27.Sep.2023
Timo Weirich (Mastodon)
|
Emu68 tip: Reducing the speed of the Raspberry Pi
Timo Weirich is in the process of setting up a computer museum. He is also working on his Amiga 500, which is upgraded with a PiStorm. Now he has published a tip on how to reduce the speed so that old games (e.g. XJ220) run better or correctly:
more ...
(dr)
[News message: 27. Sep. 2023, 21:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
26.Sep.2023
|
Music track: "White King" with ProTracker visualisation
Since version 1.1, ProTracker (Aminet version 3.61) has a Quadrascope: ProTracker visualises the sound waveform for each channel in four small windows. 'no9' has now written a Protracker module and published it on his YouTube channel that not only plays the music but also displays visual effects in these four small windows at the same time. According to the author, it could be a "world first" in this form, as he had never seen this approach in ProTracker before.
The track was written especially for this purpose, always looking to see if what looks good also sounds good and vice versa.
(dr)
[News message: 26. Sep. 2023, 06:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
25.Sep.2023
Seiya (ANF)
|
PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 150 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about "Goal!".
(snx)
[News message: 25. Sep. 2023, 21:05] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
25.Sep.2023
|
Video: Building a ReAmiga 1200, last episode
We reported about the first and second and the third and fourth episode of the video series of the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Manshed" which builds John 'Chucky' Hertell's Amiga1200 clone ReAmiga 1200. Now the final fifth part is available.
(dr)
[News message: 25. Sep. 2023, 09:46] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Sep.2023
|
Crowdfunding: Illustrated book "Demoscene - The Amiga Renaissance", Vol. 3
In 2021, the first illustrated book about the demoscene, "Demoscene - The Amiga Years", was completed, covering the years 1984 to 1993. Volume two, "Demoscene - The AGA Years", followed a year later and was dedicated to the years 1994 to 1996. Now the third part of the series, "Demoscene - The Amiga Renaissance", is being crowdfunded, covering the period from 1997 to today. The aim is to collect 21,000 Euros by 15 October, of which around 8,000 have already been raised so far.
(dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2023, 21:07] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Sep.2023
CommodoreBlog
|
Game ports: Game..X and Dragon Slayer
Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has ported two games from X68000, home computer created by Sharp Corporation, to the Amiga:
Dragon Slayer should run on any Amiga and is based on Moby Games' version for the FM-7 home computer. The game is commonly considered one of the progenitors of the action RPG genre. The premise is similar to Roguelikes: the player takes control of a knight who must fight his way through large overhead maze-like dungeons. Unlike roguelikes, the combat in the game is fully action-oriented
The shoot'em up Game.X (YouTube video) requires an AGA-Amiga and was originally released in 1990 by Kugenuma Soft.
(dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2023, 14:58] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Sep.2023
|
Video: The chronological history of AmigaOS
The hobby YouTube channel "Proteque - Classic Beige Nostalgia" shows the chronological history of AmigaOS.
(dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2023, 08:37] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Sep.2023
|
Music: Cover version of Chuck Rock
Linus 'lft' Åkesson has been an active part of the demoscene for a good 25 years, composing music for numerous demos and music discs for Amiga and C64 as 'Lairfight' bzw. 'lft'. Creatively, he also builds various instruments from Commodore hardware like the Paulimba or the C=TAR. He now uses these instruments to recreate the main melody of the game Chuck Rock composed by Matthew Simmonds.
(dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2023, 08:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Sep.2023
|
Aminet uploads until 23.09.2023
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to Aminet:
more ...
(snx)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2023, 07:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Sep.2023
|
OS4Depot uploads until 23.09.2023
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to OS4Depot:
more ...
(snx)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2023, 07:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Sep.2023
|
AROS Archives uploads until 23.09.2023
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to AROS Archives:
more ...
(snx)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2023, 07:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Sep.2023
|
MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.09.2023
The following files have been added until 23.09.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
more ...
(snx)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2023, 07:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Sep.2023
|
WHDLoad: New installers until 23.09.2023
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 23.09.2023:
more ...
(snx)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2023, 07:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
22.Sep.2023
|
Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0 Release Candidate
A month ago, Developer Michal Schulz had released beta version 2.1 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Since then, many other improvements have been added. Changes of the release candidate of version 1.0:
more ...
(dr)
[News message: 22. Sep. 2023, 21:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
22.Sep.2023
|
ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.4 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. Since version 2.1, simple editing of LhA/Zip archives also is possible (Zip requires zip.library - only under AmigaOS 4). The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2.1, but has also tested it under AmigaOS 4. Changes of version 2.4:
more ...
(dr)
[News message: 22. Sep. 2023, 21:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
22.Sep.2023
Bill Borsari
|
Event: AmiWest 2023 DevCon Survey
This year's 26th edition of Amiwest, which will be held from 12 to 15 October in Sacramento (California), will also feature a developer conference that focuses exclusively on programming topics and is aimed at both amateurs and professional programmers. Since places are limited, a survey is now being conducted to find out who would like to take part and how.
(dr)
[News message: 22. Sep. 2023, 09:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
22.Sep.2023
|
Origins and evolution of texteditors Vi and Vim
Gustavo Pezzi is a university lecturer in computer science and mathematics and runs the educational platform Pikuma. At the beginning of August, the developer of the text editor Vim, Bram Moolenaar, passed away. Pezzi had already paid his last respects to the developer in his own way in August and wrote down the history of the text editor, which is closely linked to the Amiga and which is also available in current versions for AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS provided by Ola 'sodero' Söder.
(dr)
[News message: 22. Sep. 2023, 09:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
22.Sep.2023
Amigans (Forum)
|
AmigaOS 4: libegl_wrap 0.7.20 (beta)
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel is working on an EGL-OpenGL-Wrapper which is based on Warp 3D Nova/OpenGL-ES combination sold by A-EON. The wrapper is supposed to simplify porting modern OpenGL based games (Youtube video example for Prey 2006).
more ...
(dr)
[News message: 22. Sep. 2023, 06:06] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
21.Sep.2023
|
Blog Epsilon's World: Hardware upgrades and games
In his latest blog entry of his "Epsilon's World", Epsilon shows the installation of various games and hardware in the usual detail and with numerous pictures: among others, Alinea's Subway 2021 USB card including the power adapter or "AURA - Audible Reality", a sound sampler that does not use the parallel port but the PCMCIA port of the Amiga 600 and 1200. The game "Renegade" from the cover disc of the Amiga Addict 22 is also tested.
(dr)
[News message: 21. Sep. 2023, 06:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
20.Sep.2023
|
Amiga Games That Weren't: Fatal Mission
As the website "Games That Weren't" reports, "Fatal Mission" was an ambitious project started by Ola Zandelin and Robert Hennings in 1993: "a cinematic style adventure in the lines of Another World, but with bitmap graphics instead of vector style one". On his website, Ola Zandelin has published some examples of this. The website "AmigaPD" conducted an interview with the developer in 2013. In it, he suggests that the game was playable to a certain extent, but it was never finished because there was a lack of time and experience to put everything together and plan it properly.
(dr)
[News message: 20. Sep. 2023, 09:06] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
20.Sep.2023
|
Emulator: Denise V2.1
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64. Now version 2.1 has been released. Changes:
more ...
(dr)
[News message: 20. Sep. 2023, 07:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
20.Sep.2023
|
Video: Repairing an A590, part 5
In the fifth part of his video series about the repair of an A590 (amiga-news.de reported) Robert Smith had a look at an example that he could get hold of in the original case design and that still has the original Epson hard disk.
(dr)
[News message: 20. Sep. 2023, 06:12] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
| | |
| | |
