11.Dec.2023
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Video: Test of the transfer of the RGB signal from the Amiga to the PiStorm
When using a PiStorm or PiStorm32-lite as an accelerator card, for example in the A1200, the RTG emulation has so far been provided via the HDMI port and the RGB data supplied by the Denise chip at the RGB port. In this video, PiStorm developer Claude Schwarz now shows for the first time how the RGB signal is transferred to the PiStorm's camera port in order to then output all graphics data via a single HDMI port.
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11.Dec.2023
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Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor 1.1
About ten days ago, Stefan Vogt released another text adventure with graphics: "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (amiga-news.de reported). This update fixes an issue with the game's Amiga and Atari ST interpreters.
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11.Dec.2023
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Dock: QDock V2.12
Since our last news item, Sami Vehmaa has updated his start bar "QDock" to version 2.12 (YouTube-Video), which includes a lot of bug fixes and improvements. Among others, transparent now works on 24 and 32 bit screen modes.
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10.Dec.2023
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Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.5
AmiWeatherForecasts displays current weather information in a small window in the menu bar. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.5:
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10.Dec.2023
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Tetris clone: Atris for Apollo systems
Sami Vehmaa has released a version of his Tetris clone Atris (YouTube-Video) which is adapted to Apollo accelerator boards.
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10.Dec.2023
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Hollywood plugins: APNG 1.3 and Plananarama 2.2 released
Press release: This is to announce that bug-fix updates for the APNG and Plananarama plugins for Hollywood have just been released. The APNG plugin for Hollywood adds support for loading and saving PNG animations and Plananarama is a plugin that enables Hollywood to run on non-RTG screens on classic Amigas. Both updates are now available for free download.
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.12.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 09.12.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.12.2023
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10.Dec.2023
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Book: AmigaOS 3.2 – Das Handbuch (German)
As reported, publisher Look Behind You is working on an AmigaOS 3.2 book, printed in German. It will be available on February 20, 2024 and has 512 pages. Details can be found in our german news-item.
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10.Dec.2023
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Crowdfunding: "The Commodore Amiga 500 Story"
At the title link, Nicola and Anthony Caulfield are collecting money to finance a documentary film about the Amiga 500, lasting more than two hours, which will initially only be made available to its backers in April.
The campaign runs until thursday afternoon, and with 555 supporters so far, more than four times the required amount has already been raised.
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10.Dec.2023
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Demoscene: The Commodore Amiga and its Undying Adoration by Anarchist Creatives
In his article at the title link, Marin Balabanov explains why he thinks the Amiga enjoys such popularity in the demo scene.
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10.Dec.2023
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 12 of "WhatIFF?"
In its 12th issue, "WhatIFF?" - a magazine in AmigaGuide format - offers the following content:
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09.Dec.2023
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch / Hardware list
AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the new version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems. He writes about it:
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09.Dec.2023
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Platform game: NinjFeratu 1.0
After the demo version made available last year (amiga-news.de reported), Amiten Games has now released the full version of the platformer NinjFeratu (YouTube video). An Amiga with 1MB Chip-Ram and 512 KB Fast-RAM is required. The game currently costs 9.90 Euros.
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09.Dec.2023
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Platform game: Capitan Trueno 1.2
"El Capitán Trueno" is a video game for 8-bit systems that was released in 1989 and is based on the comics of the same name that were published between 1956 and 1968. The Amiga port of the game was created using the RedPill game construction kit and requires at least a 68020 processor and 2 MB RAM (YouTube video). Version 1.2 mainly improves the jumping of the captain, so that you no longer have the feeling of flying across the screen.
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09.Dec.2023
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Game development: Color Palette Mixer 1.21 for Aseprite
"Prismatic Realms" has not only written a script for Aseprite that converts created graphics into an IFF/ILBM file (amiga-news.de reported), but also a second one under the title link that limits the colour selection to 4096. The current version 1.21 is a small bug fix to properly initialize the colour sliders to the current selected colour when the dialog opens.
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08.Dec.2023
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PDF magazine: Ami Tech-Gazette, issue 6
"Ami Tech-Gazette" by Eric Schwartz and Michael Barclay is a 16 page retro newsletter dominated by Amiga topics. The current issue contains another episode of the "Graphics Workshop", reviews of various recent ports of older Arcade games to the Amiga and a look at at Antic's former north American print magazine "Amiga Plus".
