12.Dec.2020
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Fix for incorrect date of real-time clock on Starboard 2
The memory expansion Microbotics Starboard 2 also provides a real-time clock. But at the end of 2017 it leaped back to 1. January 1978 refusing to display a correct date. Now a user has writen a little program which is launched by the startup-sequence and which pushes forward the date by 40 years.
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12.Dec.2020
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Patch: Kickstart 1.3 with support of HD drives
An user has written a patch which provides support of HD drives for Kickstart 1.3 (version 34.5). The patch program generates either a new Kickstart disk (for A1000) or writes the patched Kickstart image in a file. The HD drive - the developer uses a Chinon FZ-357A - is a replacement for an existing drive and is connected to the motherboard or put into a case of an old, external drive.
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12.Dec.2020
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PDF magazine: Lotek64, issue 61 (German)
The German magazione "Lotek64" covers old and alternative computer systems. Amongst other things. Among other things, issue 61 includes a review on the multi platform adventure "Curse of Rabenstein".
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11.Dec.2020
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Quiz for AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: "Robotics" add-on for AskMeUp XXL
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's "Ask Me Up" is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring now 2226 questions. The free add-on "Robotics" provides 50 new questions, such like: "Who used the word "robot" for the first time ?" and "What is the world's best-selling humanoid robot ?". This add-on was done in partnership with the magazine Planète Robots and his publication editor, Frédéric Boisdron!
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11.Dec.2020
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Alinea Computer: Own hardware extensions and spare parts for Amigas
German Amiga dealer Alinea Computer now also offers smaller hardware and spare parts from its own production. Items sold at the title link include replacement capacitors, clockport expanders and a remake of the Amiga B2000 Rev. 6.2 board.
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11.Dec.2020
RELEC (ANF)
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Vampire 1200 also available in RELEC shop
The Swiss trader RELEC has announced that the first batch of Vampire-1200 accelerator boards will be delivered to purchasers around the turn of the year. The first purchasers should have been informed to confirm their orders. RELEC will offer V1200 and V500(+) boards as well as V600 (soon).
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10.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Network port and SD card reader for Amigas with SPI interface
7-Bit offers a combined Ethernet controller (MINI ENC28J60) and MicroSD card reader which can be used with all devices equipped with a SPI bus - and thus mainly with RAM expansions and "Wicher" accelerator boards.
There are no detailed information about drivers available. The products of 7-bit can be ordered from diverse traders.
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10.Dec.2020
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Wicher 1211: 11 MB memory expansion for A1200
7-bit offers a memory expansion providing up to 11 MB RAM for an Amiga 1200. Additionally the card has a real time clock and a SPI port:
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10.Dec.2020
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Preview video: 'Putter' - a Jump'n Run like 'Soccer Kid'
In August for the first time the Jump'n Run game developed by Third_Knight / Czorny was introduced and now was named 'Putter'. A new preview video of the game which was inspired by Soccer Kid shows the title screen as well as the first five levels. A release date for the game which is developed with RedPill is not yet set.
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09.Dec.2020
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Preview videos: 'Scourge of the Underkind' and Doom clone 'Dread'
"Scourge of the Underkind" is a tribute to games like Gods, Chaos Engine and Alien Breed, is developed in assembler and will offer 16 levels devided into four worlds. A new video shows latest level of development. 'Scourge' will be available in two different versions: A "Special Edition" will be sold together with the Amiga 500 cases announced by a1200.net. Shortly afterwards the standard version - providing different levels and bosses - will be also sold.
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09.Dec.2020
Pär Boberg (ANF)
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Liste of "Famous Amiga Uses" updated
"Famous Amiga Uses" is a list of well-known companies and institutions which used an Amiga. Now the list has been updated again. By updating the list, "Famous Amiga Uses" celebrates its 20. anniversary.
