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18.May.2018
amiga.org (Webseite)

Dungeon crawler BOH and retro arcade game Huenison on CD
In April 2009 Simone Bevilacqua released the first version his commerzial Dungeon crawler BOH. Since then 18 updates have been released - the last one dating from March of this year. Since the author considers the project complete, he released the final version on CD.

The CD contains ports of BOH for AmigaOS 4, AROS, Linux Mac OS and Windows as well as the soundtrack as audio tracks. The manuals have been reworked and the CD and DVD covers have a new design.

Simultaneously the author also released his retro arcade game Huenison, available for the first time in 2013, on CD. It contains the latest ports of AmigaOS 4 and Windows as well as reworked manual.

You can order the games for 15 (BOH) or 12 Euro from the developer via e-mail. The preorders are collected and then oictures will be sent showing the final product. Only if the user still is interested in the game(s) the money has to be paid. The exact process Bevilacqua has summarized on a poster. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.May.2018 Interview: Debbie Bestwick (Team 17)
In an interview with the British "Telegraph", Debbie Bestwick, co-founder and currently managing director of Team-17 (Worms, Alien Breed), has talked about the start of the company und the development from a successful Amiga publisher to the "Worms-Studio". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.May.2018 Kickstart campaign: "Commodore - The Final Years" successfully financed
The third and last part of Brian Bagnall's history of Commodore was successfully financed: The Kickstarter campaign has collected about 62.000 Euro. Thus "Commodore - The Final Years" will be published in the highest possible quality: 16 pages with colour photos, embossed foil cover, sewn binding and a foil stamped spine.

At the beginning of the campaign Bagnall did announce that he is going to publish the book - which has been almost completely written - this year. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.May.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite) Game database: The Legacy goes offline
TheLegacy, which calls itself as "nostalgic game museum, is a game database founded in 1999 providing information, scans and screenshots to over 40.000 games for several nostalgic computer systems. According to the administrators they have not sufficient time to update the website to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Therefore the website will go offline on May 24th. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.May.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite) Processor: MC68000 manual as PDF
From the website of the producer of semiconductors NXP, which in 2015 acquired Freescale (formerly Motorola), the manual for Motorola's MC68000 processor can be downloaded as PDF. The processor was used in the first Amiga models. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.May.2018
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)

Hollywood-Plugin: Polybios 1.0 creates and opens PDF documents
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present a massive new plugin release for Hollywood: Polybios - Making History in PDF. This plugin can be used to create and view PDF documents from Hollywood scripts and will thus make all PDF dreams come true for Hollywood users. Polybios has been five years in the making and is now finally ready for release exclusively for Hollywood 7.1.

Here are just some of Polybios' impressive features:

over 200 functions for creating and viewing PDF documents
support for all graphics primitives
full Unicode support
fonts can be embedded inside PDF documents
images and Hollywood brushes can be embedded inside PDF documents
password-protected PDFs can be opened and created
support for PDF encryption and compression
files can be attached to PDF documents
annotations can be added to PDF documents
support for RGB, CMYK and gray color spaces
transition effects can be embedded inside PDF documents
hypertext links can be embedded inside PDF documents
table of contents generation is supported
inbuilt PDF viewer is based on the famous fast and powerful PDF engine used in a very popular browser by a very well-known American Internet company and is thus very compatible and complete
PDF pages can be exported as Hollywood brushes
PDF pages can be accessed as vector brushes allowing for lossless scaling, rotation, and transformation
Polybios comes with over 150 pages of documentation to get you started quickly
over 25 ready-to-run examples are included in the Polybios distribution

And the best of all: Polybios is provided free of charge for all existing Hollywood users. Thus, please consider buying Hollywood to show your support for our massive development efforts.

The plugin is now available for download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k, m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), Mac OS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64) and Android (arm, arm64) are provided. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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