23.Jul.2024
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Time travel at gamescom 2024: Retro Area invites you to play games and reminisce
There is one thing that cannot be missed at gamescom 2024, which takes place in Cologne from 21 to 25 August 2024: the popular Retro Area! In Hall 10.2, visitors will embark on a nostalgic journey through 50 years of video game history.
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23.Jul.2024
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Arcade port: King and Balloon V0.94
"King and Balloon" is an arcade conversion of the title King & Balloon, originally released by Namco in 1980 (amiga-news.de reported). The new beta version 0.94 that has now been released includes small bug fixes, enables joystick support (port 2) and adds a highscore load/save function (ADF & WHDLoad).
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22.Jul.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" V0.16.29
Rafał Zabdyr has released another beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required.
The new version includes the following changes:
- added option 'copy file name' in file context menus
- configuration for diff colors
- configurable 'lines of context' for diff
- added 'What is New' window
- added Shell tab
- added application icon
- now Git Desktop can be run from icon
- configuration of commits history date format
- added option to save output log to file
- updated appearance of History list
- updated branch list, now shows also remote branches
- enhanced branch deletion
- enhanced branch switching
- enhanced local repository handling
- many other improvements
- many bug fixes
The developer has also published tutorials for this project on YouTube.
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22.Jul.2024
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Accelerator board projekt: Revision 0.8 of Buffee boards
The turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported) has been rather quiet lately. Now Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the project, is back with a new blog entry.
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22.Jul.2024
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Java tool: ham_convert 1.10.2
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based tool ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.10.2. Changes:
- Faster extra HAM6 palette optimized.
- Fixed Atari 8-bit gui glitch.
- Fixed a bug that caused noticeable conversion slowdown.
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21.Jul.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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Video: Interview with Andy Finkel
In April Dave McMurtrie did an interview with the former Amiga developer Andy Finkel about his time at Commodore, where he was working since 1981. Now the 50 minute video of the interview has been published at the title link.
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21.Jul.2024
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: Extended SVG support in Pangomonium 2.0
Pangomonium is a plugin for Hollywood that offers a modern text and graphics engine with extensive features, including support for exotic fonts and coloured emojis.
In the recently released version 2.0, Pangomonium now also supports SVG image files.
A separate SVG plugin for Hollywood has existed for over a decade. Pangomonium 2.0's SVG renderer, however, offers much more advanced feature support by using the plugin's modern text and graphics engine. This allows more complex graphics to be displayed. It also improves performance and simplifies the workflow.
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21.Jul.2024
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21.Jul.2024
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21.Jul.2024
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21.Jul.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 20.07.2024
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21.Jul.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.07.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 20.07.2024:
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20.Jul.2024
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Image converter: Lazzy Image Viewer v0.71 for Windows
In 2010, 'PascalVault' started to create a website that allows you to quickly convert old image formats into new ones. It was written in PHP but unfortunately "terribly slow", as he writes to us.
He is now in the process of porting the code to Pascal using the Lazarus IDE: with more formats, a "nice GUI" and some additional functions (filters, resizing, etc.). As he writes, there is still a lot to do, but the tool is already usable. With the recently released version, images can now also be loaded in Amiga format IFF/ILBM. If required and with the appropriate feedback, he would also include this format as a save option in the next version.
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19.Jul.2024
Discord
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Platform game: Test version of "Dr. Dangerous"
Inspired by the Amiga classic Rick Dangerous, hoogames has released a playable test version of "Dr Dangerous", which was created with the Scorpion Engine and offers eight playable levels (YouTube video).
It is the first project for the Amiga platform and was actually only intended to be used for testing. Now it is to become a complete game. If there is enough interest and feedback, more Amiga games will follow.
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19.Jul.2024
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Event: Commodore and Amiga Meeting (Belgium)
The "Belgian Amiga Club" is once again organising a "BAC Meeting" on 21 September in Antwerp. Admission is from 1 pm. In addition to workshops and lectures, a special focus this year will be on new hardware such as the A600GS and the A1222 Plus. Admission is free, even for users with their own computers. Catering will be provided.
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19.Jul.2024
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2024.1
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used. Version 2024.1 was released today with numerous new features and updates.