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09.Dec.2020
Diverse (ANF)
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Kickstarter campaign for Amiga inspired case in MiniITX format
In 2018, Stephen Jones financed a case inspired by an A3000 by crowdfunding and revived his brand "Checkmate" for that which he used 30 years ago for an A500 desktop case. In late summer the "Checkmate Mini" was announced which is much smaller and is meant for motherboards with mini-ITX form factor. Using an adapter kit, the case can also host the FPGA emulators "UnAmiga" and "MIster" und since yesterday it is crowdfunded by Kickstarter.
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08.Dec.2020
amiga.org (Webseite)
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ACube: Firmware update for Sam 440ep (flex) - U-boot 1.3.1g
For its PPC motherboards Sam 440ep and Sam 440ep-flex ACube Systems has released a firmware update which can be downloaded for free from the corresponding website. Radeon-HD and Radeon-RX- cards now can be used with a PCIe adapter:
- Improved support for Radeon HD and Radeon RX graphic cards.
Now you can use a Radeon HD / RX via a PCI to PCI Express adapter. On the Sam440ep flex motherboard, it is recommended to use PCI slot #1 for maximum performance. Please note that full support for Radeon RX is still under development and for this reason, with many models of gfx cards, U-Boot does not show any output, but the card works fine once the operating system is loaded.
- Introduced a new menu entry to change the x86 gfx BIOS emulator accuracy.
If your graphic card show some visual problems on startup, try increasing the x86 BIOS emulator accuracy.
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07.Dec.2020
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Polybios 1.3: Hollywood Designer 5.0 can import PDF pages
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working elves in snow business, are proud to present Polybios 1.3. This is a major update which makes it possible to import PDF pages into Hollywood Designer 5.0. Furthermore, it also adds full support for treating PDFs as vector animations in Hollywood and there are some bug fixes as well.
The plugin Polybios 1.3 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k, m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android (arm, arm64), and iOS (arm, arm64) are provided.
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07.Dec.2020
Amiga Ireland (ANF)
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Online competition: Commodore Creative Competition 2021
The "Commodore Creative Competition" is organized by the "Amiga Users Ireland" every year. In January in a meeting of the group the winners of the categories "Mod/AHX", "Pixel Art" and "Raytracing" will be elected. This time it is going to be a virtual meeting. You can send a competition entry using the upload website as well as take part in the vote. You can reserve tickets for the virtual meeting on Eventbrite.
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06.Dec.2020
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06.Dec.2020
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06.Dec.2020
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.12.2020
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06.Dec.2020
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06.Dec.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.12.2020
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06.Dec.2020
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Beast III - As A New Day Dawns (Neil Mix)
- Grave Yard (Finally Out Of My Mind Mix)
- Red Sector Theme - Spatial remix
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05.Dec.2020
Forum64 (Webseite)
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PDF retro magazine: Paleotronic
According to its website, the Australian PDF magazine Paleotronic "takes an enthusiastic look back at the history of electronics, including computers, videogames and media, as well as its use professionally, in business and in industry. Along the way, we trace the roots of the devices and technologies which define our modern world. It's education meets entertainment." The final issue was published in October 2019, most of them are available on archive.org.
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04.Dec.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Modplayer: AmiModRadio 0.9998
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." A rating function is included as well. The new version provides bug fixes. If you want to report bugs then please use the official bugtracker.
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04.Dec.2020
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Amiga emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 0.9.15
Dirk Hoffmann's "vAmiga" is a new Amiga emulator for MacOS computers emulating an A500, A1000 or A2000. Changes in version 0.9.15:
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03.Dec.2020
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Crowdfunding: New, Amiga compatible joypad 'Protopad'
Protovision - a group of develolpers and graphic artists for developeing games for the C64 - is going to pre-finance new joypads which will be developed explicitly for the C64. The pads have eight buttons, one button emulating 'up'. The pad is described as "also compatible with Atari and Amiga". But it is not clear how many of the seven buttons the Amiga can control.
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03.Dec.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Jump'n Run: Boxed Edition of Sqrxz 4 released
Press release: APC&TCP is proud to announce that after Trap Runner and Fred's Journey, Sqrxz 4 is now also available as a boxed edition. As usual with Retroguru, the game was published in a DVD case with floppy disk, booklet and A3 poster. ATTENTION! Be warned! This game requires very good and very quick reflexes. The level of difficulty is above average.System requirements: Kickstart ab 1.2 and 1 MByte RAM.