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07.Dec.2023
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X-Mas game: Turbo Santa 2023 Competition
In December 2021, Nivrig Games released the arcade action game "Turbo Santa" (our review of the game) and organised a high score competition one year later. This year, you can once again compete with others and win prizes: the best high scores in Endless and Normal mode submitted between 1 and 24 December 2023 can choose one of the following prizes:
- Rogue Declan - Collector's Edition box (Amiga or CD32)
- Rogue Declan - Budget Edition box (Amiga or CD32)
- Amiga Addict T-Shirt (Amiga Addict Magazine)
- Amiga Christmas Decorations, Amiga Warranty Labels, and a Mouse Mat (Retro32)
The remaining prizes will then again be offered to a random selection of players who have finished 2nd-10th until all prizes have been claimed.
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07.Dec.2023
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Rogue-like game: Physical edition of Rogue Declan can be ore-ordered
In co-operation with poly.play, Nivrig Games will also distribute its Rogue-like game "Rogue Declan" (amiga-news.de reported) in a boxed version, for which pre-orders can now be placed.
There are two editions, a Deluxe Collector's Edition and a Budget Edition, both of which are available as disc or CD32 versions. Both editions include physical media and a printed manual. The Collector's Editions include extras such as posters, stickers, keychains and digital bonus materials.
The boxes are in production and the expected shipping date for pre-orders is currently February 2024.
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07.Dec.2023
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40th anniversary of Turbo Pascal: An Amiga version was also planned
In an article on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the integrated development environment "Turbo Pascal", the author Blake Patterson found out that the Borland company had also announced an Amiga version, which never became reality.
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07.Dec.2023
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Website lists Christmas games: "Amiga Christmas Tree" update
To give Amiga users the opportunity to get into the Christmas spirit, 'Cammy' has set up its own website, which lists all Amiga games related to Christmas (amiga-news.de reported). So far, "Santa's Present Drop", "Santa's Present Drop 2" and "Santa Claus Christmas Season" have been added. She encourages Amiga users to report any missing games.
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07.Dec.2023
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Event: Kickstart 02, 29 to 30 June 2024 in Nottingham (UK)
After the premiere this year (amiga-news.de reported), there will be another event for Amiga fans in the UK next year: Kickstart 02 will take place in Nottingham from 29 to 30 June 2024.
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07.Dec.2023
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Intro competition: Nominations for the "Nano Awards 2024"
The "Nano Awards 2024" intro competition will honour the best demo productions of 2023 at Lovebyte 2024 on 9 February 2024. The Amiga productions from the "Oldschool" category:
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07.Dec.2023
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Preview video: Shadow Dancer, demo version available
Mohammed Malik is about to implement one of his favourite games on the Amiga with the Scorpion Engine: Sega's Shadow Dancer (amiga-news.de reported). He has now published another preview video as well as a demo version.
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06.Dec.2023
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Video: Another Robin Hood port preview by Apollo team
The Apollo team is working on a port of the game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" (amiga-news.de reported). A video of the current beta version has been published at the title link.
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06.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for November
For the month of November 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link.
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06.Dec.2023
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Dungeon Crawler: "The Cthulhu Project" (DevLog)
About three weeks ago, we introduced Maurice Doerr's dungeon crawler "The Cthulhu Project" and reported on the first part of his DevLog series. In this episode, he explains parts of his AMOS PRO code in general and loops in particular.
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05.Dec.2023
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.0 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. As the author writes, this is the seventh time Wayfarer has been upgraded to the latest stable WebKitGTK. At the same time, this release also marks the fourth anniversary of the project.
Version 7.0 has been the most challenging update so far: "Several new endian issues have crept into WebKit, with one of them causing an immediate crash when running JavaScript on big endian CPUs. The removal of some of the WinCairo port has also made it more difficult to maintain the MorphOS port. Many of the code paths that the MorphOS port is using aren't being used by the officially supported ports, which requires additional testing and bug fixing." Furthermore, support for the clipboard and the editor for saved passwords have been improved.
The developer appreciates every donation that supports the project.