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19.Jul.2024
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.6 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.6 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools v1.18 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes:
- Requires Greaseweazle 1.18
- New image format: NS Dos Northstar (nsi)
- New disc formats: "hp.mmfm.9885", "hp.mmfm.9895"
- New disc formats: "northstar.fm.ds", "northstar.fm.ds", "northstar.mfm.ds", "northstar.mfm.ds"
- Convert: Added "--hard-sectors" converts input index marks into hard sectors
- Updated "diskdefs.cfg" (2024-07-07)
- Updated disc formats syntax: "mm1.os9.80dshd_32", "..._33", "..._36", "..._37"
- Write/Convert: Small fixes with file extensions (.ipf, sorting)
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19.Jul.2024
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Adventure: Geo's Quest "In Search of Queen Lorraine" v2.1
Paul Golian began writing his graphic adventure Geo's Quest "In Search of Queen Lorraine" in 2000, interrupted work on it in 2002 and was only able to continue it last year when he retired (amiga-news.de reported). The now released version 2.1 (YouTube trailer) contains bug fixes, which should now prevent memory-related crashes. In addition, a manual in PDF format is now available for a desired price of 2 dollars, which contains a 56-page description and a walk through each room, a description of all inventory items and an introduction to each character in the game - or can also be used as a storybook.
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19.Jul.2024
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Linux: Kernel 6.10.0 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux-Kernels 6.10, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests.
Download: linux-image-6.10.0-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (61 MB)
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19.Jul.2024
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.18
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
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18.Jul.2024
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 1.28
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.28 of his e-mail program Iris for MorphOS. Changes include improvements in the insertion of links and graphics as well as speed improvements in the synchronization of local folders and file selection operations. In addition, as with Wayfarer, the WebKit core has been updated to version 2.44.2.
Download: iris.lha (27 MB)
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18.Jul.2024
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Alinea Computer is looking for Amiga game developers to support the Octodapter
Simon Neumann writes: "We are looking for game developers who would like to adapt their existing Amiga games or future developments to our new 10 player adapter called Octodapter.
The Octodapter provides 8 additional joystick ports via the Amiga's parallel port and will even support wireless joypads and joysticks in the final version.
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17.Jul.2024
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Obligement: interview with developer Kari-Pekka Koljonen
A new interview with Kari-Pekka Koljonen has been published on the Obligement website, in which the Finnish developer talks about his experiences and projects and his involvement in the demoscene. Koljonen's best-known projects include the module player HippoPlayer and the artillery game TankX. The full interview can be found under the title link.
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17.Jul.2024
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Games database LemonAmiga back online after hacker attack
The comprehensive games database LemonAmiga was the victim of a hacker attack last Sunday (amiga-news.de reported). As of today, the website is back online and fully usable.
According to the operators of LemonAmiga, the hackers gained access to the entire database during the serious security incident. The administrators have taken immediate action to close the security gaps and implement additional protective measures. Users are asked to change their passwords and enable multi-factor authentication to secure their accounts.
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17.Jul.2024
Reddit
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Arcade Attack: interview with Barry Leitch about Lotus 2
Barry Leitch is one of the world's longest-serving composers of video game music and has provided soundtracks and effects for a large number of games during his career. His best-known works include the classic racing games Lotus Turbo Esprit Challenge and Super Cars 2 for the Amiga and Horizon Chase 1 and 2, a recent retro-style racing game series for Playstation, Xbox, Switch and iPhone.
The Arcade Attack podcast previously published an interview (in English) with the musician in 2019 about his work on the classic Lotus 2 and has now republished it on YouTube with a playthrough of some Lotus 2 racetracks to accompany the talk. Barry provides exciting insights into his creative work and the process of developing his soundtracks.
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16.Jul.2024
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Demoscene: TRISTAR + TSA and DevLab-TSA makerspace archive has been launched
The members of the former demoscene group ‘TRISTAR’ have put an archive online that contains extensive material from the period 1987 to 2012, including demos (for C64, PC and Amiga), music and graphics documenting the creative history of the group. Also of historical interest are the collections of photos and videos of scene parties and reports as well as scroll texts from Tristar productions. Those interested can also find the productions of the following art group The Solaris Agency (T.S.A) under this link.
In addition, content from the joint makerspace ‘DevLab T.S.A’ is now available. This offers a platform for creative minds to realise their projects in a collaborative environment. Since 2021, the makerspace has been open to interested visitors on certain days to provide an insight into the ongoing projects and working methods. Further information and visiting times can be found on the subsite of DevLab T.S.A..
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14.Jul.2024
Darren 'dmcoles' Coles (ANF)
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Programming: IDE Codecraft 1.15
Camilla Boemann's Codecraft is an integrated development environment (IDE). It was tested with SAS/C and E, but should also support other programming languages. The IDE is free of charge, but requires at least AmigaOS 3.2.2 as it is an extension of the program TextEdit.
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14.Jul.2024
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Games database LemonAmiga has been hacked
The games database and retro community "LemonAmiga" has apparently been hacked: both lemonamiga.com and its sister site lemon64.com are currently offline, with only a note from the operators indicating that they are currently analyzing the attack and working on securing their own systems.
