12.Oct.2021
ANF
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ComputerBase: 32-bit console Amiga CD³² & 16-bit CD player Philips CD-i (german)
At the title link, german tech magazine ComputerBase compares Commodore's Amiga CD³² as Europe's first 32-bit game console with the CD-i, the 16-bit multimedia system that was introduced by Philips in 1991 and co-developed with Sony.
The actual competing product, however, the Amiga CDTV, that had been introduced by Commodore also in 1991, is not mentioned at all.
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11.Oct.2021
ppa.ppl
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MorphOS: Adventure interpreter ScummVM 2.5.0
Press release: Twenty years ago today, on Tue Oct 9 16:30:12 2001, Ludvig Strigeus pushed the initial revision of the ScummVM code, which was version 0.0.1 of the project. Time flew quickly and, fast-forward to the present day, we are proudly releasing ScummVM 2.5.0 "Twenty years ago today…"
The list of changes is tremendous.
First of all, this is the first release that supports 2.5D games (almost 3D), thanks to the merger with ResidualVM. With this release we announce support for Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey and Myst 3: Exile. This is why we jumped straight to 2.5 in our versioning. Please note that only desktop platforms currently support these games and other platforms may or may not gain the support later depending on their capabilities.
In addition to these 3 games and engines, we officially support 10 more new engines and subengines that add compatibility with the following games:
- Little Big Adventure
- Red Comrades 1: Save the Galaxy
- Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice
- Transylvania
- Crimson Crown
- OO-Topos
- Glulx interactive fiction games
- Private Eye
- AGS Games versions 2.5+
- Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
- The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
- Crusader: No Remorse
- L-ZONE
- Spaceship Warlock
We love localized game releases and multiple platform versions, thus with this release, we enhanced the support for Lure of the Temptress Konami release, Blue Force Spanish, Ringworld Spanish, Amazon: Guardians of Eden Spanish, Mystery House French, Russian translations of Sierra AGI games, Elvira 1 Japanese PC-98, Bargon Attack Russian, Woodruff Russian, Eye of the Beholder Japanese Sega-CD, Legend of Kyrandia Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 2 Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 3 Simplified Chinese, Inherit the Earth PC-98 Japanese, Gabriel Knight 1 Macintosh, Xeen Russian to name but a few. Notably, Macintosh b/w versions of Loom and Indy 3 are now also supported.
Besides the new games and game versions, ScummVM 2.5.0 brings many notable improvements and new features. We have completed a major rework of the GUI: We now support Unicode characters everywhere. The GUI also adapts to high resolutions used in HiDPI screens. The Nintendo DS port has been significantly rewritten. We added GOG and Steam achievements to a large number of Wintermute games and enabled KeyMapper in more games. Thanks to the work of one of our GSoC students, we have now added an option for text-to-speech to the games Sfinx, Soltys and The Griffon Legend.
You may find all of this goodness available to a number of platforms on our download page or let the autoupdater kick in on Macintosh and Windows.
We wish you great adventuring, happy puzzle-solving and exciting journeys to RPG worlds, and hope to see you around in the coming years.
And by the way, GOG.com is running a special promo tied to the release and our anniversary, where you can buy many ScummVM-supported games at a discount.
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[News message: 11. Oct. 2021, 07:04] [Comments: 0]
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11.Oct.2021
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 beta 4
At the End of May the developer Dirk Hoffmann released version 1.0 of his Amiga emulator for MacOS. He continued the development by releasing the first beta version for version 1.1. Now he has released beta version 4 providing the following changes:
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[News message: 11. Oct. 2021, 06:35] [Comments: 0]
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11.Oct.2021
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Alinea Computer: OmniPort - Multi port adapter for Amiga 1200
Press release: We are pleased to announce the release of the OmniPort multi port adapter for the Amiga 1200.
The OmniPort is a multi-port adapter that neatly routes various hardware interfaces on the Amiga 1200 desktop case to the outside via the expansion port. The interfaces are 2x USB, 1 x HDMI and 1x MicroSD. In order to be able to use the respective interfaces with the OmniPort, the corresponding hardware must already be installed in the Amiga 1200.
The hardware can be purchased now for 24.95 Euro in the online shop.
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[News message: 11. Oct. 2021, 05:53] [Comments: 0]
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10.Oct.2021
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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USB-Adapter: Firmware update for Ryś MKII
The Ryś MKII adapter can be used together with USB HID devices like mouses, joysticks and pads to connect them as input devices for Amiga computers. The latest firmware update includes a new version of the USB stack support for wheel and the 4th and 5th mouse buttons.