Download: wayfarer.lha (35 MB)
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05.Dec.2023
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Video series: Turning an Amiga 600 into a Classic Gaming Console
In a three-part series, two episodes have been published so far ((part 1, part 2), Wolfgang Kierdorf shows on his YouTube channel "RETRO is the new black" how he transforms an Amiga 600 into a retro game console for 4 players. As he told us, this project actually came about by chance, as he didn't want to have a bare Amiga 600 board lying around. All the components used are linked in the second video.
A third part of the video series will be published next week, in which HDMI will be added. In the meantime, there is also a version for the Amiga 500 (same case, only wider and deeper), as some users had asked for it, and the MiSTer/Raspberry Pi. The whole thing was designed in TinkerCad.
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05.Dec.2023
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Game development: IFF/ILBM exporter v1.2 for Aseprite
Recently We introduced a script written by Prismatic Realms for the image editor Aseprite that converts graphics into an IFF/ILBM file. Version 1.2 has now been released with the following changes:
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04.Dec.2023
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Video tutorial: Playing samples in AMOS
Following on from his last tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows in the current episode how to use samples on the Amiga in an AMOS programme. He also briefly explains how to use Audacity and SoundBox (Aminet link, key available) to get sample files in the right format on the Amiga. As always, source codes of his programmes can be downloaded from his website.
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03.Dec.2023
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Mastodon client: Amidon 1.3
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.3 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). This version fixes a bug, where Amidon's Settings window would stop responding if opened on a non-RTG screen.
Download: Amidon_v1.3_OS3.zip (1,83 MB)
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.12.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.12.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.12.2023
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03.Dec.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.12.2023
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 02.12.2023:
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03.Dec.2023
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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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03.Dec.2023
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Amiga38: Video of PiStorm panel held by Michal Schulz
At Amiga38 Michal Schulz gave a presentation about the Amiga extension PiStorm, which uses the minicomputer Raspberry Pi as an 68k emulator. You can find a video recording of it at the title link.
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Amiga Graphics Archive: Article on t3n.de (German)
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995 (amiga-news.de reported). Outside the Amiga media, it now also received an article yesterday at the title link on the site of the digital magazine t3n, which belongs to Heise.
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03.Dec.2023
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Emulation: BBoot boot loader v0.5 now supports AmigaOne in QEMU (update)
In our Simplified installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU published in mid-August and written by Rene Engel (in German), the bootloader "BBoot" written by QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan was already used, which can now load the AmigaOne as well as the Pegasos 2 model in version 0.5.
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02.Dec.2023
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Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor
After The Curse of Rabenstein and Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), Stefan Vogt has published another text adventure with graphics: "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (YouTube video). Here, the player takes on the role of writer Thomas King and his wife Cora, who move into a remote Scottish manor house a few days before Christmas 1986. In search of inspiration for his next book, Thomas begins to research the history of Blackwood Manor and discovers a dark secret that goes back to the time of the great Scottish witch hunts.
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.3.1 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:
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AmigaOS 4: Extended audio emulator "Nallepuh" 1.7
"Nallepuh" or "Nalle Puh" is the Swedish name for Winnie the Pooh and is a hack that intercepts some custom chip register accesses and converts them into AHI function calls. The project, originally started by Martin Blom and now continued by Kjetil Hvalstrand and Damian, initially only emulated the Paula chip, which is responsible for audio and disc control.
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Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.4 for all Amiga systems
At the end of August, we reported on Bernd Assenmacher's PDF2JPG tool, which can be used to convert the images contained in PDFs into JPG images. As the author has developed further tools, Image2PDF (converts images into PDFs) and PDF2PDF (converts PDFs into copy-protected PDFs), there was a request in the subsequent comments to the news article to bundle these tools into one. This has been realised with the present Image2PDF version 2.4, which is available for AmigaOS 3, 4, AROS and MorphOS. The author has kindly provided us with a few explanations of the new version:
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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.4.0 (beta version)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to write graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. With version 0.4.0 now released, his project has reached beta status: all planned features have been integrated.
Now the author asks you to test ReBuild extensively and report any bugs to him.
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01.Dec.2023
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Platform game: Update for Amiga port of Electro Man
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch is porting the game Electro Man, originally published in 1992 by Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS, to AGA Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). This update adds the final eighth level.