According to reports in various forums, around 60 accounts of LemonAmiga users have apparently been taken over, mostly very old accounts that have not been actively used for many years. Initially, the hijacked user accounts were used to start arguments in the forum or to make the port of 'Doom' the highest rated Amiga classic in the games database. Shortly before the shutdown, the forums were simply flooded with link spam.
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14.Jul.2024
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14.Jul.2024
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13.Jul.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: "VD aktuell" 04
Press release: Summer fun with the retro gaming illustrated magazine on 64 full-color pages!
It's getting hot outside, time for some cool, easily digestible retro snacks! In the new issue of german VD aktuell, we take an intimate look at the relationship between Indiana Jones and Sophia Hapgood - are they really just colleagues? After a detour to the beach, we then head straight into space and reminisce about retro gaming classics. But we also take a look outside the box and talk about Planet of the Apes and a non-gaming phenomenon of the 1980s and 1990s: video libraries!
As always, there's news in the retro news section, plus brief introductions to new games and new hardware. The video program for the Virtual Dimension and Fog Lake Production channels once again gives you a detailed preview of the next three months and our comic "Danger Dennis" enters its second round.
What are you waiting for? Get your hands on it!
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11.Jul.2024
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future now with 68 pages
The publisher of "Amiga Future" has announced that the size of the print magazine has steadily increased in recent months - starting with the most recent issue, the magazine has 68 pages. It is hoped that the increased size will attract more subscribers.
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10.Jul.2024
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Crowdfunding: Book project by David Pleasance - "Dare to Dream"
After "Commodore - The Inside Story" and "From Vultures to Vampires", former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance is looking for pre-orders for a third book project at the title link. This time, however, the subject is fictional - "Dare to Dream" invites the reader to dream about what might have been if the author, together with the co-managing director Colin Proudfoot, had succeeded in taking over Commodore UK as planned following the bankruptcy of the parent company.
According to the description, former Commodore developer Dave Haynie assists him in writing the book. Participants in the crowdfunding campaign will receive the finished work for 30 British Pounds plus shipping costs (for the EU this will amount to a total of 40 Pounds, around 47 Euros), with the regular retail price being 39 pounds later.
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10.Jul.2024
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.9
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 8.9 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. This fixes six bugs and introduces a "YouTube Experience" notice, which appears when that website is visited for the first time.
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10.Jul.2024
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Test: Audio playback on the AmigaOne A1222 Plus
Due to its incompatible FPU, the use of AmigaOS 4 on the AmigaOne A1222 Plus is subject to restrictions, which also affect popular audio playback programs such as AmigaAMP. 'Ktadd' has tested a few of them at the title link.
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09.Jul.2024
Robert Koon (ANF)
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Developer's diary: Dune II - The Building of A Remaster
Robert Koon, one of the developers involved in the Amiga conversion of Westwood's strategy classic Dune II, has set himself the goal of developing a remake for the Amiga that largely eliminates the limitations of the original release compared to the DOS original. Koon lists the following disadvantages of the existing Amiga port, among others:
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09.Jul.2024
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Rogue-Like "Roguecraft". Preview video, boxed edition can be pre-ordered
The 'Roguelike' Roguecraft, a revised port of the C64 title Rogue 64 from the same developer, is to be released in September in digital and physical editions. Pre-orders for the boxed edition will be accepted until the end of the month. Torque' shows the current status of the game in a YouTube video.
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09.Jul.2024
EAB (Webseite)
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Multiple-choice adventure: Ninja Carnage
In "Ninja Carnage", the player controls a constantly cursing ninja who has to execute a Yakuza boss. The game mechanics are described by the developer as "Die & Retry": decisions have to be made constantly, wrong decisions lead to one of 128 different death sequences.
The game has been translated into seven different languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Polish. The Amiga version uses the HAM6 mode and runs on every OCS computer.
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09.Jul.2024
IndieRetroNews (Webseite)
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Game: Chopper Duel 1.1
Chopper Duel is an Amiga version of the MS-DOS game of the same name by Addict from 1993. The helicopter duel comprises 50 playing fields with 32 colors, requires 512 KB RAM and can be controlled by joystick or keyboard.
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09.Jul.2024
itch.io
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Game template: Survival game 'CyberCity2069' with source code
According to the author, "CyberCity2069" was to be a "survival game with RPG elements", which was developed with AmiBlitz 3. The player returns to the city after three years in the wilderness and has to earn a living with odd jobs in a cyberpunk setting.
