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14.Jan.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)

Hardware development: External disk drive for Amigas planned
The Polish company Sakura IT is developing a new external disk drive. A prototype of the platine already has been finished. The disk drive will have the following features:

Fully compatible with 880kB DD Amiga floppy disks; reads and writes NDOS disks
Compatible with all Amiga systems featuring external floppy drive connector
Fetuares new, guaranteed floppy mechanism
Also available without the floppy drive mechanism for installation of floppy emulators like Gotek
Free hardware (licence: Creative Commons BY-SA)

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14.Jan.2015 Playable preview: Evil Minions
"Evil Minions" (Youtube video) is a platformer game created with Backbone about "Minions" well-known from the computer-animated comedy film Despicable Me.

Download: minions0.3.lha (164 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Jan.2015
MorphZone (Webseite) MorphOS: OpenXcom 1.0 / Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe 1.5.0-beta1
Paweł 'Stefkos' Stefański has updated his MorphOS-port of OpenXcom. It is an open-sorce clone of the Microprose game UFO: Enemy Unknown based on SDL. Additionally the original files of X-COM: UFO Defense are required.

Paweł Stefański also has updated Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (OpenTTD). The open-source clone of the well-known PC strategy game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" ofers many extensions - among others network support, individual graphic sets and ranslations.

Download:
openxcom.lha (6 MB)
openttd-1.5.0-beta1.lha (11 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jan.2015
Indie Retro News

Playable demo: Ghosts'n Goblins clone "Defeated"
"Defeated" is a Ghosts'n Goblins clone developed with Backbone which will be probably finished in 2015:

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12.Jan.2015

Web browser: Netsurf 3.3 Dev 2
Artur 'Arti' Jarosik has updated his 68k-port of the web browser NetSurf. Changes in version 3.3 Dev 2 (an updated archive of the AGA-enhanced version still is not available):

updated libs: libpng 1.6.16; libcurl 7.38.0; libssl 1.0.1j
new theme by Ken Lester
new cursor and throbber animation
fixed dissappearing pointer
fixed crash on muidev.de
removed getvideo. Replaced with mp4.ee API. Use youtube_autoplay:1 option to enable autoplay after download, Video is saved to ram:video.mp4
moved scroll*.png to theme/icons
various bugs and memory leaks fixed
core: *add trivial maps facilitator at about:maps

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