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Platform game: Abbey(s) of the Dead
About two weeks ago, the developer 'UltraNarwhal' released a demo version of his extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead" (YouTube video) which is now followed by the full version, available for about three Euro.
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30.Nov.2023
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Preview video: Temptations port for CD32
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported) and now has published another preview video showing the first draft of the sixth level.
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29.Nov.2023
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Visual Novel: Mansion of Madness for Apollo V4
In mid-September, Sami Vehmaa released his first Visual Novel game, "Mansion of Madness" (YouTube video). He has now added a version for the Apollo V4 accelerator cards.
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29.Nov.2023
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Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas: PED81C updated
With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach to work on AGA Amigas with pseudo-native chunky screens without performing the known chunky-to-planar conversions when displaying 3D graphics or any other slowing down additional calculations by CPU or custom chips (Copper, Blitter) at all (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has added a Voxel engine to his project and demonstrates it in a YouTube video. Other changes:
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29.Nov.2023
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Video: Repairing an Amiga 2000
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he gets a non-working Amiga 2000, which he received for his birthday, up and running again.
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29.Nov.2023
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Game development: Color Palette Mixer for Aseprite
Two weeks ago, we reported on a script that converts graphics created using Aseprite into an IFF/ILBM file. In the German comments, Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus pointed out that "Aseprite always works in 24 bit." As a result, "Prismatic Realms" has now published a second script with which you only have 4096 colours to choose from.
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29.Nov.2023
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Mod player: HippoPlayer 2.59
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.59. Changes:
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28.Nov.2023
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PDF magazine: Commodore Free, issue 97
After a break of more than six years (issue 96), the English-language PDF magazine "Commodore Free" is back: as editor Nigel Parker reports, the original website was hacked via a PHP script and all files were deleted. "Scopperdive LTD" has restored the original website and updated it so that it is easier to read on mobile devices and smaller screens. Even though he suffered numerous strokes of fate during the long hiatus, he decided to revive the magazine, also encouraged by countless emails, and offers a colourful bouquet of topics on Commodore and Amiga computers in this issue.
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27.Nov.2023
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Frogger clone: Frogger500 v1.24
Frogger500 (YouTube-Video) is a 1:1 conversion of the 1981 Konami game (amiga-news.de reported). Since our last news item, an MMU error has been fixed and the highscore can now be saved and loaded in both the ADF and WHDLoad versions.
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27.Nov.2023
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.4
The "Scorpion Engine" (video of development of vertical scroll demos) 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. Changes of version 2023.4:
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26.Nov.2023
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Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.4
AmiWeatherForecasts displays current weather information in a small window in the menu bar. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.4:
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[News message: 26. Nov. 2023, 21:43] [Comments: 0]
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26.Nov.2023
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AROS: Poll on "Irritating bug of the month" December
After the "Irritating bug of the month" for November was fixed (amiga-news.de reported), AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has started the corresponding survey for December under the title link:
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[News message: 26. Nov. 2023, 14:26] [Comments: 0]
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26.Nov.2023
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Aminet uploads until 25.11.2023
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26.Nov.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.11.2023
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26.Nov.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.11.2023
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26.Nov.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.11.2023
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26.Nov.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.11.2023
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 25.11.2023:
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26.Nov.2023
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Theme set: 32se and 32se-lite v7.40 for AmigaOS 3.2
AmigaOS 32se" is a supplement of themes for AmigaOS 3.2, which is available free of charge in a "lite" version (video) or in a full version (video) for about 1,50 US Dollars. It was tested by the developer Sami Vehmaa under emulators.
Additional to some changes and bug fixes, for the first time the Vampire V4 is experimentally supported. Besides, a new Theme set 9 was added, and the lite version now has free access to four themes.
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[News message: 26. Nov. 2023, 07:03] [Comments: 0]
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26.Nov.2023
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Dock: QDock V2.07
Since our last news item, Sami Vehmaa has updated his start bar "QDock" to version 2.07 (YouTube-Video), which includes a lot of bug fixes and improvements.
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26.Nov.2023
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Scene World podcast Episode #177 - Richard Loewenstein
Episode #177 of the 'Scene World' podcast features an interview with Richard 'Spieleschreiber' Löwenstein, former writer for German games magazine 'Amiga Joker', currently developing games for the Amiga, his latest release being Reshoot Proxima 3.