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09.Jul.2024
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Point'n Click adventure with photos: Holiday V1.07
Another update has been released for the Point'n Click adventure "Holiday" (video), which fixes various minor bugs:
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09.Jul.2024
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Free/Libre hardware: SMD2000 "Bushfire", an A2000 in Mini-DTX form factor
SMD2000 "Bushfire" is a version of the A2000 motherboard in mini-DTX format (170 mm × 203 mm). The computer has a modular design: In order to be able to work with different Agnus revisions, the Agnus and chip RAM are located on a separate daughterboard. The processor is also on a separate board. The ISA slots have been removed; instead of the video slot, SMD2000 has an RGB2HDMI connection for plugging in a Raspberry Pi connection as well as an internal video header so that S-video capacity can be added later.
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08.Jul.2024
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Interview with Rolf-Dieter Klein and Jim Sachs about "Ports of Call"
For their Norwegian website "Spillhistorie" Hans Arne J. ('Retrogamingpappa') and Joachim Froholt have conducted an interview with two fathers of the well-known Amiga game "Ports of Call", namely Rolf-Dieter Klein, one of the two developers alongside Martin Ulrich, and James D. Sachs, known as Jim, who worked alongside Richard E. La Barre as an illustrator.
Based on their answers, an article was created at the title link, which traces the development of this business simulation, which Aegis Interactive Software released in 1987 for the Amiga and only in 1990 for IBM PCs, whereby the Amiga version was graphically and tonally superior, in accordance with the then still rather limited multimedia capabilities of the IBM PCs.
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.07.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 06.07.2024:
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[News message: 08. Jul. 2024, 07:53] [Comments: 0]
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08.Jul.2024
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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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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07.Jul.2024
Frank Röger (ANF)
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The Grid: A new Tron-clone for up to 10 players
Today, LogicalByte launched the game The Grid. This is a Tron clone with support for up to ten players simultaneously. The requirement for this number of players is an OctaPlayer adapter from Alinea Computer, which is currently still under development and is due to be released later this year. Until then, the game can currently be played against just one human opponent.
The gameplay of The Grid is based on the original game and therefore also on the classic film: players control so-called light cycles and fight for survival in intense arena duels while trying to lure their opponents into light traps.
The system requirements are a PAL Amiga with at least 1 MB Chip RAM and at least 2 joysticks.
According to the website, The Grid is undergoing further development. Open features to be implemented in the course of the year include player names, various grids, power-ups, speed options (currently only one speed is implemented) and memory optimisation (to support Amigas with only 512 KB Chip RAM).
The Grid can be downloaded free of charge from the title link.
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06.Jul.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 169
The English and German issue 169 (July/August 2024) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes a special about power supplies for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200, reviews of hardware (eRGB2HDMI) and applications (Hollywood Designer 7.0) as well as reviews of several new and old games including Glubble, Rogue Declan, Kondi Krush and more.
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06.Jul.2024
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.8
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 8.8 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS which fixes a race condition in MediaSource player and video synchronization issues.
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06.Jul.2024
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Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.7.5 for Windows, Linux and macOS
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (YouTube video).
This update to version 0.7.5 mainly contains UI upgrades: DPI awareness, save/restore window settings, a choice of fonts and UI zoom.
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06.Jul.2024
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Aracde classic: Beta version of Galaga500
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has started to realise another game for the Amiga: this time Namco's Aracade classic Galaga. He has now released a first beta version, which is already fully playable, but may still have minor bugs and not all features. A standard Amiga 500 is sufficient (YouTube video)
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05.Jul.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Scanner utility AirScan V1.40
Arild Aarbakk has released version 1.40 of its AirScan scanner software, which uses the eSCL protocol developed by the Mopria Alliance Technical Working Group. The client is able to scan (or print) without having to install drivers on the client device, as the firmware provided in the scanner is used. Communication is based on the Internet Printing Protocol, a printing service over a network.
SSL support has been added in the new version. Currently, the preview image is still displayed in colour, even if greyscale or black and white has been selected. The final scan is displayed in the selected colour mode. The archive can simply be extracted and copied to the location of your choice. In our test, a Canon G6000 was found without any problems and scanned a document as required, which can be saved as either a jpeg or pdf file.
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05.Jul.2024
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Retro Supplies: Updates of hardware projects
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings and his shop "Retro Supplies" visited the Kickstart 02 event in England last weekend and presented updates of his hardware projects:
He has developed a new version of the RGBtoHDMI board for the Amiga 500, which enables pixel-perfect HDMI output from the Amiga 500 using a Raspberry Pi Zero (not included).
Version 2 of his floppy emulator "GoFloppy" (amiga-news.de reported) is now available, which has an additional special adapter for Amiga computers. This adapter makes it possible to place the GoFloppy on the Amiga 500 / 600 / 1200, and a flex cable supplies the data and power through the ventilation opening of the Amiga. In addition, a switch on the GoFloppy allows you to switch between the internal drive and the GoFloppy as the primary drive in the Amiga (the internal drive is disabled when the GoFloppy is the primary drive).
