source code of the turn-based space strategy game Imperium Terranum 2 has been available on Aminet for many years. For some time now the little documented Pascal source code 'Fook42' is converting into standard conforming Cn - aiming at later improving the game, e.g. adding support for graphic cards.
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[News message: 19. Jan. 2021, 01:38] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jan.2021
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Online competition: Results of 'Commodore Creative Competition 2021'
The results of the "Commodore Creative Competition" this year for the first time virtually organized by the Amiga Users Ireland are now available. All contributions of the categories "Mod/AHX", "Pixel Art" and "Raytracing" can be downloaded.
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[News message: 18. Jan. 2021, 22:57] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jan.2021
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 2
For publishing the first issue of the British "Amiga Addict", 500 pre-orders were required. The magazine was delivered in December. Now the second issue can be ordered which will be delievered from 29. January.
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[News message: 18. Jan. 2021, 22:52] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jan.2021
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Modplayer: AmiModRadio 0.99991
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." Other websites like Haxor.fi, Modland and Modules.pl are supported as well. A rating function is also included. In the latest version a console bug was fixed. Besides: "Fixed/improved the code dealing with the players and updated the HTTP User-agent to make all HTTP sources work." If you want to report bugs then please use the official bugtracker. Any ideas for improving the program are welcome!
As the author Tygre told ue, his homepage is completely maintained using an Amiga 1200 being in his office at work. Due to COVID currently he cannot easily reset the Amiga if it has freezed so it may happen that the website is temporarily not available for quite some time.
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[News message: 17. Jan. 2021, 08:59] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jan.2021
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Aminet uploads until 16.01.2021
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[News message: 17. Jan. 2021, 06:09] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jan.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 16.01.2021
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17.Jan.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.01.2021
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[News message: 17. Jan. 2021, 06:09] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jan.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 16.01.2021
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 16.01.2021:
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16.Jan.2021
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Video port: New DB23F video connectors available
The US American companies Soigeneris and Retronic Design - both selling their products also on ebay - joined their forces to have this D-Sub connectors remanufactured. They also inform that "we are working on a matching plastic hood for the DB23 connector which we hope to have out Q1 2021. In the meantime, it is possible to use a DB25 hood, however the mounting screw holes will not line up properly."
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[News message: 16. Jan. 2021, 16:23] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jan.2021
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Internet radio: Radio Ericade plays Amiga mods twenty-for-seven
The according to their own statement "last true Amiga music broadcaster" Radio Ericade from Sweden plays Amiga mods just around the clock. The program is completed by editorial content e.g. advertising active mailboxes. Besides, every Saturday evening 9 p.m. CET the show "Amiga Flashback" runs. The maintainer of the website plays his favourite songs and tells anecdotes of the heydey of the Amiga.
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[News message: 16. Jan. 2021, 16:15] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 126 of Amiga Future available online
Issue 125 (March/April 2017) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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[News message: 16. Jan. 2021, 15:39] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jan.2021
Domagoj Ozanic (ANF)
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Amiga-WARP calender for 2021
The same procedure as every year: The Croatian Amiga-WARP club has created a calendar for 2021 which can be downloaded as Croatian or English pdf version.
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[News message: 16. Jan. 2021, 15:37] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jan.2021
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Tetris clone: Crazy Columns (demo) (update)
Jochen Hoffer's 'Crazy Columns' is a clone of the classic Sega-Genesis game Columns for one or two players, which can be played with joystick or keyboard. Now a demo was released featuring only one of the three game modes and only one difficulty.
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[News message: 15. Jan. 2021, 23:17] [Comments: 0]
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