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[News message: 26. Nov. 2023, 01:03] [Comments: 0]
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25.Nov.2023
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 152 (Italian/English)
PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. REV'n'GE tries to compare ports of old Games to various classic platforms or review lesser known titles from the homecomputer era. The current issues contains reviews of the motorcycle racing game 'Red Zone' and the recently released Amiga port of the old DOS game "Star Wars:Dark Forces".
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[News message: 25. Nov. 2023, 23:45] [Comments: 0]
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25.Nov.2023
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Print magazine: Amiga Future issue 140 available online
The German and English editions of Amiga Future's issue 140 (September/October 2019) are freely available on the Magazine's webpage now. A few printed copies as well as high resolution PDF copies can be purchased from the publisher.
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25.Nov.2023
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Illustrated text adventure: C64 the Mysterious Cassette
"C64 - The Mysterious Cassette - La Cassetta del Mistero" is an illustrated text adventure for AGA Amigas, featuring English and Italian translations. The game was programmed by Colin Vella, with graphics and project management by Paolo D'Urso and music by Allister Brimble. it is based on an Italian novel written by Carlo Pastore.
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25.Nov.2023
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AROS: Irritating bug of the month November
Around a month ago, AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz launched a new initiative including a survey: every month, a bug can be selected from a list of bugs that bother the community and have been reported in the bug tracker, which he then fixes. For the month of November, a bug that did not occur 14 years ago was fixed with 40% of the votes: Wanderer can now run CLI programmes with an argument again, so that it behaves like OS3.9. He has released an updated workbench.library V45.4 for this purpose.
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[News message: 25. Nov. 2023, 08:04] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2023
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Video: A look back at the cracker scene of the 80s
In a video, the YouTube channel "Modern Vintage Gamer" takes a look back at its own history of software piracy in the 1980s, in particular at the time of X-Copy Pro and Amiga.
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[News message: 24. Nov. 2023, 06:20] [Comments: 0]
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24.Nov.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.2
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: 24. Nov. 2023, 06:10] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2023
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Amiga Kit: A600GS Wiki updated
In addition to the launch of a dedicated, albeit currently still empty, A600GS website for the planned games console, which will be available in the first quarter of 2024, the Wiki under the title link has also been updated. According to this, there will be two versions available: "A600GS" will be equipped with 2GB system memory and 64 GB total memory and the "A600GS+" with 4GB system memory and 128 GB total memory. The official joypad will be standard equipment, while the mouse will only be supplied with the A600GS+ or as an additional purchase. This will be required for the standard applications such as Personal Paint (PPaint) and OctaMED. Furthermore, Amibench V46 and Directory Opus 4 GPL are included in the software package. Three screenshots of the Amibench user interface are now also available, showing which icons are used.
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23.Nov.2023
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Video: The best original Rogue game
The Amiga user 'intric8' has published a detailed video for the Amiga website 'AmigaLove' and its YouTube channel under the title link as well as a detailed article about what he considers to be the best implementation of a Rogue game from the 80s: the Amiga implementation. He also discusses other variants and releases.
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[News message: 23. Nov. 2023, 09:14] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2023
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Developer log: Platform game "Robot Jet Action"
Ten days ago we reported about Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik's start to port his platformer "Robot Jet Action" for the Amiga. Now he has published a first developer update (YouTube video) and describes the progress as follows:
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[News message: 23. Nov. 2023, 06:39] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2023.11.27 (update)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). The Firmware release v2023.11.22, originally described in this article, has been rescinded by the author. He has released v2023.11.27 instead:
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22.Nov.2023
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Emerald Web: Emerald Caves offers 64 new levels
The "Emerald Web" has set itself the goal of offering as many variants and level sets of the legendary arcade puzzlers Emerald Mine and Boulder Dash/Rockford as possible for download (amiga-news.de reported). The "Emerald Caves" now released for both OCS and AGA Amigas (YouTube video) offers 64 new levels.
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22.Nov.2023
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Preview video: Platform game "Deathmine" (v0.03C)
In the middle of last year, we reported on an early version of the game "Deathmine" as an entry for the Amiga Blitz Basic Jam. At the end of October, the developer 'pixelplop' had converted the game into C/C++ code and has now published a new preview video, showing some new features like animated torch flames, toxic rain drops, glow worms and Morlocks.