Finally, he offers various scented candles to "enhance the player's experience of Amiga games."
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05.Jul.2024
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Video: Review of A600GS
In a detailed video, the YouTube channel "Toohey's Tech & Gaming" presents the announced A600GS computer (amiga-news.de reported).
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04.Jul.2024
Paulee Alex Bow (E-Mail)
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Synth-Pop mit Amiga-Beteiligung: "Bleakwave" von Vogue Renege
Amiga musician Paulee Alex Bow has released an EP called "Bleakwave" under the artist name 'Vogue Renege'. The songs can be purchased on Bandcamp, a CD version can be ordered from the author by e-mail.
As Bow tells us, a whole series of Amiga computers (A500+, A1200 and A3000) were used for the production. Trackers are responsible for a large part of the rhythm work, but Amiga-based software synthesizers, real-time effects programs and MIDI software are also used on each track, which together produce a "very special sound" according to the artist.
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04.Jul.2024
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AmigaOS 4: ignition OpenDocument addon V0.40, Excel addon V0.12
With the release of the spreadsheet ignition 1.30 (amiga-news.de reported) Achim Pankalla has also updated two addons:
The ods-addon enables tables to be loaded and saved in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc, among others. In this version 0.40, a bug has been fixed and new functions of the current ignition version have been implemented.
The xlsx add-on for importing MS Excel files is now available in version 0.12, which also supports new functions of the recently released ignition version.
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04.Jul.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Spreadsheet ignition 1.30
Achim Pankalla has released version 1.30 of his spreadsheet ignition which at least requires AmigaOS 4.1 update 6. Changes:
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[News message: 04. Jul. 2024, 06:15] [Comments: 1 - 06. Jul. 2024, 21:06]
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03.Jul.2024
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Event: Awards for unpublished productions at Passione Amiga Day 2024
This year's Passione Amiga Day will take place on September 15th (amiga-news.de reported). Participants will also be able to vote for the Passione Amiga Award for previously unreleased Amiga productions (including NG systems).
The following categories are included: games (at least one fully playable level), applications and demoscene productions (demo, intro, music disk, slideshow, disk magazine or compilation). Entries can be submitted until September 10th, limited to one per person.
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02.Jul.2024
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Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.3.0.04 / 2.5.1.04 for Amigas with 68060 CPU
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3 for a long time: the current conversions are available for RTG-Amigas and AGA-Amigas with 68060 processor. The RTG-version 2.5.1.04 is based on ScummVM 2.5.1, the AGA-versio 2.3.0.04 is based on ScummVM 2.3.0. Using ScummVM, games from LucasArts, Revolution, Sierra On-Line, Westwood Studios and other manufacturers can be run, even those that were never originally released for the Amiga.
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02.Jul.2024
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
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02.Jul.2024
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Puzzle game: Ami Robbo 2 V0.1
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch's latest project will be a contribution to AmiGameJam 2024: Ami Robbo 2 is the successor to Amirobbo by Polish game developers Bernard Krzymowski and Artur 'Szafir' Szafrański, which was released in 1992. With his permission and assistance, new graphics and levels were created for the second part. Robbo is a universal combat robot that has got into trouble and needs to be rescued from abandoned military bases with the player's help.
The gameplay is based on the classic Sokoban but there are many other elements and a top-down view that Tukatsch invented. There will be a lot of graphics from different artists, and the animations themselves will be different and more rich. The early version 0.1 that has now been released implements basic control of the robot and interaction with objects.
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02.Jul.2024
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m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin v1.8.10 for Visual Studio Code
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. The stable version 1.8.10 fixes a strange behaviour during debugging and restores the vasm output, which was suppressed since version 1.8.4. On GitHub, a detailed documentation is available.
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01.Jul.2024
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Emulator with live monitoring: Coppenheimer V0.2
Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, has developed an alternative user interface for the browser-based emulator vAmigaWeb with Coppenheimer, which can monitor memory utilisation in real time (YouTube video).
n addition to the functions provided by vAmigaWeb such as ROM selection, starting disc images or executable files, managing emulator snapshots, some DMA monitoring and a debugger shell, Coppenheimer can also be used to find bitmaps in memory. The application is designed for classic Amigas with OCS, 68000 processor and 512+512 KB memory configuration:
The following features have now been added in the updated version 0.2:
- Real-time diagrams for DMA utilisation and memory accesses
- emulator vAmigaWeb updated
- better eye-catching play/pause button
The initial version was tested by the developer 'dj h0ffman' in a Twitch session.
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30.Jun.2024
Hyperion (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Update for Heretic II
Earlier this year the third person shooter Heretic II has been released for AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). Now Steffen Häuser has published an update containing smaller improvements with regard to CD audio output as well as bugfixes.