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02.Dec.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Adding a HDMI port using a Raspberry Pi: Amiga-Digital-Video
The goal of the Github project Amiga-Digital-Video is to add a HDMI port to an Amiga 500, 1000 or 2000 or to a CDTV. A small adapter board is put under the Denise chip. With the help of a ribbon cable, the Raspberry Pi can extract the RGB signals of the Amigas and convert them into a digital video signal using the RGBtoHDMI software.
The software runs directly on the Pi - without requiring an operating system. According to the developer the "HDMI picture has a very low latency (a few milliseconds at most)". Therefore this solution can be also used for games. By watching some videos (1, 2) you can get an idea of the qualitiy.
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01.Dec.2020
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Commodore's DSP software running on a prototype of an A3000+
After Commodore's software support for the AA3000/A3000+, which was never placed on market, showed up, fans tried to make it running on a replica of the AA3000. Obviously they succeeded now: the DSP response to commands of the controlling software.
Hint of the editors: Fotos of the linked thread only are available to registered users.
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01.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Free hardware: GottaGoFastRAM provides 8 Mb RAM for A500/1000/2000 and CDTV
'GottaGoFastRAM' provides 8 MB autoconfig RAM for older Amiga models. The expansion is deliberately kept small for allowing to combine it with other expansions - e.g. an IDE controller -.
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01.Dec.2020
Amigaworld (Webseite)
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Amigakit: RAM-/Flash-ROM expansion for A1200
A new expansion for the A1200 developed by AmigaKit does not only provide 8 MB Fast-RAM (configurable via jumper or "Early Boot Menu" as 4, 5.5 or 8 MB) but additional to FPU socket and clockport also 4 MB FlashRAM which is writeable using the included configuration tool. How the memory is mounted while booting the computer, the website of AmigaKit does not exactly explain: On one hand they are taking about " Kickstart modules or even full Kickstart images" but on the other hand also about software "instantly available on power on". Additionally the card also emulates the non-volatile Flash memory of the CD32, in which games can save e.g. highscores and scores.
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Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Free hardware: Gotek Floppy Disk Emulator V2
Gotek Floppy Disk Emulator V2 is a replica of the well-known Gotek drives, running with the free firmware FlashFloppy. The website of the project currently only is available in Czech (Google translation).
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01.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Platform game: Looty v2
'Looty' (video) is a single screen platform game inspired by an old Spectrum game. Originally the game was released in the mid-90s as Freeware and now was updated providing some bug fixes and optional cursor control. The background music can be turned off. The developer is looking for a graphic artist for his game.
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30.Nov.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga 500 as paper modeling sheet
On his website, Rocky Bergen offers modeling sheets for classic computers, among others also for an Amiga 500 - inclusive mouse and mousepad. There are different screen contents for the monitor as well as the famous special editions crerated by the moderator Stefanie Tücking.
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29.Nov.2020
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Aminet uploads until 28.11.2020
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29.Nov.2020
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OS4Depot uploads until 28.11.2020
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29.Nov.2020
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AROS Archives uploads until 28.11.2020
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29.Nov.2020
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.11.2020
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29.Nov.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.11.2020
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27.Nov.2020
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Puzzle game: "Boxed Edition" of Astro Blox Revisited
In summer the puzzle game 'Astro Blox Revisited' has been released at the "Decrunch 2020" in Poland. Meanwhile there is also a "boxed edition" which can be purchased via two online shops worldwide or in Poland. In this edition a DVD case, a CD, a disk as well as a poster are included.
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27.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Another preview video: Jump'n Run 'Super Metal Hero'
A new Video of the jump'n run game 'Super Metal Hero' developed in BlitzBasic shows the different weapons.