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22.Nov.2023
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Preview video: Shadow Dancer
Mohammed Malik is about to implement one of his favourite games on the Amiga with the Scorpion Engine: Sega's Shadow Dancer. He has now published another preview video. The game is to run on an A500, and a project page has also been set up on GitHub.
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21.Nov.2023
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Turn-based strategy game: Developer version for "Settle the World"
As Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel writes, from now on the latest development version of "Settle the World" can be downloaded from the project page. The author asks that these versions not be used for public reviews or similar, as they are often poorly tested and contain features that have not yet been fully implemented. However, as updates for the stable branch of the game can only be released at longer intervals, the author hopes to receive feedback for planned or already partially implemented features by testing the developer versions.
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[News message: 21. Nov. 2023, 06:40] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2023
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Image Gallery: Update of the "Amiga Graphics Archive"
The latest update of the "Amiga Graphics Archive" adds a series of images from the 1988 air racing game Gee Bee Air Rally, whose graphics were created by Mike Nowak.
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[News message: 20. Nov. 2023, 20:36] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2023
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CLI command: sysvars V0.11
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical frame rate (PAL/NTSC), Kickstart version and revision, version and revision of bsdsocket.library as well as whether the emulator UAE is used - and if so, in which version.
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19.Nov.2023
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Web browser: IBrowse 3.0
Press release: IBrowse 3 has arrived. It's finally time to move on from IBrowse 2, which has been developed for over 20 years! IBrowse 3 makes available the previously unreleased features that were originally being worked on alongside IBrowse 2.4 (on a completely separate development branch), whilst retaining everything from IBrowse 2.5.9 and all the new developments since its release. The IBrowse 2 and 3 development branches are now fully merged, which was a complex and time-consuming task, due to considerable divergence. The process was completed methodically and carefully, in order to not compromise stability or lose any functionality. Development can now move forward without being restricted to the limitations of the IBrowse 2 framework, allowing for more substantial changes.
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19.Nov.2023
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.3 for Windows
Just the other day, in an article about setting up a Greaseweazle V4, we mentioned the graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools. Now 'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.3. Changes:
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19.Nov.2023
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.4
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
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19.Nov.2023
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Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.3
AmiWeatherForecasts is a weather forecasting application that provides the latest weather information for any location. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.3:
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[News message: 19. Nov. 2023, 21:33] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2023
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.29
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.98, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial. Changes of version 0.9.29:
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19.Nov.2023
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Hollywood plugin: Plananarama 2.1 released
Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, is proud to announce that version 2.1 of Plananarama has just been released. Plananarama is the magic plugin which allows Hollywood scripts to be run on classic Amiga hardware without any graphics board. Once Plananarama is installed, all Hollywood scripts will 'automagically' run on palette screens as well! All resolutions are supported - from 8-bit LowRes to 1-bit productivity SuperHighRes Interlace. Version 2.1 is a minor update which a new feature which makes it easier to create applications that run on both, RTG and planar screens. Plananarama 2.1 is available for free download from the official Hollywood portal.
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19.Nov.2023
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Aminet uploads until 18.11.2023
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19.Nov.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 18.11.2023
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19.Nov.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 18.11.2023
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19.Nov.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.11.2023
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19.Nov.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.11.2023
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 18.11.2023:
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[News message: 19. Nov. 2023, 09:02] [Comments: 0]
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17.Nov.2023
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Platform game: Demo version of Abbey(s) of the Dead
The developer 'UltraNarwhal' has published a demo version of his extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead", which is currently under development (amiga-news.de reported) and which he is realising with the Scorpion Engine. The full version is due to be released at the end of November.
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16.Nov.2023
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Video tutorial: Playing sound in AMOS
In another instalment of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' takes a look at the PLAY command in AMOS to see what it does and how it can be manipulated. A small sample programme is available on his website.
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[News message: 16. Nov. 2023, 21:54] [Comments: 0]
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16.Nov.2023
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Frogger clone: Frogger500 v1.21
The update to version 1.21 of the Frogger clone "Frogger500" now offers a WHDLoad version of the game and some bug fixes.