Details can be found in the official press release by Hyperion at the title link.
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2024, 21:20] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2024
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Game: Gorky 17 for AmigaOS 3.x (68k) released
Press release: We are pleased to announce that we have been appointed by Hyperion Entertainment as distributor of another game, Gorky 17 for AmigaOS 3.x (68k).
Gorky 17 is a horror conspiracy game that combines strategy and RPG elements. The game has a strategic combat system similar to the famous Amiga RPG Ambermoon - or the more recent "Baldur's Gate 3" - and also uses point-and-click adventure elements. The story is also driven forward by voice samples and atmospheric music.
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2024, 21:14] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2024
ANF
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Print magazine: Retro Gamer with 4000 subscribers (German)
The German print and PDF magazine Retro Gamer, which also contains articles on Amiga topics (amiga-news.de reported), should actually have been discontinued by its original publisher at the end of last year, but has since been published by Jörg Langer himself.
Now it is reported that there are 4000 subscribers meanwhile and that the issue 2/24 has been sold around 8800 times (excluding the ePaper version) by subscription, via the online store and in retail outlets. The print run was said to be at 15000.
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2024, 20:56] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2024
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Manual: Pandory500 on the THEA500 Mini (German)
As reported, the alternative firmware "Pandory500" for the THEA500 Mini enables usage of emulators of other systems.
At the title link 'Mingo' has published a German manual with several screenshots how to achieve this.
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2024, 20:28] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for June 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 in his "Old School Game Blog" at the title link.
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2024, 20:16] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2024
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Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (v0.4)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world" (amiga-news.de reported). With this further early demo version, the size of the level has increased to a massive 60 screens. There is also another power-up to collect and, for the first time, a WHDLoad package to download.
Direct downloads:
NeonWorld.adf.zip (105 KB)
NeonWorld.whdload.lha (111 KB)
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2024, 14:08] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2024
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Aminet uploads until 29.06.2024
The following files have been added until 29.06.2024 to Aminet:
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2024, 08:12] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 29.06.2024
The following files have been added until 29.06.2024 to OS4Depot:
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30.Jun.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.06.2024
The following files have been added until 29.06.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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30.Jun.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 29.06.2024
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 29.06.2024:
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2024, 08:12] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2024
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Survival game: Zombie Survivor V1.26
Sami Vehmaa continues to work on his current project "Zombie Survival", a game for Amigas with a graphics card in which you have to fight off an endless army of the undead (YouTube video). The current version 1.26 offers the following changes:
- There is a new tiled map system and with it comes a editor. Game supports two maps: one is user created map, you can edit in game. Editor can only put objects on the tiled ground, tiled ground can't be changed. Object can be placed with only one restriction not overlap other objects
- More objects has been added, old road was removed
- Some gfx changed to the better, put some lipstick on it ;)
- menu code is upgraded
- some nasty and some gfx bugs was found and fixed !
- game has been adapted to work as best it can on all resolutions
- Some audio overhaul and added in game music
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2024, 07:05] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2024
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Puzzle game: Shift
Shift is a puzzle game that has been published by Antony Lavelle for various platforms such as iOS and will soon also be available for Windows PC. The special feature: the player is in a room that is half black, half white and has the ability to "shift" - turning the game environment and levels around, turning floors into ceilings and obstacles into paths while trying to find the way to the next room.
After the version for Atari, Haplo has now released the Amiga version, which offers improved graphics, new animations and 8 new levels (44 levels plus a secret level). The game runs on OCS Amigas.
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2024, 06:59] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jun.2024
GitHub
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga V2.6.2 (update)
Starting with version 2.6.1, developer Dirk Hoffmann wants to make changes to the internal architecture of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS. The long-term goal is to port the new emulator architecture from VirtualC64 V5.0 to vAmiga in order to enable features such as Run-Ahead (background article). As the architectural changes are considerable, several intermediate versions will be part of this project.
The minimum system requirement for his emulator is macOS 11.0.
Update: (02.07.2024, 05:40, dr)
Version 2.6.2, which was released yesterday, fixes crashes in the configuration panel and restores the functionality of the RetroShell command "amiga defaults".
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[News message: 29. Jun. 2024, 09:53] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jun.2024
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Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.7.4 for Windows, Linux and macOS
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (YouTube video).
This Update to version 0.7.4 introduces the correct support of labels. In addition, the latest beta version of the developer tool vasm has been integrated, which adds two new options:
- dbg-local adds local labels with their original name (like 1$ or .abc) to HUNK_SYMBOL.
- dbg-globloc adds local labels by trying to construct a name out of their preceding global label and the original local label name: global$local (Examples: main$1$, main$.abc).
This means that executables built with these options will automatically have correct names for local label symbols applied by the ira disassembler.