Downloads:
RysMKII_v0.11_beta.hex (Firmware, 27 KB)
RysWheel_Installer_v0.11b.lha (AmigaOS Software, 72 KB)
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[News message: 10. Oct. 2021, 11:42] [Comments: 0]
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10.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 09.10.2021
The following files have been added until 09.10.2021 to Aminet:
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10.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.10.2021
The following files have been added until 09.10.2021 to OS4Depot:
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10.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.10.2021
The following files have been added until 09.10.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
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10.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
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10.Oct.2021
Amigasystem (ANF)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 1.6 (x86)
"AROS One", an AROS distribution based on ABI v0, is now available in version 1.6 for x86 computers (video, resolution of 720p recommended). It can be downloaded at the title link either as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image.
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[News message: 10. Oct. 2021, 08:48] [Comments: 0]
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10.Oct.2021
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Floppy disk images reading and writing on PC or Mac: Greaseweazle 0.31
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).
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Now released version 0.31 increases USB buffer size from 16 to 64 KB. Greaseweazle is available at various dealers.
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[News message: 10. Oct. 2021, 08:48] [Comments: 0]
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10.Oct.2021
Greg Donner
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware 1.9.1
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 10. Oct. 2021, 08:26] [Comments: 0]
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10.Oct.2021
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Lionheart Remake 1.10: Java port of Lionheart
Byron 3D Games Studio has released a Lionheart Java Remakeof Lionheart for its LionEngine (amiga-news.de berichtete). Source codes are available on GitHub for the LionEngine as well as for the game port.
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[News message: 10. Oct. 2021, 07:43] [Comments: 0]
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09.Oct.2021
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Accelerator board: TerribleFire TF1230 available
Retro32 wrote on its website: "We’re delighted to announce that the mighty TerribleFire TF1230 is now available from our store.
This epic Amiga 1200 accelerator card offers both great performance and value and IMO is the best Amiga 1200 upgrade for your money. With a 50MHz at your disposal and up to a whopping 128MB of Fast Memory on tap, the TF1230 offers speeds over 7 times faster than a stock 1200.
At present, we only have very limited stock of these cards available but hope to offer more stock as availability improves."
According to the website, prices start at 170 British Pounds (about 200 Euro) for a TerribleFire TF1230 equipped with mit 64MB RAM.
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[News message: 09. Oct. 2021, 14:20] [Comments: 0]
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08.Oct.2021
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Video tutorial: Assembler coding course
Formerly the demo group RamJam released several Amiga demos. Between 1994 and 1996 the member Fabio 'Randy' Ciucci wrote the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi". In 2016, with Ciucci's permission, RamJam published this course as book. On the website there is also a two-disk version as well as an Italian-language pdf document of the course. 'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams it on Twitch in English and then uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday eposide 15 was published, dediacated to chapter six of the book.
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[News message: 08. Oct. 2021, 06:46] [Comments: 0]
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07.Oct.2021
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: New revision 2.0 announced
At the end of July the developer 'jasonsbeer' fixed revision 1.2 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX', as production candidate. Now he has recommended all users who are going to build such a board to wait for he "expects to assemble and test the next revision (2.0) of the Amiga 2000 EATX board by the middle of November. The revision 2.0 board will have additional features that many will find attractive." Detailed changes:
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[News message: 07. Oct. 2021, 07:11] [Comments: 0]
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07.Oct.2021
Twitter
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Dungeon Crawler: "The Shadows of Sergoth" available for pre-order
At the end of 2018 the Dungeon Crawler "The Shadows of Sergoth" was announced for 2019. So far only a playable demo was released. From now on the game is available for pre-order from Doublesided Games: For 14,99 Euro for the disk version or for 39,99 Euro for the boxed edition. The game is supposed to be released on 13. November. "The Shadows of Sergoth" runs on any graphics chipset (OCS, ECS, AGA), but 2MB Chip-Ram are required and a faster Amiga is recommended (A1200 or accelerated) to activate the 3D movement effects and enhance the gameplay experience. Content of the boxed edition:
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[News message: 07. Oct. 2021, 06:50] [Comments: 0]
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06.Oct.2021
ppa.ppl
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Dock bar: WBDock V1.26
Thomas Rapp has updated his dock bar 'WBDock', similar to Toolmanager oder AmiDock, for AmigaOS 1.3. WBdock can now load custom images for icons, supporting icon and IFF ILBM files, without color remapping.
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[News message: 06. Oct. 2021, 07:06] [Comments: 0]
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06.Oct.2021
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.4.1 (Update)
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations. An external player like AmigaAmp and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. For the first time now Podcasts also are supported. The author George Sokianos wrote:
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