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[News message: 16. Nov. 2023, 20:32] [Comments: 0]
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16.Nov.2023
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Game development: IFF/ILBM exporter for Aseprite
Aseprite is an image editor that is primarily intended for drawing and animating pixel graphics for games. However, as already mentioned in our article about the dungeon crawler "The CTHUHLU Project", it is not possible to export graphics in IFF/ILBM format. To solve this problem, Prismatic Realms has now released a script to convert graphics into an IFF/ILBM file. This makes the use of additional programmes or online conversion tools unnecessary.
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16.Nov.2023
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m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin V1.8.6 for Visual Studio Code (update)
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. Version 1.8.5 fixes bugs. On GitHub, a detailed documentation is available.
Update: (20.11.2023, 06:44, dr)
An update to version 1.8.6 fixes more bugs.
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15.Nov.2023
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Obligement: Interview with Laurent Zorawski (Amedia Computer/AAA Technology)
David Brunet has conducted an interview with Laurent Zorawski for Obligement. As Amedia Computer, the dealer is part of the AAA Technology group, which distributes the AmigaOne X5000 and the A1222, that is expected for the end of the year, whereby Amedia Computer contributes the AmigaOS 4.1 license from Hyperion, which A-EON Technology no longer has.
Besides the french original of the interview, there is also an english translation.
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15.Nov.2023
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Developer conference "Handmade Seattle": Lecture on the Amiga demo "Eon"
"Handmade Cities" is the largest indie conference for system programmers, which will be held both on-site and online in Boston in summer and in Seattle in autumn. Among the talks at the event, which starts today at 18:00 CET, is a presentation by Andreas Fredriksson, who will talk from 20:00 CET about the development of the A500 demo Eon and what you can take away from it and use as a programmer in everyday life. The demo took first place at the 2019 Revision.
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15.Nov.2023
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Amiga Future: New full versions online
Further full versions of Amiga software have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Disk Salv 3, Moonbases, Supaplex, Tritus and Zodes.
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[News message: 15. Nov. 2023, 09:26] [Comments: 0]
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15.Nov.2023
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Reverse Engineering: Task Force
In terms of games (software), reverse engineering is the process of analysing the code and content of the game to understand how it works (amiga-news.de reported). In this case, the website Tetracorp has analysed Task Force, a Freeware game released 1994 by Mark Sheeky.
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14.Nov.2023
Simon Neumann (E-Mail)
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Alinea Computer: New products and firmware updates
Press release: Alinea Computer presents three new products:
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14.Nov.2023
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.3.0 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 now for the first time with a native version AmigaOS 4.1. The other changes:
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14.Nov.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle V4.1
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" reads the magnetic layers of the disks independently of the used disk format and saves as much information as possible in a so called "Flux Level Image" in the Supercard-Format (SCP) which enables reading and writing copy-protected disks. Greaseweazle consists of a mikro controller board that costs only a few euros which is connected to a disks drive and then via USB to the PC. V4.1 is the very latest version, updating the V4 design with new features:
- Larger form factor with stronger mounting holes
- Modern USB-C connector
- Input protections (ESD, over-current)
- USB power isolation, allows Greaseweazle to be powered by external PSU along with drive(s)
The new version is already available in his eBay shop and should also be listed in other stores in the next few days.
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14.Nov.2023
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Tool: AssetBundleManager V0.3
Asset bundles are content such as textures, scripts or scenes that are saved separately from a main game or application and loaded when required. This minimises the number of resources to be loaded at startup. Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen has written "AssetBundleManager", a tool for managing asset bundles that are used with the Scorpion Engine.
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13.Nov.2023
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Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.1.0 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2.1.0:
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[News message: 13. Nov. 2023, 21:01] [Comments: 0]
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13.Nov.2023
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Video: Zorro network adapter for the Amiga
In its latest video, the YouTube channel Casual Retro Gamer (CRG) describes how the Zorro LAN IDE network card designed by Matthias Heinrichs is assembled and installed in an Amiga to make it Internet-enabled.
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13.Nov.2023
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Preview video: Platform game "Robot Jet Action"
Almost two years ago, Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik released the platformer "Robot Jet Action" for the C64. Now he has started porting the game to the Amiga and has presented an initial concept study. The author describes the current status as follows:
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13.Nov.2023
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Blog: Restoration of three Amiga CDTV
In his latest blog entry, Retrohax.net has described the restoration of three Amiga CDTV.