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[News message: 29. Jun. 2024, 08:16] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jun.2024
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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.8.0
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 28. Jun. 2024, 15:58] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jun.2024
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Video tutorials: Hexadecimal colour values in AMOS
A fortnight ago, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' showed in the first part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro how to determine the hexadecimal colour codes for your own program and the colour codes of all bobs or sprites using a utility he created. In the second part, which has now been published, feedback from users has been incorporated and his utility programme has been further improved.
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28.Jun.2024
GitHub
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Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.5 for Windows, Mac and Linux
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Amiga. Version 0.6.5 introduces, among other things, the TIunA sound driver inspired by TIAtune, which uses rapid frequency switching to achieve pitches which otherwise are impossible, therefore facilitating music composition (YouTube video).
The songs can be exported as audio files (.wav), VGM files and ZSM files (for Commander X16). An manual is available.
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27.Jun.2024
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Preview video: Scorpion Engine port of "Street Fighter 1"
In what is probably the last preview video, Mohammed Malik shows the current status of his new conversion of the well-known beat'm up "Street Fighter 1" for the Amiga, created with the help of the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 27. Jun. 2024, 21:45] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jun.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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Video: Git Desktop tutorials
Rafał Zabdyr has started to publish some short video tutorials for Git Desktop, his graphical user interface for the version control system Git (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 27. Jun. 2024, 06:47] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jun.2024
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Sokoban conversion: Cat Hunts Rats
After Skinny Marley, Rodrigo Vertulo has published a second Sokoban variant, this time based on childhood memories: when he was a boy, his kitten brought him "presents" in the form of mice or birds. In his realisation of the game, logical and spatial thinking is required.
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26.Jun.2024
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.5.1 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes of version 1.5.1:
- Send button no longer appears after image creation
- Create image button stays disabled after image creation. Select new image to create a new one
- Updated to latest json-c
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (221 KB)
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26.Jun.2024
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Memory consumption: Consumer 1.0b
To find out how much memory his game prototype Dizzy 1 consumes, 'lifeschool' wrote the "Consumer" tool. Among other things, this is intended to enable developers to estimate the system requirements for newly written software. The results are saved on the screen and also in a text file on S:. The new version fixes two bugs. Kickstart 3.0+ is required.
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26.Jun.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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Event: 4th Passione Amiga Day in Spoleto (Italy)
On September 15, for the 4th time, the Passione Amiga Day will take place in Spoleto, Italy, organized by the magazine of the same name. Admission is free, but donations are requested.
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26.Jun.2024
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Sunny adjusts the color temperature to the time of day
The MorphOS program "Sunny" adjusts the color temperature of the Ambient screen to the time of day to rest the eyes. Although it is currently still alpha version 0.3, the author, Alfonso 'alfie' Ranieri, considers the range of functions to be complete already.
Download: sunny.lha (99 KB)
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26.Jun.2024
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Video: Tour through Trevor Dickinson's Amiga collection
At the title link, Robert Bernardo has filmed a tour through Trevor Dickinson's Amiga collection. The video is almost one hour long.
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[News message: 26. Jun. 2024, 08:02] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jun.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 169 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 169 (July/August 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content includes several reviews - e.g. of Hollywood Designer 7.0 - and a special about power supplies for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200.
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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26.Jun.2024
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Turn-based strategy game: New demo version of "Ecliptic"
Ecliptic is described by the author as "a mixture of turn based tactical combat and role playing" (amiga-news.de reported) being a visually reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Now a third demo has been released for the game which still is in development (YouTube video).
There's now sounds for robot movement and actions, monsters, weapon and item effects and some ambient background noises, too. Additionally the weapon effects have been improved - both in animations and the timing of hits. It's easier to see what's going on, especially with area effects.
The game requires 1MB RAM, recommended is an Amiga 1200 with HD and Fast RAM.
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[News message: 26. Jun. 2024, 06:29] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jun.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 159 (English/Italian)
The free PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available not only in the original Italian edition but also in an English translation (cover on the right-hand page). The new issue 159 contains many comparing reviews of old and new games for retro systems as well as reviews of two Amiga-games, "Moonwalker" and "Tank X".
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[News message: 25. Jun. 2024, 17:28] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jun.2024
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WHDLoad: Manage archives with WHDLoad-Download-Tool v1.4
With WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros from cracker groups that were only intended for disc usage can be installed on the hard disk. The WHDLoad packages basically only contain the installer function, but not the games themselves. The WHDLoad-Download-Tool, which has just been released in version 1.4, can be used to download and conveniently manage complete packages.