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26.Nov.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 116 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes Amiga articles about the Pac-Man clone "Cruncher Factory" and the multidirectional shooter "Spherical Worlds" as well as a comparision of MOTOROLA and INTEL processors.
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26.Nov.2020
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Action adventure: Port of Heart of Darkness (1998)
Heart of Darkness, released in the late 1990s, is inspired by Chahi's classic Another World but was delivered on CD and therefore offered more animations. Now Artur "Arti" Jarosik has ported the game to AmigaOS. Additionasl to the original files of the game an upgraded Amiga are required - a 68060 or Apollo processor is recommended.
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25.Nov.2020
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Game collection of Luca Carminati for free download
On itch.io, Luca Carminati has released some arcade games for free download which he developed in the mid-1990s for the Amiga. In his Amiga Games Pack (video) the Shareware games Kangy and HyperViper as well as the 'Asteroids' clone 'Croins', the Pang game 'Marietto' and the ski racing game 'Slalom Speciale' are included.
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24.Nov.2020
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Commercial text adventure: 'Tristam Island' available
At the beginning of October, a playable demo version of the commercial text adventure 'Tristam Island' was released. For four US-Dollar now the game which is using Infocom's virtual machine Z-Machine can be purchased on itch.io.
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22.Nov.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: MultiEdit 1.13
A-EON Technology has released an update of its text editor MultiEdit which is only available via the Updater tool. For purchasers of the version released in 2016 or of the commercial Enhancer software, MultiEdit 1.13 is available for free.
The program requires the Toolbar-Gadget class, also available via the Updater.
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22.Nov.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Modplayer: AmiModRadio 0.9997
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." A rating function is included as well. The new version "now has three tasks collaborating to bring you the best modules from the Internet". And the author continiues to explain: "That means no more frozen UI while modules download and downloading can be interrupted at anytime (Just press the stop button!) I also refactored my code to make it more beautiful and fixed several (logic) bugs." If you want to report bugs then please use the official bugtracker.
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22.Nov.2020
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22.Nov.2020
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22.Nov.2020
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AROS Archives uploads until 21.11.2020
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22.Nov.2020
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 21.11.2020
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22.Nov.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.11.2020
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22.Nov.2020
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
- I Hate Marshmallows (Stay Puft Remix)
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22.Nov.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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CS-Lab: Prototypes of accelerator boards Warp 3060/4060 and of CDTV-60
On his "unofficial Warp 3060/4060 page", Greg Donner reports about news of CS-Lab. According to him, now prototypes of the accelerator boards Warp 3060/4060 and CDTV-60 have been finished. Both boards have socketed 68060 CPUs.
Images of the prototypes CS-Lab has published on its Facebook website and Greg Donner on his website as well.
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22.Nov.2020
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CDXL player: AGABlaster 0.9.81
AGABlaster plays videos saved in Commodore's CDXL format (amiga-news.de reported). Now the program is closed when the film has ended (except the command "noexit" was entered).
Download site (25 KB)
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22.Nov.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.83
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires a total of 1,5 MB RAM.
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21.Nov.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Mousemeter 1.3
Mousemeter written by Stefan Blixth (OnyxSoft) is a Screenbar extension for Ambient "which let you see the amount of mouse movements
done on your system. It also show the avarage speed". Additional to minor bug fixes, version 1.3 adds German and Turkish translations.
Download: mousemeter.sbar.lha (101 KB)
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21.Nov.2020
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 1.7
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.7 of his web browser Wayfarer. Additional to bug fixes - e.g. tar.gz archives were decompressed on the fly while downloading them, some new features like online version check have been added.
MorphOS 3.14 as well as 1 GB RAM are required, a processor with at least 1,5 GHz is recommended. For giving feedback please use the corresponding discussion on morphzone.
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21.Nov.2020
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Book: Impossible Mission I and II - The Official Guide
The book "Impossible Mission I and II - The Official Guide" is about "the people who both created and brought the games to market such as: Dennis Casswell, Chris Crigg, Peter Filiberti, Mihaly Kenczler and many more. This definitive work contains dozens of chapters, from the history of Epyx the company, the various versions and ports over the years, the in-game music, the ground-breaking sythesized speech, to extensive hints, tips and walkthroughs."