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[News message: 13. Nov. 2023, 06:15] [Comments: 0]
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12.Nov.2023
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Development tool: vasm 1.9f
Frank Wille has published an update of the modular assembler vasm. Changes of version 1.9f:
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12.Nov.2023
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MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.10.16
Rafał Zabdyr has released a second beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" (Aminet link) is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required. Currently the following features are supported:
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[News message: 12. Nov. 2023, 21:37] [Comments: 0]
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12.Nov.2023
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Accelerator board: A630 Rev 3 for the Amiga 600
The accelerator board "A630" developed by Archi-Tech for the Amiga 600 is now available in the third revision and, in addition to the 68030 processor clocked at 50 Mhz, now also has a 68882 FPU. The card can be equipped with 64 or 128 MB Fast RAM. In addition to the in-house shop, the card should also be available from RetroPassion in the next few days.
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[News message: 12. Nov. 2023, 15:32] [Comments: 0]
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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.10 (alpha version)
Darren 'dmcoles' Coles is in the process of writing a remake of ClassMate called "ReBuild", which should make it possible to write graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct.
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[News message: 12. Nov. 2023, 08:11] [Comments: 0]
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Aminet uploads until 11.11.2023
The following files have been added until 11.11.2023 to Aminet:
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OS4Depot uploads until 11.11.2023
The following files have been added until 11.11.2023 to OS4Depot:
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AROS Archives uploads until 11.11.2023
The following files have been added until 11.11.2023 to AROS Archives:
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 11.11.2023
The following files have been added until 11.11.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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WHDLoad: New installers until 11.11.2023
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 11.11.2023:
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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:
- Enigma-Goria
- A Prehistoric Tale
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11.Nov.2023
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Diagnosis software: Amiga Test Kit 1.21
Keir Fraser's "Amiga Test Kit" is a software-based solution for checking diverse components of an Amiga. The download archive includes a bootable disk image as well as an executable file which can be started from the harddrive (amiga-news.de reported).
In the recent version 1.21 new video test cards have been added which are used for calibrating displays (usually CRTs). The new test cards include full-field colours for colour purity, colour bars, greyscale bars, and dot and hatch fields for convergence and linearity respectively.
Direct download: AmigaTestKit-1.21.zip (194 KB)
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[News message: 11. Nov. 2023, 21:57] [Comments: 0]
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Dungeon Crawler: "The Cthulhu Project" (DevLog 1)
Maurice Doerr is not only a photographer, but has also been a passionate Amiga user since 1987. Over the years he has owned several models such as the A500, A600, A1200 and the CD32 and programmed in Assembler, AMOS, Amiga E and Blitz Basic. After a long break and separation from all hardware, he returned to the Amiga about a year ago and started programming his first "Dungeon Crawler Oldschool" game based on the Lovecraft universe in AMOS PRO.
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Platform game: Update for Amiga port of Electro Man
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch is porting the game Electro Man, originally published in 1992 by Polish programmers Maciej Msik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS, to AGA Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). This update adds the fifth level, refines game controls slightly and fixes graphical errors in level 2 regarding lasers and minimap.
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11.Nov.2023
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Arcade classic: Super Bagman (beta version)
After Bagman, Jean-François Fabre is now in the process of porting the next arcade classic for the Amiga, Super Bagman from Stern Electronics (YouTube video) and has released a first beta version.
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[News message: 11. Nov. 2023, 08:47] [Comments: 0]
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10.Nov.2023
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.6
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.6 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. As the author explained, this version updates WebKit to WebKitGTK 2.40.5 (and is likely the last update before Wayfarer 7). This build also works around the issues with PayPal and improves performance on websites that abuse DOM timers (especially with throttling enabled in settings).
Download: wayfarer.lha (35 MB)
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[News message: 10. Nov. 2023, 21:25] [Comments: 0]
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10.Nov.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: GoVars
GoVars written by Krzysztof Donat (bitplan) for the Amiga Tool Jam in Amiga E is an easy-to-use Amiga Environment Variables editor.
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[News message: 10. Nov. 2023, 18:29] [Comments: 0]
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10.Nov.2023
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.3 (update)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
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