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[News message: 25. Jun. 2024, 11:17] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jun.2024
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever 10 updates R2 and R3
Over the past few months, updates have been released for Cloanto's official emulation and support suites "Amiga Forever" and "C64 Forever", which we would like to report on due to some rather promising new features. The current, free update 10 "R3" can be obtained from the Help/About dialogue in Amiga Forever or C64 Forever, alternatively the complete packages and ISO image are available for download from the Help sub-item "My Downloads and Keys".
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25.Jun.2024
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Amiga Kit: Updates and videos for the A600GS games console
Pre-orders for the A600GS computer are currently being dispatched. It has already been available to purchase at individual events such as the RetCon Retro Gaming Festival. The first updates for registered AmiSphere users have now been released before the official sales launch:
- Add display of hard disk file details to HDFGame class.
- Extended HardDisk class to display the filename when a drive is a drawer or hard disk file.
- Improve layout and fone size of hard disk details rows.
- Add an implement the Replace Hard Disk button in the HDFGame edit menu.
- Reorder Add File Chooser filters to put HDF second.
- Add startup sound service
- Update click sound
- Add display of CD32 disk image and replace Disk Image functionality.
- Fix issue where setting up cutomise memory widgets would trigger the game edited state and enable the USE SAVE buttons
- Add Turbo CD to CD32
- Add custom memory options to all classes that need them.
- Add HDFGame class.
- Add HDF Filter to Add Game File Chooser.
- AmiBerry: Adapt WHDBoot code in Amiberry and in AMOS GamebootLoader to use JST
- SystemV46: Add text.datatype and ascii.datatype
Two recently published YouTube videos also show the HDF import and how to save the state of a game.
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[News message: 25. Jun. 2024, 07:27] [Comments: 1 - 25. Jun. 2024, 17:27]
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24.Jun.2024
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Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v3.3.0
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 3.3.0 among others offers testcases and base index addressing:
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[News message: 24. Jun. 2024, 20:29] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2024
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Video: Building a disc cleaning station, part 1
Developer Rob Smith has a special idea for the Kickstart event taking place next weekend: he wants to develop a station for cleaning floppy discs. Some floppy discs cannot be read because the magnetic material has become detached from the disc or a layer of mould has formed.
The first part, compressed into 20 minutes, actually contains several hours of construction work.
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[News message: 24. Jun. 2024, 20:26] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2024
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Text adventure: "Adventure 2" v1.12
After "Adventure 1" (amiga-news.de reported), 'grindercowboy' has also updated his second text adventure (amiga-news.de reported): visible exits have been added to the room descriptions. Bugs had already been fixed and more verbs added in previous updates.
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[News message: 24. Jun. 2024, 15:52] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jun.2024
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Aminet uploads until 22.06.2024
The following files have been added until 22.06.2024 to Aminet:
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[News message: 23. Jun. 2024, 08:00] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jun.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.06.2024
The following files have been added until 22.06.2024 to OS4Depot:
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23.Jun.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.06.2024
The following files have been added until 22.06.2024 to AROS Archives:
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23.Jun.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.06.2024
The following files have been added until 22.06.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 23. Jun. 2024, 07:59] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jun.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.06.2024
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 22.06.2024:
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22.Jun.2024
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Text adventure: "Adventure 1" v0.9
At the beginning of January, 'grindercowboy' published his text adventure "Adventure 1" as a feasibility study (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has made a finished version of this game available, which is based on a short story he wrote about 30 years ago: as a private detective you have to return a stolen painting.
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[News message: 22. Jun. 2024, 21:50] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jun.2024
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.17.1
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
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[News message: 22. Jun. 2024, 07:13] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jun.2024
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy V5.0.5 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.5 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes:
- Requires Greaseweazle 1.17
- New disc formats: apple2.appledos.140, apple2.prodos.140
- New image formats: DO, PO
- Small bugfixes
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[News message: 22. Jun. 2024, 07:09] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jun.2024
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Video: Modernising a standard A1200
In two videos, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how he modernise a standard A1200 to some degree. In the first video, the following is installed:
- A1200.net case
- A1200.net keycaps
- OS 3.2 ROMs
- Internal CF card with OS 3.2 on it
- Real time clock module
- 8Mb RAM expansion
In the second video the Amiga 1200 is equipped with a GoDrive floppy emulator (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 21. Jun. 2024, 10:21] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jun.2024
Mastodon
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Event: Commodore Pacific Expo Nordwest (June 22-23)
This weekend, the fifth Commodore Pacific Expo Northwest will take place in Seattle, located in the US state of Washington. The organisers have now published the presentation and guest list: Robert Bernardo will be showing his A1222 Plus and reporting on his first experiences.
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[News message: 21. Jun. 2024, 07:25] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jun.2024
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 2.30.4 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published a first release candidate of version 2.30.4 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Changes: Änderungen:
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