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20.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Mutation Software: 'Gold Compilation' for CD32, CyberPunks 2 announced
The Mutation Gold Compilation, released in 1998, is a CD32-compatible CD containing Mutation's games Doodlebug, Cyberpunks, Tin Toy, Tommy Gun and Castle Kingdoms. The first two games were adapted to the CD32 joypad. All the games are also available in the new edition but "fixed, updated and remastered by the original developers" and can be purchased now.
Additionally on its website Mutation Software has announced a second part for the top down shooter Cyberpunks.
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18.Nov.2020
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Arcade puzzle: ZGR3D available as 'Boxed Edition'
In ZG3D developed by Project R3D (video) the player has to remove falling Tetris blocks to make space for more blocks permanently falling from the top of the screen. The game runs on any Amiga equipped with at least Kickstart 1.1.
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18.Nov.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full versionen of 'Archon' and 'Archon 2' for download
On the website of the Amiga Future the two classic games 'Archon' and 'Archon 2' are available as ADF and IPF disk images for free download. For the first part also a manual as well as a WHDLoad install is available.
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17.Nov.2020
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 1.6
Today version 1.6 of Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web browser Wayfarer has been released. Additional to some bug fixes, among others a fully WSIWYG printing system as well as spell checking support and undo/redo support were added, history of version 1.6.
MorphOS 3.14 and 1 GB RAM are required. A processor with at least 1,5 GHz is recommended. For giving feedback please use the corresponding discussion on morphzone.
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15.Nov.2020
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Video: The Amiga Show
The Amiga Show is a planned series of 25-minutes videos produced with the Amiga. Yesterday the first episode was published "diving back to July 1985 and witness the launch of the Amiga."
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15.Nov.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #80 - accelerator board Vampire 500 V2 in A100
In issue 80 of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton shows how he put the FPGA accelerator board Vampire 500 V2 into his Amiga 1000.
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15.Nov.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 14.11.2020
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15.Nov.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.11.2020
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15.Nov.2020
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 14.11.2020
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15.Nov.2020
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15.Nov.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 14.11.2020
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 14.11.2020:
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15.Nov.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Overload Pt. 1
- Lost Patrol - Title Remix
- Gods - Into The Wonderful
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15.Nov.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.82
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Fast RAM.
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14.Nov.2020
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Puzzle game: AmiBrixx 2.1 for all Amiga systems
Two weeks ago we reported about version 2.0 of Jörg 'Evil' Renkert's puzzle game AmiBrixx. In this game you try to "elminate groups of stones of the same color. Thereby the other stones will fall down and form new groups. The game ends, when no more groups can be eliminated."
Yesterday the author released version 2.1 providing some minor bug fixes: In the Amiga 68k version now the full screen is used on lower screen solutions (such as HighRes or HighRes Interlaced) which we can confirm by our tests. In the Windows version the game screen moved other windows to top/back sometimes. This was fixed.
The author would be grateful for any feedback including ideas and suggestions for improvement.
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13.Nov.2020
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Competition Pro clone featuring Arcade parts: ArcadeR (Update)
The ArcadeR's design is heavily inspired by the classic 'Competition' joysticks, but inside the newcomer is making use of actual Arcade components - a noname clone of a Sanwa joystick mechanism, to be precise. The sticks are available in different colours and provide optional autofire as well as a configurable 2nd fire button.
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12.Nov.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 125 of Amiga Future online
The English 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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11.Nov.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Games collection for AmiCygnix 1.6
Edgar Schwan has updated his games collection for his X11 environment AmiCygnix. 24 games are included, most of them board- or cardgames but also a shoot'em up and a interactive fractal zoomer.
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11.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Single screen platform game: 'Super Pumpkin Brothers' announced for 2021
The Single screen platform game 'Super Pumpkin Brothers' is a clon of the classic arcade game Snow Bros.. A first playable preview has been already released in 2007 - but then the development stopped. It was now restarted by a six-man team. A video shows the current state of the development.
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10.Nov.2020
amigablogs.net (Webseite)
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Free graphic set for game developer: "NEONworld"
One of the submissions to the Amiga Art Contest 2020 was a graphic set for an imaginary game called "NEONworld". On his Patreon website, the graphics artist Kevin Saunders has provided the set as zip archive. It can be used in free game projects without any limitations. Saunders only wants to be listed in the credits.
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10.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Early video preview: Jump'n Run 'Duckstroma'
In Erik 'earok' Hogan's jump'n run 'Duckstroma' the player controls a duck which can use its eggs for jumping in higher levels. The game already has been released for MSX and ZX Spectrum using the flip-screen feature.
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09.Nov.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Competition: Submissions to the 'Amiga Art Contest 2020' released
For the graphic competition "Amiga Art Contest 2020", started in July, all submissions in the categories "hand drawn artworks", "Photographic" and "Raytracing" now are available on the website of the organizers. The tracks do not seem to be available but some of them can be listened to in a video.
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09.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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3D-Shooter: Another early Tech-Demo from 'Blask'
'Blask' (video) is a 3D-Shooter written in AMOS which is still in the very early stage of development and is supposd to be run on an Amiga 500. In a discussion on ppa.pl (Polish) the developer has talked about the latest progress of the game. He has already released two pre-versions of the game under the former name "Alien Enemy: Dangerous".
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09.Nov.2020
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Little discourse on render-library
In our report about the game AmiBrixx we have attended the auhor Jörn Renkert on the fact that under usually an OS3 port of a Hollywood application requires a graphics card and therefore pushing a port for AGA Amigas.
Unfortunately we did not succeed in running the game on an Amiga1200 equipped with Blizzard 1230 and 128 MB FastRAM. All required libraries have been installed as mentioned by the author. Before this test, on the Amiga of our editor version 40.8 of the render.library was installed but disabled. Instead of it, version 30.0 was active. After even the last edited version released by the author crahed we did remember the previously disabled version 40.8 render.library.
After resetting the system to version 30.0, the game started without problems. We then found two diiferent versions of the library on Aminet:
- Version 40.8, released in 2005, and
- version 32.0, released this year.
Contrary to the information given there in the readmes, version 40.8 was written by Timm S. Mueller (e.g. graphics card picture viewer Mysticview), version 32.0 by Henryk Richter (e.g. author of the music player Eagleplayer). Getting more information about the different versions, we asked the authors for a statement. Kindly enough both oh them replied. Hendryk Richter has summarized it:
"Version 32 of the render.library are virtually identical to 30.0/31.0. After consultation with Timm, the version bump from 31 to 32 was done to merge the different versions of the v30 branch available on Aminet. Only a build for 68060 without FPU was added since the last upload. I do not know any program (68k) which requires a version >30 of the render.library.
The development branch V40 of the render.library was Timm's rewrite in C of the assembler version for providing the option of porting it to PPC platforms. As mentioned in the readme, this re-implementation the much slower on 68k Amigas with processor <68040. It is recommended to use V30-V32 with 68k."
After the installation of version 32.0, the game also worked fine. Therefore we do not only recommend version 32.0 for 68k Amigas - considering the crashes we must advise against this version 40.8.
On request of amigas-news.de the author Timm S. Mueller explained that currently he is not going to deal with it again.
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08.Nov.2020
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #79 - Ultimate Floppy Emulator
In issue 79 of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton has introduced the Ultimate Floppy Emulator developed by Edu Arana and compares it with the GoTek drive. The floppy emulator can be connected internally or externally to the computer, the AFD files can be provided on an USB stick or on a MicroSD card.
Currently the Ultimate Floppy Emulator is sold out, but preorders for the next batch are possible.
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08.Nov.2020
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08.Nov.2020
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08.Nov.2020
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 07.11.2020
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08.Nov.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 07.11.2020
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08.Nov.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.11.2020
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 07.11.2020:
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